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Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 2d

Spooky legend night in Guadalajara. Local history buff Alberto, and Juan Ramón, a.k.a. “El Vagabundo", guide a small group on a tour of old buildings and sites around the traditional barrio of Santa Tere....
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Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 1h

Argentina has some of the world's largest lithium reserves and pegs their currency to the Dollar. The war on Venezuela has been in the works since the first Trump term, because they are a vital oil producer and if Maduro ever decided to price it in anything other than dollars, the U.S. is cooked.

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 2h

I'll take things that never crossed my mind for 200, Alex.

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 3h

The invasion of Venezuela has been in the works for at least 9 years, if not longer. U.S. interventionism in Latin America has never stopped, but now the empire is dying and trying desperately to assert what little dominance it can. This is the end of the road, America.

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 12h

We could wipe them all out in one fell swoop if we organized a little and boycotted everything AI

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19h

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So, big tech has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of capital expenditures, and much of those expenditures are on GPUs. These GPUs, once installed, immediately begin decaying in value, and the more you use them, the more likely they are to crap out, and even when sitting idle, these GPUs have some power consumption — somewhere between 7% and 14% of their power in the case of the H100 — making them a consistent burden on the infrastructure of any purchaser whether they have customers or not. This becomes an even bigger problem for more expensive GPUs like the B200, which has an idle power draw of 140W per GPU.

Extrapolate that out to thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of them, or to the 50,000-per-building of them inside Stargate Abilene’s NVIDIA’s , and you’ve got yourself a problem.

Even without customers, even without IT load, these servers sit burning power, and while a company could turn them off and boot them on for a period of time, these racks are often run in clusters — servers of GPUs that are synced together using high-speed networking — and while I can’t find anything firm as far as how long it takes to set up a cluster, this presentation on cluster design from the CEO of Lambda details a cluster’s sheer complexity, involving discrete networking, software layer and storage methods just to get the bloody thing working.

In simple terms, it may be expensive to leave them on, but it’s going to take a bunch of time and energy to restart these things, meaning that they are more than likely left on, slowly burning energy.

Imagine how bad that is at a scale of hundreds of thousands of GPUs?

Yet things might be a little wonkier, as the reality may be that while hyperscalers have customers, those customers might not be using all their GPUs at all times. Although there may be some customers that agree to a minimum spend or throughput, it’s hard to imagine that these contracts are enough to surmount the destructive margins.

And when …

And when I say “destructive margins,” I mean so much more than just the power to run and cool them. There’s the construction of the data centers to house them, the necessary maintenance, and, of course, any and all debt used to buy them.

While I can (and will!) say that for every $50,000 GPU bought, big tech needs to make another $100,000, I believe that the hole created by the GPU’s existence is likely larger than just $100,000, with every construction delay, power outage, or moment of idle compute adding dollars to the hole for each and every GPU.

Need a very real example? The Information reported recently that Oracle lost $100 million between June and August 2025 on rentals of NVIDIA’s Blackwell chips:

In the three months that ended in August, Oracle lost nearly $100 million from rentals of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which arrived this year. That’s partly because there is a period between when Oracle gets its data centers ready for customers and when customers start using and paying for them, the documents show. It’s not clear what causes the gap or how Oracle plans to shorten it.

So, while we can’t say for sure, there’s a chance a large chunk of these losses were caused by the spread-out deprecation of those Blackwell GPUs — after all, its most recent quarterly earnings included $1.35 billion of depreciation, right?

Sidenote: For context, Oracle reported depreciation of $804m in the same period last year, and depreciation of $3.867bn for the whole of FY2025. This should give you a sense of how rapidly these GPUs are becoming a millstone on its earnings.

…is there any way to actually recover that $100 million through the margins on these chips? Oracle only has 4.5 years of depreciation on these Blackwell Chips, and The Information reports that those GB200 server racks have a negative 100% gross margin according to internal Oracle documents. If that’s the case, we have a much, much bigger problem, but even if the margins aren’t literally negative…will ther…

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 13h

Furthermore, most large publications like the NYT or WSJ do not need paywalls or even subscriptions. They make far more money on advertising. The truth of the matter is that paywalls are meant to keep bloggers and small independent media from having free access to their reporting.

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 13h

So, Vance had Charlie Kirk killed then

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 13h

Do you remember Moxie, the robot made for children? rdmpress.com/from-the-arc...

Dawn of the Embodied Autonomous Agent Society – rdmpress

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA - Early Thursday morning, a century-long study panel called the "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)" hosted by Stanf

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Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 14h

ICE mercenaries was the logical progression

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 14h

Does Liz Cheney allow that kind of language in her guest house?

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 15h

Alternatively, if you could keep 300 million citizens from probing the real intentions of your government by having them ascribe everything you do to a psyop, you wouldn't.

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 15h

Fun fact: The Nazis drew inspiration for their gas chambers from the U.S. "delousing" policy at the southern border, where (mostly Mexican) immigrants were sprayed with Zyklon-B, the same chemical used by the Third Reich to kill Jews. We've come full circle.

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 15h

Target as we know it has barely been a thing for 20 years. Weren't even called Target until the year 2000 or so.

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 15h

Or... When you understand how the legal system works, and are deliberately undermining its institutions by empowering the disinformed opinions of the masses, to reconfigure the justice system under a new tokenized, blockchain-based paradigm, seamliessly integrated into surveillance capitalism.

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 1d

The largest carceral state in the world wants more people, children behnd bars. Land of the free my ass.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

A sad update to the story of the 13-year-old Massachusetts boy who was abducted by ICE: He is choosing to self-deport to Brazil because even if he were to win his asylum case, his lawyer says it's possible he could still remain incarcerated.

Family will seek 'voluntary departure' for Everett boy detained by ICE

The family of the 13-year-old Everett boy detained by ICE earlier this month is pursuing the legal option to return him to their home country of Brazil.

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Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, Americans fall for the psyop. Instead of understanding the imperial interests of a declining superpower, they think it's all about tHe EpSteIN fIlEs

Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. This man would start a nuclear war to avoid being exposed in the a Epstein files.

Because he is a psychopathic maniac that has surrounded himself with extreme psychopathic maniacs.

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 1d

Posting cat memes and topical reposts isn't a skill, it's algorithm chasing

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

"i can't get any engagement on bluesky" skill issue. a true poster can post anywhere. a poor workman blames his tools

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 1d

I had an Uber driver in Boston several years ago, who moonlighted as a biotechnician, while earning a Phd at Harvard. An immigrant, of course.

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 1d

The attention economy is a hell of a drug

Vince @jalapenopants18.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing that a crypto betting app is now acting as a news service

Society is fucking cooked

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 1d

Then Reagan came and ruined it for everyone

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 1d

There's an expression where I come from, "I'm not really a doctor".

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 1d

'Cuz aliens ate his Buick

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 1d

AI is the transfer of knowledge from humanity to the machines, which is just another transfer of wealth from the majority to the minority.

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d

These ChatGPT TV ads are desperate to humanize the technology. Heavy on the retro aesthetic, muted colors, people with normal physiques. The message is that our chatbots can make you more human.

Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 1d

As U.S. media gets ready to beat the drums of war against Venezuela, remember that when they say that Venezuela use to be a "wealthy country", they mean that a tiny oligarchy had all the oil money before Chavez came and redistributed that wealth to the working classes. Then came sanctions & sabotage

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Everybody Knows @rdmpress.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, can you change the subject? Thanks.