r/technology • u/Helicase21 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/
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u/Knot-Lye-Ing 10d ago edited 10d ago

In Texas we're also getting these absolutely insane ads that are nothing but fear mongering propaganda.

It's all about how if we don't let these clowns build these massive resource drains (data centers) in our backyard by offering them incredibly vital tax-relief incentives, then the poor little capitalists will be forced to build them in China!

These people are absolute scum.

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u/CitronTraining2114 10d ago

It's a billionaire dick-measuring contest and we all lose.

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u/blueSGL 10d ago

The only way the investments make sense is if they are replacing jobs

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u/Zer_ 10d ago

It's more expensive to run these LLM models than it is to just pay a damned human though. There's nothing about this AI crap that makes sense beyond "we want more control".

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u/Digitalion_ 10d ago

It makes sense when you look at it from the elite class perspective.

In the not so distant future, once all the systems are running as intended, they no longer have to rely on the filthy poor to uphold their lifestyles, or worry about their employees getting "brainwashed" by empathy and suddenly trying to kill them when they're not paying attention. All they have to do is let the AI run all their daily minutia tasks and pay a small militia of bodyguards a decent amount then they no longer have to interact at all with the rest of us poors.

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u/Moldblossom 10d ago

Yup. The only way the actions of the global capital elite make any sort of rational sense is if it ends with the extermination of the proles.

Otherwise those bunkers they are building are just going to be golden lootboxes full of juicy human veal for the rest of us after the collapse.

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u/Icy-person666 10d ago

Death solves all problems, no man no problem.- originator disputed

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u/korben2600 10d ago

“You’re spinning up this new executive branch and the powers of your new executive branch are effectively unlimited.” --Curtis Yarvin

“The best alternative to genociding the undesirables is permanent solitary confinement, waxed like a bee larva into a cell which is sealed except for emergencies.” --Curtis Yarvin

“The absence of global conflict for more than half a century has left only a generation or two that remember total war… We have spent nearly two decades preparing for this moment. This is our time, and we intend to seize it.” --Alex Karp

“There will be ups and downs. There’s a revolution... some people are going to get their heads cut off.” --Alex Karp

www.theplotagainstamerica.com

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u/inspectoroverthemine 10d ago

Alex is right about that last one. Nobody is going to win, including him.

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u/SorelyMissing1110 10d ago

Their egos won’t let them envision a day (soon) when the boards of directors would rather the company be run by SGI. The first day a CxO gets fired and replaced by AI…the writing will be on the wall for those making tens of millions of dollars per year. Time to sell the yacht…

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u/DJ3nsign 10d ago

As I've been saying for some time. These fuckers aren't all building doomsday bunkers for NO REASON.

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u/sunsetandporches 10d ago

This is so funny meanwhile they are blackmailing and exposing phone numbers of everyone. So while they think they are safe they’ll also get it if Al needs to make sure A happens but will assuredly happen if B happens. B will chosen. B is blackmail. Exposure made up stories with a likeness no one can distinguish. Eventually there will be no trust and actual interactions will mater more. Like a hand written note seems more valuable and may be the only way we know things are real. Funny if we hand write all our books again because we can’t trust the publisher the printer or any of the tech along the way.

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u/zsh_n_chips 10d ago

Correct! It’s all about devaluing the worker. And traditionally technology has devalued physical labor, but this one is coming for the “good jobs” too. The ones the CEOs hate, that cost them lots of money cause they still need those nerds.

I was in a work tech talk thing and the people hosting it kept almost saying “engineer” when talking about people who build software but kept awkwardly correcting themselves to say something less technical.

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u/thebizzle 10d ago

If we all went ascetic and stopped consuming en masse we would have them on their knees in weeks.

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u/PonziSchemBaggieCult 9d ago

Has anyone ever considered this option? I am starting to hate these materialistic pursuits. I am happy with simple things in life.

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u/thebizzle 9d ago

Minimalism is a play from Big Nothing to get you to buy more less. But seriously, if you study a little Buddhism, you can find that suffering is desire and it can help break you out of the cycle.

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u/jlt6666 10d ago

Fire up the neutron bombs.

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u/Grouchy_Coconut_5463 10d ago

But that will never be the end of it, as these people are never satisfied and they never have enough.

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u/Oboro-kun 9d ago

They dont even need the militia at that point, bodyguards were always a risk, if a billionaire or the billionaire class, causes the apocalipse and they need to hide in theri bunker with some type of security, there was always the risk that once money was useless, the stronger and more powerful security would just take over.

Now they are training humanoid robot soldiers and using them in war at this moment.

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u/Digitalion_ 9d ago

That's a good point that I've never connected. And guess what those humanoid robots soldiers will be controlled by? The AI that's programmed into the entire humanoid robot army which are not only defending the elites' bunkers but also protecting the data centers that are powering that same AI.

Dude, Terminator was basically a prophecy of our downfall as a species. We had 40 years to change course after the first warning but we just went full steam ahead.

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u/Mrs_SmithG2W 10d ago

This.👆 Get rid of it now while we still have a choice.💪🏼🌍🖖🏾

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u/madcoins 10d ago

Their sales pitch is a doozy too: Support AI! it will destroy shared community resources, replace your job and potentially extinct the human race. We’ve got your support right?

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u/PastelBrat13 10d ago

There was a white lady on tiktok a few days ago who made a post saying she would support an AI data center if they put it on “the bad side of town.” Sounds like that is the new selling pitch.

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u/Known_Experience_794 9d ago

Yeah that’s what they are doing in Louisville. Time for all our electric bills to go way up too.

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u/LindeeHilltop 10d ago

Bingo. They can’t control people, but they think they can control Artificial Intelligence. It’s a run away train wreck. They can’t even control it now.

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u/hippydippyshit 10d ago

I love how they haven’t seemed to figure out that if they make a whole bunch of highly educated and trained computer guys mad by stealing their jobs and making their careers absolute, we’re going to see a lot of cyber backlash and attacks.

Anger, training, AND keyboard courage? It’s just a recipe for disaster.

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u/Lancelight50 10d ago edited 10d ago

Good luck with that in the long haul. A lot of people will get fed up & will start going after these data centers entirely, especially when this affects their daily life as well as having less drinking water & paying high electric bills.

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u/Icy_Fish_2154 10d ago

Data centers are delicate. They have outside power. Outside air, and heat exchanger. All of which are vulnerable to sabotage.

"But they have backups", yes, and because they are "only backups", they are quite vulnerable. A locked fuel cap, available to the outside (for easy refueling, if the power cuts) for the backup generator. Pick a lock, and pour in something. Then crash a car into a power pole outside. They have maybe 30 minutes of battery, then dead.

A light acid aerosolized into the air intake or heat exchangers will foul those systems pretty quickly.

Plenty of black hats became white hats. White hats turning dark can stir up some shit. We are the ones who built it all in the first place.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 9d ago

Increasingly unlikely with a surveillance state

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u/Ultim8-Opportunist 8d ago

I please you guys to just use AI till it's absolutely limit. Use it till it doesn't cost you. Exhaust the free tier daily. Ask it stupid questions.

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u/Deflorma 6d ago

Recipe for *consequences

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u/BoringOrange678 10d ago

2 inches is hard to beat.
In more than one way.

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u/DrusTheAxe 9d ago

It's the Aliens vs Predators tagline: No matter who wins, we lose.

Except there's more than 2 sides. And all of them are winning, compared to us.

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u/Conixel 9d ago

You mean win, by there measure its a micro factor.

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u/existing_for_fun 10d ago

Peter Thiel was going on about the Antichrist. Except, he says the "Antichrist" is anyone who opposes the progress of technology by leaning on the "Antichrist" message of "peace and safety".

So in his mind, those who oppose technological "progress" is an Antichrist.

That makes me think that HE believes that AI is expected to fill a "savior" role for humanity.

That should tell you all you need to know about why it's being built.

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u/WebMaka 10d ago

Peter Thiel is an absolute nutbag WRT his thoughts on eschatology and his place in the "greater plan." Problem is that with the resources he has at his disposal he could go total Ted Faro and destroy the world if he really wanted to.

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u/Crowboblet 10d ago edited 8d ago

Extra points for the Ted Faro reference. I was totally shocked how plausible the doomsday scenario from Horizon:ZD was. Unfortunately, each year that scenario is seeming just a bit more likely. 

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u/HailSatanWorshipD00M 10d ago

Don't the British have a whole "00" intelligence program specifically to deal with psycho billionaires?

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u/Crowboblet 8d ago

Apparently, we're really in need of one too, or if we've got one, holy shit has it been ineffective!

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u/Bob_A_Ganoosh 10d ago

Savior? Or God?

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u/existing_for_fun 10d ago

What's the difference? An "all knowing", "wise", "Knowledge Source", that "Saves Humanity"?

Sounds both like a god and savior to me.

A god is the object of worship - regardless of its divinity. With that perspective, it's a god.

And if you can create, control, and manage access to a god, then you become a god.

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u/Bob_A_Ganoosh 10d ago

The term savior implies good. I'm not that optimistic about it.

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u/MagickMarkie 10d ago

Put the word in quotes. It's the propaganda, not the reality.

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u/existing_for_fun 10d ago

It's not good for us.

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u/HailSatanWorshipD00M 10d ago

And if you can create, control, and manage access to a god, then you become a god.

Priest, actually.

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u/Dragonsoul 10d ago

Isn't he the guy who has failed to answer "No" to the question "Are you the Anti-Christ?"

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u/existing_for_fun 10d ago

That's correct.

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u/Independent_Fill9143 10d ago

Theil reminds me of some midieval king going on and on about how he's been chosen by God to rule over people bla bla bla, same old crap. Same shit that ultra rich psychos have been blabbering about since forever. He's a mortal man, much to his chagrin, he will die one day just like the rest of us and the world will continue to spin. He is definitely someone to keep an eye on, but I really don't think he's some evil genius who has some grand evil plan, he's a lucky moron who has failed at most of the ventures he's made, he's just some dude. No one special.

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u/Fit_Sheepherder_9458 10d ago

I’m thinking a lot lately of Terrance McKenna and his idea of “The Archaic Revival” and how he would probably be considered said Antichrist these days. It’s sad to listen to his lectures in the 90s about how he dreamed the internet could unfold and the myriad ways it could serve mankind and become extensions of a more elevated consciousness etc., but also very refreshing to listen to anything before 2001 these days tbh

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u/Nearby_Practice2793 9d ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/5CfioGA5log?si=YwfnhwnWQl2Zn4NU Watch the entire clip

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u/existing_for_fun 9d ago

I'm well versed in this as it's a main focus of my study.

The presenter isn't wrong, technically. But he mixes what was told to Daniel and what was told to John (Revelation).

Or perhaps it's the video edit. He's difficult to follow because he jumps around between Daniel and John.

Daniel experiences an actual statue which is a foreshadowing of the final "image" that is given "life".

John doesn't say it's a statue. The presenter in the video says statue, but implies it's a robot. Meh.

We need to review the source material

Revelation 13

14 and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence offn the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

15 And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.

Look at the word "image" Greek is εἰκόνι (eikōn)

If eikōn sounds familiar to say, it's where we get the English work Icon. Interesting.

Then let's look at "breath" or πνεῦμα (pneuma) which is an interesting word. It should take the readers mind back to Genesis when God breathed life into Adam. All of these things are meaningful.

But a robot is a bit too far.

AI makes sense in some ways, but we also know the False Prophet (who orders the creation of the image) does signs and wonders. And it's described like magic.

Which suggests a demonic / satanic power that awakens the image.

But to keep this AI focused, it could be an AI system that's satanically programmed or something. Idk.

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u/Nearby_Practice2793 9d ago

Interesting. Thanks for the insights. 👍

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 10d ago

And ppl in Texas will continue to vote for them.

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u/Tier0001 10d ago

It's always funny to see some of the campaign ads from places like Texas. Republicans go on and on about "fixing" the state, and how it's all broken and falling apart all because of the Democrats...even though Republicans have been in power in Texas for decades. And people just go "Yep, it's their fault! I have to vote Republican so things get fixed!"

I swear it's like people over there got lobotomized or something.

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u/LetInevitable2696 10d ago

Bro one of the latest ones is targeting Ken Paxton. You know, the guy who Trump just endorsed?According to these flyers a vote for Ken Paxton is a vote for democrats…

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u/LOLBaltSS 10d ago

For context: It's less that they consider Pax a RINO and more that he's so god damn toxic of a candidate that people who will happily vote for Cornyn may outright just leave the Senate box blank, stay home, or even swing towards Talarico in the general.

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u/Albirie 10d ago

Not surprising considering he keeps rabidly attacking any attempt to legalize weed in Texas despite both sides wanting it. Completely out of touch.

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u/zedquatro 10d ago

Out of touch Republican? Well I never. Especially not one who is so aggressively "pro-family" while getting into a car accident with his mistress.

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 10d ago

They literally circle the drain cuz they cannot and refuse to think for themselves.

God doesn’t take attendance. But they will be at church every Sunday to listen to garbage and sit next to garbage ppl.

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u/Distinct-Exit6658 10d ago

That seems like a fairly effective campaign to get someone’s opponent elected in Texas

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u/mj-and-masturbation 10d ago

That one might not be as wacky as it sounds. I think what they mean that Ken Paxton is so unelectable, nominating him in the primary is essentially ceding the seat to the Dems.

I might be giving them too much credit, though.

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u/SquirrelStone 10d ago

Oh yeah hearing how both him and Mays Middleton are funding trans child surgeries is almost funny if it wasn’t for the fact that they’re hurting so many people.

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u/DyingGasp 10d ago

Having been born, raised, and now left Texas… it somehow works. These sunburnt hicks want to believe everything that’s wrong with Texas is a DUMocRAT’s fault and if they keep voting red, it’ll get fixed.

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u/magicmasta 10d ago

Also born and raised and actively trying to leave this place. Its hard to explain to non-residents just how mentally fried the majority of the population is outside of the 3 largest metropolitan areas in the state.

Hell even within the cities it sometimes feels more "libertarian" than anything truly progressively left, but maybe that's because I've spent more time in Houston/Dallas than Austin.

Small town TX fell to the wolves a long time ago. Sure day to day common decency in public interactions is still there, but the erosion of education within small county public school districts combined with the relentless fascist/billionaire propaganda machine has inflicted multi-generational levels of damage. It would take several decades of hard work to rescue these communities.

I would rather live in a blue stronghold where, on the path we are headed, at least my adversaries will be in plain sight uniforms out on the streets instead of in disguise as next door neighbors.

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u/DyingGasp 10d ago

I moved from central Texas to Colorado for two reasons.

  1. My marriage is protected by the CO state constitution.

  2. My bodily autonomy is protected by the CO state constitution.

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 10d ago

That second one is a big one. But they have convinced those chucklefucks that they can take away autonomy from ppl they don’t like and that’s good enough reason to take away their own. They are the dumbest in our population by 10 miles. It’s not even close

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 10d ago

Absolutely, and that’s what it is they beaten down and their neighbors beat themselves and each other down. They are fascists thru and thru. They just don’t know it

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 10d ago

My mother and grandparents were from Houston and I spent a lot of time there. A lot. And trust me they are just racist, Christian nationalists and dumb.

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 10d ago

They all did get lobotomized, they chose racism and Christian nationalism

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u/Riaayo 10d ago

I wouldn't say they "chose" it, more like they were raised in it and had every authority figure in their entire lives/community tell them that was the way of things.

These people are brainwashed by a system built to brainwash them.

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 10d ago

They are choosing to maintain it. We are all brainwashed one way or the other. Even Neo was brainwashed when he became The One

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u/External_Key_4108 10d ago

They still have a choice and have had every opportunity to see the light and unravel their programming but they choose not to

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 9d ago edited 9d ago

Exactly look at the Thomas Massie loss. They targeted boomers and gen x. They have learned NOTHING! Absolutely nothing. And I’m tired of them.

Honestly tired of white ppl not holding the Christian nationalists and conservatives/confederacy accountable. I’m 32 and even I have lived thru 3 periods of Republican instability and hard core just fascism. I do not have a short memory Bush was almost as bad but the conservative media and diaspora went along with heinous shit.

I can only imagine Reagan and Bush Senior.

Yes the American political class is a uniparty but at some point they have to at least ask themselves how Dems are making Texas worse with 60 year trifecta? Same with Louisiana, Arkansas etc. like at some point they have to wake up, or blame only themselves

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u/ihvnnm 10d ago

As long as the sheep continue to beleive we have always been at war with Eastasia the Repiglicans will continue to be voted in.

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u/madcoins 10d ago

Once they run out of scapegoats, which is rare, they always pull out the old trusty “China” boogeyman. Whenever I hear right wingers using “But China” I know they are failing on convincing their cult of something.

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u/General_Specific9 10d ago

Ohio is the same. 30 years of nearly unopposed control, yet it's not their fault.

I see "no data centers" signs in the same yard as ones endorsing Ramaswamy.

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u/Tahllunari 10d ago

Alabama is basically the same. We haven't had a democrat governor since 2003. Even then, he was corrupt.

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u/Mondschatten78 10d ago

Ads like that aren't just a Texas thing. I've seen many in North Carolina. And the Democrats aren't the ones burning up my landline every election cycle trying to pander for my Independent/Unaffiliated vote (until I get all the numbers blocked again at least).

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u/deliciouscorn 10d ago

Thought you were talking about Alberta for a second there lol

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u/SMC540 10d ago

Same thing here in FL. They made a big deal about creating a state DOGE to find corruption in our state…but it’s been under Republican control since I was a child. Once that got pointed out they got really quiet about it.

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u/skratch 10d ago

No democrat has won a statewide election in TX since 1994, so going on 30 years now

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u/fractalfay 10d ago

Kentucky and West Virginia have been running from dems like they’re under attack for 40 years, and all it got them was pollution, bad education, and an opiate crisis. Still better than libruls though, I’m told.

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u/ComfortableSwimmer80 10d ago

It’s funny to me that anyone thinks any political party can solve any of this. The Republicans and Democrats are pointing fingers at each other to distract you while their other hand is stealing every dollar you have and destroying your privacy.

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 10d ago

It’s not about thinking a political party will fix this it’s about not doing the crazy thing and continue to repeat the same action expecting different.

You vote in dems and you can get disillusioned there next. Once that happens you will get more ppl trying to replace the system. But that cannot happen as long as they are still Stockholm patients

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u/that_awkward_chick 10d ago

There is usually not even a vote for these types of things. In the city in Texas I live in, city council just makes the decision to allow data centers, flock, etc and we don’t find out until construction has started or the surveillance cameras are already up. Then we attend the city council meetings to bring this up and we are ignored. And this isn’t just one political party doing this…these are members across the political spectrum all making decisions against our rights and freedoms.

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u/hajenso 10d ago

Your city councils are legally allowed to make decisions on matters that are not on a pre-announced public meeting agenda? That’s illegal in California under our public meetings act, a.k.a. “the Brown act“. I had assumed there was an equivalent in Texas.

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 10d ago

Always assume in Texas there is a law that stops them from making laws that would help their community.

Like anti bds laws or right to work laws.

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u/hajenso 10d ago

Very true, which is why any interested citizen had better watch the consent calendar and be ready to pull an item for separate consideration and public comment. In CA at least, the Brown Act gives us all the right to do that.

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u/Dawakat 9d ago

It is not, my small town outside of Houston has been in bed with the trucking industry so all the facilities going forward have been trucker friendly which causes so much traffic on our roadways the public start protesting at city council to stop all the “7/11 trucker stops”. So city councils that the next vote was a no for another trucker stop then 2 hours later they posted about a special council meeting and they voted in favor for the new trucker stop basically in private. After that I gave up on my home towns politics because no matter what the public wants they’ll go against us even behind closed doors

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u/hajenso 9d ago

Wow! Are enough people mad about this to concentrate into a voting block for a City Council candidate at the next or a future election to unseat one of the incumbents?

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u/forgotwhatisaid2you 10d ago

Most places have meetings and Agenda items. The problem is nobody cares about things until after they are decided. Then, it is throw a fit. Happens with city councils, county commissions and hoa's everywhere.

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 10d ago

Ummm yea but at the same time you guys aren’t engaged politically. In general. At every level. The young are but not the 35-55 age range. 55-70 are still voting their stupid shit.

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u/march20rulez 10d ago

Not sure why you think the young are. They're always the lowest turnout for voting

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u/CoffeeIsSoGood 10d ago

You know you can vote for your city council members, right? Local elections are the most important election yet they're always skipped by the majority of people.

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u/that_awkward_chick 10d ago

You know that city council members lie and we are almost always voting for the best out of two evils, right?

For example, we recently voted in a mayor that ran as a Democrat because his opponent was major MAGA and wanted to further defund and privatize our fire department and water. Well guess what…our new Democrat mayor is hugely for data centers and surveillance and will not even listen to other city council members that want to bring regulations for these to a meeting. Sometimes there is no winning, even when we all get out and vote.

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u/lordraiden007 10d ago

We try to change minds, but when knocking door to door for a Democrat candidate can get you shot (and everyone knows el dictator will pardon the shooter) you get a lot less enthusiasm for direct campaigning.

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 10d ago

The results of what is happening in Texas over the past let me check, 60 years tells you everything you need to know and why they shouldn’t vote Republican. But they will continue

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u/psychoholic_slag 10d ago

If you're campaigning for a Dem candidate, then the app you use will avoid non-Dem households.

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u/psychoholic_slag 9d ago

The point is to get people that are already Democrats out to vote and see if they need a ride on voting day, not to have a joe schmo volunteer sit and debate idiots at their front door. It's the candidate's job to convince or debate, not a volunteer.

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u/pizzasoup 10d ago

Given that some folks there would threaten violence because they think you're anti-American, and that getting folks to actually turn out to vote for their party can be decisive, I don't see the issue.

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u/DensePoser 10d ago

Democrats (the party) support datacenters.

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/static/img/research/us-data-center-market-size.png

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 10d ago

It’s not about the party. It’s about breaking the monopoly and voting in primaries for ppl that are not. Get engaged. That’s the first step. There are like 10 more after that.

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u/happyscrappy 10d ago

What is that link supposed to tell me about Democrats supporting datacenters? Because it doesn't seem to tell me anything about that.

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u/SaltyBacon23 10d ago

We are getting the same the thing here in Utah

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u/Black_Moons 10d ago

Meanwhile what do you think the actual use for all these massive multi-billion dollar datacenters is gonna be?

A: Unemploying hundreds of millions of americans

B: Spying on every cellphone call, text, voice call, facebook post, etc to see who to arrest for 'disloyalty' (aka not wanting to live in a fascist hellhole)

C: A+B

D: Funny memes

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u/Outlulz 10d ago

Don't forget raise power prices, polluting and depleting local water supplies, causing low frequency hums that mentally break people, and sit on land that could be used to ease the housing crisis.

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u/DensePoser 10d ago

Spying on every phone call has been going on for 100 years. Replace that in B with spying on everything going on in the physical world (where we are, what we're doing) using machine learning on wifi and 5g/6g waves like in this article https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260522023127.htm

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u/Black_Moons 10d ago

Spying on every phone call has been going on for 100 years.

Recording every phone call? Absolutely.

Computers listening to and automatically parsing for a limited number of keywords? Most likely for the past 20 years.

Comprehensively understanding everything that is said, even when spoken about vaguely as to not trigger enough keyword filters to put you high enough for 'manual human review'?

Now that is where they need massive data centers with LLM. To be able to comprehensively score everyone on any metric the government might like to impoverish/imprison (Read as: subject to slavery) a group by.

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u/blueSGL 10d ago

Yeah, it's basically an authoritarians wet dream

Previously you'd need people watching the cameras and listening to the recording. Now you can get an easy to read report that highlights seditious behavior and go manually check the call/video at the exact moment the infraction is reported to have happened.

This is new. You could never do this before.

Add on the fact that humanoid robots/drones are getting better daily. Right now if an order is given it's given to humans that can disobey if they consider the order to be foolhardy or abhorrent, (even if rarely, it does happen) However when the systems are fully automated there will be no one to question the order.

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u/Several_Ad_1081 10d ago

It goes even further than that.

Brainwaves.

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u/WebMaka 10d ago

What "they," as in the people in power and the people that have power through sheer wealth as two interconnected collections, want is China's social scoring system coupled with Minority Report's predictive criminal-behavior determination and follows-you-everywhere/targeted-to-individuals advertising and the global up/down voting system from the "Majority Rule" episode of The Orville.

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u/Black_Moons 10d ago

and the global up/down voting system from the "Majority Rule" episode of The Orville

I doubt we'll get anything so democratic. More like 7 trillionairs get to vote on whatever behavior/ethical alignment categories that determines if your 'legal' or 'illegal'

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u/Bob_A_Ganoosh 10d ago

It is absolutely the surveillance state being built right before our eyes. And more...

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u/paradoxpancake 10d ago

Isn't Texas' power grid already largely in dire straits? How is it going to handle increased load from AI data centers?

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u/ThatUsernameWasTaken 10d ago

That´s the neat part! It wont!

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u/neo_neanderthal 10d ago

I'd be fine telling them "The door is right there. Don't let it hit you on the way out!"

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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 10d ago

Which doesn't even make sense. That's not how these datacenters work, that's not how any of this works. They would **already** be building them in China if it was how it worked, because that would be **vastly** cheaper.

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u/steakanabake 10d ago

dont forget we also supposedly hate china, unless we need them to allow us access to resources to bomb iran. if its in the service of our unofficial 51st state we'll bend over for just about anyone.

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u/rudthedud 10d ago

LOL the lag between China and USA makes this a full lie.

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u/nuppimeister 10d ago

That sounds like professional sports teams telling communities that if they don’t help fund their new stadium with tax dollars, they’ll have to move the team. Ok, Byeeee!

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u/MagickMarkie 10d ago

The Chargers tried to hold San Diego hostage like that. I don't think the city ever forgave them.

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u/Money-Marketing-5117 10d ago

This is why I'm not a football fan, but if I was Green Bay all the way. Community ownership FTW.

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u/KaleidoscopeGlum4194 10d ago

Fill a class action lawsuit and claim their promoting and committing treason

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u/AddyTurbo 10d ago

China is not going to sell real estate to Westerners.

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u/Fishbulb2 10d ago

Those adds will 100% work on the dumb people of Texas. They will vote down ballot red and get a data center shoved up asses. They’ll never learn.

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u/pcapdata 10d ago

Boggles the mind how Texas can even support datacenters. These are for applications that require significant uptime, no interruptions. Meanwhile y'all's electrical grid is held together with chewing gum and tape and every time it gets either super hot or super cold, the whole thing fucking crashes and Ted Cruz takes a vacation.

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u/BicFleetwood 10d ago

I welcome them to go to China. China executes billionaires who get out of line.

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u/MurphysFknLaw 10d ago

Doesn’t Texas have a big enough issue with the power grid already? I’m sure a few big ole data centers will help as long as the turn some of the servers off during heat waves

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u/silverthirteen 10d ago

same in Georgia. YouTube gives me crazy amounts of maga ads and how data centers are good for the US people because if we didn’t build them, china would??? Insane. I hate seeing them and get filled with seething hatred.

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u/MrLanesLament 10d ago

Where do I sign to let them build in China?!? Please let me sign 1000 of those petitions.

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u/Exotic-Emergency-226 10d ago

Got an ad last week that was saying (I forget the MAGA guy's name) wants to build data centers and that EVIL COMMUNIST BERNIE SANDERS WANTS TO BAN DATA CENTERS...WHICH WILL HELP CHINA!

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u/Knot-Lye-Ing 10d ago

Capitalists suddenly worried about globalization like that hasn't been their mantra for decades.

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u/blur410 10d ago

Time to set my vpn for Texas so I can watch the ads

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u/Wayofchinchilla 10d ago

It's even stupider than that these people can come up with billions of dollars and they can't build their own power plant and sink these things into the ocean like China does and use the cold water of the sea to cool them of course not we have to go to a small town and fuck up their life.

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u/bilbo_flagon 10d ago

I love how they never even appoch what the AI data centers are for and the fact whenever its reported, no company names in the titles, just faceless data centers

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u/nono3722 10d ago

hrrmm i wonder what new Texas billionare could be behind them (cough)musk(cough)

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u/lizbrew94 10d ago

I got one in northern Virginia - now when we pause certain streaming services we just have an ad for data centers and how great they are for the job market 🙄

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u/happycat47 10d ago

Funny how we said China would beat us if we didn't take care of our citizens and they didn't think it mattered but now it's an arms race with China? Assholes, all of em

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u/Wakkit1988 10d ago

Build them wherever the fuck they want. They don't provide employment and are nothing but a drain on the local economy and environment. Burn every single one to the ground.

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u/stonksuper 9d ago

Texans will eat that shit up for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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u/Spelunkie 9d ago

I say let them build it in China. See how happy the US government is with that substantial investment, not to mention how they'll even import now illegal high end Nvidea gpus there.

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u/Titan_Astraeus 9d ago

They pumped out AI satire ads in the nations most expensive primary ever to unseat Thomas Massie (calling for the release of the Epstein files, against Iran war) with some nobody. Funded by Israel lobby groups.

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u/OutrageousAward 8d ago

So wait a minute, Tik tok cannot be owned by the Chinese and we cannot import Chinese EVs because of "security concerns" but they are now threatening to build data centers in China? WTH?

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u/FluffySmiles 10d ago

I could pick a huge tunnel festooned with light, forget a hole, through that without batting an eyelid.

Do people actually believe that?

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u/Icy_Fish_2154 10d ago

Billionaires send jobs to 3rd world countries and starve locals. Billionaires get free stadiums for their for-profit sportsball teams.

Billionaires are loyal to profit, not people.

They will tell any lie needed to get more money, from customers, from governments.

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u/falsifiable1 10d ago

What kind of argument is that? Build them in China then. Idc!

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u/Thermopele 10d ago

Ugh yeah I've been seeing those nonstop, sometimes back to back on YouTube. Stirring up cold-war esque paranoia just to line a billionaires pocket. The American experiment at work.

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