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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 3h

“Seattle fans, dying to go to an ALCS for the first time in 24 years, braved the fire. They showed up to the park and stayed all the way through. As a result, their nerves were all over the telecast”
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The Season Of The Prayer Face Is Upon Us | Defector

October is the time when baseball becomes a test of fan endurance. It’s easy to spend a lazy July afternoon at your team’s ballpark with all of your worst drinking buddies. That’s entry-level baseball...

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 14h

Highly recommend @annaleen.bsky.social 's enraging and awful but also hopeful Stories Are Weapons on this guardianbookshop.com/stories-are-...

Stories Are Weapons

A better place to buy your books. Support independent journalism with everything you buy. Free UK P&P on online orders over £25

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Suzi @suzisteffen.bsky.social · 6h

damn it Fran Kirby

The Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social · 7h

Arsenal end their winless run with a narrow victory over Brighton 📈

Suzi @suzisteffen.bsky.social · 6h

considering the 80000 injuries, the Fever absolutely overperformed - and let Kelsey Mitchell shine. For me, Mitchell getting her flowers is the success.

Swish Appeal @swishappeal.bsky.social · 6h

"So, was the Fever’s 2025 season a success? That depends on how you look at it."

High expectations. Lots of injuries. An improbable playoff run.

@nemchocke.bsky.social reviews a Fever season full of twists and turns: buff.ly/PDIsSks

#WNBA #WNBAsky

What can be made of the Indiana Fever’s up-and-down 2025 season?

The Fever’s season didn’t go quite according to plan, but they still nearly reached their ultimate goal.

www.swishappeal.com

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Suzi @suzisteffen.bsky.social · 6h

liverpool you could do the funniest thing (but I know, with Gareth Taylor in charge, you will not)

BTW here's some alt text for that image:
Barclays WSL Liverpool - 0 Man City - 0
Matchweek 6 - Kick off - Sky Sports

#WSL #WoSo

Barclays Women’s Super League bot @barclayswslbot.com · 7h

Let the fun begin in the final game of the day...

#LiverpoolFCW 🆚 #ManCityWomen

LIVE on #SkySports 📺

Suzi @suzisteffen.bsky.social · 6h

I do not know why nose rings freak Certain People out so much. Why ... why does this bother you? And blue hair? WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF HAIR DYE? Certain Humans are very wild to me.

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Suzi @suzisteffen.bsky.social · 6h

On my Booker Prize shortlist quest, I've read three of the books; two haven't been published in the US yet; waiting for the Kiran Desai from the library - I'm on the holds list in all three possible formats, so we'll see which one wins out! Out of the three I've read, Audition stands out. #AmReading

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7h

About a year ago I put down my marker and called it: one day, in my lifetime, we will look back on the social media economy as a weird counter cultural aberration and I will be very relieved.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

An influencer asked to collab with a Scottsdale, AZ bakery and was told no thanks. Influencer then shows up, leaves a rude and condescending review, so the owner drops this video with receipts about how the include tried to “blackmail”. Wild.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AfqYBh/

I will forever dedicate my time and energy to continue to make it right to the people who value my teams hard work and have respected us and supported us since day one. #review #influencer #bakery

TikTok video by JLPATISSERIE

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 7h

This should be in Legends Z-A

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 9h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

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#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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Suzi @suzisteffen.bsky.social · 8h

oh my god

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

Suzi @suzisteffen.bsky.social · 8h

omg!!!

Susie Bright @susiebright.bsky.social · 8h

Our memorial reading of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, will be live-streamed from 9am- 9pm, Pacific time.

I’ll be reading around 11 and 12. There’s about 50 different performers. All at Arion Press, produced by Litquake.

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Bastard Out of Carolina Marathon Reading - Sunday, October 12th

YouTube video by Litquake

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logan, hater club CEO @logan.hater.club · 19h

Aaaaand I’m back.

Transphobia? Racism? Nah, keep posting.

Say that AI data centers should be destroyed and not even specifying which ones? That’s a 24 hour timeout.

Bluesky moderation is a failure in every way

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 20h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 1d

Hi everyone! #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth is here. Please support by spreading the word! www.phaidon.com/en-us/produc...

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Bernadette Murphy @bernadetmurphy.bsky.social · 23h

This give me hope, a much needed thing these days. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 1d

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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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

Today is National Coming Out Day!

It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week.

This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out.

My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

They Want To Ban Books To Keep Us From Coming Out

Quick housekeeping! I’m doing a flurry of events once again: Tuesday I’ll be in the Koret Auditorium at the SF Public Library talking about banned books for...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Jude "BE NOT AFRAID #4 Out Now" Doyle @judedoyle.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a while since a celebrity death literally made me gasp and put my hand over my mouth. RIP Diane

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Suzi @suzisteffen.bsky.social · 1d

oooh

Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

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Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 1d

Does this remind you. of anything.

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 1d

chat is this good for America

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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christan (no i), ß @christanwnba.bsky.social · 1d

This week’s column is rather short and sweet ⬇️

A’ja Wilson is truly 1 of 1. Let her continue to add to her resume.

In the same breath, we will never see another run or player like her again.

Fearless SC @fearlesssc.com · 1d

Swish Happens Here by @christanwnba.bsky.social:

-Appreciating A'ja Wilson's greatness
-Did the Aces turn in an all time turnaround this year?

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Swish Happens Here: Appreciate greatness instead of comparing legends – Fearless SC

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