The AI Race With China Is a Lie Told by Big Tech to Justify the Data Center Invasion
Why do we need hyperscale data centers to “beat China”?
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How Technology Is Rewriting the Way We Write
On how the use of technology, as in typing and computer-based editing, compared to the effects of composition via handwriting.
Read more...Could a Crash Halve Stock Prices?
US and UK stock prices are in nosebleed terrain. How far could they fall?
Read more...The Kansas Community Fighting Data Centers Before They Arrive
Data center watchdog groups in Kansas farming areas seek to ward off applications and fight if it becomes necessary.
Read more...Rob Urie: No Path Forward, No Way Back, Imperial Decline Edition
Decades of misuse of US imperial advantages, malinvestment, looting produce hopium for destructive AI deployment as a rescue for the rich.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Déjà Vu All Over Again! Are Stock Markets Repeating Dot.com Mistakes?
AI valuations make the dot.com era look pale. Yet genuine excitement seems to be wanting.
Read more...Hochul Temporarily Bans New Data Centers in NY Amid Scrutiny of Climate Impacts
Mirabile dictu! New York intends to make data centers hew to more stringent pollution, water use and energy cost/impact rules.
Read more...Cloudflare Threatens to Cut Google Off From Their Publishers in Searches Due to AI Scraping
AI is destroying what is left of search, as Cloudflare plus big publishers implement the nuclear option of cutting off Google indexing.
Read more...AI Investment Mania Has Begun to Percolate Through the Economy, and the Fed Has Begun to Fret About the Effects
AI dominated the Fed’s meeting as a driver of “persistent inflationary pressures” and demand growth.
Read more...Why AI Doesn’t Think, Cannot Reason, Isn’t Intelligent and Will Never Achieve Consciousness
Rob Urie addresses common misperceptions regularly promoted by AI touts, of what AI can and cannot do.
Read more...Democrats’ Spunky Spooks Show There’s No Blue Light at the End of the Trump Tunnel
Elected last year on cost-of-living platforms, spook governors spit in the face of labor and embrace data centers and police state.
Read more...Bank of International Settlements Warns That AI Crash Could Produce Investment Drought, Economic Contraction and Even a Crisis
The Bank of International Settlements took a look at the AI bubble. Not surprisingly, it found a lot not to like.
Read more...The Licensing Revolution: Windows Edition
Windows illustrates the growing reach of the surveillance and assertion of centralized software tools over supposedly personal devices.
Read more...How Bad is AI for the Environment?
A tally of the great planetary damage expected to result from AI growing use, thanks to its insatiable hunger for power.
Read more...How Local Communities Are Challenging Big Tech Data Centers’ Noise, Pollution and Rising Electricity Bills
Opposition to data centers and AI is rising, both at the community and the consumer level.
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