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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1h

" #AI revenue is closer to $20 billion annually. 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."

Data centers need replacement in <10 years.

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AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 3h

Batch and stream data processing.

#java #python #golang

Apache Software Foundation (The ASF) @apache.org · 11h

Apache Beam version 2.68.0 is now available for download here: buff.ly/pH2fCF9 #opensource

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 4h

#gift

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 5h

Fake AI videos mocking dead celebrities are going viral. We talked to their families, and they're horrified.

We break down OpenAI's Sora 2 and the moral and legal problems of "synthetic resurrection."

Gift link: wapo.st/4nNKzd3 w/ @tatumhunter.bsky.social

technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 5h

Avoid Microsoft products in your schools.

#privacy #eu #gdpr #noyb #opensource

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Microsoft violates children’s privacy – but blames your local school

noyb has filed two complaints against Microsoft for unlawful data processing in 365 Education

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NPR @npr.org · 6h

Alexandra is one of many people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship." n.pr/4ocHQcG

She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired

Alexandra is one of many people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 10h

Who was Grace Hopper?

#COBOL
#FLOW-MATIC
#WomenInSTEM
#WyrdWomen

Who is Grace Hopper?

YouTube video by Women's Stories

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 5h

"Microsoft 365 Education installed cookies that analyse user behaviour, collect browser data and are used for advertising. As Microsoft 365 Education is widely used, the company is likely to track all minors using their educational products."

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Microsoft violates children’s privacy – but blames your local school

noyb has filed two complaints against Microsoft for unlawful data processing in 365 Education

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 6h

"The FRC found that the Big Four -- Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC -- alongside BDO and Forvis Mazars, have embedded #AI powered technologies into their audit processes without formally assessing the effect on audit quality."

technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 6h

Related to Deloitte's Australian fuck-up.

"The FRC has warned that big accountancy firms aren’t tracking how #AI tools affect audit quality, raising concerns over oversight amid growing reliance on automation."

www.accountancyage.com/2025/06/27/b...

Big accountancy firms fail to monitor AI’s impact on audit quality, says FRC - Accountancy Age

FRC finds UK audit giants failing to track the impact of AI tools on audit quality, despite rapid adoption across the profession.

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 6h

"...including references to non-existent academic research papers and a fabricated quote from a federal court judgment."

"Deloitte said it would invest $3 billion in generative #AI development through fiscal year 2030."

Remember Enron collapse? Deloitte doesn't remember.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 7h

“Deloitte “misused AI and used it very inappropriately: misquoted a judge, used references that are non-existent,” Pocock told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I mean, the kinds of things that a first-year university student would be in deep trouble for.””

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Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations | Fortune

The updates “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 19h

The only difference between Peter Thiel and a homeless person raving about the end of the world is that Thiel can afford to rent a hall while the homeless guy makes do with a subway platform.

Thiel’s talks, which began on 15 September and ended on Monday, were long and sweeping, mingling biblical passages, recent history and philosophy and sometimes deviating into conspiracy theories. He peppered them with references to video games and TV shows along with musings on JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. He likewise recalled conversations with Elon Musk and Benjamin Netanyahu and spoke at length about how he thinks Bill Gates is “a very, very awful person”.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10d

Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.

“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

And there's the issue of masks. This Court has listened
carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk's captors for masking-
up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd
Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as
disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a
single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small
wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard
them
as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It
should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks.
Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and
honor still matters.
To us, masks are associated with cowardly
desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we
have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.
Carrying on
in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this
administration and everyone who works in it
"We can not escape
history," Lincoln righty said. "[It] will light us down in
honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." Abraham Lincoln,
Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862) .
Perhaps we're now afraid to stick our necks out. If the
distinguished Homeland Security intelligence agency can be
weaponized to squelch the free speech rights of a small, hapless
group of non-citizens in our midst, so too can the Federal Home
Loan Mortgage Corporation, and the audit divisions of the I.R.s.
and the Social Security Administration be unconstitutionally
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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 18h

with a tiniest prick.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 19h

It's been 200 days since masked government goons abducted Rümeysa Öztürk for writing an op-ed they didn't like.

She's no longer behind bars, but they're still trying to deport her, and they still don't want the public to know why.

The U.S. government is hiding Öztürk records. Its rationale is insulting

If the government was really concerned about protecting privacy, it wouldn’t have abducted and detained Öztürk for writing an op-ed

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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The Register @theregister.com · 20h

Managers are throwing entry-level workers under the bus in race to adopt AI

Does it work? Inconclusive. Still, 55% of business leaders say that adopting AI is worth the impact on workers ai-pocalypse Business leaders are racing to jump aboard the AI bandwagon, and a new study from the British Standards Institute suggests young college grads are being hit hardest.…

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 19h

Some of the richest, most powerful people in silicon valley do sound like complete idiots.

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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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American Oversight @weareoversight.bsky.social · 20h

We’re representing @freedom.press in a lawsuit seeking a DOJ memo that reportedly justified Trump accepting a luxury jet from Qatar.

DOJ is stonewalling the release and asking the court to strike factual background, including public reporting, from our complaint.

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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 20h

ICYMI: Our report, Rethinking the Loop, digs into what effective human oversight of public benefits AI really looks like.

Rethinking the Loop: Encircling Public Benefits AI with Human Oversight

Report is also authored by Kevin De Liban Acknowledgements This report was co-authored by the Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub and CDT. This report was informed by a workshop designed to solicit the expertise of advocates, government officials, legal and technical experts, and recipients of public benefits. Their contributions were invaluable to the creation of the […]

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Brian Wilcox, the Friendly Curmudgeon @brianwilcox.bsky.social · 1d

What a loss! I used their work on designing and evaluating social experiments in my intervention research seminar. Two great minds! What a loss for MIT and the US.

When authoritarian leadership attacks universities the best and brightest will move to greener and safer pastures.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 1d

Law enforcement in Chicagoland "seem to feel they can just willy-nilly shoot tear gas canisters at people and shoot them with foam rounds that can permanently maim people,” FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told @dwallacewells.bsky.social.

“They’ve done this over and over.”

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

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Eric Bourdages @eze3d.bsky.social · 1d

Also everything I know about Peter leads me to believe he is a terrible person who wants to strip away your freedoms, survey you, he's got his fingers in almost every suspicious pie and he possibly wants humanity to die.

I regularly criticize AI though, fuck me right.

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