All Too Human
ALL TOO HUMAN is a podcast about the things I paid attention to before they became obvious. Each week, I look at the patterns, warnings, contradictions, and quiet shifts that most people brush past until they turn into headlines. Sometimes that means revisiting something I said months ago and asking what I got right, what I missed, and what it now reveals about power, technology, war, institutions, and the world we’re living in. This is not about pretending to predict the future. The future's too unpredictable. But it is about learning how to see clearly while events are still taking shape. In this world, there is a blueprint, and I'm here to discuss it.
All Too Human
Deep Seat: Who Gets the Next Watt? DOE Says Blackouts Could Jump 100× by 2030 (10/7/25)
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It’s a 98° night, your kid’s Chromebook is at 6%, your mom’s CPAP is humming, and across town a million-sq-ft server hall is sipping from the same grid. Who gets the next watt—your block, the NICU, or the data center?
Today, we go inside Memphis, where xAI’s Colossus and Colossus 2 run on “temporary” gas turbines while the city races to build substations and a wastewater plant. We connect the dots to America’s blackout history (’65, ’77, ’03, Texas ’21) and a new DOE warning that outage hours could jump 100× by 2030 without more firm power. Then we open your closet: fast fashion’s water, waste, and microplastics are the same “instant everything” problem showing up on your light bill.
Receipts. Clear asks for utilities, brands, schools, and us. Next week: the triangle shaping daily life—AI × data centers × education—what kids learn, who pays the bill, and where your data actually lives.
See you tomorrow!
