Luke Flynn

Business Student || Lvl 25 Human || Geek || Competitive Card Gamer || BLM || He/Him || Has a coffee problem (not enough coffee)

[Luke Flynn @FlynnVale]

You can find me at the other place

[Dark Horse Workers United @DarkHorseUnion]

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics (@DarkHorseComics) are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇

#DHWU

[merel 🩷🍂 @merelisnotabird]

today and always ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

in the entire history of the olympics (more than 10,000 athletes each summer games and 3,000 each winter) since 1896, this would have applied to one (1) woman who did not place in anything

[Wario64 @Wario64]

Reminder to check your public library to borrow stuff for free like video games, books/ebooks, movies (including digital/streaming), and possibly even free museum passes and other goodies

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A human consumes about 2,000 calories per day. Over 20 years, that’s roughly 17,000 kWh of total food energy. Training GPT-4 consumed an estimated 50 GWh of electricity. That’s 3,000 humans worth of “training energy” for a single model run.

And GPT-4 is already dead. OpenAI retired GPT-4o from ChatGPT on February 13th. The model that took 50 GWh to train got less than two years of flagship status before replacement. The human you spent 17,000 kWh “training” for 20 years produces economic output for the next 40 to 60 years. The amortization window on GPT-4 was shorter than a car lease.

Now look at what replaced it. GPT-5.2, released December 2025, is OpenAI’s current default. The GPT-5 series consumes an estimated 18 Wh per average query according to the University of Rhode Island’s AI Lab, up to 40 Wh for extended reasoning. That’s 8.6 times more electricity per response than GPT-4. With 2.5 billion queries hitting ChatGPT daily and GPT-5.2 now the default model, the inference math gets staggering fast. Even at a blended average well below 18 Wh, you’re looking at daily electricity consumption that could power over a million American households.

This is what Altman is actually doing. OpenAI hit $13 billion in annual recurring revenue but still isn’t profitable. They need you to think of AI energy consumption as natural and inevitable, the same way you think about feeding a child, because the alternative framing is that they’re burning through enough electricity to rival small countries while racing to build 1-gigawatt Stargate data centers. The food analogy makes the energy costs feel biological and unavoidable instead of what they are: an engineering and business choice that scales with every model generation.

The comparison sounds clever at a fireside chat in India. It falls apart the second you do the arithmetic.

[franzi 🐾 @Killdeerrr]

just to remind you all discord in the UK already does this and within 2 months of the system being in place, the company in charge of the system was hacked and thousands of ID's were leaked. They lie about deleting the photos you send.

[The Blind Archer | Find me on 🦋©⚡🐘 @_TheBlindArcher]

It could be really bad for Discord if Californians contact the office of the Attorney General to report the potential violations of CCPA and CALOPPA citing the recent breach from a few months back where 1.5tb of user data and millions of IDs were leaked, but who can say for sure?

[Luke Flynn @FlynnVale]

Discord had a data breach where the IDs of over 70k users were leaked three months ago. They have no intention of deleting your information or protecting teenagers.
https://t.co/aPRgNNwoaf

[Discord Support @discord_support]

Discord will soon be expanding teen safety protections worldwide including teen-by-default settings and age assurance designed to create safer experiences for teens.

We’re also launching recruitment for Discord's first Teen Council, creating a space for teen voices to help shape our safety and wellbeing work. Applications are now open for US teens ages 13–17.

Learn more about these updates here: https://t.co/Ok8PKbNX2J

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

Abolish ICE.

There’s no reforming it.

There’s no compromise.

There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

[Sassiest Minx in Minnesota 💚 🇺🇸 @SassiestMinx]

In January of 1986 I was in middle school. My lily white MN school refused to acknowledge the brand new federal holiday: MLK, Jr. Day.

So, I walked out. I was 13. Soon, some classmates followed.

Staff threatened detention, suspension and so on. More and more classmates walked out. I asked staff, "Are you going to give every one of us detention? Are you going to suspend all of us? Do you hear yourselves?" Nothing happened to any of us.

Guess what? The following year MLK, Jr. Day was acknowledged district-wide.

So, kids, please know what you are doing does matter and can create real change. I am so proud of you!

[Luke Flynn @FlynnVale]

@Dexerto TLDR for those not reading the Reddit thread:
•only committed to no ai slop in concept art
• still planning to use slop everywhere else during development
•Ai slop art assets may still be used in the final product

[Michael @TheMG3D]

That they stop using generative AI

[K. @IbaraEleven]

This is explicit confirmation that they’re covering for Trump for anyone who still had doubts

[trappy-chan @trappychan]

The term "irreversible" is a political choice.

These "irreversible effects" are body hair, voice changes, breast growth.

All of which can be reversed - by the very same proceedures that benefit transgender people.

Pay attention to the fact that no one will ever mention this.

[Vivian @suchnerve]

block me if you oppose same-sex marriage and i’m not joking

[Zaynab Mohamed @ZaynabMMohamed]

The obsession these people have with Somali people is getting very weird 😬

[Luke Flynn @FlynnVale]

@KaggyFilms Who would your Digimon partner(s) be?

[Variety @Variety]

Robin Williams' daughter Zelda tells fans: “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad.”

“If you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to ‘this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that’s enough’, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”

"And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume."

Read more here: https://t.co/7UkzYSQ2Ja

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

[Nora | CEO of Mega Evolution 👾 @norainthefuture]

shiny miraidon & koraidon distribution complaint link: https://t.co/sTNeptuSuJ