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Data Centers are Noisy Monster Palaces Don't Wait For Everybody - Episode 030 https://chloehumbert.substack.com/p/noisy-monster-palaces

Data centers create noise not jobs.

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How about instead of offering us hoi polloi jobs like our lives are only worth value if we can be called an employee, & we build the society we deserve, to share in the fruits of our labor as a community, and let that be the goal. In that human(e) future the monster palaces have no place at all.

All you have to do is look at where they are already to see the damage and harm they're doing. We already have seen what they do.

I'm already against the next war.

* or a truth with a lie chaser in the case of disinformation spreading

Well that is kind of a strategy in manipulative sales technique. In some cases it's a lie with a truth chaser. I've seen this called The Yes Set. The thing is, I don't think that works outside of a one on one sales pitch. In public messaging people often remember most or only the first thing you say

or alternatively they don't think that, and this isn't for us, it's for someone else they know to be in their audience $$

Their consultants are double agents, it's true.

I've been saying this for years.
whatever you say first is what you really mean (or what people think you mean)

Ceasing use of the word "innovation" would probably save countless lives. Thinking of Stockton Rush & all those pushing the noise & air polluting data centers on our communities who want to add in experimental modular nuclear on the sly built by execs who've burned their former employees literally.

sure everything sucks but at least it's basically spring

*looks at weather app, sees it's going to be fifteen degrees at sunrise tomorrow*

If you’re a media outlet / podcast and need an explainer on what’s going on I’m happy to do so.

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I asked "the wrong" questions even as a little child in the 70s and made my mother fret. 😬

Yeah that sounds right. That at some level it doesn't even matter the subject matter, it's more about conformity. I've always chafed at conformity of any kind I worry that I would not fare well in such a situation. I worry I'd be one of those people who later it's asked "Why didn't she just stop?"

Unfortunately there are a range of motives out there for people to be doing this. 🤨

And honestly I think some of these social circles are rather orchestrated deliberately with something that's a cross between religious indoctrination and high pressure sales techniques. I have some weird stories from people who experienced I would say activism recruiting attempts by tankie types.

I think a not tiny part of the problem is the lack of third spaces and social and hobby organizations (or even enough $ for hobbies) to replace religion that was abandoned, and so because social issues ARE very urgent, people wind up finding politics but then getting pulled into quasi religions.

Oh I didn't know about the drinking, I guess that also might explain why she was trying to claim Donald Trump was never on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane.

lmao people worrying about an apple watch in a SCIF when these guys are drawing up war plans in claude and placing side bets with online bookies

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Thank you to all 3 people who got this reference. I'll be here all week.

I want to pick up all the cats.

There are more and more stories all the time about ai facial recognition sending police to harass innocent people who get caught up having to prove it isn't them in some video even though it's obviously not them if a human actually looks at it.

Of course that doesn't mean authorities won't use it anyway and innocent people will be hurt. Sort of like other forensic science stuff that's been overly relied upon or isn't very compelling after all. That's what makes this stuff scary is that people with power will act as if it's infallible.

Something that gets lost in the 'ai is scary good' discourse is that the scary part is so often the fact that whatever it is doing it's doing it wrong or with errors a significant amount of the time. Remember that a lot of the science cited is actually pr and marketing.

Or that keynes quote would do well that the market could stay irrational long enough for you to go bankrupt or whatever the quote is. Either way there will be people who stay and lose everything.

The problem is that I disagree that it will ruin the market, because gambling is addictive (do we notice a pattern with exploitation of that cognitive pitfall?)... So it will circumvent the market correction. Just like Richard Thaler said you can't expect rational action in the market.

Everything is gambling now | The Vergecast The Verge Dec 16, 2025 “But I am not going to like start betting if I have reason to think that other participants have true insider knowledge. - In a weird way that’s the closest thing to playing the house that exists on these markets. - Yeah, the conclusion that sort of follows from this is for these markets to thrive, they might want some sort of insider trading regulation. So one argument that people make is, well, insider trading is good because you want to have people who are informed that helps sets the price, et cetera. These things become oracles of truth or we want to elicit people who are knowledgeable and then you get a price that’s better, but no one is going to provide liquidity for these markets. No one’s going to gamble and speculate if you have good reason to think that the other person on the other side of the trade is not speculating because they just know the answer in advance. And so then you get liquidity totally drawing up and then the market is totally useless and so forth. So there is this sort of tension that’s going to emerge where the idea is you want the market to be an oracle of truth, to have an odds that reflects something about reality, but if people are too informed and there’s no regulation and there’s no laws against insider trading and there’s no penalty for exploiting your insider information, then non insiders are never going to participate in these markets and they’re gonna fizzle out before they even get off the ground.

our economy in the US has been turning more & more into just gambling & since there's no really way to ensure winning by chance it invites cheating.

I transcribed a quote from the verge podcast to quote in my substack last month because it's a good? point:

www.theverge.com/podcast/8451...