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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 23h

The frogs are swarming...

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

If this ceasefire happens - and I hope it does - Western media will talk about 'peace'. This will be inaccurate. What they will mean is 'quiet', a reversion to the background level of violence that Palestinians have faced for decades. Peace can only come with the end of the occupation and apartheid.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.
Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.
Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.
This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.
Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 1d

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 8d

If you're watching RPDRUK tonight and wondering about the "lucky cow" gimmick, and whether this means RuPaul is democratising decision making on the show: girl, do I have an article for you...
#dragraceuk

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Ru of Law: how legal systems, principles, and aesthetics are queered and ‘dragged up’ in RuPaul’s Drag Race

This paper explores the jurisprudential concepts of the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race (RPDR): how legal norms and aesthetics are intrinsic to the show’s structure, and how in turn R...

www.tandfonline.com

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 2d

£2.5 billion in assets. £81 million surplus.
Still cutting pay. Still ignoring equalities.

Imperial staff have had enough.
They’re on strike for fair pay, respect and real negotiations. ✊

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d

For Black History Month, a reminder that forgotten history also includes the inability of even science fiction to imagine the possibility of African futurity, where she emerges not as a low-budget version of Europe, but a true picture of herself. folukeafrica.com/african-futu...

African Futurity as Forgotten History

On the unimagined possibilities of Blackness

folukeafrica.com

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Disinformation, now in 3D.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 2d

currently it's How Bad Do U Want Me but it's been a long afternoon with a long setlist

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 2d

it's week 2 of term, and I've reached the stage of delirium where I am muttering lady gaga lyrics in the voice of hannibal lecter under my breath while managing my inbox

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 2d

Happy International Lesbian Day to all who celebrate!!

[Except the ones who got the UK Supreme Court to define 'lesbian' *for* us; they get nothing from me. A "chilling effect on lesbians", indeed...]

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 2d

Just quietly, this is why we always go beyond studying what the law currently says.

Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry about that, lawyers. All that stuff you learned in law school doesn't matter anymore.

Unlike doctors. All the stuff we learned in med school and thought we'd never have to actually know about is now becoming very critical again (measles, diphtheria, pertussis)

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d

look to my coming at first light of the fifth day. at dawn, look to the east

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 4d

The five Mekong countries lost nearly 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of tree cover in 2024, with nearly a quarter of which was primary forest, and more than 30% of losses occurring inside protected areas.

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024

BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon. That’s…

news.mongabay.com

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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 4d

Chris Philp on R4 yesterday making 3 false statements about the ECHR and the GFA.
1. “The ECHR is mentioned only in the Multi-Party Agreement not the UK/Ireland Agreement.”. Wrong: the latter agreement requires the UK to support the former: they can’t be pulled apart like that.

George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 4d

Summary here by @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social of the so far unpublished but apparently “circulating” “legal advice” by Lord Wolfson to the Tory party. open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...

How UK could leave ECHR

Withdrawal would allow EU to end criminal law enforcement co-operation

open.substack.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4d

This is why the markets are going to have such a tough time when the bubble bursts. This money doesn’t exist, and suggesting it does or humoring it is how companies get away with what amounts to lying. $4.5bn per quarter “by 2026”?? So in the next three months? Huh?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 4d

$AMD - BARCLAYS RAISES AMD PRICE TARGET TO $300 FROM $200 Barclays analyst Tom O'Malley raised AMD’s price target to $300 from $200, keeping an Overweight rating. He said the OpenAI deal, including warrants tied to stock milestones, could add ~$4.5B per quarter by 2026,

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 4d

captain barbossa voice: ye best start believin' in the Torment Nexus, yer in one

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 5d

A wonderful piece from the late Conor Gearty, on the current judicial erasure of the Human Right Act – including by the Supreme Court in For Women Scotland.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

www.lrb.co.uk

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 4d

As part of Epigram’s (University of Bristol's student newspaper) 2018 campaign to raise awareness about microaggressions, I submitted the following poem. Everything I have included is informed by talking with students & colleagues and from personal experience. Sadly.
folukeafrica.com/acceptable-t...

Acceptable Traumas or How We Measure (A) Violence

A poetic contribution to Epigram’s Anti-MicroAgressions campaign

folukeafrica.com

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 4d

@charlesdeane.bsky.social thank you for having me

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 4d

Oh and @charlesdeane.bsky.social (sorry)

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 4d

Also even if there is Top Secret material justifying a ban, it’s very difficult I think to argue that retired GPs and Quaker students holding up a cardboard sign are party to that information or responsible for it

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4d

When Yvette Cooper was Home Sec she hinted the govt had further material justifying a ban that they couldn’t reveal because of the legal process. If so, better to get that out in daylight ASAP. Because as things stand they have clearly not made the case for proscription to the public’s satisfaction.

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Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social · 4d

"We honestly feel the whole institution could crash. You can’t cut and cut and then bring in extra students and even more pressure.”

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5d

Finally, an article that at least touches on teaching quality and staff workload issues. Not that it suggests any viable alternatives to the current state of play. (And for 'colleges' in the headline, read 'universities', a telling choice of nomenclature.

Grade deflation, overcrowding and ‘chaos’ as colleges scr...

Russell group hoovers up international students to stave off budget deficit fears

observer.co.uk

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