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Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
Mass anti-AI protest in Scotland.
More than 70 orgs have backed a huge protest against AI data centres. Saturday Nov 14 on Royal Mile, Edinburgh. It's part of a Europe-wide wave of protests called Stop Dirty Data Centres, with 70 protests taking place in 15 countries
Link below👇
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
We need this in the UK ! Our government will be slow to act we must push
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
More than 100 data centres are currently being planned or built across the UK. Imagine living next to one of these monstrosities. Just listen to it.
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
The people have spoken: data centers should not be prioritized over humans.
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Welcome to The No Frills PODCAST, Episode 1 🎙️
Join me on the streets of Spain to explore what people are really thinking and feeling. In my first episode, I record the birth of a new social movement that has culminated in Madrid’s Sol encampment ⛺️☀️
madridnofrills.com/the-no-fr…
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
Universal basic income is the only policy that delivers change that ALL Americans can feel in their wallets.
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
Republicans lost because people can’t afford to eat and billionaires want to build data centres in their backyards.
The Democratic establishment has no solutions to these problems. Socialists need to prove that they do.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p…
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
Intelligence agencies around the world are adopting AI in the shadows.
Our new report examines the UK’s intelligence agencies and finds a troubling combination of expanding technological power, weak safeguards and secrecy.
privacyinternational.org/new…
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
AI is unpopular. Data centers are unpopular. The only people I know who ride for AI are currently making money off of it. No one likes this shit. It’s garbage. Throw it away!!!
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
Opposition to data centres and AI is overwhelming and a good deal of it represents a wholesale rejection of the oligarchs who own our world. It gives me hope.
datacenterdynamics.com/en/ne…
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
Albanese government warned it’s ‘sleepwalking into another robodebt scenario’ over use of algorithms and AI theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
The defeat of the Republicans is also a defeat of the tech accelerationist ideology: the silicon valley "disruptor" ethos of "Move Fast & Break Things."
When the "things" are communities, the environment & people's livelihoods, those broken people fight back.
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
AI addiction is now a recognised psycho-social problem. Here are some of its symptoms.
The link below is to an addiction centre offering diagnosis & treatment options.
AI addiction impacts most on children & people with pre-existing mental health problems.
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
Petition: urge the British Library not to close its reading rooms c.org/XbnbzJTQsT via @UKChange
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
Yeah, exactly, dimwit.
If you’ve never seen Song of the Sea and other revolutionary animations – crafted with skill and passion by gifted humans – then you’re in no way an animator, no matter what rape culture bs you do with the ffycin plagiarism machine.
Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here) retweeted
In just 1 month Intel (the largest CPU manufacturer) has lost nearly 60% of its value.
The AI crash is happening.
Excellent, finally we can buy computer parts again, not billionaires to produce AI slop.
