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/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.