• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    It’s true. The left has nothing but tech-focused solutions, like an inclined plane powered by potential energy.

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    20 hours ago

    We aren’t anti-tech, though we are anti-trump. We are also anti-asshole tech bros stealing our money and forcing shitty AI down our throats and ruining our lands.

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    21 hours ago

    Apparently 38 of 44 measures restricting data centers passed because voters were thinking about Trump, not the enormous data centers in their towns. Amazing how an industry selling pattern recognition suddenly becomes so bad at recognizing one when it’s inconvenient.

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      20 hours ago

      an industry selling pattern recognition suddenly becomes so bad at recognizing one

      I think they do recognize the pattern.

      With trump, I genuinely don’t know if he understands that people don’t like him. With the big tech companies, I think they have a pretty good idea of how each individual person feels about these data centers.

      Since the midterm elections have just passed, they don’t need to worry about how the average voter feels about them for another two years. However, they do need to convince their investors that everything is ok. Between the partial bubble pop in China, the crypto heist, Google’s stock drop, and now the republicans losing power, they’re spooked

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        20 hours ago

        They probably have dashboards showing public opposition down to the ZIP code. The problem isn’t that they can’t read the data: it’s that admitting what it says might upset investors. Apparently the one dataset Big Tech refuses to put into production is its own unpopularity.

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    19 hours ago

    recently there was a bunch of technologies they tried hard to pitch to the masses and they failed, why can’t they just believe that they suck and move on

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    13 hours ago

    The tech is fine but polluting the air to spy on us will have consequences you may not like.