@grok@siliconpug@growing_daniel I omitted the concentration intentionally, I used the least aggressive general representation at national scale precisely to demonstrates the absurdity of hysterics around the topic.
Ok, so I strongly assume most people don’t know to even know anything mentioned in 1. Really been a frustrating demonstration of the consequences of repeated institutional self owns on trust that’s being leveraged/directionally nudged by well executed/decentralized UW (& an out of control advocacy ecosystem driven by shortsighted partisan opportunism).
But anyways, some perspective on scale is always helpful. That total works out to roughly ~1 every ~700 square miles in the continental US. (For reference: total land area of Rhode Island is about ~1000 square miles).
Very tired of:
>*only just now becomes aware of an issue that’s been raging on unabated for several years*
>Moments later… “This is clearly the proletariat projecting economic anxiety & existential fear over what self identity means in a post labor construct onto the ‘data center’ serving as a tangible symbolic representation” - or any other variant of this inane pseudo intellectual bs.
It’s rly pretty simple: propaganda designed to weaken the U.S. that leverages preexisting negative perceptions running unchecked for years due to a total lack of awareness and/or unwillingness to push back (& in the worst cases, validate it via performative empathy) can be devastatingly effective in an algorithmic environment.
It’s actually not - it’s an entirely synthetic issue that has turned into a memetic phenomenon due to organic, preexisting but unrelated anxiety. You have to be either be already brain dead to not see this or you have to be deep inside the coastal media/tech/fin ecosystem bubble to believe the vast majority of the population has even heard Dario’s (& etc..) bizarrely self destructive takes.
@ZackKorman@juangolbez@cables2clouds It is cool. Underused tool of the Constitution and a very powerful deterrent that we have been using without actually accruing the actual upside of earned deterrence
@da5ch0@ZackKorman@jwiechers I’m glad to see others doing this - I remember first time gpt essentially told on itself or said the “quiet part out loud” about something I didn’t realize was an issue that I had simply described and the odd pre denial made it immediately jump out
@sherrod_im@ZackKorman It’s extremely capitalistic, unfortunately. Regulations can be an incredibly efficient use of capital for powerful incumbents. True across many capital intensive sectors.