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

  • Veloxization@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    Now we just need companies to have their own militaries and then for someone to nuke one of their towers. We’d have the whole nine yards.

  • 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.

  • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    1 year 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.

    • grilled_cheese_eater@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Acxiom, Experian, TransUnion, Oracle Data Cloud, CoreLogic, Axle, Equifax, Foursquare Labs, Inc., OnAudience, Nielsen, … … … …

  • Asifall@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When I think about the fact that Facebook thought it was a good idea to name their online VR platform “the metaverse“ it still breaks my brain a little bit

  • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I find it amusing how nobody noticed when Valve changed their name to Valve Corporation ages ago, and people keep referring to it as Valve Software.

  • CocaineShark@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If you think about it, all sorts of fucked up things that are happening now have been portrayed as a bad thing in past media: Virtual words, virtual-fuckin’ land (not 100% sure this one is real, still really hoping its not), misuse of AI, smart houses, where everything is controlled by a remote (which relies on electricity / wi-fi), even stuff like alexa, which is listening to every word you say, at your home…

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

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

    • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I don’t get how the name is dystopian. Is it from a book or movie or something? Search only turns up the company you’re talking about.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Could be that it mixes what sounds like a Japanese name with an English word, which makes it seem like a company from Japan operating in an English speaking place.

        In the 1980s people expected that Japan was going to take over more and more American business. Japan was a major player and so sci fi written then — including that which was cyberpunk dystopian — assumed there’d be companies like “Ford” but named after Japanese guys.

        Also it’s not “Hashi Corporation” it’s “HashiCorp” which implies a sort of pop-cultureification, like the company has sort of compacted over the years, and gotten less Japanese (known) and more hybrid Japanese-American-Corporate-Marketing (unknown, megacorps have shady cultures, they’re new things).

        If HashiCorp were to show up in a movie, it would be in a holographic ad someone flies past.

  • Cam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The meta rebranding made my skin craw. The X rebranding is dumb on Elon Musk’s part. However you make a good point.

    I believe Apple got its name from the biblical term of the forbidden fruit. Microsoft has a megacorp sounding name. Will Amazon rename itself to something dystopian?

    • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      AFAIK Microsoft came from the Neuromancer novel. A microsoft is a tool in the book.

      Could be wrong though, but I feel Ike that book was written before Microsoft was a company.