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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 8h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Ryan "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 12h

Not only are the highly addictive, truth-agnostic output generators polluting our information ecosystems and degrading our knowledge practices, they're also materially exacerbating the ongoing effects of climate change in order to accomplish the above at scale.

Heck of a job.

Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 12h

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OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore

As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16h

Every single data center project is a decaying investment full of what will be old hardware that's constantly being made obsolete by NVIDIA - yet $50bn or more of private capital has been sunk into building them every single quarter. It's a disaster in waiting.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

Let me put it in simple terms: imagine you, for some reason, rented an M1 Mac when it was released in 2020, and your rental was done in 2025, when we’re onto the M4 series. Would you expect somebody to rent it at the same price? Or would they say “hey, wait a minute, for that price I could rent one of the newer generation ones.” And you’d be bloody right!

Now, I realize that $70,000 data center GPUs are a little different to laptops, but that only makes their decline in value more profound, especially considering the billions of dollars of infrastructure built around them.

And that’s the problem. Private equity firms are sinking $50 billion or more a quarter into theoretical data center projects full of what will be years-old GPU technology, despite the fact that there’s no real demand for generative AI compute, and that’s before you get to the grimmest fact of all: that even if you can build these data centers, it will take years and billions of dollars to deliver the power, if it’s even possible to do so.

Harvard economist Jason Furman estimates that data centers and software accounted for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of this year, in line with my conversation with economist Paul Kedrosky from a few months ago.

All of this money is being sunk into infrastructure for an “AI revolution” that doesn’t exist, as every single AI company is unprofitable, with pathetic revenues ($61 billion or so if you include CoreWeave and Lambda, both of which are being handed money by NVIDIA), impossible-to-control costs that have only ever increased, and no ability to replace labor at scale (and especially not software engineers).

OpenAI needs more than a trillion dollars to pay its massive cloud compute bills and build 27 gigawatts of data centers, and to get there, it needs to start making incredible amounts of money, a job that’s been mostly handed to Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s new CEO of Applications, who is solely responsible for turning a company that loses billions …

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 17h

Link’s support was crucial for six families & a displacement camp and now he’s banned…

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Zappit @zappit.bsky.social · 1d

Link requested this be boosted so we can help Dr. Divya raise money for Palestinian families in need.

It is also a good day to reinstate Link’s account.

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🌙☁️ WERELOCK @werel0ck.bsky.social · 13h

WWIII positioning

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tye tribbin @hatzigsut.blacksky.app · 14h

ENOUGH.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 14h

You can now connect your Spotify account in ChatGPT and it will perform tasks for you, such as creating personalized playlists.

You can now connect your Spotify account to ChatGPT. Here’s how to do it | TechCrunch

You can now connect your Spotify account in ChatGPT and it will perform tasks for you, such as creating personalized playlists.

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🌙☁️ WERELOCK @werel0ck.bsky.social · 23h

Everybody but me

🌙☁️ WERELOCK @werel0ck.bsky.social · 1d

Same. Seems like it was a trend for this last season of anime. I’m tapped in for the rest of the story. I feel like shield hero got super side tracked.

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Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Join us at on Saturday for one last Bird Collision Monitor Training for fall migration season. As the temperatures drop, we’re seeing millions of birds migrate through Chicago, and they need your help! 💛

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🌙☁️ WERELOCK @werel0ck.bsky.social · 1d

Stammering is an understatement 😂

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🌙☁️ WERELOCK @werel0ck.bsky.social · 1d

I need a to make a profit to survive and need to really get on it.

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Joseph Cain @nightmarefixer.bsky.social · 1d

Poverty in America is a bipartisan policy choice.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

News from the Authoritarians Club: the US Treasury has finalised a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina and directly bought Argentine pesos to help stabilise the country’s economy.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1d

It’s why they’re desperately grabbing at power while they can.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

They are going to lose control of the country. They have the debased billionaire class, they have a small army of violent bigots. But they don’t have most Americans. They absolutely don’t have enough guys and they know it

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

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

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

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

Please share

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

ACA open enrollment starts Nov. 1. Rates should have been published in August. Mike Johnson hopes you don’t know that. But my mom is an independent insurance agent. Has been for 20+ years. So she does know that.

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🌙☁️ WERELOCK @werel0ck.bsky.social · 1d

Oh. This became the bad place really quickly. 😫

Lizzie Kodpuak née Acid Lich (Gröbnerpilled era) @acidlich.bsky.social · 1d

Earlier I reposted a story in the guardian about how this app suppresses Palestinian accounts and a moment ago while I blinked this app nuked a comment in one of my threads from a Palestinian

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 2d

The armed conflict in Sudan seems to be one of the world's most forgotten civil wars. The reigning silence surrounding this conflict plunges the population into daily turmoil.

Sudan is bleeding in silence: A humanitarian crisis the world cannot ignore

The armed conflict in Sudan seems to be one of the world's most forgotten civil wars. The reigning silence surrounding this conflict plunges the population into daily turmoil.

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🌙☁️ WERELOCK @werel0ck.bsky.social · 1d

Just got a craving for a roast beef sandwich with provolone. Would be nice on a honey wheat bread.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 3d

This here’s a man of the people.

Former Cubs pitcher Lee Smith on why he always walked so slowly out of the bullpen when he was called - he heard the grounds crew got time and a half of the game stretched past 4:30 pm.

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🌙☁️ WERELOCK @werel0ck.bsky.social · 2d

That nerve pain felt like I licked a 9v battery but it jolted through my whole nervous system.

🌙☁️ WERELOCK @werel0ck.bsky.social · 2d

Just had the craziest jolt of nerve pain. It’s really a wrap on ever surfing pipeline 😓. Unless they approve that stem cell research and I somehow continue to have good health insurance even tho I don’t think I can work my job bc of the injury 😞

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🌙☁️ WERELOCK @werel0ck.bsky.social · 2d

Steady breaking my own heart thinking. Can’t move time backwards but I would if I could.

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Sbooks @bemorelikeharper.bsky.social · 2d

All the AI lovers TO THE BACK!

a woman in a fur coat is dancing in a hallway

Alt: a woman in a fur coat is dancing in a hallway

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