"It doesn't have to get done,
It just has to be perfect"

— Old #ADHD Proverb

Why most politicians are not calling for data center bans despite voters' anger (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/07/ai-backlash-coming-key-midterm-battlegrounds/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p15#a260607p15

To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half!

But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02661-6

I use such proper English on this platform that many probably don't realize that when I speak to Malaysians, I dont use the same type of English. What I use is Manglish (close to Singlish - the Singaporean version - but more confusing lmao). This is an English-based creole language of Malaysia - a fancy way to put it.

It sounds like this:

“Hey! You really bojio me ah? Told you to wait you say yes but you belah instead. Lucky you my friend or I already beat you kau kau. Tell the aneh there to tapau me some roti bakar then we go and see uncle. He already marah me so I want you to kena also. You are really so chai.”

There are literally five languages here. Malay, English, Cantonese, Hokkien and Tamil.

That's how Malaysians speak to each other but this is more typical Manglish from a Malaysian Chinese 😆

When we speak to foreigners most of us context switch to neutral accented English so you can understand. (And, uh, try to stick to one language). If I spoke heavy Manglish, I dont think you can understand me!

Also, Manglish: 👇

(Me: Where got polis so hardworking saman people throw rubbish one. 😆)

#Languages #Southeastasia #Malaysia

This is an important development -- a new tractor company selling machines that encourage repairs by the people who use them, rather than expensive control by a corporate monopolist.

https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/

We need to make this a trend, not an exception.

Also from real life; my parents are now worried about AI and jobs.

My dad, trained as an engineer and supposedly someone who cared deeply about precision for most of his life, kept warning my sister about AI fakes and phishing just over a year ago. Now he trusts Google AI summaries completely. At least he’s semi-retired, though that comes with its own challenges. But my mother has “AI KPIs” at her pharma company.

These are curious people who read a lot but the only AI news that reaches them is sites reporting on CEO announcements and company press releases.

The Reuters/Oxford research from 2024 was pretty clear in my mind but seemingly no one knows about it: uncritical coverage feeds the hype.

Hollowed-out newsrooms replaced by “media workers” produce articles convenient for the businesses funding the ecosystem. There’s hardly much opinion, let alone critical. And frankly, the results are so addictive and seductive I think they’d just ignore them or explain away their usage.

They never hear that some companies quietly rehire up to 25% of the people they cut.

They never hear about research from people like Daron Acemoglu (2024 Nobel laureate in Economics) who found companies are deploying “excessive automation”: killing jobs without meaningfully lowering costs.

They read about herd behavior passing for innovation and don’t have any friends or contacts outside of us, really, to tell them otherwise.

I don’t know what to do with all this either but that’s what it looks like in my family.

How are your family members dealing with AI?