• frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    Step 1: invent religion that considers environmental damage in the name of ai blasphemy Step 2: sue all the data centers Step 3: SCOTUS declares data centers immune to prosecution …Fuck

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      Already been done.

      Revelation 11:18 in the King James Version states: “And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.”

      They just ignore it.

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    One can only hope that there really is a network of people ready to fire bomb these places.

    Which brings up the question. How do you bypass the surge suppressors for a data center and cause a power spike that destroys all the ai chips. Asking for a friend.

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      Just thinking out loud but going after the power seems like a bad approach. Instead you should target the cooling infrastructure. Not sure what you could throw in the air intake to do maximum damage, but I think that’s going to be a lot easier to damage than the power would be. Either that or you get clever on the power side. Don’t try to do a big spike, instead stress the failovers. Rapidly alternate between low voltage (maybe connecting a massive power shunt across the incoming line) to trip the backup power and normal voltage to get it to switch off of the backup. I’d bet it would handle rapidly swapping back and forth a lot worse than one big spike.

      PSA, it’s a really bad idea to mess with the kind of high voltage lines that feed these data centers. That’s a really good way to end up dead in a very painful manner.

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        No, I don’t think that will do anything but mildly inconvenience them.

        We had these chiller units at the lab I used to work at. They are built like a tank, the only vulnerable part is the two pipes carrying water in and out of the building. Plus our security people insisted we surround the chiller with a twelve foot fence topped with barbed wire.

        But even if you do shoot out one of the pipes, all that happens is an alarm goes off the and the system does and orderly shuts down. Our system was installed by the lowest bidder and failed all the time, no really problem.

        So if you were to do this, all you have done is risk your life and liberty to mildly annoy the powers that be. You’d be more effective running for local government and cutting them off from the municipal water system.

        Plus these building aren’t wood, they are steel and concrete, you can’t even burn them down. Only a transient power event, that overwhelms the surge protection would do any harm.

        Say like covertly putting up a lightning rod and running a wire to the building.

        But they know they are hated, and these places are well guarded. You will never get close to one. I just don’t see a realistic way to do any damage except through the power line running into the building. Maybe via a substation.

        As nice as it is to fantasize about this stuff, you’re attacking a fortified fixed position. They know you are coming, and law enforcement and government is on their side. Seems like a suicide mission.

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      9 days ago

      Remember: the ultra-wealthy control the media. They WILL call anti-AI sentiments extremism because they want us arrested and jailed for threatening their profits.

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      That is how they see it. They will willingly shoot these “bad” people. Law enforcement is in direct opposition to individual liberty. It’s tragic because that phrase is a favorite of those that blindly support law enforcement. An American flag with a blue stripe is NOT an American flag. It is the opposite. Freedom and fascism are mutually exclusive.

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        I remember when I first heard about the blue stripe representing law enforcement and thought to myself “why would anyone claiming to be patriotic want to alter the colors of the flag to symbolize how they represent the country?” Seemed stupid then and is stupid now.

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    Fascist leaders like Putin play a dangerous game: they must always appear strong to ward off challengers to their tyranny. But, each time they lie they incur a debt to the truth that they are fundamentally weak, which is why they became fascists in the first place. Eventually the lies only serve to make them appear weaker until their brittle power crumbles in their clenched fists.

    Apparently Putin has taken to living in his gilded cages to avoid assassination.