We Keep Building the Thing Nobody Asked For
I want to step away from the usual format of this blog for one post. No records request, no lawsuit filing, no city council agenda item. Just something I’ve been chewing on for a while now, and a conversation tonight that finally put it into words I could write down. The pattern under the pattern If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you’ve seen the shape by now. Flock cameras. Zencity scraping social media sentiment. Cell-site simulators bought with forfeiture money. Kyle Bass and a private equity firm trying to pull billions of gallons out of an aquifer an entire region depends on. Data centers justified as a national necessity while they draw down water and power with almost no local say in the matter. ...