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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)

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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/05/2026

The corruption never stops.

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

DEVELOPING: The Lone Rangers (I don’t think you can pluralize that) have withdrawn from President Trump’s America 250 celebration.

Pictures is the fictional band The Lone Rangers, made up of Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler and Steve Buscemi.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

For the umpteenth time: The most corrupt president in American history.

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Blaxamillian @blaxamillian.blacksky.app · 30/04/2026

There are no free wins in this dojo. 🤝🏾 #BlackSkyGamers

Child: DAD! Do you have time to play video games?

Dad: Yes.

Child: Can I pick the game?

Dad: Yes.

Child: Can I pick the stage?

Dad: Yes.

Child: Can you let me win? 😅

Dad: No. 👹

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/04/2026

Free newsletter: The economics of AI don't make sense. Monthly subscriptions to AI services are scams that represent a product that is impossible for OpenAI and Anthropic to provide long term, and AI data centers are an economic disaster at scale. www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/

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AI's Economics Don't Make Sense

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

You know how everyone is (rightfully) mad at Elon Musk for DOGE cuts resulting in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in African countries? Mark Carney did the same thing without any negative press. Cut $2.7 billion from international foreign AID which will result in thousands of deaths

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/04/2026

Tomorrow's Premium: OpenAI needs to raise or make $852bn through 2030 to pay for the compute costs associated with Stargate and other data centers. If it fails, Oracle dies, and destroys Larry Ellison's wealth. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

If OpenAI Fails To Raise $852 Billion In Revenue, Funding and Debt Throughout The Next 4 Years, The Stargate Data Center Project Will Kill Oracle
To make the Stargate data center project happen, Oracle has had to sign deals with effectively every major bank, investment fund and asset manager in both America and Asia, and needs at least another $150 billion just to start earning revenue from OpenAI.

For that revenue to be possible, OpenAI must grow to a pace and scale unseen in the history of software. If you believe reports (I don’t!), OpenAI grew from $3.7 billion in revenue in 2024 to $13.1 billion in 2025, or roughly 3.5X year over year - for it to reach its goals, it will have to grow by 250% at minimum, every single year, without fail, and as it does so continue to raise funding at a pace and scale beyond anything in the history of business, let alone the tech industry.

This isn’t me being a hater or a skeptic or a pessimist, but doing the very simple mathematics that someone at a major business publication or perhaps Michael Burry should’ve thought of had he not had his head so far up Jack Clark of Anthropic’s ass that he can recite Claude’s constitution.

Oracle’s Stargate data centers are both a horrifying mistake and only made possible through catastrophic failures of due diligence and underwriting. Every single bank and asset manager that’s put money behind this farce deserves regulatory investigations, shareholder lawsuits and to be blackballed by the entire finance industry, because there is no way that OpenAI can actually afford to pay for its compute, and it doesn’t look like Oracle even has a way to build it.

I’ll repeat the numbers: the 7.1GW of Stargate data centers in progress will make around $75 billion in annual revenue on completion, and cost more than $340 billion in total. Oracle’s free cash flow was negative $24.7 billion, and its other business lines are plateauing, making its negative-to-low margin cloud business its only growth engine…

As I covered in the Hater’s Guide To Oracle, its business is, in some ways, systemically-necessary, meaning that at the very least its database business would be sold to either a consortium of investors or a large company like Microsoft.

And its collapse would only happen after one of the most brutal declines in shareholder value in modern history. Oracle’s only saving grace for the last few years has been the growth of its cloud infrastructure division, with investors heavily banking on its GPU business for future guidance.

Once that story collapses, so too will any faith in the value of its stock.

The Collapse of Stargate and Oracle Would Destroy Larry Ellison’s Wealth, As He’s Pledged $60 Billion In Oracle Shares As Collateral On Loans
That’s a very bad thing for Larry Ellison, who holds around 40% of Oracle’s shares and receives a dividend of around $1.4 billion a quarter as a result, especially as he’s backed the $111 billion Paramount-Warner Brothers Discovery merger deal with $45.7 billion of that as an equity commitment from the Ellison Trust (the Ellison family investment arm which holds his Oracle shares) with Larry himself guaranteeing the amount, with $24 billion of those funds likely coming from the Middle East.

This leaves the Ellison family with around $12 billion left to fund the deal. Depending on how liquid the trust is, it could foreseeably fund that in cash - but if Ellison is a little light, he might have to take out further margin loans on his Oracle stock.

Yes, I used the word “further.” Ellison has already pledged 346 million shares of his Oracle stock - or around $61.5 billion - “to secure certain personal indebtedness, including various lines of credit,” meaning “many big, beautiful loans against his Oracle shares.” which IFR estimated back in September (when Oracle’s stock price was much higher) could allow him to secure as much as $21.4 billion in debt at a (they say “conservative”) loan-to-value ratio of 20%, and that’s assumin…

The collapse of Oracle would be horrendous for its customers - many of whom are in the public sector - and for those unfortunate to still work there. It will likely involve firesales of assets like Cerner (and the greater Oracle Health vertical), or even breaking up the entire company.

And everything rides on Sam Altman’s ability to raise funding and make revenue to the tune of $852 billion in the space of 4 years.

Good luck, Larry!

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/04/2026

Fantastic piece of gaming criticism and reporting exploring why the Saudis are investing so heavily in the industry, and the writing is stellar to boot.

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End Games | Corey Pein

Mohammed bin Salman makes another foray into sportswashing—by flooding the video game industry with cash.

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Exactly one year ago today:

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The strait of Hormuz is open for transit.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Anyone at CNN says anything Scott Jennings:

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BigBangMike @bigbangmike.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

My hands are tied.

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

What the oligarchs think New York will be like after Zohran Mamdani wins.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

awesome that conservatives get to lie about being victims and generate enough death threats to shut down an entire store

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

But the aliens from Independence Day wanted to mine all the earths resources and ruin the environment and ummm, I kind of lost my point here.

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It must be deviating to go online and learn that your spouse listens to Coldplay.

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Olayemi Olurin-Boleware @olurinatti.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I've given serious thought to the election for NYC Mayor and I cannot stress this enough, under no circumstances should you rank Andrew Cuomo and this is why. My new Olurinatti Production breaking down the rise, fall, and return of a corrupt governor youtu.be/LB4gqnUfp-k?...

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The Rise, Fall & Return of Andrew Cuomo

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Fae Johnstone @faejohnstone.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The Manitoba legislature has passed Bill 43, adding gender expression to the provincial human rights code. In this doom and gloom climate, it's important to mark victories like this, to remember that despite the rise of the far right, we can still organize and win for 🏳️‍🌈 people.

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Dogs are great and all but I think it’s time we start the process domesticating bears. Give me a bear about the size of a bulldog that I can take on walks.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 25/05/2025

NEWS | Gaza Media Office: 80 Days of Blockade Caused Hundreds of Preventable Deaths Video: Gaza Civil Defense Chief

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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This is so far over the line it’s disorienting.

Microsoft has disabled the ICC prosecutor’s email account.

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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

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Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Gotta say the new Pope’s communion wafers look delicious.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/05/2025

The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1

Children and young men, reaching for food, extend arms holding pots and pans. A headline reads: "As Israel's Blockade Grinds On, Gazan Children Go Hungry And Patients Die" Photo by Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

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Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

New episode about nasty people and their nasty business. youtu.be/dwdAEkJks8A?...

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The Right's War on Empathy - SOME MORE NEWS

YouTube video by Some More News

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I left both of my sets of headphones at home when I left for work today. Absolutely devastating turn of events, sick to my stomach.

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I’m currently reading Parable of the Talents and I’m not sure what’s more disturbing. That Octavia Butler had a sort of prescience about what was to come or if we’re always on the edge of becoming the world from her books.

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I am not loving a lot of the answers Mark Carney is giving in this debate.

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Movie idea. Basically it’s the Huge Grant plot line from Love Actually but it’s Bolsonaro contracting every disease possible to get hospitalized so he can spend time with a nurse he has a crush on.

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Bob’s Burgers is consistently good but the Topsy episode is next level.

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Due to unforeseeable events in the economy all cowboys will now have to choose between being rootin ’ or tootin’ until further notice.

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