🇭🇳🇺🇸 Flaneur. Likes: ₿ hate: ☭. Views/tweets strictly my own. RTs/follows are not endorsements. Once an MA fellow at Mercatus - now I just read pols-econ
Germany's AfD politician Maximilian Krah on Alice Weidel's wife being Sri Lankan:
When you have a wife from Sri Lanka who looks like Sri Lanka, then you are not a racist.
It’s time for everyone to realize that the fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers.
They have become a proxy for the hate towards AI and the concentration and accumulation of wealth it’s creating.
Until those running the big LLMs understand this and start a community tour, not to explain the benefits of AI, it’s too late for that, but to help towns and cities that may be impacted by job losses (and I’m a believer their will be a net gains in a few years), this battle is only going to get more intense and let me tell you now , no matter how much money you pay to buy politicians and races, you will lose.
One thing I have learned is being hated is not good for business.
How can they help ? They will tell you. You will need to do what they ask. Billions of dollars is a lot of money across towns and city programs. Across the major LLMs, it’s a cost of doing business.
At the same time, I would go to LA and NYC and ask the arts and creative unions what kind of programs would help and protect their artists. DO NOT GO TO THE MUSIC OR FILM COMPANIES. that will make it worse.
Don’t try to pay famous people to endorse what you are doing. That’s dumb.
Talk to artists and ask them what you can do to provide financial and creative support. Every creative I know is TERRIFIED about what AI will do to their profession. You must meet them face to face and basically do what they say.
The big LLMs have lost the PR battle. Why ? Because they all suck at putting people first. They have an SV attitude that makes them all think they are John Galt saving the
world
Given the number of data centers and power that is needed, today and going forward , If you don’t kiss the asses of the people that go to work every day, and are just trying to pay their bills, you will fall far far short of the capacity you need to make your business work.
🚨🗣️ Two days ago, Ghanaian traditional priest Nana Kwaku Bonsam said:
"I am working on Harry Kane. I have shown what I am capable of before so I know what work I must do to stop him. I will do my work so that it can help Ghana."
Kane just missed from here…
@SethAbramson@mehdirhasan Isn’t this the conclusion - As El Salvador dramatically increased incarceration after 2021, murder rates collapsed to historic lows.
Gillibrand's son graduated from undergrad on Sunday. Today it's reported that he's received $30 million in venture capital funding to launch a derivatives exchange. His mom sat on the Senate Agriculture committee—which has jurisdiction over derivates—until this past year
I assure my closeness to the people of the Philippines, struck a few days ago by a powerful earthquake. I pray for the deceased and their families, for the wounded, and for all those suffering because of this disaster.