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سيف | 🇵🇸 @chanafehs.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Happy indigenous peoples day everyone🇵🇸🫶

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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.

"I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat," he wrote in an followup blog post. "In total, l've spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations: no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living."
Kupperman's original skepticism was built on a guess that the components in an average Al data center would take ten years to depreciate, requiring costly replacements. That was bad enough: "I don't see how there can ever be any return on investment given the current math," he wrote at the time.
But ten years, he now understands, is way too generous.
" had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic based upon the speed with which Al datacenter technology is advancing," Kupperman wrote. "Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most."
In his previous analysis, Kupperman assumed it would take the tech industry $160 billion of revenue to break even on data center spending in 2025 alone. And that's assuming an incredibly generous 25 percent gross margin - not to mention the fact that the industry's actual Al revenue is closer to $20 billion annually, as the investment manager noted in his previous blog.

"In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year," Kupperman posited in his updated essay. "No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden - heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth."
Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 "astonishing."
However, it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. For example, how does it all shake out when we account for 2026, when hundreds of new data centers are expected to pop up?
"Adding the two years together, and using the math from my prior post, you'd need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend," he writes.
"If the economics don't work, doing it at massive scale doesn't make the economics work any better
- it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis," he concludes.
Overall, the pessimists broadly agree: it's no longer a matter of if Al is massively overhyped, but when the whole thing comes crashing down.
More on Al hype: Data Shows That Al Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer: African-Americans are experts on America.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We just translated a wave of our ICE coverage into Spanish. No paywall, no email signup necessary. From leaks about Palantir's work with ICE to ICE's new facial recognition app, we think there is a massive public interest in this info. Read why and support us here: www.404media.co/were-publish...

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Told my writing friend I plan on writing a haunted lake story in the winter when we go to a writing conference together. She reminded me the conference takes place on a lake. This is gonna both inspire me, and, hopefully, scare the hell out of me when it comes to writing the spooky scenes.

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

KPop Demon Hunters had no right to be that good, and with so many bops too! I've been listening to the playlist all week!

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⌘ 𝖇𝖔𝖓𝖘 ⌘ @bbonbonss.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

✦ ✧ a lamb for your travels ✦ ✧

My Witcher oc, Harlow, holding a baby lamb. An open lovingly smile with his eyes closed while somewhat cradling the lamb on its back in his arm.

The lambs limbs are all piled together like a curled up shrimp. Their white wool has black markings along the face and body, their legs are black as well. Harlow’s tricolored hair (white, light grey, very dark grey) holds a few gold pieces in his waist length curls he also wears a very large circular gold earring on his right, undamaged, ear. (his other ear cut clean, an old and healed wound) Wearing his School of Wolf medallion along with a gold piece behind it, the necklace itself is fitted like a choker. He wears both his Witcher swords on his back the strap going over his chest. He’s wearing leather arm wraps down to his wrists, a suede wrap top that only covers his chest, and black leather pants with a grey green skirt that lays in the middle. His brown skin showing hardly any scars only peaks from where his clothing is blocking most of them besides the few that litter his face. There’s a star like tattoo on the left of his neck, a family sigil.

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vicky 🌻 @crowwkui.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

harlivy style swap 🌱🔁♦️

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vicky 🌻 @crowwkui.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

i have committed batcat yuri sins i'm sorry ಥ_ಥ can i blame it on stress?

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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M.A. Zavala 💖💜💙 @megzavala.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

For anyone showing up to the protests around LA this weekend, please bring supplies. Paper towels, milk, water, snacks, and any extra masks. Wear protective gear like helmets, goggles, full face protection, and heat resistant gloves. The tear gas canisters are hot and will burn

Hong Kong Protest Gear Summer 2019

Yellow construction helmet
Protects against rubber bullets, tear gas canisters, flying bricks

Broad face cover
To counter facial-recognition technology

Backpack
Typically holds snacks, water, change of clothes. tools and sometimes laser pens to shine in officers' eyes.

Goggles
For flying debris

Gas Mask
Protecting against tear gas, which Hong Kong police use liberally

Black t-shirt
Uniform adopted by Hong Kong protestors, in contrast to white Ts, worn by Beijing supporters

Lycra skin covers
To protect against tear gas effects

Elbow & knee pads
For for falling, crawling and scuffing on city streets

Loose change
For subway fare, to avoid being tracked through electronic transit passes

Umbrella
Protection against rain and pepper spray

Heat-resistant gloves
To throw hot tear gas canisters back at police

Photo: Sasa Petricic/CBC

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Vin Lopez 💫✨️ @lopezartwork.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

WONDER WOMAN NATION, I promise to make more fanarts (including villains and supporting cast)

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/06/2025

Is "kill the ones I miss" the most romantic thing that has ever appeared in a fantasy TV show? I would argue yes. And I'm a professional.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

That sound you just heard in the distance was me screaming bloody murder because those bastards cancelled #WheelOfTime. 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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WotSeries ❤️📖📺🤞 @wotseries.com · 23/05/2025

When your favorite show is cancelled, you try to save it. What else is there? #TheWheelOfTime #SaveWOT

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

My heart aches for #TheWheelofTime It's my favorite show and I'm so angry that we won't get to see the rest of the books hit the screen.

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People's CDC @peoplescdc.org · 20/05/2025

Our access to COVID vaccines is under attack. It’s more important than ever to make our voices heard by making public comment to the FDA by May 23 at 11:59 PM EST. Use our template available on our substack at peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...

Red background with white text on read reads: "tell your friends. our access to vaccines is under attack."
below:
"Submit a public comment to the FDA by May 23:
We all need access to updated COVID boosters "
"Our template makes it easy
(link in bio). Comment at
tinyurl.com/FDAVaccineMeeting"

Yellow People's CDC in lower right corner.

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Kevin @kangus.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🚨SEASON 3 BLOOPER REEL🚨 this couldn’t have come on a day that I needed this more than I needed this today ❤️🕺💃 the wool weaves as the wool wills 🙏 #TheWheelOfTime youtu.be/PYUF61dkZVs?...

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The Wheel of Time - Season 3 Blooper Reel | Prime Video

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Not me looking at a picture of Beyonce and saying, "You really do be having favorites, God."

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I wrote "The Trial" on June 11, 2021, the day Darnell's Frazier—an 18 year old Black girl— received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for her video of George Floyd being murdered by those cops. Today, though, I share it because I’m struck by how it applies to Tyre Nichols as well.

The Trial

I don’t watch the video
but can feel it playing

on a loop in a room miles
away from where he keeps

dying behind my eyes. All
I have left are tiny twitches,

small choices. “Please,” I beg
alone in the box of my dark,

“I don’t want to hurt that way
today. I already hurt that way

yesterday. Please don’t kill him
again.” No one listens when

I talk myself in circles, not
even me. When I hurt like this,

I’m just someone’s redaction,
a slur the other slurs prefer

not to say, used and useless
while the video plays me,

rewinds to unwind me, records
over an old innocent video

of me breathing. This video
has got me against the wall

or by the throat or on my back
or— oh, who cares? Even

my exhaustion is tired. Just
pick a position, pick a “reason.”

And if it doesn’t kill me the way
you prefer, try again tomorrow.

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I've been trying to schedule seeing the movie #Sinners with my family for days to no success, only to find out that they've all seen it multiple times WITHOUT me?

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

If they're making a Wheel of Time RPG , then why haven't they renewed the show? Stop being cowards and renew the show already! #TheWheelofTime #WoTSkies #RenewTheWheelofTime #RenewWoT

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Still not over this scene! I pumped my fist so hard, and screamed so loud for my girl #Nynaeve. I love that, in the end, she listened to her own advice, and encouraged herself. @amazonprime.bsky.social you need to renew this show so we can see what she does with that power! #TheWheelofTime #RenewWoT

A still of Nynaeve channeling magic in the show, "The Wheel of Time." Her face is hesitant yet hopeful as she uses her magic, at will, for the first time.

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Episode 8 of #TheWheelofTime broke me. I thought about it all last night and this morning. It was gorgeous all around. So proud of Nynaeve, loved the conversation between Mo and Rand, Lanfear was terrifying. I need season 4 to happen! #RenewWoT #RenewTheWheelofTime

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Loved how Perrin locked the fuck in during the battle! This episode was fantastic and I cannot wait to rewatch it tonight. Sad there's only one episode left. Amazon needs to renew this show immediately! #TheWheelofTime #RenewTheWheelofTime

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Kevin @kangus.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

#TheWheelOfTime #WoTShowSpoilers S3E7 The Old Blood runs deep in these mountains 🐺🦅

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WotSeries ❤️📖📺🤞 @wotseries.com · 28/03/2025

Daughter of the river. Clever as a pike. Strong as the tides. Always Mother. #TheWheelOfTime

Sophie Okonedo as Siuan Sanche with long curly hair stands in a lush, green outdoor setting. She wears a blue patterned wrap dress draped over one shoulder and features tribal-style tattoos on her upper arm. Her expression is serious as she looks off to the side, extending one arm to touch a bamboo beam. She stands next to a rustic wooden table with scrolls and tools, surrounded by netting and wooden textures. The scene has a natural, handcrafted feel.

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I can't stop staring at this picture!😍

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Late to the party as usual, but the first 3 episodes of #TheWheelofTime were amazing! Episode 1 was incredible and by far my favorite. I'm excited to see what the rest of the season will bring. And above all, for the love of everything, Amazon renew this show!

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Forcing myself to wait until tomorrow to watch the new episodes of #TheWheelofTime Yes, this is mild torture lol jk.

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Yesterday, I told a friend I had a new writing idea that needed to be expanded. Deb says, "Why not set the story during the Harlem Renaissance?" It was like a creative bomb went off in my chest. Last night, from 11:30pm-2am, I had a massive download! This is gonna be my most challenging story yet!

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Looking for a Black woman tattoo artist who operates out of Ireland. #blackwomen #tattooartist #inkingwhileblack

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I am BEGGING Amazon Prime to market #TheWheelofTime the way they do Rings of Power. Season 3 is looking so good! I need season 4 to be greenlit already. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk0D...

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The Wheel of Time Season 3 - Official Trailer | Prime Video

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today I feel like my dreams are just around the corner. It's only a matter of time.

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Finished reading The Lotus Empire by @tashasuri.bsky.social and I loved it. Bhumika is officially my all-time favorite fictional character. Her journey was absolutely heroic and heartbreaking. I also loved her slow romance with Jeevan. Overall excellent series that will stay in my heart forever.

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Vanessa @vanessacreates.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Not them finding someone BIGGER than Reacher to drop in this show! They already got me for season 3. I'm so in.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/01/2025

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us

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➼ amihan (he/hymn) @therosecleric.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Revisiting my Lavellan, Amaranth! (she/they) I drew one of my fave flirtatious Solavellan dialogues 💘 #dragonage | #solavellan | #art

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Angle @hellothisisangle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#cae cultist garb concept

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