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Utah BEARs the weight of if we wait for tech progress

The article highlights the reason investments in public structures requires public feedback before the investment is considered.

Kevin O Leary and Utah Senate president Adams have taken a step down from their project Stratos due to pushback raised by the organization Box Elder Accountability Referendum. (BEAR). BEAR believes this is performance in reaction to the public's reaction, and highlights that Kevin is only apologizing for people's reaction and not the actual planning of this project. 15B dollars invested with the hopes that this investment and development of data centers in the region would employee thousands of the 66K people in this county. Despite the good that can be found in his reason that would benefit the investors and employees from those investments made, BEAR raises the concern of environmental impact. Even with the changes made recently in this project, moving the project away from the Waterflow management Area, it would not preserve the bird refuge in the migratory flyways.

The facts in this case does show a difference between intent and impression. BEAR was forced into hibernation until the project already was planned out when they should have been involved as representatives of the impacted. Impression may be considered not in our hands when framing against the Dichotomy of control. But if it is guaranteed you will impact the public with your actions, we should wait in relation to the weight of impression post intent acted on.

Data Centers will be needed as AI development ramps up and is used in more sectors. The focus we can take from both parties is intent for a better future to be built on our history, and our future is ours to decide how the present invests in it.

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The Sticky Tape Problem

Adapt, we all overcome..

MIT Technology Review reports a striking gap: 85% of organizations want to be operating with AI agents within three years, but 76% admit their current operations and infrastructure aren't ready. The disconnect, per PwC's Prasun Shah, is that companies are "embedding AI employees into what is a human operating model" — layering agents onto workflows designed for human pace, human decisions, human review cycles. He calls it sticky tape on a structure that was already breaking.

The promise is real. AI agents at scale could accelerate business processes 30 to 50%. But unlocking that requires rewiring the work itself, not just bolting agents onto a pre-AI org chart.

For small businesses watching this from below: the constraint that usually disadvantages us — no entrenched workflows, no legacy systems, no quarterly reorg politics — becomes an asset when the playing field shifts. Building agentic from day one is easier than retrofitting it onto fifteen years of habit. Starting small starts to mean starting clean.

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The Hard Road, Made Easier — and Stranger

What makes us ID as natural...

MIT Technology Review reports a wave of new IVF technologies hitting clinics. AI is being trained to identify promising sperm and embryos. Robotic systems are starting to automate parts of the process. And researchers are exploring genetic editing techniques aimed at preventing inherited disease.

Four decades of IVF have brought millions of children into the world, but the process is still slow, painful, expensive, and uncertain. These tools could change all four. That alone makes them worth following.

What's harder is the second question they raise: how much of biology's randomness do we actually want to engineer out? For us watching this from outside the labs — that's the conversation worth having now, before the technology decides for us.

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Come, Pose Please

Being composed seemed a Sin for me/Loss of Composed Innocence is Free

The intention of day is for the fallen, our past, not us the warriors (mental) of the future or present

Respecting the fallen:

No matter who you face in the battles ahead, respect for the enemy and adversity should be exercised. Those battles and the pain felt drove you to move in the direction of progress.

              “”” Women visited a cemetery 2 years prior to the Day of Commemoration (May 30 1868 – Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, General Order No. 11). They went to decorate graves of the confederate soldiers killed at Shiloh. Union soldiers’ graves were bare, so the women decorated their graves as well. “”” – Paraphrased from article (a)

This displays human unity in grief and loss, no matter what side you are on.

2. Remember our position in the Present:

I learned to question “am I in the right speed?”.

This pause on a day-to-day moment where I am feeling too slow or fast, I should reflect on the promise made in the moment of peace congress passed in December 2000. At 3PM each day, festivities and time stop for one minute to recognize the warriors that fought to keep peace in our country. We are warriors (mentally) in our lives and need to ensure we pace ourselves or as warriors, we can be led to our daily troubles draped in fatigue, out of formation, or not authentically committed to the task at hand.  

When we are celebrating, studying, worrying, kicking a habit, the moment of peace reminds us to remember the past, revaluate, and more forward with our past's sacrifice.

References:

a. https://www.military.com/every-american-needs-to-know-what-happens-at-3-pm-on-memorial-day