The Only Kill Switch We Need

Inside Labor's AI Data Center Split by Ginny Hogan [Excerpts] https://www.laborpolitics.com/p/the-only-kill-switch-weve-got Several weeks ago, Jason Kelce (football player, podcaster, Taylor Swift’s brother-in-law) starred in an ad asking Americans to pee in jars and send them to their nearest AI data center. The spot – a collaboration between Liquid Death and Kelce’s own Garage Beer – was nominally about water consumption. Mostly, though, it was evidence that hating on data centers has gone [...]

Pax Silica

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) https://antiracist.org/pax-silica/ Talk about Orwellian Double-Speak. Pax Silica is a US-led initiative to put Artificial Intelligence, which is still primarily driven by military and surveillance tech, at the center of an international geo-strategic economic development and national security alliance directed at countering China and protecting US economic, political and military dominance in the second quarter of the 21st Century. It is being [...]

San Gabriel Valley Residents Unite Against Data Centers – Rally May 2

Last month, a proposed massive A-I data center in Monterey Park was scuttled after united community opposition in the San Gabriel Valley, particularly by immigrant residents in some of the unincorporated areas. The Monterey Park City Council approved a ballot measure for submission to voters in June that would ban data centers in the city. But the issue is still a live one in many other area cities. The City of Vernon [...]

FBI Raids Home & Office of LAUSD Supt. Carvalho Over A-I Ed Tech

by Michael Novick, UTLA-retired As Change Links was going to press, the FBI raided LAUSD headquarters on Beaudry in DTLA and the home of superintendent Alberto Carvalho in San Pedro. The FBI announcement also provided an address in Florida that was searched. Public records show that property is linked to an individual who worked with AllHere, an education technology startup that created a highly touted A-I chatbot for the Los Angeles school [...]

A-I, Labor, and the Future of LA, War & the World

Teach-in Held Sat., Feb. 7, 11 am - 5 pm, IAM Machinists union Hall, 1261 N. Avalon Bl., Wilmington Part 1: https://youtu.be/oaPdrHmrOAI Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH3Xy5bf8Jo The first thing to understand about "artificial intelligence", A-I, is that it is military technology. The techno-fascist moguls promoting it are all military contractors with Trump's War Department. The principal driver of research and development in autonomous vehicles has been the US Army Tank Division. Elon Musk's [...]

That Which Is To Come

Ā© Dec. 26, 2025 by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/that-which-is-to-come/ It is foolish for us to predict what is to come. For life is full of variables, and none can see the whole. But sometimes, some things, are so clear that they impress themselves upon the mind, and leave a mark that cannot be undone. This seems to be such a time. The turning gears of this machine are not just the ruinous effects [...]

Palantir Colonizes Los Angeles

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA Palantir Technologies has long contracted with the LAPD to provide software and data analysis capacities that fuel "Pred-Pol",Ā  predictive (some say, predatory) policing, and the widespread use of automated license plate readers that track and identify every vehicle on the streets of Los Angeles. Now Palantir is taking its act into the air above Los Angeles. Palantir has formed a partnership with Archer Aviation, aimed at [...]

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Poetry Corner: Present and Continuously Tense – A Self-Portrait

Present and Continuously Tense - A Self-Portrait by Snigdhaa Rai [Excerpt] https://thewire.in/livewire/present-and-continuously-tense-a-self-portrait Ā  Once I turn myself into the machine, Against what will I rage? I whirl about in a conviction of confusion This ride of life has a weird constitution, It has dawned on me how dark it gets And into this passivity I watch the sun set Ā  A weird reminder of school days as I, Hear constant cries of [...]

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls

By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost [Excerpts] https://scheerpost.com/2025/08/26/ellen-brown-unaudited-power-the-military-budget-nobody-controls/ The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion annually, second only to Social Security in the federal budget. The military outlay is also close to $1 trillion, consuming nearly half of the discretionary budget. The US could avoid debt altogether by simply paying [...]

Fake A-I CEO Indicted by Feds

Used hundreds of low-paid Filipino workers to simulate automated purchasing by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA I have written before that all A-I depends heavily on super-exploited digital contract employees in the Global South to tag and process theĀ  text, visual and audio files "fed" to generative A-I so-called "machine learning". See https://antiracist.org/a-i-squared-artificial-intelligence-product-and-tool-of-american-imperialism/ But this latest scam takes the cake. According to a press release from the US Attorney for the Southern [...]

Highlights and Lowlights of 2024

By Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA Some stories made a lot of news but not much difference in 2024. Some really significant stories and developments went unreported in the corporate media, and sometimes even the left press. The genocidal Israeli attacks on Palestinians, fully backed and financed by the US, entered its second year, and expanded into Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Yemen and Iran, as well as the swift US-Turkiye-Israel invasions into [...]

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