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I love to torture myself seeking fine-grained understanding of events over which I have no control. Note that I will unfollow anyone posting AI slop unless it's in a post disparaging AI slop.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 5h
We are the Wildflowers Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe 2024
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 4h
Fiji is experiencing an alarming HIV outbreak at a time when we have more tools than ever to diagnose, treat and prevent HIV. It is a warning that progress against HIV is not self-sustaining and to end the epidemic we cannot become complacent bktitanji.substack.com/p/hiv-is-not...
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HIV Is Not Done With Us
Fiji’s rapidly growing epidemic is a warning about what happens when complacency, vulnerability and retreating resources give the virus an opening
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 30/09/2026
The cutesy Muse avatar, Jolly, lulls users into a false sense of security as the AI gives their address out to Facebook users. www.avclub.com/muse-ai-secu...
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Meta's adorable AI is, predictably, a security nightmare
Meta's adorable AI is, predictably, a security nightmare
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/09/2026
Iraq marks national 'Sovereignty Days' as US troops depart, but must navigate risks of new security landscape.
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Iraq begins high-stakes security balancing act as US troops withdraw
Iraq marks national 'Sovereignty Days' as US troops depart, but must navigate risks of new security landscape.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 23h
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a tux cat asleep on my knee
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gods. To write something like that. To live it.
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Justin @justintyper1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i got into arguments sharing this meme on threads a couple years ago, people kept trying to say it was fake or doctored. I've been a mechanic for over 30 years and a fleet mechanic for nearly 20 of those, I've worked on both.
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 22h
The bad turn was when folks normalized an expectation of open posting in comments sections under blogs, as if the internet were one big town square and all conversations must happen that way. One small hope I have for LLMs is as personal moderators enabling "This post is for _____ folks only."
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22h
"Russia has committed an aggression and is conducting an unlawful war... against Ukraine... I want Putin to get in front of the ICC." UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, responds to critics who say she's pro-Russia. My full Zeteo interview with her: zeteo.com/p/albanese-t...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 22h
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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singemonkey.bsky.social @singemonkey.bsky.social · 18h
This fills me with absolute rage. These fascists must be prosecuted for illegally denying people healthcare. Complicit clinic and hospital staff should have their professional status revoked.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20h
Protests across Morocco highlight gap between public opposition to normalisation and Rabat’s closer ties with Israel.
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Morocco's pro-Palestine protests challenge Rabat's deepening Israel ties
Protests across Morocco highlight gap between public opposition to normalisation and Rabat's closer ties with Israel.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 20h
Cycling Capote 📷Slim Aarons #BicycleBirthday Truman Capote September 30 (1924-1984)
Photo of writer Truman Capote in red trousers riding a bicycle with a red and white basket in the middle of a wide, mostly empty street.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 20h
i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better
@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19h
This is now a sycophancy test. Joking about it I’ll accept, barely, but anyone who even remotely indulges this is a coward
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We have the chance to cut bills, end the sewage scandal and stop the rampant profiteering. But instead it's more half-measures, and kicking the issue into the long grass.
Prime Minister stops short of nationalising water companies
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
This all comes back to a point I've been making for a while now: We've treated NVIDIA's chip sales as reflective of big AI demand, when in reality $200bn+ of the GPUs are in storage, and those that are installed are mostly rented to Anthropic and OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/
In other words, the talking point that NVIDIA’s GPU sales are proof of actual demand for AI services or, indeed, that hyperscaler growth is a result of all those capital expenditures is a complete lie. In reality, at least half of all those chip sales — and I’d add in Broadcom’s TPU sales too (see my Hater’s guide for more) — are being made years before anything actually happens with the chips, making the trillion-plus dollars spent on capex so far seem somewhere between optimistic and utterly incoherent.

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Oracle, and far too many other companies have been hoarding hundreds of billions of dollars of AI chips that they either (to quote Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella) can’t plug in or simply want to have in supply for reasons that I find tough to imagine. venture capitalist that “...some companies are hoarding colossal amounts in case they come to a point at which they don’t have enough chips to provide the computing capacity,” as if there’s been any shortage of NVIDIA chips, outside of the illusory one created by hyperscalers buying them years in advance. 

So, we’ve got a situation where Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, SpaceX, CoreWeave, and every imaginable neocloud is sitting on hundreds of billions of uninstalled GPUs (and increasingly TPUs). Whenever more capacity comes online, it’s immediately sold to OpenAI or Anthropic, who make up anywhere from 70% to 80% of all AI revenues and compute demand, creating the illusion that revenue growth is “coming from demand for AI compute” rather than said demand coming from two companies that have been fed over $217 billion in the last nine months, with the vast majority of it coming from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and NVIDIA themselves. As I discussed last week, If “demand is outstripping supply” because of millions of customers begging for AI compute, that’s very different to “demand outstripping supply” because two or three (including Meta) customers are taking up most or all of the capacity. Not to repeat myself, but…

Similarly, if “demand is outstripping supply” because lots of capacity is coming online and a diverse subset of customers is buying it, that’s vastly different to if capacity is coming on slowly, and the vast majority of it is being given straight to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Meta.
And that’s absolutely what’s happening, suggesting that the “AI boom” is more like five or six large companies (hyperscalers) feeding money to two companies (NVIDIA and Broadcom) so that they can feed money to two companies (Anthropic and OpenAI) who then feed that money back to them whenever capacity comes online. I estimate that there’s around $22 billion of global, non-Anthropic/OpenAI compute demand, and an indeterminately-large chunk of that is coming from AI startups that can only afford to pay for the compute as long as venture capital continues to fund them…
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
how do we get the anger people felt when the sycamore gap tree was cut to translate into anger towards, I dunno, everything else?
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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Joe Biden is a genocide-enabling religious fanatic whose devout Zionism allowed him to continuously supply Israel with weapons while they committed a live-streamed genocide in the already besieged Gaza strip.
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brie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is what actual existing zionism has wrought on the world. anyone calling themselves a zionist but insisting they dont support this is deluding themselves. this is the real outcome of their ideology. it is an ideology of nothing but apartheid and genocide and butchery
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 29/09/2026
A new @globalwitness.org report highlights escalating violence against Philippine environmental defenders, who face legal harassment, "red-tagging," and state repression. The country recorded 12 killings in 2025, making it the deadliest in Asia for defenders for the 13th straight year.
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Philippines is the deadliest country in Asia for environmental defenders, report finds
The Philippines remains the deadliest country in Asia for land and environmental defenders, according to a new report by the non-profit Global Witness. In its report, Global Witness says it could…
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hi there
buttons the tux cat in a blanket like a log
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
M. GESSEN ON NAZA: He "has already said that he found the work to be fun, because staying up late with your buddies, working toward a common goal, is fun. Now he agrees calmly, indeed casually, that yes, he has been taking part in a genocide." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I got a bill in the mail from a memory removal service and I'm finding it very difficult to contest the charges.
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Taxi boss Oupa Sindane linked to extortion racket and leaked police intelligence www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
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Taxi boss Oupa Sindane linked to extortion and leaked police information
Evidence before the Madlanga Commission places taxi boss Oupa Sindane at the centre of alleged extortion, police information leaks and intelligence linked to Cat Matlala.…
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
So far the only retort from the AI boosters appears to be “2025 doesn’t matter” and I’m not kidding
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Bill Coleman 🎧🧿✊🏾💫 @peacebisquit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Photos: Russian drone strikes pound civilian targets across Kyiv aje.news/vgqhso
Rescue workers put out a fire at the National Academy of Sciences building after a Russian drone strike in the centre of Kyiv, Ukraine. [Dan Bashakov/AP Photo]Rescue workers evacuate an injured woman from a hospital damaged by a Russian drone strike in central Kyiv. [Dan Bashakov/AP Photo]Firefighters work at a private medical centre hit by a Russian drone strike in Kyiv. [Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters]Smoke rises from Kyiv's Dobrobut Hospital and a residential building damaged in a Russian drone strike. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
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singemonkey.bsky.social @singemonkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Five Go To Disrupt Genocide - Enid Blyton
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singemonkey.bsky.social @singemonkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miliband has shown some heart. But will the British government continue supporting Israel’s military and arresting protesters as “terrorists”? It’s pretty empty without those moves.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My tour continues in October with Basingstoke, Hull, Otley & Southport. If you buy a ticket, you may look upon the snail I whittled. If you repost this you may look BRIEFLY. If you do not buy a ticket or repost YOU MAY NOT LOOK. Snail permission tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 28/09/2026
💢 Israeli forces killed 4 Palestinians across Gaza on Sun., including a teenage boy & a man struck in his tent, & wounded several others, according to Palestinian media. 🔸 In Khan Younis's al-Mawasi area, an Israeli strike on a tent killed Oday Adli al-Assar, 28. 🔸 Israeli troops shot & killed...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 28/09/2026
Mondelēz International, owner of Cadbury and Oreo, aggressively lobbied U.S. and EU officials to delay European anti-deforestation laws, according to Global Witness. The report warns the chocolate giant remains exposed to untraceable cocoa and forest destruction in West Africa. mongabay.cc/HdmLbO
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Chocolate giant lobbied U.S. and EU officials over deforestation laws, says report
Food conglomerate Mondelēz International, the owner of chocolate brands Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone and Oreo, has allegedly engaged in an extensive lobbying campaign to weaken and delay enforcement of…
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Remi Harris @remiharris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kitchen Jams with Mrs Morris 💙 #guitar #jazz #jazzmusic
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singemonkey.bsky.social @singemonkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Something I’m still getting my old pal to remember to avoid. Absolute no-no playing live.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Europe is living its most extreme heat event in its history with 6 days >40C at the end of September 41,3C yesterday at Seville Thousands of stations up to 5C above their late September records 4000+ stations in Western,Central and Northern Europe will break records next days.
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Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.com · 27/09/2026
Online personality evaluations are always like "I would rather go to a library than to a party" and there's never an option for "I would rather go to a party AT the library"
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
self care
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Súbete a la nutria @subetealanutria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mi último rebluit no se deja mencionar, así que lo dejo dicho aquí aparte y en castellano: ✨Coged la costumbre✨ de borrar la última parte de los links que acaban con una interrogación y luego caracteres random. Son marcas para saber quién comparte qué con quién.
Meme de los Simpson en el que un conductor de autobús dice "no me hagas volver a señalar el cartel". En la segunda viñeta, señala el cartel y en él se lee: borra todo lo que va detrás de la interrogación en una URL para que no nos rastreen al hacer clic en ella.
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Parker Simmons @parkersimmons.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
A one-of-a-kind Mao Mao by Metalocalypse designer Songgu Kwon
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
I’m increasingly of the belief that we’ve never truly left the Great Financial Crisis. Everything we’re dealing with today started there, and every excess and problem stems from the US government’s failure to contain or eradicate its causes.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 28/09/2026
it’s so rude that bread costs like 10 cents and 45 seconds of effort to make but you need to know you’re gonna want it at least 3 hours beforehand
a perfect little round load of bread I just pulled outta the oven. it’s cooling on a wire rack
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.
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singemonkey.bsky.social @singemonkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just be clear that this bullshit scapegoating of immigrants is not just a European and American thing. The South African government’s and main opposition party’s sympathy for this foul project is making us a pariah on the continent.
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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On a cube in the sky there died an Anti-Hobbit.
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Randy Fair @southerngayteacher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Any time someone tells you this isn’t about ethnic cleansing: “I think we need to go to war in [the West Bank] to do there what we did in Gaza… “I would very much like to annex at least up to the Yellow Line in Gaza and up to the Litani in Lebanon… www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-isr...
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Smotrich: Israel must ‘go to war’ in West Bank, ‘do there what we did in Gaza’
Finance minister also calls on Israel to annex 'at least' up to the ceasefire line in Gaza and the Litani River in Lebanon to make enemies 'pay a price' for Oct. 7 and ensuing wars
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's been pretty funny to see John Bolton have to say 'Not like that' over and over again to the Actually Existing Iran War after advocating for it for forty years.
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pretoria shifts from appeasement to resistance after unrelenting US pressure www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
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Pretoria shifts from appeasement to resistance after unrelenting US pressure
South Africa faces escalating tensions with the Trump administration, which has increasingly targeted the country with tariffs, diplomatic pressure and accusations over its domestic policies. Pretoria...
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