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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 08:35:33 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • Moritz Negwer
   see also https://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/#singular
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     Moritz Negwer (moritz_negwer@mstdn.science)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 08:35:38 JST Moritz Negwer

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     • myrmepropagandist
     • Charlie Stross
     • Tim Coffman

     @timcoffman @cstross
     That was my first association too. For context: Sci-Fi/Horror author Charles Stross' hacker conference keynote about how Corporations are just very slow AIs, running on people and paperwork. Well worth a listen.

     Video: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future
     Transcript: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html

     @futurebird: My takeaway: If not for the ants, corporations might be considered the dominant species on the planet already (and with insecticides and climate change, corporations might yet win).

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     Tim Coffman (timcoffman@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 08:35:44 JST Tim Coffman

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     • Charlie Stross

     @futurebird Calling @cstross- they’ve found the colonic organism and it is us.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 08:35:46 JST myrmepropagandist

     Money spent buying things is good for an economy & even stands a chance of increasing egalitarianism. Money invested is far more chaotic— When people run out of things to buy they must invest. When invested in you must shape your actions to serve the imagined bottom line. Perhaps enacting cruelty that you’d never bother with for your own money.

     The corporation opens its eyes, becomes a sentient creature of abstractly defined desires. The first AI running on a computer of thousands of people.