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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was going to make a snarky quip like "guess he's never actually used oracle", but then realized he IS oracle.

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Oracle is that way because he wants it that way

[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 137 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I want to put all of Larry Ellison's body into a wood chipper.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Put all of Larry into a room with Luigi

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I just want to point out this is not a threat of violence because OP said "his body" not him. This statement presumes he's already dead. How that were to happen, nobody knows.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

not a threat of violence

And neither are these playing cards that no one should definitely order. I'm pretty sure he's in there somewhere.


:)

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Would be great to see the actual deck. I get what they are going for, but still.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

I'll let you know once I receive mine, fate willing :)

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Yep he'd definitely be expired due to excited delirium, and certainly not feet first.

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Finally, an idea I think we can all agree on.

[–] Placebonickname@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Did u ever see the movie Fargo?

Poor Steve Buscemi.

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Squad goals?

[–] rovingnothing29@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Your plan is much cheaper to implement too. It would be foolish not to.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With careful consideration and as much thought and tact as I have in me here is the response I encourage everyone give to this proposal:

Fuck. Off.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

I'll sign that petition.

[–] makuus@pawb.social 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He believes the payoff will include better healthcare, thanks to treatments tailored to individuals…

Hey, that’s great and all… So, who’s going to pay for those treatments? Universal healthcare when?

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

silly rabbit, healthcare is for wealthies! your DNA and medical history is farmed to cure your betters.

now sit down.

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[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yes let's call it Yougenics Healthcare by United

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And I would like to put Larry Ellison in a giant Vitamix blender and jam the frappe button in the ON position.

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

"Ooh, Ellison smoke. Don't breathe this!"

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lab coat dude over a smoking bowl of well-stirred billionaire: "Don't become this."

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago

Seriously, people in the U.S. have to start using that 2nd amendment and start eliminating the threats to their country. Like this guy.

[–] halcyonloon@midwest.social 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ellison is a piece of shit. This is the same creep who said that putting AI surveillance everywhere will ensure that everyone will "behave." That probably doesn't apply to him on his private Hawaiian island, huh? He will not be missed, none of these soulless monsters will be.

Hell, even the police state won't want to use Oracle.

[–] amon@lemmy.world 21 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.

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[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like these technofascists read all the dystopian sci-fi books when they were younger and identified with the villains

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 14 points 1 week ago
[–] 4am@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

These are the types of people that James Bond used to hunt down.

How the fuck is this real life?

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

This is not for AI to study. Ellison has been very clear on wanting to create a surveillance state. This is to oppress Americans

[–] nick@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago

Larry Ellison should fuck his own plastic face.

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A post from the reddit thread on this that led me down a "dark" (double pun in this case) rabbit hole:

Larry Ellison is either independently coming up with, or stealing, an idea from an authoritarian freak named Curtis Yarvin. From an article about his ideology:

Each patchwork would be ruled by a “realm”: a corporation with absolute power. Citizens would be free to move, but every other realm would also be ruled by corporate governments with chilling impunity. For example, Yarvin says the tech overlords of the San Francisco realm could arbitrarily decide to cut off its citizens’ hands with no fear of legal consequences—because they’re a sovereign power, beholden to no federal government or laws.

In “Friscorp,” as Yarvin calls the San Francisco realm, an all-seeing Orwellian surveillance system would enforce public safety: “All residents, even temporary visitors, carry an ID card with RFID response. All are genotyped and iris-scanned. Public places and transportation systems track everyone. Security cameras are ubiquitous. Every car knows where it is, and who is sitting in it, and tells the authorities both.”

Yarvin is a thought leader who influences many of the most powerful people in the world (and also a couple elected politicians).

Larry Ellison basically floated the idea of an AI surveillance panopticon several months ago.

Ars Technica: Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

I mean, the most offensive part of this is that he wants to use an Oracle system. Hey, jokes make the dystopia a little less boring right?🤣😂😢😭

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 week ago

Too late, Elon is already sucking up our data.

[–] 108@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I wonder why a nazi would want to do that?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

insisted artificial intelligence is soon going to change everyone's lives "across the board."

Like in Minority Report, huh?

[–] Placebonickname@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

? 4th Amendment?

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Eugenicist wants a big eugenics database, got it.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Guess all the oligarchs are getting envious of ol' FelonMusk and want to get in on the action...

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Well. Since Elon's already got free reign over all our federal data...

Seriously, how are the legislators so blind to what is going on?

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anonymous data right?

Right?

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I have a similar saying for Elon…

Fuck off Larry

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I'd like all of him to be put into a tar pit for future paleontologists to study.

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Shit like this is why I'll never take one of those 23&me tests. I'd love to know all that stuff. But I don't want that data sold to assholes like this.

[–] AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
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