Lilly Pad

Reasons for hope: Lots of amazing people did a ton of work to make this fantastic, fully interactive resource available - because no matter how bleak things seem, there are millions, and millions of people doing everything they can to protect both the world and their own communities.

IDK about other places, but a ton of cities in Kentucky have preemptively banned data centers from being built

The story behind this painting:

“That same wickedness — the original, undemocratic wickedness of America’s original, undemocratic Constitution before it was transformed and reborn through the Reconstruction Amendments — was really the thing to which “Rededicate 250” was dedicated. It was dedicated to the rejection of the great task Lincoln described and to the reversal of that cause for which the Americans who died at Gettysburg gave the last full measure of devotion. That is what “MAGA” means and that is, ultimately, all that it means.”

What we call “AI” is in fact a statistically sorted output derived from the entire internet. Put more succinctly, “AI” is Collective Intelligence. Open AI began as a non-profit, and that was the moral way to approach the technology. We all should own it. However, a great tide of investment money swept away the better angels of our technicians, and so now AI is “proprietary.”