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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 2h

A friendly reminder that no matter what the church tells you, celebrating Halloween is not demonic nor does it open a portal to hell.

However, if that portal existed, honoring white supremacists & platforming pastors with allegations would get you much closer to opening it than trick or treating.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Spooky HalLewien Name Pollis @lewispoll.is · 2h

An important factor re: age distributions at anti-Trump demonstrations:

Spooky HalLewien Name Pollis @lewispoll.is · Feb 8

Heard a lot of older people today wondering why so few students came out to protest. Maybe something we should have thought about before the so-called good guys spent a year cheering on police brutality against peaceful campus demonstrations

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 3h

All I can say is that as a holiday representative, Christopher Columbus is no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny.

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 20h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 5d

National Guard deploying in Chicago need to take a long hard look in The Bean

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 20h

youtu.be/8g6h1vI4Xv0?...

So that reminded me of this & this reminds me of the next one
The Cult - Fire Woman

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 23h

Does HBO Max not want people to use their website to choose what to watch? I selected comedy because I wanted to watch comedy. I didn’t want to be forced into a sub- menu so I can choose horror or adult animation ALSO.

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 1d

YOU HEARD THEM

Meme image of Shinji from Evangelion leaning forward in a folding chair with his heads in his hands. Text around him reads "GET IN THE FUCKING FROG" and there are two depictions of someone in inflatable frog suits

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 1d

When I compare what they insurrected over to what we haven’t insurrected over it makes perfect sense to me why they feel empowered to kidnap kids in broad daylight

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 1d

Just switched out my bullshit 3-season comforter for my big, fat, winter pre-death shroud. Hibernation starts in 6 minutes.

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Just Call Me Amanda🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @amandabf.bsky.social · 1d

Dogs when they did something wrong: guilty meme
Cats when the did something wrong: Samuel L. Jackson staring daggers into your soul

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 1d

Everyday we must remind people that gestapo agents are committing atrocities. This is an ethnic cleaning. These are crimes against humanity. And they will be held accountable.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

#MedicareForAll

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jandee924 🌻🕊️🦋 @jandee924.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, sweet Kanga! This pup needs a foster out East. Can anyone help? ⬇️

Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K) @princesskim.bsky.social · 1d

My sweet Kangaroo has no idea what she’s done wrong! She ♥️s people, other dogs, kids but no1 wants her! They act like she’s Kid Rock! Now she’s going 2b killed! NY NJ NH NE MA ME MD CT PA VA RI VT VA PA- pls foster her! #resisters #resistance #caturday lovers- pls help a #dogsofbluesky pup! 🆘

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 1d

I say “I don’t wanna tell you how to live your life” a LOT for somebody who 100% wants to tell you how to live your life. No wait, I think I want to tell you how you should’ve lived your life up until now. Moving forward, I suggest regret and apologies.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to say that I don’t know why dry skin season catches me off guard every year, but that’s a lie. It’s the weed. I was alive in this part of the country for like 46 years before they decriminalized cannabis and I was always stocked up on moisturizer.

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Three👁️ Eyed👁️ Devil👁️ @anarcish.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell that AI boosterism is a right wing movement because they constantly try and piggy back off of historically oppressed people’s movements instead of trying to craft their own narrative on how their oppressed.

Conservatives love to compare aggrieved white men to MLK and etc.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

I think the Democrats need to start making the likely AI crash an issue right now. It has everything they need, and unlike the "boys in girls' sports" issue, it is actually rooted in reality.

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BooberryBlaise @valerieblaise.bsky.social · 1d

I planned on getting high & rewatching “the Sopranos” Monday but I didn’t know it was Columbus Day.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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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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