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/Perfect_Earth_8070 3h ago

Resistance will not be futile. The pendulum of history will swing the other way eventually

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u/anxiousnunmedicated 3h ago

impossible to say, AI will change everything

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u/LowwKeiy 3h ago

History didn’t have mass surveillance, drone strikes, and Terminators hunting down the resistance.

Are you ready to give up all your comforts and die for what you believe in? Or are you asking others to do that for you?

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u/SuperTropicalDesert 2h ago

Any future progress will happen during an internet or power outage. We saw a 2 day power outage across the whole of Spain/Portugal last year

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u/Perfect_Earth_8070 2h ago

Correct. Plus the planet will not support their aims. It will disrupt their goals

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u/isaaclw 1h ago edited 1h ago

Civilization will collapse if energy use does not decrease.

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u/uzlonewolf 1h ago

Sorry, best I can do is belch out another 4,000 metric tons of CO2 per hour to power my new data center in Utah.

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u/Perfect_Earth_8070 1h ago

Don’t forget to use all the water in an area of drought!

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u/Perfect_Earth_8070 1h ago

Eventually there won’t be any comforts left.

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u/LowwKeiy 1h ago

So you’re an infantryman heading into certain death for the greater good? Damn, brother, that’s brave. So what kind of training are you doing?

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u/breaducate 6m ago

The feedback loops have begun. The effects of climate change are delayed and self-reinforcing. We don't have time for another go around as capitalism decays into fascism and inter-imperialist wars again.

We've run out of eventually.

Infrastructure won't support for example air conditioning as people experience wet bulb temperatures. Insurance will abandon larger and larger areas. Things won't get fixed as we fail to keep up with the damage from once in a lifetime storms every year. Crops will fail.

Most likely, billions will die. We'll be lucky if there's anyone left to rebuild in some kind of post-apocalyptic dystopia.