John Brown

Tech, history buff, and baseball (go Nats!) I like following interesting and unusual people

[John Brown @digthelongbal]

@Leonajardinho How do I keep these made up stories out of my feed?

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@AntSpeaks She’s too much of a coward.

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@BarackObama I’m sure this will work out just as well as Obamacare.

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@DavidShuster Why do these AI companies NEED government regulations? Why not just do it? I smell something rotten.

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@gntk327 The 154 girl must be super short. My wife is 150 and looks nothing like that.

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@attackdogX That explains the stock price. 😂

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@Polymarket It’s already smarter than Bernie, so everyone would be guilty the moment it passed.

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@SaraHermanw0 Yes! Vote for a socialist shit hole instead.

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@JackPosobiec VERY pro datacenter, on the fence about Flock. Any new tech could theoretically be used nefariously by bad people, especially the government. Not sure what the right answer is.

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@ClownWorld I might be inclined to call the cops.

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@MarkZuckerman When you trade away your best players every August, what do you expect?

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@SleeperNats That’s absurd.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Nobody against data centers understands data centers.

Nobody against Flock cameras understands how they work or what they do.

Nobody demanding Medicare for All knows how Medicare currently functions or what it would cost.

Nobody saying “tax the rich” knows how much the rich already pay in taxes.

Nobody saying “seize the means of production” knows how to build or maintian the means of production.

Nobody saying “fund education” knows how much we already spend on education.

Nobody saying “no new wars” understands geopolitics.

Nobody saying “ban corporate landlords” knows what percentage of homes corporations actually own.

Nobody saying “developers are greedy” understands why housing costs what it does.

Nobody demanding price controls understands what happens to supply when you cap prices.

Nobody saying billionaires could “end homelessness” knows what governments already spend on homelessness.

Nobody saying “just build public housing” knows what it costs government to build a single unit.

Nobody demanding free college knows how much universities already receive from taxpayers.

Nobody saying “just nationalize it” can look at what the government already operates and understand why that's a bad idea.

Modern politics increasingly rewards having the strongest possible opinion about something you have spent the least possible time trying to understand.

The American voter increasingly demand sensationalism and they have no idea how wealthy they are compared to the rest of the world.

They may end up being the cause of their self inflicted belt tightening and they are in no way ready for an ounce of actual poverty.

We need immediate competence to take over sensationalism and social media, especially tiktok is the enemy of that.

[John Brown @digthelongbal]

@BernieSanders If Bernie is for it, it must be wrong.

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@RonDeSantis Come on, Ron. I expect better from you. Hyperscale started in the early 2000s and has been in widespread use since 2010.

[Alice @RationalBlonde]

The data center panic feels exactly like the anti-GMO movement.

A bunch of technical claims that sound scary and reasonable until you spend 10 minutes actually looking into them.

Then when one claim falls apart, it’s immediately replaced with another.

At some point it stops being about water, jobs, or the grid and starts being “I already decided this technology is evil, now help me justify it.”

[John Brown @digthelongbal]

@MariaPeiro305 Please enlighten us… why/how is hyperscale different? (Other than it’s a buzzword you heard.)

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@FunkLawBoy ”Anyone who disagrees with me is a paid shill!” Or, more likely, your point of view is retarded, not rooted in any facts, and you’re just jumping on the bandwagon to feel good about yourself.

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@erichippeau The people who are opposed to data centers don’t understand either.

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

If you are against data centers, you should immediately cease:
Online banking
Streaming shows
Using social media
Storing photos and files in the cloud
Engaging in e-commerce/online shopping
Participating in video calls
Online gaming
Etc.