West Coast Action

"We have for the first time something smarter than the smartest human... there will come a point where no job is needed... the AI will be able to do everything" - Elon Musk CEO of Tesla "[AI] has the potential for extraordinary benefits, and we will have to work through societal disruptions." - Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet "If a team used to take 50 or 100 people and now it takes 10, having 50 or 100 people on that team can actually be counterproductive going forward, so I think we need to fix that." - Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Meta "AI capabilities will allow us to make far more goods and services with less labor... We're already starting to see the impact of AI on the job market, and I think this impact will grow over the next five years." - Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft

Kevin O'Leary, the face of the Stratos data center project, recently sat down for an interview with Tucker Carlson, where he displayed a consistent and remarkable disconnection with reality. Note how O'Leary first claims that the majority of Box Elder county's locals, where Stratos is set to be built, support the move to build the data center - only to immediately drop the claim when Carlson asks if there was a referendum confirming this - suddenly claiming that it's okay that just three county commissioners approved the data center's construction because that's "how you do it".

The Stratos data center in Box Elder county, Utah, will: - be twice the size of Manhattan - consume twice the amount of energy the entire state of Utah produces - produce a thermal load of 23 nuclear bombs every day - will increase day temperatures by 5 degrees, and night temperatures by 28 degrees (for reference, a rise of 2.7-3.6 degrees is considered critical for Utah.) The official means by which locals can protest the construction of this data center is now locked behind a $15 paywall. This is all being done to compete against Chinese and other foreign powers producing data centers in a growing AI arms race. We are now hostages to the technological system we created.

"Technological progress is the basic cause of the continual increase in the number of rules and regulations. This is because many of our technological devices are more powerful and therefore more potentially destructive than the more primitive devices they replace (e.g., compare autos and horses) and also because the increasing complexity of the system makes necessary a more delicate coordination of its parts... "... A larger and larger proportion of the individual’s environment - not only his physical environment, but such factors as the kind of work he does, the nature of his entertainment, etc. - comes to be created and controlled by large organizations rather than by the individual himself. And this is a necessary consequence of technological progress, because to allow technology to be exploited in an unregulated, unorganized way would result in disaster." - Progress Vs Liberty, Theodore J. Kaczysnki

DeFlock's map of Flock AI surveillance cameras in the United States

Flock, a private AI mass surveillance company, has installed nearly 100,000 AI powered cameras across the United States that log your - license plate - car model - car color - notable features (dents, bumper stickers, etc) - clothing - screen activity - how long you've been in a given area - conversations The company logs all this information in a cloud database that is accessible - and is often abused - by police and hackers alike. DeFlock is a public citizens website created to map Flock camera installations across the country and spread awareness to Flock's encroachment on privacy. It has an interactable map that shows the timeline along which these cameras were installed in the past, 'threat level' analysis by county, and potential routes for avoiding cameras. Flock CEO, Garrett Langley, who lives somewhere in Atlanta Georgia (his address is apparently private information!), has called DeFlock a 'terroristic organization whose primary motivation is chaos'. Garrett Langley is worth over 7 billion dollars and logs 20 billion car details every month.

Where do you start? You start right HERE. When do you start? You start right NOW. You initiate action. You take control of your destiny.

Most civilization is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons.

"The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called “democratic” structure and its resulting flexibility. "Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a “democratic” system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level... "... attacking the system is like hitting a piece of rubber. A blow with a hammer can shatter cast iron, because caste iron is rigid and brittle. But you can pound a piece of rubber without hurting it because it is flexible: It gives way before protest, just enough so that the protest loses its force and momentum. Then the system bounces back. "So, in order to hit the system where it hurts, you need to select issues on which the system will not back off, in which it will fight to the finish. For what you need is not compromise with the system but a life and death struggle." - excerpt from 'Hit Where it Hurts', by Theodore J. Kacyznski

The Beast must be killed!

"Fixing" advanced technology's role in our lives is a ridiculous pipedream. Admin reaffirms what has been maintained since the beginning of this channel - that the technological system must be eradicated completely.

“Technology advances with great rapidity and threatens freedom at many different points at the same time (crowding, rules and regulations, increasing dependence of individuals on large organizations, propaganda and other psychological techniques, genetic engineering, invasion of privacy through surveillance devices and computers, etc.). To hold back any ONE of the threats to freedom would require a long and difficult social struggle. Those who want to protect freedom are overwhelmed by the sheer number of new attacks and the rapidity with which they develop, hence they become apathetic and no longer resist. To fight each of the threats separately would be futile. Success can be hoped for only by fighting the technological system as a whole; but that is revolution, not reform.” - Theodore Kaczynski

"The system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs. Instead, it is human behavior that has to be modified to fit the needs of the system. "This has nothing to do with the political or social ideology that may pretend to guide the technological system. It is not the fault of capitalism and it is not the fault of socialism. It is the fault of technology, because the system is guided not by ideology but by technical necessity." - excerpts from Industrial Society and It's Future, by Theodore J. Kaczynski, Par. 117-119

more footage from the Andover, New Jersey Data Center hearing