Nick
@nicholasclayton.bsky.social
Longtime Black Sea region journalistic freelancer, now vaguely in finance, mostly posting on KC Chiefs, Gotham FC and silliness.
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That fact that you're not 100% sure if this is satire or not speaks volumes.
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
That fact that you're not 100% sure if this is satire or not speaks volumes.
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This is *depraved* -- glamor shots & an exculpatory feature for a woman who shit on the key central tenets of journalism, repeatedly.
NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!
NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is *depraved* -- glamor shots & an exculpatory feature for a woman who shit on the key central tenets of journalism, repeatedly.
NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!
NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!
The article continues: "This equates to every iPhone owner in the world paying an extra $35 or so a month for products and subscriptions, according to the JPMorgan analysts."
Seriously, who wants this?
Seriously, who wants this?
JP Morgan analysts calculated "AI products would have to create an additional $650 billion a year, indefinitely, to give investors a reasonable 10% annual return. That’s more than 150% of Apple’s yearly revenue, and a far cry from OpenAI’s current revenue of about $20 billion a year." (🎁)
When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts
Record capital expenditures and data-center planning are running up against the ground truths of physical infrastructure.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The article continues: "This equates to every iPhone owner in the world paying an extra $35 or so a month for products and subscriptions, according to the JPMorgan analysts."
Seriously, who wants this?
Seriously, who wants this?
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It is crazy that there is no testing or licensing regime for these things, dozens of deaths later. A drug which had such serious mental side effects would have been withdrawn instantly
🚨OpenAI’s new “safer” version of ChatGPT actually allows more harm.
We tested GPT-5 and GPT-4o to see if GPT-5 was safer & found that actually GPT-5 gave MORE harmful responses.
Read our new report ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3JgW9OP
We tested GPT-5 and GPT-4o to see if GPT-5 was safer & found that actually GPT-5 gave MORE harmful responses.
Read our new report ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3JgW9OP
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It is crazy that there is no testing or licensing regime for these things, dozens of deaths later. A drug which had such serious mental side effects would have been withdrawn instantly
Mike's Greyhound odyssey is well worth the read. Had me cackling all morning.
"RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, NOVEMBER 10th, 5:10 AM. A fight broke out at the Greyhound station, a pile of cinderblocks which made the Charlotte Greyhound station look like Jerry Jones’ private suite."
miketanier.substack.com/p/the-waywar...
miketanier.substack.com/p/the-waywar...
The Wayward Bus
In which our doughy protagonist drags his poor wife from a romantic getaway into an unscheduled 30-hour bus trip through the heart of America, courtesy of the government shutdown.
miketanier.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Mike's Greyhound odyssey is well worth the read. Had me cackling all morning.
Honestly, Ray Ban should really think about this collaboration once it sinks into the public consciousness that any dude wearing black ray bans may be a weirdo actively violating your privacy.
Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Honestly, Ray Ban should really think about this collaboration once it sinks into the public consciousness that any dude wearing black ray bans may be a weirdo actively violating your privacy.
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On Armistice Day, I think about this recreated soundscape of the moment the guns fell silent on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
A testament to the arbitrariness of war as much as anything else www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/l...
A testament to the arbitrariness of war as much as anything else www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/l...
Listen to the Moment the Guns Fell Silent, Ending World War I
A new exhibit at the Imperial War Museum uses seismic data collected during the war to recreate the moment the Armistice went into effect
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On Armistice Day, I think about this recreated soundscape of the moment the guns fell silent on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
A testament to the arbitrariness of war as much as anything else www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/l...
A testament to the arbitrariness of war as much as anything else www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/l...
I mean sure. Just keep your hands off of my Steve Spagnuolo
Do the Giants turn back the clock with a nod to Tom Coughlin?
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I mean sure. Just keep your hands off of my Steve Spagnuolo
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At some point I might just write “what if everybody is wrong?” because there is a chance I believe nobody bothered to work out if any of this would make a profit or, indeed, whether you’d be able to power the data centers themselves
Amazon just sued one of the largest power companies in Oregon after it failed to power up two data center (one without enough power and one with no power at all) campuses that were meant to be ready *in 2021*. Sure hope this isn't an industry wide problem!
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
At some point I might just write “what if everybody is wrong?” because there is a chance I believe nobody bothered to work out if any of this would make a profit or, indeed, whether you’d be able to power the data centers themselves
Inspiring stuff guys. For a second there I didn't think you had the mettle to stand up to authoritarianism
Angus King: "This initial strategy didn't work. And now we have one. We're gonna have a guaranteed vote on the ACA, and it may not succeed. I grant that. But a reasonable chance -- 10, 20, 30% -- is a lot better than 0% which is where we were."
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Inspiring stuff guys. For a second there I didn't think you had the mettle to stand up to authoritarianism
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all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss
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bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
Wall Street votes for communism, etc. etc.
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Wall Street votes for communism, etc. etc.
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Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends
Boy, the Atlantic sure is going big in its prescriptions for dealing with clingy parents.
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Boy, the Atlantic sure is going big in its prescriptions for dealing with clingy parents.
Not sure why Cuomo didn't make his campaign slogan: "Vote for Me, I'll Be Vichy!"
It even rhymes. Perhaps a little niche.
It even rhymes. Perhaps a little niche.
This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Not sure why Cuomo didn't make his campaign slogan: "Vote for Me, I'll Be Vichy!"
It even rhymes. Perhaps a little niche.
It even rhymes. Perhaps a little niche.
Dude looks stoked
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Dude looks stoked
This would be the hugest rent relief ever
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday's mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, a new poll warns.
nypost.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This would be the hugest rent relief ever
Look, I know it's not practical and you don't think you need it. But, I worked hard for this gift.
A Kentucky woman accepted a package from a courier, expecting her usual delivery of time-sensitive medications and medical supplies. When she opened it, though, she found two human arms and four human fingers on ice.
Kentucky Woman Receives a Package of Human Body Parts, Coroner Says
She was expecting time-sensitive medication, but opened the box to find two arms and four fingers meant to be used in surgical training, the coroner said.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Look, I know it's not practical and you don't think you need it. But, I worked hard for this gift.