Stop the Idiocracy: Where the grid ends and fate begins

Monday, July 6, 2026

Where the grid ends and fate begins

A richly detailed illustration depicts a weary young woman seated on the floor of a dilapidated room during a tropical night. Her dark hair hangs damp against her face and shoulders, while perspiration and tears glisten upon her skin. Dressed in a simple floral slip, she leans against a cracked, peeling wall with an expression of exhaustion, sorrow, and quiet endurance. A single candle burns upon a small table beside her, casting warm golden light across worn furnishings, rough plaster, and a tiled floor. Through an open window, palm trees and low rooftops are silhouetted beneath a star-filled Caribbean sky. Dominating the heavens is the ringed planet Saturn, rendered as a surreal symbolic presence above drifting clouds. The contrast between the candlelit interior and the vast celestial scene beyond creates a mood of loneliness, resilience, and contemplative melancholy amid hardship and uncertainty.

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The entirety of the island nation of Cuba was, again, left without electricity on Monday. {Reuters 6 July}

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-island-wide-power-outage-9.7260307

Look into it, in many areas America is not quite so far ahead of Cuba in infrastructure upkeep, and the ageing grids that power this country are now being expected to take on far more stress with all the data centres opening up everywhere. It varies from region to region, and obviously we are vastly larger than Cuba — but that only means we shall fall harder. In the race to the bottom, we are not as far behind as we would love to believe.

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