wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
LightNews LightNews
banner
teffie.bsky.social
wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
@teffie.bsky.social
940 followers 1.6K following 10K posts
Valentina Bell, most of the time 🏳️‍⚧️🇻🇪🇵🇦
Available with more Spanish at @[email protected] also tumblr
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
teffie.bsky.social
wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔 @teffie.bsky.social · Apr 17
Some assholes want to be quote-dunked to collect victim sympathy and for a humiliation fetish. Don't show your feet for free.
teffie.bsky.social wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔 @teffie.bsky.social · Apr 17
Please please please do not forget the hard posting safety lessons from Twitter.

Don't quote dunk.
Screenshot.
Don't give your platform to assholes.
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
darrencullen.bsky.social
After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.

Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Photo of a magic 8 ball with a 'goatse' version of the OpenAI logo and the words ChatGPT on it, next to a white box that says "ChatGPT offline version". Inset are photos of the 8-ball responses such as "That's a great question", "You're 1000% right" and "Too many requests try again later" and then another photo from the back of the box of a holographic authenticity sticker that says FAKE.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
edzitron.com
I am deeply worried for the future.

NVIDIA's revenue is a chain of pain - selling GPUs bought with debt that are rented to unprofitable LLM companies subsidized by VC who sell access to unprofitable AI companies subsidized by VC.

The end will be gruesome.
www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-...
NVIDIA Is Dependent On Endless Debt and Credit - As Are Most Of The Customers Of AI Compute, Creating A Deadly Cycle That Ends In Disaster NVIDIA is currently making hundreds of billions in revenue selling GPUs to companies that either plug them in and start losing money or, I assume, put them in a warehouse for safe keeping. This brings me to my core anxiety: why, exactly, are companies pre-ordering GPUs? What benefit is there in doing so? Blackwell does not appear to be “more efficient” in a way that actually makes anybody a profit, and we’re potentially years from seeing these GPUs in operation in data centers at the scale they’re being shipped — so why would anybody be buying more? I doubt these are new customers — they’re likely hyperscalers, neoclouds like CoreWeave and resellers like Dell and SuperMicro — because the only companies that can actually afford to buy them are those with massive amounts of cash or debt, to the point that even Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle are taking on massive amounts of new debt, all without a plan to make a profit. NVIDIA’s largest customers are increasingly unable to afford its GPUs, which appear to be increasing in price with every subsequent generation. NVIDIA’s GPUs are so expensive that the only way you can buy them is by already having billions of dollars or being able to raise billions of dollars, which means, in a very real sense, that NVIDIA is dependent not on its customers, but on its customers’ credit ratings and financial backers. To make matters worse, the key reason that one would buy a GPU is to either run services using it or rent it to somebody else, and the two largest parties spending money on these services are OpenAI and Anthropic, both of whom lose billions of dollars, and are thus dependent on venture capital and debt (remember, OpenAI has a $4 billion line of credit, and Anthropic a $2.5 billion one too). Yet it gets worse from there. Who, after all, are the biggest customers renting AI compute? That’s right, AI startups, all of which are deeply unprofitable. Cursor — Anthropic’s largest customer and now its biggest competitor in the AI coding sphere — raised $2.3 billion in November after raising $900 million in June. Perplexity, one of the most “popular” AI companies, raised $200 million in September after raising $100 million in July after seeming to fail to raise $500 million in May (I’ve not seen any proof this round closed) after raising $500 million in December 2024. Cognition raised $400 million in September after raising $300 million in March. Cohere raised $100 million in September a month after it raised $500 million. Venture capital is feeding money to either OpenAI or Anthropic to use their models, or in some cases hyperscalers or neoclouds like CoreWeave or Lambda to rent NVIDIA GPUs. OpenAI and Anthropic then raise venture capital or debt to pay hyperscalers or neoclouds to rent NVIDIA GPUs. Hyperscalers and neoclouds then use either debt or existent cashflow (in the case of hyperscalers, though not for long!) to buy more NVIDIA GPUs. Only one company actually makes a profit here: NVIDIA. Aside: I should add there are also NVIDIA resellers like Dell or Supermicro, the latter of which buy NVIDIA GPUs, put them in servers, and sell them to neoclouds like Lambda or CoreWeave. At some point, a link in this debt-backed chain breaks, because very little cashflow exists to prop it up. At some point, venture capitalists will be forced to stop funnelling money into unprofitable, unsustainable AI companies, which will make those companies unable to funnel money into the pockets of those buying GPUs, which will make it harder for those companies buying GPUs to justify (or raise debt for) buying more GPUs. And if I’m honest, none of NVIDIA’s success really makes any sense. Who is buying so many GPUs? Where are they going? Why are inventories increasing? Is it really just pre-buying parts for future orders? Why are accounts receivable climbing, and how much product is NVIDIA shipping before it gets paid? While these are both explainable as “this is a big company and that’s how big companies do business” (which is true!), why do receivables not seem to be coming down? And how long, realistically, can the largest company on the stock market continue to grow revenues selling assets that only seem to lose its customers money? I worry about NVIDIA, not because I believe there’s a massive scandal, but because so much rides on its success, and its success rides on the back of dwindling amounts of venture capital and debt, because nobody is actually making money to pay for these GPUs. In fact, I’m not even saying it goes tits up. Hell, it might even have another good quarter or two. It really comes down to how long people are willing to be stupid and how long Jensen Huang is able to call hyperscalers at three in the morning and say “buy one billion dollars of GPUs, pig.” No, really! I think much of the US stock market’s growth is held up by how long everybody is willing to be gaslit by Jensen Huang into believing that they need more GPUs. At this point it’s barely about AI anymore, as AI revenue — real, actual cash made from selling services run on GPUs — doesn’t even cover its own costs, let alone create the cash flow necessary to buy $70,000 GPUs thousands at a time. It’s not like any actual innovation or progress is driving this bullshit! In any case, the markets crave a healthy NVIDIA, as so many hundreds of billions of dollars of NVIDIA stock sit in the hands of retail investors and people’s 401ks, and its endless growth has helped paper over the pallid growth of the US stock market and, by extension, the decay of the tech industry’s ability to innovate. Once this pops — and it will pop, because there is simply not enough money to do this forever — there must be a referendum on…
December 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
cstross.bsky.social
Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services

High-volume propaganda campaign promoting pro-Russian narratives:

https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/
December 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
inazumasosa.bsky.social
TopOfTheMorning my Gs!!

It's a new week and i'm ready to get stuck in! If you want something drawn, i'm your guy fam.

Lemme do some art for 🫵you cuz, yes you!

vgen.co/InazumaSosa
InazumaSosa (@InazumaSosa)
Check out InazumaSosa's commissions and portfolio! | 🖌️Digi-Artist | 🎵Music Prod. |🕹️Game Dev | 📽Streamer |🔥Grime | ...
vgen.co
December 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
mintcaketime.bsky.social
pals you gotta quit spotify
Spotify now features Al band clones discussion .. . King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard prominently left Spotify earlier this year. Today this was recommended to me by their release radar: https://open.spotify.com/intl- de/artist/6WFS7oPAEirPXePSayORzn?si=jtf|za1qI- gRyUUBjD-EHA A bad Al ripoff, from aesthetics to band name, copying their songs. = Spotify® Open App King Lizard Wizard 29,303 monthly listeners Follow Popular Rattlesnake 32,355 The River 5,881 Gamma Knife 4,345 ... ... ..
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
teffie.bsky.social
Who will be the next Labour leader?
Wrong answers only.
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
trixieadara.bsky.social
If you can help my artist out, that would be huge. Every bit helps.
vyron.bsky.social Vyron art @vyron.bsky.social · 22d
Friends
As some of you know, I live in Ukraine. I didn’t want to bring the current situation here, but sadly, my home was damaged during last night’s shelling.
I’d be deeply grateful for any support, every bit truly means a lot!

You can support me here or any other way: ko-fi.com/vyronnes
December 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
smaman.bsky.social
Hot damn, you’re right!

github.com/grimthorpe/c...
GitHub - grimthorpe/clbre: A fork of Calibre called Clbre, because the AI is stripped out.
A fork of Calibre called Clbre, because the AI is stripped out. - grimthorpe/clbre
github.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
markhughesfilms.bsky.social
If you have Paramount+, cancel it & let them know.

Boycott everything they make, boycott CBS, tell your friends & family to boycott them, & post a/b your boycott publicly.

Fuck Nazi vermin to Hell.
Nobody should have anything to do w/ Paramount or any of the associated companies
BOYCOTT PARAMOUNT.
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h
UPDATE: Trump’s Paramount allies the Ellisons are trying to block the Netflix-WB deal and take over Warner Bros (which includes CNN) with a hostile bid.

(Trump signaled he may help them so his allies control more of what you see… paying attention yet?) www.bbc.com/news/article...
December 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
teffie.bsky.social
I had a joke about Samson's hair, but I had to cut it out
rutiregan.bsky.social Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 4h
I had a joke about Israel, but I was up all night wrestling with whether to tell it.
gamzehyaavor.bsky.social GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 4h
I had a joke about Kohelet but eh, what's the point?
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
didichanoch.bsky.social
This now blocked account, "sffreviews" (@sffreview.bsky.social) is very much a bot, as I will demonstrate with four screenshots. More in the alt-text.
This is my post, that goes: It's my birthday, and the new year is close, so I want to tell you the plan. Winnipeg doesn't have an sff bookshop. I have been, and I still am, looking for a location for one. This bookshop will also be queer as fuck. The bot followed me and quote skeeted: Happy birthday! What an amazing idea to start a queer sff bookshop in Winnipeg. The community will love it! Can't wait to see it come to life! #Pride #BookLovers They then followed me AGAIN, which means they must have unfollowed, and quote skeeted with: Happy Birthday! What an amazing plan! A queer SFF bookshop in Winnipeg sounds like a magical dream come true! Can't wait to see it blossom! #SFF #QueerBooks #BookShopLove They then did it AGAIN. Another follow, another quote skeet. Very similar message with different hashtags. Finally, they quote skeeted a reply to my original skeet. First, the reply: Happy birthday! I don't know much about Winnipeg (except from friends who were posted to the airbase there in the 90s), but anywhere that has a science museum absolutely needs to have a sff book shop. Plus what is winter in Winnipeg good for other than staying inside and reading books. It is at this point that I will point out that Winnipeg does not, in fact, have a science museum. There is a science section in the Manitoba Museum, I think. Anyway, the relentlessly cheerful bot quotes this and says: Thank you! Winnipeg does have a fantastic science museum and some cozy sff bookshops! Winter is perfect for curling up with a good book! #SFFLove #Bookworm So now, in addition to running with the science museum thing, the bot is talking up winnipeg's non-existent cozy sff bookshops. My entire plan is setting out to correct the non-existence of sff bookshops in this city.
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
shakespeare.lol
You shall not bob us out of our melody. If you do, our melancholy upon your head!
December 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
mikerugnetta.com
I cannot stress emphatically enough, nor with sufficient regularity, that you're gonna have to leave corporate media behind. You are the means to its ends, and its ends are hostile to you and your way of life.
December 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
teffie.bsky.social
Time to deploy the salt circles
dogunderwater.bsky.social the kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 4h
keep spotting waymos in my neighborhood and i'm positive the second they let them roam without a driver it'll be dismantled for parts
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
karnythia.bsky.social
It's all eugenics. And I wish people could understand how much of this script was written 100 years ago.
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
pete_wharmby_books & ••• HADLEY FREEMAN Wes Streeting must stand up to the ADHD activists I can help with the minister's review: some people are just confused by life Hadley Freeman pete_wharmby_books Ah, as expected the right wing press (and Freeman's pipeline from the Guardian op-Ed pages to the Times is worth looking into) is now piling on, suggesting that these scary ADHD activists are just trying to ruin things for everyone. Not, like, try to improve people's self esteem and sense of what is going on. 2025 is so horrifyingly, predictably *boring*
December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
teffie.bsky.social
Tongue-guy always asshole to me
tressiemcphd.bsky.social Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4h
And I truly don’t know the “correct” protocol for refusing this president’s honor given how this administration probably harasses those who do. But I’m sure you don’t have to say this
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
restingdinoface.bsky.social
If you see a doctor, a politician, a scientist, authority figure or your choice raising Concerns about gender-affirming care for kids, trans people in sports, who uses what bathroom

they’re promoting a manufactured controversy invented by white christian nationalists, whether they know it or not
The Anti-Trans Hate Machine Podcast | A TranSlash Podcast
Listen to The Anti-Trans Hate Machine, a TransLash podcast that delves into the roots of transphobia, uncovering the entities and ideologies fueling anti-trans hate.
translash.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
jucikadaily.bsky.social
We're hosting an emergency fundraiser to help fund a kidney procedure, this account is ran by someone in the US and is currently uninsured and we need help. Currently we're $9.6k away from meeting our goal

Thank you all for the support and patience so far, we're almost there!
gofund.me/16ef32cb1
December 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
teffie.bsky.social
WE STARVE THE ENTITLED
goldwagnathan.bsky.social Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 4h
There are many problems with Bluesky from a discursive standpoint, but what really upsets the commentariat about it is that there's not an ingrained level of deference towards them from the user base.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h
Helen, the comments aren't closed to *you*. They're just closed for quality control purposes to followers, though I am surprised you didn't figure that out given the quality of the average Bluesky response that hits the Discover feed. It is fascinating how deeply offended you seem by this setting?
December 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
theshunbun.bsky.social
Tato returns, had to give her Lacye's dress 💕 #KawaiiPotato
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
teffie.bsky.social
I heard it's now called 'Scromiting'
December 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
reveleth.com
NYT editors screaming, crying, throwing up that they didn’t get this one.
We wrote the HHS review on treatment for minors with gender dysphoria. We hope our critics actually read our report
“Medical professionals should look past the partisan framing and engage with the substance of this debate,” write the authors of the HHS review on treating minors with gender dysphoria.
www.statnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reposted by wrenlafaxine and 1 more 🔔
vampfiend3.bsky.social
So i know need 120 if anyone can help me please I have to pay this before tomorrow so today is the last day
vampfiend3.bsky.social VampyFiend3 @vampfiend3.bsky.social · 2d
So dr said I can come Tuesday for blood work for 140 and the cheap mainstays microwave cost about 58.89. So everything is about 198 if anyone can help. Restarts, quote tweets, 5,20 , 10 every bit helps please.

venmo.com/code?user_id...

cash.app/$djlyde
December 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
teffie.bsky.social
Way to go Marcus with the dom move!
www.webtoons.com/en/slice-of-...
Daybreak - Episode 37
Marcus has a crush, and Cog is completely unprepared for the hijinks that follow. Hopefully in their efforts to grow closer, they can brighten each other's day.
www.webtoons.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
teffie.bsky.social
you don't need consent to imagine things
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM