Explaining to children that they shouldn't worry about a career because the world will be completely unlivable in 15 years and that death will be a sweet relief from living in a nuclear wasteland is probably the hardest part of working at Build-A-Bear.
2020: “You need to stop using plastic straws. Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity.”
2026: “Anyway, here’s a 62-square-mile AI data center"
We are now in a weird era where a guy gets publicly shamed for running his sprinklers on a Tuesday, while a data center the size of a Costco quietly drains a reservoir so AI can generate a picture of your cat as a medieval knight. And the data center gets a tax incentive for it.
FWIW ‘darkle’ is a near-antonym of ‘sparkle.’
‘Darkle’ has three meanings:
-"to become clouded or gloomy"
-"to grow dark"
-"to become concealed in the dark"