hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Data centers need to be beautified. Have competent representational artists and classical architects work on the facade, so they don’t look like an ugly blight on downtown. Make them a thing people don’t mind seeing.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Of course, AOC apparently didn’t recognize that the tax incentives weren’t something they’d get to keep if they didn’t approve the deal- they were an offer to just not collect some of the taxes that would be owed, but aren’t due to Amazon not building.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
The most recent actual news on data centers is that Greg Abbott’s data center plan is polling at +70.
For those who aren’t familiar, his plan is basically ‘let them build data centers, but publish data on it’. People don’t trust Silicon Valley nerds to be honest, that’s why there’s all this backlash. It’s entirely possible to invert an 80-20 issue by just framing it at ‘someone accountable to the people is checking the deal’.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
El-Sayed won. This is good news for the Republican Party, and the primary reason I supported him.
What I make of it is that dem infighting is a very real albatross around their neck. Abdul El-Sayed is not the right candidate to nominate in a swing state.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
It's very unlikely, for the simple reason that Asian cities are very OK with ruthlessly minimizing labour costs in a way NYC is notoriously not. Wages in these places are a lot lower for the sorts of people who work selling hot food(and Asian style food is also typically cheaper per serving than American style- rice is a lot cheaper than burgers), and this is accepted because orientals think renting a closet to live in is ok for low skill workers.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Oh dear trying to imagine DSA leftists running a grocery store when they cant manage a coffee shop…
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
In New York these people are called thé guardian angels and they’re loyal to Curtis Sliwa, an opponent of Mamdani.
Rural communities are worried about flock cameras, yes, but they’re also worried about the pace of technological-cultural progress. They can remember when rap music was deeply controversial and bikinis weren’t thé norm(this is, literally, something middle aged people can easily remember, it was that recent). They may not want those trends reversed but they also don’t want them accelerated and they can easily draw the connection between big tech/entertainment(and they don’t see the difference between the two- their exposure to AI is mostly on social media) and cultural change- there’s a reason thé gays in Disney movies are such a visible there, there. The fact that they correctly identify the new computer doohickeys as associated with cultural change and controlled by their enemies is a much bigger factor than specific predictions.
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