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Chris 🍂 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 4d

"sophisticated financial engineering" oh that's not good

Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don't want to formally take on debt-that is, directly ask investors for loans-because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell-a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta's rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called "tranches" based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone.

(Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the "innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta's data center projects.

steve carrell looking angry wearing suit at nice restaurant in movie the big short.

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Jun 27

As someone who has *checks notes* 62 kairosoft games installed on their phone right now, I'll have you know that there are at least 4 different kairosoft games (and they're all great)

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Jun 10

Ideally you'd be able to access another test to take today so you could distinguish between 1) it picking up the very initial stages of covid and 2) it fucking up due to not being used within spec

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · Jun 9

you say ghosts aren't real because we can't photograph them or measure their electromagentic influence but you have no trouble believing in nations

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CHOAM Nomsky (thankful) @samthielman.com · Jun 7

the funniest thing about the “ice agents are human beings with families” line is that there is no evidence to support the claim. oh they’re real people? what are their names? as far as I’m concerned they’re the T-1000 until proven otherwise

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · May 27

Recovering from #MarylandDeathfest and returning to the real world.

There's still a lot of work to do, and I have a lot more thoughts to collect, but I'm deeply moved at how much more radically inclusive the metal scene is now than I dreamed it could ever be when I was a kid 🤘🏾

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Apr 22

Congratulations 🩷🩵🤍🩵🩷 I've been a fan of the network for years and I'm so happy you're in a place where you can share that with us!

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · Apr 7

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline:
If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter
Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste
By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m.

caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Apr 4

I realize multiple things can be bad HOWEVER I'm also darkly enjoying seeing Certain Types of People who've spent the last 2.5 months performatively unplugging from news/social media (about other people being oppressed) suddenly posting at a rate making Elon Musk look offline

sry about ur 401k tho

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Feb 23

"hey it's not all doom and gloom out there 🥰 you can't control the world around you but you can surround yourself with incredible people, and that's real resistance 🥰"

Yes I saw that shit from multiple people in short succession, yes they're all white and work in tech how did you know??????

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Feb 23

Losing my fucking mind seeing people I personally know and had respected, who 8 years ago were constantly talking about how "we can't normalize any of this!!!" now seeming to take pride in becoming increasingly detached, I'm becoming (the people's) joker

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Feb 18

It's a mix of terrifying, enraging and also pure cringe adding insult to injury

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · Feb 2

CDC datasets have been saved. But you can still help by seeding.

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

archive.org

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Jan 27

I still hate this garbage but it is very funny to see some of the worst people shit themselves

Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · Jan 27

DeepSeek just released a multimodal model (capable of understanding vision + text) about an hour ago, they're going for the jugular lmao

DeepSeek releases deepseek-ai/Janus-Pro-7B (unified multimodal model).

www.reddit.com

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · Jan 21

picking up the pace on my job search for 2025; I have 12+ years of Android dev experience (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, NDK, etc, specialty in architecture), looking for staff-level roles, remote / hybrid in the Bay

past work @ Twitter, Notion, Airtable, Slack

hmu if you know anyone who's hiring!

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Jan 1

Goddamn I hope I become a better person this year

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · Dec 27

realizing i never posted it here….but too long have we been limited by the 2-dimensional political alignment chart. i think by using my new tool we can truly map another person's politics. here it is: The Ideology Cube

political alignment chart with an “annoying to me personally” z-axis

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Dec 14

We are truly living in a Moment

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Dec 13

you heard her, tick tock

Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · Dec 13

this is true, but also, I don't need cis people to check in on me, I need cis people to offer me a job, a staff android software engineer position, no more than two days in office, located in the SF Bay Area,,,

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · Dec 12

if you're cis:

if you think you know how your trans friends are doing, you don't.
if you think you have a finger on the pulse, you don't.

i've been out for 12 fucking years, transphobia has never been this direct, explicit, and targeted, with the intention that we (redacted). check in

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · Dec 12

Road signs were hacked in Seattle:

kutv.com/news/nation-...

Message displayed :

"One less CEO - Many more to go"

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Dec 12

Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Dec 9

Critical support for the least problematic man in tech imo

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · Dec 7

Happening now at Washington Square Park: A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition, including people who intentionally and unintentionally dressed the part.

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Dec 7

This is my second favorite movie and one that I went to the theater two nights in a row to see.

Vera Drew @veradrew22.bsky.social · Dec 6

THE PEOPLE'S JOKER is now streamable on MUBI. Get your free trial today you sick little clown

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woke kaczynski @apokaladle.bsky.social · Dec 7

I feel like I wouldn't have made the choice to say that out loud at this time in his position, but then I've also made a lot of choices in life that mean the world at large will not be celebrating my death so who can say

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Dec 7

United CEO Andrew Witty gave an address to the company today (leaked to me), telling employees "we guard against...unnecessary care" and that "There are very few people in the history of the U. S. healthcare industry who had a bigger positive effect on American healthcare than Brian [Thompson]."

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