“I’m on Mythos” reminds me of the proud Google Wave announcements.
There is no “inside” to Internet protocols such as SMTP
People who love how a velvet rope now runs around their sense of self, are stumbling towards an old philosophical landmine.
Since at least the 1700s, thanks to Hume, humans contemplated when a mirror has no source image it will reflect whatever stands in front of it. The aspiration of an empty person operates as a mirror, such that to stand in front of a VC-fueled speculative software velvet rope makes a user proud to reflect that rope as their existence.
Anthropic built Mythos as Rousseau built Sophie, to be valued through the eyes of others, and called it education. Wollstonecraft turned that education into a verdict against the source:
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Now that Wave failed, has Mythos become your prison yet for adornment?
What xAI is doing to American Blacks is specific and intentional. It built de facto power plants with no permits, no public input, no notice, and when caught at Colossus 1 it told regulators it planned to copy and paste the same unlawful turbine strategy straight into Colossus 2. It says Black lives don’t matter.
This is not a zoning fight.
The company declared intent, on the record, to find Black neighborhoods to pollute into. They knew the law, named the workaround, and ran it again across the state line in Southaven to power Colossus 2. The pollution from both sites lands on the majority Black communities of the Memphis metro.
The scale of pollution is unbelievable. Over 400 MW of unpermitted gas generation to run the facility, turbines emitting NOx, fine particulate, and formaldehyde into a corridor already graded “F” for ozone, in a neighborhood with four times the national cancer risk.
That is xAI dumping measured harms, not modeled, measured into a neighborhood. You can see it all with the latest Brockovich Data Center map, where the damage is a forecast.
Source: Brockovich Data Center
With xAI the “AI” part means generating racist memes while pushing Black kids onto a nebulizer. Just this one company decided that the AI race meant they could get away with dumping harms into Black neighborhoods, to willfully break the Clean Air Act in the metro area defined by its race.
Where exactly?
Shelby County, Tennessee, which the VCU klavern map records as home to at least five Klan chapters, one of them the “Shelby County Klan”. Five Klan chapters in one metro! So the news is basically that a county known for harming Blacks was complicit with Musk’s “X” brand until the EPA found and closed their loophole this January.
These “X” militants in 1921 used bi-planes to firebomb Tulsa, OK. They also dropped racist propaganda leaflets across America, foreshadowing Elon Musk’s X platform.
Notably, the xAI attempts to exploit safety loopholes smell a lot like Tesla. Perhaps you recall Tesla’s Fremont plant ran up 112 air-quality violations since 2019, and had a 2024 abatement order for smog-forming emissions? Or perhaps you recall when the US government went after VW for diesel cheats causing pollution? Tesla at the time was feeding its “emissions-free” charging station with a dirty diesel engine. Tesla literally self-branded their diesel pollution as clean, while VW paid billions in fines, and so here we are today with the story of racist-meme engine xAI and their Klan Kounty Klowns pushing pollution on Black neighborhoods.
There’s a billionaire in South Korea acting like an Elon Musk. As you may remember from my earlier post, Musk regularly uses Tesla and Twitter to promote Hitler and demote democracy.
Starbucks Korea ran a “Tank Day” promotion on May 18 for a “Tank” tumbler line with the tagline to slam it down with a “Tak!” sound. This “bang the desk” line was read as mocking the torture death of student activist Park Jong-chul.
Source: BlueSky
The campaign is on the anniversary of the Gwangju Uprising, where the military killed hundreds of citizens in 1980. The official count stands near 165. Independent scholarship puts the dead between 600 and 2,300. The killing was by paratroopers and special forces with gunfire and bayonets, not by tanks as such, yet tanks are the symbol of the tragedy.
The Starbucks CEO was fired hours later and the stock crashed. Unlike America, where Elon Musk’s constant promotion of violent fascism is only growing, there has been immediate and fierce condemnation in South Korea.
Starbucks tumblers and mugs smashed during a protest against 2026 “Tank Day” campaign. Source: Yonhap via REUTERS
Trump’s second-term Cabinet started with more women than any recent Republican one. For thirteen months nobody left. Then in eleven weeks four women were gone, and every vacated seat passed to a man, three of them in an acting capacity, several of them Trump’s personal allies. This table shows the one-way swap.
Departed (woman)
Role
Replacement (man)
Tie to Trump
Kristi Noem
Homeland Security
Markwayne Mullin
Loyal sitting US senator
Pam Bondi
Attorney General
Todd Blanche (acting)
Trump’s former personal attorney
Lori Chavez-DeRemer
Labor
Keith Sonderling (acting)
Her own deputy
Tulsi Gabbard
Director of National Intelligence
Aaron Lukas (acting)
Principal deputy
And this table shows the rule: women left over performance or conduct problems, while men with same or worse problems stayed.
