Hello fellow Kermit, Gopher and Usenet veteran.

I work on “the grid”. There is no one reason, but I can list the main culprits I see.

• Decaying infrastructure
• Negligible investment in transport infrastructure (people tend to focus on production, as does this meme, when it isn’t the biggest issue)
• Negligible investment in data management.
• Datacenter supply infrastructure creation is being wholly subsidized by end users. When the energy company goes to the legislature and says “we need 17 billion dollars or we won’t be able to supply the city with power”, they neglect to say that the entirety of that new capacity and all of the previous excess capacity the system had, is now going to power up new datacenters. The legislature approves and the cost is rolled into the consumer’s bill, if not entirely then definitely in part.
• Significant fuckery in billing and estimation. This I cannot go into detail on but I can remind all of you that you have the right to request proof of your detailed power usage.

enshittification

So what’s the angle? The Internet is getting flooded by AI slop. AI needs fresh REAL content to train with. That’s the angle. You are there to provide frsh amd original content to feed the AI.

I literally doubled over laughing when they gave Machado the Peace Prize. What a fucking joke.