The Post-Partisan Emporium

  AI Debt and Dismemberment T.L. Davis Some time ago I wrote about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it’s demand on data centers and subsequently their demand for electricity and what that meant for the average citizen without the power to effectively advocate for their own piece of the pie. It’s a depressing condition that’s operating far ahead of the actual need, it’s built-in more expensive power based on the fact that the data center being built nearby will someday require. Without any new data centers being in operation in our area, the cost of my energy used today suddenly shot up over 30% with my new bill. That’s something that President Trump, my local officials, representatives and senators of both US and Texas legislatures promised would not happen. Despite the fact that everyone knew it would. Now, it has. So, I’m paying a higher price for electricity, because someone else has a data center running in their area. And, the whole operation is based on a belie...

 Thanks to manfred127 for recommending this article... Interview with Nick Hudson Scam-spotting, the failure of central control, and why the local will outlast the global Unbekoming Nick Hudson’s rule for spotting a scam runs as follows. If a problem is presented as a global crisis, if the only permitted solutions are global ones requiring global authority, and if dissent is censored, you are looking at a scam. Global problem, global solution, censorship. You don’t need the who, the how, or the why. The fact-pattern is the proof. I built a short piece around a clip of him explaining it in May 2023. Until then he had sat in my peripheral vision, a name attached to PANDA, a South African voice that kept saying the unsayable about COVID. That clip changed things. Scam Spotting Unbekoming · May 14, 2023 Watch now In the years since, I have watched a great many people try to teach scam recognition, and nobody has produced anything cleaner. Most frameworks demand that you first untangle ...