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Zack Kaylor @zackkaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Seems bad.

An excerpt of an article from The American Prospect stating: The bet I'm talking about, of course, is on artificial intelligence, and the astronomical buildout of infrastructure, mainly data centers. Close to half of the gain in gross domestic product this year will come from data center construction, and around 80 percent of stock market gains are attributable to a handful of AI-heavy tech companies.
OpenAI announced a trillion dollars in computing deals this year like it was nothing, and we're on track for $500 billion in annual AI capex spending by next year.

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Kevin Tang @ktang.bsky.social · 1d

the lead poisoning of the joe rogan demo

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Kevin Tang @ktang.bsky.social · 7d

hell yea woke 2

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 10d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 14d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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The Hearse Whisperer @babadooknukem.bsky.social · Sep 1

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 10d

“The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40% share of US GDP growth this year. And some analysts believe that estimate doesn’t fully capture the AI spend, so the real share could be even higher.” www.ft.com/content/6cc8...

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12d

"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah

Solar: main source of EU electricity in June with 22%

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 10d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10d

The lemming-like behavior of every class of legacy institution to fall for her transparently unserious, lying grift is a damning indictment of those institutions & the easily hoodwinked people who run them. A sign of our much deeper elite accountability problem that is destroying the Republic.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Sep 4

"I am a disruptor totally done with the establishment & legacy institutions" 🤔🧐

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Kevin Tang @ktang.bsky.social · 12d

waiting for that Social Credit Score panic to arrive anytime

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 13d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 12d

An FBI raid revealed 57 victims of forced labor living in cramped quarters at a lavish #Florida mansion connected to the leaders of a church, federal officials say.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... via @miamiherald.com

Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say

The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.

www.miamiherald.com

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Kevin Tang @ktang.bsky.social · 13d

*opens a tech brand designer’s figma*

Cuebald @cuebald.bsky.social · Jul 29

Dust, magnified 22 million times.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 13d

We are in the Bad Faith Era.

Shot/chaser.

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

https://gizmodo.com/cracker-barrel-outrage-was-almost-certainly-driven-by-bots-researchers-say-2000664221

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 13d

Just unbelievable stuff coming from independent journalists these days. Jack Posobiec, Roger Stone protege, was one of the biggest spreaders of Russian disinfo in 2016. Then Pizzagate, Macron leaks, election-fraud narratives in 2020. And it took til now to show he was voting fraudulently himself? 1/

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

slate.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13d

Cracker Barrel American Eagle War on Christmas: the right needs us to loathe them because that's central to their identity and operations, and if we don't they'll just fabricate it. Not news, but here's a new case of that:

Open Measures @openmeasures.bsky.social · 13d

American Eagle was dragged into an online outrage cycle after conservative media figures claimed that liberals were offended by the clothing company's ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and a denim-themed pun about her "great jeans."

We checked the data. That wasn't true.

openmeasures.io/american-eag...

Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation - Open Measures

Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

openmeasures.io

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 14d

NEW INVESTIGATION

California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030

A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants

Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

capitalandmain.com

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 16d

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 17d

My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe.

Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 18d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18d

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 18d

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

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Kevin Tang @ktang.bsky.social · 18d

And so the name of this Berkeley institution vikschaat.com

Viks Chaat: serving regional chaat dishes for over 30 years

Viks Chaat is a family-run business dedicated to preserving the tradition of eating chaat using fresh ingredients and making each dish as it is ordered.

vikschaat.com

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