Austin

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam. Engineer. Liberal hegemonist.

[Austin @swimmingtrout]

@prievt133456 @dancantstream holy shit

[Austin @swimmingtrout]

@kitagochi09 it's not worth annotating fiction unless you're on a second or third read and looking for things you missed. annotating a fat nonfiction is fun though, helps to engage with and process the argument

[Austin @swimmingtrout]

@imFernandough @Awk20000 Are you under the impression that Hasan is earnestly memorializing Charlie Kirk when he sings that song?

[Austin @swimmingtrout]

@imFernandough @Awk20000 Why are you being intentionally dense?

[Austin @swimmingtrout]

@DAKKADAKKA1 I thought he was a liberal

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

T+0 sec. All datacenters die. Near-total global comms blackout instantly, including a large chunk of landlines and cellular

T+1 min. Payments and exchanges frozen. Lots of 911 routing and dispatch are datacenter-hosted: people can’t call for help.

T+15 min. ATC sees planes but loses flight planning and weather. Everything grounded, airborne traffic is voice and paper. An incident somewhere is likely.

T+1 hr. Grid operators fly blind without datacenter hosted energy management. Large regional blackouts within hours. Many pipelines get shut down preemptively.

T+2-4 hrs. Panic: no comms plus no payments is scary. Runs on stores and fuel by mid-afternoon. Police can’t dispatch or communicate beyond radio.

T+4-8 hrs. Hospitals in genuine crisis: no labs, records, pharmacy, transfers, staff management. Complex care stops. Industrial accidents accumulate as many plants have to attempt manual shutdowns.

T+8-16 hrs. Blackouts plus no police plus no comms means looting and violence at scale (1977 New York).

T+16-24 hrs. Death toll rises globally: unanswered cardiac arrests, fires, accidents, hospital and industrial failures… Several regions in the dark, without water, and lawless overnight.

Even if you turn everything back on after this it will be weeks before you can get the world running somewhat smoothly again.

Our world runs on datacenters, and before the recent anti AI hysteria most people were fine with that

[Austin @swimmingtrout]

@D0ru__ eye roll

[Aviran Vargas @AviranV]

Want to be anti data center? Here is the pledge.

• No streaming
• No online banking
• No cloud photos
• No GPS
• No remote work
• No email
• No card payments
• No weather alerts
• No 911 dispatch

Sign it. Then tell me data centers are the problem.

[Idiosyncratic Americo-Bonaparte Admirer @Panindependent]

Me after reading a bunch of Anti-Data Center posts

[C.D. Henry @CDHenry_PA]

Data centers and housing are downstream of the same issue

Several generations of Americans have decided that they would prefer their town/county frozen in amber and for nothing to change ever again

Land owners cant develop and young people get nothing

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

In all seriousness I think this represents both a disturbing society-level inability to process basic facts that involve numbers, a lurch toward degrowth on the left and right, and a failure of mainstream journalism to go beyond just nodding along to the "concerns" of everyday people without checking to see if they're the result of a game of telephone that leads back to nothing

[MrMikeD @Mrmiked42]

I am not joking when I say we need public executions

[Theo Jaffee @theojaffee]

The anti-datacenter psychosis sweeping through both sides of our national politics might be the worst mass movement I've seen in my lifetime. The magnitude of lies underpinning it, the threat it poses to our economy and civilization, and the sheer scale of its popularity are totally unprecedented. It should be an enduring national shame that the country that invented the airplane, landed on the Moon, and created the Internet is descending into superstitious panic at the very moment growth matters most

[Austin @swimmingtrout]

@BrahmaBull90 @ihatethiskid It's actually BBT at his worse. He's capable of so much more.

[Austin @swimmingtrout]

@hexclad fire whoever approved this

[Austin @swimmingtrout]

@Pat_RickUSA It's obvious that this would *eventually* be the case, but it is embarrassing that it took this long

[Austin @swimmingtrout]

@Awk20000 i get all my news from yeet. he posts the hard hitting important stuff

[Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson]

"How could the boomers have been so stupid as to reject nuclear energy?"

"We need to reject data centers that will fund our schools, cut our taxes, keep China from world domination, and employ our neighbors"

- same people

[mollynew @FearInherent]

Stupidest comment I've seen today. And that is saying something.

[Austin @swimmingtrout]

@MelaninIsOP_2 @SwannMarcus89 @HumanInsaanik that's an interesting way to put it"lost by 27 points"