We all will shower and piss water and drink piss water.

The clean water will go to the data centers and the processed water will be what us peasants are stuck with.

Initially that processed water will be heavily purified but over time budgets get cut and nobody wants to pay and who's going to pay anyway so before long you're going to start having all sorts of fun things in that water like some of the drugs that get pissed out or bacteria or whatever.

But within the next 10 to 15 years Americans are going to be without clean water and not just a handful of people living out in the sticks that nobody cares about.

But like I always say it's a small price to pay so we can have a panic attack about trans girls playing field hockey in the Midwest. If you don't like that moral panic I've got like five or six others you can choose from.

August of last year, Hashicorp decided to move its products away from open source licenses to a source-available license with fuzzy parameters on its use in production. Shortly afterwards, the community forked Terraform as OpenTF and then it was endorsed and picked up by the Linux Foundation as OpenTofu. Now the project is ready to declare a stable release that it says is a production-ready “drop-in replacement for Terraform.” OpenTofu isn’t a direct clone of Terraform, however. Kuba Martin, the interim technical lead of OpenTofu, says that the project is working to include client-side state encryption and other features that the community has proposed. Read the post for more details, but it looks like the project has made some strong strides in just a few months. As I wrote last year on The New Stack about the OpenTofu fork, the Linux Foundation made the right call to endorse this fork. Companies and open source projects had adopted Terraform as part of their infrastructure and contributed to its success under the idea that it was open source. The abrupt change to a non-OSI license – and one that’s poorly understood and intentionally vague – set organizations scrambling. Zero day licensing event

And whether you can keep your mouth shut or probably the big deciding factors.

The company doesn't have any really amazing tech they just are being allowed to run roughshod over all human privacy because they are tightly tied in with the American ruling class.

The thing about planatir is there a constant reminder that you have a ruling class. And that ruling class can do whatever they want to you whatever they want.

But hey, how about those trans girls playing field hockey? And what about da woke? If that doesn't work for you I've got violent video games and pornography. Take your pic of whatever moral panic you want to trade your entire economic future for.

Well better than a moon bear.

I mean it kind of sort of is but it's a social science. And the tools we have for social science are basically the equivalent of alchemy or bloodletting. Harry Selden we are not.

In real science, the kind of science that made it possible for you to write that comment, the entire point is to understand that we have biases and to do absolutely everything in our power to minimize how those biases affect the results.

That's the real scientific revolution. It's eliminating those biases.

One last thing don't mix up economics and statistics. Statistics is a mathematical science. Statistics gets you data. Economics analyzes that data and as I mentioned the tools we have for doing that are extremely primitive and heavily biased. We absolutely have not been applying the scientific method to economics.

This is something I'm surprised that hasn't creeped into the right wing social media spheres. AI means you have limitless and perfect surveillance. You don't even need the reams and reams of government thugs because the software does most of the work. You just need a handful of guys with wrenches to do the wet work.

Not that I expected to get very far. AI is extraordinarily desirable for the ruling class and virtually all right wing social media spaces or just propaganda Mills.

It has been slightly amusing to watch the Reddit conservative forum freaking the fuck out about Donald Trump getting ready to pardon that Maxwell woman while newsmax tells everybody she's innocent and then gradually the mods got everything under control and I'll talk if Epstein is now gone.

It happens every time there's a serious question. Every time the light bulb turns on for right wingers the propaganda Mills eventually get everything under control.

It is both I'm using and incredibly creepy and frightening to watch the process though. How it all breaks out here and there and then gradually just goes away.

Since I'm going to get modded in the pulp anyway here's another fun story. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had a big falling out that the right wing got all over because heard was genuine the abusive.

Now both of them are absolutely terrible people who did terrible things to each other. But that's not the point..

Depp hired a publicist firm to smear her before the trial the two were going to have. And some of what the publicist firm did got put into public record because of how Discovery processes work in the legal system and because Amber Heard has money so she could actually do that Discovery effectively.

The publicist talked about how it was like putting blood into a shark pool.

He was actually frightened by how easy it was to turn the right wing manosphere into a frothing rage against her. The YouTuber Rebecca Watson, who is basically blue hair personified but without the blue hair, did a video about it and whatever you think about Watson the fact is what the publicist talked about is frightening.

There's a science fiction author named Bruce Sterling that did several books about the topic of how information control can do terrible things. Basically a Sci-Fi take on stochastic terrorism. Like real hard sci-fi where you take a real concept and just extrapolated just a bit.

And now we've got AI and the scale of what you can do is what's changed.

When I call AI an antisocial technology that's what I mean. But because we are nerds we want to believe technology always good. And because we are nerds we're basically man children so we act like 12 year olds and think black and white.

You immediately go to the concept of a massive welfare system that has to collapse.

The implication is that you can't sustain any other system but raw unfettered capitalism. That's because when you are in the critical age demographic of 4 to 14 that's what you were taught so it's programmed into your brain from a time when you were physically incapable of critical thought or analyzing. That's not your fault that's just how human brains work and it's why children are targeted.

This is why I think we are doomed. People cannot conceive of any other solution besides unfettered capitalism and that simply is not going to solve for a work shortage.

It's just that the oligarchy gets veto power so that the working class needs the 60% majority to override.

It's basically like how the UK does it with their House of Lords but less formalized

You can't beat a modern standing army. Hell you can't be a modern police force. The ruling class will have drones and they will blow you to Kingdom come.

The only way out of this would be democracy but that's crumbling and nobody seems interested in saving it, the left wing is too obsessed with revolution and with the exciting idea that a bunch of 18 to 24 year olds are going to save us.

There is a growing push to discredit science and I would not be surprised if this was part of it.

I don't have the journalistic chops or time to dig into the study but I do know for sure that human beings are fundamentally wasteful creatures and that's okay.

Science is not going to be destroyed by a bunch of bad papers. What's Going to destroy science are the billionaires like Peter thiel spending tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars discrediting it so that they can maintain their power and prestige.

Techno feudalism is going to destroy science.

Iphone image editing is not as good as Google's.

from the Epstein files

Because now you have to compete with these data centers for power. And I don't care what any of these people say America does not spend on infrastructure so it's going to come out of your hide.

We are already seeing people in California suggesting that people should have to take fewer showers to keep the AI data centers in water. There was a bunch of outrage when it was said but that's how that works. You introduced the idea into the public consciousness and then you continuously reintroduce it until it becomes normalized.

I've been watching megacorporations use that trick for 50 years and it always works because we never learn.

Used to promote the new Superman movie with the guy who was playing Green lantern. It was weird and bizarre and I don't understand why they did it. I mean how hard could it be to get the actor to say some nice things about the movie and then advertisement? The only thing I can think of is is that it cost less because of how the contract with the actor worked.

I got to say every year of my life I've been alive the world has gotten noticeably worse. I can't think of a single year where I can't point to something and say, that made the world the worst place and nothing counteracted it.

Even the handful of scientific advancements or largely irrelevant because more and more we are taking those things away from people. It doesn't do any good for science to advance if we're just not going to let people have science anymore.

They are not. Look at D candidates when they talk about trans. In general, they look kind of embarrassed, sometimes confused. Most of the noise comes from the Republicans (because it gets them votes).