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Joe Butt
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Buddy I think you're slime
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November 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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ms paint of a twitter post by Joyce Carol Oates that reads: "So curious that the richest man in the world doesn't have a favorite shape. Does he even know any shapes?" separate twitter post by an account named "shapesthetics": "The triangle is a shape with three sides and three corners, one of the most basic yet beautiful shapes in Euclidean geometry." reply to this post by Elon Musk: "Great shape:
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here
ryanmarino.bsky.social Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Nov 7
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.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Nov 7
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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image of andrew cuomo at his nyc mayoral election watch party with disco elysium ui text overlay that reads: Suggestion [Challenging: Failure] - You thought you did everything right. You had the money, the power, and the fame. Where did it all go wrong? Why couldn't those sniveling little city dwellers see that you were meant to lead them? You're now a twice certified loser from a family of winners. Your father's name is on a bridge. Your name is next to a Wikipedia entry that says "sexual harassment allegations."
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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that’s right beg you miserable worm
Printout on a shrink wrapped pallet of a sweaty bald man on his knees praying. It says DO NOT STACK ON THIS PALLET!
October 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues
October 16, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.
"I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat," he wrote in an followup blog post. "In total, l've spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations: no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living." Kupperman's original skepticism was built on a guess that the components in an average Al data center would take ten years to depreciate, requiring costly replacements. That was bad enough: "I don't see how there can ever be any return on investment given the current math," he wrote at the time. But ten years, he now understands, is way too generous. " had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic based upon the speed with which Al datacenter technology is advancing," Kupperman wrote. "Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most." In his previous analysis, Kupperman assumed it would take the tech industry $160 billion of revenue to break even on data center spending in 2025 alone. And that's assuming an incredibly generous 25 percent gross margin - not to mention the fact that the industry's actual Al revenue is closer to $20 billion annually, as the investment manager noted in his previous blog. "In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year," Kupperman posited in his updated essay. "No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden - heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth." Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 "astonishing." However, it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. For example, how does it all shake out when we account for 2026, when hundreds of new data centers are expected to pop up? "Adding the two years together, and using the math from my prior post, you'd need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend," he writes. "If the economics don't work, doing it at massive scale doesn't make the economics work any better - it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis," he concludes. Overall, the pessimists broadly agree: it's no longer a matter of if Al is massively overhyped, but when the whole thing comes crashing down. More on Al hype: Data Shows That Al Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies
October 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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don't mind if I do
imdb page for the legendary film producer Jack Wiener
October 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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I will be silent no longer
A picture of those popular long bubble wands with the following text: When the bubble solution gets down to about this level, it stops filling up the bubble wand and therefore no longer functions to blow bubbles. It is a failed product.
October 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”
a bald stick figure in a chair with his arms out in front like he’s typing on a keyboard, and he’s got the biggest angry frown imaginable and eyebrows that express frustrated bemusement
September 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens
grahamformaine.bsky.social Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · Aug 19
My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.
August 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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It frankly boggles my mind that we have invented a computer that cannot do math.
anildash.com Anil Dash @anildash.com · Sep 2
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Google AI search result for “was 2010 fifteen years ago?” returning: “No, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15 years ago. The current year is 2025, and to find the number of years ago 2010 was, you subtract 2010 from 2025, which equals 14. Current Year: 2025 Past Year: 2010 Years Ago: 2025 - 2010 = 14 years”
September 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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now i can post this video directly on here
March 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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inthesedeserts.bsky.social
Oh, your friend killed himself because he thought there was a white genocide? Mine didn't. and I went to the beach yesterday
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · Jul 19
insane
July 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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urbanlandrent.bsky.social
A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years
simongerman600.bsky.social Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Jul 18
Between 1980 and 2024 the basket of 50 basic commodities become cheaper and more abundant. To be precise 70 per cent cheaper and 238 per cent more abundant. If we hadn’t messed up housing costs we’d be collectively very well off. Source: buff.ly/U8lZZkc
July 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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July 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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imagine living in that town in memphis that the grok datacenter is poisoning the air of, and knowing the noxious shit you are breathing is due to a 4chan hitler chatbot that posts like chris hardwick
July 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Every day is a good day for the Clintons to shut the FUCK up and slink off into private life until they are forgotten for their crucial roles in paving the path of "We Dems can overpolice minorities, deport immigrants, hurt unions, boost prison labor, & gut welfare better than any ol' Republican!"
July 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Its resources will exceed the entire military budgets of almost every country on the planet
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jul 3
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
sahilkapur.bsky.social Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Jul 3
🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk

Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).

Senate passed it 51-50.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
July 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Just as a basic descriptive matter, the Democratic Party as it currently exists does not have anything approaching the candidates/personnel, ideological commitments and structural incentives that would be necessary to reverse or achieve anything similar in scale to what Republicans did today.
July 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM