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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 9h

Happy HONKfest to all who celebrate

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

Um holy shit. Did Ro Khanna really sit down for an interview with far-right influencer Ian Carroll and share a video of it?

This is really fucking bad. What the fuck is going on?

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 15h

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 9h

The title verse of “We Shall Overcome” and most of the others are in the future tense. One verse is in the present: “We are not afraid TODAY.”

That is the most important message for our current moment. If you can “afford” to be fearless, do it.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 9h

If I were to register a prediction, I would say the IDF never fully withdraws from Gaza but withdraws from most urban areas and only periodically assassinates Hamas members. This prediction is based on this exact thing happening with the Lebanon ceasefire

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 9h

I always rolled my eyes at the "stay and fight" shit on Twitter, left that place before it turned into X, but this feels different. We can't give this up without a fight.

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Bikeyface @bikeyface.bsky.social · 11h

How did I forget keytar bear.

Bikeyface @bikeyface.bsky.social · 1d

Revolutionary re-enacters, Irish dancing & music, some drunk sports fans, and a bike party with dance music. Everyone has a dunks ice coffee to throw.

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becca | they/them @beccaisoutside.bsky.social · 11h

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 9h

Baby in a placenta I know I know, it’s serious

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 14h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 9h

Missy Elliott and “Get Ur Freak On” coming through from 2001 with a perfect response for people who want to prompt their way through AI to “write” lol

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John Breen’s Body @acab.dad · 9h

And one of the big issues is that some of the hyperscale data centers they’re talking about building are not really even useful for general cloud computing or distributed computing.

They’re effectively massive warehouses of GPUs, so if this bubble bursts they might be mostly useless.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028.

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Everybody is very casual with how they talk about Sam Altman’s theoretical promises of trillions of dollars of data center infrastructure, and I'm not sure anybody realizes how difficult even the very basics of this plan will be.
Nevertheless, everybody is happily publishing stories about how “Stargate Abilene Texas - OpenAI’s massive data center with Oracle - is open,” by which they mean two buildings, and I’m not even confident both of them are providing compute to OpenAI yet. There are six more of them that need to get built for this thing to start rocking at 1.2GW - even though it’s only 1.1GW according to my sources in Abilene.
But, hey, sorry - one minute - while we’re on that subject, did anybody visiting Abilene in the last week or so ever ask whether they’ll have enough power there?
Don’t worry, you don’t need to look - I’m sure you were just about to, and had simply been busy! - but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200 megawatts of power - a 200 megawatt substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350 Megawatt of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year in the event that one of the multiple construction firms involved . Said turbine is extremely expensive, featuring volatile pricing (for context, volatility fell in Q2 2025…to 69% annualized, meaning that if you had these prices across the entirety of a year you’d see swings of 69% up or down) and even more volatile environmental consequences, and is, while permitted for it (this will download the PDF of the permit), impractical and expensive to use long-term.
Analyst James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research recently said on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that these are “not the really good natural gas turbines” because the really good ones would take seven years to deliver due to a natural gas turbine shortage.
But th…

$Stargate Abilene does not have sufficient power to run at even half of its supposed IT load of 1.2GW, and at its present capacity - assuming that the gas turbines function at full power - can only hope to run 370MW to 460MW of IT load. I’ve seen article after article about the gas turbines and their use of fracked gas - a disgusting and wasteful act typical of OpenAI - but nobody appears to have asked “how much power does a 1.2GW data center require?” and then chased it with “how much power does Stargate Abilene have?” The answer is not enough, and the significance of said “not enough” is remarkable. Today, I’m going to tell you, at length, how impossible the future of generative AI is. Gigawatt data centers are a ridiculous pipe dream, one that runs face-first into the walls of reality. The world’s governments and media have been far too cavalier with the term “gigawatt,” casually breezing by the fact that Altman’s plans require 17 or more nuclear reactors’ worth of power, as if building power is quick and easy and cheap and just happens. I believe that many of you think that this is an issue of permitting - of simply throwing enough money at the problem - when we are in the midst of a shortage in the electrical grade steel and transformers required to expand America (and the world’s) power grid. I realize it’s easy to get blinded by the constant drumbeat of “gargoyle-like tycoon cabal builds 1 gigawatt data center” and feel that they will simply overwhelm the problem with money, but no, I’m afraid that isn’t the case at all, and all of this is so silly, so ridiculous, so cartoonishly bad that it threatens even the seemingly-infinite wealth of Elon Musk, with xAI burning over a billion dollars a month and planning to spend tens of billions of dollars building the Colossus 2 data center, dragging two billion dollars from SpaceX in his desperate quest to burn as much money as possible for no reason. This is the age of hubris - a time in which we are going to watc…$

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 9h

wow this is how I find out many things at once

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 9h

if it's me they're after they should just say so

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 9h

Absolute funniest bit in live music is when a big DJ is squirming behind the decks, twisting knobs and all that, and then the camera cuts to the faders and you see everything is muted except one that’s playing the pre-recorded mix.

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 9h

It's actually really funny that they are specifically targeting Indivisible, IfNotNow, and DSA because that's, like, my activism CV

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 9h

I mean as someone who has never watched a Tron movie, I feel like I've gotten the best part, and anything more would detract

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 11h

dear Supreme Corut i am NOT owned. do NOT give my website to that guy i'm serious!!!!! stop!!!!

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 19h

Alex Jones has asked the Supreme Court to immediately put his almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment on hold, citing the imminent threat of InfoWars being handed over to The Onion.

If there isn't a stay, "InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed," the filing says.

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siobhan @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 11h

that’s my DSA-endorsed #1 vote🔥🤩

Al-Zubi, one of two candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, hopes to center her campaign on her voters - focusing on building social housing, implementing programs for low-income residents, and lowering barriers to participation in local government. Co-governance sits as a core tenet of her campaign, relying on collaboration between elected officials, advocates, and residents.
Al-Zubi, who moved to Cambridge for college, fell just short of sitting on the Council two years ago, ranking 10th out of 24 candidates.
She has since worked as a community organizer, street canvassing, door-knocking, and organizing events for Cambridge's chapter of the DSA

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 12h

Genius

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 16h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @votealzubi.com · 17h

Community is how I was raised. Our whole campaign is built on it. And if elected, we will take that spirit to City Hall.

The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 2d

Ayah Al-Zubi ’23 first launched her bid for a seat on the Cambridge City Council back in 2023, as a fresh-faced Harvard College graduate. Two years later, she’s back on the ballot and ready to “co-govern.”

Summer E. Rose reports.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Affordability Top of Mind as Ayah Al-Zubi ’23 Launches Second Run for City Council | News | The Harvard Crimson

Ayah Al-Zubi ’23 first launched her bid for a seat on the Cambridge City Council back in 2023, as a fresh-faced Harvard College graduate. Two years later, she’s back on the ballot and ready to …

www.thecrimson.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13h

Out of nine groups targeted by the Trump admin in its initial crackdown on left-wing organizing, two - Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow - are explicitly Jewish. Throw in Soros and it’s three of nine - one third. Trump thinks a third of the US left is Jewish. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13h

It's a real failure of Blueskyism that Chris Cillizza was never bullied off of this site.

Chris Cillizza, Chris Cillizza'ing all over the place.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 14h

The regime is actually saying a bunch of Jews are funding and orchestrating violence from behind the scenes.

Not just Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Indivisible, founded and led by Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg. George Soros’s Open Society Foundation. Reid Hoffman.

Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 18h

JVP and IfNotNow are included in a list of only 9 progressive groups being investigated by the Trump admin, alongside major donors like Ford and Open Society Foundation and the amorphous 'antifa'/ www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 22h

I have spent 20 years working and writing online, and this is my most popular post. It’s turtles all the way down. 🤣🤣

Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 1d

there’s a tiny turtle in my yard!

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