Jeremiah Johnson đ
@JeremiahDJohns
Founder @CNLiberalism. Staff writer at @TheArgumentMag. Kidney donation enthusiast. Carly Rae Jepsen stan. Send me the worst tweets on this site.
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People are about twice as likely to approve of **coal plants** being built nearby as opposed to data centers.
Coal plants use more water and pollute more. They create comparable noise pollution. There's no way this makes sense outside a media panic.
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The thing that nobody really likes to talk about on the Political Discourse App is that in the next few years we're facing several unavoidable budget time bombs.
And nobody seems to really be thinking through what they're going to do to our politics.
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I have never seen a psy-op more effective than the data center stuff. Absolutely wild how bipartisan the data center hate is for such an incredibly benign industry.
The same folks who'd be wildly enthusiastic over a new steel mill are irate at the idea of a data center.
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Fascinating chart - you'd think that cheap Indian outsourcing would one of the industries hardest hit by AI, but it's actually booming.
There is still a LOT we don't know about how AI is going to impact the economy. Errors bars are very wide.
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Chud Twitter is having a multi-week freakout about The Odyssey doing 'woke casting'
What strikes me is how little juice they have. Nobody cares. They clearly want this to be the new moral panic and it's just not working. The chud cultural moment is already gone.
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Sometimes you think you've seen everything there is to see on the internet, and then
I demand infinite digital storage, for free, forever, but also if you build a data center within a thousand miles of me I will start a jihad
