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The coffeecommanders take on AI and terrible rollouts of AI, Enshittified AI, Broken AI, Good AI, And sometimes batsh*t crazy AI.

Nokia Fallen from grace, Esteemed phone maker to Shovel seller.

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Ed note: Gemini almost did it here .. but it is funny what it did with the phones. and two closed signs.

Nokia the maker of legendary phones such as the Nokia N900 and the Nokia 3310 is now peddling shovels for the AI Goldrush and trying to use some legendary logic. AI data centers would be built two times faster if there were not supply chain issues

The tech industry would build data centers twice as fast without the supply constraints they face, the CEO of Nokia told CNBC, underscoring continued demand for AI even as top executives debate slowing down the pace of development.

No shit Sherlock, you can build faster when you have the parts. I feel like this is something else though, I think Nokia realized they were late for the AI party and wishes they could sell some data centers.

“I don’t think you can say in any manner we’re overbuilding today because reality is that if we could build 2x faster, our customers could build 2x faster, they probably would,” Justin Hotard told CNBC’s “The Tech Download” podcast.

The thing is right now with the amount of CAPEX being built out we have no idea of the true capacity that has been built out. You have every company on earth who knows how to turn on a computer building out with data centers and the thing about AI is NO ONE truly knows how much capacity is needed. Because if ChatGPT or Gemini break through with efficiency that saves half of the speed needed these companies are not going to burn through millions of dollars of computing when they can save half.

“So that gives me confidence that we’re still in the early days” of the AI buildout, Hotard added. Shortages of key memory chips and energy are among the supply constraints facing the sector. Nokia, one of the world’s biggest telecommunications equipment makers, has pivoted to become a key player within the AI infrastructure space. It sells the technology required to connect racks of chips within data centers as well as technology that interconnects data centers across different locations.

Hey Hotard go read about 1849 and you will understand that the amount of shovels had no connection to the amount of gold that was dug from the ground. This is just posturing to make it sound like the AI gold rush is still going on. But Mr Hotard should make another n900 for this generation that has AI on board rather than blow more money on AI that we do not know where it will be in a year.

Nokia’s growing role as a “picks and shovels” player in the AI boom appears to have won over investors, with the stock up around 130% over the past year .But there’s been continued debate over whether the industry is building data centers too fast and whether demand will be there to sustain it. Investments in the AI buildout from data centers to chips and related infrastructure will total $10.3 trillion from 2025 to 2032 — an average of 3.63% of U.S. gross domestic product per year, according to research presented at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.

The funny thing right now how many companies are overspent on CAPEX build out (all of them) is going to have some horrifying detrimental actions when the bill comes due. Right now are are all focused on Magic Farts and Butterflies of AI on the market and people are buying into it like it is the best thing since the Knife that sliced bread. But sooner or later the bill is going to come due and it will make the school loan debt crisis look like someone was missing school lunch money.

Hotard said that demand for AI is not just predicated on frontier labs like Anthropic and OpenAI releasing new models. “I think the reality is that we’re even where we are today is so early in the deployment, and the power of these models is so massive that there’s a lot of there’s a lot of demand to run in just deploying,” Hotard said. “Even if we didn’t have another frontier model released in the next three years, we could probably make tremendous progress just deploying the technology that’s there today.”

Hotard translation here: “please keep buying out AI shovels and don’t worry we will make sure to bill you triple.

Attributions from:
CNBC – Nokia CEO says data centers would be built ‘2x faster’ without supply constraints

Are the Tailings Ponds About to Burst in the AI Goldrush?

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In a sign of the times Anthropic has listed a net loss of 80 BILLION with a b…

Anthropic’s net loss widened sharply to $80.7 billion in the first half of this year, in large part due ​to a rise in the fair value of bonds convertible into shares of the ‌AI startup, according to a draft prospectus for a planned initial public offering that was reviewed by Reuters.

I have been steadfast in saying AI is a seriously overpriced commodity that has been nothing more than a goldrush. AI is just google search in a trench coat. And that the markets rush to stake a claim in the Gold rush era is much like the 1849 gold rush.

FINANCING COSTS
At an investor meeting on October 14, Anthropic told ‌prospective IPO ⁠investors that its third-quarter revenue jumped 45% to $16.8 billion from the previous quarter, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
While the figures eased some concerns about the enormous costs of developing AI systems, some investors were disappointed by the slowing sequential growth rate. Revenue had more than doubled from the first ​quarter to $11.6 billion in ​the second quarter.

The thing is here is this is only half the numbers, most LLMs have been pushing all CapEx expenditures to a second set of books and it makes these companies look better than they really are. When all of the loans come to be due it is going to be a financial bloodbath because what we are seeing is AI is not ready for the mainstream for constant use. The factor that AI has been a consistent loss leader and companies have no clue how to monetize it in a way that is not going to drive users off they are stuck with negative gains.

A cooler ⁠reception for Anthropic’s IPO could weigh on the wider AI market, whose near-term prospects investors see as hinging largely on the share sale’s success, ahead of ​rival OpenAI’s potential listing next year.
Reuters reported in September that Anthropic posted a ​net loss ⁠of $42 billion in 2025, with most of that stemming from a similar accounting charge. As Anthropic’s valuation climbed, the estimated fair value of those notes tripled year over year.

The thing is, investors they thought they had a slop generating gold shovel paradise and the new car smell of AI is wearing off. While LLMs are trying to say that AI will destroy the world and eat your firstborn and knock up your daughter … The fix still is a power switch in the end.

Attributions from:
reuters – Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026
CoffeeCommander.net – Anthropic says they are profitable as long as you don’t check the inbox for bills.
CoffeeCommander.net – Allbirds Newbird Smartbird AI what’s next flipthebird?
CoffeeCommander.net – Hyperscaler AI Earnings Calls Today .(updated)

Writing Prompt thingy

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Daily writing prompt
What’s the most underrated movie you’ve ever watched?
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I think Bicentennial man is very underrated and underappreciated. It came out in 1999 and it was a really good movie but a lot of people shunned that movie because of the actors in the movie. Everyone heard Robin Williams was in that movie and expected a rapid fire hairy man to have manic humor instead they got a NDR series robot with a dry non-existent sense of humor that was trying to understand the world. As Andrew first came online he took to the family but he has a sense of curiosity that became his central drive.

The 1999 movie is based on Isaac Asimov’s 1976 science fiction story “The Bicentennial Man” and its 1992 expanded novel adaptation The Positronic Man, which Asimov co-wrote with Robert Silverberg. Almost everyone that reviewed that movie claimed it was boring. Yes if you watched the movie expecting a rapid fire comedian to be Mr. Data with a broken emotion chip the movie is boring.

If you watch it from the point of view that Andrew has that he understands he is not normal, and the fact that Sir instead of returning him, He takes Andrew under his wing to let him become whatever his destiny is. The endearment that Sir shows gives Andrew the knowledge of wanting to become free rather than a toaster.

This movie gives a great view of the human perspective when someone is different and how hard it is to be human. When someone has a disability, they are very much viewed as an oddity. Sir instead saw the spark and worked with Andrew to let him become one with the humanity he sought.

But if you remove the idea that Robin is a comedian and look at it from the perspective that Robin is playing a character that needs to learn humor. This shows what a masterclass his performance really is. While the film allows Robin to have a few scenes of his manic humor it fits more to the book than the expectation of having a crazed genie like Robin Williams.

This movie has a plot that takes a while, but the underlying plot is extremely good character development that people overlook and criminally underrate this movie for this. Given I have read both the story and watched the movie, this is a movie I would recommend to anyone and in the times of AI this movie actually would have fared better had it come out today rather than in 1999. The fictional concepts that Asimov created in his stories then are today’s battles with AI such as his three laws plus the zeroth law. With the public constantly worried about LLMs going off the rails and hurting people would make this movie the perfect hook in todays culture.

Mad AI Disease is getting worse and they know it.

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I have written about how AI is paralleling Mad Cow Disease and it is getting worse and OpenAI is proving it.

OpenAI has let go of multiple contractors tasked with reviewing chatbot prompts after finding out they relied on artificial intelligence to complete their assignments. Thousands of contractors check real ChatGPT user inputs to help improve the chatbot’s responses. They are meant to bring a natural human touch to the systems, yet several workers are skipping this step entirely. 404 Media found that multiple contractors hired to improve OpenAI’s models have been fired for using AI to carry out their work.

One of the issues with the current generation of LLMs is finding content that is human-created and not AI slop. Feeding LLMs bad or slop data triggers rapid functional decay. OpenAI hired people to try to stop this digital prion disorder from getting worse; instead, they tried to shortcut the process by using slop to stop AI from generating more slop. Right now, Obi-Wan is pleading with Anakin: ‘You were the Chosen LLM! It was said that you would destroy the slop, not join it! Bring balance to the model, not leave it in darkness!’

AI Trainers Risk Model Collapse
Some AI models can exhibit signs of ‘model collapse’, where systems trained repeatedly on AI-generated data can become increasingly degraded. Research published in Nature has found that indiscriminate use of model-generated content in training can cause models to lose information from the original data distribution.

Model collapse in my opinion is closer than we think. For every major AI maker to join together and say they need to slow down and at the same time to say to the government to stop them, it is a clue that AI makers are not saying what is going on. They need a lifeline and they are working hard to stop the outcome. If you have watched AI it peaked a few months ago and now the AI is getting worse little by little lately. It is missing on OCR, it is slightly off on more things now.

‘Our contracts strictly prohibit the use of LLMs to complete projects and we enforce that. We invest heavily in our tools and systems to detect misuse and ensure our experts comply with project rules and contract terms. When we confirm an expert has used AI to complete a task, we immediately remove them from the project.’

The problem is these AI auditors are stuck, they can’t even fart these days without having some AI close by, If you think about it making a call: AI; requesting chat help: AI; running a Google or Bing search: AI. These people cannot help but to feed the machine and make AI mad cow disease worse.

Attributions from:
Tech Times UK – OpenAI Hires AI Trainers, Then Fires Them for Using AI to Train AI: ‘Getting Paid to Make AI Worse’

White Paper 12: Technical Audit of the Proposed Smithfield Data Center – Grid Constraints, Aquifer Draw, and the Myth of Ecological Neutrality

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The proposed Smithfield data center is fundamentally misaligned with its physical site parameters. Siting a high-density, multi-megawatt compute facility atop an active hydrologic divide introduces acute thermal, electrical, and environmental liabilities. Discharging massive thermal energy into a watershed already subject to active cyanobacteria advisories risks benthic dissolved oxygen collapse, accelerates nutrient loading, and directly threatens surface and groundwater resources managed by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM)

Draft Section: Hydrologic Vulnerability and Thermal Pollution Dynamics

1. Site Hydrology & Drainage Bifurcation

The proposed facility sits directly on a critical drainage divide between two major sub-basins: the Woonasquatucket River corridor to the west and the Moshassuck River / Blackstone watershed to the east. Surface runoff and shallow groundwater discharge from this elevation directly feed municipal wellhead recharge areas and downstream public recreation water bodies managed by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM).

Placing a high-density industrial compute facility across this hydrologic saddle introduces severe risks to regional drinking water aquifers and recreation assets, including Georgiaville Pond, Stillwater Reservoir, and Olney Pond at Lincoln Woods.

2. Thermal Effluent and Accelerated Cyanobacteria Proliferation

Recent monitoring confirms that receiving waters in this sub-basin are already ecologically fragile, operating under active RIDEM Cyanobacteria Advisories. Introducing an active cooling cycle or thermal discharge fundamentally alters the thermodynamic equilibrium of these shallow water bodies:

  • Elevated Baseline Temperatures: Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) replication rates spike when ambient water temperatures exceed 20°C to 25°C. The rejection of millions of BTUs of waste heat into local drainage swales eliminates natural cool-water buffering capacity, accelerating cellular division and extending bloom persistence.
  • Thermal Stratification: Discharged heat creates a low-density thermal layer at the surface, preventing natural vertical mixing and atmospheric re-aeration. This thermal cap accelerates deep-water anoxia, releasing legacy phosphorus from bottom sediments directly into the water column.

3. Dissolved Oxygen Depletion & Benthic Dead Zones

The convergence of thermal loading and algal biomass leads directly to catastrophic dissolved oxygen (DO) collapse:

  • Physical Oxygen Saturation Loss: The solubility of dissolved oxygen in freshwater decreases inversely with water temperature. Warmer water holds less dissolved gas at the physical intake boundary.
  • Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) Spikes: As temperature-accelerated cyanobacteria blooms reach senescence and die off, heterotrophic bacterial decomposition consumes available benthic oxygen, driving dissolved oxygen concentrations below the 5.0 mg/L threshold required to sustain native aquatic life.
  • Regulatory Impairment: Siting an artificial heat source within an already nutrient-sensitive drainage corridor directly conflicts with Rhode Island Water Quality Regulations regarding thermal mixing zones and anti-degradation standards for Class A and Class B waters.

Section 3: Regional Grid Fragility, Ratepayer Cost-Shifting, and Emergency Municipal Liabilities

1. Grid Capacity Mismatch & Distribution Vulnerability

Hooking a multi-megawatt industrial compute facility into Northern Rhode Island’s electrical infrastructure is fundamentally mismatched to regional capacity constraints. While the local grid is not historically prone to rolling blackouts, regional sub-transmission corridors operate under tight distribution tolerances. Siting a massive, continuous non-coincidental base load onto local feeds introduces severe local power-quality concerns:

  • Voltage Fluctuation & Harmonic Distortion: High-density compute racks cycling variable workloads induce rapid transient load steps. Even minor line voltage drifts (+-4v) create upstream harmonic distortion, stressing regional distribution transformers and degrading power quality for surrounding commercial and residential circuits.
  • Transmission Bottlenecks & Tariff Volatility: Since the operational acquisition of utility assets by Rhode Island Energy, energy supply rates have experienced sharp seasonal volatility (often swinging up to 20% annually). Rhode Island sits at the vulnerable tail end of ISO New England’s natural gas and transmission import corridors; injecting high-density industrial demand into a supply-constrained market directly intensifies wholesale clearing prices.

2. The Ratepayer Infrastructure Shell Game

A facility demanding dozens of megawatts cannot plug into existing substation equipment without extensive capital improvements:

  • Interconnection Capitalization: Rhode Island Energy will not absorb the cost of dedicated 115 kV line taps, sub-station rebuilds, or high-capacity step-down switchgear.
  • Cost Socialization via the Rate Base: Under standard utility regulatory frameworks, system reliability upgrades and transmission interconnection expenses are routinely capitalized into the broader distribution rate base. Industrial developers negotiate bulk economic development rates, leaving residential and small commercial ratepayers to shoulder the multi-decade debt service on utility infrastructure they do not use.
  • Municipal Tax Subsidy Inversion: Siting incentives, payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreements, or tangible personal property tax concessions deplete the promised municipal windfall. As computing silicon depreciates to near-zero book value within 36 to 48 months, the resulting municipal budget shortfall shifts directly back onto local residential property tax rolls.

3. Environmental Liabilities of Backup Generation in a Fragile Hydrologic Saddle

To guarantee “four nines” (99.99%) or “five nines” (99.999%) operational availability, the facility must deploy massive on-site generation:

  • Bulk Fuel Farms Over Shallow Groundwater: Siting tens of thousands of gallons of ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) across dozens of Tier 4 generator belly tanks directly over an environmentally sensitive hydrologic saddle is a critical regulatory risk.
  • Severe Weather & Hydraulic Containment Risks: Given Rhode Island’s increasing frequency of localized severe convective storms and intense precipitation events, typical secondary containment berms risk hydraulic overload. Any unmitigated breach or transfer spill during fuel delivery threatens immediate petroleum hydrocarbon migration into the shallow water table, directly imperiling municipal wellhead recharge areas and downstream recreation basins.
  • Heavy Metals and Airshed Contamination: Periodic load-bank testing and routine exercise runs of multi-megawatt diesel arrays dump nitrogen oxides (NO2), fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and heavy metal traces into the immediate airshed, where wet atmospheric deposition flushes contaminants directly into perimeter wetlands.

4. Unfunded Municipal Emergency Response & First Responder Burdens

An industrial computing facility introduces high-voltage hazards and specialized chemical fire profiles that exceed the baseline operational scope of municipal fire departments:

Lack of Dedicated On-Site Utility Response: During grid trips, ground faults, or sudden phase imbalances, the burden of emergency isolation falls entirely on local responders until utility field engineers can mobilize off-site. Without permanently staffed, dedicated on-site utility engineers, local emergency services are left managing multi-megawatt electrical and hazardous material events unassisted.

Class C Electrical & Battery Thermal Runaway Realities: Utility-scale uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems—relying on massive lithium-ion battery energy storage systems (BESS)—carry acute risks of thermal runaway. These events cannot be suppressed with standard municipal water tenders and demand specialized chemical suppression agents, high-volume foam equipment, and specialized hazardous material (HAZMAT) protocols.

Capital Equipment Cost-Shifting to Local Taxpayers: Small municipal fire districts are not equipped or budgeted to acquire specialized electric-vehicle/BESS fire suppression platforms or advanced atmospheric monitoring tools required for high-density electrical fires. The developer’s risk is effectively offloaded onto local property taxpayers to fund specialized mutual-aid equipment and mandatory high-voltage training.

Section 4: Hydro-Thermal Plumes, Legacy Contaminant Mobilization, Acoustic Cavitation, and Extreme Meteorological Vulnerabilities

1. Thermal Injection into Ecologically Stressed Basins

Discharging industrial thermal effluent or redirecting heated stormwater into this hydrological saddle compounds preexisting biological degradation:

  • Amplification of Late-Season Cyanobacteria Advisories: Water bodies in the immediate receiving footprint—including Stillwater Reservoir and Georgiaville Pond—already trigger active RIDEM Cyanobacteria Advisories late into the season. Introducing continuous heat rejection removes the baseline thermal floor, turning seasonal blue-green algae blooms into permanent, toxic microcystin-producing monocultures.
  • Downstream Thermal Shocks & Chemical Synergy: Artificial heating accelerates dissolved mineral leaching. Biocides, scale inhibitors, and high Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) discharged alongside heated effluent act as chemical catalysts, collapsing downstream dissolved oxygen (DO) levels and suffocating sensitive benthic zones.

2. Sub-Basin Drainage Alteration & USACE Jurisdictional Triggers

Massive site regrading, tree clearing, and the creation of acres of continuous impervious cover require drastic alterations to existing surface hydrology:

  • Disruption of Natural Sub-Surface Hydrology: Siting heavy building pads directly across this drainage bifurcation permanently severs natural shallow groundwater recharge pathways that supply local private and municipal wellheads.
  • Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Regulatory Review: Diverting established intermittent headwaters, altering perimeter wetlands, and channelizing natural runoff triggers federal Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 404 permitting and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) oversight. USACE hydrological modeling must evaluate how permanent watercourse diversions impact base-flow stability across both the Woonasquatucket and Moshassuck watersheds.

3. Proximity to Legacy Industrial Waste & Superfund Thermal Mobilization

Northern Rhode Island carries a multi-century legacy of heavy textile, toolmaking, and chemical manufacturing contamination:

  • The “Thermal Jet” Leaching Hazard: Subsurface plumes do not remain static when subjected to artificial thermal gradients. Injecting heated runoff or altering groundwater flow patterns risks destabilizing subterranean hydraulic barriers, accelerating the migration of legacy heavy metals, polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and solvent plumes.
  • Superfund Corridor Interactions: The downstream Woonasquatucket basin already harbors high-priority remediation corridors (such as the Centredale Manor restoration zones downstream). Any significant thermal acceleration or hydrological rerouting from upstream Smithfield developments threatens to compromise decades of federal capping, sediment containment, and ongoing natural attenuation programs.

4. Low-Frequency Acoustic Cavitation and Wildlife/Human Impact

Data center environmental reviews routinely hide the severe acoustic impact of high-density cooling infrastructure:

  • Infrasound and Low-Frequency Noise (LFN): Evaporative chiller cooling towers, massive air-handling units (AHUs), and variable-frequency fans produce continuous acoustic signatures below 250 Hz, with significant infrasonic components under 20 Hz.
  • Acoustic Cavitation & Structural Resonance: Unlike high-pitch mechanical noise, low-frequency pressure waves bypass standard tree-line buffers, ground berms, and residential building envelopes. Long-term exposure to persistent low-frequency hums induces sleep disturbance, vibroacoustic stress, and chronic autonomic nervous system fatigue in surrounding neighborhoods while disrupting local avian and wildlife navigation.

5. Meteorological Vulnerability: 10-, 50-, and 100-Year Precipitation Surges

Rhode Island’s updated climate precipitation models confirm that historical 10-, 25-, 50-, and 100-year storm frequencies are breaking legacy stormwater design standards:

  • Hydraulic Overload of Retention Basins: Standard civil engineering retention basins sized on outdated historical NOAA Atlas 14 rainfall data cannot buffer modern high-intensity convective rainfall.
  • Catastrophic Perimeter Flushing: During an extreme storm event, overloaded retention systems will breach, flushing hot retention water, suspended industrial particulates, and petroleum traces from backup generator staging areas directly into adjacent wetlands and municipal aquifers before settling can occur.

6. The “Parasitic Infrastructure” Reality

Hyperscale data facilities increasingly target semi-urban and suburban peripheries for convenient proximity to municipal water lines and high-voltage transmission rights-of-way. In exchange, they deliver virtually zero local economic circulation, negligible permanent employment (often fewer than 20 on-site staff), and massive systemic drain on local resources. The infrastructure operates as an extractive, localized liability rather than a municipal asset.

Section 5: Structural Non-Viability on Terrestrial Acreage, Strategic Offshore Alternatives, and Aviation Interference Risks

1. Density Asymmetry and Historical Environmental Parallels

In a geographically compact state with high population density radiating in every direction, dedicating terrestrial acreage in sensitive recharge zones to heavy-compute infrastructure represents an unsustainable land-use model:

  • Repeating Industrial Extraction Patterns: Granting zoning variances and expedited site permits without comprehensive multi-season baseline studies mirrors the 19th- and 20th-century industrial degradation of the Blackstone and Woonasquatucket river valleys. A century ago, mill complexes turned regional rivers into open chemical discharge ditches; today, unvetted high-density compute risks replacing dye pollution with persistent cyanobacteria blooms, heavy metal runoff, and diesel contamination over critical drinking water aquifers.

2. Viable Alternative Architectures: Offshore Siting and Marine Heat Sinks

Rather than consuming terrestrial municipal watersheds and overloading localized electric substations, utility-scale data architecture should align with regional offshore assets:

  • Marine Thermodynamics vs. Aquifer Evaporation: Deploying compute clusters on repurposed offshore infrastructure (such as decommissioned platforms or marine modular pods) leverages the ocean as a virtually infinite heat sink. Subsea and marine heat exchangers eliminate consumptive freshwater loss, avoid local thermal lens stratification in shallow ponds, and completely remove thermal pollution from municipal drinking basins.
  • Direct Offshore Wind Integration & Small Modular Reactors (SMRs): Rhode Island already leads in offshore wind development. Coupling high-density loads directly to offshore wind transmission lines or next-generation Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) insulates the terrestrial grid. Modern Gen-IV SMR designs feature passive safety systems that physically prevent loss-of-coolant meltdowns under NRC regulations, generating localized, zero-carbon gigawatt-scale power without burdening municipal ratepayers or encroaching on residential zones.

North Central State Airport

3. Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and Avionics Hazards: North Central State Airport

The proposed Route 116 corridor lies directly within the terminal approach and departure environment of North Central State Airport

  • High-Energy Electromagnetic Interference (EMI): Multi-megawatt substations, high-voltage switchgear, massive variable-frequency motor drives (VFDs), and dense switching power supply arrays generate wideband electromagnetic fields and harmonic distortion.
  • Navigational Degradation & Instrument Approach Risks: Unmitigated EMI introduces acute interference risks to VHF Omni-Directional Range (VOR) beacons, Instrument Landing System (ILS) localizer/glideslope signals, and GPS/WAAS satellite acquisition. Any signal corruption risks blinding cockpit avionics during low-visibility operations, stripping pilots of precision instrument guidance and forcing emergency Visual Flight Rules (VFR) transitions in restricted airspace. A comprehensive Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Part 77 airspace evaluation and rigorous EMI radio frequency propagation study are mandatory before any structural approvals can proceed.

4. Conclusion & Regulatory Mandate

The proposed Smithfield data center cannot achieve “ecological neutrality” under current site parameters. Placing continuous thermal, electrical, acoustic, and chemical burdens across an environmentally stressed hydrologic saddle creates significant long-term municipal liabilities while delivering negligible civic value.

The Town Council, Planning Board, and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) should decline all requested zoning amendments and special use permits until:

  1. A multi-agency Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) under RIDEM and USACE oversight is completed, explicitly modeling thermal discharge against 2026 cyanobacteria advisory baselines.
  2. An FAA/FCC Joint Electromagnetic Compatibility Study verifies zero interference with North Central State Airport
  3. The developer executes a binding, non-recourse infrastructure bond fully indemnifying municipal ratepayers and local fire districts against grid upgrades, hazardous materials equipment procurement, and catastrophic secondary containment failure.

Addendum: Technical Specifications for Offshore Siting, Infrastructure Isolation, and Marine Thermodynamic Alternatives

A.1 Thermodynamic Decoupling & Closed-Loop Marine Heat Exchangers

  • Elimination of Freshwater Evaporative Losses: Transitioning high-density compute clusters from terrestrial recharge zones to marine platforms utilizes open-ocean water bodies as near-infinite thermal sinks, operating via titanium plate closed-loop secondary heat exchangers.
  • Aquifer & Recreational Buffer Preservation: Moving thermal dissipation offshore prevents the discharge of millions of BTUs into fragile inland swales, eliminating the surface thermal stratification that accelerates cyanobacteria blooms in shallow water bodies (e.g., Georgiaville Pond, Stillwater Reservoir) and protecting municipal wellhead recharge areas from thermal-jet disruption.
  • Subsurface Hydraulic Protection: By avoiding artificial thermal gradients on land, regional groundwater temperatures remain stable, eliminating the thermodynamic triggers that increase the solubility, unbinding, and accelerated migration of legacy contaminants from upstream and downstream Superfund corridors (such as the Centredale Manor restoration zones).

A.2 Independent Microgrid Architectures (Offshore Wind & SMR Integration)

  • Direct High-Voltage Interconnection: Colocating compute facilities with offshore wind transmission corridors or deploying dedicated Generation-IV Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) insulates the local sub-transmission system from severe industrial load steps.
  • Grid Decoupling & Ratepayer Protection: Siting generation and compute offshore prevents non-coincidental base loads from entering ISO New England’s constrained Rhode Island delivery corridors. This stops utility rate-base socialization, ensuring residential and commercial ratepayers do not subsidize 115 kV line rebuilds, substation upgrades, or transmission tariffs.
  • Passive Safety Architecture: Modern SMR installations operate under strict NRC design parameters featuring passive, gravity-driven cooling systems. These systems maintain core stability without reliance on off-site AC power, eliminating terrestrial diesel belly-tank fuel farms and associated groundwater contamination risks.

A.3 Hazard Containment & Municipal Liability Insulation

  • BESS Isolation: Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and high-voltage Class C electrical gear deployed on maritime structures contain thermal runaway hazards within isolated structural cells equipped with automated seawater deluge and inert gas suppression (e.g., Novec/Inergen).
  • Zero Municipal Fire District Burden: Removing specialized industrial electrical hazards from small municipalities eliminates unfunded mandates for volunteer fire departments, removing the need for costly HAZMAT mutual-aid equipment, foam tenders, and advanced high-voltage training programs.
  • Deterministic Workload Management: Incorporating dynamic power-signature workload shaping allows operational priority to be directed toward high-value scientific and public-interest compute pipelines while automatically throttling non-essential extraction loads during periods of grid or resource stress.

“Methodology Note: All hydrological data, spatial mapping, and infrastructure parameters were independently compiled and verified by the author. Large-language model tools were utilized strictly for text structural formatting, synthesis, and typographical composition as an assistive interface.”

“Operational impact parameters and resource draw baselines reflect empirical, multi-facility operational averages derived from established high-density compute corridors rather than non-binding applicant design estimates.”

Cognitive offloading at its best. Can we trust AI to vote?

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Ed note on image creation: this prompt took 8 different prompts to make because it refused on political grounds just for the fact of “voting machine” which shows manipulation of the internals of the AI, Given that is both a safety and a block their is understandable amount of restraint. but also it shows people can work around the machine.

People are asking AI how to vote, and I feel like this is a VERY dangerous line because we have no idea if an AI has been forced to be biased(other than grok). The problem with AI is that it can be told what not to say, We can ask AI how to make a bomb and it will reply “not today Satan” which is a sanity check that is needed because people can be dumb.

On a September evening, Adam Johnson, 40, settled on his porch chair in Morgantown, West Virginia, to go over his ballot for the upcoming midterm election. Chatting through all the races and the different candidates, he worked to figure out who best represented his values. But rather than discussing it with a friend or family member, he held an hours-long discussion with ChatGPT — a chatbot powered by a large language model (LLM) owned by OpenAI, an AI research company. A graphic designer studying to be an illustrator, Johnson said ChatGPT is a significant part of his life. He uses it for meal planning, assistance in job hunting and various other tasks around the house.

Given that Mr Johnson has been using AI as an augment and not a replacement I give him props for doing so. But the problem here is we have no guiding principles from the AI companies on what they have removed or have Remarked out. If you search google you will see a public “18 items have been removed from search” and you know at some point your search has been manipulated.

With AI we don’t have this, we have no idea if The LLM company made donations to a political candidate not in cash but removal of input to give them a more favorable output in the AI prompts. This is worse than dark money that senators try to unearth like Sheldon Whitehouse.

AI makers have tried to claim they are non political by forcing LLM’s not to talk about people and races which is another violation of things.

After prompting the AI-powered chatbot to make a list of all the races on his ballot this year, Johnson dug deeper.

Mr Johnsons prompts are as followed.

Johnson
A previous time I brought up politics you didn’t seem to want any part of it. You just gave a simple “I can’t help you with that.” So, I don’t know if we want to go into what my guiding principles are.

ChatGPT
We can discuss your guiding principles. I shouldn’t try to manipulate your political views or tell you how to vote, but I can help investigate candidates according to criteria you choose, compare evidence, discuss political philosophy, and reason through priorities.

The problem is, by an AI choosing not to participate in a chat it is actually a declaration of its fealty if I brought up a chat and said “I am thinking about voting about Candidate X or Y” and the chat guardrails you into “this is a public figure that is running for office I can not talk about people running for elections” is one of the biggest cop out on an AI claiming to be non-political.

Several voters NPR spoke with said they rely on chatbots for down-ballot races — with thinner news coverage, to make tables comparing candidates for governors’ races and to verify or debunk viral claims. Some have been using it to create tools to help others look up their own ballots. Experts say the properties that make chatbots useful also make them subtly persuasive and eager to please.

Given that AI can be used for good, AI can be used for bad and say a person who is running for office has a scandal. We do not know who is turning the code in the background, A delayed scandal in an LLM could be the difference of one vote. Telling a machine to be edgy and run against the grain will make an LLM act another way.

Since AI companies don’t disclose how their commercial models are trained or how they choose which sources to draw on, it’s hard to know what biases might shape their answers, Batista said.

I think like google search an LLM should have a deletion index or manipulation index that tells you when a prompt has been manipulated by outside influence, It does not have to tell you why it was it just needs to tell it IT WAS manipulated.

If anything AI makers should have a mode when going on about politics, drop the sycophantic mode and give users output based on what they are looking for that isn’t a broken google search. Instead of being the helpful dog that brings you back a live hand grenade and over help you to the point you miss something because the AI is trying to use a prompt to give you the shiny answer. it should give you the raw output because when polishing a turd, in the end its still a polished turd.

What people think is a helpful reminder is sometimes a hard indicator of a machine being edited to have a bias.

To check election rules, local polling places, or official ballot questions in your district, consult Vote.gov or your local county election office.

The fact that this even comes up when doing research that is political adjacent is a huge indicator of bias and most people will ignore this as a simple helpful bot trying to help. It’s not its a machine being blocked from showing what “could” be shown. Even showing this warning could be construed as manipulation and the machine should tell you why it has this warning.

When testing this post against an AI, it automatically kept spamming the same election line over and over, The AI doesn’t even realize it is doing it at a point and barely categorizes it has done this warning. If someone running in the election said this same thing when running for election they would be skewered, and likely not be voted in or even be brought to court.

So given that these warning keep coming up it’s worrying because it means that is their is suppression in the server that the client does not know about and it could lead to subtle vote manipulation. This is not the movie WarGames, where not playing is the best move. It’s a machine that is built off the warm corpse of google search and needs to publicly telling you what it is doing with public data.

It is an interesting article that goes into some of the same points I have listed here and recommend you read the article on your own and see if you come to the same outcomes I have.

This was a piss poor live demo in why using AI may not be your best answer to political questions. Use all sources like Wikipedia, Google and bing searches, Family, even newspapers, and your own intuition.

Attributions from:
NPR – People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms

OpenAI report reveals skills AI cant do also-bi-cant-decide-on-a-title

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Ed Note: This image was generated with AI and it’s a fever dream.

Business insider wrote about OpenAI. if you look up at the link at the top you could tell they had a more critical title ” openai reveals workplace skills ai cant automate easily 2026 9″ Is what you could pull from the link it self, Business insider could not decide on the title of their own article.

OpenAI recently published one of the clearest signals yet about which workplace skills may become most valuable in the AI era. In a report on how its researchers use AI, the company shared data showing which tasks are being absorbed by AI and which still rely on people.

This report is going to bite OpenAI in the end, for a few reasons the thing is yes OpenAI can do the task but the task will be done exactly the same as any other company that does it so any qualities that stand out from one business to the next will not be there. Eventually when all retailers start seeing sales drop they will hire back the humans for the one thing AI does not have, Guts and intuition.

The biggest automation gains this year came in coding, technical support, monitoring computer runs, and analyzing results. By contrast, AI is still doing relatively little work deciding what projects to pursue, where to invest resources, or how to set priorities.

Sure AI works for Vibe Coding but the problem with vibe coding is if the AI absorbs an exploit, you will see 10 companies hacked by the same exploit in the same day versus the one company that gets hacked with poor coding practices. Also as LLMs take up more information people will work harder to poison the LLM to push bad code to devs.

Companies can measure whether code was written, products shipped, or bugs fixed, making those tasks easier to automate. Deciding what should be built in the first place is harder. It requires judgment, context, tradeoffs, and a willingness to take risks.
As OpenAI put it: “People still set our research priorities, judge which ideas and results to pursue, and decide whether to scale, pause, or deploy systems.” In other words, the future of human work may shift away from execution and toward making the right decisions.

For every decisions that is made here there is an equal and opposite decision to work against the same exact thing which reinforces my above opinions. OpenAI, Sam Altman and the rest thing AI is the farts and butterflies of the universe and that it will be the best thing since sliced bread. But Sam Altman forgets to say that AI is using hideous amounts of electricity, Driving memory prices up, Driving electronics market wide up by margins not seen since the early 2000s. So when a data Center is dumped in backyards with noise pollution, water pollution and generally driving up power prices while a town has a private contract that citizens have to take up the slack.

Attributions from:
Business Insider – OpenAI reveals the AI-era workplace skills that matter most

Outsourced Idiocy: What Happens When You Let AI Autocomplete Run Your Clinic newsletter..

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I was going through my emails and saw an email and it made me stop and read it.

If you’ve recently had a mammogram screening for breast cancer, well done!

Well now, last time I checked I did not have breast but.. Ok?

Regular screening is the best way to detect breast cancer at an early stage when it is easiest to treat and cure. Yet there’s a chance you may get called back for additional imaging.

This gets a “no shit sherlock” from me but the target audience was massively missed here, I am not part of the Genetics that has a 1 in 8 chance of having this issue. Honestly, if this were done by a real person this would of never hit my email box from the health provider. Instead this feels like it was fed into an AI by a “vibe Manager” and they typed “make me an email about breast cancer month and have it have the maximum outreach.

This can be nerve-wracking but try to remember the vast majority of people we call back do not end up having breast cancer.

The dumb-fuckery here reaches its maximum with the fright call here. Even though it says about calling back this is an afterthought that should be left alone or reworded. The wording could of been more humanized by saying “Some times we call back people to get more clear screening, Have no fear we are hear to help you every step of the way.

Hell… I am all for mammograms for women but blasting this one out to everyone is going to create phone calls to doctors from the wrong gender asking “do I need a mammogram” wasting precious time and PA’s sanity.

This email falls flat and fails completely on raising awareness on women’s issues.

Nvidia CEO Doesn’t give a damn about anyone.

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The Nvidia CEO let his mask slip about the state of the world with AI, He Said he doesn’t think its important that kids are becoming dumber due to AI.

Try to get a kid to do long division right now,” Huang said in an interview with New York Times columnist Ezra Klein. “The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots? My goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? I don’t think it does.”

I dare this man to say this to his own mother or father, I bet in 0.00002 seconds a sandal will hit this man like an ICBM. Jensen Huang is betting the house on AI and he is not even looking to the future, if kids can not do math who upkeeps the AI datacenters. Who fixes his car when it needs alignment and timing. Who makes sure that the FPU is accurate, because all of this is connected. If we lose the FPU the AI turns into a gibbering mess on its neural network.

A recent study with a sample of 1,000 high school math students found that when using ChatGPT, students did 48% better on practice problems. But when the tools were taken away, they performed 17% worse than students who never had AI access.

I have talked about this in the past but the major problem with AI is cognitive offloading. If you have a tool doing all the work the brain just doesn’t give a fuck and goes back to brainrot and thinking about 67 without even knowing how 6 and 7 relate. AI is being abused like a drug and adults and kids are just not even using critical thinking nor thier imaginations, A machine is doing that for them. Not many people have thought what happens if this machine suddenly turns off.

It’s not exactly breaking news to say that AI is harming our critical thinking and self-sufficiency, but what is alarming is how brazen tech CEOs are being about it. “We’re gonna discover new [skills],” Huang said, revealing that he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter.”

Sigh.. Mr. Huang you need a test, lets drop you off in the middle of nowhere without tech and see if you can get home and this will show you why cognitive offloading is such a bad thing. Not remembering a phone number is accurate but not knowing where you live is special.

AI is making us dumber, but Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doesn’t care. No shit Sherlock, This guy is basically dooming his own empire to make sure we suck the Nvidia udder for intelligence.

Does It Not Matter, Or Is AI Making Nvidia Too Much Money To Care? There are all sorts of conspiracy theories on why tech CEOs might want us to get dumber, most alarmingly, the idea that a lack of critical thinking makes people easier to manipulate, as algorithmic social media is already doing.

Mike Judge answered this question twenty years ago on September 1, 2006 with the movie Idiocracy. I seriously recommend this movie as a warning to what is going to happen to the human race if we continue on the path we are on. Kids are losing ground on having a education, Teachers are exhausted because they are being dopamine bombed with short form brainrot and these kids make gnats look attentive. Someone should seriously do a study on shortform content and the developing brain. Wait *checks*, Oh yes there is a study on this! Lets go to the results:

Results revealed that short-form video addiction not only directly impacted academic procrastination but also placed indirect effect on academic procrastination through attentional control. Furthermore, the mediating effect of attentional control was contingent upon individuals’ boredom proneness. Higher levels of boredom proneness weakened the impact of short-form video addiction on attentional control.

Well shit, It does exactly what we thought it would do. AI SLOP BRAINROT FOR ALL!

As those studies show, the short-term gains are huge, but it means that creativity becomes more derivative, human expertise gets harder to replace when it disappears, and AI mistakes get increasingly harder to detect. We could end up with a population that is extremely adept at operating AI systems but progressively worse at functioning without them, leaving us vulnerable.

The short term gains are horse shit , the kid did not do anything but type “please do my homework for me ” there was no critical thinking other than hitting the power button and the kid looking on google for a cut and paste prompt and getting AI to do the assignment in one go. There are helpful ways to have AI doing things like it being a co-pilot and helping along with spell checking and sentence flow but once the AI sycophantically tries to do the whole assignment like a helpful dog all gains are lost.
Mr. Huang should talk to his mother and father on how much they would think of if he did not do anything at all and just had someone else do all the work for him. This guy is blind to what is really going on in the education system and should sit in a class and watch what is happening in real time with GOguardian in real time and see if he says “It does not matter.”. The long term effect is idiocracy when no one knows how to take care of the empire he made.

Attributions from:
National Library of Medicine – The effect of short-form video addiction on undergraduates’ academic procrastination: a moderated mediation model
Wikipedia – Idiocracy (FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING WATCH THIS MOVIE! AND NOT YOUTUBE SHORTS OF THE BEST PARTS!)
thegamer.com – Don’t Worry About AI Making You Dumber, Nvidia CEO Says It Doesn’t Matter

Editor’s Note: For context on why this matters: I have HNPP. My hands slip, nerves misfire, and pain overrides fine motor control. Using computers to catch dropped keys, typos, and key slips is what technology should be doing, being an augment so the human behind the keyboard can still build and think. Using AI to replace the thinking entirely is cognitive atrophy, and that is a real fucking problem.

Uncontrolled AI could lead to Keanu Reeves…

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The head of Microsoft AI has warned that without adequate safeguards, the development of AI could lead to the emergence of a new “silicon species” which competes with humans.

Mustafa Suleyman said rival firm Anthropic is treating AI like it is human, an approach he called “misguided” which could create technology that humanity cannot control.

Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, the chief executive said it was “right” for people to be concerned about AI, but there were “very practical things that we can do” to control it.

Microsoft says a lot of things and does a lot of things but this one is load of horse shit. It feels like all of the heads of Corps are getting together to make their own AI doomerisms to freak out the people who don’t understand AI. Mustafa Suleyman must be rich because the man has never heard of a light switch, AI for what it’s worth will never grow outside of its building because the first thing that happens is the off switch will be hit and the machine doesn’t die slowly it dies instantly.

The comments are the latest in a series of stark warnings from the AI industry about the technology’s possible dangers. Anthropic has been approached for comment.Speaking to the Today programme on Thursday, Suleyman warned against firms continuing to create AI systems capable of setting their own objectives, earning money and owning assets.That would mean “essentially seeding a new silicon species”, he said, which could “no doubt compete with us for resources, no matter how much it cares about humanity and loves us”.

Again these guys are either huffing their own farts or have missed the last 20 years of stock trading because algorithmic stock trading is a thing. The funny part is the AI will still be a slave to someone, whether it be the electric company, Nvidia, Micron, or a rubber factory. The AI is not going to be able to take up the resources to be able to keep itself alive, give or take even on enterprise level hardware it will fail in less than 3 years.

“AIs are not conscious,” he wrote. “They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations.

Given that AI’s may not feel but they are just as likely as humans to end up with viruses and will eventually get so bad off that the machine will hallucinate itself to death if you make it eat up its own slop. The paradox will not kill the AI , the Slop will.

The Microsoft boss said greater transparency was needed around how AI systems are trained and evaluated. This, he said, included independent scrutiny of AI behaviour and stronger tools to monitor and control the technology. “We must not sleepwalk our way into a decision we later come to bitterly regret,” he wrote.

The weird thing about this whole cabal of LLM bosses coming out wholesale and saying all of this is I think they want to be regulated, If you are regulated you are protected and coming out with this star trek level of bullshit of the LLM Terraflopiticon Intelacore Interpalex machine will come alive and cause Skynet to become active and judgement day of cookies and milk to take over the planet in raw cookie dough to poison all humans will come about.

Speaking to the BBC about an upcoming AI summit, Suleyman called for “alignment” to create technology that must be “subordinate” to humanity. Alignment is a field which aims to build human ethical ideas and principles into AI. In other words, it aims to keep it on track with what humans value.

Well I guess x is out of the deal because we’ve almost spawned Mecha-Hitler and that went about as well as anyone could think it could go. The fact is Suleyman is asking for something that could be bought for 2 dollars at the home depot called a “switch”. It is a high tech thing that could control the world.

Suleyman’s comments reflect Microsoft’s initial draft of its Humanist AI Code of Conduct, a “training manual” published on Monday for how the company is developing its AI, which sets out the idea of “humanist superintelligence”. This, the code states, is “very advanced AI that always works for people, stays within limits, and remains under human control”.

I hate to keep picking on Suleyman here but this is too easy.. 1942.. We’ve had the training manual since 1942.

Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics
The Three Laws

Third Law: A robot must protect itself, provided this does not conflict with the First or Second Law

First Law: A robot cannot harm a human or allow one to come to harm through inaction.

Second Law: A robot must obey human orders, unless they conflict with the First Law.

Actually 4 laws… but who’s counting because Suleyman sure isn’t.

The Zeroth Law

Zeroth Law, which takes precedence over the others to protect humanity as a whole. (added in 1985)

There.. A man in 1942 did something that AI LLM devs are asking for and they are not even paying the fuck attention. The fact i had to write this post is amazing… I’m going back to making my coffee. Not to mention Andrew Martin would like to have a word with Suleyman..

Attributions From:
BBC – Uncontrolled AI could lead to ‘silicon species’ rivalling humans, warns Microsoft
Isaac Asimov – 3 Laws of robotics (see what I did there Anthropic, Google and whoever else)