Nobody ever thinks about data centers. Well, that isn’t quite true, IT administrators probably think about data centers a lot. Beyond them, though, it is easy to understand why data centers have not occupied space in most people’s minds. The cloud, after all, is to most of us
It is not a mistake that you and I, and people across the world, are retreating into caves of isolation, hearing only what we want to hear and growing farther and farther apart from one another. While the Internet allows us to perform tasks without going places, access knowledge with
Consider this post to be an introduction to why we at The Beltway Breaker are doing this. While we won't get too personal, we want to outline why we think it is necessary in this day and age to gather a small group of like-minded friends and write
We have gathered here resources not just in the realm of technology activism, but also personal recommendations for how to both keep yourself safe online, and remove the corporate bullshit from your technology experience. Of note, any recommendations we provide are only suggestions - every individual has a balance of
To the point: Why is there so much conservative, reactionary, fascist AI-generated content online, and what do we do about it? The fact that AI content may be entirely slop is of no concern to those who create, promote, and distribute it. Capitalism, if it ever did at all, no
The world fascism constructs in its propaganda is nonsense; or worse, the removal of sense. Fascism ultimately relies on the flooding of the public sphere with this propaganda, similar to the way that capitalism relies on ubiquitous advertising and hawking. Capitalism and Fascism both create a world in which your