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Houston Do'ug
@petabites.bsky.social
160 followers 420 following 310 posts
X-free since 2022/11/02

* the profile pic is from my background photo ... which is from some fifty year old album art (that I can't name one song from)
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petabites.bsky.social
yes Walmart low-fat milk, someday... you'll be mine.
Walmart Black Friday notifications blow up thumbnail pic of a gallon of milk with caption: "WE NOTICED YOU NOTICING THIS. Shop Now And Make It Yours."
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
Bitcoin ETFs are enduring their worst month since launch, with $3.5B withdrawn this month($2.2B from BlackRock alone). Prices are marking their steepest drop since the 2022 FTX collapse.

Acting less like an inflation hedge and more like a tech stock, BTC is sinking alongside AI bubble anxieties.
Bitcoin Funds Set for Worst Month as Investors Yank $3.5 Billion
Exchange-traded funds investing in Bitcoin are heading for their worst month of outflows since launching nearly two years ago, piling yet more pressure on a jaded crypto market.
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
My "Not the next Enron" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
Wild to realize that people in Nigeria, India & Russia were clocking in every day at the racism factory to post about how lazy minorities are committing crimes and getting paid by Elon Musk for creating engagement on X.

Between this and DOGE, Elon Musk has damaged a lot of what makes America great.
X Displays Users’ Locations, Fueling Scrutiny Over Political Accounts
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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edzitron.com
NVIDIA's story is insane. Data centers take years to build, cost hundreds of millions of dollars in construction, labor and permitting, and require massive amounts of power, and *to this day* we still lack a complete understanding of what they cost to run.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
Let Me Explain To You How Expensive And Arduous It Is To Actually Build A Data Center, And Remind You That Every Single Time Anybody Buys NVIDIA GPUs They're Probably Dealing With This So, let me give you a theoretical example. I swear I'm going somewhere with this.You, a genius, have decided you are about to join the vaunted ranks of "AI data center ownership." You decide to build a "small" AI data center — 25MW (megawatts, which in this example, refers to the combined power draw of the tech inside the data center). That can't be that much, right? OpenAI is building a 1.2GW one out in Abilene Texas. How much could this tiny little thing cost? Sidenote: It’s a minor thing, but I want to clarify something. I said “in this example” in the previous paragraph because when we talk about the power capacity of a data center, we could be referring to one of two things. The first is the power draw of the servers in the facility — which is called the IT Load — or the total amount of power that can be provided to that facility. Here’s where it gets tricky. A facility that can draw, say, 25MW of power from the grid can’t just use all of that in one go. You need a reserve for what’s known as the “design day,” which is the hottest day of the year, when the facility’s cooling systems are under the most strain, and when power transmission losses are at their highest. That reserve is, from what I’ve been told, around 30% of the total available electricity. Cooling systems are power-hungry! Who knew? Me. I did. I’ve been telling you for over a year. Okay, well, let's start with those racks. You're gonna need to give Jensen Huang $600 million right away, as you need 200 GB200 racks. You're also gonna need a way to make them network together, because otherwise they aren't going to be able to handle all those big IT loads, so that's gonna be another $80 million or more, and you're going to need storage and servers to sync all of this up, which is, let's say, another $35 million. So… Anyway, sadly data centers require something called a "building." Construction costs for a data center are somewhere from $8 million to $12 million per megawatt, so, crap, okay. That's $250 million, but probably more like $300 million. We're now up to $1.02 billion, and we haven't even got the power yet. Okay, sick. Do you have one billion dollars? You don't? No worries! Private credit — money loaned by non-banking entities — has been feeding more than $50 billion dollars a quarter into the hungry mouths of anybody who desires to build a data center. You need $1.02 billion. You get $1.5 billion, because, you know, "stuff happens." Don't worry about those pesky high interest rates — you're about to be printing big money, AI style! Now you're done raising all that cash, it'll now only take anywhere from 6 to 18 months for site selection, permitting, design, development, construction, and energy procurement. You're also going to need about 20 acres of land for that 100,000 square foot data center. You may wonder why 100,000 square feet needs that much space, and that's because all of the power and cooling equipment takes up an astonishing amount of room. So, yeah, after two years and over a billion dollars, you too can own a data center with NVIDIA GPUs that turn on, and at that point, you will offer a service that is functionally identical to everybody else buying GPUs from NVIDIA. Your competitors are Amazon, Google and Microsoft, followed by neoclouds — AI chip companies selling the same thing as you, except they're directly backed by NVIDIA, and frequently, the big hyperscaler companies with brands that most people have heard of, like AWS and Azure. Oh, also, this stuff costs an indeterminately-large amount of money to run. You may wonder why I can't tell you how much, and that's because nobody wants to actually discuss the cost of running GPUs, the thing that underpins our entire stock market. There're good reasons, too. One does not just run "a GPU" — it's …
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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edzitron.com
Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.

The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.

Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
Fantastic trolling by Gavin Newsom based on Twitter’s new account location feature.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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edbott.com
Who is George Santos? It's right there in his profile: "I, con."
zacheverson.com Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 4d
A month later and George Santos is down to $100 on Cameo.
Santos’s cameo page
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Russia drafted a 28 point surrender plan, handed it to the Trump team, and the regime delivered it to Kyiv unedited, demanding Zelensky sign it by Thanksgiving or lose all US support. Trump and Vance then promoted the plan exactly as Russia wrote it, verbatim, on TV, online, and in person.
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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kackbro.bsky.social
Well Said Lt. General Hertling......
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
We are seeing this admin over and over again decide to target people who have become technically deportable through no fault of their own other than government delay.

Why? One reason is because they’re the compliant ones who are easy targets for an admin who wants quick boosts in arrest numbers.
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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locksmithprime.bsky.social
Texans have no idea what a roundabout is, do they.
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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reuters.com
Major banks, including JPMorgan and Citi, warned of data exposure after hack, NYT reports reut.rs/48vBWyn
Major banks, including JPMorgan and Citi, warned of data exposure after hack, NYT reports
SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders said on Saturday that it had been the subject of a cyberattack on November 12, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
I guess “jail” is less harsh than execution. Should we call that progress?
Trump: THE TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, NOT ROAMING THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT THEY SAID WAS OK. IT WASN'T, AND NEVER WILL BE! IT WAS SEDITION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL, AND SEDITION IS A MAJOR CRIME. THERE CAN BE NO OTHER INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THEY SAID! 19 ReTruths 90 Likes 11/22/25, 8:17 PM
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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cupstid.net
Gosh, I hope the lamprey is okay.
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
The head of health services in the United States, letting parasitic lampreys bite his arms for some godforsaken reason.
RFK Jr having fun with lampreys.
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
Grand opening, grand closing.

X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
It’s notable that there’s practically no difference between what Elon Musk and MAGA influencers like Tim Pool post unironically and what Russian & Chinese bots trying to destabilize American democracy by posting divisive content do.
November 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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edbott.com
These guys are making Idiocracy look like a Ken Burns documentary.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5d
Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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joshuaeaton.bsky.social
Now that’s a lede.

Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.

Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
American voters had the choice between a competent Black woman and an incompetent racist then chose racism.

I hope getting to wave around swastikas and confederate flags while Walmart is now the nicest store we can afford was worth it.
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
Which is why he needs a trillion dollars now?
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
DHS takes credit for seemingly less traffic in Charlotte because their masked goons are making people afraid to leave their homes
DHS: You’re welcome. Quote-tweeting a map that shows Charlotte roads mostly green
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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froomkin.bsky.social
The second paragraph of every article about Trump freeing House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files should make it clear that he could order them released himself and chooses not to.
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM