Depressed Pacer Fan

It’s time for everyone to realize that the fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers. They have become a proxy for the hate towards AI and the concentration and accumulation of wealth it’s creating. Until those running the big LLMs understand this and start a community tour, not to explain the benefits of AI, it’s too late for that, but to help towns and cities that may be impacted by job losses (and I’m a believer their will be a net gains in a few years), this battle is only going to get more intense and let me tell you now , no matter how much money you pay to buy politicians and races, you will lose. One thing I have learned is being hated is not good for business. How can they help ? They will tell you. You will need to do what they ask. Billions of dollars is a lot of money across towns and city programs. Across the major LLMs, it’s a cost of doing business. At the same time, I would go to LA and NYC and ask the arts and creative unions what kind of programs would help and protect their artists. DO NOT GO TO THE MUSIC OR FILM COMPANIES. that will make it worse. Don’t try to pay famous people to endorse what you are doing. That’s dumb. Talk to artists and ask them what you can do to provide financial and creative support. Every creative I know is TERRIFIED about what AI will do to their profession. You must meet them face to face and basically do what they say. The big LLMs have lost the PR battle. Why ? Because they all suck at putting people first. They have an SV attitude that makes them all think they are John Galt saving the world Given the number of data centers and power that is needed, today and going forward , If you don’t kiss the asses of the people that go to work every day, and are just trying to pay their bills, you will fall far far short of the capacity you need to make your business work.

The same folks who begged the Pacers to draft 5-foot-11 Ryan Nembhard last season are mad that the Pacers drafted 5-foot-10 Braden Smith this year.

Sources: Chicago is trading Braden Smith to the Indiana Pacers for Kam Jones, future swaps and cash.

Braden Smith grew up with the children of Pacers GM Chad Buchanan and longtime former Pacers college scouting director Ryan Carr. The kids are close. Their siblings are close. The parents? Close. "Like family," Smith calls the Pacers. Staggering, the details.

Sources: Chicago is trading Braden Smith to the Indiana Pacers for Kam Jones, future swaps and cash.

Pacers are trading for the No. 38 pick, sources say. It'll be Braden Smith.

JUST IN: Braden Smith is drafted No. 38 overall by the Chicago Bulls (via New Orleans) in the 2026 NBA Draft

Nuke the whole app man

Sometimes wonder what's happened to the world....We get a few days of hot weather and businesses and schools start acting like it's the end of the world. In the eighties and nineties we just got on with it. It's called being sunny.