At least 70% of things I read about people doing with "AI" assistants like "Open Claw" are basically things people have been doing with deterministic, secure tools like Home Assistant for years.

Oh you can tell your bot to dim the lights via WhatsApp chat? Welcome to 2015!

@tante "How can we do this thing we could do already with way more compute so we can prop up the failing fossil fuel industry"

@Research_FTW @tante

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/02/tva-how-trumps-appointees-derailed-a-clean-energy-future-at-the-nations-largest-public-utility/

AI is frying the planet
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/google-porat-climate-fossil-fuels

https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5711639-trump-data-centers-consumer-impact/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/utilities-overestimating-ai-boom-data-centers-fossil-fuel-energy-usage-bills/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/19/data-centers-power-grid-ai/

https://www.desmog.com/2025/04/22/ai-energy-demand-can-keep-fossil-fuels-alive-tech-backers-promise-worlds-two-biggest-oil-producers/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/just-an-unbelievable-amount-of-pollution-how-big-a-threat-is-ai-to-the-climate

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/crashing-the-economy-to-destroy-the-planet/

https://www.carbonbrief.org/ai-five-charts-that-put-data-centre-energy-use-and-emissions-into-context/

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

https://grist.org/energy/data-centers-natural-gas-methane-behind-the-meter/

https://time.com/7371825/trump-data-center-ai-backlash-ai-america-china/

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-energy-industry-ai-fossil-fuels-pittsburgh-summit/

https://www.ft.com/content/0c9ec7b1-f9a6-41db-9493-3ff09f6943ef
https://archive.ph/GVK2Y

Trump to Big Oil Execs: Give Me $1 Billion and I'll Help You Wreck the Planet | Common Dreams

"You won't read a more important story today," said one commentator. "Trump is willing to literally destroy the planet for $1 billion."

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