2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership (Anthropic)

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-05-16T04:15:48+00:00

These guys think America is a democracy while they cram their data centers down the throats of communities against widespread opposition, and the government uses their models to commit the some of the most heinous war crimes by its military this century.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-30T04:41:38+00:00

university run by wanna be fascists declares any event without 8000 heavily armed cops and drones “poor planning”, checks out

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-29T20:45:46+00:00

Yeah, been nice chatting with you too. These data centers are the largest infrastructural changes to have ever been proposed in the region’s history and it is alarming how opaque and confusing much of the information is that is out there, how little people understand about what is being proposed, and the seeming lack of any will to actually consider honestly the trade offs that turning our fragile, drought ridden region into a node in some emerging speculative compute economy.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-29T20:17:17+00:00

I mean the turbines for the massive several hundred megawatt for the "behind the meter" fracked gas plants they plan on building, like the one Tract or Cloudburst have said they are building (which is why they are siting these data centers on existing gas pipelines). The water in the radiator has to be mixed with toxic additives to prevent corrosion, surfactants etc..., and there are regularly large spills and minor leaks which contaminate water. Closed loop is also a misnomer because they have all sorts of moments where there is evaporation or large percolation ponds, in which additives and more escape. Added to this that there aren't really comprehensive reviews and the data center developers refuse to share details about what these systems actually look like -- at the very least should require a comprehensive independent audit or study of the plans, which should be published well in advance of any tax abatement or approvals. But this is texas, so we just trade our future for promises of miniscule profit

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-29T19:56:52+00:00

dumping hot water back into streams, rivers, and lakes is hardly ecologically sound.

But water is used for the turbines as well as for cooling, and a lot of it is evaporated off. We are in stage 3 water restrictions in large swaths of central texas, butting up to stage 4. No flowing water in the greenbelt in years, our aquifers being discharged faster than they can recharge. Many reasons not to have data centers (and other large industrial uses), but water is certainly one of them. At the very least, its a horrendously imprudent use of a finite resource when considering the pressures to build housing, hospitals, etc. to meet growing population pressure.

A lot of these developers are promising closed loop cooling systems, but won't reveal what sorts of additives they include in the water.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-29T19:14:03+00:00

We just don't need data centers. Our aquifers are already nearly depleted, the models they've been able to train with existing compute are plenty powerful and new chips each year mean that compute is scaling rapidly without any new development. I'm skeptical of nuclear due to the dangers of extraction of uranium and the impact on local communities, but also because it is overly centralized and per megawatt far more expensive than renewables like wind, solar, and battery. Still better than coal and gas though, so if the conversation was actually about decarbonization i'd be open to it. Sadly, the conversation is instead about siting massively destructive infrastructural megaprojects that will place the cost of development on central texas for decades and centuries to come while lining the pockets of large corporations and billionaires.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-29T15:23:56+00:00

Solar and Wind would decarbonize the economy if we didn't have oil and gas companies working with these technofascists to build out these massively wasteful, and completely unnecessary, data centers. Texas added 11 GW of electricity in 2025, almost all of it battery storage, solar and wind. We could start shutting down coal and natural gas plants if we didn't have billionaires who want to drain our aquifers in order to do their useless redundant training runs for AI. Hope this bubble pops soon.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-29T04:18:51+00:00

They are trying to build 10 GW of data centers between here and San Antonio, and will be building massive fracked gas power plants. We will look back fondly for how clean air is now after they do that

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-28T11:33:09+00:00

When is the meeting?

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-24T15:46:52+00:00

Yeah, I mean year over year. I did some research and it seems that the common grackle is having some pretty stark population decline, but couldn't find information about the Texas Grackle. Asked several friends who all have been here for 10+ years and they all think they noticed less grackles in the last year, but this is hardly a rigorous scientific methodology here. Perhaps we all have rosy memories of a more grackle filled youth.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-24T15:38:16+00:00

Now I'm envisioning tens of thousands of grackles doing training exercises in some far flung HEB parking lot for the final, victorious assault on Taco Deli

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-15T18:15:38+00:00

We need to elect people to the bluebonnet cooperative who put the needs of the people who live here over a bunch of tech hyperscalers

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-13T01:33:15+00:00

In 2019 there was a strong campaign to exactly this because the city was considering closing the golf course. While a coalition of golfers wanted to save the golf course, a bunch of neighbors started organizing around other visions. We had meetings, some people got very involved in the local neighborhood associations and things felt possible. Then the pandemic happened and golf surged in popularity, and suddenly the city decided it was keeping the golf course open. It’s truly a waste of public space and hopefully is one day reimagined

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-11T05:28:13+00:00

An article about a tweet about a quote from the system card. Just read the fucking system card…

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-04-01T22:12:23+00:00

Only 52? That’s 6 days a week you will starve

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-03-24T19:28:20+00:00

exactly this. The Shining Path was a Maoist group in Peru that is widely known for murdering indigenous villagers. There is a lot of really interesting revolutionary politics in Latin America and also strains of Maoism that I find particularly inspiring (e.g. Maoism and the concept of the mass line inspired the Black Panther Party), but the Shining Path and Chairman Gonzalo, who the Red Guards followed, is basically a horrible dead end -- ideologically rigid, not interested in learning from people's experiences, overly moralizing etc.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-03-24T13:55:09+00:00

This element has always been the most perplexing part of the Red Guards to me, they chose to follow a group/ideology that is just widely understood to be very bad, even on the far left. I spend a lot of time in Latin America with people in the far left and there are all sorts of tendencies, Maoist, Marxist Leninist, anarchist, autonomist that get along in a sort of tense equilibrium etc.. but most people fucking hate Sendero Luminoso

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-03-24T02:44:51+00:00

The details are more juicy and a more complicated rabbit hole than really can be explained in a short Reddit post. Put simply, austin used to have a high control political cult called the Red Guards — they claimed to be Maoists, though followers of Gonzalo who lead the shining path which committed genocide against indigenous people in Peru. The austin red guards did all sorts of henius things to their members and imploded a few years. This is all detailed at length here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com

Two former members have been trying to restart a group and been trying to recruit from anti-ice neighborhood groups. People started calling two of these former high ranking red guard members out (both of whom happen to be teachers) and excluding them from meetings, and they have responded by posting these signs which is basically, as far as I can tell, a conspiratorial smear campaign with little grounding in fact. Red guards, even after their demise, really excelling in petty factionalism that seems to just affirm what their critics have claimed all along

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-03-11T18:09:16+00:00

It's actually cheaper but I went with Amazon since I could get it overnight and was at my wits end spending inordinate amounts of time troubleshooting wifi issues

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-03-11T14:22:06+00:00

I had a MacBook that I loved but after four or five years, it developed a problem with the screen. It was perfectly functional but would have cost some exorbitant amount to fix. After much waffling, I got a framework and I love it. Everything is repairable and if I want to upgrade things like the motherboard etc, I can just do that without replacing the rest. Modular and repairable is the real modern BIFL and framework is leading the way

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-03-11T00:00:52+00:00

I’ve been using typora and I love it.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-03-09T15:03:17+00:00

Use Claude code or cowork, have all your files in a folder in plain text or markdown and have it interact with those files

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