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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 8h

Fuck the Salvation Army.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 13h

Friendly reminder that the opposite of authoritarianism is absurdism.

Get weird with it bananas.

TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 14h

Weird Al

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 15h

What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?

TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 20h

The antifa terrorists were the friends we made along the way.

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 1d

We need more examples of organizations/people turning down dirty money.

Remember when selling out was bad? Pepperidge Farm remembers…

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 1d

All of capitalism is built on getting people/businesses/governments to consume more. The goal is not to provide anything. The goal is to increase consumption.

All of this AI hype is a Ponzi scheme.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
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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, who 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. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t forget, we could have had a taco truck on every street corner.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 3d

I want to get out ahead of the press.

I’m the interim head of data analytics for Antifa (at least until we can hold a formal vote).

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3d

Since we’re clearing the air, I might as well put out something I’ve been concealing for a very long time.

I’m the Vice President of Antifa (Western Continental Division)

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 4d

From start to finish, today has been a steaming pile of shit.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 4d

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 4d

Ughhhh, y’all are really going to force me to explain big evil corp to my kid.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 5d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 5d

The only bathroom ban I support.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 5d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 7d

TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 9d

The Nurgling has a new obsession.

Toddler sitting on a brown couch looking at a Calvin and Hobbes book.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 12d

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 10d

Somehow AI spouses/kids are far more embarrassing than this.

furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 10d

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 11d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 10d

The cafeteria at work always has top 40 radio going. Today I walked in to hear Better Off Alone. What year is it?

Not mad.

TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 10d

Things today healing psychic damage:
Listening to a live album and having the Nurgling chanting “Hey! Hey! Hey!” along with the crowd.

TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 10d

Everything is a lot more manageable when you are given the freedom to actually do what works for you. Figuring out what works is the hard part.

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 10d

A message to my children. Specifically the Nurgling.

Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 11d

Message to my haters.

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 11d

Oh look, I opened the personalized doom app to find fresh new horrors.

TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 12d

I haven’t played an EA game in years, they have been the big evil corp for a long while, but this is going to be real shitty. Expect to see lower quality products along with stories about worsening working conditions.

Given enough time capitalism will destroy everything you love.

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 12d

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 14d

Not only should the Dems refuse to cave on the shutdown; they should announce they won’t vote for a budget until: (a) the military is withdrawn from every American city where it’s been deployed; (b) the budget forbids the use of any funds for that purpose; AND (c) the healthcare demand already made.

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