• dance_ninja@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    The original article is from Axios. They do point out that there’s organic opposition, but the title is definitely sensational and arguably disinformation.

    Now, even if they actually are adding extra to the conversation, there’s still plenty of people unhappy about data centers. If foreign bots were adding noise to the Cornell case, does that invalidate what happened to Jane Doe?

    We see the videos from town halls, we see the pictures of the water, we hear the recordings of the noise pollution. We see all the extra infrastructure that sometimes cuts through people’s property.

    There are legitimate concerns that people want to be addressed.

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    23 days ago

    Yeah, this is like saying russia is fueling the EU’s housing and standard of living crisis or saying that murica was fueling the protests in Iran before the tramp attack. If that were even the case, why let your worst enemies be your best critics?

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    23 days ago

    including 200 accounts “posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy,” the team said in a tweet.

    200 accounts is fucking nothing…

    Claiming that is “fueling” anything makes as much sense as me saying the 1992 Dream Team won Olympic Basketball because Spike Lee watched from his couch in NYC.

    It might have happened, but it didn’t change the result

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    23 days ago

    I’m no fan of the CCP but come on, it’s greed and delusions of grandeur by elites all over the world fueling this bullshit

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    22 days ago

    Can China secretly fuel America’s desire to take showers and read books too