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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 2h

An abridged version of my letter appears in the Provincial paper today, the Chronicle Herald. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Opinion: Cabot gets a bogey for another attempt to turn West Mabou Beach park into golf course

It looks like Cabot has been working with the government behind closed doors, since going through the community didn’t work last time, writes Kate Beaton.

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 3h

donnie is going to trade our nuclear codes for the super bowl ring putin stole from robert kraft

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 3h

alfred nobel fucked up not also endowing a prize for "coolest hang"

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 3h

i'm trying very very hard to resist

it is not working

A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 3h

in the same sense that he may "get" the award, i could "be" a member of the 1999 Atlanta Braves team that went to the World Series (and got swept)

An eBay listing for an authentic 1999 Atlanta Braves National League champions ring

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 3h

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 3h

there's no mechanism for such a transfer so he'd have to simply pretend which of course we know he's good at but it will have the exact opposite effect he intends

which, you know. par for the course

anyhow like i keep saying he's just TR obsessed

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 3h

on the one hand kinda on the other hand he's the most vain person in the world so it will legitimately gall him nonetheless

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3h

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 4h

Machado has embraced the United States's indiscriminate murder of Venezuelan mariners in international and Venezuelan waters in the Caribbean Sea. She thinks it will help her gain power.

This is your white "peace".

Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 4h

Nicely done

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 3h

LRP history books of the future are going to have a chapter called "the ineffectual biden presidency" and front and center is going to be his cheerful shipping of weapons to israel despite knowing precisely how they'd be used

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 4h

You know how you force a ceasefire? Stop sending the fire so it fucking ceases.

tomgiberson.bsky.social @tomgiberson.bsky.social · 16h

Bibi didn’t want a ceasefire while Biden was in office. I think it’s that’s simple.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 4h

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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SKIN ✧.* @skinnedvelvet.bsky.social · 4h

IM CRYING.... a group of little girls just passed my house and they were belting Golden 😭😭😭 cutest thing in the world

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 4h

aww donny deals whiffed you say, first time for everything i guess

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 5h

if only things had been a little different...

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 11h

it's fun to do a fight and get agrias nine (!) skills off an enemy crystal

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 11h

correct

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 12h

ahhh man, this makes me sad. between him and wake there's a whole lot of the sports-of-my-youth vanishing and i don't like it

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Greenwell, 2-time All-Star for Red Sox, dies at 62

Mike Greenwell, who played his entire 12-year career with the Red Sox and finished second in the 1988 AL MVP voting, has died at age 62.

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 21h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 21h

The divide within the Republican Party is between those who think they're establishing a thousand-year reich and those who think they'll have to work with a Democratic president at some point in their career.

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 22h

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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Defector @defector.com · 16h

Bill Burr has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, but he still can't settle on which lazy excuse he wants to employ. defector.com/bill-burr-ke...

Bill Burr Keeps Cycling Through Excuses For Doing The Riyadh Comedy Festival | Defector

By default, Bill Burr exists in a state of his ass being chapped, but clearly it’s been feeling more chapped than usual. The comedian has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh…

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16h

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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