Robert Reich gives us a warning about the AI bubble potentially bursting, similar to other wild speculation in the past (the dot.com bubble in the ‘90s, the housing bubble in ’08, to say nothing of the Great Depression), and this time around, it definitely isn’t a guarantee that taxpayers will be left to clean up the mess, nor should we, I wish to emphasize...didn’t know affected companies were doing trillions of dollars in deals with each other, but sadly, that fits the awful pattern also...I mean, it wouldn’t be so potentially bad if the rest of our economy were doing well, but that definitely isn’t the case (AI accounting for 92% of GDP growth? Ugh)...we also learn that 37 states have granted tax exemptions for building those wretched AI data centers, which poses a whole other nightmare as far as the environment is concerned...
...and speaking of those damn data centers, I’m going to revisit TYT with Cenk and Ana even though I said I wouldn’t because they’re covering this important story also...we learn that there currently is a conflict with Virginia farmers in conflict with AI as they try to eke out a livelihood as our economy utterly tanks (and leave it to this Dagen McDowell person on Fix Noise to tell these farmers to SHUTUP SHUTUP SHUTUP SHUTUP AND GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!!...and once more , Bernie Sanders is on the correct side of an issue as he is here)...didn’t know data centers could consume 10% of power usage in the whole damn country...not sure exactly why they turned to Billo The Clown and his ridiculous “war on Christmas” stuff (yeah, corporations are distracting us through their media lickspittles to get us to fight each other), but I think this would have been a better segment if they’d done a little more research on exactly how these damn data centers are destroying communities...
...and shifting gears a bit, we learned recently that wingnut eminence grise Norman Podhoretz recently shed his mortal coil and now resides somewhere in the afterlife (here)...I guess I’m supposed to think of something good to say, but I really can’t...as you watch the clip of this warmongering old fart in ’07 calling for bombing Iran (awfully generous with the blood of other people’s kids), keep in mind that, years later, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry negotiated a nuke treaty with that country (here)...as others would say about Podhoretz, rest in piss...
...and Jimmy Kimmel discusses the recent “liar side chat” with the Tangerine Toddler...we find out that Jack Smith presented his findings on Cantaloupe Capone trying to influence the 2020 election results behind a closed-door committee chaired by Gym Jordan, so OF COURSE everything was above-board (#joke)...and oh yeah, those ridiculous White House wall plaques are indeed like “Dickipedia” (and gee, wouldn’t it be nice to know how much THOSE cost)...and oh yeah, apparently because they can’t think of any other pressing business, the Repug-run U.S. Senate had a hearing with FCC chair Brendan Carr where Ted “Podcast!” Cruz could make a fool of himself yet again (well OK, I guess the hearing mattered to some degree...and good job poking fun at that “Melania” idiocy)...and nice work also by Mark Hamill to have a little fun with his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (not sure if I’ll catch the Spongebob Squarepants movie or not, to be honest)...
...and in case anybody was wondering if I was running out of seasonal stuff...well, don't worry - still a few items left :-).
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