In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024. Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane. Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour. This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever. Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
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For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

time CultS -d 8 claire's NOTICE OF STORE CLOSURE To Our Valued Customers, This Claire's location has been permanently closed. The decision reflects both external pressures & internal restructuring. In recent months, repeated attacks of ridicule by radical left agitators have gone beyond mere criticism, escalating into a deliberate effort to destabilize our company - conduct we recognize as Domestic Economic Terrorism. At the same time, our transition under new private equity ownership required difficult financial choices. Protecting the stability of shareholders was prioritized, & this store - along with its local workforce - was deemed expendable in service of that obligation. Despite these challenges, Claire's remains committed to our identity as a traditional American company rooted in values of family & community. We will not be silenced by those who attempt to undermine that mission, & we continue to move forward with confidence in our future. Here at Claire's, we look forward to working with the current administration to reinvigorate our brand presence across the United States, ensuring that we remain a part of American life for generations to come. We invite you to continue supporting Claire's by shopping online at www.claires.com Thank you for your attention to this matter. Claire's Stores, Inc. 2400 West Central Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60192 | Claire's Stores, Inc. | CBI Distributing Corp.

THE RADICAL LEFTISTS HAVE KILLED OUR BUSINESS
[also we got bought out by private equity who shuttered the store and fired everyone]
BUT IT WAS MOSTLY THE RADICAL LEFTISTS
also can we have a federal bailout 🥹

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Videos show panic among onlookers in China’s Liuyang city after a drone show malfunction sent burning embers to the ground, igniting fires.

Hostility towards Greta Thunberg continues to be an AMAZINGLY reliable red flag, especially when it comes to guys, and not just on the Right.

a woman says they love it in a red shirt Alt: a woman says they love it in a red shirt

Boy, if there’s one thing I’ve learned by being on social media, lonely angry guys absolutely LOVE when a woman is opinionated about anything!

É muito isto.

Dou uma olhadela pelas notícias e pelos comentários e, de facto, as mulheres que sabem o que querem e ousam ter voz incomodam muita gente.
O ódio à Mariana Mortágua é, para mim, incompreensível. É que não é discordância ou antipatia. É ódio e eu não consigo compreender.
Idem para a Greta.

E ela não se quer desmarcar de centenas de milhares de homicídios, crimes de guerra, destruição de cidades inteiras, tortura e genocídio? Não?

O que ainda me choca mais nesta tragédia é saber que um homenzinho desprezível e covarde, com um currículo pejado de mentiras, aproveitamento político e calimerices, ainda tem hipóteses de ser reeleito.

#Autárquicas2025 #ElevadorDaGlória

With the GOP, every criticism and complaint is 100% projection 100% of the time. If they accuse you of something, it's on their mind because they've been doing it themselves all along and *they know it is wrong*.

Um ministro da Defesa que equipara ativistas HUMANITÁRIOS a apoiantes do Hamas não é defensor de coisa nenhuma, muito menos dos interesses nacionais; é sim um radical irresponsável que coloca em perigo cidadãos portugueses.

Not everyone can make the commitment that these two extraordinary women have, but we can all do something to help each other, our Earth and its creatures

all the weird right wing zealots who claimed they were being censored and silenced and cancelled now own every single major media and social media company which of course means it's time for another flood of hackish columns by brunchlord failsons about the bluesky echo chamber

now imagine that not a single institution that ostensibly exists to protect the public did a damn thing about it, other than personal injury attorneys

imagine literally killing people because you think regular car door handles look cringe

Crypto's $245 million campaign finance operation filled airwaves with ads not about crypto The crypto sector emerged as a top donor this election cycle, but the ads it funded weren't about digital currencies.

It's kind of wild that crypto scammers became *the single biggest source of political donations* in the last US election and barely anyone even noticed. These dipshits basically own both parties now and are getting whatever they want and there's been zero (0) public deliberation or debate about it.

there has never been any legal or denotative definition of pornography that wasn't intentionally a trojan horse to suppressing speech and eliminating marginalized groups, so even if porn was supposedly "ruining foreplay" and "making sex worse", I wouldn't fucking care. Have worse and rarer sex then

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years

This piece gets at something that I've been struggling to articulate: We've seen this exact push-pull before. When Republicans were out of power in the 1990s they invented "political correctness" to pretend they were being censored. Then they went right back to censoring once they had power again.

The Washington Post WP Exclusive New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass The defense secretary is expected to lecture about the “warrior ethos” for less than an hour, according to multiple people familiar with the event. But top generals are bracing for possible firings or demotions. 4minutes ago

This is going to end up being the most pointless and expensive "this meeting could have been an email" in history.

A disaster that Starmer insists on ignoring the mountain of empirical evidence from across "Western" democracies that adopting rightwing positions and frameworks only ever helps the Right win legitimacy and votes.

An utter disaster that so many Democrats in the U.S. insist on doing Starmerism.

Two. Hundred. Years.

One man.

So many women have been talking, writing and warning people of the dangerous ideologies and biases of tech in Silicon Valley, for decades, and it’s so infuriating that so many men (not OP here) just flat out ignore it and act surprised at the technofascists infecting it now

Itália e Espanha vão proteger a Flotilha Humanitária. Portugal tem a mesma obrigação. Há um barco com bandeira portuguesa e cidadãos nacionais a bordo. A ameaça de Israel, sabemos todos, é real. E o governo português tem de agir no quadro do direito internacional e humanitário.

“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.”

This must be the Rapture because I am dyingggg

America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggest the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits

“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”