While AI scraping is a massive theft of labor, I think chattel slavery has this beat.

I remember when technology improved things for people.

If employers are going to be dumb enough to use it, workers should be protected.

Can you read me?

He looks like a One Piece villain.

Were Biden’s tariffs not enough?

And when centrists say “compromise with” they mean “capitulate to.”

Shooting it was hardly preferable, except to people who like whatever cops do.

No Haiku?

Sodium and chlorine are the same atoms in table salt. Not gonna have them by themselves.

The rule of law protects property rights, contracts, and individuals.

On paper, sure. In practice, most individuals aren’t protected.

Finally, I don’t even know what you mean by “it does not protect human workers.” Protect them from what? Wage theft? Unsafe working conditions? Wrongful termination? Union busting? There are entire bodies of labor law dedicated to protecting workers, even if you believe those protections are insufficient or poorly enforced.

Well, in that case our system is perfect and we should be concerned about the poor techbros’ oppression tools. Lord knows you’re concerned with absolutely nothing else.

They’re getting built and the objections of the people are ignored.

Rule of law protects the inanimate toys of techbros.

It does not protect human workers.

Wage theft impacts millions of actual humans and you’re whining about the rights you think a corporate owned tool of oppression has instead.

You’re stating a position that I never took. I never said I supported AI data centers.

You just handwring about theft from them. But not wage theft.

For one reason.

You can do all the moral finger-pointing you want. The moment you start selectively deciding who is and isn’t a thief is the moment the justice system starts breaking down.

It broke down long ago. You care more about copper in a techbro’s plagiarism machine than you do about all the wage theft ever.

When it’s AI data centers being robbed, suddenly theft is funny, justified, or even worth celebrating. But if the victims were socialist politicians, transgender people, or any other group this community sympathizes with, the reaction would be outrage and demands for justice.

AI data centers aren’t people and are owned by corporations. The trans people and socialist politicians you hate don’t waste obscene amounts of electricity and water. The trans people and socialist politicians you hate don’t store data for surveillance capitalism. Trans people and socialist politicians aren’t a plagiarism machine. Trans people and socialist politicians don’t pollute everything with soulless slop.

One is a tool of oppression. The other is the people being oppressed.

On a similar note, Flock is known to do OCR on bumper stickers. I’ve recently found myself wondering if there’s any sanitization being done to the OCR output before it gets stored in whatever database they’re using.

Because Bobby Tables.

And yet it’s opt out, not opt in.

Might have to? It’s “might get to.”