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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 6h

Oh my god???

“producers asked if he’d like to do a “thumbs-up, thumbs-down” segment. Prompts included “Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: Hamas” and “Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state,””

“I just couldn’t believe what was happening, That a genocide could be distilled into a late-night game.”

The Late Show Pitched Zohran Mamdani a ‘Game’ About Palestine

He and his team passed on playing “Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state.”

www.vulture.com

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1h

Is there literally no one in your life who can talk you out of doing this

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1h

Ah, King of the Normals has arrived

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3h

when nobody ordered you anything from the ramen place

orange cat staring balefully at the camera

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 2h

"Looks like someone had fun at least"

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 6h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 2h

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 10h

I’m increasingly worried that when I do finally try to flee this place I won’t be allowed to

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

goddamn I feel for the guy

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

Also: Remember how many outs there are

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 1d

You kinda gotta throw strikes

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

OMG

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

Me seeing the Phillies for the first time this year

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

If you're not mining crypto or AI 24/7 you don't have much to worry about, gaming is far less taxing

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

A great point - GPU's just don't face the problem of obsolescence as with any rapidly advancing technology, they break down - quickly. They're massively dense and run extremely hot, in part due to higher continual utilization vs. datacenter CPU's. Just jaw dropping levels of tech waste

Toms Hardware Oct 2024 - "Datacenter GPU service life can be surprisingly short — only one to three years is expected according to unnamed Google architect

Depending on the workload and utilization rate, of course."

"Earlier this year Meta released a study describing its Llama 3 405B model training on a cluster powered by 16,384 Nvidia H100 80GB GPUs. The model flop utilization (MFU) rate of the cluster was about 38% (using BF16) and yet out of 419 unforeseen disruptions (during a 54-day pre-training snapshot), 148 (30.1%) were instigated by diverse GPU failures (including NVLink fails), whereas 72 (17.2%) were caused by HBM3 memory flops."

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't healthy

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

A happy chihuahua respectfully observing a moment of silence for a white nationalist podcaster

An angry barking chihuahua reacting to O Canada

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

I absolutely did not know that, and lol

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

Did you guys know Christopher Cantwell, the Crying Nazi from Charlottesville, ended up

-becoming an FBI snitch (which turned out to be a ruse the FBI used to gather incriminating evidence against *him*)
-came out as queer, admitting to 100's of Grindr hookups
-started self publishing gay erotica

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

goddamn the kids are cooked

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

"You haven't properly addressed my speculation"

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

"good post, me"

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

One of those typical streaming shows that meander all season but rely on a good ending

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

I don't agree with Hasan murdering and eating his dog on stream, I'm against that

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