Nicole Haase
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Welcome new followers!

You can find my work at uscho.com/d1women/ and at victorypress.org

I'm also on the other site with the same username

Sports twit is holding on for dear life, so I'm there until all the teams and videos migrate

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Women's DI Hockey - College Hockey | USCHO.com
USCHO.com: Women's DI College Hockey News, Stats, Features, Game Picks, Polls, Rankings, Standings, Humanitarian, Patty Kazmeir
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cyrthogg.bsky.social
I am still working through all the content, but enjoy a candid Miz on the plan for tonight.

“They didn’t tell me shit.”
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Miz's command of his curveball may have been the difference in the game tonight.
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A pitcher who throws 101 MPH with a curveball like this?!

Jacob Misiorowski's stuff is NASTY 🔥
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The bar shuttle driving by is the 👨‍🍳 💋
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Long ride back to Mundelein.
razzball.bsky.social
Thinking about the person driving home with that flag after a loss and thinking about how sad that would be lol
Cubs fan with a Wrigley Field North sign surrounded by brewers fans which kinda makes it seem silly too
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akschaaf.bsky.social
Wow they just named Misiorowski to the 2026 All Star team
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theyarejett.bsky.social
When you're so wrong you're actually mirror image correct 🤯
razzball.bsky.social
Average blue tick
Someone picking the four teams who advanced to get knocked out
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bbl-astrophyscs.bsky.social
If it’s not Brewers-Mariners, we riot.
samdykstramilb.bsky.social
The 2025 semifinalists by most recent World Series title:

Los Angeles Dodgers (2024)
Toronto Blue Jays (1993)
Milwaukee Brewers (never)
Seattle Mariners (never)

Bring on the LCS.
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solid advice
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Wisconsin sports lesson: only watch the women's sports
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when you're headed to the NLCS
grantbrisbee.bsky.social
when you check on your client's 401(k) and everything is on track and also you've hit a go-ahead home run.
Andrew Vaughn, looking less like a baseball player and more like a friendly neighbor than anyone in recent memory.
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Wisconsin sports lesson: only watch the women's sports
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Here's the play that Wisconsin successfully challenged
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Mark Johnson said in post game that Laila Edwards will not play in Sundays game
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Yes, it was based on the one replay I saw. I haven't had a chance to go grab video but she lifts her elbow into the head of the UW player
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So basically Wisconsin is 2-for-2 in challenging for game-changing penalties in the final 20 seconds of a 3-2 game (h/t @jovenitti.bsky.social
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I suspect the Venn Diagram of men who do not care that AI doesn't generate a profit and the men who insist the WNBA isn't profitable (and think that matters if it was true) is a damn circle.
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I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.
"I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat," he wrote in an followup blog post. "In total, l've spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations: no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living."
Kupperman's original skepticism was built on a guess that the components in an average Al data center would take ten years to depreciate, requiring costly replacements. That was bad enough: "I don't see how there can ever be any return on investment given the current math," he wrote at the time.
But ten years, he now understands, is way too generous.
" had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic based upon the speed with which Al datacenter technology is advancing," Kupperman wrote. "Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most."
In his previous analysis, Kupperman assumed it would take the tech industry $160 billion of revenue to break even on data center spending in 2025 alone. And that's assuming an incredibly generous 25 percent gross margin - not to mention the fact that the industry's actual Al revenue is closer to $20 billion annually, as the investment manager noted in his previous blog. "In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year," Kupperman posited in his updated essay. "No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden - heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth."
Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 "astonishing."
However, it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. For example, how does it all shake out when we account for 2026, when hundreds of new data centers are expected to pop up?
"Adding the two years together, and using the math from my prior post, you'd need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend," he writes.
"If the economics don't work, doing it at massive scale doesn't make the economics work any better
- it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis," he concludes.
Overall, the pessimists broadly agree: it's no longer a matter of if Al is massively overhyped, but when the whole thing comes crashing down.
More on Al hype: Data Shows That Al Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies
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And Cassie Hall scored 12 seconds later to give Wisconsin the lead and win!
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UW goal! Harvey scores with 20.9
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Mark Johnson masterclass in the works? He challenges for a major penalty and gets it. Wisconsin pulls the goaltender for a 6-on-4 advantage as UMD's Rae Mayer heads to the box with two minutes to play.
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Absolutely unreal final frame here in Madison, but #1 Wisconsin escapes with a 4-3 win

Goals
UW - Hall (2), Simms, Harvey
UMD - Johansson, Kraemer, Cole

SOG - UMD 17, UW 49