Speedrunning to cp2077, starting with the corpo wars
I am a Taco Bell man myself. Gotta side with winners, ya know?
I love a good
pizzatacoThey will have a gun that induces violent diarrhea. I guarantee it.
Really I’d wager it’s more Snow Crash myself, it’s a book that most of these Silicon Valley guys would have grown up with.
Cyberpunk 2077 was just a continuation of Cyberpunk 2020, which came out before Snow Crash.
In reality, I think the tech bros pull from all sorts of media and don’t restrict themselves to just one bible.
That’s a good point. Snow Crash does lean heavily into the metaverse in a way that is very aligned with Zuckerberg’s concept of it. I remember early interviews with some silicon valley guys and when Stephenson was the darling out there l, like with the early Xbox guys or Google Earth.
Maybe Cyberpunk was popular too but just didn’t break through to more mainstream news.
I am but a sample size of one, but I’ve got a copy of CP2020 and not Snow Crash, haha.
And here I have a copy of snow crash but not the 2020 books
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She’s been caught in some stealth edits and other unethical practises when trying to push a specific narrative. I don’t trust her reporting very much after following her work during the Depp-Heard trial in '21. It is unfortunate that her need to push her, or her publishers, agenda appears to be more important than honest reporting, and I’m saying this as a very left-leaning, queer person.
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What did she do during Depp v. Heard?
She was staunchly pro-Heard, which in and of itself isn’t a problem. However, she lied about reaching out to pro-Depp commentators (some of whom were lawyers) for comments for a piece she wrote, and the article was then stealth-edited after she got called out by several commentators.
Together with her later insistence that she did not share a meme calling Biden a war criminal, only to later admit to doing exactly that, I don’t find her reporting particularly trustworthy. I try to verify her facts from other sources, and I mostly avoid her opinion pieces.
She might be the one that Libs of Tiktok has an unhealthy stalkery lady boner for.
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Here’s a similar article discussing the techno-libertarian movement from a different author. Covers similar themes and explicitly discusses the Network State as an ideology
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Really liked the article.
https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism
Next Reddit will start banning you for upvoting anything about it.
Please share this document far and wide. People need to understand what’s going on, to stop it.
Just double checked, and it’s archive both on org and is. That’s good.
It’s fascist city states that market themselves as tax free libertarian, likely hedonistic. Tech has little (maybe ultra deregulated healthcare) to do with anything other than billionaires who came from tech get to decide who is allowed in. This is a model in Israel and Arab kingdoms with less hedonism, but high slavery levels.
The US is definitely on path to collapse. Current administration is accelerating it. Gifting federal lands to become tax havens is setting it to 11.
Many of these tech bros also talk about an actual solution: Freedom dividends. High tax libertarianism with freedom for all. Power redistribution. Don’t compete for jobs we can’t do as well as China or robots. Or spend on/promote war. Freedom dividends ends crimes and makes fair labour markets. Fascism and slavery as the “libertarian utopian phoenix from ashes of US” is going to be straight mad max fascism and slavery instead of utopia.
Tech fascists see America’s democracy and financial system as collapsing.
That’s because you’re the one breaking it down
Fuck them and u/Spez. They can ban me for all i care
This wicked man has to be boycotted, destroyed economically.
any terminally ill people down to go down in history as a fucking chad with a rifle or a drone?? anyone??
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im canadian, i wouldnt want to cause ww3 by assassinating a foreign leader.
Sorry Americans, this is your mess, you gotta clean it up this time :/
To be fair, American democracy was replaced with corporate Government a long long time ago.
America was never a democracy in the first place
Ya, but now you can’t talk about it.
Preventing cheating in elections is impossible (LoOk aT 2020!!!11), so to ensure a fair democratic process, we’ll automatically choose the outcome of elections with AI models trained on American social media posts.
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Reddit is shadow banning people like crazy as well. This is scary
What does shadow banning typically look like? I would assume you don’t get a notification? How do you find out?
Logout and browse your user profile page via old.Reddit it’ll say banned or suspended.
Ah. That’s even easier. Good to know how to quickly check.
How do you find out?
I assume looking at reddit through an incognito window and seeing none of your posts appearing
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haha. seeing as I don’t usually get much interaction I would never notice.
switched to lemmy as main platform on my phone a few days ago anyway. when boost for reddit finally was blocked completely. will try to be more active here and hope many other people do the same… there is a good chance with all that’s going on.
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Yeah, I was shadowbanned twice in a week because Reddit filters are garbage.
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That makes sense. I bet lobbyist play a big roll into that. Is it the lobbyists jobs that are bad or the way and the people who take the jobs are bad?
Let him continue live inside the metaverse
Quit Meta… problem solved
I have another solution, it’s a little bloodier
Free rare steaks for anyone who quits! But how will we pay for it…
Shut down and delete your data on your US tech accounts. Their business’s are worthless without our accounts.
It’s a process, start today! With the easy ones and work towards the hard ones.
Agreed.
Wait, corporate government, like in cyberpunk?
Nah. Like in Snowcrash.
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They’re both nouns, but I get what you mean.
Yep, I just want more people to read the book because I like it. Cyberpunk the game rocks, Snowcrash rocks.
I was referring to cyberpunk as a genre and theme, I remembered some things after reading this post like shadowrun, cyberpunk ttrpg, Gibson’s books, system shock, etc.
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I’m reading the Sprawl trilogy along with Shelved By Genre, and Gibson harps on the note that ‘the Ultra Rich aren’t human’, and has some great examples in the books.
I think he was very observant, and Musk makes it so blatant.
Basically. I mean there’s a bit more to it than that but it’s the core idea. It’s also the goal of several tech oligarchs which is why he doesn’t want the peons to be able to talk about it.
