The enormous elephant in the room regarding the increasing demands on our electricity grid is simply this: we don't actually _need_ AI. It's not in any way a public need for public good. It's a private and public want. If you turned off every major GAI tomorrow nothing would demonstrably change except for our power consumption would go down and nvidia's stock would crash.

Addendum: I am talking here about the slop machines, which are the drivers of this overconsumption. I fully recognize that generative systems are being used for legitimate purposes and research, I literally help run one of them.

I do not know another way to express to people that trying to appease fascists by “being a good minority” or totally deferring to them publicly has saved absolutely no marginalized group or profession in human history. They are coming after us anyway. Even if you scold peers for not being nice.

Then I do this thing where I imagine the words coming from the actual person's mouth and think about what they might have intended. I mean, I was taught this was the way to read other people's words, and it took a long time to apply it. Maybe I'm too autistic and that's too literal a way to be? Because everything apparently has to be veiled in subtext (/s <- look a tone indicator) 2/2

I'm endlessly exhausted by attempting to be clear and concise in text form and still being misunderstood. Because the "tone" was off. What tone? The one you imagined in your head when you were reading it? Why do you assume the way you're interpreting this imagined tone is obvious and correct? Why are words on a screen "heard" and not taken at face value? Personally I've learned over time that the tone I'm hearing in my internal dialogue is *mine* when I'm reading someone else's words. 1/2

Pam Bondi deleted a government study showing that right-wingers commit more terrorism. The right cannot think coherently so instead of making their own studies, they censor legitimate ones.

But don't worry Pam, we saved it for you! https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf

Trey Reed was found hanging from a tree.
Let me repeat that. He was Found Hanging From A Tree.
In Mississippi. In the state that lynched more Black people than ANY OTHER STATE IN THE COUNTRY. And police have the audacity to summarily conclude "no foul play."
It's just as horrific that we don't have a competent DOJ to independently investigate this. My God. Horrific. Just horrific.

So when Nazis can make an environment hostile to minorities and the minorities are punished for making a hostile environment to racists, and the nonracists are trained and biased referees, you create a game where minorities fail out and Nazis win. That's why they're an invasive species. No one else is allowed to exist where they're tolerated. 12/12

dropping in on other people's meetings and pushing out minorities. He wouldn't have felt so bold saying out right racist shit including that diversity was the enemy of white people and needed to be stopped.

What they did was create a negative paradigm where there was zero incentive to not be a racist since white people in the industry would keep running cover and minorities would just have to tolerate harassment. 11/x

people actually broke down that Jon Callan was actually kind of shitty as his job. The ingrained belief was that Nazis shouldn't be purged from the environment. We must be kind to the invasive species.

Jon Callan himself said he was terrified when people started punching Nazis.

Where white people failed both the minorities they were trying to get into the industry and Jon Callan is by not saying racism will not be tolerated. He wouldn't have felt so confident 10/x

the Nazis said "We got the ideas from the US." From forced sterilization to the holocaust. So when the new inheritor of these ideas is shot in the street, you think "Oh no. What about our peaceful discourse?"

Why diversity failed, is because whenever I brought up how Jon Callan was a racist people would say, almost as a conditioned response, "And I'd still hire him." When asked why he was so good as to be worth hiring a racist, 9/x

but Israel is still competing when single digit percentages of buildings remain in Gaza. Because you don't have to tolerate expansionism for warm water port access. But in Eurocentric white supremacist cultures, you must allow the benefit of the doubt, and search for innocence in the Nazis. Gosh, it's just Trump. It's just Netanyahu. Everything else is fine! Except it never was.

In the trials of the Nazis after WWII, the first thing the UN ever did, 8/x

It's why Israel says, "From the River to the sea" is a call for genocide and you must not tolerate anyone who says this liberation phrase, but genocide isn't genocide and Israel should get to be in Eurovision.

You can tell Israel is a settler colonizer and Russia is invading Ukraine for economic reasons and NATO pressures (Still wrong though) because Russia is banned from the World Cup and Olympics for bombing civilian structures, 7/x

Even when people try to show sympathy for his kids watching their father die, there's a quote that Charlie Kirk wanted children to watch public executions of those with criminal politics. Of course the invasive species always means the pro-social politics and cultures should be the ones hanging from the rope and that no one should even be rude to the master race. This is how apartheids inevitably build the exact same structures of legalized humiliation rituals. 6/x

"You need to be nicer because there's all this hate."

When Republicans are shot, it's this idea that calling Nazis, Nazis is making it unsafe to be a Nazi. "It's the rhetoric of the left that's the problem" even though right-wing rhetoric calls to kill innocent people in many ways either through removing the conditions necessary for life, political assassinations, or genocide.

There's no shortage of instances where Charlie Kirk called for the same level of violence he was killed by. 5/x

in every nation. This is why the sun never set on the British Empire. This is why Israel is calling the whole Middle East "The curse" and their own expansionist and ethnic cleansing efforts to be "The cure." Even though, Russia was taken to the Hague for committing the very crime Netanyahu went to the UN to get consent for.

So whenever there's a sign that the invasive species of Nazi ideology is treated as hostile in an environment there's a burst of 4/x

more more more. Donald Trump with access to all the power of the world will still cry that he's the victim and it's not enough. He will cry into every microphone on the planet that he's being silenced. And complain about the biased news coverage with his face, words, and soundbites on every screen on the planet. He wants the rules to bend for him and if they don't contort themselves around him, then it's unfair.

This is why Hitler went on world domination. This is why the US has bases 3/x

to do as much damage and take as much as possible from everything around it that it perceives as outside of itself and is presently its strategic target.

EG. "So much for the tolerant left."

Because if you're not a Nazi you're tied to some level of pro-social values. And so they exploit those values to demand inclusion and push people out. They'll say that minorities are the real racists. They chronically and consistently demand more space, more inclusion, more of a platform, 2/x

🧵 As written by Sharif
The reason you want to defend the civility of not murdering Nazis is because of white supremacy. A settler colonial society has beliefs on the microcosm and the macrocosm that its racist and destructive ideas must be allowed to exist with respect and civility even though it exists to remove and destroy other cultures and peoples with impunity.

And if you don't, then you're shamed for not allowing an invasive species that literally has no other value than 1/x

Dear Western Liberal,

Saying "I support a two-state solution" does not release you from your moral obligation to ferociously oppose a genocide backed by your own government.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/dear-western-liberal

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