Shaded Moon
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These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”
@wsj.com
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December 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
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On a call, when they say "I'll let you go" I always reply "no I'm fine, I don't need to go". Of course I know what they mean, but I'll keep it going till they actually say they want to end the call. It's the best way to stop them calling me again.
December 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
On a call, when they say "I'll let you go" I always reply "no I'm fine, I don't need to go". Of course I know what they mean, but I'll keep it going till they actually say they want to end the call. It's the best way to stop them calling me again.
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
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I think the toxic current correlation between “studied STEM” and “techbro sociopathy” isn’t really about the subject matter itself but is about how our culture has spent 25 years constantly blowing smoke up the asses of guys who are even passably competent at Computer or Quant
there is not any particularly strong evidence that study of the humanities make people good people. the elites of many brutal empires were extremely well-read!
December 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I think the toxic current correlation between “studied STEM” and “techbro sociopathy” isn’t really about the subject matter itself but is about how our culture has spent 25 years constantly blowing smoke up the asses of guys who are even passably competent at Computer or Quant
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The last members of Santa's wagon
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The last members of Santa's wagon
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The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.
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Reposting this to remind folks,
-I'm an NB Trans-Masc Korean-American artist!
-Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️⚧️
-This house is ACAB & Anti-Fascist
-Fascists/MAGA/Bigots can go fuck themselves!
-No human is Illegal!
You disagree with this, GET THE FUCK OUT! 🖕
-I'm an NB Trans-Masc Korean-American artist!
-Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️⚧️
-This house is ACAB & Anti-Fascist
-Fascists/MAGA/Bigots can go fuck themselves!
-No human is Illegal!
You disagree with this, GET THE FUCK OUT! 🖕
December 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Reposting this to remind folks,
-I'm an NB Trans-Masc Korean-American artist!
-Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️⚧️
-This house is ACAB & Anti-Fascist
-Fascists/MAGA/Bigots can go fuck themselves!
-No human is Illegal!
You disagree with this, GET THE FUCK OUT! 🖕
-I'm an NB Trans-Masc Korean-American artist!
-Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️⚧️
-This house is ACAB & Anti-Fascist
-Fascists/MAGA/Bigots can go fuck themselves!
-No human is Illegal!
You disagree with this, GET THE FUCK OUT! 🖕
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AI automation =/= AI generation. the scripts to automatically transcribe voice to text or whether your party character prioritizes Attack or Defense isn't the same as algorithms generating randomized results out of an amalgamation of existing data. conflating them is intentionally misleading.
December 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
AI automation =/= AI generation. the scripts to automatically transcribe voice to text or whether your party character prioritizes Attack or Defense isn't the same as algorithms generating randomized results out of an amalgamation of existing data. conflating them is intentionally misleading.
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Hey, whether you did hundreds of artworks this year or one artwork this year, you are an artist, and you're doing your best. Be proud of whatever you created this year. Life ebbs and flows.
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hey, whether you did hundreds of artworks this year or one artwork this year, you are an artist, and you're doing your best. Be proud of whatever you created this year. Life ebbs and flows.
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if I, for instance, were insuring a business against litigation I would be paying close attention to a cohort that appears to a) be on a legal hair-trigger b) have the backing of what amounts to a slush fund for such litigation; i.e., it’s not just the individuals, it’s an organised front
HR departments countrywide need to start treating gendercrit employees as potentially hostile. As soon as you are required to interact with one, you dust off the rulebook, you dot every eye and cross every t, and you assume bad faith at every turn.
They are a threat to every organisation.
They are a threat to every organisation.
December 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
if I, for instance, were insuring a business against litigation I would be paying close attention to a cohort that appears to a) be on a legal hair-trigger b) have the backing of what amounts to a slush fund for such litigation; i.e., it’s not just the individuals, it’s an organised front
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People say this a lot and it's a fundamental misunderstanding of the "GPUs" in question.
Server GPUs are not graphics cards as you know them. They won't work in your PC. They have a few other uses but their main strength is computation, number crunching.
When the bubble pops most will end up junk.
Server GPUs are not graphics cards as you know them. They won't work in your PC. They have a few other uses but their main strength is computation, number crunching.
When the bubble pops most will end up junk.
On the plus side it’ll be a lot easier to get a GPU once the bubble bursts and those things are liquidated for pennies on the dollar
December 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
People say this a lot and it's a fundamental misunderstanding of the "GPUs" in question.
Server GPUs are not graphics cards as you know them. They won't work in your PC. They have a few other uses but their main strength is computation, number crunching.
When the bubble pops most will end up junk.
Server GPUs are not graphics cards as you know them. They won't work in your PC. They have a few other uses but their main strength is computation, number crunching.
When the bubble pops most will end up junk.
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“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.
December 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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if elon musk had a butler he wouldn't be spending all day online posting about trying to get grok to make a girlfriend for him, he'd be laying on the ground with jarvis spooning him, cradling his head gently
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
if elon musk had a butler he wouldn't be spending all day online posting about trying to get grok to make a girlfriend for him, he'd be laying on the ground with jarvis spooning him, cradling his head gently
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rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
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The Biden admin didn’t even want to mention Republicans in WH press releases. They worried this would violate the Hatch Act and consulted legal counsel. Really! That’s how wide the gulf in basic political warfare is between the two parties. GOP is in full battle. The Democrats are out to lunch.
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
The Biden admin didn’t even want to mention Republicans in WH press releases. They worried this would violate the Hatch Act and consulted legal counsel. Really! That’s how wide the gulf in basic political warfare is between the two parties. GOP is in full battle. The Democrats are out to lunch.
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I was radicalized on the issue of the Supreme Court 25 years ago this month. I’ve spent more than half of my life now waiting for the Democrats and liberalism to get there. They still aren’t. It’s sickening.
December 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I was radicalized on the issue of the Supreme Court 25 years ago this month. I’ve spent more than half of my life now waiting for the Democrats and liberalism to get there. They still aren’t. It’s sickening.
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The democratic establishment, people like Joe Biden, won’t even consider SCOTUS reform let alone push for it. So why wouldn’t SCOTUS kick sand in their faces? All Democrats ever do is take it.
The Supreme Court and the GOP in general behave the way they do not because they fear Trump but because they DON'T fear Democrats.
December 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
The democratic establishment, people like Joe Biden, won’t even consider SCOTUS reform let alone push for it. So why wouldn’t SCOTUS kick sand in their faces? All Democrats ever do is take it.
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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IQ is a measure of how good you are at IQ tests, which is something informed by how familiar you are with taking academic tests (& thus the quality of your school, which is in part determined by your parents' wealth, etc). there's nothing in particular that makes them a good test of intelligence
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
IQ is a measure of how good you are at IQ tests, which is something informed by how familiar you are with taking academic tests (& thus the quality of your school, which is in part determined by your parents' wealth, etc). there's nothing in particular that makes them a good test of intelligence
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Responses to this thread that deserve to get you slapped:
"Glad I already built my PC!" Oh did you? Did you get a good deal, and everybody else can go fuck themselves? That's super, I'm glad you announced it just before the holidays people were counting on for deals to finally upgrade.
"Glad I already built my PC!" Oh did you? Did you get a good deal, and everybody else can go fuck themselves? That's super, I'm glad you announced it just before the holidays people were counting on for deals to finally upgrade.
Important to note that the reason RAM is more expensive isn't because OpenAI is ransacking store shelves and buying all the retail stock.
They aren't using those. Instead "AI" companies dumped an insane amount of money on RAM manufacturers to tie up their production lines with parts "AI" needs.
They aren't using those. Instead "AI" companies dumped an insane amount of money on RAM manufacturers to tie up their production lines with parts "AI" needs.
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Responses to this thread that deserve to get you slapped:
"Glad I already built my PC!" Oh did you? Did you get a good deal, and everybody else can go fuck themselves? That's super, I'm glad you announced it just before the holidays people were counting on for deals to finally upgrade.
"Glad I already built my PC!" Oh did you? Did you get a good deal, and everybody else can go fuck themselves? That's super, I'm glad you announced it just before the holidays people were counting on for deals to finally upgrade.