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author of Toothpaste For Dinner, Married To The Sea, @dasharez0ne.bsky.social etc.

my podcast with @nataliedee.bsky.social: https://patreon.com/garbagebrainuniversity

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Nov 30

how we envisioned the dark future: you wear leather and buy brain stims from a small store in an alley. your wrist computer helps you hack

actual dark future: your $89 pants rip after 8 wears. adderall shortage. your wrist computer makes you stand up hourly and buzzes with email from your boss

drewtoothpaste

@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

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January 26, 2026 at 1:04 AM

drewtoothpaste

@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

i need 15 grams of bonhomie. and while you're back there can you get me 10mL of camraderie? actually can you just bring out all the good french feelings and I'll pick out which ones I want?

January 25, 2026 at 11:25 PM

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cal50

@cal50.bsky.social

everyone tells you to let your faucets leak when it's below freezing but nobody tells you to let your bidet spray everywhere too

January 25, 2026 at 9:49 PM

drewtoothpaste

@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

it's funny to imagine yourself as an adult in the 70s and think about the stuff you would do. it's even funnier to think about people in the 2070s thinking about themselves in 2026 and imagining what they would have done from day to day in this year if they were adults now

January 25, 2026 at 8:02 PM

drewtoothpaste

@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

TALENT: When years of study and practice culminate in someone implying you didn't work to become skilled
"very talented!"

January 25, 2026 at 4:31 PM

drewtoothpaste

@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

The Devil: A guy who has never had a friend will yell at you for saying something that's not wrong, and not said in the wrong way, but in a way that the guy thinks is wrong.

Me: That sounds very cool. And this all happens on my telephone?

January 25, 2026 at 1:51 AM

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weeder

@weeder.bsky.social

We now go live to the greenhouse for a look at some plants

Blooming Echeveria flower stalk like a shepherds crook, a stegosaurus back of pink drying blooms, the curl of the question mark, fresher denser smaller buds grouped like a snakes rattle

A snapdragon orange and yellow, riding out the cold snap

My wonderful little coral honeysuckle cutting is sending up shoots, the main stalk a papery twist of twine , to the left, greenish purple leaves unfurling, reptilian almost in their scaly pattern

Leprechauns gold Columbine, light greenish yellow leaves with grassy toned splotches, leaf shape irregular bordered broad fanning clover

January 24, 2026 at 8:25 PM

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January 24, 2026 at 9:45 PM

drewtoothpaste

@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

right now, at twitch.tv/garbagebrainuniversity, i'm streaming MTG Arena games, and opening packs of the new set. i haven't streamed in forever, so come by and say hello!

me streaming Magic The Gathering Arena, about to "purchase" (i don't pay money for this game) 90 packs of lorwyn eclipsed. when you play the game they give you In Game Gold. never pay real money for digital toys

January 24, 2026 at 7:09 PM

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submit

January 24, 2026 at 3:34 PM

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at a time like this, we need to ignore our petty personal grievances and ideological differences to come together and agree that Roblox must be outlawed

January 24, 2026 at 2:55 AM

drewtoothpaste

@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

toothpaste for dinner x buddo collab

buddo with my writing on it so it's a toothpaste for dinner guy now. here's what the museum has to say about it, also click onto lore's link that i quoted for more

Human figure carved from whalebone. Discovered at Skara Brae.

The Skara Brae Buddo is in elite company. Dating to circa 2,900 – 2,400 BC, it is just one of a handful of known figurines from the whole of the British Neolithic. It is exceptionally rare to find representations of humans from this time.

It was originally discovered at Skara Brae by William G. Watt in the 1850s or early 1860s. It was found in a stone bed compartment in House 3, which had already been largely lost to the sea then but was completely washed away in the 1920s. It was illustrated by the antiquarian George Petrie in the 1860s, but until recently it was thought that this drawing was all that survived. Many of the artefacts from the early investigations at Skara Brae moved to the National Museum in Edinburgh, and whilst some eventually came back to Orkney, the whereabouts of some them became lost to time – including, it was thought, the figurine. Amazingly, it was rediscovered in April 2016 by Dr David Clarke, who was undertaking research in the museum. It had lain hidden in a box of artefacts in Stromness Museum’s archaeological stores that were donated in the 1930s without information on their provenance.

January 24, 2026 at 2:02 AM

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"It's too dark, and it has too much plants," Brian Wilson said. The other Forest Boys nodded. They'd have to find a new name.

January 23, 2026 at 10:33 PM

drewtoothpaste

@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

as a child my dream job was composing beats for the clothes dryer

January 23, 2026 at 9:07 PM

drewtoothpaste

@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

Listen to me, my child. You are
in grave danger! Unless you
heed my warning,
you will die
within
the next
hundred
years!

January 23, 2026 at 4:45 PM

drewtoothpaste

@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

saw a guy in the obituaries with a great name. it just goes to show you that your time on earth is best spent trying to discover alive people with great names

January 23, 2026 at 5:11 AM

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Ed Zitron

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AI labs have no path to profitability, and have to work out a way to keep raising money or dump themselves onto the public markets, and even then face the same problem of their services costing way more to provide than they bring in. AI startups have no path to profitability, and in many cases have no real way to reduce costs other than to switch model providers or sink their own money into training their own models, which will in turn be unprofitable. Neoclouds like CoreWeave and Nebius, burdened by billions in debt, ballooning capital expenditures and negative margins must find a way to muddle through until either NVIDIA makes a magical profitable GPU, or model providers find ways to become profitable.

To put it simply, everybody is sitting around waiting for somebody else to solve their problems. OpenAI and Anthropic are waiting for Amazon or Google or NVIDIA or Cerebras to invent that magical profitable GPU, and for venture capital (or private debt) to plug the holes in their business models. AI startups are sitting around waiting for OpenAI or Anthropic to make models that consumers will pay more for or that will cost less to run, and for venture capital to feed them the money to keep the hounds of Hell from dragging them into the ground. Neoclouds are waiting for NVIDIA to do something that makes GPUs profitable, and for debt or venture capital to keep them alive.

Even hyperscalers are sitting around waiting for somebody to wipe their ass. Crybaby loser and CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella complained this week at Davos that it AI was at “risk of becoming a speculative bubble” if it didn’t spread, per the FT, “spread beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies”:

“For this not to be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread,” said Nadella. He noted that a “tell-tale sign of if it’s a bubble” would be if only tech groups were benefiting from the rise of AI, rather than companies in other sectors.

Satya, that’s your job! You’re the one who’s meant to be spreading it!

Yet even hyperscalers — who until recently funded expansion using cashflow, but have now turned to over a hundred billion dollars in debt — have their own time bomb waiting in the form of all those fucking GPUs.

In the space of four years, these companies have gone from asset-light, high-cashflow money printers to cretinous, fiscally obese GPU holding firms, and while they might be profitable for now, each of them have added at least $90 billion in PP&E (Property, Plants and Equipment) in that time period, slowly breeding a depreciation parasite that sits on their income statements, slowly growing every quarter, eating away at net income, and their plan appears to be to buy more of the fucking things. To make matters worse, these services are incredibly expensive to run, unpopular with customers, and do not seem to be getting “better” in any way that can make up for what, in some cases, anywhere from $4.9 billion (Meta) to $13 billion (Microsoft) cuts to net income every single quarter for the next three to five years.

I’ll lay it out real simple: every time a hyperscaler buys a new GPU and installs it in a data center (this is a crucial distinction, it must be operational), said GPU begins “depreciating” on a cycle of five to six years, adding a depreciation cost to their earnings rather than an up-front cost. While there is nothing wrong with this, it is, in and of itself, a time bomb. Every hyperscaler keeps buying GPUs, and because those GPUs take anywhere from six to twelve months to install, depreciation never really comes down because of the constant cycle of new stuff entering the flow of cash.

As this happens, AI services stubbornly refuse to generate a profit, meaning that these depreciation costs are burning a hole in these companies’ cashflows. Nevertheless, these companies continue to buy more GPUs and build (or lease) more data centers, which means that the depreciation cost is always growing, on top of the operating expense of running AI services, on top of all the other costs of running the company. It doesn’t matter if they’re buying GPUs from NVIDIA or building their own Silicon with Broadcom — these costs continue to balloon, and they exist regardless of whether the AI boom is real or not.

As I’ve said in the past, hyperscalers are not making any profit on AI (or even that much revenue, not that they’re actually disclosing those numbers). While this isn’t a problem right now (as existing revenue streams like Meta’s ads division or Microsoft 365 continue to grow), the second that growth begins to stumble, the only guarantee that these companies have is that depreciation costs are going to continue to rise to meet them. And there are only two ways to get rid of that cost: sell the items in question, or wait for the end of a depreciation cycle, something which Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta all extended (in some cases multiple times) as a means of boosting their net revenue and hiding the ruinous cost of AI.

Every single part of the AI bubble is operating on…

January 23, 2026 at 1:50 AM

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drewtoothpaste

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Computer: Do you want to trust this device?
Me: Yes. i love my device
Computer: If you trust this device, it will have access to your data. It can change your data. It can do anything to you.
Me: I Will Die For My Device
Computer: We Are Bonded In Silicon And Desire

March 31, 2024 at 4:29 PM

drewtoothpaste

@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

if you use an xacto knife or utility knife a lot try using a scalpel instead. sounds crazy but for most things it works infinitely better. didnt even realize you could buy a scalpel until a few years ago. i guess i assumed they were restricted to doctors

January 22, 2026 at 7:22 PM