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I recently left a job at the 'largest data fortress in the world' out in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC). After seeing what goes on behind those 20-foot concrete walls, I can tell you it is far worse than the public realizes. The most disturbing part? Unless you work there, you have no idea it’s even there. There are zero signs for Switch or 'The Citadel' from I-80. There is no major press coverage or local news about the current expansion. While they tout being the 'largest data center in the world' to investors, they seem to keep a very low profile with the local community. They are building a water sucking fortress in total silence. We aren't just talking about a couple of warehouses. This campus is planned for 7.2 million square feet. To make room for this, they are literally tearing down entire mountains. I overheard them joke about this. Almost all, (if not all) construction management is not local or from Nevada. This isn't just 'empty desert.' This is the ancestral territory of the Northern Paiute (Numu) and Washoe (Wa She Shu) people. The campus is in the immediate proximity of the Lagomarsino Petroglyphs, one of the most significant and largest indigenous rock art sites in Nevada. We are surrounding 10,000 years of sacred history with high-voltage fences and humming fiber hubs. They have 2,000 acres of land. For context, that is nearly 1,500 football fields of desert and hillside being flattened. The wild horses that Northern Nevada is famous for are disappearing from that area. Their habitat is being replaced by gravel pads and server racks. Based on the rapid pace of construction I saw on-site, it is highly likely that the environmental and cultural impact on the nearby Lagomarsino petroglyphs and the Truckee watershed will be irreversible before the public even realizes the full scope of the project. Switch requires an astronomical amount of water to keep its servers from melting. They use a 16-mile pipeline to pull treated wastewater from Reno and Sparks (Truckee River). While they call this 'recycled', that water is being evaporated into the air to cool the machines instead of flowing downstream to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation. In a desert watershed where our snowpack is already at a critical low, we are essentially trading the health of our river and the heritage of the Paiute people to power AI. Northern Nevada is being terraformed. We are losing mountains, wild horses, and water rights to host a "data city" that provides almost zero permanent jobs for locals compared to the resources it consumes. If we don't start asking questions about the Switch campus now, we are going to wake up and realize our landscape has been traded for a giant, humming concrete box. I won't get into the clients for this data center but let's say I believe there are very specific reasons it hasn't been talked about in the press or much at all locally. let's just say they're hosting clients bigger than retail giants. One of the reasons I left was because of safety and competency concerns. The other was being a local, I couldn't do it anymore ethically. More people should know what's going on. I worked there for 1.5 years and saw the project grow from a dirt pad to what it's continuing to become now. Feel free to ask questions but I'm not sure I can answer specific details at this time. Edit: Hey guys. I didn't expect this to blow up the way it has. But I'm glad the community is talking about it. Also, I don't know all of the facts. I just know what I've seen, experienced, and researched. Please go to the Nevada Independent for more information. They've done the only local investigation/s I've heard of: https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/data-center-power-demands-likely-to-keep-nevada-from-meeting-clean-energy-goals https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/the-deal-was-rushed-records-show-company-skeptical-of-state-financing-discussions-to-restructure-public-water-district Otherwise, take this piece of greenwashing to see a bit of who is affiliated on a local government level: https://www.switch.com/regional-water-improvement-pipeline-project-commences-bringing-jobs-economic-growth-and-environmental-sustainability/ submitted by /u/Alone-Sky-2086 to r/Reno [link] [comments]

I work in a creative field and from that standpoint I hate AI. I hate the 'democratization' of creativity. I am going to sound VERY Boomer right now, but some things are meant to be difficult or meant to take skill and years of practice. It's why people who are good at these things (should) be paid more. We are already being heavily 'encouraged' to use AI to find ways to do our jobs faster, are being told 'they technology isn't going away, we need to embrace it.' Since within the company I am in, I am one of a handful of people that does a specific creative skill-set, the powers that be basically have no idea about the technicals of what I do, but they put it on me to figure out how to incorporate AI into my work. I hate that AI basically 'fakes' the creative process and that we are expected to use it (and the work of millions of artists that feed it) to just magically speed up how we do work, which in turn devalues the work we do as artists. From a company standpoint, they want to make money and churn out work faster, but if every client knows you can make a widget in 4 hours when it used to take 4 days, why would they pay you a lot of money to do that? The economics of it don't make sense. You will end up needing 10 times the number of clients to maintain your productivity / profits, which with AI or not, is a good way to burn out your artists. I see the writing on the wall, but my stubborn moralistic resistance to AI is probably going to be the death of my career. Does any one else feel similar or how have you coped with this rapidly degrading career landscape? submitted by /u/artbystorms to r/Millennials [link] [comments]

My (27M) husband (27M) and I have been together for over 8 years. To say he’s a workaholic is an understatement. He’s currently a postdoc at a university and typically works 10-12 hours a day during the week and also goes in on weekends for another 4-8 hours. He’s been like this since we met in undergrad. I’ve always been proud of him, but his schedule means almost all of the housework falls on me. I work full time too, but I still do basically 100% of the chores: cleaning, laundry, yard work, car maintenance, groceries, cooking, walking the dog, etc. I’ve asked him in the past if he’d consider working a little less, since he says none of his colleagues work as many hours. Whenever I bring it up, he gets defensive and says I don’t understand how hard he has to work, so I usually drop it. I’ve also tried asking him to help with specific chores, but honestly it often feels like it backfires. For example, if I ask him to clean the kitchen after I cook, he’ll put dishes away in the wrong places, load only half the dirty dishes into the dishwasher, wipe the counters with a wet paper towel, and leave the floor unswept. I end up having to redo it afterward. The one chore I thought was foolproof was putting the trash on the curb. Trash day is the same day every week. I remind him multiple times and he still only does it about half the time. I suggested putting it on his phone calendar and he got offended. He said he’d just set an alarm in the morning, but then he doesn’t. The only thing that works is reminding him as he’s leaving the house, but lately it feels like he intentionally leaves when I’m in the restroom so I can’t ask. At this point I’m starting to feel like he works so much partly to avoid doing anything at home. His mom has even told me that growing up he was always so focused on school that he never really helped with chores either. Now here’s the current issue. His mom is coming to visit this weekend. He loves inviting people to stay with us, but usually he’s gone working until they arrive, which means I’m the one who ends up cleaning the entire house beforehand because I worry about being judged. Since he invited her, I asked him earlier this week if he could at least clean the guest room and guest bathroom (which he’s the only one who uses when we don’t have guests). I also asked if he could handle the living room so my workload would be a little lighter. I asked early in the week and reminded him every day. He kept saying he’d do it later. On Friday morning he promised he would clean it that evening. He didn’t. The next morning he apologized and said he “had to” go into the office. It’s spring break and no one else is there, but now I’m once again expected to clean the guest room and bathroom myself before his mom arrives. At this point I’m seriously considering just leaving it as-is and letting him deal with the consequences. WIBTAH if I refuse to clean it this time? I’m honestly just tired of constantly being promised help and then never getting it. It’s starting to feel like weaponized incompetence. Edit: sorry not entirely sure how edits/updates work but here goes. Thank you all for the support and advice! I decided not to clean the room and restroom in order to focus on the rest of the house. When his mom arrived I apologized about the mess when I took her to the guest room and let her know my husband was supposed to clean it. She didn’t really mind and was understanding of the situation. She raised him after all! To clear some stuff up- we’re both guys. Easy to miss that part lol. He’s definitely not cheating or anything like that. We share locations and he’s always at the office. Plus his colleagues always mention how much time he spends working so I’m confident it’s nothing like that. I feel kinda bad about everyone ragging on him in the replies because I really do love him but just needed to let out my frustration about the housework. I threw out the weaponized incompetence thing but it could just be regular old incompetence when it comes to things outside his field. His love language is words of affirmation while mine is acts of service so he gets incredibly sad when I tell him how to properly do things rather than appreciating his effort. I’ve stopped trying to correct his “methods”because he goes back to doing things his way (low effort or completing half of the task) every time and it always leads to both of us being upset. On some level he knows how bad he is at housework so he just focuses on things he’s really good at. That being said I think you guys had a great idea with getting outside help. I’m going to split up the chores more equitably and have him pay for a maid and landscaping for his portion. Hopefully this will lead to having more time together submitted by /u/MyTraumaDumpy to r/ComfortLevelPod [link] [comments]

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https://preview.redd.it/ubdpc2qj9c7g1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=034effb3ecee888fc49179c98ad864c50b081696 TL;DR Three researchers across three decades, Grinberg (neuroscientist, disappeared 1994), Levin (Tufts biologist, 2025), and Nolan (Stanford immunologist, 2020s), all independently converged on the same model: the brain functions as an interface/receiver to something external, not as the generator of consciousness. The CIA's 1983 Gateway Process documents proposed the same framework. Comparison table included below. Grinberg In December 1994, Dr. Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum, a Mexican neurophysiologist who had spent decades studying consciousness, shamanism, and brain-to-brain correlations, vanished without a trace. He was four days shy of his 48th birthday. Despite investigations, he was never found. What was he working on? A theory he called Syntergic Theory, the idea that the brain doesn't generate consciousness but rather acts as an interface to a pre-existing informational field he called the lattice. He based this partly on David Bohm's implicate order theory and his own experiments showing transferred potentials between isolated brains (published in Physics Essays, 1994). His core claim: the brain is a receiver/interface, not the source. Levin (2025) Dr. Michael Levin (Tufts), one of the most cited developmental biologists alive, just appeared on Lex Fridman's podcast (#486) laying out what he calls the Platonic Space Hypothesis. His argument: physical bodies (including brains) function as pointers or interfaces to a non-physical space of patterns. These patterns ingress into physical reality through biological systems. His lab's xenobots and anthrobots (biological robots made from frog and human cells) display capabilities that were never selected for evolutionarily. They emerge from removing cells from their normal context and letting them self-organise. Where do these novel capabilities come from if not evolutionary history? His conclusion: minds don't emerge from brains. Brains provide an interface that allows patterns from Platonic space to manifest. Nolan (Stanford) Dr. Garry Nolan, Professor of Pathology with 300+ papers and 40+ patents, has been studying the brains of UAP experiencers and individuals with anomalous perceptual experiences. His finding: these individuals show hypertrophy of the caudate-putamen, significantly more neural connections in brain regions associated with intuition, motor planning, and higher cognition. Some were born with it. It appears to run in families. His interpretation: some brains may be better tuned to perceive or interact with phenomena outside normal sensory ranges. The structure isn't damage, it's enhanced connectivity. His implication: certain brains are better receivers. The CIA Connection In 1983, the CIA produced a classified report called Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process (declassified 2003) exploring the Monroe Institute's consciousness research. The document explicitly describes the brain as an interface to a universal hologram and consciousness as capable of tuning into external information fields through specific practices. Same model. A decade before Grinberg disappeared, decades before Levin and Nolan. The Convergence Grinberg (1980s-1994) Universal information "lattice." Brain distorts/interfaces with lattice via EM fields. Shamans train to increase "syntergy" (coherence). Based on Bohm's implicate order. Electromagnetic fields are the interface mechanism. Levin (2020s) "Platonic space" of patterns. Brain/body is "pointer" to pattern space. Different cognitive states access different patterns. Based on mathematical Platonism + biology. Bioelectric networks determine which patterns manifest. Nolan (2020s) Anomalous perception via brain structure. Caudate-putamen density correlates with experiences. Some people born with enhanced neural connectivity. Based on MRI data from 100+ subjects. EM exposure associated with experiencer symptoms. Three researchers. Three different fields. Three decades apart. All converging on the same model: the brain is an interface to something larger, not the generator of consciousness itself. Anticipating the obvious objections "Grinberg's work was never replicated." True, but difficult to replicate work when the primary researcher vanishes and his institute (INPEC) shuts down. His "transferred potential" experiments were published in peer-reviewed journals. The methodology exists. The replication attempts don't, which is a gap in the literature, not a refutation. "Levin isn't actually claiming consciousness is non-physical." Fair. Levin is careful with his language and frames this as a "research programme" rather than settled metaphysics. But listen to the podcast. He explicitly invokes Platonism, uses terms like "ingressing patterns," and asks where xenobot capabilities come from if not evolutionary selection. He's at minimum proposing that the information predates the physical instantiation. That's the same structural claim. "Nolan's findings are correlation, not causation." Correct. He's not claiming the caudate-putamen density causes experiences. He's observing that experiencers disproportionately have this feature, and some had it from birth. The question he's raising is whether certain neural architectures function as better "receivers." That's a hypothesis, not a conclusion. But it's a hypothesis that fits the interface model. "Nolan hasn't explicitly endorsed the 'brain as interface' model." True. Nolan is an empiricist presenting data, not a philosopher making metaphysical claims. He observes that experiencers have distinct brain structures and asks whether certain neural architectures might perceive things others can't. The connection to Grinberg and Levin's framework is my synthesis, not his explicit position. That said, his language, "better tuned," picking up signals others miss, points in the same direction. The data fits the model even if he hasn't signed onto it. Closing Thoughts The contrast between 1994 and 2025 is stark. Grinberg disappeared right as he was producing peer-reviewed evidence for his theories, and the investigation was reportedly called off under unclear circumstances. Today, however, the landscape has shifted. Michael Levin is now one of the most respected biologists in the world, openly discussing Platonic metaphysics on mainstream podcasts. Garry Nolan is a Stanford professor with serious institutional credibility, publishing on topics that would have ended careers 20 years ago. As we move further into the 21st century, the silos of scientific discipline are cracking. The immunologist, the developmental biologist, and the disappeared Mexican neuroscientist are standing at the same intersection. They are forcing science to confront a possibility that mystics have known for millennia: we are not the source of the signal. We are just the radio. submitted by /u/Ohnoemynameistaken to r/UFOs [link] [comments]