Turning off my regular cynicism and sarcasm for a bit:
Daniel Penny - a great American, veteran, and son, whom the odious elements of our political establishment tried to ruin for political sport - has written the best argument for data centers I've yet seen.
Please read it:
🚨 Hear me out…
I’m sick of pretending this is a functioning country with a functioning government.
Congress is not “divided.” It’s not “gridlocked.” It’s not “just politics.” It is a criminal class of 535 people who have spent decades selling this country piece by piece while lecturing the rest of us about democracy, values, and the rule of law.
They pass spending bills they don’t read. They pile debt on people who weren’t even born yet. They take money from foreign interests, lobbyists, PACs, and industries they regulate, then act shocked when anyone calls it what it is: influence-peddling.
They protect their own. They investigate their enemies. They never investigate themselves with the same hunger.
The worst part isn’t even the money. It’s the moral rot. A government that can lecture parents, churches, and working people about morality while shielding predators, burying files, redacting names, and treating elite sex-crime networks like a scheduling inconvenience has no moral authority left. If the same evidence, the same flight logs, the same sealed names, and the same “we can’t comment” stonewalling applied to anyone outside their class, those people would already be in prison. For this crowd, it becomes “complicated,” “ongoing,” or “not the right time.”
Foreign interference isn’t some abstract threat they discovered last week. It’s a business model. They take the money, take the trips, take the talking points, then wrap themselves in the flag and tell you anyone who notices is a conspiracy theorist.
They will fight harder to protect their donors and their secrets than they will fight to protect the border, the budget, or the people who actually pay for all of it.
I don’t hate “government” as an idea. I hate this government, the one that treats citizens like a revenue stream, treats accountability like an attack, and treats the most disgusting crimes as a club you only get punished for if you’re not connected.
No more polite language.
No more “both sides” anesthesia. If Congress had a shred of honor left, they would open every sealed file, name every protector, cut the foreign cash pipelines, and submit themselves to the same laws they impose on everyone else. They won’t. That’s the point.
They are not public servants. They are a protected class. And the country is rotting under them.
- B
@politicalmath@alienchemtrails Deepseek-4-flash 0731 runs my entire AI development stack for the most part. (n8n, hermes, and a custom chat plugin for obsidian notes.) Locally and privately. Nothing at the size comes close at the moment. The US open source models are behind. By a lot.
brain-rot videos literally suppress activity in the parts of your brain responsible for cognitive control, the systems that help you resist impulses
fascinating
if used properly, short-form video seems almost perfectly designed as a cyberweapon: capture attention, weaken cognitive control, then control what millions of people see next and what they will impulsively act on
good thing nobody would ever build something like that lol
@JohnCleese@TomTSEC You’ve got it backwards. Stronger men are needed to establish the balance. Women will not make the tough decisions required to clean this up. It will be ugly, messy, and horrible. But completely necessary.
@jeremykauffman China is NOT a ‘leader of freedom’
They would use their models to slit our throats if they could. But they’ll settle for crushing our tech industry. For now.