Graydon

Graydon

@graydon.social

(he/him) Software Engineer, TTRPG player

306 followers879 following32 posts

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This means that the increased price of RAM and consumer electronics was a result of an artificial "supply chain crisis" created by Jensen Huang pushing NVIDIA's customers to take early delivery of GPUs. Jensen Huang is responsible for making life worse for everyone.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

NVIDIA seems to be channel stuffing, forcing Amazon and other customers to take early delivery. The argument that these things are "scarce" when you don't even have anywhere to plug them into is nonsense...unless NVIDIA is saying you NEED to take them now, or else. GPUs are stacked in warehouses.

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I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Corporations spend more than $1.5B a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5B they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions. Kudos to these Autozone workers.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org.

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This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

Hope For The Planet@h4tp.bsky.social

We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews

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⭐ BOOK ⭐ The Tiny Angry Witch has got a book of magic - but when you’re tiny, turning the pages can be tricky… This is our longest video so far. Stop-motion animation, made with models, props, and patience! Written, built, animated, voiced, and scored by 4 x people (and 1 x Witch)

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I’ll be doing this when I get home btw :)

Nathan Grayson@nathangrayson.bsky.social

twitch has said that it won't be introducing labels to differentiate between channels that opt into amazon's ai training and those that don't. so streamers are taking matters into their own hands

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Newsletter: Firms close up shop amid a continued crypto winter, a Trump venture ditches its crypto plans, and the crypto industry–friendly Clarity Act market structure bill fails to reach a vote before August recess — likely dooming it. www.citationneeded.news/issue-108/

citationneeded.newsIssue 108 – In a word, applesauceFirms close up shop amid a continued crypto winter, a Trump venture ditches its crypto plans, and the Clarity Act fails to reach a vote before August recess

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buddy i have never used it. i don't know how to use it. i don't know if it's an app or what. i will never use it. if it disappeared today i'd go out and celebrate because it being gone would be instantly great for the planet and humanity

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That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

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Here's the full second segment I did with Bloomberg last week, talking about the circular AI economy, SpaceX and how AI is a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Gc...

youtube.comZitron On Bloomberg on why people are anti-AI, SpaceX and OpenAI’s worrying price cuts YouTube video by Ed Zitron
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

One of the (many) reasons I think people are so anti-AI is that it’s a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. The average person’s life is difficult, expensive, and getting any kind of loan sucks - unless you’re raising billions of dollars to build an AI data center.

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The biggest landlord in the US is being accused of civil rights violations. Greystar, the largest owner of apartments in the US, systematically breaks local laws designed to make housing affordable to the poor, according to civil rights complaints filed in six states and DC. /1

theguardian.comLargest landlord in the US accused of civil rights violationsFair housing complaints accuse Greystar of turning away tenants who use federal rent vouchers

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You can't keep calling it inflation when corporate profit margins surged upwards of 75%, accounting for roughly 40% of the total inflation seen since the pandemic began. Corporations raised prices to boost profits, used inflation as a shield, and never dropped prices again.

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The Citizens United decision completely broke our campaign finance system and rigged it in favor of billionaires and special interests. The $1.3 billion wealthy donors have poured into the 2026 elections is proof. It's never been a better time to End Citizens United.

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Tech's biggest political spenders so far this cycle: • Andreessen Horowitz: $93.5M • Elon Musk: $85.2M • Jeff Yass: $83.8M • Coinbase: $59.3M • Ripple: $55.1M • Crypto​.com: $38.7M • OpenAI: $37.6M • Anthropic: $20M via influence.citationneeded.news

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The Massachusetts AG is suing UnitedHealthcare Insurance, saying it defrauded the state’s Medicaid program of at least $100 million. AG Andrea Joy Campbell claims UnitedHealthcare Insurance manipulated the health status of certain members to get higher payments from the state.

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We are at 73% raised with 7 days left until the due date!

Welp, a new "the worst thing that could happen" has happened for me: My medical debt from 2018-2022 has hit a point where the creditor is no longer allowing "min payments" & I have til June 6th to pay it IN FULL... "or else." If you can help, I'd appreciate it. www.gofundme.com/f/help-kdin-...

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Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

theguardian.comUS employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report findsCritics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers

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Massachusetts is now the first state to certify a rideshare driver union after granting Lyft and Uber drivers' collective bargaining rights. This is the largest new private-sector union in over 85 years. 70,000 workers are now represented by the App Drivers Union.

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Here's a fun thing you can do: search for products on Amazon. When you find something you want, look it up on an internet search. You're going to find it's cheaper on the seller's own website, or on another large seller like eBay or Aliexpress.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Bezos on Trump: "I think he's a more mature, more disciplined of himself than he was in his first term. Trump has lots of good ideas. He's been right about a lot of things. You have to give him credit where credit is due."

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GitHub Copilot allowed this guy to spend $25 for every dollar of subscription, or put another way, $11,432 of tokens for $451

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

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Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.

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Today Zohran has announced historic penalties against two Bronx mega-landlords, securing $31 million in penalties and new oversight of long-delayed repairs. The penalty is the largest ever obtained by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. /1

bxtimes.comMayor Mamdani, HPD announce historic $31M penalty against Bronx landlords over long-running building neglect – Bronx Times“For years, tenants at Robert Fulton Terrace and Fordham Towers have been forced to live with vermin infestations, chronic elevator outages and a lack of

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ding ding ding I also think it’s relevant that this is in particular a coding tool, and there was likely an effort to give it a masculine name as a result🫠

Willow@rockshrimp.bsky.social

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

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BREAKING: Two Democratic Reps. are introducing a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hr and eliminate subminimum wages. Reps. Delia Ramirez and Analilia Mejia are introducing the bill, saying it's unacceptable that the minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

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Elon Musk and the Trump admin are suing to block Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI anti-discrimination law. The DOJ has joined a suit filed by Musk's xAI against a Colorado law that aims to regulate “high-risk” AI systems and protect consumers from algorithmic discrimination.