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@shadur.bsky.social
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Just a European guy with a few opinions.

It's a cold, cruel universe out there, and you don't owe anyone kindness. But give it anyway because that's how we make the universe less cruel.
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shipwreck75.bsky.social
Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed.

time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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trafailgar.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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rincewind.run
1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths

2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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edzitron.com
Monday Premium: The 12.7k word Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: how it makes money, how millions of GPUs are likely sitting uninstalled, and how its entire future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.

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NVIDIA's Future Success Is Predicated On The Ability For Everybody To Keep Feeding It Tens Of Billions Of Dollars Every Quarter, Requiring Endless Debt, Space, and Actual AI Demand To Exist Here are some thoughts I have had: A 25MW data center takes about $1 billion, with $600 million of that being GPUs - 200 GB200 racks, to be specific. It needs about 20 acres - 100,000 square feet for the data center, roughly. NVIDIA sells about $50 billion of GPUs and associated hardware in a quarter, so let's say that $40 billion of that is just the GPUs and $10 billion is the hardware, so around 13,333 GB200 racks. I realize that NVIDIA sells far more than that (GB300 racks, singular GPUs, and so on). Deep-pocketed hyperscalers like Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon representing 41.32% of NVIDIA's revenue in the middle of 2025, funneling free cash flow directly into Jensen Huang's pockets... ...for now. Amazon ($15 billion), Google ($25 billion), Meta ($30 billion) and Oracle ($18 billion) have all had to raise massive amounts of debt to continue to fund AI-focused capital expenditures, with more than half of that (per Rubenstein) spent on GPUs. Otherwise, basically anybody buying GPUs at any scale has to fund doing so with either venture capital (money raised in exchange for part of the company) or debt. NVIDIA, at this point, around 8% of the value of the S&P 500 (the 500 leading (meaning they meet certain criteria of size, liquidity (cash availability) and profitability) companies on the US stock market). Its continued health - and representative value as a stock, which is not necessarily based on its actual numbers or health, but in this case kind of is? - has led the stock market to remarkable gains. It is not enough for NVIDIA to simply be a profitable company. It must continue beating the last quarter's revenue, again and again and again and again, forever. If that sounds dramatic, I assure you it is the truth. NVIDIA's continued success - and ability to continue delivering outsized beats of Wall Street's revenue estimates - depends on: The willingness of a few very large, cash-rich companies (Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google) to continue buying successive generations of NVIDIA GPUs. The ability of said companies to continue buying successive generations of GPUs. The ability of other, less-cash-rich companies like Oracle to continue being able to raise debt to buy massive amounts of GPUs - such as the $40 billion of GPUs that Oracle is buying for Stargate Abilene. This is becoming a problem. The ability of unprofitable, debt-ridden companies like CoreWeave, AI "neoclouds" that use the GPUs they purchase from NVIDIA as collateral for loans to buy more GPUs, to to continue raising that debt to buy more GPUs. The ability of anybody who buys these GPUs to actually install them and use them, which requires massive amounts of construction...and more power than is currently available, even to the most well-funded and conspicuous projects. In simple terms, for the debt markets to continue propping up its revenues, because there is not really enough free cash in the world to continue pumping it into NVIDIA at this rate. And after all of this, Large Language Models, the only way to make any money on any of these GPUs, must prove they can actually produce a profit. Per my article from September, I can find no compelling evidence (outside of boosters speciously claiming otherwise) that it's profitable to sell access to GPUs. Based on my calculations, there's likely little more than $61 billion of actual AI revenue in 2025 across every single AI company and hyperscaler. Note that I said "revenue." Absolutely nobody is making a profit. The NVIDIA situation is one of the most insane things I've seen in my life. The single-largest, single-most-valuable, single-most-profitable company on the stock market has got there through selling ultra-expensive hardware that takes hundreds of millio…
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
Greene spewed the worst vile poison at the left for years. After two weeks of being on the receiving end of that right wing vitriol, she's throwing in the towel. Lame. Lame and weak.
November 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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strandjunker.com
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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tbskyen.com
Working artists, you'll want to turn this sh** off on paypal, and generally get more strict about protecting yourselves from their censorship. Get more dilligent about ensuring your and your clients' privacy.
cairosteele.com Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 2d
ARTISTS! You can DISABLE this feature! Protect yourself and don't assume that you're safe if you're an sfw artist!
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.
zamosta.bsky.social Aaron Zamost @zamosta.bsky.social · 2d
If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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ashleylynch.bsky.social
The way the right immediately mobilized and created target lists of enemies to go after couldn't be a better illustration of how MAGA was born out of Gamergate and absolutely nothing has changed.

It was the same playbook they created to go after women and minorities for "ethics in video games."
raphae.li Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 4d
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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scrivenerapp.bsky.social
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
I am truly and genuinely so glad you asked!

This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!

refuseuline.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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abivasquez.bsky.social
"AI girls never say no" huh
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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arrianna-planey.bsky.social
I think I was unprepared for the degree to which (some) techbros are scientifically illiterate
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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jocat.net
if anyone would like an alternative, Streamerbot recently hit version 1.0 and has a lot of the same functions as SAMMI, and it's what I use for my daily quest check-in + tavern membership card
November 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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joolia.bsky.social
I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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carynrose.bsky.social
There’s no way it was just one. That’s just the one they caught him with
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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blank.org
InterGENERATIONAL relationships FFS autocarrot what do I even pay you for?
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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blank.org
Exactly. The purpose of these laws isn’t to make international relationships never happen. It’s to make sure that when there’s an obvious problem or ten with them, the kid’s parents and the state have ways to make it stop.

“Don’t fuck your students as a HS teacher” is a low bar to clear and yet…
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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kathryntewson.bsky.social
Weird how the TERFs never seem to consider this scenario something we should pass legislation over, huh
davidjbier.bsky.social David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 8d
Listen to this Border Patrol agent cry about how he's going to be DOXXED after being arrested for drunkenly barging into a woman's restroom with a loaded gun, demanding a date from the woman inside, and then punching the arresting officers.
November 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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ashleylynch.bsky.social
In fact no, you do not need to hand it to KKKaren.
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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ashleylynch.bsky.social
Her antagonism toward Trump is entirely a strategic decision to position herself as the superior successor to his failings. Don't be fooled by any broken-clock-is-right-twice-a-day nonsense. She's evil to the core and has her sights set on absolute power.
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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ashleylynch.bsky.social
I feel like everyone is looking at what MTG is doing with total blinders on. She's not rebelling against Republicans. She's not holding them accountable. She's not learning.

She sees further that MAGA is done for, and she has aims to fill the void when it's gone. She's playing the long game.
huffpost.com HuffPost @huffpost.com · 8d
President Donald Trump on Friday announced he is withdrawing his endorsement of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who has grown increasingly critical of the Republican Party and Trump's actions and policies.
Trump Pulls His Endorsement Of GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
www.huffpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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drwambsgans.bsky.social
This is important context from Julie K. Brown.

With alt text.
julie k. brown @jkbjournalist Dershowitz, who helped Jeffrey Epstein get this sweetheart deal, knows full well that there were almost three dozen dozen girls, ages 13 to 17, who were named in a list that accompanied this plea deal. The final plea PAPERWORK was manipulated to pick just one victim -- and his lawyers made sure they chose the oldest one so that it didn't look so bad. But the girl who came forward first to police was 14 -- and the list of other victims attached to that deal included many young girls.
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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jametc.bsky.social
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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radiodeadair.com
As many people are pointing out, they don't put you in the fucking magnetic resonance imaging chamber unless your doctor is goddamn *concerned.*
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Love 2 go to the doctor and not know what body part they’re analyzing
Trump: I had an MRI and the result was outstanding. Reporter: Was it your brain? Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well.
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM