Weyodi OldBear
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BuffaloPunk!, Indigenous Futurist, and comic book writer, writer for Coyote & Crow, Comanche Citizen, public speaker. Performs femininity and knows it's a performance. Disabled in a seizures, vision impaired, sort of way. weyodi.com
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Native Americans want to avoid past Medicaid enrollment snafus as work requirements loom

Tribal leaders say they are concerned Indigenous enrollees could lose coverage, despite exemptions made by Congress

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weyodi.bsky.social
Thank you, I have no idea how it will end up but it will be available somewhere
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matthewterrill.bsky.social
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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chanda.blacksky.app
antifascist and anti-capitalist organizers need to understand space as one site of struggle because our opposition definitely understand it as one
spectrum.ieee.org
Low Earth orbit is filling up. Not just with #satellites, but also with dangerous, tumbling debris. As they collide, they multiply. If we do nothing, satellites will crash, creating chaos on Earth below. Meet the people trying to prevent this disaster. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...
weyodi.bsky.social
Greasy Grass Press will no longer be publishing The Bees Made Honey In The Rick Man's Skull series. Unfortunately the company will be dissolving due to factors that take out indie publishers every year. That said it will be available somewhere next year.
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abrightgreencity.bsky.social
Could?
motherjones.com
Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.
The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
www.motherjones.com
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I like being the bearer of good news. Today Louay's daughter Malak, which means Angel in English, was born. She is a symbol of Palestinian resistance & joy, but she is also a newborn in need of everything. So donate, share, do not let this sweet angel down.

shorturl.at/48ieS
A young Palestinian girl sitting beside the newborn Malak, a teeny thing inside a white blanket. More beautiful than anything.
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louisathelast.bsky.social
Maybe the most infuriating part of this is that if you just gave most of these people $4200 a month they’d find their own damn housing and get their lives back on track
propublica.org
NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.
Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
www.propublica.org
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bonstrous.bsky.social
LOLOLOL WHAT

buddy, this is all the things you wrought, what the fuck, you need to keep it in your nose like the smell of poo that it always was
gilduran.com
Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...
Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA
‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’
www.thenerdreich.com
weyodi.bsky.social
I was lucky to be raised by my Comanche grandparents with an almost completely absent non-Native dad, so I grew up very aware of the different between culture and blood.
weyodi.bsky.social
Last week was a shit week, for me, personally, and for the fam as a whole, I am hoping this one is better.
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I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.
Must-Reads and the War on Chicago
"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."
organizingmythoughts.org
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xodanix3.bsky.social
Also notice how much anti vaxxers pushed so much propaganda about heavy metals. And taking dewormers to detox. Meanwhile when u point out the corporations that mass produce lead, mercury, arsenic and Cadmium laced products of their fave corporations. Suddenly it's crickets.
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gorubenruben.bsky.social
A shocking incident unfolded in Chicago when about 300 ICE agents descended from Blackhawk helicopters onto an apartment building, rounding up everyone living there. Many residents, according to witnesses, were pulled outside in zip ties, wearing little or no clothing.
#Chicago #USDemocracy #NoKings
weyodi.bsky.social
True. When it comes to detribalized folks (like Beltran) it's not their fault they were detribalized, but at the same time their experience is not our experience. They are relatives, for sure, and I would like to see them re-Indigenized, but they aren't representative.
weyodi.bsky.social
While Voyager was in production, Russell Bates, a Kiowa citizen who won an Emmy (the only Emmy of any Trek series up to that point) for his writing on the animated series was available.
weyodi.bsky.social
There are a METRIC FUCK-TON of Indigenous actors and writers, shows shouldn't randomly insert an Indigenous character unless they are willing to hire both.
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duke-of-earth.bsky.social
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
- Haruki Murakami

#booksky #quotes #readers #indieauthor #library #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #📚💙