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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 11h

Eastern Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip; where scenes of massive destruction stretching to the horizon, with entire neighborhoods and residential homes leveled to the ground by the Israeli occupation.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 11h

The media double-speak of "Israeli hostages" and "Palestinian prisoners" is infuriating.

Call them "Palestinian *political* prisoners" or "Palestinian hostages."

Hundreds of those detained without trial are Palestinian *children.*

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Omar Ahmad @omarahmad34.bsky.social · 16h

My child asked me if the stars could drop food instead of bombs. I didn’t know how to answer. In Gaza, we no longer dream we just try to survive another night without losing more of ourselves.
please help me save my children 🙏🏻
chuffed.org/project/keep...

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 12h

The cost of doing nothing☠️‼️

@binitakane.bsky.social 🙏🏻

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Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

“FPS could even enter a private residence containing an identified sniper blocks away from a federal facility in order to eliminate that exigent threat…we do not live in a world of sticks and stones, but Mausers and Winchesters.”

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Karen Wants The Orcas In Charge @riceboilsover.bsky.social · 13h

To be clear, this definitely does not apply in Wisconsin. Levels are declining, yes. But a we are not currently at or near a record low.

www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/was...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

Seems like a bad idea to fire air traffic controllers when there's already a shortage but what do I know

Sean Duffy Threatens to Fire Air Traffic Controllers as 10% Call Out Sick During Shutdown

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Karen Wants The Orcas In Charge @riceboilsover.bsky.social · 16h

A UK-based influencer I follow on IG posted yesterday that they woke up feeling like they’d been hit by a truck and all their friends felt the same and maybe it’s the planets…

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 19h

Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 19h

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 17h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18h

AI GPUs appear to die in 3-5 years, and even if they don't, NVIDIA releases new ones every year, meaning that data center projects that take 3-4 years to build will, by the time they turn on, be full of years-old tech that will be worthless once the first lease ends.
wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

Actually, wait — how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, which bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.

Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.

Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.

This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is. It’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people — it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.

Think about it. Let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years — which, although the costs will almost c…

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Karen Wants The Orcas In Charge @riceboilsover.bsky.social · 18h

perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 1d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

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

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 19h

Here’s the “Venezuelan Democracy Fighter” in question on Fox and Friends explaining her support for Trump bombing the fishing boats just last month

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Hassan😞🕊️ @reana11.bsky.social · 1d

Hello my friend I am really tired for my child. When I cannot do anything for my child, he collapses. I cannot buy him milk or medicine. Our financial situation is very bad. I depend on your donations for my child. Please do not be stingy and share to save my child.🙏🥺🥺
gofund.me/b18154d6

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

The media coverage does not reflect this AT ALL.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 20h

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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ahmedwaj120.bsky.social @ahmedwaj120.bsky.social · 1d

I wish the war would end,
but we will return to destroyed homes,
and my work is gone.
I will return with my children sick from hunger.
I hope things get better
Link support 🙏
www.gofundme.com/f/from-a-hom...

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 1d

These people are fucking monsters

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jun 28

Do not be lulled into thinking that the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 has abated. The general situation of unrestrained spread continues to be alarmingly dangerous, with contagion, illness, and mortality rampant everywhere. Maintaining the utmost caution is still an absolute necessity.

#COVID19

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying. @davidgilbert.bsky.social spoke to Rutgers professor Mark Bray, who wrote a book about antifa and is now being deluged by death threats.

Bray and his family tried to flee for Europe this weekend. Their tickets were mysteriously canceled right before they boarded the plane.

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The Daily is committed to sanitizing Vought and ignoring what they regard as unsavory ideology. Because engaging with what is actually animating Vought would make it very hard to uphold the “normal politics” framework that defines much of mainstream political journalism.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

Conversion therapy isn't "voluntary" for children when their parents are the ones deciding to do it.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 2d

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40813533/ 🧐

SARS-CoV-2 infection heightens the risk of developing HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer - PubMed

SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with elevated risks of HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer, irrespective of age or race. The findings underscore the importance of understanding the interplay b...

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