But like calling the Meta glasses "Pervert Glasses" it's not about being technically accurate in your description of the scope of surveillance, it's about making it socially unacceptable. It's why using "weird" worked so well for Waltz - it didn't provide an all encompassing description of why Trump and his ilk were dangerous and bad for the country, it just nailed how to shine a light on how they're socially unacceptable (to rational and sane ppl obvs.)
geekwithsoul
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Go slop, stock drops?
At least in Northern Virginia where most of the existing data centers are and where most of the announced build out is planned, populations are steady or falling - not a lot of new residential buildouts for them to tie new power capacity to, and current neighborhoods already have existing power capacity built out for them. Anything the data centers ask for is pretty much 100% for their use and not anyone else's.
I think in the eyes of many investors, Elon has lost whatever mojo they thought he had. As Elon never had any mojo to speak of, this mostly just means the investors are finally catching up with reality.
Technically, Epic won, but functionally it didn't change much. And what they won didn't help anyone else or the inherent structural issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Google
The best thing about Tim Sweeney is that he consistently has the most wrong take on any issue. He's like the Lou Gehrig of being an idiot.
It's frustrating I know, but I truly think it's less culture and more just hairless ape brain stuff. Our brains are lazy by evolutionary design and in terms of social communication, it's sadly more effective to aim straight for the emotional limbic system. We should be creatures capable of sustained rational thought, but… that obviously isn't the case and never has been. It's all much worse when you're someone not as prone to emotional appeals, but the trick is to appeal to the emotion and then follow it up with a little bit of the objective reality.