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New research shows data centers boost local employment by 0.9% and wages by 1.1%—hardly the economic revolution tech companies promise. But the 30-year tax breaks that come with them cost communities far more. This article challenges the hype and asks: what are we really trading for a statistical blip?
Life is a terminal, degenerative, sexually transmitted condition passed from parent to child. Accepting this morbid reality eliminates the modern pressure to ‘live your best life’ and replaces it with dark humor, solidarity, and a liberating acceptance of our shared absurdity.
The ECB’s new euro banknote proposals are a masterclass in institutional timidity — generic birds, repeated faces, and inoffensive motifs that manage to represent a continent of Renaissance heritage with all the visual ambition of a corporate diversity stock photo. The selection process itself is a political act, and by choosing safety over boldness, the ECB is telling Europe its identity isn’t worth the risk.
Nearly 200 tech firms just signed a voluntary pledge to “protect” you from the costs of their own datacenters. But a pledge from the arsonist promising to protect you from the fire isn’t a safety guarantee—it’s an alibi. This isn’t a win for ratepayers; it’s a preemptive strike by Big Tech to dodge real regulation and ensure you foot the bill.
When the Indian government moved to ban the decentralized chat app bitchat, they didn’t kill it—they supercharged it. Censoring decentralized networks is a futile game of whack-a-mole that only legitimizes the technology and drives its adoption, proving that state power is useless against cryptography.
When Steve Jobs publicly sidelined CD Baby from iTunes, people called it petty cruelty. The truth is, it was a calculated move to eliminate a middleman and tighten platform lock-in. For anyone building a business on a third-party ecosystem, this is the ultimate cautionary tale about being a vassal instead of a partner.
The ECB’s decision to avoid iconic national landmarks on euro banknotes in favor of sterile EU buildings is a quiet cultural erasure. By trying to offend no one, they’ve inspired no one. Currency shapes identity, and this design choice tells Europeans that their local history doesn’t matter. It’s time to demand banknotes that celebrate the continent’s messy, glorious heritage instead of bureaucratic blandness.
We’ve been tricked into believing that more notifications and AI integrations equal progress. They equal exhaustion. The most thrilling innovations right now aren’t demanding your attention—they’re actively refusing it. Discover why ‘boring’ calm technology is the radical rebellion we need to reclaim our sanity.
A simple website aggregates raw front pages from across Europe — no translation, no algorithm. It’s a jarring, eye-opening reminder that our neighbors’ priorities are not our own. Here’s why the lack of an RSS feed is actually the best feature.
We’ve been conditioned to believe Clojure and the JVM are inseparable. Jolt proves otherwise. By hosting Clojure’s semantics on Chez Scheme, it unlocks staggering performance gains and native executables without sacrificing the data-driven concurrency that makes the language great. The JVM isn’t its home; it’s just a crutch.