You’re assuming that the world is covered in server racks. I don’t expect anything like that, even with significant increases in datacenter construction.

Let’s assume 1kw per person. 10 billion people at peak population some time hence. So about 150 billion m² to provide 1kw per person 24/7. The earth’s surface area is 510.1 trillion m², of which about 1/3 is land. So we’re probably just fine on renewables.

Nah. They bought off the feds, so they’ve got years to go. Also, it’s a lot more profitable for shareholders to find a greater fool to sell to than it is to exit the business.

Nothing people do has zero impact. But pretty much everything else has a bigger one. Coal will utterly destroy the land, and the gases emitted after it burns will destroy far more.

Solar like this on a few percent of the land will supply all the electricity people need. So it looks huge, but is surprisingly low-impact compared with other options, or things like raising cattle

People hear about the chemtrails conspiracy theory, look up, see contrails, and then blame them for their cat doing something weird, being attracted to the same sex, headaches, etc because of the conspiracy theory. Some basic knowledge helps avoid that, hence the website describing contrails.

I prefer to figure out what’s true and not based on the strength of the evidence. Baseless conspiracy theories are baseless no matter who promotes or debunks them.

Not every article is going to cover everything

I recommend thinking about how to evaluate truth without depending on trust.

I think they wanted it to be a bit less blatant — they took down this version and Yaccarino resigned

Its Musk’s LLM, which interacts with people on X. He’s been paying people to tune it to be more hate-oriented for years.

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The kind of person who would use X

It was modified to make these kinds of responses much more likely

There’s a preview of that, but link points to https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/?gift=c1JLM5vSU5FaaTvxtMmEpcpUxc9MKWWfcr6Ifc8rD3w

Problem is that what we dont need is beat cops who go around harassing people because their skin is too dark. What we actually need is detectives capable of catching killers and fences, but the incentives are to go harass minorities

Victim race too.

I suggest checking.

No, but its better to understand what happened instead of some fiction being pushed by local officials.

When you do frequent midnight alerts for missing elderly, people disable the alerts on their phone entirely. Then when disaster hits, they don’t know its coming. And because no planning was done for it, they can’t evacuate a camp full of kids quickly enough even if they know what’s about to happen.

Actually preventing this kind of thing means maintaining preparedness for decades when nothing happens.

Yes, but the city officials had their boss replaced by state with one who had a mandate to cut spending. Wikipedia does a better job of getting that part right:

In April 2014, during a financial crisis, state-appointed emergency manager Darnell Earley changed Flint’s water source from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (sourced from Lake Huron and the Detroit River) to the Flint River.[7] Residents complained about the taste, smell, and appearance of the water. Officials failed to apply corrosion inhibitors to the water, which resulted in lead from aging pipes leaching into the water supply, exposing around 100,000 residents to elevated lead levels.

The problem started in 2014, when a state-appointed administrator took over and stopped measures which had been used to limit corrosion, sharply increasing peoples’ exposure to lead from the old pipes.

If they even have a home country

When someone has been in the US for decades, and now has no real ties to where they were born, deportation is often a death sentence