We have watched every good tech invention for the last 20 years become enshittified - nobody believes in the magical market theory thay “then prices will come down” - because they haven’t. Every service has gone berserk, and nothing feels like a deal any longer - and that’s before you add into the dystopian hellhole aspects of “tech”.
Water consumption and the infrastructure to leverage it can’t be nullified by pointing to… the Great Lakes. That’s not how that works.
This is before you get into “is this technology good for people”. It’s good for a few doughy tech bros in the Epstein list, but not the rest of us.
We don’t need the country to have an infinite pool of data centers, we need healthcare, clean air and water, etc.
We should stop these dumb ass data centers, and also ban all crypto. Tech people were supposed to help usher in Star Trek, not raise our power bills and destroy the environment by firing up new gas power plants for random number generating pyramid schemes and the suckers who fall for them. It’s all beyond embarrassing.
> We have watched every good tech invention for the last 20 years become enshittified - nobody believes in the magical market theory thay “then prices will come down” - because they haven’t.
Electricity isn't a tech product. Tech products become enshittified as a result of market consolidation.
But also, you're saying the prices of tech products haven't come down? The industry that has actually been doing that for decades?
> Water consumption and the infrastructure to leverage it can’t be nullified by pointing to… the Great Lakes. That’s not how that works.
Water consumption in the midwest is a nonsense issue. There is no lack of water there and it comes from rain rather than aquifers, which is the same place it goes back to when used for evaporative cooling.
> We don’t need the country to have an infinite pool of data centers, we need healthcare, clean air and water, etc.
This is like complaining about landlords or utility companies because they don't provide you with medical services. That's the wrong tree.
> We should stop these dumb ass data centers, and also ban all crypto.
It seems like you're blaming tech companies for enshittifying things when that was really a result of the banks having them buy each other up, and then also blaming them for trying to disrupt the banks.
> Tech people were supposed to help usher in Star Trek
This is what I mean by the media writing a stream of hit pieces.
Think about the actual technology in Star Trek. You can talk to the computer and it understands natural language, that's NLP. There is a Holodeck that you can provide with a narrative and it fills in the rest of the story and generates images for it, that's LLMs and image generation.
They're actually working on the thing you're asking for but you're demanding that they stop because the early implementations are primordial and someone keeps telling you to hate them.
Water consumption and the infrastructure to leverage it can’t be nullified by pointing to… the Great Lakes. That’s not how that works.
This is before you get into “is this technology good for people”. It’s good for a few doughy tech bros in the Epstein list, but not the rest of us.
We don’t need the country to have an infinite pool of data centers, we need healthcare, clean air and water, etc.
We should stop these dumb ass data centers, and also ban all crypto. Tech people were supposed to help usher in Star Trek, not raise our power bills and destroy the environment by firing up new gas power plants for random number generating pyramid schemes and the suckers who fall for them. It’s all beyond embarrassing.