Omar Sakr
@omarsakr.bsky.social
Queer Muslim, Arab-Turkish Baba. Author of four poetry collections and a novel. Now: The Nightmare Sequence (UQP, 2025).
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I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity
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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
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We’re struggling badly today. Odai’s medicine is almost finished, and we have nothing left for food or daily needs. $300 is what we need to cover Odai’s treatments and our basic necessities for the day. Please, your help means survival for us. 💔🙏
gofund.me/77a751af7
gofund.me/77a751af7
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We’re struggling badly today. Odai’s medicine is almost finished, and we have nothing left for food or daily needs. $300 is what we need to cover Odai’s treatments and our basic necessities for the day. Please, your help means survival for us. 💔🙏
gofund.me/77a751af7
gofund.me/77a751af7
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
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I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
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when will a frankenstein movie be brave enough to let us see the doctor choosing the dick
November 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM
when will a frankenstein movie be brave enough to let us see the doctor choosing the dick
Today I tried to explain to my hysterical toddler why his hair is falling out in clumps.
It went about as well as you could expect (awfully). Later, after his midday nap, we had a head-shaving party where I let him shave my head, and his uncle and cousin did theirs on FaceTime.
It went about as well as you could expect (awfully). Later, after his midday nap, we had a head-shaving party where I let him shave my head, and his uncle and cousin did theirs on FaceTime.
November 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Today I tried to explain to my hysterical toddler why his hair is falling out in clumps.
It went about as well as you could expect (awfully). Later, after his midday nap, we had a head-shaving party where I let him shave my head, and his uncle and cousin did theirs on FaceTime.
It went about as well as you could expect (awfully). Later, after his midday nap, we had a head-shaving party where I let him shave my head, and his uncle and cousin did theirs on FaceTime.
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"SLOPPER" I'm losing my mind
July 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"SLOPPER" I'm losing my mind
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I could try to make moral arguments about spending your Spotify fee on one Bandcamp album a month.
But let's go simpler. It is *so easy* to just switch from Spotify to Tidal, Apple, or Qobuz! You won't barely notice the difference! You can move your playlists! The audio quality is better!
But let's go simpler. It is *so easy* to just switch from Spotify to Tidal, Apple, or Qobuz! You won't barely notice the difference! You can move your playlists! The audio quality is better!
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I could try to make moral arguments about spending your Spotify fee on one Bandcamp album a month.
But let's go simpler. It is *so easy* to just switch from Spotify to Tidal, Apple, or Qobuz! You won't barely notice the difference! You can move your playlists! The audio quality is better!
But let's go simpler. It is *so easy* to just switch from Spotify to Tidal, Apple, or Qobuz! You won't barely notice the difference! You can move your playlists! The audio quality is better!
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Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study
Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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In an analysis of OpenAI's costs, revenues and funding from 2023 to 1H 2025, it raised $28.6bn in cash ($10bn rev included), and had $13.7bn in cash losses.
Reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn. It should have $14.9bn in cash. There's a $4.1bn+ hole.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
Reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn. It should have $14.9bn in cash. There's a $4.1bn+ hole.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
![A Brief History of OpenAI’s Revenues and Costs
If there are other articles reporting OpenAI's revenues or costs, please do get in touch. But I don't think anybody has ever done a full run-down. Behold!
On February 9, 2024, The Financial Times said that “OpenAI’s revenues have surpassed $2bn on an annualised basis,” with the company apparently hitting it “In December 2023,” according to “two people with knowledge of its finances.”
There was no mention of any comment related to OpenAI in this article.
On June 12, 2024, The Information reported that “OpenAI has more than doubled its annualized revenue to $3.4 billion in the past six months or so, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has told staff.” This amounts to around $283m in revenue a month at the end of calendar year Q2 2024.
This appears to be sourced from something that Sam Altman told staff.
Curiously, this is the only time I’ve seen OpenAI comment on one of these stories, with “...an OpenAI spokeswoman [saying] the financial details were “inaccurate,” without elaborating.” I have read every single one of these and I cannot find another instance of this happening. This makes me believe, along with other information from sources, that these numbers are particularly accurate.
This article also confirms that OpenAI gets a “roughly” 20% revenue share cut from Microsoft selling its models.
On July 24, 2024, The Information published that OpenAI “could lose as much as $5 billion” in 2024, “according to an analysis by The Information, based on previously undisclosed internal financial data and people involved in the business.”
Spokespeople for Microsoft and OpenAI did not have a comment.
On September 27. 2024, the New York Times reported that “OpenAI’s monthly revenue hit $300 million in August…and the company expects about $3.7 billion in annual sales [in 2024],” according to a financial professional’s review of documents.
That’s $300m in revenue in the month of August 2024. Details are important. OpenAI declined to comment.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreidkp2ogtpvnrhevelg4cudtu3u33wbmlsmfgnvqq76yzoxt3s6qbq@jpeg)
![On October 9, 2024, The Information reported that “OpenAI burned $340 million in the first half of 2024” and that its “cash burn was lower than previously thought,” based on “OpenAI financial documents viewed by The Information.”
These documents also “project [OpenAI’s] total losses between 2023 and 2028 to be $44 billion” not including stock compensation, and, laughably, that OpenAI would “make $14 billion in profit [based on the analysis] in 2029.”
OpenAI also, in this document, said that “model training costs could rise sharply in the next couple of years, to as high as $9.5 billion a year in 2026.”
This same piece included projections that OpenAI would make $12bn in 2025, $26bn in 2026, $44bn in 2027, $69bn in 2028, and $100bn in 2029.
There was no mention of any comment related to OpenAI in this article.
On February 21, 2025, The Information reported that OpenAI forecasted that “one-third of [its] revenue growth would come from spending by SoftBank to use OpenAI’s products across its companies,” with SoftBank spending $3bn per year. It took until November 5, 2025 for the joint venture involving this spend to actually form.
This is sourced to disclosures by OpenAI to its investors.
This piece also asserts that $3bn from SoftBank would get OpenAI to $12.7bn in revenue for 2025.
There was no mention of any comment related to OpenAI in this article.
In this piece, The Information reports that “...[OpenAI’s] spending on Microsoft-owned data centers should ramp up significantly in the next few years, more than doubling from $13 billion this year to $28 billion in 2028.”
On March 26, 2025, Bloomberg reported that OpenAI “expects to more than triple its revenue to $12.7 billion in 2025,” and that it generated “$3.7 billion in annual revenue last year,” according to a person familiar with the matter who “spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal communications.
In the piece, Bloomberg states that “OpenAI does not expect to be cash-flow positive until 2029, t…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreib5hbzqr6m6semfdbw4c53q3y2sfkajjiag5ymourhb3rf5uul3vi@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In an analysis of OpenAI's costs, revenues and funding from 2023 to 1H 2025, it raised $28.6bn in cash ($10bn rev included), and had $13.7bn in cash losses.
Reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn. It should have $14.9bn in cash. There's a $4.1bn+ hole.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
Reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn. It should have $14.9bn in cash. There's a $4.1bn+ hole.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
Easily the most transparent scam in history. Credit where credit is due, they are indeed Openly stealing as much money as possible.
Based on analysis of years of revenues, losses and funding, since 2023, OpenAI has taken in $28.6bn in cash and had $13.7bn in losses.
However, reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn in cash - suggesting OpenAI's losses are billions higher than reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
However, reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn in cash - suggesting OpenAI's losses are billions higher than reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
Where Is OpenAI's Money Going?
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead
Editor's Note: The original piece had a mathematical error around burnrate, it's been fixed.
A few days ago, Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s rev...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Easily the most transparent scam in history. Credit where credit is due, they are indeed Openly stealing as much money as possible.
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We analysed every line of X’s algorithm we could get our hands on.
Here’s what we found.
Read on: www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Here’s what we found.
Read on: www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
August 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
We analysed every line of X’s algorithm we could get our hands on.
Here’s what we found.
Read on: www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Here’s what we found.
Read on: www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Not now, carnivorous death ball
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Not now, carnivorous death ball
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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Protests on an outback road in the Northern Territory have refocused attention on Pine Gap, the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs. The protesters have tried to block workers from accessing the facility, which they claim is aiding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Nour Haydar speaks with seni…
The rising resistance to Pine Gap - podcast
Protests on an outback road in the Northern Territory have refocused attention on Pine Gap, the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs. The protesters have tried to block workers from accessing the facility, which they claim is aiding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Nour Haydar speaks with seni…
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Protests on an outback road in the Northern Territory have refocused attention on Pine Gap, the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs. The protesters have tried to block workers from accessing the facility, which they claim is aiding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Nour Haydar speaks with seni…
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I'm begging journalists to look into this. I know first hand how many schools/religious institutions/restaurants/sport clubs etc. had fundraisers over the past 2 years for Gaza and handed big checks to multiple organizations. Millions and millions of dollars meant for the people of Gaza...
People gave a record amount of money to multiple organizations for the people of Gaza and all this money just sat there for the past 2 years because Israel blocked it. I hope this money gets distributed quickly now so that the people of Gaza don't have to beg anymore
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Private donations boost UN support for war-torn Gaza
From celebrities to civil society, a growing number of people around the world are providing unprecedented support for UNRWA, the UN agency supplying a lifeline to two million Palestinians trapped in ...
news.un.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I'm begging journalists to look into this. I know first hand how many schools/religious institutions/restaurants/sport clubs etc. had fundraisers over the past 2 years for Gaza and handed big checks to multiple organizations. Millions and millions of dollars meant for the people of Gaza...
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THEY FUCKING KNEW AND DID NOT CARE!!! absolutely evil
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
THEY FUCKING KNEW AND DID NOT CARE!!! absolutely evil