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Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Michigan Avenue right now.

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

Sora 2 Is Unbelievably Expensive, With Each Video Costing $5 Of Compute and Users Allowed To Generate 100 Videos Every 24 Hours — Meaning OpenAI Will Lose A Month’s Subscription Revenue Every Four Videos Generated Let’s establish some facts: Once you have access to Sora 2, you can generate what appears to be an unlimited amount of videos, at least on a $20-a-month subscription, and OpenAI has promised “generous limits” for a non-specific amount of time. Every Sora 2 generation is at 1280x704 — a variant of 720p resolution — and every single one is 10 seconds long, even if you ask it to generate a longer one. Each video appears to have sound, whether or not you asked for it. It takes about a minute to generate each video. Now, I’m a curious little critter, so I found that Microsoft actually publishes the prices of using Sora on its Azure AI Foundry page if you select “US East 2” as your region. To be clear, this is the pricing for the first Sora model, rather than Sora 2, which is likely more expensive. Nevertheless, based on Azure’s pricing, it’s likely that each Sora 2 generation is priced at the “720 Global” rate of 50 cents a second, meaning that each video generated on Sora 2 costs $5 in compute, if not more, because it’s very likely that OpenAI’s costs are more than it charges on an API basis. Now, according to The Information, OpenAI’s gross margins were projected to be 50% this year, meaning that even in the most kindly, sweet maths of all time, it’s annihilating all of its margin in two generations, and another subscriber’s margins in two more. I also understand that some may argue that OpenAI’s costs “might not be as bad,” and there’s no evidence that this is the case.

Sora 2, by OpenAI’s own description, is a “video and audio generation model,” suggesting it’s one main model rather than a combination with its audio-generation models it released earlier this year.

Sora 2 is also unbelievably expensive, costing OpenAI at least $5 per 10 second video - and likely more considering Sora 2 also generates synced-up audio. OpenAI loses one subscriber's revenue *every four images generated*. It's unbelievably stupid.
www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai...

#HADES
#HADES2

oh wait nevermind this sucks
if this spreads to other regions uuuhhhhh see ya LMAO

This literally annihilates the point of us migrating and joining this site in the first place, you greedy ultra-surveillance dip
shits.

this will only continue to escalate, they want a civil war

Bob-omb Actually Loves Being Picked Up

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

sackboys

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this."

"Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move."

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

California license plate with text "ECOPOOP".

Customer: MY TRUCK IS AN ECO BOOST ITS FUNNY.
DMV: POOP

Verdict: DENIED

Circle K has what can only be described as “Saints Row Food”

❗ Quick reminder that age verification on Bluesky is fully client side!
Meaning you can easily get around it!

More on it here!
gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...

#bluesky #age #verification #bypass

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this doesnt compare to the time I brought seven pepsi cans to my desk not together but individually back to back over the course of 5 minutes no I drank none of them You see I wanted a pepsi so I checked the fridge and there was 1 pepsi, so I took the 1 cold pepsi and put another not cold pepsi in the fridge, and then walked back to my desk and placed the cold pepsi on my desk. But then I got thirsty and thought "wow I really want a pepsi." so I set down the pepsi and walked to the fridge and there was 1 pepsi, so I took the 1 cold pepsi and put another not cold pepsi in the fridge, and then walked back to my desk and placed the cold pepsi on my desk. But then I got thirsty and thought "wow I really want a pepsi." so I set down the pepsi and walked to the fridge and there was 1 pepsi, so I took the 1 cold pepsi and put another not cold pepsi in the fridge, and then walked back to my desk and placed the cold pepsi on my desk. But then I got thirsty and thought "wow I really want a pepsi." so I set down the pe (this goes on for several lines).

dont drink pepsi

Bluesky the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted. You can say " Jesse Signal's hate drives the exact divide that you are describing" and the CEO will say "So you hate waffles?" No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.

He smells like lavender potpourri.

GM TO ALL HATERS, LOVERS, PUSHERS, SHOVERS, ARMENIANS AND PEOPLE OF ARMENIAN DESCENT, MIRROR POLISHERS, WOMEN, IKEA SHELF ASSEMBLERS, COMMUNITY COLLEGE ALUMNI, ICE TEA ENJOYERS, HETEROSEXUALS WHO ARE CHILL ABOUT IT, TRAIN AUTISTS AND BRUTALISM DISLIKERS

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

two druids enter, one druid leaves

Nature is healing

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Trump news at a glance: more than 100,000 federal workers to quit on Tuesday in largest ever mass resignation Latest departures in Trump administration’s deferred resignation program come as Congress faces government shutdown deadline – key US politics stories from Sunday 28 September

More than 100,000 federal workers are going to formally resign tomorrow, the largest such mass event in US history.

This is part of a Trump program to dramatically gut the federal workforce.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

betting against the white sox fed me for a winter

one time we decided to visit a park in war torn Portland and were accosted by a gathering of woke leftists celebrating "earth day." some of them worked at a kitchen that makes free meals for the unhoused and handed us a delicious egg salad.
only the fucking military can save us now.........