Nick Chen

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@JLizard31 @PASU_MATRIX Sadly. It needs to be resurrected asap.

[Bobby Fijan @bobbyfijan]

But it can’t feel nakedly transactional. Mamdani’s thing isn’t to just give people stuff, it’s that he radiates:

1. That He LOVES New York City.
2. That gives things *because* he cares about certain people/things

Thus “Freeze the Rent” doesn’t feel just like giving people dollars. And the Free Bike Helmets isn’t about the helmets

As applied to AI companies, the problem is that none of them (or the real estate developers who are the actual ones trying to get the zoning approvals) come off like they care specifically about the local cities. Or even about America generally,

And the other problem is that the things they often DO offer to give, are years away. All the goodies being talked about now, like the real estate tax revenues, new schools etc are currently structured so that they will kick in after the buildings are complete and operational. But they want the approvals TODAY. It’s not an equal trade. And frankly, it’s not even a guaranteed one, because if something happens (interest rate spike, tariffs, lease negotiations etc) and the data center isn’t built, the goodies never come.

And it’s why the data centers being ugly actually matters. It reveals the “heart.”

If AI companies want to turn it around, they would need to give at least some things NOW, and unconditionally. They already have buildings right now … where are the examples of how great things are for the people who took the “deal” before? Where are the schools they are building for those people? And if they didn’t build one, then they need to start, even if they didn’t agree before.

They need to be giving things that they don’t *have to* give. To announce that they will only lease from projects that look a certain way. Or that accomplish certain specific things.

[Justin Spratt @justinspratt]

Dear people wanting to stop data centres,
Why are you not shutting down golf courses?
golf courses use about 6x the water of data centres in US and serve only thousands of people vs hundreds of millions for AI.

[T. Greer @Scholars_Stage]

I am going to make a point that seems to be missed in all of this. Better messaging—ie, never talking about AI taking jobs—is not the problem. The problem is that AI just has not delivered too many tangible benefits to the country writ large. Consider the cutting edge accomplishments of the cutting edge models. The frontier has been pushed in the world of pure mathematics and in agentic coding. But what good has come of that? The main effect of the first: supplanting grad students from their budding careers in mathematics. The main effect of the second: rogue LLMs hacking other companies.

People keep tweeting things like “being against data centers is being against cancer research.” But why would anyone think this? Are any of the frontier companies focusing their resources on training their models to solve cancer? Or to engineer a breakthrough in materials scienxe that might allow us to lower energy costs? To provide any scientific or engineering breakthrough that might directly, obviously benefit normal people?

The average person thinks of LLMs as the thing their kids use to cheat on school assignments. AI may have made their life more convenient on the margins but that is the margins. So you end up asking communities to accept these data centers and sanction the local tentacle of a technology that is already making people far away very rich but which has not provided the country writ large wirh any tangible goods.

In other words: the problem is the substance not the messaging.

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@MalcontentmentT @MassDara Indeed, we only seem to react, like in Pearl Harbor, 9/11, etc. Meanwhile there are plenty of red flags/warning signs some have raised & they are ignored by the institutional military.

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@MassDara Exactly, we keep going for the wonder weapon; neglecting changes in tactics and operational strategy. Blitzkreig by Germany was not effective due to weapons, but the construct/organizational changes they did.

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@oureternaloath @commandante_ Why is it seen as a political attack to question why such a unit was disbanded? Lessons are ongoing as is the conflict. Why limit lessons that the Ukrainians are still Lea and can pass on to us??

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@AlexHollings52 @jacknamok Actually I found this

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@AlexHollings52 @jacknamok Any reason we don't hear about reactive material warheads on missiles that are pressed for load, that is they can't carry too heavy a load? IIRC, RM warheads are very efficient due to even the fragments becoming explosive material.

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@JasonAtwell14 Back to basics hopefully includes hard focus on concealment and camo/deception. Radio silence& constant relocation.
Practice what is taught here
https://t.co/Pt1zR8gqIk

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@CrispinBurke @hissgoescobra Driscoll is being sidelined by Hegseth who had wanted Driscoll fired.

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@queenugbo @grok what movie is this?

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@JamesRaxz But from the looks of it, alot of Iranian missiles that shifted trajectories at the last second proved too difficult to intercept by the Patriots.https://t.co/meP4sd5D0N

[James Raab 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JamesRaxz]

It does. It hits them in the terminal phase. We’re working on Glide Phase. That’s next. That’s a tougher but to crack but we’ve done tougher.

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@AlexHollings52 Would the helo deck be able to support that afterburner??

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@Owennfa It's a total scam and a dereliction of our elected reps and senators to not push back against Wall St in allowing the gobbling up of firms and jobs due to PE.

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@andymcc75 @thewarzonewire Yeah I think someone did their research on ASALM back then.

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@AlexHollings52 The complaint IMO is that LM &Raytheon after years of building these,( regardless of the fact that it may NOT have been the ideal HUGE production volume that we should have had), wouldn't improve the designs & make them cheaper unless they were PAID to make them cheaper.

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@pplsartofwar Exactly. And this problem is prevalent in almost EVERY part of the US economy. We have no TRUE competition, just alit of collusion , TOO BIG TO FAIL, and taypayer funded subsidies to corporations. Again not just in defense sector

[Nick Chen @HellfireGinsu]

@Jeff21461 I was also thinking the same, but I think they may have gone with proven track record of PRODUCTION. Hanwha has been able to stand up production lines in a number of European countries and so that may have been a factor?