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travisjj.bsky.social
Last of the Mammoth Hunters.

Burnt out conflict journalist takes an assignment covering a tech bro's ivory-prospecting expedition to modern day Siberia. It's a technothriller for cynical lefties.
cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @MFF C8 @cometkins.bsky.social · 18h
Time to eat your vegetables again y'all! What's a one-sentence elevator pitch for your book? If you need help, [thing] meets [thing] is a great baseline. #WritingPrompt
December 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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palaeosinensis.com
One life eclipses another; Smilodon takes down a whitetail deer. Inspired by petroglyphs, cave art, and ancient Scythian art. It's weird to think that the whitetail deer survived the ice age and made it to the present but many of its predators did not. #art #smilodon #paleontology #rockart #deer
Digital art of a Smilodon hunting a white tailed deer buck. Both figures are drawn as if they were petroglyphs. The Smilodon is pouncing the deer while the deer's rear legs twist to the opposite side of its body. This twisting leg direction signifies a dead or dying animal in Scythian art which also has influences on this piece.
October 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Full opinion here. Judge Xinis is clearly hopping mad with the government's repeated refusals to comply with her requests to be forthright about the situation, and suggests she will take it into account in pending sanctions motions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Memorandum Opinion – #110 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by Judge Paula Xinis on 12/11/2025. (kns, Deputy Clerk) (Entered: 12/11/2025)
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December 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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banditelli.org
GO OUTSIDE AND SPY ON BIRDS THEN REPORT THEM TO A CENTRAL DATABASE
nicosgonzalez.bsky.social Nicolas Gonzalez @nicosgonzalez.bsky.social · 15h
Audubon's Christmas Bird Count starts this Sunday and runs through January 5th. This is a 126-year tradition that has built a critically important, long-term dataset on bird populations across the US and much of the western hemisphere. It's also fun and wholesome. www.christmasbirdcount.org
Audubon Christmas Bird Count
A hemispheric community science program with a century of history behind it.
www.christmasbirdcount.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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marthawells.com
One more day for the reprise of the Murderbot, Witch King, and my other fantasy novels Humble Bundle! #booksky
humblebundle.com Humble @humblebundle.com · 1d
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December 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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kenjennings.bsky.social
Flashing my green light in complicated strobe patterns, to hypnotize Gatsby into doing my bidding.
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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bradlander.bsky.social
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Generally, as a cultural matter, I think the sort of 'knowing cynicism' of the 90s has run its course and as a culture, we need to move back to sincerely, to openly owning and loving what we believe.
December 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
existentialhope.bsky.social
I just realized that we are less than a month away from @edzitron.com's CES coverage.

I'm so fucking stoked. I only get this excited about the 12 Hours of Bathurst, the Tour de France, and particularly spicy congressional hearings.
December 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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sorryhat.bsky.social
Lunch sketch.
December 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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questauthority.bsky.social
[Witness name redacted]: "Well, you're probably familiar with my film Titanic..."
icoloma.bsky.social Nacho Coloma @icoloma.bsky.social · 1d
"the job description is not enough to uniquely identify an individual"
"Ok, I'm the CEO of Microsoft"
"No, not like that"
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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macfarlanenews.bsky.social
As officer Daniel Hodges sat at the witness table of a recent Senate subcommittee hearing, Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) asked the witnesses to raise their hands if they supported the pardons of Jan 6 rioters, including those who beat officer Hodges

You can see Hodges looking at the responses
December 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
the fact that so many people don't think sex and romance are an integral part of worldbuilding continues to HURT MY BRAIN.

like, we are living in an era where RvW has fallen and we're constantly stressed Obergefell could be next, and you don't understand why skipping this in worldbuilding = LAZY?
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
I ghosted that person because I was so mad I could not be civil, and it is why I don't talk to anyone I don't trust from January 1st until we have gotten past The Week Of Last Minute Shitty Valentine's Day Articles On The Romance Genre anymore.
December 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
This whole situation is awful and stinks to high heaven. One thing I've learned is that in publishing, like any other area, you must hold people accountable and not forget. Otherwise, they just do the same thing again at some point.
jordanshiveley.bsky.social Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 5d
I wonder if all the owners/publishers/upper management of Unbound/Boundless who apparently have done their six months of lip service and now are celebrating their new publishing ventures and kicking back on podcasts think we are going to forget that they committed en masse THEFT from their writers
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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dahlialithwick.bsky.social
Wins 2025 hands down
atherton.bsky.social Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Oct 3
Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!

My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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edzitron.com
I am deeply worried for the future.

NVIDIA's revenue is a chain of pain - selling GPUs bought with debt that are rented to unprofitable LLM companies subsidized by VC who sell access to unprofitable AI companies subsidized by VC.

The end will be gruesome.
www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-...
NVIDIA Is Dependent On Endless Debt and Credit - As Are Most Of The Customers Of AI Compute, Creating A Deadly Cycle That Ends In Disaster NVIDIA is currently making hundreds of billions in revenue selling GPUs to companies that either plug them in and start losing money or, I assume, put them in a warehouse for safe keeping. This brings me to my core anxiety: why, exactly, are companies pre-ordering GPUs? What benefit is there in doing so? Blackwell does not appear to be “more efficient” in a way that actually makes anybody a profit, and we’re potentially years from seeing these GPUs in operation in data centers at the scale they’re being shipped — so why would anybody be buying more? I doubt these are new customers — they’re likely hyperscalers, neoclouds like CoreWeave and resellers like Dell and SuperMicro — because the only companies that can actually afford to buy them are those with massive amounts of cash or debt, to the point that even Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle are taking on massive amounts of new debt, all without a plan to make a profit. NVIDIA’s largest customers are increasingly unable to afford its GPUs, which appear to be increasing in price with every subsequent generation. NVIDIA’s GPUs are so expensive that the only way you can buy them is by already having billions of dollars or being able to raise billions of dollars, which means, in a very real sense, that NVIDIA is dependent not on its customers, but on its customers’ credit ratings and financial backers. To make matters worse, the key reason that one would buy a GPU is to either run services using it or rent it to somebody else, and the two largest parties spending money on these services are OpenAI and Anthropic, both of whom lose billions of dollars, and are thus dependent on venture capital and debt (remember, OpenAI has a $4 billion line of credit, and Anthropic a $2.5 billion one too). Yet it gets worse from there. Who, after all, are the biggest customers renting AI compute? That’s right, AI startups, all of which are deeply unprofitable. Cursor — Anthropic’s largest customer and now its biggest competitor in the AI coding sphere — raised $2.3 billion in November after raising $900 million in June. Perplexity, one of the most “popular” AI companies, raised $200 million in September after raising $100 million in July after seeming to fail to raise $500 million in May (I’ve not seen any proof this round closed) after raising $500 million in December 2024. Cognition raised $400 million in September after raising $300 million in March. Cohere raised $100 million in September a month after it raised $500 million. Venture capital is feeding money to either OpenAI or Anthropic to use their models, or in some cases hyperscalers or neoclouds like CoreWeave or Lambda to rent NVIDIA GPUs. OpenAI and Anthropic then raise venture capital or debt to pay hyperscalers or neoclouds to rent NVIDIA GPUs. Hyperscalers and neoclouds then use either debt or existent cashflow (in the case of hyperscalers, though not for long!) to buy more NVIDIA GPUs. Only one company actually makes a profit here: NVIDIA. Aside: I should add there are also NVIDIA resellers like Dell or Supermicro, the latter of which buy NVIDIA GPUs, put them in servers, and sell them to neoclouds like Lambda or CoreWeave. At some point, a link in this debt-backed chain breaks, because very little cashflow exists to prop it up. At some point, venture capitalists will be forced to stop funnelling money into unprofitable, unsustainable AI companies, which will make those companies unable to funnel money into the pockets of those buying GPUs, which will make it harder for those companies buying GPUs to justify (or raise debt for) buying more GPUs. And if I’m honest, none of NVIDIA’s success really makes any sense. Who is buying so many GPUs? Where are they going? Why are inventories increasing? Is it really just pre-buying parts for future orders? Why are accounts receivable climbing, and how much product is NVIDIA shipping before it gets paid? While these are both explainable as “this is a big company and that’s how big companies do business” (which is true!), why do receivables not seem to be coming down? And how long, realistically, can the largest company on the stock market continue to grow revenues selling assets that only seem to lose its customers money? I worry about NVIDIA, not because I believe there’s a massive scandal, but because so much rides on its success, and its success rides on the back of dwindling amounts of venture capital and debt, because nobody is actually making money to pay for these GPUs. In fact, I’m not even saying it goes tits up. Hell, it might even have another good quarter or two. It really comes down to how long people are willing to be stupid and how long Jensen Huang is able to call hyperscalers at three in the morning and say “buy one billion dollars of GPUs, pig.” No, really! I think much of the US stock market’s growth is held up by how long everybody is willing to be gaslit by Jensen Huang into believing that they need more GPUs. At this point it’s barely about AI anymore, as AI revenue — real, actual cash made from selling services run on GPUs — doesn’t even cover its own costs, let alone create the cash flow necessary to buy $70,000 GPUs thousands at a time. It’s not like any actual innovation or progress is driving this bullshit! In any case, the markets crave a healthy NVIDIA, as so many hundreds of billions of dollars of NVIDIA stock sit in the hands of retail investors and people’s 401ks, and its endless growth has helped paper over the pallid growth of the US stock market and, by extension, the decay of the tech industry’s ability to innovate. Once this pops — and it will pop, because there is simply not enough money to do this forever — there must be a referendum on…
December 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
so far so good
fog and lights skate bowl with red light ring above green goo in bowl smoke machine with tube in pool
December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
The actor Douglas has arrived, with his manager @shawnagore.bsky.social
white rabbit
December 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
totally weird to be going to a photoshoot today for a swimming pool full of bioluminscent alien jello with white rabbits... and yet also my destiny?
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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heartmountain.bsky.social
If you're an educator interested in learning about how to teach about the Japanese American incarceration, check out the application for our new Maurice Walk Memorial workshops June 14-19, 2026 at Heart Mountain. It will be a great week.
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Educator Workshops Welcome & Overview - Heart Mountain
Introduction Within months of the December 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, more than 110,000 people of Japanese descent, two-thirds of them native-born U.S. citizens, were forced from their ...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM