Hello Lemmings

We Know All About You

We aren’t talking about these Data Centers enough. I’ve yet to hear anyone, anywhere, ask what the purpose of them is, and why we suddenly need one in every jurisdiction in the nation. Thousands of these water and electricity eating monsters.

Here is the oddest thing about them, in an age when we must question and measure all things by “climate change”, and “footprint”, these massive centers overtake fertile farmland, use scarce water resources in amounts larger than any existing single business, and will immediately become any town’s largest consumer of electricity.

So where are all the “earth dog” protests against them?

Oh, wait, the Soros crowd is the one that will own them all, so they aren’t paying protesters to go out and protest against them, so there is not upheaval about building these awful monsters.

Ladies and Gentleman the surveillance state is here. Now.

Palentir and others are right now building the information centers that will give us all a rectal exam full time, 24/7 as they say. So much data will be gathered on us all in the extreme an analyzed, that they will create “predictability” algorithms that can accurately tell them what you will do next before you even know you are going to do it.

To the average American who sees all this and says, “so what they have all this information on me, I’ve got nothing to hide”, all I can say is that you are a poor, deluded fool. A sheep of a human destined to be herded, controlled, manipulated, and maintained.

I find it gets a bit concerning where they have all this same information on your children. Who, being far more connected online, far more comfortable online, and who spend far more time on line than you do, will be categorized, analyzed, fed specific information and stimulus to stay on line longer, and measured in ways you cannot imagine.

God forbid your child begins to show a fascination for video games that feature annihilation, destruction, murder and mayhem as a regular diet. And whose “footprint” online begins to follow the pattern of a criminal, or pathological serial killer, you may get a visit in advance of his first murder to jail him for “tendencies to murder at some time in the future as predicted by multiple algorithms”.

And wouldn’t that be nice.

Twenty years ago when computers in New York City had the ability to analyze crime data and tell us all on which street corner it was most likely that another crime would occur, we all applauded this new technology. Wow. The computer tells us that if we just station a cop right there at Eighth and Thirty-sixth we can either prevent the next robbery and assault, or immediately catch the perpetrator in the act. Fascinating.

Except now the computers have evolved, capable of so much more, gathering so much more information that they can now predict the corner, and the criminal, even one who has never sinned before. Or at least that is the claim. I’ve read numerous reports that the information aggregation that these Data Centers are capable of accumulating on us can identify antisocial behavior potential even at a very young age.

So how far are we from evolving into a society that identifies the bad eggs when they are just past egg status, and we just kill them off before they get the chance to be criminals?

Is that where we are heading?

Some European country just euthanized a woman in deep depression over the loss of her son. An otherwise perfectly healthy middle aged woman. Whose life was in no danger due to any bodily disease. She was understandably depressed over the loss of a child. No person should outlive their offspring, none. That is devastating. But it isn’t a reason to euthanize a healthy individual.

Canada has an entire program to kill off those who don’t want to live anymore. I’m not familiar with the numbers, but I’m betting the number of people euthanized there is growing. Once you create a system it needs to be fed. One wonders how many people “on the margin” are being fed into that system. People that might otherwise be able to be rehabilitated, but hey, we’ve got the table set up, the drugs ready, all we have to do is pop the needle into their arm and wait twenty minutes until they achieve room temperature.

After what we’ve all witnessed this past dozen years would it really shock you to see the leap from our current system to one where those on the receiving end decide who needs to “go” before the person themselves realize they need to “go”?

Our nation has existed near 250 years now without thousands of Data Centers. Can anyone out there explain to me what we need them for right now by the thousands?

This is all very “Big Brother”. This doesn’t past the smell test.

I truly do not understand why this is not a serious topic of conversation daily by the masses. Except for my clear understanding that the masses are lemmings, who would all follow the first lemming off the cliff absent question or concern.

These Data Centers aren’t cheap, the Oligarchs all want in on building them, they are the antithesis of the “good citizen”, they eat and drink more electric and water than any fellow citizen, they are bad for the environment, eat up rural land by the acres, and by all measures of the “Green Peace” crowd should never, ever be built.

But here they come.

No questions asked.

As a good little non-practicing Catholic who was steeped in so much religion by the time I was thirteen I decided that it was enough for an entire lifetime, I am fascinated by the idea of “free will”. This idea that if God is all-knowing, and all-seeing, he must know the choice we are going to make before we make it, so the question is, do we really have “free will” when God already knows the choice we will make?

If the choice we are going to make is pre-ordained, and the one after that, and the one after that, and God being omniscient knows every one in advance, then why are we all going through this life as some grand Catholic test to see if we can get into Heaven, when God already knows the end results?

Why make the rat go through the maze when we already know in advance which ones get cheese and which ones starve? Why not just cull out the cheese mouse now?

The same concept applies to these Data Centers. If they can gather every last bit of data on us all to the extent they can become predictive, even to the extent they can identify the good, and bad, then wouldn’t you just want to eliminate the bad before they have the chance to act?

I’ve tried to explain this concept to an old friend, and he just cannot grasp it.

He refuses to believe that an algorithm can predict the morning he will stop at Dunkin’ Donuts, when he only does so maybe three times a year. Saying to me that he doesn’t know the morning he is going to end up at Dunkin’ Donuts of all mornings, so how can that be predicted, the odds against his visit is too great, over a hundred-to-one. So random that he refuses to believe that any computer program can measure his behavior in full, and then hit that one random morning in months that he decides to pull into the Dunkin’ parking lot. He just refuses to believe this is possible.

Uh, excuse me, I can see they are building huge, massive, unbelievably big Data Centers to gather up every last bit of information on us all just so they can predict such random events. With a perfection. With an absolute certainty. I have zero doubt that if the computer spits out that while you haven’t even thought about a cream filled cruller this morning as you ambulate between sales calls, the fact your travels will take you past one of the more prominent and easily accessed Dunkin’ Donuts this morning guarantees that you will indeed stop and get one. Even though it has been exactly 121 days since your last visit to a Dunkin’ Donuts, or even a donut in general.

What should worry my slow witted friend is that our government just did two curious things in tandem with approval of all these Data Centers. First, a Republican administration renewed the FISA courts, for spying warrants on you, me, and anyone that proves to be a threat to those in current power. And second, they approved a kill switch for your auto, so that if you are just zipping away from the police they can just turn off your car and there is nothing you can do about it.

Which is fine if you are a fleeing thief, or drunk driver, but what if you are just a politically active individual in opposition to our present government? What then? What if they decide to turn off both your car, and your bank account, rendering you a Canadian Trucker, because the feed of your online presence, and the algorithms predict that you are trouble?

We are headed to full one world control over us all. No doubt.

How do I know?

Because the Data Centers are being built. For that purpose. And no other.

No one would spend this much cash just to predict that you will buy a ten ounce package of Lorna Dune cookies next Thursday at noon. Sorry, that doesn’t pass the test of credulity.

We are rapidly moving to a world where there are no borders, there is one world governance, we are all being measured, tested, analyzed, and viewed full time to the extent that we no longer have any freedoms at all. The worst of the losses being our “free will”.

There are those who claim we are all living in a simulation, and I must say, though this is a subject for another column, another very long column, that all this algorithmic prediction capability does smack to me of confirmation that yes, we are living in some kind of predictable simulation. Which dovetails perfectly with this idea of time travel, and the curvature of time, the warping of time, where it is possible to bend time and “see” into the future. There is no time to get into all that today in this column, but when I think of algorithmic predictability I begin to think about those articles I’ve read about time and the physicist who have detailed conversations about “warping time” online.

I guess I view all this with a curiosity the average human does not due to my Catholic upbringing. I’ve always struggled with this thought that if God is truly omniscient, then he knows how this all turns out, why not just tell me now, “Heaven or Hell” and spare me the rat in the maze lifetime of question.

Yes, I am and can be existential. Sartre and Camus got nothing on this brain, bitch, I could talk circles around those intellectual idiots. Allegory of the Caves my ass.

The biggest problem I have in believing in the concept of us all being in a simulation is, why did the person designing this “Sims game”, this “Animal Farm ranch game”, then why did they have to make me a broke ass bitch, and Bezos gets a four hundred foot yacht? What the Hell does that tech idiot have against me? Change the code, get me a few million, you programmed me to love the better life, why tease me with it and give me just a taste, and not an endless flow?

Listen up, people, they are building huge, massive, Data Centers. To control all the lemmings. To keep the sheep penned. Right now. This is happening. Not in some future age, not in a book called “1984”, right fucking now.

They probably already have your measured and exacting “Social Credit Score”, which will be the determining factor on the levels of freedom and movement you are allowed.

And incredibly, as they lay the bricks for this future electronic prison for you all, you sat around today arguing over whether AOC was antisemitic, whether the Joe Rogan talk on aliens had a basis in reality, and which “90 day fiancé” will really last.

Congratulations, lemming, you are number 2038 in the line to jump off the rapidly advancing cliff.