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Rory Carroll
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Fewer cars, better driving.

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After Car - Alloy
A new book explores options a less car-dependent world.
alloymag.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
rorycarroll.bsky.social
There are a lot of good things happening in independent media, somehow.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
Hi everybody,

It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.

Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.

This is, somehow, feasible.

So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Recession indicator. Tomorrow they're gonna tell you the best way to fix the suspenders on the big barrel you're wearing instead of clothes
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
"Never eating instant ramen any other way again," said a reader who tried this simple recipe. nyti.ms/4oVswSM
A bowl of Perfect Instant Ramen
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
rorycarroll.bsky.social
Holy smokes. Just realized tomorrow, Alloy will publish its hundredth post. We made the site to see if we could make a site that doesn't make you feel bad and exhausted. We're proud of it, you should look at it if you haven't yet. alloymag.com
Front Page - Alloy
A site about car culture.
alloymag.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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junlper.beer
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
rorycarroll.bsky.social
Still want to do this if anyone is looking for a little walkin' around money this honda day season
rorycarroll.bsky.social Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 25d
Looking to publish a story correlating automaker investments in new technology and earnings/share price. For example-- X automaker made public investments in Y technology, it had this impact on shares and this impact on earnings (if any.) If anyone knows a finance journalist who'd write it LMK
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Hella Dilute live split
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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This is really comprehensive and good.
dansinker.com dan sinker @dansinker.com · 7d
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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edzitron.com
There is no congruent way to look at generative AI and think “this is the future.” The most well known fact about it is that it messes up all the time, the next being that it loses lots of money.
carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 7d
I think Claude Code has achieved AGI
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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rmac.bsky.social
I didn’t go to business school can someone tell me if this is bad
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22d
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”

That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”

@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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November 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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We allow the same group of morons to wreck the economy pursuing transparently stupid, destructive and pointless ideas every half-decade.

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$1 Trillion in Tech Stocks Sold Off as Market Grows Skeptical of AI
What do bubbles do?
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November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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edzitron.com
Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
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Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex
As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you when the bubble will pop, because we're in the stupidest financial era since the great financial crisis — though,...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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edzitron.com
They’re calling it “the most well-taken comment in history”
Sarah Friar in • Following CFO OpenAl | Co-Launcher @ Ladies Who Launch | Board Member @ Wa... 1m • I want to clarify my comments earlier today. OpenAl is not seeking a government backstop for our infrastructure commitments. I used the word "backstop" and it muddied the point. As the full clip of my answer shows, I was making the point that American strength in technology will come from building real industrial capacity which requires the private sector and government playing their part. As I said, the US government has been incredibly forward-leaning and has really understood that Al is a national strategic asset.
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 AM
rorycarroll.bsky.social
When executives start talking about the government bailing them out it’s usually because they’re doing great and have a clear path to profitability
November 6, 2025 at 5:32 AM
rorycarroll.bsky.social
What are the benefits to robotaxis? Don't say that theoretically, down the road, they might be safer and more efficient than regular EV taxis.
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Darkness...
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Looking to publish a story correlating automaker investments in new technology and earnings/share price. For example-- X automaker made public investments in Y technology, it had this impact on shares and this impact on earnings (if any.) If anyone knows a finance journalist who'd write it LMK
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Alloymag.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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This article is relevant to my interests alloymag.com/the-25-year-...
25-year Rules - Alloy
What to consider before you consider importing an old car to the United States.
alloymag.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Alloymag.com is live, we’re fixing stuff tonight, official launch tomorrow
Front Page - Alloy
A site about car culture.
Alloymag.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
rorycarroll.bsky.social
Early memory: My cousin from Waukegan jumping off the dock, telling everyone he had a waterproof watch.
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
rorycarroll.bsky.social
It’s going to be really funny when AI companies go through this part of their arc
October 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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edzitron.com
Premium tomorrow: OpenAI promised to build a gigawatt of data centers for AMD, NVIDIA and Broadcom by the end of 2026, and 9GW for Broadcom by 2029. They need $400 Billion in the next 12 months.

Here’s $10 off an annual subscription.

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OpenAI Needs Over $400 Billion In The Next 12 Months To Complete Any Of These Deals - And Sam Altman Doesn’t Have Enough Time To Build Any Of it I know, I know, you’re going to say that OpenAI will simply “raise debt” and “work it out,” but OpenAI has less than a year to do that, because OpenAI has promised in their own announcements that all of these things would happen by the end of December 2026, and even if they’re going to happen in 2027, data centers require actual money to begin construction, Broadcom, NVIDIA and AMD are going to actually require cash for those chips before they ship them. Even if OpenAI finds multiple consortiums of paypigs to take on the tens of billions of dollars of data center funding, there are limits, and based on OpenAI’s aggressive (and insane) timelines, they will need to raise multiple different versions of the largest known data center deals of all time, multiple times a year, every single year. Say that happens. OpenAI will still need to pay those compute contracts with Oracle, CoreWeave, Microsoft (I believe their Azure credits have run out) and Google (via CoreWeave) with actual, real cash, $40 billion dollars worth, when they’re already burning $9.2 billion in the first half of 2026 on compute on revenues of $4.3 billion. OpenAI will still need to pay their staff, their storage, their sales and marketing department that cost them $2 billion in the first half of 2026, all while converting their non-profit into a for-profit, by the end of the year, or they lose $20 billion in funding from SoftBank. Also, if they don’t convert to a for-profit by October 2026, their $6.6 billion funding round from 2024 converts to debt.
October 17, 2025 at 4:13 AM
rorycarroll.bsky.social
I know it's not usually protocol to say bad things about outlets, but what's happening at Jalopnik is a real shame and I feel terrible for the people who work there.
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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This was fun, love talking about Alloy and the collapse of digital media!

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Rory Carroll Stops by for Dinner | That Car Show Podcast: S1 Ep 29
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October 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM