Reposted by power user of the internetEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/07/2025I guess maybe you throw GitHub copilot and 365 on top? Are they really making that much? This is all pretty stinky. Also $10bn is OpenAI 41624
Reposted by power user of the internetEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/07/2025.......wait. Analysts believe Microsoft will only make $11.5bn this year in AI services. Microsoft themselves said they were at "$13bn in annualised revenue" in their January earnings! Maybe this is why they didn't report their ARR last earnings? www.microsoft.com/en-us/invest... 524418
Reposted by power user of the internetEmil Protalinski @emilprotalinski.bsky.social · 07/07/2025The clearest example yet that AI is the new crypto: 002
Reposted by power user of the internetDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/07/2025OpenAI spent $4.4B on employee stock compensation in 2024 which was higher than its annual revenue of $3.7B. And that’s before the current talent wars where 9 figure paychecks are rumored.theinformation.comOpenAI’s Stock Compensation Reflect Steep Costs of Talent WarsOpenAI has signaled it will hike pay for some employees in the wake of a raid by Meta Platforms on its artificial intelligence researchers. That could mean a significant increase in the billions of do... 55810
Reposted by power user of the internetDomenico Lamberti @mobiledom.eurosky.social · 07/07/2025everything old is new again. (some of the earliest apps for the iPod touch where bluetooth based peer2peer messaging apps. 041
Reposted by power user of the internetThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Hello, sharks. What if there was a newspaper with an opinion section, and the opinions were good? With your help, we can make this a reality... 101338
Reposted by power user of the internetBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Anyone not from early Bluesky will never know the pain of someone you blessed with an invite code unfollowing you three months later because there were only 300 people on the website and we all hated each other 51158778
Reposted by power user of the internetMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025There is no nuclear weapons program. Fetterman’s pals in the Trump administration - including DNI Gabbard - have confirmed there is no nuclear weapons program. Fetterman is lying. Openly. Demonstrably. Shamelessly. 2763940793
Reposted by power user of the internetPeter Sterne @petersterne.com · 17/06/2025New York magazine publishing a cover story about Israel's war crimes in Gaza seems like a pretty strong indication that the liberal pro-Israel consensus is gone and never coming back: nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comIsrael’s Crimes of the CenturyHow Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law. 518252
Reposted by power user of the internetUlrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 17/06/2025This wasn’t supposed to be a prediction!! 334747
Reposted by power user of the internetSam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Here’s the Executive Order for the UK-US deal: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...whitehouse.govImplementing the General Terms of The United States of America-United Kingdom Economic Prosperity DealBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency 42713
power user of the internet @itsgeorge.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Vox became an accidental training ground for YouTube’s best video journalists. With creative freedom and no reliance on Facebook metrics, they built skills fast. But without a solid business model, they left, taking their talent and reshaping online journalism on their own terms.thelongstory.substack.comWhy the best journalists on YouTube are all former Vox employeesThe company became a skunk works incubator that invented its own language of visual storytelling. 010
Reposted by power user of the internetPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025My former team shrank by half from '23-'25. But the team's metrics targets were raised by 20% every year, and partly the increase was justified by "improved productivity with AI." Now that AI's productivity boost was measured, let me just plug it into my calculator here to see if the math works... 0407
Reposted by power user of the internetEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 29/05/2025This is not OK! As context, immigration attorney @asgvisalaw.bsky.social posted yesterday that the public has a "right to access immigration proceedings in most cases." 113725
Reposted by power user of the internetShannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · 29/05/2025An underappreciated aspect of the new WMO report -- if the temperature predictions are correct, the world will pass 1.5C in as a long-term average (i.e., the _actual_ Paris goal) in 2027. In just two years. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...washingtonpost.comEarth could cross a key climate threshold in two years. Here’s why it matters.A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the world’s most famous climate goal. 6189114
Reposted by power user of the internetStephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Trump subverting the census is one of the biggest threats to democracy. Congressional & legislative redistricting & Electoral College apportionment depend on it. The 2030 census takes place just over a year after Trump’s term ends. Even if a Dem won in 2028, they may not be able to undo the damage 33617
Reposted by power user of the internetHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Union contracts cannot be changed by executive orders. That’s not a thing. The problem with just litigating this stuff is, management will just stop adhering to the contract in practice. The solution is to stop working. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 238168
Reposted by power user of the internetThe PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 29/05/2025being an academic in 2025 means setting up google alerts for your name to make sure government robots aren't hallucinating citations to nonexistent papers to legally justify their new Make Everyone Dead policy 123173
Reposted by power user of the internetPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/05/2025This sociopath destroyed countless lives and made life worse for millions of Americans, sneering at them as he indulged his narcissistic impulsivity. But now he has feelings. What are they and will he feel better soon? We asked in a six-part series. Today in the New York Times 11564061017
Reposted by power user of the internetDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025They attacked, traumatized and fired the competent public servants, and now want your sympathy for being out of their depth. 1864130822
Reposted by power user of the internetJoe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Watching some of the world's hugest a-holes get everything they ever wanted and find out they hate it is cold comfort in this nightmare timeline but i'll take it. 0213
Reposted by power user of the internetThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/05/2025Rep. Ashley Hinson told an Iowa town hall audience that God saved Trump’s life last July. She was met with an overwhelming chorus of boos. trib.al/roGtK6ntrib.alIt’s Happening Again: Town Hall Crowd Boos GOP Rep for Backing TrumpIowa’s Ashley Hinson was booed and jeered when she backed President Trump on Wednesday. 34608109
Reposted by power user of the internetYuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 29/05/2025The US has never interfered more brazenly and directly in E Europe’s politics than it’s doing now. All the CIA-sponsored ops from the Cold War era are peanuts by comparison—and they were more or less covert or had a front! 41393143
Reposted by power user of the internetMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Would like to once more remind BookTokers not to hate the player when the game is so fucked up: when major publishers care more about earning a quick buck than developing actual writing talent. www.marieclaire.com.au/life/enterta...marieclaire.com.auBookTok Has Turned On Creator Luke Bateman Over Book Deal | marie claireAfter overnight success on TikTok Luke Bateman landed a book deal. Despite his virality, BookTok isn't happy - and we can't blame them. 0215
Reposted by power user of the internetDaphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 29/05/2025This new report from @brandonsilverman.bsky.social and @naomishiffman.bsky.social is great. It documents numerous concrete cases in which platform transparency (or scraping-based research) has had significant real-world impact. iddp.gwu.edu/sites/g/file...iddp.gwu.edu 1124
Reposted by power user of the internetNoah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025And a Tesla supplier seems to be one of the worst offenders. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...thebureauinvestigates.comChina’s economy runs on Uyghur forced labourMore than 100 global brands are linked to a scheme that ships Xinjiang ethnic minorities to work in factories thousands of miles away 38027
Reposted by power user of the internetLaura J. Nelson @laurajnelson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025This one is worth a read: 052
Reposted by power user of the internetJoseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Can’t wait to find out what AGI thinks about Hillary’s email server. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/b...nytimes.comThe Times and Amazon Announce an A.I. Licensing Deal 075
Reposted by power user of the internetDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025I keep telling y'all news influencers are something to watch 0162
Reposted by power user of the internetIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/05/2025There are actually seven of them 71244
Reposted by power user of the internetHexadecim8 @hexadecim8.com · 29/05/2025I had a fun conversation with Luke recently, check it out! 095
Reposted by power user of the internetBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/05/2025the speed with which these guys go from claiming to be exemplars of masculinity to just little birthday boys is remarkable 1838651
Reposted by power user of the internetZahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Trump stopped mentioning the hazard mitigation grant program in major disaster declarations, so I started looking into what was happening. Here's what I found by asking each state asking about the status of their recent hazard mitigation requests. Full story here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 712489
Reposted by power user of the internetWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 29/05/2025still think bluesky will be fine long-term but my working hypothesis about what happened to this site is that all the people from mastodon came over here and hounded most of the normies back to x or threads or whatever out of sheer tediousness 4027414
Reposted by power user of the internetJon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 29/05/2025“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with.” Just amazing from @notusreports.bsky.social www.notus.org/health-scien...notus.orgThe MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t ExistThe Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors. 33813
Reposted by power user of the internetOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025the modern information environment 1144022880
Reposted by power user of the internetJay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/05/2025Glad to see Block Party coming to Bluesky! 23882203
Reposted by power user of the internetAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/05/2025abolish ice is the moderate position 302384597
Reposted by power user of the internetKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Trump could wander into the press briefing room in nothing but soiled underwear, mistake Karoline Leavitt for his ex-wife Marla Maples, and go on an extended rant about how he was sending SEAL Team 6 to execute George Clooney and half the media would still be asking about Biden's health. 882820507
Reposted by power user of the internetJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 22/05/2025folks have nominated me for rogan of the left and *checks notes* jar jar binks of the left. really just another day on bluesky for yours truly 4374722
Reposted by power user of the internetwilf @friendlykitties.bsky.social · 22/05/2025WHAT IS THE CHARGE? EATING A MEAL?! A SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL?! 1307089843
Reposted by power user of the internetPT Klein @ptklein.com · 22/05/2025“For all he has done to ‘save movies,’ it would seem he is equally serious about concessions — which, incidentally, are how cinemas stay in business.” I know I’ll have 🍿 this weekend. I hope you will too! Here’s @milesklee.bsky.social on Tom Cruise and the snack that makes the movies magic:rollingstone.comTom Cruise Wants You to Know That It's Just Not a Movie Without PopcornTom Cruise said he eats two buckets of popcorn and demonstrated an unusual snacking style in viral moments from 'Mission: Impossible' screening tour. 141067
Reposted by power user of the internetCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/05/2025🤡 @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... 1412959755
Reposted by power user of the internetMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/05/2025This is so long overdue I’m actually boiling with rage. Do you know how many hours of phone calls supporting friends I’ve (we’ve all) had to have to mitigate the psychological and physical harm of this cruel medical policy? 24564121
Reposted by power user of the internetMicah @rincewind.run · 22/05/2025“who are Republicans spending time with online and what do those people believe” is a story that the media has completely ignored for years and we might be in a different place if the public was actually aware how many of those people are outright Nazis 303445816