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awparks.bsky.social @awparks.bsky.social · 8h

Sooo... people only get paid if they accept a king?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

awparks.bsky.social @awparks.bsky.social · 9h

They're still mad about the 1960s BC tbh

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 1d

Great googly-moogly, these guys look like cartoon caricatures of what you would expect.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

This is literally how the Roman Republic fell.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Shoe + @shoe.bsky.social · 1d

Remember how the Right needed representation on social media companies because they were being moderated unfairly but now the Administration is openly threatening social media sites and hypocrisy is dead?

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awparks.bsky.social @awparks.bsky.social · 2d

I think she had the opposite kind of stroke from Fetterman.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

If we must do a comparison of which American president did a better job securing the release of Israeli hostages, the answer is Joe Biden.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 2d

Biden's cease-fires got 135 living hostages released. Trump's got 20 (which is less than it would have been had he enforced the continuation of the January cease fire).

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2d

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 2d

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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RepJackKimble @repjackkimble.bsky.social · 8d

President Trump doesn’t get enough credit for ending the war between Azerbaijan and Acetaminophen

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awparks.bsky.social @awparks.bsky.social · 3d

I voted for Trump because he said he was going to do terrible things. I didn't expect this specific terrible thing that affects me directly.

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 3d

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 4d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 4d

I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.

"I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat," he wrote in an followup blog post. "In total, l've spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations: no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living."
Kupperman's original skepticism was built on a guess that the components in an average Al data center would take ten years to depreciate, requiring costly replacements. That was bad enough: "I don't see how there can ever be any return on investment given the current math," he wrote at the time.
But ten years, he now understands, is way too generous.
" had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic based upon the speed with which Al datacenter technology is advancing," Kupperman wrote. "Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most."
In his previous analysis, Kupperman assumed it would take the tech industry $160 billion of revenue to break even on data center spending in 2025 alone. And that's assuming an incredibly generous 25 percent gross margin - not to mention the fact that the industry's actual Al revenue is closer to $20 billion annually, as the investment manager noted in his previous blog.

"In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year," Kupperman posited in his updated essay. "No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden - heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth."
Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 "astonishing."
However, it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. For example, how does it all shake out when we account for 2026, when hundreds of new data centers are expected to pop up?
"Adding the two years together, and using the math from my prior post, you'd need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend," he writes.
"If the economics don't work, doing it at massive scale doesn't make the economics work any better
- it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis," he concludes.
Overall, the pessimists broadly agree: it's no longer a matter of if Al is massively overhyped, but when the whole thing comes crashing down.
More on Al hype: Data Shows That Al Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 5d

“Have enough kids that you stop caring about any of them” is sure a take.

onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

all things considered, he’s just a really stupid guy with really stupid beliefs

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George Smiley @mc2020.bsky.social · 5d

Every 2A nutjob's worst nightmare - literal jackbooted thugs going door-to-door with a firearms database, but it's fine, because they're the ones carrying it out.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4d

the four horsemen of the apocalypse

- higher taxes on the ultra wealthy
- regulations on chat bots
- woke mind virus (obviously)
- trump derangement syndrome

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

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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awparks.bsky.social @awparks.bsky.social · 5d

They contain multitudes (of human rights violations)

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 5d

This is how you get your employees to train you while still asserting your status as their “boss.”

A good leader would just say I know I have a lot to learn and would love to meet with each team to do just that

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 6d

Just 'cause it has to be said every now and then.

GOP Senators and Representatives are obviously okay with...everything...that's happening.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6d

Whether it’s Donald Trump saying J.B. Pritzker should be in jail or Donald Trump being convicted of 36 felonies but not going to jail because the American people re-elected him as president, both sides have been linked to jail time.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 6d

“With her baby in her placenta.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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