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mid hatfield
@midhatfield.bsky.social
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Ornery as all get out. Just muddlin' through it as best as I can. AEW & NJPW 🤼‍♀️, Reds ⚾, ORV/Appalachia🌳 she/her

"We're all God's children at the hot dog cart." - WTYPpod
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erinbiba.bsky.social
The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance.

bsky.app/profile/pron...
bsky.app
February 11, 2026 at 6:39 AM
midhatfield.bsky.social
Took me a second a second to visually parse the columns & was like, are they golfing in an Anselm Kiefer sculpture garden?
vghistory.bsky.social videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Mar 20
devil's course, screenshot, pc-98 (1992) www.mobygames.com/game/37942/t...
the green golf course is littered with tall stone pillars. the protagonist golfer is standing to the left of a golf ball. to the right is user interface showing an overhead map of the course, hole number, par and how many yards it is. to the left is more user interface showing your golfer's stance, how many strokes and how many yards to go.
February 13, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with 'world in peril' warning
It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.
www.bbc.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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edzitron.com
Found a nuanced way to explain the rickety finances of data center development
I’m the CEO of Colocation Corporation (CoCorp), and we’re building a 118MW data center. For the sake of this example (and simplicity), it costs around $1.4 billion to do so, of which I’ve financed $840 million at an interest rate of 6%, with a term of 6 years. Construction takes a year, which means that I’ve been paying $4.2 million a month - or $50.4 million a year - of interest payments to stop the loan from ballooning. Once payments start again - a year later - I’m suddenly paying $16.239 million a month in interest and principal payments (or $194.87 million annually), with principal payments ballooning thanks to the loan now having an effective 5 year term. I’m about to find out exactly how rickety the world of data center leasing really is. Finally, my big, beautiful data center - which features 100MW of critical IT load on a 118MW building - is finally ready, and my new client, GPUCorp, moves into the building and starts paying a colocation fee of $130 per kilowatt a month, or $156 million a year. Pretty good, right? Using a simplified version of depreciation - where we depreciate over 15 years - CoCorp would have about $93 million a year in depreciation costs, which leaves us with big, sexy, honking profits of $63 million a year. That’s 59.6% gross margins! We’re printing money! I’m going to be rich! Wait, fuck! Shit! Ass! I just did the minus of $156 million and $194.87 million! That’s…that’s $38.87 million a year! And that’s when I’m getting paid! I have negative 24.9% operating margins! This sucks ass! Though everybody I know says my gross margins ROCK, gross margins are only on paper! Reality sucks! What am I going to do? As I pace around my office with my hands in my pockets, I get an email from the CEO of GPUCorp (His name is “Glent Fudge”) with a subject heading that says “uh oh.” Turns out that GPUCorp can’t afford to pay its own loans, which means it can’t afford to pay me for my big, beautiful data center. I email back a simple request: “PAY ME … I go to Guns Dot Com and I purchase a rifle. It’s time to kill Glent Fudge. I get a phone call. It’s the bank. “Hey Ed, how are you?” my banker (Shelton Crelton) says. “I just read on CNBC that Glent Fudge ran out of money, and your contract explicitly states that we loaned you this money based on you having a tenant for that 118MW data center.” I begin to sweat. “Do you have another to replace them? If not, you’re in default of your loans.” I do not have another tenant. I try to buy another gun, but guns dot com declines my credit card. I am in default on my loans to the bank, and Shelton Crelton can seize my data center.
February 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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jkass99.bsky.social
Paying soldiers in company script is a great idea.
February 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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bug-deal.bsky.social
Téodor of Achewood is reading from a piece of paper and thinking "Heh! Horrible things are happening for no reason!" with sad eyebrows. from https://achewood.com/2005/10/25/title.html
July 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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yixura.bsky.social
and im right
clark connors smiling like a pop star diva, with dan moloney sitting beside him wearing sunglasses and looking grumpy
November 10, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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crasspants.bsky.social
Tommaso Ciampa's new theme sounds like I can get a new ford f250 with 0% apr for 90 days.
February 1, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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geftokingmongoose.bsky.social
When you're really baked autocorrect can be just as much your foe as your friend
February 11, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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josie.zone
You can't get sued by a dead guy, so:
The Office "They're the same picture" meme, comparing "Vincent James McMahon (1914-1984), co-founder of what is now WWE" with "A midcentury mafia boss"
February 11, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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josie.zone
You have to understand something, something about the difference between Vince McMahon and his peers in the Billionaires Club

All these fucks didn't earn their fiefdoms, they were granted by their fathers

But Vince? His father was kind of the literal Devil, and the fiefdom was Hell (wrestling)
February 11, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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josie.zone
Bingo. Read those Epstein Emails. All of those rich and powerful schmucks are obsequious marks who somehow did not understand how played played they were

This is not a "gotta hand it to" thing for Vince McMahon, but the guy long ago made a vow to always be the promoter, never the worker or the mark
batwithglasses.bsky.social Brooke @batwithglasses.bsky.social · 1d
Vince is many things, but he would never want to be the mark.
February 11, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.
February 11, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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aewbot.bsky.social
DC & AEW fans in ONTARIO FOR #AEWDynamite TONIGHT! We've got a comic book giveaway for you!

The first 5 people to show us their purchased copy of the AEW x DC Book #1 comic at the Main Merch Stand tonight will get an AUTOGRAPHED variant signed by one of the AEW cover stars!
February 11, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
If you saw the creepy Ring Super Bowl commercial then you know they're manufacturing consent for a surveillance state (that serves ICE) by emotionally blackmailing us with our dogs' safety.

This flyer can be printed out and posted all over, or shared online. Get your $ back, fuck ICE.
Title: Ring cameras feed data to ICE to help round up immigrants Subtitle: ✨ Get a full refund direct from Amazon ✨ Body: In the past few months Amazon Ring enabled AI and facial detection by default for all users. Worse, they altered existing features such that your footage can end up in the hands of Flock Safety, the company responsible for 80,000 license plate readers across the country. ICE has been documented using Flock to know exactly where to go to find susceptible community members. Don’t help ICE round up your neighbors. What can I do? You can get a full refund directly from Amazon. Request a refund telling them their agreement with Flock is a breach of trust and invalidates the reason you invested into their security products in the first place. Amazon refunds because what they are doing is blatantly against the Terms and Conditions under which you originally purchased. ➡️ Reolink or Defender PhoenixM2 are great comparable camera alternatives. ➕ Request refunds for Amazon Blink Cameras as well on basis of lost trust.
February 11, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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logonlog.bsky.social
logging on
From the show The Kids in the Hall. Simon and his man-servant Hecubus. Simon says, to camera, "you've been made a fool of by the forces of darkness."
February 11, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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theoscargoff.bsky.social
Periodic reminder that PUMPING IRON was originally conceived as a documentary about Bud Cort getting jacked.
Pumping Iron - Unseen Footage - Bud Cort
YouTube video by username19237
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February 11, 2026 at 7:44 PM
midhatfield.bsky.social
God damn. RIP, Bud.
thefilmstage.com The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 1d
RIP Bud Cort (1948—2026)
February 11, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
the burden of proof is on the mother-fucker asserting something.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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waiterich.bsky.social
This happened in this very country! During the 2020s!!
waiterich.bsky.social Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d
I'm still processing the fact that we (Congress) provided universal school breakfasts and lunch to all students, and an expanded child tax credit that halved child poverty across the entire country...and then let those both expire.
February 11, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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edzitron.com
Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...
Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators
Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.
www.cnbc.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:03 PM
midhatfield.bsky.social
I wonder what it's like to live in a state that's not embarrassing
February 11, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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kevincollier.bsky.social
I'm stealing this from @amelianews.bsky.social, who posted it to X but not here: This is the governor of West Virginia yesterday.
February 11, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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itsthebrandi.bsky.social
Hey, can we get some more news out of Saint Paul re: this?
February 11, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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peteandpete.bsky.social
The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 1, Episode 8: Hard Day'S Pete
February 11, 2026 at 4:27 PM