WHY are People so Upset? Just LET these BILLIONAIRES steal your Water and Homes and Resources so you can FINALLY have a Chatbot that's RIGHT sometimes!

Won't somebody please think of the oligarchs!?

We might be wise to see the real headline here: American intelligence is getting... stupid. As more resources get poured into near-literal witch hunts, wildly unreliable tools become routinely abused, competent staff continues getting cut, and some absolute dipshits keep filling decision making roles, the ability to keep some pretty intense existential threat vectors at bay looks to be getting very uncomfortably diminished. I'm no fan of the American intelligence community myself, nor of any state in general anyway, but we might want to consider the consequences for all of us if a generally competent intelligence community protecting a state with an apocalyptic amount of nuclear weapons starts getting... stupid. I'm worried enough about the instability in Russia and Putin's growing paranoia.

Oh ok, hundreds of millions of people if not billions of people are "extremists" for not wanting to have their lives entirely upended by AI? For a relative few people to make an extreme profit from it.

The ones pushing the AI project so tenaciously on everyone are the ones with an extreme position, so much so that people are united against AI, across such culturally divided political lines. Anti-AI / Anti-data center is one of the only political issues where the regular population is in near unanimous agreement.

News, "The armed deputies known as law enforcement will ride in to defend the "extreme" actions and worldview of the AI oligarchs."

AI will then crush the lives of people who do "law enforcement," too. The boot will also step on lawman.

Anarchists or antifa.

"anti-tech extremism" = wanting clean air and water

US law enforcement invents new boogeymen to justify silencing dissent over gigantic datacentres.

Man this timeline is fucking wild and I want off

That worries me... how long until they start using the term terrorist?

ROFL. The people most likely to dislike AI and actively work against it love tech. This is the most backward thing you can say. These are the people who build jelly fin servers and make their own VPN's and (used to) build gaming rigs. These are the same people who heard that the US wanted to ban routers and were like "we'll make our own with blackjack and hookers".

Next: US Law Enforcement Warns "Anyone who doesn't want us bricking directly in their mouth is an extremist".

Tech Oligarchs "Hey, US government. How about we make crimes against AI data centers a terrorist crime?"

US Government "Yes, Daddy."

If tech ain't beneficial for all then fuck it. I can do most things with a pencil and cocktail napkin without destroying national ecologies and putting my jackboot on the throat of the forced users.

death to clankers!

We are all unabomber.

It does not help that tech giants have become very hostile to consumers in the last couple years.

fuck clankers

Law enforcement is daft if they think a majority dislike what is happening is called “extremism”.

Anti-tech? No. I love tech. What I hate is being exploited.

Just LET these Billionaires STEAL your Water and Jobs and Homes PEASANTS!

-Law Enforcement!

One can only hope that there really is a network of people ready to fire bomb these places.

Which brings up the question. How do you bypass the surge suppressors for a data center and cause a power spike that destroys all the ai chips. Asking for a friend.

Step 1: invent religion that considers environmental damage in the name of ai blasphemy Step 2: sue all the data centers Step 3: SCOTUS declares data centers immune to prosecution ...Fuck

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as Butlerian Jihad heats up

The High Ground

Trump's counterterrorism czar, Sebastian Gorka, released a public counterterrorism strategy claiming that left-wing extremists are one of the three top counterterrorism priorities facing the United States.

Here’s what the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) says about extremism in the United States: Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence in the United States: What the Data Tells Us

While left-wing political violence is “on the rise”, historically, political violence in the United States comes from the Right. Incidents of left-wing violence also tend to have “low lethality rates”.

What Is to Be Done?

“First, the government should avoid overreacting with crackdowns on peaceful organizations, which will serve to strengthen extremist views.”

“Second, it is important to resource all dimensions of the terrorism threat. Left-wing terrorism is a Trump administration priority, but jihadist terrorism also remains a concern even though it has declined. Right-wing terrorism could come roaring back, especially if in 2028 there are complaints of a “stolen election” or similar incendiary claims.”

“Finally, although leaders are not responsible for extremists in their midst, they are responsible for how they behave toward extremists. U.S. political leaders and activists need to lead by condemning violence on their side and calling for calm when it involves violence on the other side.”

Do these sound like the priorities of the Trump administration?

Ah yes...the people who don't like that thing that doesn't work, but if it actually did would render them all unemployed, are.... extremists. Sure.

When the extraction class says "extremist", they mean "literate, cogent citizen who isn't gulping down the BS quietly", mind you. When cops say it, it's code for "prospective target".

I hear data centers are exceedingly vulnerable to sabotage and vandalism, which would be awful if anyone attempted such a crime against property, but I hear it’s true nonetheless 🤷

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as Butlerian Jihad Grows

Remember, police guard capital and corporate profits...not citizens.

I’m more concerned about pedophile mass surveillance extremism

Anti-tech extremism!?

Ok, anti-AI extremism.. fine I guess. Extremism's in the eye of the beholder and that. But the anti-AI people I've come across are super techy and absolutely not "anti-tech".

The only good data center is one on fire.

The report flags a video from the progressive nonprofit More Perfect Union on the destructive effects of a data center to nearby residents in Georgia. Nothing in the video advocated for violence against property or people. But thanks to fusion center targeting, the advocacy group is now circulating among US intelligence and law enforcement across the country as a potential threat vector.

I can't tell if they're keeping the existence of real leftist opposition on the downlow, or if the natsec state is so full of loyalists that there's no one left who understands how the world actually works. Surely they must understand that going after libs for this stuff does risk radicalizing some of them? How many lib groups have to be targeted before the libs start waking up, and stop expecting to Vote their way out of this mess? The groundswell of opposition to AI and surveillance is growing, and I don't think this will stop it.

Marg bar Claude!
Marg bar GPT!
Marg bar Grok!
Marg bar Gemini!

nobody is hating tech... they are hating corporations ruining it like they do everything.. forcing their narratives, forcing ads and literally making it more shit by the day .. then throw their bullshit grifting of ai in the mix.

i don't hate tech, I hate them. if they don't die, then tech dies to me. anything to distance myself from these criminal corps and their murdering ceos

In all fairness it's barely catching up to hatred of "law enforcement". <-their words, not mine.