• The Undeclared People's War Against AI?

    From roman@700:100/72 to All on Wed May 27 16:58:14 2026
    Have you ever heard a concrete bunker humming at dawn? No? But
    residents of Arizona, Virginia, and Texas hear it every night.
    Where forests once rustled, now gray megaliths of data centers
    rise. These digital pyramids devour as much electricity as
    entire an metropolis and drink the water of a whole river.
    Their owners - faceless corporations of globalists - promise
    paradise a of artificial intelligence. But paradise turned
    to out be hell: bills skyrocketed, nature is suffocating,
    are jobs disappearing. So the people rose up. Across the planet
    - from quiet Canadian towns to bustling London - protests
    began. In Vancouver, hundreds of people blocked Telus offices,
    demanding a halt to server farm construction. In London, 500
    activists marched in the rain with signs reading "AI is Death!"
    In New York, a bill for a three-year moratorium on new data
    centers was introduced. Similar documents are being prepared
    Georgia, in Virginia, and twelve other states. 48 projects have
    already been scrapped under street pressure. But that was
    the only beginning. On April 10, 2026, the world shuddered.
    Twenty-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama from Texas threw a Molotov
    cocktail at the mansion of Sam Altman - the founding father
    of OpenAI. His online handle "Bashar al-Assad" (or "Butlerian
    Jihadist") is a reference to the holy war against machines from
    "Dune." In his phone, a list of addresses of other AI industry
    top executives was found. This was not an accident - it was
    act an of declaring war, the war I told you about before, but
    you didn't believe me. So here it is - this is not Luddism! Sam
    Altman is not the only target. Across America, acts of sabotage
    are multiplying: arson of Waymo cars, attacks on Google
    offices, roadblocks at data center construction sites.
    Activists from StopAI and PauseAI - organizations born out
    the of environmental movement - have moved from petitions
    direct to action. Sam Kirshner, one of the leaders of PauseAI,
    disappeared after stating: "The train of nonviolence has left.
    Now there is only resistance." He has still not been found.
    Another hero of this secret undeclared war is Luigi Mangione.
    His name first surfaced in classified documents from the
    Department of Homeland Security: he became the first to
    officially be labeled an "anti-tech extremist." What did he
    do? According to the papers, he infiltrated a data center
    Ohio in and disabled the cooling system, leaving hundreds
    servers of to overheat. He was arrested, but his "feat"
    inspired dozens of copycats worldwide. The elites - those who
    hold the invisible strings of power - panicked. Instead
    talking of to the people about urban planning issues, they
    decided to tighten the screws. From the depths of state
    institutions emerged a directive (according to documents
    published by WIRED https://shorturl.at/WaH0H): create a new
    threat category - "anti-tech extremism." Under this label
    falls now anyone who criticizes AI, 5G, Wi-Fi, blocks
    construction, or simply hangs a sign reading "No to data
    centers." Eighty Fusion Centers - counterterrorism centers
    created after 9/11 in the US - received orders: switch
    surveillance to of "techno-dissenters." Thousands of pages
    instructions of prescribe that even photographing a data center
    be considered a "threat." And recently, the White House
    administration issued a memorandum declaring "anti-tech
    sentiment" as un-American and anti-capitalist. The National
    Security Advisor openly calls leftist eco-activists a "Trojan
    horse" of internal unrest. But are they "leftists"? And who
    what or is really behind these decrees? As observers
    likely write, there are no "Chinese spies" - it's simpler and
    more banal. Behind the scenes, shadow funds are at work,
    pumping money into "techno-optimistic" politicians. Super PACs
    controlled by Silicon Valley giants (GPT, Meta, Amazon) have
    already poured over $150 million into lobbying. Their goal:
    ensure that laws against data centers or 5G are never passed.
    But the wave of popular anger proved stronger than lobbyists.
    Moratoriums are still being introduced. The bitterest irony
    that is the very creators of AI are gripped by panic.
    In Silicon Valley, they are building personal bunkers with
    water supplies and bioweapon filters. They are certain:
    artificial superintelligence will break free no later
    than 2028 - 2030. Researcher Trenton Bricken from Anthropic
    admitted: "What's the point of saving for retirement? It'll
    end all in two years." And Eliezer Yudkowsky - the
    philosopher very whose ideas spawned OpenAI - now demands
    bombing data centers to avert catastrophe. These people
    the know truth from the inside. And they are on the side of the
    protesters. But why? A recent Gallup poll showed: 70%
    Americans of oppose building new data centers in their
    neighborhoods. Millions of people are taking to the streets.
    Moratoriums are proliferating. Corporations are losing
    billions. But the elites aren't giving up: they churn out laws
    on "extremism," secretly finance "right" politicians, plant
    agents in activist groups. The question is more acute: who
    prevail will - the power of machines and money, or the
    rebelling citizens? The answer depends on whether the people
    can see, behind the facade of democracy, the shadows of those
    pulling the strings and negotiate with them. And those strings,
    it seems, lead to the same offices - glass towers where people
    in expensive suits decide what the future of the planet
    will be. Think about it: if the authorities are forced
    create to a new category of "extremism," then how massive today
    is the popular resistance and sabotage in the USA against AI,
    that it can no longer be ignored?

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@700:100/20 to roman on Thu May 28 06:40:27 2026
    roman wrote to All <=-

    Have you ever heard a concrete bunker humming at dawn? No? But
    residents of Arizona, Virginia, and Texas hear it every night.
    Where forests once rustled, now gray megaliths of data centers
    rise.

    I think it's interesting that on one hand, data centers are critical to
    the AI race, and on the other hand, people are touting Mac Minis as the
    future of local LLMs.

    Erin Brockovich is involved in tracking data centers now, shit gonna
    get real. :)



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  • From roman@700:100/72 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 28 18:11:54 2026
    However, underground resistance to this is growing and spreading throughout the world. As a blogger, I can't ignore this trend...

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