- WatDabney ( @WatDabney@sopuli.xyz ) 108•3 months ago
And I guarantee that billionaire Larry Ellison blithely believes that he’ll be exempt - that all of this surveillance will just be used against the little people. And he’s almost certainly right.
- MalReynolds ( @MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ) English80•3 months ago
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. - Ursula K Le Guin
- ninjaphysics ( @ninjaphysics@beehaw.org ) 18•3 months ago
This is the way.
- MalReynolds ( @MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ) English17•3 months ago
Pass it on…
- BlackEco ( @BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com ) 65•3 months ago
Owner of Cloud company that sells AI services tells governments that AI-powered surveillance is good.
- MalReynolds ( @MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ) English23•3 months ago
governments and surveillance, name a more iconic pair
- smallpatatas ( @smallpatatas@lemm.ee ) 15•3 months ago
Corporations and surveillance?
- Phoenicianpirate ( @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ) English8•3 months ago
Which is far worse. Governments are, to a large extent (even dictatorial governments) still have some accountability to the people. Corporations NEVER have that. The greatest propaganda trick that corporations did is that somehow they are better than governments and the less restrictions on them, the ‘freer’ and ‘richer’ the average person will be.
- kora ( @KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•3 months ago
Capitalism and Oppression.
- e$tGyr#J2pqM8v ( @96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl ) 26•3 months ago
Maybe billionaires should be filmed and streamed continuously, since their behavior has such a big impact on the world. If they don’t like it maybe we shouldn’t allow them to control such incredible assets. I’m sure billionaires have nothing sketchy to hide, right? What we will see is probably how they are hard working people who are not at all detached from normal folks. Right?
- sunzu2 ( @sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ) 8•3 months ago
Wrong think detected, proper authority has been notified.
Resitence iis futile.
- Uriel238 [all pronouns] ( @uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 24•3 months ago
The first XKCD that comes to mind
Ellision sounds like the kind of guy that wants an unstoppable army of robot swarms.
Representative Jamie Raskin recently brought up the term neo-monarchy.
- ExtremeDullard ( @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ) 24•3 months ago
I have been hating this man’s guts since the mid 90’s and somehow it never lets off. Most hateful people manage to become a little bit more likeable as they age. Even this disgusting piece of human refuse Bill Gates might pass for a somewhat okay human being if you wilfully overlook why he truly does philanthropy.
But Larry Ellison? Hell no. He never changes. he’s just consistently the worst year after year, decade after decade.
- pimeys ( @pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io ) 7•3 months ago
Yeah. He is pretty horrible. What surprised me though is his daughter’s film company has a pretty solid track record on quality movies and tv series:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna_Pictures
But yeah, Larry Elison sucks…
- drosophila ( @drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•3 months ago
Pretty good track record with videogames too.
- phoh ( @phoh@lemmy.ml ) 3•3 months ago
why does he truly do philanthropy?
- ExtremeDullard ( @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ) 12•3 months ago
To evade taxes of course.
Have you ever asked yourself how it’s possible that ALL the fucking ultra-rich almost without exception do philanthropy?
It doesn’t make sense: most of those millionaires and billionaires are psychopaths who essentially don’t give a shit about their fellow man, acquired their wealth by exploiting and shafting others for the most part, and don’t give a shit about how that makes them look: why on Earth would any of them do philanthropy, let alone all of them?
It only starts to make sense when you understand philanthropy is yet another tax loophole.
- itsgroundhogdayagain ( @itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ) 20•3 months ago
This dude can shove that stupid boat up his ass
- ninjaphysics ( @ninjaphysics@beehaw.org ) 3•3 months ago
Hear hear!
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English20•3 months ago
“Citizens” 🙄 Not every person is a citizen; I’ve got a pet peeve about this.
- Phoenicianpirate ( @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ) English7•3 months ago
Robocop… the movie they love but don’t realize is a complete mockery of THEM. As a kid I thought that Robo was just cool, but as I got older and rewatched it a few times, I realized just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
You know what’s one profound thing I noticed a few years ago that flew over my head? The ED-209 robot does not have a non-lethal apprehension method. It only threatens to kill for non-compliance, and then does so if compliance is not absolute. It has no way of restraining or leading arrested suspects if they comply, and no other method to deal with non-compliant suspects other than to blow them away. No tasers, no net gun, no ropes, no tear gas, no sci-fi ‘set for stun’ laser beam, nothing.
On top of that another thing I realized is that Dick Jones considered that thing to be street ready to take on law enforcement. From everything to ultra-violent encounters to jaywalking and parking tickets. What it tells me about his mentality is that he would be a HIGHLY successful billionaire today…
- delirious_owl ( @delirious_owl@discuss.online ) 4•3 months ago
Does that mean undocumented folks are exempt?
If yes, how can I become undocumented?
- Chaotic Entropy ( @ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ) English17•3 months ago
By “citizens” he means poor people, naturally, and by “best behaviour” he means obedience to authority.
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) 14•3 months ago
Thank you all for these comments, they have made another horrible piece of news a bit less horrible (by knowing people are apaled by this shit).
- penquin ( @penquin@lemm.ee ) 13•3 months ago
Dude is crying for a guillotine. Someone tell this asshole movies aren’t real life events. lmao
- Maeve ( @Maeve@kbin.earth ) 10•3 months ago
Was he on that island discussing whether the billionaires could keep their security detail loyal with shock collars?
Ellison is the world’s sixth-richest man with a net worth of $157 billion, according to Bloomberg.
They are really concerned when people tire of their children dying from hunger and easily treatable diseases, we’ll be coming for them. But rather than give up an iota of the money generations can never spend for our ecology and things people need to live, they resort to things like shock collars and surveillance states.
- Rooskie91 ( @Rooskie91@discuss.online ) 10•3 months ago
And a fueled bottle can keep billionaires in check.
- beefbot ( @beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 10•3 months ago
Private jets . They’ve all got multiple front yards & none of us can afford pitchforks But small aeroplanes, those are weak. & these parasites just looove em
- therealjcdenton ( @therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ) English9•3 months ago
Who defines what best behavior is?
- delirious_owl ( @delirious_owl@discuss.online ) 2•3 months ago
Bending over, touching your toes, and not complaining when this guy comes out from hiding in the bushes and sticks something up ur but