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i put myself in the wych elm artist, illustrator, fanartist, spoon. she/they. artworks are under the #art | for extra flavor #oekaki open for commissions and some forms of cooperation. dm for details

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wycha @wycha.bsky.social · Jan 14

ayoo #PortfolioDay
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wycha @wycha.bsky.social · Oct 8

#PortfolioDay SOUP! I'm wycha. Artist focused on mood, muted colors and melancholic atmosphere, portraits, referencing traditional art, smuggling pink, and more.

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wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 7h

Doggie walkies at autumn wet mornings hit different

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h

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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wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 10h

did it, it was faster and easier to achieve than i thought. i wish i could do the same to her lungs too, but with real mold and not digital brushes.

wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 1d

DAYDREAMING ABOUT PAINTING A WALL WITH BLACKMOLD ON IT ONCE ILL END THE SHIFT

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 1d

damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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kimmi #PEEPAPARADE @playcavestory.bsky.social · 11d

Twenty three

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 2d

Here's an illustration from the Drayton Parslow Parish Register in 1780 - a skull and bones with a floral motif. A morbid doodle or a helpful way to mark a section of burials?

A black skull and crossed bones next to a floral motif, drawn in the Drayton Parslow Parish Register, 1780. Handwritten entries are above and below it showing burials, including several infants.

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wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 2d

Whole rainbow. Waow

wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 2d

icon change as i chuckle at this pic whenever i see it, its still on brand with my regular sunglasses icon. i also cosplayed jc in ff14 for halloween

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$ex Toilet @redicnomad.bsky.social · 5d

Still enjoying Silent hill F

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wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 4d

This morning ive tried to make few squats to pass time before shower water will be hot and it was a humiliating experience

wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 4d

ooooh shiiit fr fr

wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 4d

Moon. Big.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · May 10

rise of the machines

Fred Flentstone stands, hands on his hips, looking incredulously at Barney Rubble, who is at the corner of the panel barely visible. He appears to wearing tiny sunglasses.
"C'mon Barn, what's with the getup? and what is that on your head?" Fred asks.
"oh this, Fred?"
We now see Barney is also wearing a black trench coat and smoking a cigarette. A small bird is taped to the side of his head. "Just the latest in cybernetic enhancement technology- wired right into my brain."

The background dissolves and Barney stands next to a free floating diagram of a human body with several small birds going into it and says "we're entering a new age, Fred- the synthesis of man and machine as one flesh. This is the future. It's hack or be hacked."
Fred looks incredulous.

The bird pecks Barney.

Barney puts his hands on his head and screams "the machines are turning against us! We have built God only for him to destroy us!" as the bird continues to peck at him.

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wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 5d

its 10c, its windy and rainy. yet the local teen girls are drinking vodka with cola and are having blast of a fun o7

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 6d

I'm serious email your representatives and link this article RIGHT NOW

tell them this shit sucks and is going to put everyone's ID/data at risk to hackers online. the proof is right here

US- www.congress.gov/members/find...
EU- www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home
CA- www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

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wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 7d

and the cast has weirdos and some feels grounded even for being in fantasy setting with rule of cool

wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 7d

bg2 is such a banger. what i also liked, the character *can* have amnesia, or has partial one thanks to irenicus, it gives a room to roleplay and it welcomes both new ones and those who played bg1 before

wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 7d

there is also theme of, every individual is a god, power of mind as the sheer willpower will affect the space to your favor
anyway, neolithic englishmen and i guess peruvians worshipped same aliens

i will believe the villain is the space lizard enemy race for the bingo (after all his name is cobra)

wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 7d

i've watched spaghetti b movie the pumaman and ive focused more on the stench of new age racism it has than i should. the white savior who is descentant of space race that is treated like gods by(ancient?) peruvians

also everything takes place in london/england BUT NOT IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM(!)

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megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 8d

Seconding this post. Please keep calling and mailing. ESPECIALLY if you're in Germany.

If Germany flips to opposed, with how the current shakeup is looking, chatcontrol is dead in the water once again.

🔞Risax🔞 - Smut Writer @risax.bsky.social · 9d

#SaveSpeech

The vote on Chat Control is in October, I believe, and there's only 7 countries opposed. But there's a whole lot more that are undecided since this all started.

I know it's felt a lot like 1 step forwards, 2 steps back. But keep calling and mailing, please!

Fightchatcontrol.eu

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wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 8d

Welcome back!

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wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 8d

its joever. time to listen to vtmb soundtrack

wycha @wycha.bsky.social · 9d

wip
supposed one day it will be shown with context