Democracy was ours to loose…

...and we let it slip away.

Government, when it works, functions in the background and is boring.  So, too many of us took government for granted, forgetting that democratic government is neither a self-starter, nor is it self-sustaining; stopped voting…

This is how we lost democracy in the USA!

People are starting to pay attention to government, after we lost democracy.  

Too many people had stopped paying attention when they got used to government working quietly, in the background, largely fulfilling it's role: making everything work reasonably well. 

See: USA’s economic history, from 1946 to 1976, when the largest, most productive, most innovative and equitable economy in the world was created. 

DEI is true meritocracy, because it creates an economy where every qualified person can compete for everything all the time.

VOTE!  Let's get our democracy back. 

What the Petrochemical Industry Perpetrated...

I believe that you will find that there are investigations and lawsuits being pursued against multiple companies in the oil and gas businesses of the world. They, petrochemical: extracting, refining, distributing and sales, etc., have known, for over half a century (based on information gathered by scientists the oil and gas industry employed; among many other scientists) what would happen if, when, enormous amounts of fossil fuels continued to be extracted, processed and burned.  

Forensic accountants could document how much taxpayers were bilked to underwrite the destruction that the American Petroleum Institute, and their ilk round the world, caused; continue to cause.  

I believe that the only way to rectify the problem is for eminent domain to be employed by governments around the world, after the case against the petrochemical industries are made in courts around the world.

Data Centers, AI and Eminent Domain...

Can you say, “eminent domain?” 

Energy and water are a priority, and unless the data center avails itself of all of the roofs and acreage on campus for wind and solar to supply all the power needed, it is to be subject to local/state/federal government eminent domain. Renewable power generation will be properly installed to power the entire facility before the infrastructure can be made available for resale. 

Water must be supplied only by condensing moisture from the air above the ginormous campus (MIT has that technology, amongst multiple other research and development resources) or the same eminent domain rules apply. 

This is to happen by retrofitting all current data centers, and required for all new data centers! 

If the dot.bomb of 2000 evaporated investor’s money; see also: your 401K. The current rush to AI will be worse. Why? Because we still have the Internet, after the dot.bomb, the AI bust will leave us with pointless, ginormous, data centers (see: phone company central offices from the 1970s).

AI pushers are trying to build data centers that are the equivalent of a mainframe computer from the 1970s when nearly all of us have more computing power in our hand; a, “phone.”

The AI, used car equivalent, sales forces is basically making shit up...

Calling AGI (artificial general intelligence) & ASI (artificial super intelligence) more intelligent than people is like saying that the smartest person is the person who won the 100 meter dash at a track meet.

Computers translate everything into a string of 1s and 0s, and use those binary digits to perform mathematical calculations at enormously high speeds. It does not, can not, relate those calculations to functional understanding of the world as humans perceive it. Computers can simulate understanding, but until it becomes functionally cognitive in our analog world, it is not ever going to compete with the cognitive ability that is human only.

You need not be a techie geek, I mean that term as a compliment, to understand that AI is not what the sales folks, pushers of their own unenlightened self-interest, are telling everybody.

AI (advanced computer automation) needs progress to be carefully regulated by geeks that do not have a stake in the potential, revenue stream; lack thereof. 

For Bill Maher, and the Neo-Liberal Democrats.

We've been here before. Feudalism was pushed out by the Enlightenment; see also: our Founding Fathers. The, "gilded age," ended with the New Deal; start with: Teddy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Maynard Keynes and many others.  The current attempt to restart feudalism is ending with the New, New Deal that developed serious momentum during the Obama administration.

Any attempt to erase history (check out the filthy rich behind the 45/47 administrations) is trying to repeat it.  An attempt to deregulate capitalism is trying to return to feudalism; funded by unregulated kleptocurrency.

We are Democrats, in the big tent party.  We know that we will never absolutely and completely agree with anybody, and that's OK as long as we continue to communicate.

Kleptocurrency and Those Who Want It.

Kleptocurrency, marketed dishonestly as cryptocurrency, is desired by the wealthy oligarchs, aristocrat wannabes, that have purchased the spineless, Republican criminal syndicate (RCS).  They  want kleptocurrency because it’s: unregulated, unreported, untracked, untraceable and unsupported by any OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; richest economies of the world) nation's central bank.  

It’s currency for criminal enterprises.  Kleptocurrency's value is determined by whatever criminals will pay, because it has no legal value; if you don't take what you're offered in trade, there is no legal recourse.

Oh, and bitcoin (the pseudo-currency of klepto) mining uses incredible amounts of water and electricity in incredibly needy data centers.

If you've got investments that include Klepto/crypto you might want to divest, especially if you can get your money back in real, OECD nation supported funds: euros, US dollars, etc....  You may not get back your initial investment, and (if you've an investment manager) the value and immediacy of that trade may be resisted.   

Congratulations, you've (possibly unintentionally) FAFO'd.

 

AI Considerations; NDAs Deleted...

AI data centers are being rushed into existence even while flaws are being discovered in AI operation. No current data centers are being converted to AI to demonstrate the safety and feasibility of AI. Few, to no, efforts are being pursued to find cooling methods that do not require any fresh water. Few, to no, efforts are being made to limit the size of these new centers such that they can be supplied with electricity, using only renewable generation, and storage onsite; no grid attachment needed.

AI is next generation computer automation being (over)sold as nearly magical, and it is (unsurprisingly) no such thing. AI can misunderstand and misinform as well as any pathological liar; requires extraordinary amounts of, human, peer review.

Tech companies are trying to gain access to enormous amounts of water and electric power to build AI supporting, ginormous, data centers without addressing concerns about availability, consequences or cost.

These new data centers are being proposed in desert, southwestern, US states; updating existing data centers/environments isn’t getting any attention; GHG emissions will be increased by proposed fossil fuel based, electricity generation; spent nuclear fuel rods, nuclear and dirty bomb radioactive materials, will be produced by proposed nuclear electricity generation; etc…

These are just some of the issues that those who want these new data centers are hiding behind NDA (non disclosure agreements) proliferation. After being built these data centers would have less than a few dozen, full time employees (I, remotely, supported network connectivity to multiple companies, data centers for 20+ years).

Tech swindlers are also overlooking the inability of LLM (Large Language Models), or any other AI variation, to tell truth from fiction, and therefore AI can create fictitious results in automation generated responses.

Automation, even when sold as AI, can be no better, or worse, than the humans who originated the software.

Thoughtful humans must apply the brakes to this AI rush, so that we need not find out, the hard way, that there are costs and consequences that must be considered, seriously considered, before proceeding with this push to put, “AI,” too close to everywhere, way too fast.

The RCS and Statute of Limitations...

I have to believe that when the Democratic, Biden, administration was ended by the doctored election results of 2024 (investigations underway; results?)... The 45 admin had been laid bare by the Mueller, Smith, House Jan. 6th committee, etc... reports. Along with the publication of the, "Project 2025," game plan, the Biden admin (working with the NSA and etc...) knew how to prepare to guard against the worst of the 47 admin (merde l’orange) while working as a democratic republic, using the work from home capacity discovered during the Covid pandemic, to be prepped to indict, prosecute and convict known criminals for their crimes in both 45 and 47 administrations.

There's enormous amounts of evidence that must be used in support of democratic means and methods to take down the 45 and 47 admin., the RCS (Republican criminal syndicate) in legislatures nationwide and the tech money behind the grifter in chief's facade; starting with the Epstein files. See also: Statute of Limitations.

I want to believe that this is happening, because it has kept me sane since November of 2016.