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Ingrid Burrington

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writer, artist, alleged geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
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Fusion centers are honing in on anti-data center activists. This has important implications for environmental organizers, as a number eco- and Indigenous activists and organizations have focused in on AI. www.wired.com/story/us-law... by @drboguslaw.bsky.social

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
AI Weekly's analysis →
  • Wired reviewed over 1,000 pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion-center reports coalescing around a new label called 'anti-tech extremism.'
  • A Delaware Valley fusion-center bulletin flagged AI data centers as extremist targets while conceding it had no specific plots or suspects.
  • The term 'anti-technology violent extremism' does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI extremism documents, per Wired's review.
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When I see "LLM haters are just using the free tier tech so they don't understand how far it's come" I sort of hear "you're just too poor to understand the future"

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They're going to make it so expensive to use the no-AI versions of stuff aren't they

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Anthropic partnering with the Gates Foundation on health and economic mobility while also making a deal to use the Memphis xAI data center polluting Boxtown, every day is a winding road

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Man when I assumed that AI would get a too big to fail style bailout I didn't really expect it to become "what if the government took a massive stake in it", yikes yikes yikes

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fascinated by the reduction of "techlash" to ignorance or misinformation without any concession to the role of almost all of the beneficiaries of big tech and LLM hype being in bed with fascist kleptocracy

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In a workshop on designing a "community owned data center" recently I blew everyone's mind by proposing that instead of banging our heads against the wall trying to think of LLM solutions to systemic problems they should just sell the compute to neighborhood gentrifiers and use the money to do stuff

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got an email from someone saying my dissertation blog came up when they asked AI how much money Google Maps makes, huh

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