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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago

Literally 1984.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This man is dangerous and needs to go away immediately.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He can keep dreaming. People are angry and will fucking eat him alive. I can feel the anger in the air.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

idk, the gov't already has us under their boot

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Time to wake those fuckers up!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But...we got video evidence of someone already having murdered a ceo. It didn't seem to stop the ceo from getting shot tho, remarkable. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Video surveillance doesn't stop crime, it only records it...

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to think I was heading toward abject poverty as our bs systems were going into more bs but now Im getting more hopeful. Maybe I will be dead or in prison.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Free food/shelter or won't need food/shelter, whatever floats your boat champ

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison.

You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think "oh, the lawnmower hates me" – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Sounds like someones vying for next in line.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Somebody read or watched 1984 and thought that's a wonderful idea. Or is he just trying to cozy up to the Chinese government? Or the drugs long term effects are kicking in? Who knows.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That dude was never on his best behavior. And now he wants to punish anyone that is going to out live him.

it is an attitude that happens to many rich old people; how dare you live past them and enjoy it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Larry I am sure you will be on your best behavior as well.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

including YOU and other leeches?!

ya. didn't think so.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

He's one of the owners of X, he and like 20 other people invested with Musk

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How about using it on the billionaires instead?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Larry and his ultra-rich megawank friends can all go first and show us the way

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Oh, I like this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

DVON GET THE ~~TABLES~~ GUILLOTINES!!!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Print licensing agreements for all oracle products and shove them up your ass

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Larry "Xi Jinping" Ellison

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Panopticon will not be the way

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Give the entirety of Lana'i to the Native Hawaiians via Hawaiian Home Lands and boot Larry Ellison out into the sea on a raft or something.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Well, if you own a world inhabited by a few billion people, you want to make sure they’re optimally generating value for you and not bringing down the value of your holdings.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Queue countdown before this guy's skeletons come out...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Most people only have one skeleton, but you've got my support either way!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you seen the documentary about him? Some of them are already on display.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The text is behind a paywall and I would actually like to see the details of what this idiot fuck said.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lemme guess... Based on oracle no doubt. The wrong people are gonna prosper the next 4 years.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

It will just mean that the citizens will ill-intent will find ways to use the same tools against the surveillance system.

Not to mention, most of the people NOT on their best behavior will be the guys running the companies and agencies running the system.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Ellison made the comments as he spoke to investors earlier this week during an Oracle financial analysts meeting ...

Ellison said AI would be used in the future to constantly watch and analyze vast surveillance systems, like security cameras, police body cameras, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dashboard cameras.

"We're going to have supervision," Ellison said. "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on."

Ellison also expects AI drones to replace police cars in high-speed chases. "You just have a drone follow the car," Ellison said. "It's very simple in the age of autonomous drones."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Broke guy Agent641 says a vast self-funded purchase of plastic water pistols and a sample pot of black house paint can ensure that Larry is wrong.

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