Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥
@senatorshoshana
Digital + policy @abundanceinst. Age verification risks, occupational licensing reform, social media. Fellow @SlothInstitute (really). Mountaineer. 16 14ers🏔
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You literally can't
And none of the things you listed are happening
....that it's good when doctors and AI work together to stop people from dying
@senatorshoshana AI is also missing cancer that doctors find. What's your point?
I would be fine with this and my area has tons of them which is great for tax revenue
@senatorshoshana @uneasypause You volunteering for these data centers to go next to your home?
Folks, this is a terrific resource! AI is having positive, life changing impacts in so many areas, particularly health care. Hard to believe we are still in moment one of the AI revolution. Let’s not stop the next medical cure or stifle new small businesses with reactionary AI laws.
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Today in 1980, America built the world’s first data center in St. Helens, Washington.
When they turned it on, it generated power equal to 67 Nagasaki bombs, causing the following ⬇️
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Correct. And we all need to do a better job at communicating this to the average joe. We can only beat propaganda with better argument (and the truth)
"AI is hiking your energy bill" is the most popular political talking point of 2026. The data doesn't support it. A thread:
The anti-AI discourse is so stressful for me.
AI is doing amazing things. Saved my butt (and brain) medically when I couldn't think (literally).
Does other great things in my life and work.
And so much more.
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Excellent thread by @bschermd, diffusing the unnecessary polarization and anxiety happening around the subject of deprescribing
“‘Deprescribing’ can actually be reframed as ‘responsible prescribing.’” 💯💯💯
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Let's see if this works. She's looking!! Single men slide into those DMs!
@senatorshoshana I'd pay good money for a Shoshana arranged marriage
The amount of energy you put into verifying an image isn't AI wastes more water than a chatgpt message
@senatorshoshana I've reached out to people and as far as they know, its not being used.
That being said, they couldn't guarantee every post/graphic from every team.
So if I find out a graphic was AI I wouldn't retweet it.
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AI is finding cancer that doctors miss but ok
bot farm but not v sophisticated
This is an argument against building anything ever
@allenjacobs99 @senatorshoshana Just drove by this.
Used to be a field and forest with deer and bald eagles.
Now the only animals here are going to be fake cat videos.
@myonlinetrust @senatorshoshana It existed before the massive colocation data centers we have now, sure. It just ran out of private, smaller data centers that each company built on their campuses.
But that was when we dealt in KB/MB of bandwidth, not GB/TB.
It's a whole new world out there.
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@millennials4_wp @mjolley22 @senatorshoshana More concrete, you say? Shopping malls and Starbucks, you say? Well buddy, have I got the hypothetical image rendering for you.
Do not ask how Barad-dûr, the Fortress of Sauron got there.
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ok time to read 100 horrible replies to my viral tweet before i go to bed
I head to Utah for 2 weeks soon! So excited. I love Utah so much.
@senatorshoshana I've dealt with people who seriously argued that there was no such thing as a data center before around five years ago.
When I tell them that I was literally working at IBM writing software for data centers back in the 00's they accuse me of lying.
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People don't realize they're being used by Chinese influence. It's shocking as hell. And I don't say this like "oh the stupid public." I've fallen for things that it turned out were being pushed by other countries here and there because it's so integrated into the discourse. It's frightening
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