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Teacher arrested for clapping in favor of anti-data center speakers at city hall meeting
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:20 pm
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:20 pm
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A 37-year-old teacher was released from a Kansas jail after posting bail following his arrest at a city meeting where zoning changes for a proposed data center project were passed.
Lux Claridge, an Emporia High School physics teacher, was arrested for interference with law enforcement after clapping during the meeting.
Commissioners warned those in attendance against disruptive behavior, including clapping, snapping or rude comments.
Lux Claridge and several others clapped in support of speakers opposing the Flint Hills Digital Campus data center.
Repost with a quote now (the mods previously deleted it for not including a quote.)
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Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:21 pm to UFFan
Unfortunately, there are some pro-data center people on tigerdroppings who probably would support this arrest.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:23 pm to UFFan
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Unfortunately, there are some pro-data center people on tigerdroppings who probably would support this arrest.
I'm anti big data, but
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Commissioners warned those in attendance against disruptive behavior
Seems pretty cut and dry, regardless of the topic being discussed.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:24 pm to UFFan
Aww, man. Now we have to get all of those previous answers back and in order.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:27 pm to MoarKilometers
+1. samesies.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:28 pm to UFFan
Would think if anything this is more of a rallying cry to the community to make sure to speak out against these large data center companies corrupting the local politicians
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:29 pm to Jake88
Yeah, the previous thread was a lot more based than this one.
Like I'm pretty sure my reply about how there are some pro-data center cucks who would support this guy's arrest had something like 6 upvotes and 1 downvote. Rather than the current ratio of that comment, which is 1 upvote and 6 downvotes.
Also, there wasn't some commenter who claimed to be anti-data, yet defended this guy's arrest for clapping.
Like I'm pretty sure my reply about how there are some pro-data center cucks who would support this guy's arrest had something like 6 upvotes and 1 downvote. Rather than the current ratio of that comment, which is 1 upvote and 6 downvotes.
Also, there wasn't some commenter who claimed to be anti-data, yet defended this guy's arrest for clapping.
This post was edited on 7/27/26 at 9:32 pm
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:31 pm to UFFan
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Unfortunately, there are some pro-data center people on tigerdroppings who probably would support this arrest.
Unfortunately there are some gullible people who have fallen for China's campaign to handicap the United States in the Ai race.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:32 pm to UFFan
She got the clap, then got the slammer.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:37 pm to UFFan
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there are some pro-data center people on tigerdroppings who probably would support this arrest.
they think this 40 year old website that runs off literal hamsters would shut down if the data centers didn't make the mississippi run dry
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:38 pm to WhoDatNC
I've never heard the name Lux before, and IDK if that's his real name or a nickname.
In any case, the article describes Lux as a man, not a woman.
In any case, the article describes Lux as a man, not a woman.
This post was edited on 7/27/26 at 9:54 pm
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:39 pm to UFFan
Lux is short for Larry
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:41 pm to UFFan
I’ve not followed the whole data-center controversy that closely. But I have to wonder, considering AI is supposed to be the most important industry of the next century plus, and (1) China supposedly is making great strides in this area and (2) the US is their only real competitor in this realm, how much of the anti-data center rhetoric here in the US is fuel and funded by the CCP?
How much of the fears about data centers is being drummed up by propaganda coming from China in order to retard the US? One has to wonder.
How much of the fears about data centers is being drummed up by propaganda coming from China in order to retard the US? One has to wonder.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:41 pm to UFFan
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Unfortunately, there are some pro-data center people on tigerdroppings who probably would support this arrest.
Sounds like you came in here with a biased agenda?
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:42 pm to UFFan
Not all data centers are good.
Not all data centers are bad.
Breaking the rules and ending up getting arrested is just stupid.
Not all data centers are bad.
Breaking the rules and ending up getting arrested is just stupid.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:42 pm to el Gaucho
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This post was edited on 7/27/26 at 9:50 pm
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:44 pm to UFFan
If you read the article, there's more than enough reason to cheerlead this frickers removal even more:
frick this guy.
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Lux Claridge’s wife, Jessica Danford, was present at the meeting when her husband was removed. “Seeing them carried out like that was a lot to handle,” Danford said
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Friend Caleb Rankin said the arrest came as a shock. “Out of all the people that I knew, them getting arrested, I thought someone used a different name or something,” Rankin said.
frick this guy.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 10:01 pm to Darth_Vader
It's actually quite the opposite. US data centers outnumber the Chinese 10 to 1. The relative performance of frontier models has little to nothing to do with the total numbers of data centers built.
What is actually happening is that extremely well funded tech ventures are using politics for personal gain, fricking over regular people, and dressing it up as needing to beat the Chinese.
What is actually happening is that extremely well funded tech ventures are using politics for personal gain, fricking over regular people, and dressing it up as needing to beat the Chinese.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 10:08 pm to UFFan
It looks like he was arrested because he refused to get up and walk out of the meeting. He made the cops carry him out for whatever reason? He wasn’t arrested for clapping.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 10:10 pm to el duderino III
Yup. Big tech milking the suckers from the ignorant population for everything they can and many the civilians are just taking it and asking for more.
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