As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
The report flags a video from the progressive nonprofit More Perfect Union on the destructive effects of a data center to nearby residents in Georgia. Nothing in the video advocated for violence against property or people. But thanks to fusion center targeting, the advocacy group is now circulating among US intelligence and law enforcement across the country as a potential threat vector.
I can’t tell if they’re keeping the existence of real leftist opposition on the downlow, or if the natsec state is so full of loyalists that there’s no one left who understands how the world actually works. Surely they must understand that going after libs for this stuff does risk radicalizing some of them? How many lib groups have to be targeted before the libs start waking up, and stop expecting to Vote their way out of this mess? The groundswell of opposition to AI and surveillance is growing, and I don’t think this will stop it.
I think what’s happening here is that the US is transitioning into mask off fascism stage of capitalism. It’s just going to be naked repression going forward. There’s already mass surveillance and militarized police force in place, and the state will simply start breaking up any attempts to form a labor movement, they will jail or murder organizers, violently put down protests, and so on.
I can’t tell if they’re keeping the existence of real leftist opposition on the downlow, or if the natsec state is so full of loyalists that there’s no one left who understands how the world actually works. Surely they must understand that going after libs for this stuff does risk radicalizing some of them? How many lib groups have to be targeted before the libs start waking up, and stop expecting to Vote their way out of this mess? The groundswell of opposition to AI and surveillance is growing, and I don’t think this will stop it.
I think what’s happening here is that the US is transitioning into mask off fascism stage of capitalism. It’s just going to be naked repression going forward. There’s already mass surveillance and militarized police force in place, and the state will simply start breaking up any attempts to form a labor movement, they will jail or murder organizers, violently put down protests, and so on.