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Andrew Sorg
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Portland, OR | Antifascist | Nerd | #rctid
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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · Mar 27
Images of James Baldwin speaking, with the quote "I am terrified at the moral apathy and death of the heart,"
andrewsorg.bsky.social
OK but the game isn't actually on Paramount+? At least I can't find it #baonpdx
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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peipolitical.bsky.social
Way to go! 🔥👍💯❤️👏
This 14-year-old girl hands Megyn Kelly her ass for her utterly disgusting minimization of child sexual abuse.
You go girl! #cdnpoli
November 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Part 10 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg

Guillotine Earrings From France’s Reign of Terror
Possibly made pewter
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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ecosozialismus.bsky.social
The moderate-to-right wing of our city council and our mayor still think the leftward movement of politics on this city is a fluke.

They don’t see the wave coming. It’s our job to help them see it or help them on their way to new careers.
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
andrewsorg.bsky.social
Bunch of zoomers about to ask chatGPT what 'wag the dog' means
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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councilormorillo.bsky.social
Highlighting the work that was done to gather data on the impact of sweeps on our unhoused population.

We will further exacerbate an endless game of whack a mole where people become homeless and we expand contracts and industry for sweeps.

Everyone loses here.

www.propublica.org/article/port...
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
andrewsorg.bsky.social
Boss keeps saying I get work done too fast for him to keep me busy. Boss doesn't know I've been working at no more than 25-50% effort ever since corporate made it clear I will never get a raise.

I need a new job.
November 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
andrewsorg.bsky.social
"Data? I don't even know her."
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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edzitron.com
While I do not have the full extent of its revenues, it is obvious that OpenAI's costs are dramatically higher - by several billion dollars - than previously reported. Similarly, the implied revenues are much lower than reported.

I am deeply concerned.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/#wh...
What This All Means Due to the sensitivity and significance of this information, I am taking a far more blunt approach with this piece. Based on the information in this piece, OpenAI’s costs and revenues are potentially dramatically different to what we believed. The Information reported in October 2024 that OpenAI’s revenue could be $4 billion, and inference costs $2 billion based on documents “which include financial statements and forecasts,” and specifically added the following: OpenAI appears to be burning far less cash than previously thought. The company burned through about $340 million in the first half of this year, leaving it with $1 billion in cash on the balance sheet before the fundraising effort. But the cash burn could accelerate sharply in the next couple of years, the documents suggest. I do not know how to reconcile this with what I am reporting today. In the first half of CY2024, based on the information in the documents, OpenAI’s inference costs were $1.295 billion, and its revenues at least $934 million. Indeed, it is tough to reconcile what I am reporting with much of what has been reported about OpenAI’s costs and revenues. OpenAI’s inference spend with Microsoft Azure between CY2024 and Q3 CY2025 was $12.43 billion. That is an astonishing figure, one that dramatically dwarfs any and all reporting, which, based on my analysis, suggested that OpenAI spent $2 billion on inference in 2024 and $2.5 billion through H1 CY2025. In other words, inference costs are nearly triple that reported elsewhere. Similarly, OpenAI’s extrapolated revenues are dramatically different to those reported. While we do not have a final tally for 2024, the indicators presented in the documents viewed contrast starkly with the reported predictions from that year. Both reports of OpenAI’s 2024 revenues (CNBC, The Information) are from the same year and are projections of potential final totals, though The Information’s story about OpenAI’s H1 CY2025 revenues said that “OpenAI generated $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, about $16% more than it generated all of last year,” which would bring us to $3.612 billion in revenue, or $1.145 billion more than are implied by OpenAI’s revenue share numbers paid to Microsoft. I do not have an answer for inference, other than I believe that OpenAI is spending far more money on inference than we were led to believe, and that the current numbers reported do not resemble those in the documents. Based on these numbers, it appears that OpenAI may be the single-most cash intensive startup of all time, and that the cost of running large language models may not be something that can be supported by revenues. Even if revenues were to match those that had been reported, OpenAI’s inference spend on Azure consumes them, and appears to scale linearly above revenue. I also cannot reconcile these numbers with the reporting that OpenAI will have a cash burn of $9 billion in CY2025. On inference alone, OpenAI has already spent $8.67 billion through Q3 CY2025. Similarly, I cannot see a path for OpenAI to hit its projected $13 billion in revenue by the end of 2025, nor can I see on what basis Mr. Altman could state that OpenAI will make “well more” than $13 billion this year.
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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pdxtoddiskin.bsky.social
Happy Exploding Whale Day to all who celebrate.
💥💥💥🐋💥💥💥
A screenshot of the countdown widget on my phone that says " Exploding Whale Day, Nov 12, Today". The widget also has a photo of the first exploding whale in Oregon as all its part are simultaneously separating from each other in an explosive cloud of sand, guts, a water
November 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
andrewsorg.bsky.social
Having to thicken my skin reguarding antisemitism since a certain untouchable coworker says shit to me all the time.
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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genderlessrodent.bsky.social
Our police force everyone!

Please clap.
Cocaine use, deletion of thousands of police files leads to ouster of 2 Portland officers
The Portland Police Bureau initially declined to release records related to one case.
www.oregonlive.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
andrewsorg.bsky.social
Dude why are my bananas hulking out of their peels?
A bunch of three bananas sit on a wood counter top. Two of the three bananas' peels have begun to split open length-wise.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
andrewsorg.bsky.social
Songs about Friday night are the lowest form of art sent tweet
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
andrewsorg.bsky.social
That's $145 😐
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d
lol. And I took an ambulance.
125 euro hospital visit
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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jamiedupree.bsky.social
Rep. Mike Simpson R-ID ignores Democrats on the floor and adjourns the House until next Monday. Adelita Grijalva was elected on Sept. 23 and still has not been sworn into office.
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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pdxtoddiskin.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨 ALERT!!!
ICE SPOTTED NEAR MERIDIAN PARK HOSPITAL, TUALATIN.

They are actively chasing someone at the Brookdale Living Center. 65th and borderline. 5 agents spotted wearing balaclavas
Ice agents running across a lawn
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
andrewsorg.bsky.social
OK but how funny would it have been if Mamdani started his speech by just grabbing the mic and shouting ALLAHU AKBAR
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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newyorker.com
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
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cmonmaque.bsky.social
John Fetterman looks like something the Flintstones would use to cut grass.
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
andrewsorg.bsky.social
Anyone have a ticket to the Portland Book Fair they aren't going to use? My partner needs one. We're happy to pay or trade or whatever feels fair!
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”

A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM