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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 3d

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 3d

The reference photos might be my friend Jordan’s car. She ran it in the same hill climb I do with the Lada.

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 3d

Alloymag.com

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Roberto Baldwin @strngwys.bsky.social · 4d

This article is relevant to my interests alloymag.com/the-25-year-...

25-year Rules - Alloy

What to consider before you consider importing an old car to the United States.

alloymag.com

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 4d

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 4d

That’s so nice to hear thank you

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 4d

It’s real

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 4d

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 4d

Alloymag.com is live, we’re fixing stuff tonight, official launch tomorrow

Front Page - Alloy

A site about car culture.

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 4d

Early memory: My cousin from Waukegan jumping off the dock, telling everyone he had a waterproof watch.

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 8d

That’s right

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 8d

It’s going to be really funny when AI companies go through this part of their arc

The Verge @theverge.com · 8d

Bored Ape Yacht Club is making a comeback — as a metaverse

Its crypto-themed metaverse, Otherside, has been a long time coming.

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 16d

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16d

Premium tomorrow: OpenAI promised to build a gigawatt of data centers for AMD, NVIDIA and Broadcom by the end of 2026, and 9GW for Broadcom by 2029. They need $400 Billion in the next 12 months.

Here’s $10 off an annual subscription.

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OpenAI Needs Over $400 Billion In The Next 12 Months To Complete Any Of These Deals - And Sam Altman Doesn’t Have Enough Time To Build Any Of it
I know, I know, you’re going to say that OpenAI will simply “raise debt” and “work it out,” but OpenAI has less than a year to do that, because OpenAI has promised in their own announcements that all of these things would happen by the end of December 2026, and even if they’re going to happen in 2027, data centers require actual money to begin construction, Broadcom, NVIDIA and AMD are going to actually require cash for those chips before they ship them.
Even if OpenAI finds multiple consortiums of paypigs to take on the tens of billions of dollars of data center funding, there are limits, and based on OpenAI’s aggressive (and insane) timelines, they will need to raise multiple different versions of the largest known data center deals of all time, multiple times a year, every single year.
Say that happens. OpenAI will still need to pay those compute contracts with Oracle, CoreWeave, Microsoft (I believe their Azure credits have run out) and Google (via CoreWeave) with actual, real cash, $40 billion dollars worth, when they’re already burning $9.2 billion in the first half of 2026 on compute on revenues of $4.3 billion. OpenAI will still need to pay their staff, their storage, their sales and marketing department that cost them $2 billion in the first half of 2026, all while converting their non-profit into a for-profit, by the end of the year, or they lose $20 billion in funding from SoftBank.
Also, if they don’t convert to a for-profit by October 2026, their $6.6 billion funding round from 2024 converts to debt.

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 17d

I know it's not usually protocol to say bad things about outlets, but what's happening at Jalopnik is a real shame and I feel terrible for the people who work there.

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 23d

This was fun, love talking about Alloy and the collapse of digital media!

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Rory Carroll Stops by for Dinner | That Car Show Podcast: S1 Ep 29

YouTube video by That Car Show

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · Oct 3

How about instead of AI we do a computer that can tell when you plug in an external drive

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · Sep 25

We are about to get our asses walloped in the most predictable, preventable economic realignment in a century.

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · Sep 25

When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.