09 November 2026

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Maybe Telling Americans They're Useless Eaters Who Must Perish for the Glorious AI Revolution Was a Bad Idea: Midterm Thoughts
Faine Greenwood, on the thumping that the AI tech bros took on election night.

To quote George Bernard Shaw, Playwright ans Great Wit, "One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."

These guys were never geniuses.  They were guys who parlayed white privilege, luck, and a great crime (to paraphrase Honore de Balzac) into fortunes.

If they had a mind when they started, their decades as pampered princelings have destroyed that. 

Americans really, really, really hate data centers.

Lest you harbored any residual doubt about this, the midterm elections just proved it. Take a gander at these apocalyptic numbers for data center advocates, as compiled by Redbud Consulting:

Or consider NBC's exit poll data, which currently shows that solid majorities 1. think that AI will do more to hurt society than to help it (57%), and 2. oppose the construction of data centers in their community (76%):

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