The political right hates AI a little less than the left, but not by super much, and some forces from the emerging America First movement are getting ready to protest AI’s invasiveness and capacity for manipulation. The org is called Humans First, and they’re trying to have a 50501-style nationwide protest about it on July 18th. If both sides cooperate on this one, good things can actually happen, so this should get talked about. A lot. https://www.humansfirst.com/
It’s fake concern all right. In Florida, DeSantis is term-limited out after this next election (YAY!), and Trump’s hand picked candidate is Byron Donaldson.
This week he started running anl campaign ad in which he shows concern for data centers, and has some utility rate protection he’s pushing. It makes him sound a bit anti-data center, so I looked it up.
Turns out he LOVES data centers, he’s just doing this one little thing so he can sound like he’s pushing back against them, and ease the biggest worry of MAGAs - higher utility bills. They don’t care if it destroys the environment, they just don’t want to pay more for it.