Last season of Westworld was about guiding people through AI to control them. Your destiny was preordained by AI.

Yeah we are talking about it, Melanie. Go outside.

There was basically one positive aspect of them going for this sort of model: they are very incompetent at actually controlling such a media conglomerate monster, specially as it grows. Now there’s AI, there’s social network personality cults-on-demand, they can increasingly and reliably offload the control to what are essentially primordially mental surgery bisected intelligence that can be cloned on demand. They are increasingly working to create the digital human cattle slaughterhouses they’ve always wanted.

Let me know if and when they take over thelemmyclub, I’ll be out of here in a heartbeat

The Conservative Propaganda Machine

Right. So don’t start using the stupid Internet shit that’s always been stupid. Thanks!

Phew, at least they’re not owned by the state, like those damn commies. /s

Add Google, Microslop, and Apple to the list as they love to bend the knee to kiss the ring.

There’s only so much you can do when your operating systems are run by fascists.

But they “deeply” care about your “privacy”.

People should spend a little time watching The PBS News Hour if they imagine it’s still an alternative to this sort of thing. Yes, it’s aimed at retired liberals, but it has become astonishing seeing how it toes the corporate line and how it sane-washes the stuff Trump and his cronies are saying and doing.

This was a problem decades before Trump took office, and the exact same problem will remain after he’s gone.

Those corporations are “donating” (bribing) every election cycle for a reason, and it’s not charity.

Each candidate has a billion dollars, win or lose… that we know of. Our reps and their entire families are millionaires. Bribery is blatant and legal.

See Super PACs and Citizens United for further details.

Kind of ironic that this was posted on Twitter (X).

money is fake, its all about control

The percentage of sociopaths involved with creating a society should never be greater than zero.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Plus Amazon

And some people will defend billionaires saying thjs is just the free market working.