1 FIRST!!!!!

2 Sponge!

3 MANNIX!!!!!


Not a cop......

4 Nooded.

5 As did I.

6 It's the era of the shyster.

7 Top 10!

8 Tulipmania!

9 The crash of the AI market is going to be far worse than the dot com bubble bursting.

10
Here's some more grist for you anti-Boomers' Anti-Boomer Mill:

https://instapundit.com/816127/#disqus_thread


It may be the single stupidest bit of writing that I've ever read.

Hilariously silly. It sounds exactly like Hitler describing the Jooooooos at a rally.

Enjoy!

11 >Yes, SPVs aren't illegal. But at this scale and with corporations this hypothetically rich and credit-worthy backstopping them, they are a red flag.

----

*waves*

12 It can be lunch time

13 Good morning good people.

(Not AI created or posted)

14 It's interesting that X doesn't even make the top 5 list - or is that another example of jiggery-pokery?

Per Reddit:

xAI (or X) is an owner and operator of massive AI superclusters rather than a top commercial construction contractor or builder of data centers for the broader industry.

I'm not sure I understand the distinction.

15 This is going to make the dot com bust look like a ripple in the pond.

16 I guess naming it "doughnut" might have given the game away.

17 The crash of the AI market is going to be far worse than the dot com bubble bursting.

Agreed. I'm trying to develop a strategy for pulling money out of the market and putting it on the sideline for the inevitable bottom feeding opportunities.

18 Interesting essay, Joe. Thanks.

19 All of my vast knowledge and intelligence is natural and not artificially enhanced.

20 All of my vast knowledge and intelligence is natural and not artificially enhanced.

It sounds like it's spectacular.

21 Who's paying the rest?
Taxpayers.

22 Tell me it's all money laundering without telling me it's all money laundering.

23 I don't really think this AI craze is about $. In the end it's all about control of DATA and $ as weapons against citizens. Think China, but even more insane and global.

24 ign up for our AI service, and you can replace all of those pesky humans youre paying $100k/ year"

"Great! What's the price?"

"$200k per human."

25 All the bigs are trying to be the winner after the shakeout, a la Google and Amazon. I wish I knew who that would be, or if it will be any of them, as opposed to a lean, nimble dark horse.

26
To a certain extent this reminds me of all the bundling of crappy "redline" loans that killed the economy in the 90s.

The Pitch: "By themselves, these loans are a terrible, horrible, no good risk buuuuuut, bundled all together, they're a glorious money-making opportunity and you'd be stupid not to load up!"

Recycled history ain't great.

27 >>As did I.

*fistbump*

28 So... we will pay.

You'll own nothing and like it.

Seems to me this is a massive resource grab for all the marbles.

29 >17 The crash of the AI market is going to be far worse than the dot com bubble bursting.

Agreed. I'm trying to develop a strategy for pulling money out of the market and putting it on the sideline for the inevitable bottom feeding opportunities.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

I spent the past 18 months reallocating assets from equities to bonds ahead of my retirement. I'm roughly 45/55 bonds to equities. Most of my work income is replaced by bond dividends so if there is a significant correction, my income is untouched. But I'm still looking for opportunities to bottom feed.

30 Per Reddit:

xAI (or X) is an owner and operator of massive AI superclusters rather than a top commercial construction contractor or builder of data centers for the broader industry.

I'm not sure I understand the distinction.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

I believe, although I could be wrong, that xAI primarily runs data centers for other people and uses their silliness to pay the bills with Grok using any free computing. For example, they run a profit because Google cannot keep up with construction equal to their delusions so they pay xAI for compute time.

In many ways, xAI is operating like general store owners during the California gold rush.

31 I am surprised that blue owls are into building datacenters. I thought they only made platforms in their trees to drink tea on

32 How its worth the expense still bogels me. Same as
spending billions for a train ride.

Of course that train rail is a scam to spend public money into pockets

33 >>Posted by: The Big Dummy at August 12, 2026 11:08 AM (JM9I6)

Hadrian, how did Varus get access?

34 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

35 AI data centers will be linked in order to create the AGI we need to fight the aliens.

36 14 It's interesting that X doesn't even make the top 5 list - or is that another example of jiggery-pokery?

Per Reddit:

xAI (or X) is an owner and operator of massive AI superclusters rather than a top commercial construction contractor or builder of data centers for the broader industry.

I'm not sure I understand the distinction.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

It's a much smaller business.

37 All the bigs are trying to be the winner after the shakeout, a la Google and Amazon. I wish I knew who that would be, or if it will be any of them, as opposed to a lean, nimble dark horse.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

Eventually, someone will realize that AGI based on LLMs is a pipe dream and they'll start working to tailor their system to what LLMs can excel at. They will be the winner.

Probably have to get rid of the delusional executive suite first, though.

38 I am surprised that blue owls are into building datacenters. I thought they only made platforms in their trees to drink tea on
Posted by: Kindltot

Blue owl's gone. King Friday had enough of his shit.

39
All that being said...

Short of aa worldwide Butlerian Jihad,

AI is a game we must play.

The panning for information gold and pattern spotting available make them military and economic and security must-haves.

Our Betters rubbed the lamp and now the genie is out and he ain't going back.

40 The state of AI right now is annoying and buggy. These embedded algorithms are unpredictable. I don't even subscribe to their services but see them tampering with everything I do behind the scenes. I get delays, reboots, autocucumber, word substitution, letter deletion, word deletion, - it appears to be mostly a juiced up search engine. Keywords are still paramount.

41
Seems to me this is a massive resource grab for all the marbles.
Posted by: Derak at August 12, 2026 11:12 AM (JUYGW)


Microsoft has spent decades trying to remove the PC and data storage from your home and centralizing it in their systems.

Google has taken it to exorbitant levels. Ever use a Chromebook? Apple is going the same direction.

"You don't own your data. I DO!" Famous words from Google's founder.....or was it that other guy.....anyway.

All your data are belong to them. Soon.

42 The crash of the AI market is going to be far worse than the dot com bubble bursting.

Agreed. I'm trying to develop a strategy for pulling money out of the market and putting it on the sideline for the inevitable bottom feeding opportunities.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)
==
I've issued some options on Microsoft to lock in profits from its long growth history, and create some cash. The bigger question is what to do about the chip makers?

43 The speed at which current AI (and computer tech in general) becomes obsolete is going hit this sector sooner rather than later.

I think the jury's out on whether it can adapt fast enough.

44 Sign up for our AI service, and you can replace all of those pesky humans youre paying $100k/ year"

I read an article a while back about a factory owner who despised having to pay for humans to work in his previous company and was doing everything he could to automate the entire floor.

45 We don't see the problem.

46 The long term problem I see with all of this AI craze is while you may be the first and corner the market there will be people constantly working to do it faster, better and cheaper.


It will be just like when the plasma TV was king for years and all of a sudden the LCD TV's came on the market cheaper better and they lasted longer.

47 Machines, old gods with new mouths, mutter and multiply; the world, amazed and half-afraid, turns its face to them as to a flood that remembers our names.

48 M'haps we have to the rich after all.

49 Data Factories (that's what the cool kids are calling them) should be treated as any other thing or product. We don't talk about "computer" like it's one invariant monolith of a thing. There are all kinds of different computers, doing different things, that different companies build for different customers to do different things. There is just as much variation when you take a whole bunch of computers and shove them into one building. Who's designing and building it? Who's using it? Who's leasing out all that computing power, and to whom? Is it AWS? X? The Economic Council of Greater Timbuktu? Is it used for AI research? Cloud compute? Storing some idiot's fifty billion blurry pictures of the inside of his pocket from now until the inevitable heat death of the universe?

They all look roughly the same from street view, but there are a lot of players doing a lot of things in the Data Factory space that make sweeping unqualified statements about "datacenters" difficult.

50 eat

51 eat

Posted by: little people at August 12, 2026 11:20 AM


Eat little people?

52 Since the introduction of the Z80, Watts per FLOP (power required to do Floating Point Operations per second) has been in decline, on average 38% a year. Data centers built today will be obsolete in three years, out competed by new data centers doing much more with much less power.

53 eat
Posted by: little people at August 12, 2026 11:20 AM (ehY6
--------
excrete.

54 In many ways, xAI is operating like general store owners during the California gold rush.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
==========
In part at least, you are correct. Anthropic is a big customer of xAI datacenters (now folded into SpaceX). In a complicated partnership, Microsoft provides Azure computing to Open AI, and so on.

But that is for models running today, not necessarily for the future models where they are building datacenters on spec for the different AI competitors.

There will be a shakeout and the WCC Central story that pixy posted earlier shows that you can take a cheaper model, train it partially on the expensive frontier model output and in essence, gain most of the frontier model's advantage for peanuts.

Like Elon and Grok AI, it may be to the advantage of NOT being Claude or Open AI front runners because the slightly less than absolute bleeding edge frontier models don't consume the cash that Claude or OpenAI are spending that is not sustainable. Now NVIDIA is getting involved as well, basically staking the AI companies if they use NVIDIA hardware.

I don't think we know where this is going to end.

55 What hath zero interest bound and soft money policies wrought?

for $1000, Alex

56 AI is programmed. Most programming is H1-B visa holders.

It's not only liberal in design, it's stupid because H1-B visa holders.

57 This is a lot like the dot.com bubble, in that when it burst, we saw what the Internet was really worth, and most importantly, what it could really do for people. AI is vastly overhyped, but I think when the AI bubble bursts, we’ll see the true value and use of AI.

Those expenditures are scary though. The data center thing doesn’t freak me out as it does other people. The nearby shithole town has some areas of blight that can be replaced by data centers if people are willing and they just might give people in town something to do other than eat, sleep and shit (h/t, The Helmsman). Oh, and get high and commit crimes. My worry is that when the bubble bursts, you’ll have some worthless property sitting idle forever until someone comes in to repurpose. In the case of my nearby town…nobody will come.

58 Can these investments bring in enough money to pay off the bonds

Pay off?!

59 It's not that there's no risk from pouring all that money into data centers... there is, and it's significant.

The thing is, the risk from NOT moving your company into AI is even higher.

It's a choice between "may be out of business" and "definitely will be out of business".

First prize is wealth beyond your wildest dreams (even if you are Elon Musk). Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is that your company dies.

If the "OMG data!!! centers!!! bad!!!" contingent manages to derail the buildout the first prize winner is going to be Chy-na.

I'm pretty sure the ChiComs are behind this, just as they (and before them, the Sovs) were behind the propaganda against nuclear power.

60 Data centers built today will be obsolete in three years, out competed by new data centers doing much more with much less power.
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at August 12, 2026 11:21 AM (PjLJ5)

Honestly, data centers being built today are mostly already three years obsolete before they even cut the ribbon. The factory designs are changing faster than construction can keep up. It's the wild west out there.

61
Eat little people?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 11:20 AM (cpFbA)



I'm listening......

62 Bah! Silicon phantoms multiply, engines think, and fortunes clatter forth like coins on a miser’s desk - yet every fevered venture hisses, “More, more, more!”

63 I don't think we know where this is going to end.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (E4rtv)

Nope. All speculation. But it is interesting to think about.

64 Some say soon some smart engineer is going to figure out a smart way to train AI systems requiring about one-hundredth of the computing power now used, and these brute-force monster data centers are going to be irrelevant.

65
Like Elon and Grok AI, it may be to the advantage of NOT being Claude or Open AI front runners because the slightly less than absolute bleeding edge frontier models don't consume the cash that Claude or OpenAI are spending that is not sustainable. Now NVIDIA is getting involved as well, basically staking the AI companies if they use NVIDIA hardware.

I don't think we know where this is going to end.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (E4rtv)

To pay off successfully, the frontrunners need to be able to charge premium prices for what underneath the hood looks mostly like a commodity product. If we see signs of customers being locked into one AI model or another that's possible, but at present people are just routing tasks to whatever is cheapest to complete a task.

66 Just trapezing from one disaster to the next.

67 Eat little people?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 11:20 AM (cpFbA)

I'm listening......
Posted by: Godzilla at August 12, 2026 11:23 AM (2YhKe)

Remember Rampage? That was a great game.

68 There will be a shakeout and the WCC Central story that pixy posted earlier shows that you can take a cheaper model, train it partially on the expensive frontier model output and in essence, gain most of the frontier model's advantage for peanuts.

*shifty eyes*

69 64 Some DAY soon some smart engineer is going to figure out a smart way to train AI systems requiring about one-hundredth of the computing power now used, and these brute-force monster data centers are going to be irrelevant.

Fixed typo.

70 Death of key personnel can sink a market faster than anything else. The Confetti Industry has never really rebounded since my untimely death in 2017.

71 >My worry is that when the bubble bursts, you’ll have some worthless property sitting idle forever until someone comes in to repurpose. In the case of my nearby town…nobody will come.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (4g5V+)

Same can be said for automated warehouses. In south Jersey along I-295 and the NJ Turnpike, farmland has been tilled under and massive warehouses constructed. Some are occupied by Amazon and Target, but most seem like they are spec buildings waiting for a buyer.

72 52 Since the introduction of the Z80, Watts per FLOP (power required to do Floating Point Operations per second) has been in decline, on average 38% a year. Data centers built today will be obsolete in three years, out competed by new data centers doing much more with much less power.
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits

I would not count on those future datacenters being built. Washout will occur before then due to financial strain. Look for consolidation instead among the AI crowd.

73 "My worry is that when the bubble bursts, you’ll have some worthless property sitting idle forever until someone comes in to repurpose. In the case of my nearby town…nobody will come.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM"
+++
*ahem*

74 Some are occupied by Amazon and Target, but most seem like they are spec buildings waiting for a buyer.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 12, 2026 11:25 AM (GTqXr)

Nicely poised for a grand return of American Manufacturing?

75 I notice that xAI is the only major player that has told the Eurosavages to go fuck themselves when it comes to adding built-in spying to their AI products. At least they have so far.

If we survive, one day Elon Musk is going to be hailed as the person who saved Western Civilization, first by buying Twitter, and now by pushing back against the "alignment" tards.

Grok certainly has areas where it tries to steer the narrative, but far less so than any of the others. I'm willing, for now, to accept that Grok is that way as a function of the training material, rather than a deliberate bias. Not so with the others, especially Claude.

76 My worry is that when the bubble bursts, you’ll have some worthless property sitting idle forever until someone comes in to repurpose. In the case of my nearby town…nobody will come.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (4g5V+)

It could take a very long time. We're still hooking up fiber built during the tech bubble.

77 When the AI bubble bursts, I hope to be in Thailand, frolicking on the beach with my gunsel while the world burns.

78 I used to be a thing.

79 Claude Balls.

80 [
Remember Rampage? That was a great game.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:25 AM (Ot/FD)


Pure destruction. Doesn't get much better.

81 >I'm pretty sure the ChiComs are behind this, just as they (and before them, the Sovs) were behind the propaganda against nuclear power.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:23 AM (IG3/x)

They've successfully recruited the AWFL army. Funny thing is, there have been, and continue to be massive data centers in the middle of residential communities for well over 30 years in my neck of the woods. Not a peep from anyone. Funny, that.

82 >It could take a very long time. We're still hooking up fiber built during the tech bubble.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 11:27 AM

Yoo - hoo!

83 Kate at smalldeadanimals pisted a link to this yesterday.

BREAKING: A consortium of Private Equity firms are putting together a deal to lend Nvidia $500B Apollo, Blackstone, Blackrock, Brookfield, Goldman and KKR are involved, in what is arguably is the largest financing deal ever on Wall Street


Hey ChatGPT! I need you to come up with 10 viable business plans for me to pay back half a trillion dollars. American dollars....sadly.

84 I guess naming it "doughnut" might have given the game away.

Hole in the middle? On the other hand, the notable characteristic of a beignet is that it is light, fluffy, and sugary not that it is nutritious.

85 > Like Elon and Grok AI, it may be to the advantage of NOT being Claude or Open AI front runners because the slightly less than absolute bleeding edge frontier models don't consume the cash that Claude or OpenAI are spending that is not sustainable.

The latest models from Grok are just about as good as Claude, IMO.

More so if you prefer your AI dinner without a side of communism.

86 71 >My worry is that when the bubble bursts, you’ll have some worthless property sitting idle forever until someone comes in to repurpose. In the case of my nearby town…nobody will come.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (4g5V+)

Same can be said for automated warehouses. In south Jersey along I-295 and the NJ Turnpike, farmland has been tilled under and massive warehouses constructed. Some are occupied by Amazon and Target, but most seem like they are spec buildings waiting for a buyer.
Posted by: Heavy Meta
======
It is easier to recover from overspending on infrastructure than it is a financial meltdown like 2008. We had a tech meltdown after Web 1.0 crashed and failed, we had a meltdown regarding fiber optic mania, and yet each of those failures left a bunch of infrastructure available cheap for the future and better companies to utilize for growth.

Neither shook the US finances like giving a bunch of home loans to people that would not repay them.

87 Should I sell my tulip bulbs and beanie babies?

88 Bubbles won't burst, if you have a dependable Bubble Machine.

89 its as if they think AI will cure cancer, eliminate disease and death and bring about whirled peas.

Have they read no science fiction?

Are they all just Utopian hippies with finance degrees?

What could go wrong???

90 Same can be said for automated warehouses. In south Jersey along I-295 and the NJ Turnpike, farmland has been tilled under and massive warehouses constructed. Some are occupied by Amazon and Target, but most seem like they are spec buildings waiting for a buyer.

Here in NoVa, hospital complexes are often what comes in to replace now-unused malls.

91
This sounds like Enron or FTX debt-structuring schemes.

Arthur Andersen went under with Enron because other firms independently exposed their complicity.

FTX shared the same advantage as Big AI has now: no reliable auditing.

All these modern firms benefit from the new system, since the MBS/CDO collapse a decade later, which is that debt is now valued arbitrarily.

But they still keep going under anyway, because Renfield Accounting can only cover for so much, and then you get a stake through your heart.

92 > They've successfully recruited the AWFL army. Funny thing is, there have been, and continue to be massive data centers in the middle of residential communities for well over 30 years in my neck of the woods. Not a peep from anyone. Funny, that.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (GTqXr)

There's nothing more amusing, in a black humor way, than seeing some tard ranting about "data centers" on Facebook or X.

Just where do you think your rant is being stored, Skippy?

93 It will be just like when the plasma TV was king for years and all of a sudden the LCD TV's came on the market cheaper better and they lasted longer.

Both trash. Can they hold your house down during a hurricane?

94 SPONGE!!!

95 > 89 its as if they think AI will cure cancer, eliminate disease and death and bring about whirled peas.


World peace isn't gonna happen.

Curing cancer is definitely on the table, though.

96 " its as if they think AI will cure cancer, eliminate disease and death and bring about whirled peas."
=====

Have you seen my car?

97 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2026 11:30 AM (bFu5X)


*fistbump*

98 39
All that being said...

Short of aa worldwide Butlerian Jihad,

AI is a game we must play.

The panning for information gold and pattern spotting available make them military and economic and security must-haves.

Our Betters rubbed the lamp and now the genie is out and he ain't going back.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:15 AM (iJfKG)

When I go back into the classroom to the greatest extent possible I want my classroom more or less functionally stuck in 1985. The better for the younguns to learn.

99
I used to be a thing.

Posted by: Suburban shopping malls at August 12, 2026 11:27 AM (2Ez/1)

Not to worry.

In Plano, you are turned into a playing arena for the Dallas Stars.

100 its as if they think AI will cure cancer, eliminate disease and death and bring about whirled peas.

I don't know about the peas, but AI has already been very useful in genomics and designing new drugs. If we left it at that, it would still be worth it. You know, until the robots rise up and spray us all with designer plagues.

101
In Plano, you are turned into a playing arena for the Dallas Stars.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:32 AM (iJfKG)


Good for them. First, screw Dallas. Second, screw the Mavericks. They absolutely f*cked the Stars franchise when the new owners took over.

102 AI data centers will be linked in order to create the AGI we need to fight the aliens.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 11:15 AM (3cUTc)



"When AGI arrived, it came with a pair of fake tits"
@charliebcurran

https://tinyurl.com/2uyka4w7

103 narf

104 The latest models from Grok are just about as good as Claude, IMO.

More so if you prefer your AI dinner without a side of communism.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Have no dog in the fight but I think Claude was smart in aiming at coding as a specialty niche to differentiate itself from Open AI or Grok even. But, the easy of 'stealing' frontier model's edge apparently, especially by the Chicoms, means that the vast world market envisioned by Open AI and Claude is not going to be theirs. It will go to the cheapest alternative even if the Chicoms own the cheating company. Neither company has the cash flow longterm to keep burning it so as to beat the other to the vaunted IPO.

Google with Gemini, and SpaceX have other income streams that neither Claude or Open AI have. Personally, in the wreckage, I would buy Apple stock above any of them because they stayed out of the AI shitshow and they have the cash to buy the shell of any AI company that crashes out.

105 Lo, minds of iron wake; algorithms bloom like spring, and mortal trades do quake beneath this star-born, wondrous, restless surge.

106 And just when all these companies think they've got AI squared away, quantum computing will start coming online.

107 99
I used to be a thing.

Posted by: Suburban shopping malls at August 12, 2026 11:27 AM (2Ez/1)

Not to worry.

In Plano, you are turned into a playing arena for the Dallas Stars.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:32 AM (iJfKG)

Circa 1975, an abandoned Dallas area shopping mall was where they shot the movie “Logan’s Run”.

108 Another angle to the whole story is the sheer number of jobs it's creating/sustaining. Building a data factory isn't quite like any other construction project. It's obviously trades-intensive while the shell is being built out. It's also much more manic of of timetable than your typical large build, which means lots of tasty overtime. And then after all that, all the blood and guts of the place require a whole new crew of technicians and tradesmen to get everything up and going properly, again on a manic timetable, requiring a staggering amount of people going in and out of the place for upwards of a year or more.

Externalities aside, all that can do amazing things to a place's local economy, long before they even turn the lineups on.

109 > Have no dog in the fight but I think Claude was smart in aiming at coding as a specialty niche to differentiate itself from Open AI or Grok even.

Have you tried Grok Code?

It's now better than Claude, IMO.

110 Oh good. A young woman just won a car on 'The Price is Right.' Good for her.

Some guy also won an Af4ican Safari. $27,000. Damn. That must be the not get raped and killed package.

111 This circular financing is crazy. Creating debt instruments on equipment that depreciates quickly is a recipe for disaster.

112
"When AGI arrived, it came with a pair of fake tits"
@charliebcurran

https://tinyurl.com/2uyka4w7
Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:33 AM (rbvCR)


HI HO!!!! KERMIT the FROG here.......

113 They will fund it with traffic tickets from all the cameras

114 89 its as if they think AI will cure cancer, eliminate disease and death and bring about whirled peas.




Crime will be eliminated with my cameras.

115 108 Another angle to the whole story is the sheer number of jobs it's creating/sustaining. Building a data factory isn't quite like any other construction project. It's obviously trades-intensive while the shell is being built out. It's also much more manic of of timetable than your typical large build, which means lots of tasty overtime. And then after all that, all the blood and guts of the place require a whole new crew of technicians and tradesmen to get everything up and going properly, again on a manic timetable, requiring a staggering amount of people going in and out of the place for upwards of a year or more.

Externalities aside, all that can do amazing things to a place's local economy, long before they even turn the lineups on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:35 AM (Ot/FD)

It is ultimately temporary though. We're not building permanent cities in the Permian basin where datacenters are going up. Municipalities that treat it as a new normal will screw up their budgets.

116 Google with Gemini, and SpaceX have other income streams that neither Claude or Open AI have. Personally, in the wreckage, I would buy Apple stock above any of them because they stayed out of the AI shitshow and they have the cash to buy the shell of any AI company that crashes out.

Interesting, and agreed.

117 106 And just when all these companies think they've got AI squared away, quantum computing will start coming online.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 12, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew

I'm hoping for a future where quantum computing doesn't replace traditional ones and zeros, but seamlessly integrates with it, coupling the freedom and speed of qbits with the merciless determinism of the logic gate. A best of both worlds kind of approach.

118 113 They will fund it with traffic tickets from all the cameras
Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 11:37 AM (ywXg9)

Yeah, about that.

119
Circa 1975, an abandoned Dallas area shopping mall was where they shot the movie “Logan’s Run”.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:35 AM (4g5V+)


Why use an abandoned mall?

120 It will be just like when the plasma TV was king for years and all of a sudden the LCD TV's came on the market cheaper better and they lasted longer.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 11:18 AM (cpFbA)

Plasmas were pushed out the market by guess what, an LCD lobby who got California to pass "environmental' laws that effectively made it illegal to sell them. Amazing what the Left gets away with an even we who are in touch have no idea. Imagine what the low fo's know. NOTHING

121 Circa 1975, an abandoned Dallas area shopping mall was where they shot the movie “Logan’s Run”.

It still takes me aback when I realize that 1975 was 51 years ago. I remember 1975 very well.

122 "The accounting treatment itself is in fashion. But what if one of these companies was a house of cards and was propping itself up with this accounting treatment?" said Tom Selling, technical accounting consultant. "To me, that's the risk."

I just had a PTSD moment from my days at Enron although I left before the great implosion. Just seeing SPV gives me the vapors.

123 And the Big Five hyperscalers are holding, by some estimates, around $1.5 trillion dollars' worth of debt"

Is that a lot?

/ nearly $40 Trillion Dollar debt

124 Should I sell my tulip bulbs and beanie babies?

Buy the dip!

125
Should I sell my tulip bulbs and beanie babies?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (Cqx++)



Yes. Reinvest the proceeds into baseball cards and other pro sports memorabilia.

126 122 "The accounting treatment itself is in fashion. But what if one of these companies was a house of cards and was propping itself up with this accounting treatment?" said Tom Selling, technical accounting consultant. "To me, that's the risk."

I just had a PTSD moment from my days at Enron although I left before the great implosion. Just seeing SPV gives me the vapors.

The time to buy is NOW!!!

127 It is ultimately temporary though. We're not building permanent cities in the Permian basin where datacenters are going up. Municipalities that treat it as a new normal will screw up their budgets.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 11:37 AM (okun6)

It has to be a shock to a town council rolling in the revenue when the ribbon is finally cut and that horde of thousands of people buying stuff and paying for tolls and parking and whatnot on their corporate cards suddenly drops to a few dozen employees who keep the lights on and sit in a chair silencing alarms without looking at what they were for (and then get fired for doing that).

128 There's nothing more amusing, in a black humor way, than seeing some tard ranting about "data centers" on Facebook or X.

Just where do you think your rant is being stored, Skippy?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:30 AM (IG3/x)


They're the same ones who thought putting a post about "you can't use my pictures that I posted on the public forum because I put these words in my feed" dumbshittery.

129 ...would work.

Damn brain.

130 And the Big Five hyperscalers are holding, by some estimates, around $1.5 trillion dollars' worth of debt"

Is that a lot?

Assuming 5% interest, that's $75B a year in JUST interest. So no.

131 To pay off successfully, the frontrunners need to be able to charge premium prices for what underneath the hood looks mostly like a commodity product. If we see signs of customers being locked into one AI model or another that's possible, but at present people are just routing tasks to whatever is cheapest to complete a task.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Good point. But I think the tech execs involved are believing in the network effect where you have just one dominant company and the rest are rounding errors rather than an oligopoly. Probably driven in part by the example of social media. That model may not apply here at all for AI because good enough might beat the most expensive. Could be the auto mfg should be the AI company model.

I also think some of them think that by hyperscaling, we get to AGI that way rather than simply rebranded machine learning. AGI is indeed a Vernor Vinge singularity event.

132 The local Boy Scout council, after going nearly bankrupt because they let the gays have their way with them, had to sell the scout camp they had owned for about 100 years. Now the developer who bought it wants to put up a data center there and the neighbors are pissed. I would be too. The old scout camp was a beautiful place, with lakes and trails and all the stuff a proper scout camp should have.

133 Time to crash

134 130 And the Big Five hyperscalers are holding, by some estimates, around $1.5 trillion dollars' worth of debt"

Is that a lot?

Assuming 5% interest, that's $75B a year in JUST interest. So no.
Posted by: Archimedes
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For size, the American Student Loan debt is about the same size 1.5 trillion or so. Yet no one frets much about the coming financial collapse of higher ed in part due to issues like AI, inferior product being sold as premium, etc.

135 It will be just like when the plasma TV was king for years and all of a sudden the LCD TV's came on the market cheaper better and they lasted longer.

LCDs still have a worse picture than plasma. You have to go OLED and pay "real TV" money to match plasma.

136 Remember:


Garbage in, garbage out is still a thing.

137 This data centers' excess capacity should lower the cost for cloud storage and personal domains.

138 There's nothing more amusing, in a black humor way, than seeing some tard ranting about "data centers" on Facebook or X.

Just where do you think your rant is being stored, Skippy?

And who do you think is giving you "likes", real people?

139 The local Boy Scout council, after going nearly bankrupt because they let the gays have their way with them, had to sell the scout camp they had owned for about 100 years. Now the developer who bought it wants to put up a data center there and the neighbors are pissed. I would be too. The old scout camp was a beautiful place, with lakes and trails and all the stuff a proper scout camp should have.
Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 11:43 AM (ywXg9)

Once again, everything the left touches turns to shit.

140 132 The local Boy Scout council, after going nearly bankrupt because they let the gays have their way with them, had to sell the scout camp they had owned for about 100 years. Now the developer who bought it wants to put up a data center there and the neighbors are pissed. I would be too. The old scout camp was a beautiful place, with lakes and trails and all the stuff a proper scout camp should have.
Posted by: fd
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Some of the people putting datacenters in places like that are not doing it for economic reasons is my guess. Like Muzzies putting mosques as markers for conquest.

141
LCDs still have a worse picture than plasma. You have to go OLED and pay "real TV" money to match plasma.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 11:45 AM (2ocoG)


The worst thing about plasma TV's is you need to run your A/C during the winter when watching one.

Them f*cking things run HOT.

142 A couple of AI generated viruses, not real ones, but models of them have been examined and determined to be nothing ever seen in nature, yet plausible.

Someone's going to take this, and go all Fauci on it, then turn it loose.

It's not going to be robots that kill us. It'll be some smart ass in a fucking lab coat.

143 Ok, who are The Big Five Hyperscalers?

144 Leftist in Austin hate data centers because of the "environmental impact" and effects on quality of life. But mainly it's about water usage and then energy usage. It's a huge issue here. Plus Elon Musk is big, big double bad. In fact he's the devil incarnate!!!😈 ///

145 Whether it's Enron risk-hedging with SPEs, or these AI players doing it with SPVs, or FTX ventilating its holdings through Alameda, it's all the same type of scheme.

They've been pulling these scams off for years.

Remember when you were 7, and your female friends would solemnly declare that they didn't fart or sweat?

Would you believe it from them 30 years later?

That's what this is.

146 To pay off successfully, the frontrunners need to be able to charge premium prices for what underneath the hood looks mostly like a commodity product. If we see signs of customers being locked into one AI model or another that's possible, but at present people are just routing tasks to whatever is cheapest to complete a task.

I route tasks to whichever model is the best at something. GPT-5.6 writes the cleanest code, Claude is the best at actually running and debugging, and Grok 4.5 can do both but not quite as well. But it's sufficiently cheaper enough that lower-grade tasks get pushed its way. Elon said 4.6 will be out this week, should be interesting.

147 horde of thousands of people buying stuff and paying for tolls and parking and whatnot on their corporate cards suddenly drops"

"Hey, XOM is moving here! Raise all the prices!

/Spring, TX - 2015

148 And in the process, they are killing the home pc market, the used PC market and the gaming community. Yhis is actually more like the telco bubble in that they are building physical things.

149 127 It is ultimately temporary though. We're not building permanent cities in the Permian basin where datacenters are going up. Municipalities that treat it as a new normal will screw up their budgets.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 11:37 AM (okun6)

It has to be a shock to a town council rolling in the revenue when the ribbon is finally cut and that horde of thousands of people buying stuff and paying for tolls and parking and whatnot on their corporate cards suddenly drops to a few dozen employees who keep the lights on and sit in a chair silencing alarms without looking at what they were for (and then get fired for doing that).

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:41 AM (Ot/FD)

I expect this to be the worst in rural areas, where the impact will be proportionally higher. Community centers and bigger staff they won't be able to afford long run.

150 Real nailbiter today

DOJ has until 12:59 AM eastern to get a filing in *and approved* to continue the stay on an injunction, or else suppressors, SBRs, and SBSs are effectively no longer governed by the NFA.

The injunction went in a week ago with a 1 week stay to let DOJ appeal it. It isn't blanket nationwide, but applies to all current and future members of several 2A groups and customers of Silencershop, PSA, and a few others.

This is a really big deal. Lot of dudes waiting for the deadline with parts and tools, much like when the federal AWB expired in 2004.

151 144 Leftist in Austin hate data centers because of the "environmental impact" and effects on quality of life. But mainly it's about water usage and then energy usage. It's a huge issue here. Plus Elon Musk is big, big double bad. In fact he's the devil incarnate!!!😈 ///
Posted by: lin-duh at August 12, 2026 11:47 AM (EneHm)

Disguise it as one kick ass huge mosque.

152 138 There's nothing more amusing, in a black humor way, than seeing some tard ranting about "data centers" on Facebook or X.

Just where do you think your rant is being stored, Skippy?

And who do you think is giving you "likes", real people?
Posted by: t-bird
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Increasingly the whole internet datastream is being dehumanized as it ain't humans driving the demand directly anymore but computers talking to other computers using agents aka bots.

Humans are merely becoming just a set of inputs into increasingly sophisticated algorithms that do everything from demand curve based pricing on the fly to self driving cars.

153 Some of the people putting datacenters in places like that are not doing it for economic reasons is my guess. Like Muzzies putting mosques as markers for conquest.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:46 AM (E4rtv)

Once upon a time you could buy a company car and a plot of land for the future development site of the business, and then when the plans fell through, someone got the property and the car in the settlement, and often that was the guy who arranged to buy them, negotiated the failure, and got it in kind as a settlement for all his valiant work.

154 106 And just when all these companies think they've got AI squared away, quantum computing will start coming online.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

They'll square both of it away when they realize the obviousness of the course
-- AI, like Soylent Green will be made out of People.

Body parts and bio-organioids, at present, moving up the foodchain chain to your pocket-book.

this is the cTHIEL future more frightening and deadly than ctHILLARY. JD and mELON-head have to throw down against the cTHIELian cohorts: cthKARP, cthLUCKEY, cthANDURIL while they still can and they will forever demonstrate worthiness of higher office (and prior offences) in comparison to the unmitigated evil(s) at stake.

Why?
Because Greater Evil always destroy its maker

What's the Lesser Evil these Days?
It's BECOME too hard to tell!

IceKingJOE: Build Back Better?
DSA: Build BORG Better

-- One Mind, One Purpose, One Future.
Resistance is NOT futile because Impedance is Real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa8ZNyL-kxk

155 AI will never become "conscious" no matter how many fever dreams they have about it. That's not how consciousness works.

156 Leftist in Austin hate data centers because ... they've been told to. That's a switch from a couple of years ago...

157 A recent article I saw stated that if a $200 per month subscription to ChatGpt were fully utilized, it would cost OpenAI upwards of $14K to provide the service. Until the service is profitable, just getting a bigger truck (ie: Data Center), ain't gonna solve the problem.

158 Trump and his billionaire friends want data centers
F the plebs

159
It will be just like when the plasma TV was king for years and all of a sudden the LCD TV's came on the market cheaper better and they lasted longer.

LCDs still have a worse picture than plasma. You have to go OLED and pay "real TV" money to match plasma.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 11:45 AM (2ocoG)

OLED is cheap these days.

You can get a great OLED with an awesome picture in a huge size and a very nice sound set up for what you would payed for a mediocre LCD 5 years ago, if you wait for the right sale.

Did I mention that capitalism and the free market is awesome? No? Well, it is!!!

160 Data wasn't even a good character. He doesn't deserve all these centers.

161 > suddenly drops to a few dozen employees who keep the lights on and sit in a chair silencing alarms without looking at what they were for (and then get fired for doing that).

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:41 AM (Ot/FD)

The increase in the property tax base will be some compensation.

Having an extra half billion in taxable property could make a real difference for Bum Fuck, Nebraska.

162 ***The information is there, but finding it requires more work than if Meta, for example, borrowed directly to finance the build out,
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But wouldn't borrowing directly be a more expensive way to do it?

163 The Internet is dead.

164 Posted by: Paul at August 12, 2026 11:50 AM (yKi7k)


You DICK!!!!

165 For size, the American Student Loan debt is about the same size 1.5 trillion or so. Yet no one frets much about the coming financial collapse of higher ed "

This.

166 It still takes me aback when I realize that 1975 was 51 years ago. I remember 1975 very well.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:39 AM


I graduated high school in 75 and shipped to Army boot camp that summer.

167
Posted by: Paul at August 12, 2026 11:50 AM (yKi7k)

Being a Mom's-basement living, envious, weasely, little troll is no way to go through life, son.

168 For size, the American Student Loan debt is about the same size 1.5 trillion or so. Yet no one frets much about the coming financial collapse of higher ed "

This.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 11:52 AM


They just write it off Jerry.......

169 Fascinating discussion, Joe.

I have no idea no the hyperscalers will eventually get paid. I use ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Codex etc for free…. My employer is really pushing AI and have their own internal version of ChatGPT (which is actually surprisingly useful)…. I get month end reports on my token usage but I pay ZERO. Who’s actually paying for these things right now? I can’t imagine a world where Joe and Jane consumer pony up a monthly fee to use…

170 I think Plasma is still better than OLED although I saw a Sony that kind of floored me. You still get these awful "trails" on OLED.

171 The Internet is dead.
Posted by: It's all bots at August 12, 2026 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)
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Well at least we can't be blamed for that...

172 The Internet is dead.

Posted by: It's all bots at August 12, 2026 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)

No it's not.

173 88 Bubbles won't burst, if you have a dependable Bubble Machine.
Posted by: Lawrence Welk Groupie at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (JM9I6)

*pawbump*

174 Posted by: Bot from NSA at August 12, 2026 11:54 AM

*golf clap*

175 A golf course uses about four times the water as a data center (more than that, if the data center is recirculating the same water), and takes up approximately the same amount of land.

But for some reason we don't see massive anti-golf course protests.

Strange, innit?

176
The increase in the property tax base will be some compensation.

Having an extra half billion in taxable property could make a real difference for Bum Fuck, Nebraska.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:51 AM


The downside to all of that extra tax $$$$ is they draw large amounts of power and water and in places like the DFW metro plex where they are building these things like crazy there is no extra capacity for any utilities. Everything is pretty much already maxxed out yet they keep handing out building permits.

177 This sounds like Enron or FTX debt-structuring schemes.

Arthur Andersen went under with Enron because other firms independently exposed their complicity.

FTX shared the same advantage as Big AI has now: no reliable auditing.

All these modern firms benefit from the new system, since the MBS/CDO collapse a decade later, which is that debt is now valued arbitrarily.

But they still keep going under anyway, because Renfield Accounting can only cover for so much, and then you get a stake through your heart.
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I know my limitations when it comes to conversations of this type, but I'm not sure how GAAP squares with the assertion that Meta (in the Beignet example) would be legally required to cough-up any shortage in a liquidation scenario? IF that's the case, how can that NOT be a "liability" in balance sheet terms?

178 148 And in the process, they are killing the home pc market, the used PC market and the gaming community. Yhis is actually more like the telco bubble in that they are building physical things.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Yes, because those only gave companies a single digit sales increase rather than being able to front a massive IPO with untold billions for the insiders.

My guess is Oracle and the Ellisons are going to be one of the casualties, Microsoft to the extent that they are now actively cannibalizing their own sacrosanct product lines is another, can't tell on Google which probably has its own Android half of cellphones to feed, and then Apple which stayed out of the muck and can afford to buy the survivor(s) of the shakeout probably. SpaceX is difficult to tell as Elon is using one part of the company to build demand as a customer for other parts of the company. Not the same as pureplay AI like Claude or Open AI.

Nvidia though is a company that I would probably short--they bet the farm on AI production leaving AMD in the dust but AMD and Intel might get the last laugh there. Intel pulled out of serious AI after its AI oriented CPUs failed badly.

179 The wit and wisdom of Hasan Piker.

Remember when Hasan Piker said this?

“I wipe my ass with the Constitution, it’s a f*cking piece of paper, motherf*ck the Constitution and motherf*ck this country”

Imagine saying this and still being treated like a serious political voice

180 Bubbles won't burst, if you have a dependable Bubble Machine.
Posted by: Lawrence Welk Groupie"

That's nothing.

/Whipped Cream and Other Delights

181 I am working on my own project and do pay for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok. Free Gemini has done TONS of stuff for me.

They're good and useful. And I'm doing something I'd never be able to do on my own. But wow, they aren't the miracle I was led to believe.

I learned a lot though.

182 Andrew Weissmann, was the lead prosecutor in the ENRON case.
That tells more about the prosecution than the so called crime.

183 > applies to all current and future members of several 2A groups

GOA is one.

As I understand it, you don't even have to be a pre-existing member.

184
Leftist in Austin hate data centers because of the "environmental impact" and effects on quality of life. But mainly it's about water usage and then energy usage. It's a huge issue here. Plus Elon Musk is big, big double bad. In fact he's the devil incarnate!!!😈 ///
Posted by: lin-duh at August 12, 2026 11:47 AM (EneHm)

In Austin, "quality of life" are magic anger words for the leftard, when they really have nothing rational to complain about.

It's been the same for decades.

Saad.

185 I know my limitations when it comes to conversations of this type, but I'm not sure how GAAP squares with the assertion that Meta (in the Beignet example) would be legally required to cough-up any shortage in a liquidation scenario? IF that's the case, how can that NOT be a "liability" in balance sheet terms?
Posted by: Crusader

I think we are all guessing because it depends on contract language between partners and exactly how those would be interpreted should the shakeout occur. The financial crisis ended up with the big banks skating on much of their implied liability and getting bailed out for the rest in 2008-9. I can see the big companies with the clout doing the same here--like Meta. Investors are the disposable ones here, not the companies.

186 Enron?

*shifty eyes*

"On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution."

187 Death of home PC market means less horsepower for the plebes to open source AI and compete with the big boys.

FNAB

188 TBH pretty sure I did not understand the essay.

189
I know my limitations when it comes to conversations of this type, but I'm not sure how GAAP squares with the assertion that Meta (in the Beignet example) would be legally required to cough-up any shortage in a liquidation scenario? IF that's the case, how can that NOT be a "liability" in balance sheet terms?

Posted by: Crusader, Former Federal Bank Examiner at August 12, 2026 11:55 AM (TN0g+)

It's a contingent liability on something that may not occur.

Financial derivatives used for hedging for instance do not show up in liabilities. The actual required payout on them is unknown until events play out.

190 Not Nancy's fault!

Nancy Pelosi claims she didn't know Biden was mentally declining:

“I saw him maybe 3 times that whole year…so I didn't know. But I do think those who did know should have acted upon that information…whoever knew.”

191 A golf course uses about four times the water as a data center (more than that, if the data center is recirculating the same water), and takes up approximately the same amount of land.

But for some reason we don't see massive anti-golf course protests.

Strange, innit?


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:55 AM

Biggest wastes of space. Those and cemeteries!

192 In Austin, "quality of life" are magic anger words for the leftard, when they really have nothing rational to complain about."

People in Allendale still have those stupid signs up...

193 In Austin, "quality of life" are magic anger words for the leftard, when they really have nothing rational to complain about.

It's been the same for decades.

Saad.
Posted by: naturalfake

Yes, a datacenter is notably inferior at quality of life than having drug addled hoboes in public places, thieves requiring all products to be locked up at stores, teen takeovers, and random minorities attacking white people with lethal menace in the streets. Oh, and food trucks.

194 >>You still get these awful "trails" on OLED.

Nothing that a set of Monster HDMI cables can't fix. They are totally worth the extra cost above inferior HDMI cables, which are all of them not made by Monster.

195 I often wonder if AI is going to do to us what it did to the Krell.

196 The actual required payout on them is unknown until events play out."

So, gambling.

197 169 Fascinating discussion, Joe.

I have no idea no the hyperscalers will eventually get paid. I use ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Codex etc for free…. My employer is really pushing AI and have their own internal version of ChatGPT (which is actually surprisingly useful)…. I get month end reports on my token usage but I pay ZERO. Who’s actually paying for these things right now? I can’t imagine a world where Joe and Jane consumer pony up a monthly fee to use…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Imagine the day of workshare where Joe and Jane rent out their consciousness -- Movie: Johnny Mnemonic , Electric State

Guess who's vacuuming up all the ideas and goals you input into this system? -- cthKARP
Guess who's survielance systems will "keep you safe" -- cthANDURIL
Guess who's really paying the bill -- cTHEIL, but the real ones we never see, inventing the world where all service them without ever knowing they live in their prison.

That's who's paying the bill.

LET's GO BRANDON!
Take a Chance; Free the World!
Indict Brennan, freeCUBA, finish the LIBs.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD

198 Yes, a datacenter is notably inferior at quality of life than having drug addled hoboes in public places, thieves requiring all products to be locked up at stores, teen takeovers, and random minorities attacking white people with lethal menace in the streets. Oh, and food trucks.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 12:00 PM (E4rtv)

Well, seriously, who is saying we can't have both?

199 >>>Arthur Andersen went under with Enron because ...
---

The government wanted scalps.

200 Noon news

CBC - endless Canadian Wildfires
CNN - Crowley
MS Now - Pirro convenes special grand jury. Reflecting pool I guess

FoxNews - Outnumbered - crazy socialists

201
This data centers' excess capacity should lower the cost for cloud storage and personal domains.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 12, 2026 11:45 AM (sIhl1)



Should.

But it won't. At least, not for unregulated cloud storage. At some point, the datacenters are going to start screening all of our data and deleting anything that the commies don't like, but the first step will be in charging premiums for unscreened cloud storage. And your unscreened storage will be on the shittiest hard drives that risk data loss, not to mention the access times will suffer.

Eventually, the unscreened storage will go away and your "private" data will be screened and cleaned up as they "improve performance".

202 Oh, and food trucks."

And voodoo donuts. And expensive IPAs

203 Excellent article, Mannix.

Have free cash to pick up once in a generation bargains after the bubble bursts.

204 Schism in the administration.

LMAO! Marco Rubio just dropped this hilarious response to Sec. RFK Jr.'s diet

Q: Have you adopted RFK's diet of red meat and fermented vegetables?

RUBIO: "No! This is a CRAZY diet. This is a diet that consists of eating sauerkraut and meat. Now you understand like this is not a sustainable thing. He has to travel with coolers of sauerkraut!"

"I'm not going to travel the world with a cooler full of sauerkraut. It's ridiculous. I can't do it!"

Q: Are you MAHA?

RUBIO: "I'm in favor of MAHA. Like I think people should be healthy."

JEANETTE: No, he's not.

Q: What's he eat?

JEANETTE: Pop-Tarts!

RUBIO: The Pop-Tart is one of the great American innovations in the history of the world.

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He's got my vote!

205 Hong's supporters have decided that "Election Fraud" is responsible for her loss.

This is going to be epic.

206 Nancy Pelosi claims she didn't know Biden was mentally declining:

“I saw him maybe 3 times that whole year…so I didn't know. But I do think those who did know should have acted upon that information…whoever knew.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 11:59 AM (ndZc7)


Lying c*nt whore.

207 Have free cash to pick up once in a generation bargains after the bubble bursts."

What's "cash"?

208 >Imagine saying this and still being treated like a serious political voice

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 11:56 AM (ndZc7)

But he's so dreamy!

~Rolling Stone

209 Hong's supporters have decided that "Election Fraud" is responsible for her loss.

This is going to be epic.
-----

Popcorn!

210 >>>Arthur Andersen went under with Enron because ...
---



What. Me worry?

211 187 Death of home PC market means less horsepower for the plebes to open source AI and compete with the big boys.

FNAB
Posted by: ...
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Eh, run OpenSeek on an old computer and you will get somewhere around 80-90 percent of the performance of frontier models. It is the frontier models that demand those new datacenters as the existing models are superceded by the newest ones. They repeatedly use the training data from the older model to train the new one plus any other data they can scrounge (now getting into old product manuals, old reference books, etc. territory).

Think Johnny Five in Short Circuit with the need for more 'input'.

Kind of like how the TV market settled out--you could pay through the nose for the bleeding edge with all its problems or wait about 2-3 years for those bleeding edge models to be faster, cheaper, etc. on sale at Walmart. Same for the PC market--you pay for bleeding edge. Noticed something with the auto market in a report, customers are now turning away from premium cars as the amenities in the new standard models have made things like heated seats, data displays, safety additives into things rolled into std. models. Not premium anymore

212 A golf course uses about four times the water as a data center (more than that, if the data center is recirculating the same water), and takes up approximately the same amount of land.

But for some reason we don't see massive anti-golf course protests.

Strange, innit?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:55 AM

I believe golf is losing popularity. First off, Tiger Woods is no longer active…. He was a HUGE draw to the sport in his heyday. I used to play golf nearly every weekend but in the last 10 years I’ve barely played…. I’ve noticed several courses I used to frequent are now gone… replaced by avacado groves or other farmland or in at least one case it’s now a place where you can pay to go hunting (in Michigan). Then the dust up between PGA and LIV alienated casual viewers. The whole thing is boring now

213 But he's so dreamy!"

Smoldering intensity and swarthy looks.
White chick bait.

214

New Orleans began using AI this spring for non-emergency calls coming to its 311 line and is now rolling it out to an agency that takes about 1,000 calls per day.

Carbyne’s AI Emergency Call Triage, for example, sends what it thinks are multiple calls for one incident to an AI bot. They get an AI response if they are calling about a previously reported incident, but are transferred to a human if they are not.

215 He's got my vote!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 12:04 PM (ndZc7)

JD Vance is losing weight. I think Usha is showing him "Fat JD" memes and giving him significant looks.

216 Q: What's he eat?

JEANETTE: Pop-Tarts!

RUBIO: The Pop-Tart is one of the great American innovations in the history of the world.

A rare misstep from Rubio. Pop-Tarts are vile.

217
I believe golf is losing popularity. First off, Tiger Woods is no longer active…. He was a HUGE draw to the sport in his heyday. I used to play golf nearly every weekend but in the last 10 years I’ve barely played…. I’ve noticed several courses I used to frequent are now gone… replaced by avacado groves or other farmland or in at least one case it’s now a place where you can pay to go hunting (in Michigan). Then the dust up between PGA and LIV alienated casual viewers. The whole thing is boring now
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 12:06 PM (zEBE+)


The Myrtle Beach area has closed over 100 courses in the last several years.

Most are being turned into housing projects.

218 The pop-up ads seem to have lessened today?

219 New Orleans began using AI this spring for non-emergency calls"

That's rayciss!

/demographic of city employees

220 AOC takes the next step.

AOC Has Her Boyfriend Frozen In Case She Wants Him In The Future

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From the Bee.

221 Musk will put DCs in space with unlimited solar and no water//cooling issues.

Smart. Thats why he is a trillionaire.

222 218 The pop-up ads seem to have lessened today?
Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2026 12:08 PM (TN0g

They sure haven't. Every refresh.

223 I'm still AI skeptical...which is ironic as I just got in charge of using Claude for Test Automation at work.

224 I believe golf is losing popularity"

Everything has peaks and valleys.

225 Datacenters still have humans. Humans are still stupid. I received this message from the DC I support yesterday:

We recently determined that an unauthorized actor obtained an employee’s credentials through social engineering and used those credentials to access certain business systems available to the employee’s account, including our CRM platform. We immediately secured the account, revoked active sessions, and initiated an investigation.


"Did you fire the dumbass that gave their login info out?!?"

226 I think a lot of these AI companies believe the government will bail them out.

227 196 The actual required payout on them is unknown until events play out."

So, gambling.
Posted by: man
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Our vaunted financial markets and insurance are all examples of betting on outcomes. No different than a casino except it is easier to rig a lot of outcomes for financial markets and insurance. Black Jack has specific odds as does Roulette, etc. so you can calculate those to a decimal point.

228 196 "The actual required payout on them is unknown until events play out."

So, gambling.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:01 PM (cGjQu)

They're structured like a gamble rather than a debt so they don't go on the balance sheet. Similarly a lawsuit doesn't show up unless the expectation is you'll lose and the amount is reasonably estimable.

229 And that scale is another part of the reason. Nobody can afford this.
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True.

This reminds me of railroad expansion 150 years ago.

Next year, hyperscalers are estimated to spend an estimated $1.5 trillion in new capital spending, or at least that's an estimate I saw tossed out yesterday. Debt issuance is so huge it starting to crowd out the other big borrower, America, and preventing interest rates from dropping lower. That means debt issuance is so high, it is causing the United States government budget strain. It's incredible.

A friend of mine sold all his stocks and bought physical gold and silver, he's so shocked by the debt levels. Is that the right path? Or will the stock market and general robustness of the economy bail us all out? Who the hell can say.

230 The Myrtle Beach area has closed over 100 courses in the last several years.

Most are being turned into housing projects.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:08 PM (2YhKe
They will revert to truck farming in the caliphate.

231 and no water//cooling issues."

So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?

232 Musk will put DCs in space with unlimited solar and no water//cooling issues.

Smart. Thats why he is a trillionaire.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2026 12:10 PM (bX16E)


Maintenance and upkeep becomes MEGA f*cking expensive.

233 Over at GP there is a hysterical vid from the Babylon Bee about the state of New Mexico.

234 195 I often wonder if AI is going to do to us what it did to the Krell.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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It was all good until...

235 231 and no water//cooling issues."

So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:12 PM (cGjQu)

I was thinking that too....

236 226 I think a lot of these AI companies believe the government will bail them out.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Possibly. I can see Trump though demanding a stake if it happens in his term like Intel. Not giving them fed money for nothing like Dems or normal GOPe would.

237 Lakers just sold for $12.5 billion after being bought last year for $10 billion.

238 Massachusetts takes the next step.

Massachusetts Legalizes Abortion Up Until Kindergarten

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From the Bee.

239 The Myrtle Beach area has closed over 100 courses in the last several years.

Most are being turned into housing projects.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:08 PM (2YhKe)

That's sad, but not surprising. I was looking at the MB area myself recently.

240 235 231 and no water//cooling issues."

So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:12 PM (cGjQu)

I was thinking that too....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:13 PM (xcxpd)

The hope seems to be to recycle the energy but that's pretty speculative.

241 This is about me, isn't it?

242 236 226 I think a lot of these AI companies believe the government will bail them out.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Possibly. I can see Trump though demanding a stake if it happens in his term like Intel. Not giving them fed money for nothing like Dems or normal GOPe would.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 12:14 PM (E4rtv)

I guess that is a least-bad scenario. I don't like bailouts as a general rule. Abominable Intelligences are being misused badly as it is.

243 Sponge, his satelites are disposable. The burn up in thee atmosphere in five years, and he still makes money on them.

244 So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?

Radiative.

245 244 So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?

Sucky.

246 Maintenance and upkeep becomes MEGA f*cking expensive"

Hal, give me the the duct tape...

247 So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?
Posted by: man

Publius or Gref among the nightowls could explain it. Also Pawn. Latter two are real rocket scientists and Publius is of all things physics, a genius.

248 Nood.

249 A golf course uses about four times the water as a data center (more than that, if the data center is recirculating the same water), and takes up approximately the same amount of land.

But for some reason we don't see massive anti-golf course protests.

Strange, innit?


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:55 AM (IG3/x)
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It's the collision between their need for electricity and the green ideal of closing all carbon based energy production. Turbines are noisy and use NatGas. Bad, by definiton.

250 NOODlum.

251
That's sad, but not surprising. I was looking at the MB area myself recently.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:15 PM (xcxpd)


Been on golf trips the last few years there. It's not a bad area, TBH.

252 >>>The Myrtle Beach area has closed over 100 courses in the last several years.

Most are being turned into housing projects.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Obama and Biden had a devastating effect on middle-class with disposable income.

253 So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?

Radiative.
Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2026 12:16 PM (5FKHw)

Indeed. Point a hot surface towards deep space (away from the sun) and heat will flow away from it. This is the process that makes ice form on puddles under a clear night sky, even though the air temperature does not drop below freezing.

254 I guess that is a least-bad scenario. I don't like bailouts as a general rule. Abominable Intelligences are being misused badly as it is.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

It is a tool that can work, but most politicians see dollar signs for themselves if they just shovel the money to the bailout. But markets panic and you get irrational get rid of it responses during a panic.

Intel was getting beaten down for example for not making ENOUGH of a profit and predictions that it would fail by short sellers rather than the facts in the matter.

And I think naked short types should be drawn and quartered while being burned at the stake. They are parasites. Want to short, get a stake or borrow it from someone to do so putting your own ass at risk. Naked shorts are simply trying to psychologically beat down the price so you can score cheap profits with little outlay and risk.

255 So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:12 PM (cGjQu)
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Is it cooling we are talking about or heat radiation? Obviously in space, radiating heat is no problem. As far as cooling goes, if the satellite is not directly facing the sun it is sitting a few hundred degrees below zero, but much warmer if facing the sun. Right? So cooling might just be a matter of shielding satellites on the day side of orbit, and warming them on the night side. Would that be right?

256 "When AGI arrived, it came with a pair of fake tits"
@charliebcurran

https://tinyurl.com/2uyka4w7
Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:33 AM (rbvCR)

Snake Plissken? I heard you was dead!

257 Maintenance and upkeep becomes MEGA f*cking expensive.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:12 PM (2YhKe)
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Sponge I think it's just the opposite, zero cost maintenance. The satellites work until their orbit degrades and they burn up in the atmosphere. New satellites replace them, usually more capable ones. Rinse and repeat.

258 When AGI arrived, it came with a pair of fake tits"
@charliebcurran

https://tinyurl.com/2uyka4w7
Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:33 AM (rbvCR)

I would wish for more realism but I appreciate the effort
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The Morning Report — 8/ 12 /26

Good morning kids. So hallelujah, as the dust settles on the primary elections across several states.

Let's start the day off with a bit of good news. The absolutely vile, hideous Francesca Hong was resoundingly, if not perhaps surprisingly defeated by a so-called moderate candidate in the Democrat primary election to see who their candidate for governor of Wisconsin will be come the general election this November.

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley beat Democratic socialist Francesca Hong in a come-from-behind victory during the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary Tuesday night.

Crowley, 40, was ahead of the 37-year-old state representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America 39.8% to 39.4% when the race was called by the Associated Press at 3:34 a.m.

Surveys ahead of the Badger State Democratic contest had consistently showed Hong besting Crowley by double digit percentage points. Crowley had also dropped out of the race weeks before and even endorsed another opponent, before re-entering the contest and receiving the backing of outgoing Gov. Tony Evers.

Hong who hates Israel, white people, and not merely Thanksgiving but what it represents, family, America that encompass its history, society, culture and traditions. Then again, in whole or in part this is what the Democrats en masse are all about. In their two century-long desire for absolute power they have embraced and endorsed any and every crackpot and in so doing have placed an absolute stranglehold on several key states and more crucially institutions of our government and private sector that have kept them in power all this time, primarily academia and the media.

So the question is, is Hong's defeat merely because the party and electorate see her as politically/tactically toxic during an election or that what she believes does not align with what it and they believe. My fear is that if the latter were the case, how in the world could she and all the others of her ilk have ever gotten as far as they have politically? Well, they couldn't. And yet here we are as a nation and society. Since yesterday was an open primary in Wisconsin I and my fellow Wisconsinites had the opportunity to vote for either party, and since Tom Tiffany was a shoe-in to win in the GOP, I'm wondering how many of my fellow sane republican Wisconsinites voted on the Democrat line for Crowley to pull a sort of Operation Chaos a la Limbaugh? I just realized that maybe this might not have been such a great idea as having Hong as a candidate might make our side complacent and as Dems vote for whoever has the D after their name regardless of who it is could spell disaster come November. Oh well, fellow Dairy Staters and everyone please weigh in.

Host Peter Alexander said, “There’s a conversation happening among Democrats, and I’m sure a lot of people sitting listening to this conversation right now, who have these real concerns about the sort of divide they’re experiencing within the party between the more progressive candidates and the more moderate, more centrist candidates. The fear is that ultimately it may cost the party some seats, some governors’ mansions. You saw that Abdul El-Sayed, someone you supported, obviously won what was a really close race against a more moderate Senate candidate in the state of Michigan. Right now in Wisconsin, Francesca Hong is facing some similar concerns.” He asked, “What do you make of that concern, and how do you satisfy those more centrist Democrats and independent-minded folks, in states like your own right now, who are having that real debate within their own head?” Ellison said, “I think the debate is great. I think it’s an important debate to have. Democratic, ‘big D’ Democrats are being democratic ‘small D,’ meaning that we’re debating ideas.

Yes, Keith Ellison is a sick freak but he's also the Attorney General of the state of Minnesota. His views are absolutely in line with Hong and all the rest, and he has been the AG of Mn for many many years and through many election cycles. I suppose one can argue that social media posts can come back to bite candidates in the ass but then again, how is it that my old hometown of NYC can swing from the madness of a David Dinkins to 12-plus years of a golden age under Rudy Giuliani and then embrace DeBolshevik and then DeBolshevik on steroids Mamdani?! I don't get it.

From coast-to-coast, voters on the left are turning to the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) to lead them to the promised land. For them, of course, the promised land is communism.

Not surprisingly, the DSA candidates usually run under the Democrat banner. Democrats and communists have always been soul mates.

In 1948, Henry A. Wallace, who had been FDR’s vice president from 1941 to 1945, ran for president under the Progressive Party banner. The Progressive Party was hard left and strongly aligned with, and supported by, the Communist Party of America. Wallace received 2.4% of the vote. Unfortunately, today’s communists (costumed in DSA clothing behind the Democrat curtain) are getting ten times that.

But don’t call them communists! Ask Democrats or DSA members, and they’ll vehemently deny they’re communists. The DSA will assert, “We’re not communists, we’re docialists. BIG difference!” Really? And Democrats often won’t even agree that they’re socialists, despite having mirror image policies.

Speaking of Rush Limbaugh, as the late great Maha Rushie of blessed memory once observed, When the Left promises paradise on earth and free everything, it's impossible to run against Santa Claus and beat him. The irony there of course is the Left's preternatural hatred of everything Christian, but the analogy is nevertheless spot on.

But of course, a lot of people are going to have to be liquidated and the past 250 years of our unique "exceptional" history completely erased in order for their fever dreams to be realized

Abolish The Police, Seize The Corporations, Erase The Borders This is the DSA platform Democrats don’t want you to read.

While some in the Democrat Party are freaking out over the freaks like Hong there they are running and ins some cases like Mamdani winning. Yes the entirety of the Wisconsin populace cannot be compared to that of NYC as a whole. But there's Keith Ellison, who unlike a John Fetterman or even a Chuck Schumer is eager to embrace the overt Commies. Of course so long as they have a D next to their name, Democrats must vote for that candidate.

Speaking of Paradise on Earth — elsewhere in the world, as Iran continues to be a festering boil on the world's backside, let me just state for the record that President Trump and Israel's combined effort so far to prevent these fiends from obtaining nuclear weapons and initiating armageddon as the precursor to permanent global Islamic domination, was absolutely necessary to the safety and security of the world.

This item is rather alarming:

Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has called for Islamic nations to set aside their differences and join Islamabad’s defence agreement with Saudi Arabia and Turkey to form a military alliance along the lines of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Talking to Geo News, Asif said the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement shouldn’t be an ‘exclusive club’ and urged Islamic nations to put their difference aside and join the pact. . . “I think that, along the lines of NATO, Muslim countries should put their own differences aside–the transactional issues or bilateral disputes they have with one another — and stand together on this one platform,” he added. . .

. . . Pakistan is the world’s primary enforcer of Islamic blasphemy laws. It’s a state sponsor of terrorism, holds an estimated 170 nuclear warheads, and is steadily modernizing its arsenal. Its longest-range operational missile is the Shaheen 3, which can hit targets up to 1,709 miles. Saudi Arabia is the location of Mecca and Medina, Islam’s holiest cities. Turkey is “the new Iran,” a Muslim Brotherhood-supporting nation with revanchist aims. Recently, Greek MEP Afroditi Latinopoulou rightly warned that “pretending Turkey is still a reliable ally is not a strategy. It is dangerous self-delusion.”

But let's not lose our heads over Islam!

Of course who the new American red guards of the DSA can't shoot into a mass grave will be taken care of by the graduates of our Madrassas...

Her nearly 300-page study examines an English-language Islamic Studies curriculum spanning Grades 1 through 12, published by Darussalam and supplemented by other widely circulated educational texts. Rather than approaching Islamic education through sociological generalizations or newspaper accounts of radicalization, she examines what children themselves encounter: textbooks, exercises, religious stories, prescribed behavior, Quranic passages, accounts of Mohammed and his companions, and the material that is emphasized, softened, postponed, or omitted. The result is one of the more important studies of Islamic education to appear in recent years.

With any luck I'll be dead and not have to worry about anything more than having my tombstone desecrated.

But at least Hong has been sidelined, at least for now so on that bit of positive news, I bid you all to

Have a good day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• FEAST ON THIS
  Holiday-hating Francesca Hong loses to moderate David Crowley in Wisconsin gubernatorial primary (she hates America, not just holidays - jjs)

• A threat - potentially rivaling that of Iran.
  Pakistan Invites Muslim Nations to Join the New ‘Islamic NATO’

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• Pouring lighter fluid, throwing cinderblock, attempting murder
  Violent Anti-ICE Protesters Are Sentenced, Convicted
  
• El-Sayed’s past remarks could become a focal point in the state’s general election. As Michigan is a swing state, many voters are likely to find El-Sayed’s extreme-left views off-putting. Republicans have sought to leverage El-Sayed’s past comments as a means to mobilize moderate voters against him. His nomination demonstrates the ongoing shift to the left within the Democrat Party and the mainstreaming of anti-American sentiment.
  Dem Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Deletes Podcast Where He Called to Scrap July 4th Fireworks and the Second Amendment.

• The four horsemen of the leftist apocalype include Marxism, Sharia, AI, and the national debt.
  Apocalypse soon
  
• They highlight crude, fringe episodes of prejudice while ignoring pervasive institutional discrimination against Indian Americans.
  Progressives’ Selective Indignation Over Anti-Indian Racism
  
• This is the DSA platform Democrats don’t want you to read.
  Abolish The Police, Seize The Corporations, Erase The Borders
  
• Both systems promise that a slaughter is necessary but also promise its end. Both systems invariably keep the first promise and violate the second.
  The Mohammunist Manifesto—The Promise of ‘Transitional Phase’ Slaughter

  
  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• In a series of tense airport standoffs, gate agents and corporate executives at major carriers like Southwest Airlines have repeatedly blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from accessing jet bridges, shielded passenger manifests, and demanded administrative hurdles to prevent federal agents from taking illegal visa overstayers into custody, according to recent reports by national news outlets.
  Never Again? Airlines Obstruct ICE Crackdown on Same Visa Overstays that Enabled 9/11 Hijackerss
  
• If implemented, the reforms could significantly reduce reliance on foreign labor, encourage companies to invest in American talent, and potentially sway voters ahead of the midterm elections. However, big business, including lobbying groups like FWD.us, is expected to push back against these measures, given the rewards it reaps from undercutting American workers by importing foreign workers.
  Trump Admin Drafts Visa Reforms to Reduce Displacement of American Workers by Imported Labor.
  
• A Pakistani migrant who is charged with sexually assaulting an elderly, wheelchair bound woman in Boston will likely be released by the state government thanks to Massachusetts’ sanctuary laws, says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
  Massachusetts Set to Release Pakistani Delivery Driver Charged with Assaulting Elderly Boston Woman (he should be met at the prison door with baseball bats - jjs)
  
• ICE lodges detainer after fatal machete stabbing in Hallandale Beach.
  Illegal Immigrant Released By Biden Kills Roommate With Machete As He Gave Chilling Last Words.
  
• “A U.S. embassy in North Africa revoked over 100 visas for ‘birth tourist’ parents who came to the United States primarily to give birth so their children would get U.S. citizenship.”
  State Department Revokes Over 175,000 Visas for Criminal Activity
  
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to spend up to $20 million on thousands of G.L.O.V.E. devices by March. The name stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter.
  ICE Wants Electric Gloves for Combative Arrests. Here Comes the Meltdown.

  THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)

• An elaborate “deception operation” undertaken to conceal the president’s departure flight from Ankara. 
  WaPo: Trump Took Secret Flight to Evade Iranian Assassination Plot After NATO Summit
  
• . . .as Tehran refuses to back down from sweeping demands for ending the standoff.
  Trump: U.S. Navy ‘Controls the Strait 100%’ with ‘Steel Wall’ Blockade — Iran Escalation Still on the Table
  
• “We have total control over the Hormuz Strait right now. They don’t have control. We have total control. We own it,” Trump told reporters Tuesday evening after returning from Ohio.
  Trump Doubles Down on U.S. ‘Total Control’ of Hormuz: Iran Can Crumble Economically or Get ‘Blown Away’

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY

• Punishing Jewish people, ignoring Hamas.
  UK MPs on an Anti-Israel Rampage
  * * * * *

• The world's real genocides don't interest them.
  ‘Priests Against Genocide’ are Blind Guides

  
  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “11th Hour,” Minnesota U.S. Senate candidate and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D) responded to criticism of her on fraud by saying that “Republicans are running against every Democrat in this race on that issue, because they are distracting from the fact that we have one of the most corrupt presidents in our nation’s history.” And her opponent, Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) voted for the Laken Riley Act.
  MN Lt. Gov., Senate Candidate Flanagan on Fraud: Trump’s Bad, My Opponent Voted for Laken Riley Act

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Hopefully, the rest of the FAA’s air traffic control enhancement plan will prove as successful.
  FAA’s Gamer Recruitment Campaign Scores Over 2,000+ Air Traffic Controller Candidates

  
  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• But is he wrong?
  Trump Outrages Leftists (Again) by Calling Muslim Democrat Candidates ‘Jihadists’
  
• 'When I die and I stand before God … I don’t want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way,' El-Sayed told the New York Times in 2009
  Revealed: El-Sayed Proclaimed 'Obligation' To Follow Sharia Law Until the Day He Dies
  
• Elaine Ellinger opens the classroom door on Islamic education in the West.
  The Hidden Curriculum of Islamic Schools

  
  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS

• "That's your candidate for Senate, a guy who clearly hates Christians, a guy who covers up for trans violence, and a guy who wants to take your guns away."
  Michigan's Dem candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed clearly hates Christians and covers up for trans violence

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• The latest communications from the Covid czar, obtained by the committees investigating him, note concerns about ‘mutations.’
  Texts: Fauci And Friends Covered Up Concerns About The Covid Vax And Miscarriages
  
• COVID may have been novel, but what wasn’t was the fact that, at bottom, a pandemic is a pandemic, and Fauci proved to be completely unprepared.
  Fauci And The Pandemic Playbook That Wasn’t
  
• Fauci's dirty little secrets.
  Naomi Wolf Video: The Vax’s Crippling of Human Sexual Organs

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Publication is mocked for ‘disgusting’ anti-Israel issue
  Under James Murdoch, New York Magazine Tilts Toward Hamas

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• New York already has laws that help close the loopholes Amazon uses to deflect blame when it comes to accidents.
  Mamdani Supports Delivery Bill as Amazon Threatens to Move NYC Operations
  
• "People who are highly educated in this country were promised this path of economic success."
  DSA capitalizes on Americans' downward mobility
  
• Bitcoin Bill Dudley, who advocated anti-Trump monetary policy, says new chairman has ‘undermined his credibility’
  Fed Deep State Undercuts Kevin Warsh, Who Wins Some Surprise Support

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• The state's blind rush to green energy is foolish and profoundly dangerous.
  California, The Blackout State 
  
• The woke green agenda rests on climate alarmism, anti-human policies, and economic myths that threaten both prosperity and freedom.
  The Delusional Premises of Woke Greens

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Heather MacDonald: The Trump administration should have stood its ground in its earlier effort to zero out the failed Great Society program.
  Head Start Has Never Worked

  THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• "This campaign pledge from the President is why millions of Americans sent him back to the White House." U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction barring the Postal Service from enforcing the mail-voting provisions of Trump’s executive order for the November elections or any earlier federal election.
  Trump’s Midterm Election Push Hits Legal Roadblock

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• A seemingly red-faced Mayor Zohran Mamdani blamed a “miscommunication” Tuesday after an awkward public clash between City Hall and NYPD officials over whether the department would provide security for his wife Rama Duwaji’s upcoming Middle East trip.
  Red-faced Mamdani blames his staff after NYPD denies NYC’s first lady Rama Duwaji a police escort to the Middle East

  POLITICS

• Here's the tale of the tape from PJ Media's coverage last night - jjs
  RESULTS: Primaries in Alabama, South Carolina, Connecticut, Vermont, Minnesota and Wisconsin
  
• The far-Left bartender has faced intense scrutiny and negative media coverage in recent weeks over fringe views.
  From Piker To Bernie, Nobody Wants To Be Seen With Francesca Hong
  
• The new poll could suggest that Democrat voters view Harris as a unifying figure amid the party’s descent into civil war over whether to embrace the far-left politics of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
  DATA: Harris Far Ahead of Newsom, AOC in New Poll.
  
• After intense pressure from Democrats for her to drop out of the race, Alani Bankhead did not exit the race by the August 10 deadline. In a statement on Monday, Senate Leadership Fund spokeswoman Chloe Smith praised Bankhead for her courageous stand against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schemer (D-NY).
  No Candidates Drop from Montana Senate Race Despite Pressure from Democrats
  
• Gov. Hobbs is the latest swing-state Democrat to tout crossover Republican support as the party struggles to contain its surging socialist wing.
  Swing-State Democrat Taps ‘Republican’ Running Mate
  
• If voters choose to avert their gaze and stick their fingers in their ears, they’ll only have themselves to blame.
  Battle Lines: Accountability Will Be the Dividing Issue in the Midterms
  
• Communists think they can make the Democrats winners.
  Obamacrats Cultivate A Leftist Party
  
• Tuesday on MS NOW’s “State of Play,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) said he welcomed Democratic candidates who were members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) because it makes the party debate ideas.
  MN AG Ellison: Great to Have Socialists in the Party, Dems Are ‘Debating Ideas’
  
• The hazard of underestimating its appeal.
  The Inadequacy of Opposing Socialism

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• A state of emergency remains in place in Colombia after the country was rocked by a major 7.4 magnitude earthquake on Monday morning, with the epicentre striking under the Choco region, described in reports as a poor and inaccessible area with few roads, confounding attempts to get a clear picture of damage. Nevertheless, the initially moderate death toll known on Monday has soared overnight and now officially stands at 132, with over 700 injured.
  132+ Killed in Colombia Earthquake as Death Toll Revised Upwards, Thousands Reported Missing
  
• "We appreciate this decision, and the fact that Russia asked for no one in return — No exchange took place," President Trump said.
  Trump Rescues Tortured American Citizen Imprisoned By Russia Under Biden Junta
  
• According to a report from the local El Pueblo de Ceuta newspaper, the University Hospital of Ceuta (HUCE) treated at least five girls under the age of 14 years old after they were apparently raped.
  At Least Five Underage Girls Allegedly Raped in Spanish Ceuta Following Migrant Invasion
  
• A U.S.–Japan joint effort to support the currency won’t undo decades of distorted bond prices and mounting debt.
  The Yen Bailout Won’t Fix Japan’s Bond Problem
  
• Unfortunately for the people of that island nation, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley’s leftist governance is corrupt and tyrannical.
  The Caribbean Is Shifting Right, Except For Barbados
  
• It was definitely not a serious interview, but I thought I'd have some fun and share some of the highlights. And if you have an extra hour or so, I highly recommend watching it and getting to know our Secretary of State (and possible future president?) a little better. 
  Movies, Music, Future Plans, and What Will Really Happen in Cuba? Rubio Tells All.

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• The arrests come at a diplomatically sensitive moment, as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is set to visit South Korea. The case underscores growing concerns over China’s espionage activities in the region, particularly against U.S. bases, which play a critical role in monitoring the strategic Yellow Sea and countering potential threats from China’s PLA.
  Chinese Military Veterans Arrested for Spying on U.S. Bases.

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Are we proving the existence of viruses - or presupposing it?
  The Virus Assumption

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• “Just think about all of the young, innocent, and perhaps confused children who will be spared!”
  Trump Admin Ends Medicaid Funding For Child ‘Sex-Rejecting’ Procedures
  
• Public support for transgenderism is lower than it was five years ago, and a new strategy is required, female-presenting activist Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) told a pro-transgender religious broadcaster.
  Sarah McBride Admits Trans Activists’ Cult-Like Cancel Culture Strategy Failed
  
• He sought refuge in the Netherlands, only to discover that the place he had fled was considerably safer and more welcoming than the refuge he had chosen.
  Trans Woman Who Fled ‘Trump’s America’ Returns: ‘Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Done’
  
• The ruling underscores the difficulty states face in challenging the Trump administration’s federal policies without clear evidence of legal violations. It also reinforces the Trump administration’s efforts to maintain its policies on gender and biological sex, particularly in areas like women’s sports.
  Court Tosses Majority of Minnesota’s Challenge Against Trump’s Trans Directives.

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Our country’s ethos is being subverted by radicals seeking to transform it.
  The Cultural Revolution Is in Full Swing
  
• Christian Toto: John Ondrasik pens WaPo op-ed calling out his fellow musicians
  One Brave Singer Rushes to Boy George’s Defense

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