Tuesday, January 06, 2026

Yee-Hah 🤠

There is a major hospital complex less than a mile from my house. I’ve had surgeries there. I have visited family members there. There are three buildings attached to it, filled with doctors’ offices, and two more buildings attached by parking lots and skyways, also medical facilities. Doctors tend to aggregate, and patients like it that way.

What kind of idiot is this guy? “Competition”? In healthcare? That is actually antithetical to medical ethics.
Isn’t it? Grinding slowly but exceeding fine.
I only add this because I’ve tried repeatedly to embed the tweet, and been told repeatedly that the embed for this tweet (and only this tweet) “can’t be found.”

Somebody doesn’t want it bandied about.
“Porn site” is a pretty good description of what Grok hath wrought. I have no problem with making it into an albatross.

Speaking of AI, in the Texas Monthly 2026 Bum Steer Awards (if you know, you know. I never read TM except when I see this issue at the grocery checkout. It’s hit or miss every year. But I digress…), a note that: 

According to the San Antonio Water System in 2023 and 2024 data centers in the metropolitan area used at least 463 million gallons of water—even as local residents were often limited to watering their lawns once a week.
What TM assumes its Texas readership knows is that just about the entire state west of I-35 relies on the Edwards Aquifer for its water supply. An aquifer about the size of half the state; but it recharges slowly. Very slowly. Cities, homeowners, and agriculture all depend on that aquifer. And now: “data centers.”

Yee-hah.
I didn’t find this soon enough to include it in the previous post where it clearly belongs. But what’s the topic here, anyway?

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  1. The Thought Criminal7:13 AM

    Modern technology and the ability of lies and porn to be spread either for direct profit or to sway a voting population will make the libertarian notions of "free speech" and "free press" which may have made some marginal sense in the 18th century fatal to not only any form of democracy but the possibility of a republican instead of a government fatal to good governance. We will either face that reality or we will abandon first egalitarian democracy then its more gangster trending doppelganger, liberal democracy.

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