And it's going to result in permanent unemployment. It's debatable how much but we're not ever going to see full employment ever again. Not with this much automation.

To be thoroughly honest we are cooking the books using sub minimum wage gig work to pretend that we aren't already well below full employment. I don't know South Korea's numbers but here in America there is only one good job for every five americans. A good job here being defined as paying enough that you can afford a modest house, reliable transportation, healthcare and to save for retirement when you're too old to physically work anymore. No extravagant luxuries per se. But what people used to call a working class living. Basically 50 years and you get to die in peace.

That kind of living is only available to one in five Americans.

We're going to have to do something and I suspect that something is going to be world War 3. It's not a coincidence that world War II kicked off when unemployment hit 25%..

I have seen multiple people who got forced to come back into the office complaining about coworkers that work from home or get to go home and finish their day out. Instead of those people demanding work from home for themselves they demand the people around them also are forced to come into the office. Even though the extra traffic on the streets makes their commute worse and means that they don't get the nicest parking spots.

But if it's one thing I've seen over and over and over again it's that for the sake of feeling like it's all fair people cheerfully stab themselves in the back. The animalistic urge for fairness is easily exploitable. Gets us all into a nice little crabs in a bucket situation.

Meanwhile Elon Musk is getting ready to do a massive stock scam worth almost 2 trillion dollars and it's going to get dumped in all our retirement plans at some point.

Odd, the ones I have been in to do work on "my" racks, it wasn't uncommon for me to see nobody at all (not even a guard) the whole time.

Just row after row of servers doing their thing. Sometimes I would see the manager or a tech updating something.

If you're not watching his channel you probably should be.

So the CEO of GameStop gets a huge payout if he can make the company worth $100 billion dollars on paper. The debt is completely irrelevant it just has to be a market cap of $100 billion dollars.

Being the oh so clever boy he is he decided to try and achieve that by using a leveraged buyout to purchase a much larger company and call it GameStop so that on paper he would go from a 11 billion dollar company to a 66 billion dollar company. Basically getting him halfway to his goal and then all he has to do is find a couple more oversized companies to buy with their own debt and blam he gets a multi-billion dollar payout.

Of course all the companies involved here would collapse under the debt load and all the employees would lose their jobs and the community loses the services from those companies but that's a you problem not a him problem.

We put grifters, crooks and pirates in charge of basically everything. And every time anyone suggests taking away their power everyone screams socialism and government bad and blah blah blah until we all have to go back to our jobs.

You can't give this much power to this few people and have a functioning system or society but about 45% of the world wants it this way and then about 6% don't get to say in anything because of voter suppression and the remaining 49% don't matter because of winner take off first past the post voting.

It's a little better if you are in a parliamentary system but most of them at the end of the day have some form of winner take all voting which is prone to the same problems. And the few small countries that don't have that are prone to systemic attacks from the billionaires in the larger countries that do have exploitable voting systems.

I honestly don't know solution to any of this. I really do think we're going to collapse the economy and eventually hand the nuclear launch codes to a bunch of religious lunatics and then it's going to be game over for all of us. It's possible a few billionaires will survive an island bunkers but it's also possible that their air filtration systems won't work and they will die down there. I won't be around to find out though. I'm not smart enough to be one of the handful of engineers they keep around and I'm not sexy enough to be one of their sex slaves and I'm not violent enough to be one of the thugs to keep the other two groups in line for the billionaires. So there really isn't a place for me in the society that they want to create.

And again I don't see how we stop it because well, people are just so fucking stupid...

Assuming that no plant ever goes offline for any reason and that there will be no other growth in Kenya ever.

This is dumping it on the next administration. If that happens to be a trump administration that's fine because Trump can get more bribes. It's not going to be a Vance administration since well, there is no way in hell anyone but Trump is going to get a republican elected in 2028. Nobody else has his cult of personality that can give people to forget that they can't afford to drive to work this week...

There is a shitload of extraordinarily nasty things in the big beautiful bill that are going to hit like a truck after the midterms. Hundreds of billions of dollars of cuts to Medicare and medicaid. I want to be clear that's both Medicare and Medicaid. The Medicare cuts are trickier and nastier because they need to be round about so that people can pretend they aren't happening but they are still there. And the Medicaid cuts are going to basically devastate rural hospitals. There's a slew of other cuts and problems that were done to make room for billionaire tax cuts.

All of this is scheduled to hit after the midterms because that way you've already voted Republican by then like the sucker you are.

There's an old saying, what the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public. Low information voters who have no idea they are about to lose their health care or that their grandparents or parents are about to lose Health Care are in for a world of hurt but right now they're cheerfully humming along telling pollsters that they approve of the job Donald Trump is doing.

Oh and Donald Trump and Republican party are once again mobilizing poll watchers and voter suppressors in Mass. There is a little article about it over on MSNBC but they're not exactly spending a lot of time talking about it. For some reason the Democrats can't seem to understand that voter suppression at the county level is a huge problem... Meanwhile the Republican party can easily use it to stop 5 to 7% of Democrats from voting. And that's before the racist gerrymandering that just got legalized

For every Republican yucking it up because this sounds great remember the less Democrat voting power there is the less they need you to vote for them. As always it's a big club and you ain't in it.

That costs money. They were hoping the locals would foot that bill for them.

How many data centers in your immediate area? Are they the modern high density data centers with thousands of GPU units per rack or the old school 4U's in a rack supporting a few websites kind of data center?

As for employment, when is the last time you saw a data center that was bustling with human activity once construction and move-in was finished?

That was a joke! backhoes breaking fiber is part of the natural order.

That's why you should always carry a length of fiber with you. If you ever get stranded with no cell service, you can just bury the length of fiber in the dirt. When the backhoe guy comes along to break it, ask him for a lift.

Typically when using those tools, not every "issue" found is actually an issue.

It does nicely illustrate that AI may do a deeper scan, but not necessarily a better one.

There are existing rules based scanners for websites. Running one on any typical site will easily spit out more than 100 flagged issues. Some "consultants" will dutifully hand that report over and call it a day, but if you actually go through them, most if not all aren't even actual security flaws. Yes, if I POST data that includes the correct username and password, it will grant me access just as if I had filled in the login form. So what? Yes, if I give an invalid account number, it returns a page with (non-)error code 200. The page says "Access denied".

That isn't to say the AI tool is bad, just that it represents an EVOlution, not a REVOlution.

How will the automated ditch digger be sure to find and break the fiber cable?

It means you have a much less stressful job.

We know what ages people. It's over work. And it appears that once you get past 32 hours that's qualifies as over work, let alone the 50 or 60 the average American is doing right now. Just a reminder that Americans now work more hours than the Japanese...

Somebody that is putting in 50 or 60 hours a week on top of kids or something isn't going to a museum or even the library. They are lying on the couch exhausted maybe watching TV or maybe even too exhausted to do that.

Incidentally this is why actors tend to age so well. Less stress and more sleep and rest mean you age less. It's also why being president of the United States tends to age people. Because the job involves constant work and long hours and enormous stress. I mean unless you're the current guy. The job doesn't seem to be aging him in the slightest. I mean not anymore than he already is...

At least some of this will be stress. If you're enjoying something, then you won't be stressed. If you're feeling positive and delighting in what you do, then you won't be stressed in unhealthy ways. This looks similar to the Mozart Effect, which turned out to be that if you liked something, your brain functioned better.

Yes, charging around the stage playing rock music isn't exactly gentle, but it IS extremely good exercise for the heart and the rest of the body. Again, that's going to have positive effects.

(We can ignore Keith Richards in this model, as he's older than the universe and only created it as a place to store his guitars.)

To take a hike and the billionaire backing it just built it anyway and told the town to go fuck themselves.

You can't have billionaires and sovereignty. You can't have that much power in the hands of one person and pretend that you don't have to do what they tell you to do.

I mean I guess you can pretend. But at the end of the day when they say jump you're going to say how high on the way up.

One U.S. ISP that technically blocks inbound TCP over IPv6 is T-Mobile Home Internet (fixed wireless). The gateway appliance included with the plan offers no way to forward a port to the subscriber's computer. (Source) I've read that most major U.S. ISPs threaten to disconnect a home subscriber for running a publicly accessible server. (Source)

One large legacy network in the U.S. is Frontier fiber, which is still IPv4-only in 2026.