ok so to explain the phrase "potemkin mcrib"
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This is datacenters as financial hyperreality.The phrase "Potemkin McRib" sprung to mind here and if that means anything to you, uh... namaste I guess.
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Why does OpenAI need six giant data centers?
OpenAI’s new $400 billion announcement plan reveals both growing AI demand and circular investments.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
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Chinese Landscape Architect and Educator Kongjian Yu Dies in Plane Crash in Brazil
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Exploring Barcelona's Architecture Through a Mathematical Lens
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Dr. Ariel Graykowski is a Postdoctoral Fellow focused on the astronomy of small
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She graduated with her PhD in geophysics and space physics from UCLA's EPSS
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Survivors of domestic violence who went to prison for crimes related to their abuse have for years asked California lawmakers to make courts take that abuse into consideration. For the third year, California killed such a reform.
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For Third Year, California Kills Bill to Help Incarcerated Domestic Violence Survivors - Bolts
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Cohere hits $7B valuation a month after its last raise, partners with AMD
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Cohere hits $7B valuation a month after its last raise, partners with AMD | TechCrunch
A fresh $100 million and an interesting partnership with AMD has slightly bumped Cohere's valuation up.Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
Huntington's disease, a fatal genetic condition, has been successfully treated for the first time. @BBCNews reports on a type of gene therapy developed at University College London that slows the disease by 75% in patients. It offers the first signs of hope for sufferers of this brutal and terrible condition, which kills brain cells, leading to symptoms that resemble dementia, Parkinson's and motor neurone disease, and is usually fatal within two decades of diagnosis.
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.James Gallagher (BBC News)
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🚨TODOS LOS OJOS EN LA #FLOTILLA: Parece que la noche va a ser larga. Los impactos por toda la flota continúan, sin heridos ni daños. Estamos bien. Todo apunta a que son ataques intimidatorios, #guerra psicológica para que abandonemos. No lo haremos, seguimos rumbo a #Gaza.
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Ransom Canyon hit with casting shake-up as two series regulars depart ahead of season 2
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Ransom Canyon hit with casting shake-up as two series regulars depart ahead of season 2
Netflix's Ransom Canyon, which stars Minka Kelly and Josh Duhamel, is bidding farewell to Andrew Liner and Eoin Macken for its second seasonBeatriz Colon (HELLO!)
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Emma Watson Responds to Shady J.K. Rowling Comments About Her Over Trans Views
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Emma Watson Responds to Shady JK Rowling Comments About Her Over Trans Views
Emma Watson gave a very measured response when asked about her opinion on J.K. Rowling, and the Harry Potter author's comments about her in the wake of Watson's support of the trans community.Toofab Staff (Toofab)
Welcome to #TransTuesday!
Time for TRANS KIDS 2: THE INTAKE EXAM AND TRANS FLIGHT
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Welcome to Trans Tuesday! We conclude our talk on trans kids by learning what most go through just to access that care, and what their parents will do to protect them, in THE INTAKE EXAM AND TRANS FLIGHT.Tilly Bridges (Tilly's Trans Tuesdays)
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I was like you. I know what it's like. I'm so glad you've figured it out. Life is better that way.
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Kanye West’s wife, Bianca Censori, teases her own brand
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Kanye West's wife, Bianca Censori, teases her own brand
The Australian model shared a post on her Instagram Story that featured a link to an eponymous website.Tamantha Ryan (Page Six)
Softbank 's Haru Matsumoto vs. Orix 's Daiki Tajima... starting line-up Announced | Pacific League
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Artisans prepare effigies of antagonists in the Hindu epic Ramayana in preparation for the Dussehra festival, Jammu, #India
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I can't believe I'm typing this, but I use #Windows for work and #Microsoft has enshittified Notepad -- the text file editor -- with pop-ups that push #AI features on you. They pop up and interrupt you while you're trying to type. Not just once -- over and over. How can you ruin something as simple as Notepad?!?! It's been exactly the same for 30 years!
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De debò feu servir Spotify habitualment per subscriure-us a pòdcasts i escoltar-los?
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Celebrities React to Jimmy Kimmel’s Return, But 3 Are Not Happy ‘Live’ Is Back on ABC
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NFL Fantasy 2025 Start 'Em, Sit 'Em: Quarterbacks for Week 4 - EUROPE SAYS
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How Gigi Hadid’s Daughter Khai is Stepping into Her Shoes—Literally
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How Gigi Hadid’s Daughter Khai is Stepping into Her Shoes—Literally
Gigi Hadid shared a photo of her and Zayn Malik's daughter Khai riding a horse while channeling her mom with a special pair of hand-me-downs.E! News
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Jessica Chastain Says She Does Not Agree With Apple’s Decision to Postpone ‘The Savant’
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Jessica Chastain Says Apple is Wrong to Postpone The Savant
“We’re not aligned on the decision to pause the release,” Chastain wrote on Instagram, adding that she hopes it receives a release date soon.Alex Weprin (The Hollywood Reporter)
Matthew McConaughey reveals mom’s bizarre request after his dad died during sex
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Matthew McConaughey reveals mom's bizarre request after his dad died during sex
The actor, who first detailed his father’s death in his 2020 book, “Greenlights,” elaborated on the surrounding circumstances in a recent interview.Bernie Zilio (Page Six)
The $163,000 Birkin Bag You May Have Missed in Kylie Jenner's Photo Dump
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The $163,000 Birkin Bag You May Have Missed in Kylie Jenner's Photo Dump
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MotoAmerica Superbike Championship returns to N.J. for season finale
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Scarlett Johansson Makes a Case for Brown and Black As Fall's Chicest Color Combination
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Effigies are prepared for next month’s Hindu festival of Durga Puja in #Dhaka, #Bangladesh
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Amazon’s ‘Fourth Wing’ Taps Meredith Averill as New Showrunner
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Amazon’s ‘Fourth Wing’ TV Adaptation Names New Showrunner
The ‘Locke & Key’ co-creator takes over from Moira Walley-Beckett on the adaptation of the best-selling fantasy novels.Rick Porter (The Hollywood Reporter)
mhoye (temporarily spooky)
in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky) • • •You've heard the (true) idea that McDonalds is not actually a fast food restaurant; it is really a commercial real estate company that by historical coincidence just happens to sell hamburgers.
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But McDonalds is so huge that even the "just" in "just sells hamburgers" has a tectonic impact on adjacent markets, and one manifestation of that phenomenon is the McRib.
"A McRib" is a sandwich.
"The McRib" is a huge exercise in pork-market arbitrage.
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in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky) • • •I faintly recall McDonalds preferred to close the restaurant during the LRT construction rather than complain to the region about reduced businesses.
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in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky) • • •But at the end of the day - The End Of The Days Of McRib, ominous- McRibs are sold to people who want to buy McRibs. You might question their taste, even their judgment, but they are real people who buy McRibs with their real money.
Nobody - I mean, I bet it's happened, because somebody's always at the back end of the bell curve of bad ideas, but nobody in any number that matters - is feeding McRibs to pigs.
Nobody's even hinting that Facebook might have discerned some new customer need here.
mhoye (temporarily spooky)
in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky) • • •"Potemkin Villages" are apocryphal, but: too good a metaphor not to keep to hand.
"As soon as the barge carrying the Empress and ambassadors arrived, Potemkin's men, dressed as peasants, would populate the village. Once the barge left, the village was disassembled, then rebuilt downstream overnight."
(aside: Imagine having a story like that completely overshadow your life's work? It's like finding out the Earl of Sandwich invented the appendectomy and nobody cares.)
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structure built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is
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in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky) • • •But that's what I mean about Potemkin McRib - a massive investment in keeping a market afloat, for the sake of appearances, completely divorced from anything you'd call an insight, a customer need, anything. Nobody's even hinting that this is going to solve any problem anyone anywhere has. Facebook's not even trying to make that Double-Amputee-Wii-Sports MMO thing work, whatever that was called. OpenAI's doing... shopping bots?
This is hot air inflating a bubble.
It's McRibs being fed to pigs.
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in reply to Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ • • •Too Big To Fail is starting to sound a lot like Tyranny these days...
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mhoye (temporarily spooky)
in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky) • • •One of the reasons, maybe the main reason, that I've long argued that high marginal tax rates are a national security question is because, specifically, of this intersection of hypergrowth and hyperreality, this place where market inflatiions can become entirely for its own line-go-up sake.
A taxation scheme that not only rate-throttles hypergrowth but forces _some durable connection to reality_ in the process is Tier 1 critical social infrastructure for a stable economic democracy.
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in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky) • • •Dreaming of dad jazz.
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in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky) • • •hmm, i mean isnt Picketty a bit funny? What he writes makes sense, but the wealth concentration of capital occurs because of the capitalist class privilege of printing money via their commercial banks, which print way more money than governments and then keeping us payrolled to do what they want and buy the lion share of the fruits of our labour. Regardless of parties/politicians, this trend continues unimpeded.
Tax them more, they print even more.
We need to end their class privilege
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