Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

  • Sigmatics@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    I still think it’s hilarious that Facebook renamed to Meta, and anything they did with the “metaverse” was a huge failure. It’s like they didn’t learn their lesson from Second Life.

  • Syrc@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Normal people reading dystopian fiction: “wow, the author really portrayed well the downfall of humanity if we were to go down the wrong path”

    Billionaires reading dystopian fiction: “hey, you know what…”

  • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    2 years ago

    You want a trip down “is this a cyberpunk dystopia company” name, go check out the data brokers on the data broker registries in Vermont and California.

  • Lifted_lowered@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Those names were always parodying the names of actual corporations. I’m pretty sure Weyland Yutani is basically supposed to be like Lockheed Mitsubishi

  • archchan@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Pretty much. Welcome to the fucking future I guess. There’s no flying cars and green cities and happiness or bloody universal healthcare, instead we have corpos trying to turn us into their consumer slaves and governments turning authoritarian. Just do what you’re told and buy more. Don’t ask questions don’t think just browse TikTok, improve your social credit score, and imprint more ads into your psyche until WW3.

    We’re walking into hell with our eyes wide open fuck me it hurts.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
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    2 years ago

    You didn’t mention Facebook? That’s super dystopian to me. What’s a face book if not a large collection of identities being monitored?

    • fubo@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      What’s a face book if not a large collection of identities being monitored?

      Well, historically (and I mean in the 1990s) it was a collection of names and photographs of all the new students at your college, to help in meeting people and/or to see who’s hot.

    • Benj1B@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      It sounds like a cursed item in D&D or something.

      The Book of Faces Wondrous Item, very rare

      This enchanted tome magically records the likeness each humanoid slain in its vicinity, preserving a snapshot of their life and memories. The book can be read to glean superficial information about it’s subjects. As an action, you can tear a page from the book to summon a ghostly spirit of its subject, which will be magically compelled to answer questions. The spirit knows nothing the owner did not know in life.

      The Demon Lord Elgor Ithym is said to have a keen interest in this book…

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    There’s a company called Hashicorp that’s been in the news recently. Literally perfect

    • Badland9085@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Hashicorp’s been around for years; since 2012 actually. Used to be a pretty cool company, looked up by many, like a shining beacon in the darkness. It’s unfortunate where they’ve gone to now.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        I wondered what Badland was talking about, but I nodded along like I knew. Maybe the next words out of his mouth would be an explanation of what he’s just said. It could happen.

        • rolaulten@startrek.website
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          2 years ago

          I don’t know what part your unaware of - so let me do the ELI5. They (HashiCorp) created a tool called teraform which is used for defining what servers/other infrastructure you use in places like AWS. Up until recently this was open source under the Mozilla license to something that’s not quite open, but not fully closed source (yet).