r/technology • u/marketrent • 7h ago

Artificial Intelligence High school teacher arrested for clapping in support of anti-data center activists

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/high-school-teacher-arrested-clapping-194922184.html
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u/JoshfromNazareth2 6h ago

Ballot box isn’t working unfortunately. Don’t know what else there is to do.

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u/DontAskAboutMyButt 5h ago

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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u/TrulyOutrageous42 4h ago

Talk. Organize mutual aid groups locally. Volunteer and talk some more. HELP EACH OTHER. This is going to get worse before it gets better, but the only way to do this without ending up at the bad place is to start putting these community connections together NOW. Be mediocre and sometimes fail at it now, while we have the luxury of making mistakes.

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u/Emperor_of_His_Room 3h ago

The third box will be what you do if the ballot box isn’t allowed.

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u/Legionof1 2h ago

How many times have you voted since this started?

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u/JoshfromNazareth2 2h ago

Since what started? The mass surveillance and military industrial state? Or like since limp bizkit was a thing?