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Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 52 points 5 days ago (2 children)

By all accounts, Larry is a piece of shit.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 38 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising 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.

— Brian Cantrill

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lawnmowers can be a piece of shit too.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lawnmowers have the bitchiest machine spirits.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

True

[–] fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I consider him to be the worst billionaire of em all, even "trumping" that muskrat...

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oracle, the official company of "Look, we're developer friendly now, our stuff is open source and free to use! Oh, right, you've activated my trap card, now pay 10k per every employee of your company because you used our proprietary JDK mwhahahahaha"

[–] Madrigal@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I thought it was Oracle, the company of “our products are designed for one purpose alone: to tick boxes on RFPs.”

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean yeah but that's far less sinister than all their licensing horseplay

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

That's a real nice day to describe what is basically fraud