Al Jazeera: Protesters break into Microsoft AI data centre site in Amsterdam

More than 100 activists broke into a Microsoft data centre construction site in Amsterdam, climbing cranes and hanging anti-AI banners. This marks the start of two days of coordinated protests across 16 countries against the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure.

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/11/6/protesters-break-into-microsoft-ai-data-centre-site-in-amsterdam

#AI #AIpocalypse #protests

We shouldn’t be forced to use toxic platforms that track and profile us in order to get public information.

Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube track and profile their users so that they can target advertising towards them.

Their business models fuel online harms by pushing more and more extreme content to users. Despite this, these platforms are one of the primary ways that government departments share public information.

Tell your MP to support the EDM calling on the UK Government to ensure that all public sector social media content is published on open, decentralised and federated platforms!

Act now: …openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-government-must…

#socialMedia #UK #politics #UKpolitics #fediverse #initiative

Fortunately, _because_ it will be such a farce, I don't think the money people would be onboard. As much as they have to lose in a Democratic era, they have _so much more to lose_ if they go in and it goes south.

I think if it happens at all, they stay on the sidelines - and maybe a few even switch sides. Not out of anything akin to patriotism or friendship with democracy, _obviously_. But out of fear of losing literally everything.

All the money in the world didn't win them this election, and they know it.

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism

@chartgerink I'll put a new one in, I imagine, but a pain never the less!

@amcooper That’s a fair. I agree with you. Shocking really she doesn’t.

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https://hylif.bandcamp.com/music

Mwynheais y gerddoriaeth ac efallai y byddaf yn prynu'r crys-t 🤔😀

@mcg Thanks!

@neil oh no, sorry to hear that! Are u comfortable undoing it so u can at least use the light?

I just installed some Shelly PM2 gen4 iirc for the blinds, hope they last 😅

I mean it was on every news station and website in existence, non-stop for months before the cities were emptied. It was literally the biggest news in the world.

If you didn’t have time to watch the news you probably wouldn’t have seen it on any social media or official outlet either.

But I digress, as your main point remains correct, governments should have sovereign platforms for which to communicate with the public that doesn’t require users to submit ID and facial scans and phone numbers, and click the boxes with fire extinguishers. They should just be able to read it.

« oUiN oUiN des gens à qui on a arraché des mains, crevé des yeux, défoncé les dents, des gens qu'on a humiliés, insultés, sans aucune conséquences, ces gens nous ont fait bobo à notre petit cœur avec un manequin en carton oUiN oUiN oUiN !!! »

#Police
#OuinOuin
#Caliméro

@ohmrun I was talking about Eurythmics on TOTP

@woozle That was a somewhat incoherent post, but you know me just well enough to know unhingedly angry I get.

@fesshole I wonder if there's more to this story, and if maybe his wife's requests have been a response to similar constant demands from him? If so he's really done this to himself.

@lydiaconwell I don't know what you're talking about, but
Bad Lydia
Bad.

Propadají se světové trhy. Mohou za to akcie velkých technologických firem. Jejich hodnota na americké burze klesla jen ve čtvrtek celkem o 2,5 bilionu dolarů.
➡️ Investory k tomu vedou obavy, že američtí demokraté po vítězství ve volbách omezí výstavbu datových center a tím zpomalí rozvoj umělé inteligence.
ℹ️ Významné ztráty postihly taky asijské a evropské burzy.

Apple’s “Pro and Tell” event in Los Angeles, the new MacBook Pros with PROLED XDR displays, and the state of the Macintosh platform.

https://daringfireball.net/2026/11/touch_and_glow

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@woozle People are reasonably excited about Tuesday, but I am ready to see some "violence". I want to see a real effort to 86 Hakeem (& Chuck, although I don't know if that's feasible). Let's start there...

I'm expecting nothing from KLB, but I'd argue Atlanta and Georgia and USA owe a debt to Tortuguita's family & comrades.

When covid started I didn’t know anything about it. I wasn’t on Twitter or reddit or Facebook. I was in college, doing that and had a baby. We watched cartoons and when they slept I’d read and write. I had no idea until no one was on the road or at Walmart with me. I had no idea how to even get information about what was happening, so I went to the county website and found nothing. my professors stopped livestreaming and sent helpful information about it the same week so I got it.

Turned out the city had a Facebook page that people were getting their information from. And there was also a Twitter.

Then my kid gets to be school aged. The fucking school used Facebook and twitter to communicate with parents. I missed so many programs, and lacked information about everything that happened there.

Fucking hate it.

An additional thought: the _explicit_ fascists and white nationalists, the three-percenters and all those - they've already gone into "demanding violent revolution" mode.

So maybe there's your key to declaring insurrection, right? Have them start an _actual insurrection_, then use those powers not against their revolution, but to complete it before crushing them to have the power yourself.

How do you keep the average no-info American from falling for this bullshit yet again?

I think it's worth spending the time to try to figure out.

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism