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Diane B. Rylia - Y! Con @diane-b-rylia.bsky.social · 3h

Chats et canapés retrouvés, je suis super contente de ce week-end.

Diane B. Rylia - Y! Con @diane-b-rylia.bsky.social · 4h

Franchement je regrette pas en plus j'ai rencontré des supers autrices et on a beaucoup parlé écriture, lectures etc...
Par contre j'avoue, hâte de retrouver mes chats et mon canapé XD

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 14h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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K. Wroten 🍏 @jukeboxcomix.bsky.social · 20h

Alchemy Stickers WIP

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Diane B. Rylia - Y! Con @diane-b-rylia.bsky.social · 4h

On veut ton fanzine <3

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Diane B. Rylia - Y! Con @diane-b-rylia.bsky.social · 4h

Here is our cosmo energy ! You have the power to do it !

a group of anime girls are standing around each other with their hands together

ALT: a group of anime girls are standing around each other with their hands together

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 8h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Diane B. Rylia - Y! Con @diane-b-rylia.bsky.social · 4h

La visite guidée était super intéressante sur l'intérieur. Ça reste mon château favori <3

Diane B. Rylia - Y! Con @diane-b-rylia.bsky.social · 4h

J'ai pas beaucoup dédicacé mais j'ai eu une visite guidée de mon château préféré au soleil, que demande le peuple ?

Château d'Azay le Rideau, château Renaissance vu depuis le parc et se reflétant dans l'eau.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Dydime @dydimos972.bsky.social · 1d

Imaginez une odeur nauséabonde d'œufs pourris qui ne part pas et qui se mélange à l'air ambiant et ça sur des centaines de mètres jusqu'à des kilomètres.
Certaines communes côtières sont limite invivable

Libération @liberation.fr · 1d

«C’est devenu tout simplement invivable» : en Martinique, les sargasses empoisonnent la vie des habitants

Des quantités record d’algues brunes se sont échouées sur les côtes en 2025. En se décomposant, elles dégagent des gaz toxiques pour l’humain et accélère l’usure du matériel électronique.

«C’est devenu tout simplement invivable» : en Martinique, les sargasses empoisonnent la vie des habitants

www.liberation.fr

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aPaulineR de poule 🎃 @paulineharmange.fr · 16h

Ça ne concerne pas que l’Education Nationale mais bien tous les agents de la fonction publique, d’État ou territoriale, qu’ils soient titulaires ou contractuels.

ServanneMarzin @servannemarzin.bsky.social · 1d

1/Pendant que Lecornu joue à coucou-caché, toustes les fonctionnaires de l'EN ont reçu au milieu de la nuit un mail leur confirmant la dégradation annoncée de leur rémunération durant leur congé maladie. A la 1ère journée de carence - ce qui représente entre 80 et 200 euros de perte environ-...

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Rann @poisoncage.bsky.social · 15h

#YOKAIDAY 🐙 🌸
Oups !
FR : yokaiday.poisoncage.com/comic/discor...
EN :https://tapas.io/episode/3646280

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Diane B. Rylia - Y! Con @diane-b-rylia.bsky.social · 15h

Parce que j'oublie toujours d'annoncer tout, je suis en dédicaces à Grim'Loire et j'en profite pour faire du tourisme.

Photo d'un village avec un petit pont enjambant une rivière

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Lumi @lumi-sco.bsky.social · 1d

"A Lyon, comme partout en France, il y a plus de logements vides que de personnes à la rue."
www.instagram.com/p/DPopRp8jGwB/

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랑 @parang8888.bsky.social · 1d

사내연애 #svsss #漠尚 #moshang

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Lucie Rondeau du Noyer @lucienoyer.bsky.social · 1d

Je ne dis pas qu’on vit dans une société d’Ancien régime, je dis seulement qu’aux rendez-vous de l’Histoire de Blois on m’a demandé de laisser ma place au premier rang à un ancien premier ministre (j’étais au premier rang en tant que co-autrice des 4 livres présentés) 🤡

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 1d

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Diane B. Rylia - Y! Con @diane-b-rylia.bsky.social · 1d

Elle est née sous une lune rouge et ces enfants là apportent le malheur sur les autres dès qu'ils rient... Elle porte la marque de l'agneau et donc elle doit porter tous nos péchés... La nulle elle a pas de magie, je peux la bully parce que je suis supérieure...
Bref des raisons !

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Diane B. Rylia - Y! Con @diane-b-rylia.bsky.social · 1d

Je la bully parce qu'à cause de sa mère ma mère est aigrie et méchante, je la bully parce que père est mort en la sauvant, je la bully parce qu'elle est plus jolie ou qu'elle a une grosse dot de feu qon papi ... Bref, plein de raisons, tu peux même aller sur de la magie !

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Diane B. Rylia - Y! Con @diane-b-rylia.bsky.social · 1d

Je lis 888 webtoons par jours en ce moment (only I can judge me and I judge myself a lot), et il y a un truc qui m'énerve : les demi-frères/soeurs qui sont méchants avec l'héroïne sans raison, sans penser que son statut c'est leur statut... C'est si dur d'inventer des raisons ?

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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.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

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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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

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.

Here's a link for $10 off premium.

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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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Occulture @occulture.bsky.social · 2d

Il a le cœur d'un humanitaire ? Il a sans doute dû lui arracher après l'avoir traité de sale woke...

Libération @liberation.fr · 2d

Pas de Nobel de la Paix pour Trump, la Maison Blanche enrage : «Il a le cœur d’un humanitaire !» ➡️ bit.ly/4nG0bPz

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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