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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 9h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Portland 🔥

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

#WarRavagedChicago

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Run for Something @runforsomething.net · 9h

Meet Shu-Yen Wei, our Western Regional Director. From 1:1 coaching with candidates to speaking on panels, she’s out here building the next generation of leaders. Inspired? This is just a little glimpse into the support you’ll receive as an RFS candidate.

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R. Cooper @rcooper.bsky.social · 10h

Bluesky logged me out on my phone (desktop is fine). And like, Bluesky you vastly overestimate how much I care about mobile posting or scrolling your site. Is it enough to go look up a password? Not really.

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 1d

I'm having one of those moments where I feel like I live on a different planet.

Diane Keaton was a good actress who defined some innovative roles in film.

She also relentlessly defended Woody Allen

Woody Allen who is married to his adopted daughter. Who allegedly assaulted his other daughter.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

How to be an educated, informed, and pro-library voter in the upcoming election cycle: bookriot.com/library-elec...

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 1d

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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R. Cooper @rcooper.bsky.social · 1d

and LOTS of historical figures have thought kings (and oligarchs) with unchecked power were great. And a lot of people losts their heads no matter how much they supported those kings. or fell out of windows.... that's how dumb he is at a foundational level. incredible to me.

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R. Cooper @rcooper.bsky.social · 1d

fascinating to me how Vought hates the weather service and disease scientists. I knew he was stupid in a critical way failing to understand that his eugenics shit will also eventually affect even him is just... so so dumb. like Masque of the Red Death dumb. but he also thinks kings are great

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Amy Crook @amysnotdeadyet.bsky.social · 1d

If you missed the September book box with its very fancy edition of To Hive and To Hold, they have a few extras still kicking around! rainbowcratebookbox.com/products/sep...

September "Where the Magic Happens" 2025 full box

✨ WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS ✨ ✨ BOOK 1 for September is House of Frank by Kay Synclaire, a warm and hopeful story of a lonely witch consumed by grief who discovers a whimsical cast of characters in a ma...

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R. Cooper @rcooper.bsky.social · 1d

Californians, you can register to vote up to October 20th to vote in this election. They restored voting rights to those convicted of a felony (if they aren't still in serving time), so you can check at registertovote.ca.gov and register again if you want.

Online Voter Registration | California Secretary of State

California Online Voter Registration website. Register to vote online, save a stamp!

registertovote.ca.gov

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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R. Cooper @rcooper.bsky.social · 1d

Progressive just canceled my renter's insurance because of wildfire risk. They won't even cover for any other damage or theft because of... wildfire risk. Insurance companies once again proving how useless they are.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2d

Yes, it's weird that Peter Thiel can't stop talking up the Antichrist.

But look on the bright side—he's also the guy who:

-Gave @jd-vance-1.bsky.social his first VC job
-Funded Vance's firm
-Bought his Senate seat
-Got him the VP slot

Have a nice day!

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d

if you had any doubt they live in a parallel universe that they make up in their heads, they genuinely thought he'd win it

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

New: The WGAE, which represents some parts of CBS News including its social team, sent a note to members today advising its members not to respond to Weiss’ request for an email by next week. The union also said it asked CBS for more information about Weiss’ request.

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Callies Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things @calliedot.bsky.social · 2d

I do think it would be amazing if hundreds of protesters just showed up dressed like ICE. They’d be absolutely baffled, they’d have no way to tell who’s who. They’re all dressed in off-the-rack Cabelas clothes since they don’t seem to have a standard uniform so it’s easy.

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R. Cooper @rcooper.bsky.social · 2d

listened to some Bad Bunny for the first time (I am an old and consistently out of touch) and enjoyed DtMF a lot. 🐇

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 2d

This is what courage in the face of authoritarianism looks like. No university should take Trump's bribe & surrender their integrity — bending the knee to a bully only feeds the beast & puts ALL our rights at risk.

Others should follows MIT’s example ASAP.