A Gallup poll found that seven out of 10 Americans said they would oppose a data center being built near them.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 13, 2026
Opposition is so intense, the poll found, that more Americans would rather live near a nuclear power plant than a data center. https://t.co/I7zBGErqlP
The future automation of the workforce
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Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02 https://t.co/IdZR0T1F5I
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) May 13, 2026
Walmart is selling you an unprofitable TV that watches everything you do and reports it back to their $6.4 billion advertising machine.
— Ricardo (@Ric_RTP) May 13, 2026
And the TV literally won't turn on until you give them permission.
This is one of the most sophisticated consumer surveillance operations in… pic.twitter.com/HZRLDULEoJ
CEO's learning AI will cost more than human workers after firing 25% of their workforce https://t.co/PM5E6lVB4O pic.twitter.com/onMi6ikEJr
— Sahil (@sahill_og) May 15, 2026
Utah residents push back after Kevin O’Leary’s data center plan turns out to be 40,000 acres, not 40,000 square feet pic.twitter.com/8PQYqN1B3t
— Sigurdur Nordal https://phronesispartners.group/ (@essenviews) May 15, 2026
Is there a reason this keeps happening? Not this message getting booed but why universities think graduates want to listen to this. https://t.co/MNNcYiKIMY
— 10 WIN VANDERBILT (@anchorofgold) May 17, 2026
We're in a weird era where a guy gets publicly shamed for running his sprinklers on a Tuesday, while a data center the size of a Costco quietly drains a reservoir so AI can generate a picture of your cat as a medieval knight. And the data center gets a tax incentive for it.
— 𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 (@OrevaZSN) May 17, 2026
Sales pitch seems to be:
— Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) May 17, 2026
“Your livelihood will be stripped from you and we need your electricity and water to accomplish this task.”
Who runs marketing and PR? 🤣😂 https://t.co/oXNLDzZA8M
boognish_bear said:Sales pitch seems to be:
— Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) May 17, 2026
“Your livelihood will be stripped from you and we need your electricity and water to accomplish this task.”
Who runs marketing and PR? 🤣😂 https://t.co/oXNLDzZA8M
Microsoft AI chief is bananas. Needs to stomp on the brakes a bit. No one wants Capital One to have to reacquire everyone's account balances and transactions because of an AI making a drastic decision like the one at the rental car service company.
This is an IQ test https://t.co/AZQrKYPRFZ
— Silicon Valley Fodder (@Playerinthgame) May 17, 2026
It’s not massively shocking that public sentiment is very negative on AI when CEOs say things like, they’re chopping staff to replace “lower-value human capital” with investments in AI. https://t.co/GtP7PnjUJJ
— Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) May 19, 2026
Yesterday, GPD and GFD were dispatched to Grapevine Lake, where a Tesla Cybertruck was stranded in the water. The driver drove into the lake to use the “Wade Mode” feature when the vehicle became disabled. The passengers abandoned the vehicle and the driver was arrested. pic.twitter.com/iPJMaLzOEX
— Grapevine Police (@GrapevinePolice) May 19, 2026
Cybertruck gets stuck after driving in Lake Grapevine on Monday pic.twitter.com/I3ukxCNYac
— Dallas Texas TV (@DallasTexasTV) May 19, 2026
boognish_bear said:Yesterday, GPD and GFD were dispatched to Grapevine Lake, where a Tesla Cybertruck was stranded in the water. The driver drove into the lake to use the “Wade Mode” feature when the vehicle became disabled. The passengers abandoned the vehicle and the driver was arrested. pic.twitter.com/iPJMaLzOEX
— Grapevine Police (@GrapevinePolice) May 19, 2026
Some folks just leave their trash anywhere, with no concern about what it does to the ecosystem.
That which does not kill me, will try again and get nastier
https://t.co/aQVrWPeDJ5 pic.twitter.com/CNLSFZ3Q4W
— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) May 19, 2026
boognish_bear said:https://t.co/aQVrWPeDJ5 pic.twitter.com/CNLSFZ3Q4W
— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) May 19, 2026
Tech people always oversell. It's not all on purpose. They are just sure they have all the real world stuff figured out that their product will deal with.
boognish_bear said:https://t.co/aQVrWPeDJ5 pic.twitter.com/CNLSFZ3Q4W
— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) May 19, 2026
That was the claim... but like other claims it was shown to be false well before this event. Like the "truck" not being able to handle small hills (really small piles of dirt), snow, mud, etc.
Not going to be holding my breath that big corporations are going to be looking out for us
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2026
boognish_bear said:Nobody in America voted for data centers.
— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) May 11, 2026
Nobody in America voted for AI.
Nobody in America voted for surveillance capitalism.
The entire fabric of our society is being changed without the will of the people.
Without a vote.
There is a lot to be said about this because it's not wrong.
It's also not wrong to admit that there is a disadvantage to losing the technology race internationally.
I don't see it slowing down, because national security is an easy argument for them to make.
But something has to be done, and communities will suffer if they don't have a say.
NEW: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on college graduates booing mentions of artificial intelligence at commencement ceremonies this week.
— Chase Williams (@ChaseWilliams_) May 20, 2026
“They can’t find jobs. 30-40% of them are unemployed, and they blame AI for this, and you know, they may well be right,” @HawleyMO told me.
“We… pic.twitter.com/RBlx7nlIpp
I’m not a doomer an AI at all. I think the nature of work, particularly entry level jobs will change.
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) May 20, 2026
Ai will make business more complicated and competitive. Not less. Which means more layers where humans have to make decisions before the next process can happen
And there…
Intuit is laying off 3,000 workers - cites AI as a big reason why. https://t.co/6oJzVG4Zzk
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) May 20, 2026
boognish_bear said:I’m not a doomer an AI at all. I think the nature of work, particularly entry level jobs will change.
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) May 20, 2026
Ai will make business more complicated and competitive. Not less. Which means more layers where humans have to make decisions before the next process can happen
And there…
lol
boognish_bear said:Intuit is laying off 3,000 workers - cites AI as a big reason why. https://t.co/6oJzVG4Zzk
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) May 20, 2026
I have used Turbo Tax several years. The last two have been different as they have employed more AI. I find that it is not as helpful on the more complicated stuff, and their answer to that seems to be to charge even more to get the actual help you need for one question. I may shop around or just use an accountant again next year as Intuit's fees rise.
I also tried to call a Best Buy last week about a refund issue. The local store is having an AI agent answer the phone. It could not answer my simple question and would not let me speak to a person. It simply gave me an answer it thought I needed and asked what else it could do for me… except pass me on to a person.
Just not ready to let loose on mankind yet.
EatMoreSalmon said:boognish_bear said:Intuit is laying off 3,000 workers - cites AI as a big reason why. https://t.co/6oJzVG4Zzk
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) May 20, 2026
I also tried to call a Best Buy last week about a refund issue. The local store is having an AI agent answer the phone. It could not answer my simple question and would not let me speak to a person. It simply gave me an answer it thought I needed and asked what else it could do for me… except pass me on to a person.
Just not ready to let loose on mankind yet.
Had a similar experience with Amazon recently. They shipped me an item that i ordered...but when i opened the box the item was something completely different than what I ordered.
I submitted a return and sent the item back to Amazon. Then I got an email saying they could not issue a refund because the item I returned was not the item I had ordered. Well no sht Amazon...that was the whole problem.
So then I tried called and ended up in Ai hell. The ai could not understand the unique issue I had so it couldn't offer any possible solutions.
I finally just gave up and just ate the loss. Luckily it was not an expensive item.
boognish_bear said:EatMoreSalmon said:boognish_bear said:Intuit is laying off 3,000 workers - cites AI as a big reason why. https://t.co/6oJzVG4Zzk
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) May 20, 2026
I also tried to call a Best Buy last week about a refund issue. The local store is having an AI agent answer the phone. It could not answer my simple question and would not let me speak to a person. It simply gave me an answer it thought I needed and asked what else it could do for me… except pass me on to a person.
Just not ready to let loose on mankind yet.
Had a similar experience with Amazon recently. They shipped me an item that i ordered...but when i opened the box the item was something completely different than what I ordered.
I submitted a return and sent the item back to Amazon. Then I got an email saying they could not issue a refund because the item I returned was not the item I had ordered. Well no sht Amazon...that was the whole problem.
So then I tried called and ended up in Ai hell. The ai could not understand the unique issue I had so it couldn't offer any possible solutions.
I finally just gave up and just ate the loss. Luckily it was not an expensive item.
Yep. Just wait until Amazon uses their own delivery folks to ship to your business. It gets worse.
All the middle school kids and high school kids I talk to despise AI. They regard it as a tool for cheats but one they feel pressured to use. It reminds them of smart phones and social media and they want to get ahead of it this time. https://t.co/53aomY6LZT
— John Carney (@carney) May 21, 2026
Breaking News: Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed an executive order to explore safeguards related to mass job displacement caused by A.I. https://t.co/tQC4bJtt0K
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 21, 2026