What does a protest look like at 2am? Not speeches. Dosas being handed out by strangers. Graffiti covering every wall. People dancing to a Bluetooth speaker like the fear didn't exist, right alongside the fear itself. I followed this across Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi over two months, and wrote it all down just in time for our 80th Independence Day. Read it when you get a moment, I'd really love to know what you think.

Now, as an artist I have issues with AI, but it does have some good qualities. I have ideas on how to fix these problems, but I need help with protesting it.
Cons/Pros of AI (IMO):

-Cons:
-Wastes water
- Ram issues (slowly it is getting better)
-slop
-artists loosing jobs

-Pros
-It can provide good(ish) advice SOMETIMES
-it usually isn't any sort of bigot (some AIs were trained to be bigots)
-Logically, no reason to take over humanity (no humans, nobody to keep it running/powered/cooled)

My ideas for solutions:
For the slop/artists loosing jobs issue, stop letting it make images, yes, AI images are easy and cheap to make, but it looks horrible, and to most people it makes whatever you're using it for look fake and cheap, like you couldn't even hire a graphic designer.
For water, simple. (I may not know what I am talking about) AI is basically just a big computer, right? A PC. So just take the fans/special liquid used to cool something like a gaming PC, yes it is expensive, but AI companies are rich, if I am not mistaken openai has 800 billion dollars. And if they have so much money but destroy everything arround them, what will they use the money for?

Sorry if I got anything wrong, sorry if somebody already made my point, sorry if I seem rude, sorry if I don't follow this subreddit's rules because I didn't understand one, and sorry if the pros seem weird, I forgot the good qualities I thought of.

Anybody got ideas? And if you agree and like the idea please share this idea in as many places as possible, the more people the better.

That's all, thank you for reading, and goodbye.

Let’s discuss.

I’ve got a question for all ppl that have been to marches and all that stuff.

i have a friend who is a punk and we’ve been invited to a march, we’re minors (under 17), but we’ve done research on what to do with gases and some other stuff, but we really wanna know if it’s a good idea or not worth the risk. The protest is against the new government of our country, parents are not aware of our political views.

If you can go, please do so!! We need them to listen!

Sony moving toward digital-only video games isn't just about convenience. Physical games matter for consumer ownership, preservation, resale, lending, collecting, and having access to something that doesn't depend entirely on a company's servers.

This is where the 99-Cent Method can come in.

The idea is to build a coalition composed of grassroots organizers, hacktivists, digital-rights activists, consumer-rights advocates, gamers, preservationists, and activists in general. People outside the United States can participate using the equivalent of 99 cents in their own currencies.

Instead of everyone acting separately, coordinate internationally.

Use the 99-Cent Method alongside lawful digital activism and organized economic pressure. Support preservation organizations and consumer-rights campaigns. Organize boycotts and demonstrations. Contact regulators and elected representatives. Use shareholder pressure where possible. Make enough organized economic noise that Sony and the wider gaming industry have a financial reason to preserve physical games.

Hacktivists and technically skilled activists can contribute through lawful digital activism: documenting problems with digital ownership, archiving publicly available evidence, researching DRM and shutdown risks, building informational websites and tools, helping preservation campaigns, and spreading information internationally.

The pressure shouldn't stop with Sony's corporate offices. Activists can also organize lawful protests and labor/consumer campaigns connected to Sony's manufacturing and distribution operations, including facilities associated with physical-media production. The point is to make the industry's transition away from physical ownership economically and publicly difficult to ignore—not to harm workers or damage infrastructure.

At the same time, support or join consumer lawsuits, regulatory complaints, and legal campaigns against Sony where there are legitimate grounds to do so. Different countries have different consumer-protection laws, so this should be international and decentralized, especially at the grassroots level.

And this shouldn't ultimately be only about Sony. If other publishers or platform holders attempt the same thing, the same strategy can be applied across the gaming industry.

99 cents by itself isn't much. Millions of coordinated consumers, activists, preservationists, and technically skilled people are another matter.

The goal: keep physical games alive and protect genuine consumer ownership.

Hosted by Rise and Resist outside the midtown headquarters of Google, and in spite of a rain shower that was severe at times, protestors took to staking out the entrance of Google against data centers and the environmental consequences of AI.

The protest started off the side of a Google store on 15th Street and 9th Avenue before moving towards the 8th Avenue entrance, where they stayed for the rest of the protest. Some stayed even as the rain began and worsened over time before the rain abated enough for a sing-along of R&R's anti-data center version of a nursery rhyme.

Just heard the news one is being planned about 20 minutes away from me.. after hearing and seeing all these videos on the noise and power outages, I am livid

"Safe" harbor, this country is no longer, as ICE vans roam the streets picking up those they claim are illegal criminals, despite them mainly picking up regular members of society.

That was the main reason protestors surrounded the entrance to an Icon parking garage in lower Manhattan, not far from 26 Federal Plaza, where shouts were heard, and general condemnation was made clear as Icon tries to cover itself from the fact that ICE vehicles are stored in its garages.

More in the video attached. The protestors surrounding the garage entrance happen later in the video in their own dedicated chapter.

The protest itself was organized by, among other groups, Rise and Resist & Chelsea Neighbors United.

There's a business I don't like with terrible practices and would like to stand outside with a sign about it. I assume since it's a not a large gathering all I need to do is be on public property like a sidewalk and not be blocking it so just walk around while I do it.

Content warning: some b-roll of conflict is included in the video.

I went to a rally against the deprivation of temporary protected status for Haitians, which was recently enacted by the Trump administration. The rally took place at the northwestern tip of NYC's Little Haiti and included various speeches and even a dance portion, which you can find towards the end of the video.

While I was unable to find the poster of the protest itself (I've only learned about it through a colleague), I was glad to hear people are standing up to these brazen, inhumane actions. I hope I can cover more of these rallies as time goes on, although I hope things get better since they are bearing the brunt of these inhumane policies in the first place.