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It’s happening people! I’m finally in a position to start crowdfunding to recover some of the costs of taking legal action against my employer. Watch this space :)

Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Sam Sorensen You can now join the Discord server and read the rules. Starting on October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding

Seeing all these #OVER/UNDER posts and wondering what the hell it is? So was I! #OVER/UNDER is 1) completely insane and 2) this:
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honestly I'll call this forgivable given the explanation seems to be "grant morrison doesn't have a smartphone and hasn't read anything about AI and automatically assumed it was a daemon he should befriend"

They say the NES is 40 today. Read what that means for the man.

It's un-f*cking believable.

"The bill would have banned companies from making AI chatbots available to anyone under 18 years old unless the businesses could ensure the technology couldn’t engage in sexual conversations or encourage self-harm."

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Kim Crawford? That's grocery-store wine here in Aotearoa New Zealand. Not saying I'd say no to a glass. I moved here because they have Kim Crawford sauvingnon blanc in the grocery stores.

Mike Johnson feels threatened. Is that "deep-seated insecurity" threatened or "embarrassed I look like a total ass" threatened, Mike?

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

OMFG, I can't believe this is real. I don't know what's worse, Thiel's shite theology or his shite fanfic.

On some level, he has to know that it would only take Alan Moore, Luffy, and JFC five seconds to put aside their differences and beat his ass.

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For a moment there I thought MTG meant "Magic: the Gathering" and I was kinda excited and confused.

He still looks like a blancmange poured into a suit, but now the pudding's getting runny.

A smiling boy with gooey green hair and antennae. He is framed with vines and snails and lilies

the boy from the garden

Come for the great stuff in the roundup, stay for that critical chaser (feat. @corndruid.bsky.social, @srtrzinski.bsky.social, @aguaspoints.bsky.social, and @aetataureate.bsky.social)!

A goose with a butterknife in her beak stands before an anarchist circle-A. An old english poem is next to it: The law locks up the man or woman Who stealthe goose off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back.

I don't think I've reposted this since I got a bunch of new followers so, here's the general vibe:

Maybe next year?

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Everybody is very casual with how they talk about Sam Altman’s theoretical promises of trillions of dollars of data center infrastructure, and I'm not sure anybody realizes how difficult even the very basics of this plan will be. Nevertheless, everybody is happily publishing stories about how “Stargate Abilene Texas - OpenAI’s massive data center with Oracle - is open,” by which they mean two buildings, and I’m not even confident both of them are providing compute to OpenAI yet. There are six more of them that need to get built for this thing to start rocking at 1.2GW - even though it’s only 1.1GW according to my sources in Abilene. But, hey, sorry - one minute - while we’re on that subject, did anybody visiting Abilene in the last week or so ever ask whether they’ll have enough power there? Don’t worry, you don’t need to look - I’m sure you were just about to, and had simply been busy! - but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200 megawatts of power - a 200 megawatt substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350 Megawatt of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year in the event that one of the multiple construction firms involved . Said turbine is extremely expensive, featuring volatile pricing (for context, volatility fell in Q2 2025…to 69% annualized, meaning that if you had these prices across the entirety of a year you’d see swings of 69% up or down) and even more volatile environmental consequences, and is, while permitted for it (this will download the PDF of the permit), impractical and expensive to use long-term. Analyst James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research recently said on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that these are “not the really good natural gas turbines” because the really good ones would take seven years to deliver due to a natural gas turbine shortage. But th…

Stargate Abilene does not have sufficient power to run at even half of its supposed IT load of 1.2GW, and at its present capacity - assuming that the gas turbines function at full power - can only hope to run 370MW to 460MW of IT load. I’ve seen article after article about the gas turbines and their use of fracked gas - a disgusting and wasteful act typical of OpenAI - but nobody appears to have asked “how much power does a 1.2GW data center require?” and then chased it with “how much power does Stargate Abilene have?” The answer is not enough, and the significance of said “not enough” is remarkable. Today, I’m going to tell you, at length, how impossible the future of generative AI is. Gigawatt data centers are a ridiculous pipe dream, one that runs face-first into the walls of reality. The world’s governments and media have been far too cavalier with the term “gigawatt,” casually breezing by the fact that Altman’s plans require 17 or more nuclear reactors’ worth of power, as if building power is quick and easy and cheap and just happens. I believe that many of you think that this is an issue of permitting - of simply throwing enough money at the problem - when we are in the midst of a shortage in the electrical grade steel and transformers required to expand America (and the world’s) power grid. I realize it’s easy to get blinded by the constant drumbeat of “gargoyle-like tycoon cabal builds 1 gigawatt data center” and feel that they will simply overwhelm the problem with money, but no, I’m afraid that isn’t the case at all, and all of this is so silly, so ridiculous, so cartoonishly bad that it threatens even the seemingly-infinite wealth of Elon Musk, with xAI burning over a billion dollars a month and planning to spend tens of billions of dollars building the Colossus 2 data center, dragging two billion dollars from SpaceX in his desperate quest to burn as much money as possible for no reason. This is the age of hubris - a time in which we are going to watc…

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028.

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The Gamers with Glasses Show, Episode 35: Who Is the Donkey Kong? — Gamers with Glasses In this episode, Nate and Samantha set out to recap and wrap up our summer series on games, childhood, and nostalgia, and end up…somewhere else. We cover all the deep questions, like, “Does nostalgia ...

Nate and Samantha set out to recap and wrap up our summer series on games, childhood, and nostalgia, and end up…somewhere else. We cover all the deep questions, like, “Do any of us leave childhood unscathed?”; and, “Isn’t Assassin’s Creed just Sly Cooper?”
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Hugs, love, and self-care. ❤️

“If we view feminism as the struggle of gender-marginalized people for bodily autonomy, rather than just calling these things “women's issues,” then we make room for all trans people within feminism.”

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Super Midlife Brothers: Thoughts on Mario at Forty — Gamers with Glasses It’s-a Mario’s birthday! Sort of. So here’s a Mario bonanza from your friends at Gamers with Glasses, which in typical fashion includes a scientific* study on Mario and the zodiac, elegiac expressions...

Featuring @aetataureate.bsky.social: "In a volunteer survey, we found almost no significant correlation between the zodiac sign and the favorite Mario items of respondents."
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Super Midlife Brothers: Thoughts on Mario at Forty — Gamers with Glasses It’s-a Mario’s birthday! Sort of. So here’s a Mario bonanza from your friends at Gamers with Glasses, which in typical fashion includes a scientific* study on Mario and the zodiac, elegiac expressions...

Mario fought his way to forty, so we fixed a fancy fête. Enjoy the Super Mario Zodiac, new directions in Mario Studies, crying over fake Yoshi, and, of course, André Breton.
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History repeats.

What, all the little neo-Nazis decided they liked "moon man" because he was white? OMFG, that's small and sad. 🤣

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

Sometimes it's important to state the obvious:
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My Defunded Friendly Neighborhood — Gamers with Glasses In the horror game My Friendly Neighborhood , the puppets from a children’s show become monsters after a long period of neglect. Samantha Trzinski explores what we stand to lose, as parents, children...

Hey there new folks! We had some good stuff in September (like www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/my-..., www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/vile..., and www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/blip...). We've got plenty cooked up for October, too.

Ooh, thank you! I'd been assuming a boot disk was *the* way.