Post #2484583

2026-05-10 20:20 UTC

@emsenn@kolektiva.social Register a domain, put up a website, and do some wheat paste posters, and print up postcards or flyers to drop in mailboxes. Set up a table in a public location, and chat with your neighbours. #Organize and pressure your politicians to #resist against the techbros.

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@emsenn@kolektiva.social 2026-05-10 22:10

@JustinDerrick@infosec.exchange I feel like rather than me spend time and money I don't have to try and convince people an economic pursuit isn't worth it, maybe you could stop participating in that economic pursuit? Like... from my perspective, *you* are a techbro, and the fact you don't self-identify as one doesn't *really* matter: you clearly work in tech, specifically with the sort of tech that has created the economy that's ability to create corporate profits is now being used to advocate for these datacenters. You're, because of that position, way more able to influence that part of the world than I am. Why not quite your job and advocate against data centers? I'm unemployeed, in part because I had to move around a bunch, in part because people who worked for tech companies wanted more housing and stores and fewer gardens and natural spaces, and so the demands for my kinds of skilled labor evaporated, while the demands for yours are only increasing, especially as data centers get built. So seriously: how about rather than your suggestion be that I, the victim, just complain louder, we seriously consider whether you can stop participating in causing the problem for me? Can we do that? I'm not being rhetorical, I know it might sound that way because this is the Internet, but really, I'd love to seriously consider what it'd look like for anyone who isn't the victim of harm to take action against it.

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