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  • They’re all avatars of nvidia which themselves
    are avatar of TSMC and the silicon chip
    manufacturing industry. There are underlying
    technological current are driving cultural movement …
    Oh no “Culture is downstream from technology”
    that is the most cyberpunk thing I’ve ever heard

    CULTURE IS DOWNSTREAM FROM TECHNOLOGY

    I couldn’t find it, but there’s a moment where

    spoiler

    Cory Doctorow discusses how underlying technology
    manufacturer end up controlling their downstream
    consumer application of the technology in a
    kind of “balance of power” of technology

    I can’t find this passage at the moment,
    I thought it was in the “war on general computing” speech,
    but I can’t find it, I thought it was especially insightful

    In anycase there are the following links

    DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die!
    How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8

    and

    28c3: The coming war on general computation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg




  • molloch is the personnified logic of someone doing something selfish for their personnal gain, but when everyone does it, everybody loses. In this case the belief that one can churn rewards and come out on top with using a credit card but the result is that ALL prices are jacked by 3%, nullifying any apparent rewards, at best you can claw back a little bit of this corporate tax. But here’s the kicker, if you don’t have a credit card, the price is also jacked, because credit card company do not allow passing the fee to end customer. So non-credit card user, still pay the 3% tax, it just gets pocketed by the vendor. I cannot overstate how evil credit card company are. When I am Earth dictator, all credit card employees will spend time getting acquainted with a brick wall