Davey

Big tech today is like if IBM had live footage of what has happening in the concentration camps, and they kept sending machines anyway.

I'm so fucking tired of these companies and their stenographers in the media.

Journalists who, even when writing criticisms, can't disabuse themselves of the notion that technology means progress and innovation is liberation. Not even when the counter-examples are staring them in the face.

Genocide, ecocide and a fascist devaluation of culture run rampant.

May 22 at 8:47amWeb
Show threadDavey6d ago

Meaning itself means less every day.

We have a post-truth existence, but it's automated, we don't even need human liars any more.

Show threadDavey6d ago
(IBM probably would have kept sending machines anyway back then too, let's be honest)
Show threadMark Dennehy6d ago
@davey_cakes Yes, but they would have started benchmarking and selling the new machines as able to process an extra 200 victims per day if they bought the new support contract.
Show threadSteve Williams6d ago

@davey_cakes

As with trump , lifetime Pulitzer for the journalist willing to follow up these statements with ‘what the fuck are you talking about?”

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Show threadDavey6d ago

@blabberlicious jesus, not surprised to see Neal Stephenson in there, if ever anyone wrote a fanwank book for techbros, it was Cryptonomicon.

Liberate the world with encryption!

It also features a character explaining why boy brains being better for doing stuff than girl brains is almost a downside really.

First and last book of his I ever attempted. What a cock.

Show threadSteve Williams6d ago
@davey_cakes
I found the VC funding woman to be the most detestable. But there was heavy competition.
Show threadDavey6d ago

@blabberlicious at least they're _supposed_ to be psychopaths.

Professional artists should know better.

There seems to be a good few sci-fi authors who are awed by tech billionaires and will turn up to anything they ask them to. It's as if they skipped day 1 of "what is sci-fi for" class.

Show threadSteve Williams6d ago
@davey_cakes
Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B’s delivery is falling behind schedule, so much chatting in the departure lounge.
Show threadMaddler  6d ago
@davey_cakes scale of concentration camps and deportation wouldn't have been possible without the IBM machines. They knew well what their computers where being used for and how. They just didn't care, as long as they could enrich themselves.
Which is exactly what's happening today.
Show threadMaddler  6d ago
@davey_cakes and journalists' moral integrity is a whole different story which, sadly, goesbfar beyond tech companies.
Show threadWesDym6d ago
@davey_cakes Nothing new about this. Caterpillar knew decades ago that Israel was using their machines to topple Palestinian homes -- and sometimes kill Palestinians themselves -- but would not refuse to sell to the regime, despite years of lobbying, because it was insufficient. People whose world is money just don't care who their choices hurt, as long as it doesn't come back home to them. The divestiture movement against Apartheid worked because it directly hurt investors' bottom line.