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With freedom comes responsibility. The myth of the self-made man is the worst myth ever; "No man is an island". Equal protection for all under the law...Don't usually chat.
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#Holdfast
therealjackhopkins.bsky.social Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 3d
They’re counting on exhaustion to win.
We’re betting on discipline. #Holdfast

The coup doesn’t need victory. It just needs us to quit.
We don’t. #Holdfast

America doesn’t fall because villains rise.
It falls when defenders stop holding the line. #Holdfast👇👇👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
jwski.bsky.social
Do it!
saltybitchables.bsky.social SaltyBitchables @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 3d
If you use Gmail, you need to be aware of this new feature that allows it to use your emails to train AI, but there is a way to opt out.

#Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #Gmail #Google

youtube.com/shorts/XqXo2...
Why You Should Turn Off Gmail Smart Features (and How To Do It)
YouTube video by Meira G
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November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
jwski.bsky.social
Waiting on the second set…
Donna the Buffalo in Easton Md
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
jwski.bsky.social
"I'd like a follow up to Dr Caballero's question, please."
datadrivenmd.social Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 13d
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 13d
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
jwski.bsky.social
@resistrebelrevolt.net what were we just reading?
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25d
Premium Newsletter tomorrow: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft must add $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they wasted their capex.

The cost of data centers GPUs may make it impossible to make a profit from AI. Here's $10 off annual.

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So, big tech has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of capital expenditures, and much of those expenditures are on GPUs. These GPUs, once installed, immediately begin decaying in value, and the more you use them, the more likely they are to crap out, and even when sitting idle, these GPUs have some power consumption — somewhere between 7% and 14% of their power in the case of the H100 — making them a consistent burden on the infrastructure of any purchaser whether they have customers or not. This becomes an even bigger problem for more expensive GPUs like the B200, which has an idle power draw of 140W per GPU. Extrapolate that out to thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of them, or to the 50,000-per-building of them inside Stargate Abilene’s NVIDIA’s , and you’ve got yourself a problem. Even without customers, even without IT load, these servers sit burning power, and while a company could turn them off and boot them on for a period of time, these racks are often run in clusters — servers of GPUs that are synced together using high-speed networking — and while I can’t find anything firm as far as how long it takes to set up a cluster, this presentation on cluster design from the CEO of Lambda details a cluster’s sheer complexity, involving discrete networking, software layer and storage methods just to get the bloody thing working. In simple terms, it may be expensive to leave them on, but it’s going to take a bunch of time and energy to restart these things, meaning that they are more than likely left on, slowly burning energy. Imagine how bad that is at a scale of hundreds of thousands of GPUs? Yet things might be a little wonkier, as the reality may be that while hyperscalers have customers, those customers might not be using all their GPUs at all times. Although there may be some customers that agree to a minimum spend or throughput, it’s hard to imagine that these contracts are enough to surmount the destructive margins. And when … And when I say “destructive margins,” I mean so much more than just the power to run and cool them. There’s the construction of the data centers to house them, the necessary maintenance, and, of course, any and all debt used to buy them. While I can (and will!) say that for every $50,000 GPU bought, big tech needs to make another $100,000, I believe that the hole created by the GPU’s existence is likely larger than just $100,000, with every construction delay, power outage, or moment of idle compute adding dollars to the hole for each and every GPU. Need a very real example? The Information reported recently that Oracle lost $100 million between June and August 2025 on rentals of NVIDIA’s Blackwell chips: In the three months that ended in August, Oracle lost nearly $100 million from rentals of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which arrived this year. That’s partly because there is a period between when Oracle gets its data centers ready for customers and when customers start using and paying for them, the documents show. It’s not clear what causes the gap or how Oracle plans to shorten it. So, while we can’t say for sure, there’s a chance a large chunk of these losses were caused by the spread-out deprecation of those Blackwell GPUs — after all, its most recent quarterly earnings included $1.35 billion of depreciation, right? Sidenote: For context, Oracle reported depreciation of $804m in the same period last year, and depreciation of $3.867bn for the whole of FY2025. This should give you a sense of how rapidly these GPUs are becoming a millstone on its earnings. …is there any way to actually recover that $100 million through the margins on these chips? Oracle only has 4.5 years of depreciation on these Blackwell Chips, and The Information reports that those GB200 server racks have a negative 100% gross margin according to internal Oracle documents. If that’s the case, we have a much, much bigger problem, but even if the margins aren’t literally negative…will ther…
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 AM
jwski.bsky.social
Every county in the country needs one of these guys!
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Oct 26
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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lisaloe.bsky.social
Good morning ☀️

🚨Breaking News:
October 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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thegoldfishmind.bsky.social
“Government by the people for the people.” They don’t believe in that, they don’t care about us.

They can only win when they cheat.

#SaveOurDemocracy
#Pinks
#NCPolitics
#Congress
October 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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frontrangeantifa.bsky.social
NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club.

Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter.

Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/
Three photos of Patriot Front member Nathaniel Ellis
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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@lolltt.bsky.social is a troll. Report and block
October 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
jwski.bsky.social
@lovekat41.bsky.social here’s a new definition. Hammer this home. @resistrebelrevolt.net share this…
October 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
jwski.bsky.social
Where to start? Leopards eating my face? Right hand doesn't like what the far right hand is doing? Never thought I'd side with RFK Jr on anything? "Oh what a terrible web we weave..."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha
A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
jwski.bsky.social
@resistrebelrevolt.net local market reacts appropriately to news! This could be very bad for the $40B swap/bailout…
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Oct 17
"Incredibly, Trump’s recent announcements have made the situation even worse. By declaring that U.S. economic support will only continue if Milei wins at the polls, he has galvanized the Argentine opposition to Milei, thus leading to more capital flight and skyrocketing interest rates."
America First? No, Billionaire Buddies First
Argentina: A very Trumpy debacle
paulkrugman.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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jmritchey.bsky.social
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
jacobinmag.bsky.social Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Oct 16
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
jwski.bsky.social
@resistrebelrevolt.net Have crypto begun their correction and how far down can prices go? Even as the common stock of a company may force bankruptcy and liquidation…
October 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
jwski.bsky.social
@tim-boland.bsky.social how’s our lil’ leprechaun doing!
October 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
jwski.bsky.social
From another, but I support
rebba.bsky.social Rebba.bsky.social @rebba.bsky.social · Oct 15
No King's Day!
Here we go!! 🗽⚖️🇺🇸
October 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
jwski.bsky.social
@resistrebelrevolt.net Did we cover this already? Another sign of the (end)times…
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Oct 15
"As is often the case in the AI industry, Nvidia came to the rescue, announcing a $100 billion investment in OpenAI. Now OpenAI has the money to send to Oracle to build data centers, which Oracle will fill with Nvidia GPUs. So wait—is Nvidia just paying itself?" prospect.org/power/2025-1...
The AI Ouroboros
Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.
prospect.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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@resistrebelrevolt.net www.cnn.com/interactive/...
Americans are losing millions to scammers at crypto ATMs. Here’s how companies profit
Companies often fail to refund money to victims and aggressively fight police to claw back scam money seized from machines.
www.cnn.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
jwski.bsky.social
First day’s in the bag. Dad and Jack. He earned his quesadilla today…!
Day 1. Erie Canal bike ride. Beautiful day, Brockport to Rochester. 21 miles. Rochester to Fairport tom.
October 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
jwski.bsky.social
@resistrebelrevolt.net here ya go! A drop into a trickle, into a stream, into river….
kslatteryresist.bsky.social KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · Oct 12
Most corrupt POTUS in USA history! Unchecked insider trading, manipulating the market with tariffs. Hello, SEC?
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
youranoncentral.bsky.social Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Oct 12
Massive insider trading. Thirty minutes before Trump’s China tariff announcement, a crypto “whale” opened a $100M+ short on Bitcoin.

4:30 PM: Whale opens $100M+ BTC short
4:50 PM: Trump announces 100% tariffs on China
5:20 PM: $19.3 B in liquidations hit the market
The whale’s profit: $192 million
October 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
jwski.bsky.social
@resistrebelrevolt.net another facet of the issues we've been kicking around. There is simply NO data publicly available about private credit and no regulatory accountability and oversight.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
First Brands: why a maker of spark plugs and wiper blades has Wall Street worried
Investors fear that the collapse of the car parts company – and the size of its debt – could portend wider problems
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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andthenisleep.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
jwski.bsky.social
@resistrebelrevolt.net …and another quarter heard from. Re-read those numbers; 75, 80, 90%. Yikes! “One note narrative”
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Oct 8
Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.

These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.

AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.
October 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
jwski.bsky.social
This is where we are, for sure.
adambonica.bsky.social Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Oct 8
As the Supreme Court term begins, keep this framework in mind: Autocratic Legalism.

Instead of “rule of law” (law constrains the power), we get “rule by law” (law as a weapon for power).

Authoritarians usually have to install allies. Trump started his second term with that step already complete.
The only effective opposition is through the language of morality and documented harm—not legal technicalities that can be swept away with a 6–3 vote.” The text is centered on a neutral background, with “morality” and “documented harm” slightly emphasized to underscore the moral and empirical contrast with “legal technicalities.”
October 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM