We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
📝 Lomez on X:
"Zoomers are the first cohort to be fully immersed in the reality of generational downward mobility. While millenials will also earn less than their parents, they were formed under the expectations of America ascending to a kind of Post-History stasis where at worst their status and wealth was permanently locked in.
Zoomers have none of these illusions and rightfully reject the obsolete and facile narratives they’re expected to swallow and obey to make sense of their lives and ambitions. Those are dead narratives. They do not reflect reality at all. They do not reflect the deranged cultural and political circumstances they’re expected to navigate from a position of negative expected value for pretty much any career path outside of genius tech outlier.
Scolding them is a stupid and pointless exercise that will only drive them further into despair and resentment.
Yes. Don’t be resentful. Don’t give in to despair. Be resourceful and lay a claim on your own life. But it’s also going to require offering Zoomers much better and updated narratives and opportunities for how to accrue status and wealth and the basic conditions for living a dignified life for the average guy who is not an outlier tech genius.
There are short, medium, and long term fixes for this. Some straightforwardly political. Some more complex cultural questions. But the implicit promise of boomer America, even Gen X America, is no longer viable, and that broken promise has absolutely nothing to do with Zoomers themselves."
📎 Lomez
7-year-old girl shares a “final cuddle” with her great-grandfather before he is mudered.
End euthanasia.
Illinois Becomes 13TH State To a
Allow Medical Aid In Dying
The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug. – Article
MAiD is also currently authorized in these other states:
• California (2015)
• Colorado (2016)
• Delaware (2025)
• Hawaii (2019)
• Maine (2019)
• Montanta (2009)
• New Jersey (2019)
• New Mexico (2021)
• Oregon (1994)
• Vermont (2013)
• Washington D.C. (2017)
• Washington (2009)
Assisted dying in some form is also legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Austria, all six states in Australia. It differs per country how assisted dying is legalized. – Source
A society that affirms life and accepts the inevitability of death, embraces expanded options for compassionate dying...
You know what they say – death cults are the most compassionate when it comes to offing yourself.
@Revelations_and_Rabbit_Holes
THE GRID WILL BREAK FIRST
By Shanaka Anslem Perera
Texas just received requests for 226 gigawatts of data center power.
The entire state runs on 85 gigawatts.
Here is what nobody is telling you.
ERCOT's interconnection queue nearly quadrupled in twelve months. From 63 gigawatts in December 2024 to 226 gigawatts by November 2025. Seventy-three percent is data centers. The AI infrastructure buildout is now the largest in American history.
But here is the number that changes everything: 3%.
Of the 226 gigawatts requested, only 7.5 gigawatts are actually connected and operating. Fifty-seven percent of the queue has not even submitted planning studies. Joshua Rhodes at UT Austin called it "laughable." His estimate for what actually gets built by 2030? Twenty to thirty gigawatts. Ten percent of the queue.
The rest is vapor.
Meanwhile, Oracle just delayed OpenAI data centers from 2027 to 2028. The company carries $108 billion in debt. Negative $10 billion free cash flow. Credit default swaps at 126 to ...
