RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mattdm/117503034421357127
Ok so I did look it up, and found https://blog.coredump.cx/p/decibels-are-ridiculous, and now I know _less than I did before_.
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Wait, are "bels" metric? Like, decibels implies centibels and kilobels? Megabels? Petabels?
*does not go to look this up*
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CW: US politics, wolf cliché meme
We're feeding the country to the first one, right now. The Republicans aren't even shy about it. They want the America with just that wolf.
I'm frustrated because the Democratic leadership — at least — are scared of feeding the other. They're worried that El-Sayed is "underperforming", that AOC and Mamdani are "polarizing".
I am also frustrated with people who say "America has always been evil" as if that's a conversation-stopper. It's important to acknowledge the terrible wolf, but we don't have to let it win.
When it comes to voting, I will pick whichever candidate is less the first wolf and more the latter, even though imperfect. But this can't last. You can't feed both wolves strategically. We need a party that fully supports the hopeful vision of America.
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CW: US politics, wolf cliché meme
I know "inside of you, there are two wolves" is thoroughly silly, but, also, it pretty much completely describes the history and present of the United States.
One wolf is slavery, Manifest Destiny, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Trail of Tears, Jim Crow, ICE, "replacement theory".
The other is the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, birthright citizenship, Composite Nation, Civil Disobedience, the melting pot, the Shining City on the Hill.
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🧵So it’s not a coincidence that there’s unifying, global, bipartisan opposition to data centers, particularly #AI data centers, happening at the same time.
newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...
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Post by @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social/post/3mykk6my5uc2v
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#AI is helping landlords collude to raise rent, causing layoffs, driving personalized pricing that means things cost us more, facilitating the government disappearing people off the street, destroying the social connections that social media was pitched to nurture, and determining who lives and who dies. So it’s not a coincidence that there’s unifying, global, bipartisan opposition to data centers, particularly AI data centers, happening at the same time.
https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/things-im-reading-2026-10-24/ -
🧵 #AI is helping landlords collude to raise rent, causing layoffs, driving personalized pricing that means things cost us more, facilitating the gov disappearing people off the street, destroying the social connections that social media was pitched to nurture, & determining who lives & who dies.
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