We have all been proper f*cked.

[OGBuzz]

While they were trolling and gaslighting us about the evils of globalism, socialism, and communism they were picking our pockets and assuming total control over everything, now the "tech leaders" pretty much own the planet. Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is building Hyperion, a $200 billion AI Data Center in Louisiana which will be consuming as much energy as all of Manhattan. Elon Musk has a net worth of $850 billion, larger than the GDP of 176 of the world's 195 countries, yet he receives billions in government subsidies.
And I am still trying to figure out what all this AI is for other than surveillance on us all and shit videos all over the internet.
Unfortunately it's too late to reverse what's going on and today's world is not 1789 France.

[Walleye]

1. AI sounds like a scam to me

[PatSeg]

18. It really does

And I afraid that there are all kinds of repercussions that we can't begin to be aware of.

[lostincalifornia]

21. It isn't a scam, and that is the problem. A lot of jobs are being lost because of it, and a lot

more to come.

[magicarpet]

35. Blue collar jobs took a major kick in the teeth with the off shoring craze.

Now with Artificial Intelligence and robotics the remainder of blue collar and most of white collar jobs will go bye-bye.

If the bread lines get too long - they can just shoot us - and toss the bodies into a mass grave for eventual burial.

Making America Greater - than it has ever been before.

[FrndStrng]

44. Soylent Green

toss the bodies into a mass grave

What a waste of good protein as per current FDA food pyramid!

[KS Toronado]

52. Welcome to DU !

[LetMyPeopleVote]

58. Welcome to DU

[JokeHer]

50. People haven't been paying attention

I’ve thought for years AI would be the collapse of society… it COULD be a useful tool, but in the hands of corporations and billionaire white men, all they see is more money. They want it all. Just six months ago I was seeing articles from CEOs saying not to worry, AI won’t replace jobs. (Yeah right) Now they’re out in the open about it. I predict it will happen in phases. They already have the blueprint. Putting 300 million Americans out of work all at once would cause a revolt - off with their heads. But doing it say, 10 million people at a time will cause chaos. Want to go really sci fi… The corporate overlords will turn us into a complete police state where we are monitored 24/7 by drones and AI technology to keep us in our lane and compliant little slaves. The time to strike is now. These huge data centers they simply must have are all in preparation to completely control us.

[progressoid]

2. I wish we could get MAGAs to understand that.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

3. We may be closer to 1789 France than you imagine.

[OGBuzz]

5. It's the only logical conclusion.

[Ilsa]

12. A few big EMPs might slow them down.

And the rest of us as well.

[lastlib]

22. I'm almost ready to throw a few out there.....

It may be the only cure for this cancer--it's metastasizing too rapidly.

Where is our "Goldeneye"??

[TheProle]

15. In my experience

those who fetishize the French Revolution stopped reading after they gave Louis the chop.

[TheProle]

30. Did I say surrendering quietly was my solution.... dude?

Can you point to the chart and tell me who is expendable so you can get your pound of flesh from Musk, dude?



https://historyincharts.com/reign-of-terror-executions-by-social-class/

[paleotn]

39. Then what is your solution?

Gather in a circle and sing kumbaya? We're not doomed to repeat the reign of terror. That's rather shallow thinking, no? But, hey! History in charts.

[TheProle]

45. Well if we rule out kumbaya and quiet surrender

AND summary execution, I guess we’re out of options.

If only we had some sort of guiding document that could define our rights and remedies and then we could educate enough of our fellow citizens to vote accordingly.

[58Sunliner]

43. I don't see the oligarch class.

[WarGamer]

32. Exactly...

The fantasy version of the French Revolution doesn't match up well with reality.

The revolutionaries ended up eating each other and that led to a new dictator, Napoleon.

Not to mention, the dirtbags desecrated French history including raiding the Tombs at Basilique St. Denis and emptying the ashes of 1000 years of Kings on the ground... Martel, Charlemagne... disgusting.

For every USA, there are a dozen France and Russias where the revolutionaries fucked up history.

[Wednesdays]

36. Yeah,

1794 was not a good year in France.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

46. I ain't fetishizing shit, just making an observation.

[malaise]

17. Ding ding

Across the planet too

[BH liberal]

4. How long before...

AI becomes Skynet? The Russkies have had a network nicknamed Dead Hand since 1985. It will automatically send the launch signals to missiles if the country's top leaders get killed in a pre-emptive strike.

[OGBuzz]

6. The AI bros only think in terms of their own life spans.....the rest of us don't count.

Sam Altman: "AI will most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime there will be great companies created with serious machine learning."

[BH liberal]

7. Exactly! And what would be better...

than AI to administer Trump's Golden Dome anti-missile system? What could go wrong?

[OGBuzz]

9. AI will always make the smart decisions if you're out to annihilate mankind.

AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google chose to launch nuclear weapons in 95% of simulated war games.

[BH liberal]

10. Remember what Trump said...

after he was elected the first time and received his early briefings. "If we have them (nuclear weapons), why can't we use them?"

[OGBuzz]

14. I wonder what he meant by this comment just last week.....

Trump stated that if a ceasefire agreement is not reached soon, the world will "just have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran"

[PatSeg]

19. Like a young child with toy soldiers and guns

He just has to use them.

[The Madcap]

37. More like the Golden Dumb.

[LymphocyteLover]

59. is that a real quote? JFC

[FakeNoose]

11. Our only hope is that their old nukes aren't worth shit ... they're probably not any good ...

Probably.

[paleotn]

27. Never. You're being conned.

[BWdem4life]

13. It may not be 1789 France

But maybe someday a year willl be named after this generation.

No pressure cooker can contain continuously increasing pressure indefinitely.

[babydollhead]

16. Tech bros are man-shaped machines

No empathy, no humanity
Just machines

[debsy]

20. AI is taking over for us so they (the morbidly wealthy) can kill us all

They will have the world to themselves. Until, of course, the AI decides they don’t need the morbidly wealthy.

[paleotn]

24. BS

You're going down easy? I'm sure as hell not.

Plus, AI is as much a scam as it is substance. Don't be scammed.

[OGBuzz]

26. The humanoid robots they are developing scare the crap out of me...

and the 'morbidly wealthy' will turn them on us long before the robots eventually turn on their masters.
And in the meantime I am 100% certain that to a Musk, a Bezos or a Zuckerberg I am just a useless air breather.

[luv2fly]

40. They like air breathers

"I am 100% certain that to a Musk, a Bezos or a Zuckerberg I am just a useless air breather."

Air breathers are their lifeblood, air breathers pay for Amazon subscriptions, they use Facebook to connect with their "friends," and they drive Teslas.

They don't want to kill you, they want to milk you.

[paleotn]

23. Heads on spikes are never out of season.

Stop being Debbie Downer and get out there and fight.

God, I hate defeatists.

[OGBuzz]

28. Yes I am a defeatist....after all, we couldn't even prevent Trump from winning a second term.

But I will chip in for guillotines when that time comes.

[paleotn]

38. Words wasted on the wrong people.

[Escurumbele]

29. "Unfortunately it's too late to reverse what's going on", no it is not late, what we need is a good government that

will do the right thing to protect its citizens by regulating AI and lots of other things.

Regulations are important, that is how Teddy Roosevelt made this country better, without him steel monopoly would still exist, railroad monopoly as well, food regulations would not exist...All we need is good government, we must vet the people we vote for to make sure the right people are placed in the right sits.

[H2O Man]

31. Seriously.

It can be changed, though not by way of channeling Eeyore's "what's the use?" philosophy.

[Greyhead]

33. I agree

Those data centers are just to keep tabs on all of us.

[somaticexperiencing]

34. I believe it's never too late and the spirit and will to create change and meaningful change will always to just that.

[GenThePerservering]

41. Guillotine tech at least has not changed

and is accessible.

[GiqueCee]

42. Viva 1789!

[Aussie105]

48. France went from a King to Napoleon.

From one extreme to another.

But France is ok now though, right?

In short, don't expect America after Trump to recover overnight.

[GiqueCee]

49. And then...

ol' Bony declared himself Emperor!
History has shown us, over the course of centuries, that those who crave dominion over the lives of others – POWER – are the last ones who should have it. No good has ever come of allowing psychopaths to attain high office. Trump has put an exclamation point after that obvious statement of fact! As the old saying goes, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
We might learn something from the horrific fucking disaster that is Donald Trump... but I doubt it.

[OldBaldy1701E]

51. "...today's world is not 1789 France."

It would not take much to make it so.

But, I am more hoping for 1776 rather than 1789.

[RainCaster]

53. It's not too late to reverse

We can stop this shit. In each state we have the power to make these data centers buy their power and water at rates far more than what the rest of us
pay. We can limit them to so much water (restroom needs) and after that, the rates become astronomical.

[PATRICK]

55. Two comments

First is something I know too little about. The history of Banking suggests they are the infrastructure support for all rulers or revolutionaries. They determine policy, wreck reforms(Socialists in post WWI Germany, bad influence on FDR). Even pariah states embargoed come around to some deal. They serve until crisis wipes some of the little guts out. They rode through 1789 the same way, profited off of Empire and survived.

Second: Napoleon lived in fear as all the French did. Leading revolutionaries had more to fear from each other and literally wiped each other out. The Terror thugs were executed. Few monarchs(incompetent mostly) get decapitated but Napoleon came close before having power and retained home enemies willing to try it again. His European competitors were Emperors. Stability impresses banks. He claimed he really wanted the British model and a gentlemanly retirement as any Prime Minister. Of course, by then he was being held in captivity by his British hosts. He was safer on St. Helena. France went through many unsatisfying pendulum swings right through WWII. The sham of "nobility" declined though the power of money elites continued(from which most crowned "royalty" descends).

Changing the world means changing the power structure of TPTB in mammon matters. This is where anti-human corruption is embedded in infrastructure people vitally need. In the wide picture, people are not all that different in needs and goals that are socially constructive, nor all that different in chaos and mayhem. In the BIG picture the core of our problems remains relatively unscathed, unconfronted, and untouched in the stranglehold of central money abuse. And that money "management" core is allowed to be insanely diseased and all powerful to the point of ignoring planeticide. It is why the GOP is nuts and why the Dems act weak and people shy away from going after the most unaccountable villains.

[CrispyQ]

54. Right now, AI is just a big scam & race for the tech boys to show off how much money & influence they have, IMO.

Some centers will never be built, & others only partially completed, & others will be vacated a few years after they open, when they drain the aquifers & climate change makes living in the southwest inhospitable for five months of the year. It's a bubble created by & for the tech boys & investors.

Do they really need this many centers to surveille us? Besides shooting off rockets, what kind of scientific interests have these guys shown in projects that would advance humanity? None. This is a boys club, disguised as a science club, with the intent to shut out/cut off everyone they don't like.

They're fascists.

[Diraven]

56. The AI isn't even for anything

All of it is operating on huge losses, with no plan to become profitable, other than the hope that it will enable some huge breakthrough that will allow them to charge monopoly prices later. It's being kept afloat by investors buying into the hype and cash from the industries that make the AI hardware. Really the only purpose is to make stock holders rich before the Ponzi scheme collapses.

[LymphocyteLover]

60. We have to hope data centers become obsolete in the near future because they are an ecological nightmare

https://openthemagazine.com/technology/why-data-centres-may-become-obsolete-perplexity-ceos-on-device-ai-warning#goog_rewarded

[TBF]

57. I rec'd this because it's true they are in charge -

but they can also be removed. Always remember the first rule of organizing: there are many more of us than there are of them.