Posts tagged “data centers”

Cartoon: Tweedledum in red and Tweedledee in blue stand in the two pans of a brass balance scale, both flinging dollar bills and coins down at a crowd of upraised hands.

After the Shellacking

Social Liberty Foundation · November 4, 2026

On November 3, 2010, the morning after his party lost sixty-three House seats, Barack Obama stood at a White House podium and called it a shellacking. He didn’t recommend that future presidents take one, he said. Sixteen years later to […]

#ron desantis #dispatch #jd vance #one-party states

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Memory farmland at dusk: rows of bulky gray memory buildings, each venting shimmering heat, planted like crops to the horizon under a violet and orange sky with dark hills and transmission towers, and one last fruit tree in blossom

Memory Farms in the Valley of Heart's Delight

Idan Rednaxus · October 1, 2026

Before it was Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley had another name. Promoters in the early twentieth century called it the Valley of Heart's Delight: miles of prune, apricot, peach, and cherry orchards between the bay and the hills, among […]

#municipalism #land #artificial intelligence #current events

#georgism #california #santa clara valley #energy #data centers #community #water #silicon valley

A singularity over a city at night: a black event horizon ringed with light and a tilted orange accretion disk, as buildings tear loose from the skyline and spiral in toward it, stretching and burning as they fall

The AI Event of 2026

Alan Forester-Kaiser · September 30, 2026

Historic events usually don't arrive on a date. The numerals Europe counts with didn't have a launch day. Leonardo of Pisa, the mathematician later called Fibonacci, brought the Hindu-Arabic system to Italian merchants in his Liber Abaci in 1202, and […]

#municipalism #land #social liberty #personal sovereignty

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