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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

One thing that has made my life easier is gaining a new filter - any post on LinkedIn or Bsky that uses the term "Super Intelligence" instead of AI is immediately ignored. Helps manage my bullshit fatigue. #aigovernance #artificialintelligence

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia

• Source Network: AS13238 YANDEX – Yandex LLC (Russian Federation)
• Traffic Breakdown: Prior to the drop, bot traffic accounted for roughly 99.6% of requests compared to 0.4% human traffic.
• Event Cause: The sudden plunge to zero on October 11, 2026, corresponds to a reported military/drone attack on Yandex's data center facility in Vladimir, Russia—marking the third reported attack on Yandex data infrastructure since October 8.

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Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 29/09/2026

Okay, not all AI models But definitely this one

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Ecosystems builder" on LinkedIn is the modern equivalent of "scrub". This is what happens when scrubs grew up.

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TLC No Scrubs: 90s Dance Performance

ALT: TLC No Scrubs: 90s Dance Performance

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

OpenAI targeted Hugging Face. Lets all make sure we use the proper language. #generativeAI #itsnotmagic #openai #samaltman

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Making my sister hose herself by calling an ex competitor "Bumbleton Fuckface" has started my morning off just right.

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A great post by the great @naomiaklein.bsky.social - very much looking forward to the book. It feels like a world gone mad when we roll over for tyranny in exchange for an empty dream of impossible "supreme wealth": naomiklein.substack.com/p/spacex-isn...

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SpaceX Isn’t a Company. It’s a Metaphor for the Rapture of the Super Rich

Here's why wealth and fascism are a package deal

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The realities of working with me:

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Am proud to be quoted in this disturbing piece, given my real concerns about the philosophical underpinnings of much of our techno-reality: www.codastory.com/authoritaria...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/02/2026

I'm gonna repeat my comment. Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

My AI crone era - and how, after a year of cleaning up AI slop, I think we should all be focused on doing better (and thinking more): www.linkedin.com/pulse/enteri... #aislop #2026resolutions #somuchcrap

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Entering my AI crone era: My lessons for 2026 following a year of cleaning AI slop.

2025 was quite the year. Honestly, it was a veritable slog.

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Black Panther🍁💪🦫🇨🇦 @blackpanther25.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Family of Colombian man killed in illegal U.S. strike files human rights challenge The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights #Wrldpoli🌐 www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...

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Family of Colombian man killed in U.S. strike files human rights challenge

In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing.

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Motorhead @bradmunchen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales. Tesla makes up less than 2%. The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/10/2025

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. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

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…

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OpenUp @openup.org.za · 22/10/2025

As our governments across Africa invest in digital infrastructure, the question isn't just what we build, but how we build it to advance sustainable development. Our new policy brief explores responsible AI adoption in South Africa's public sector, drawing on real-world experience: bit.ly/4hnqcAZ

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Policy Brief: Responsible Use of AI in the South African Public Sector | OpenUp Blog

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I may be tired, but sometimes I just imagine waking up in the morning to have to think: "What content can I work on today, and is my ringlight recharged?" and it makes me weep tears of joy for my actual life choices.

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The world changing business plan for the still technically npo AI? Porn. Genius.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/09/2025

A woman with a speech bubble says “OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws”. A man opens a calendar to see ed Zitron, the smiling man

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

We’re not distracted and it’s not going away.

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Working through some National Government Cloud Policy documents, and I find the constant adoption of the inappropriate American-z in the documents borderline enraging.

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

What it looks like 10 minutes before it rains on a #CapeTown #winter walk with the beagle (and the sister). #siblingbonding

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

At an SA Presidency-Gates-DIAL meeting on DPI Infrastructure in Africa. Its probably weird how much I enjoy talking about policy, considering how I generally feel about politicians #happyplace

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Another productive morning in the home office. Also, I do not own a cat. #wfhlife

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

@openup.org.za you guys make me blush*.... *Comms wrote this.

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Some Saturday morning thesis drafting whilst my family has fun with penguins. Current soundtrack choice as I skip between digital public infrastructure article and a textbook on STS studies on point: youtu.be/OJ62RzJkYUo #phdliving

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Pixies - Where Is My Mind? (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by PixiesOfficial

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Andie Holman - author @authorandie.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I feel this.

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I like this. Because I wrote it.

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I took a scroll through #Facebook, which I keep solely due to not wanting to shutdown our assoc community pages, and four posts at least were gross clickbait pics of "last pic before this person died". All different stories (none read oc). It has truly become a cesspit of immoral and kak content.

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OpenUp @openup.org.za · 10/03/2025

We have just launched our new parliamentary monitoring dashboard, Parlimeter: www.parlimeter.org.za. We led development in partnership with our colleagues at OUTA and PMG, and are proud to continue leading the charge on collaborative open government in South Africa #innovation #opendata #opengov

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ParliMeter | The Parliamentary Performance Dashboard

Quality data, insights and resources that help South Africans better understand the work done, in their name, by their representatives in Parliament.

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I'm very sad for so many trying to do good - but onwards and upwards:

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jablet.bsky.social @jablet.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This is going to be an exciting experiment to see whether I am too old to embrace a new social media platform. Frankly, the TikTok experiment did not bode well....

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