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What’s sad is realising you live in a world where every exaggerated analogy you used to make a point is actually happening:
Having Google in schools is like having McDonalds in nutrition class. (I find out that McDonalds does, in fact, sponsor nutrition classes in US schools.)
Having a surveillance capitalist sponsor a conference on free and open source/human rights is like having an oil company sponsor a climate conference. (Forget sponsoring, turns out head of #Cop28 runs an oil firm.)
@aral@mastodon.ar.al I'm surprised even the oil firms don't see it as a screw up to be quite so obvious with their corruption.
@alastair I’m not entirely sure they care how they’re perceived any longer. We’re almost done militarising our police forces and the veil of democracy is wearing thin in most places so I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re betting on rising authoritarianism keeping the unwashed masses in line as they destroy the planet and then fuck off of to Mars.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al I think they're more likely to eventually deploy some of us to mine Mars than fuck off there. Even in appalling scenarios it's unlikely Mars will ever be more habitable than here. I know Musk is delusional but I find it hard to believe that at least sometimes he doesn't know full well (the average person could grasp the basics of why in my view), and it's just part of the grand manipulation.
@alastair Yeah, I know… I was being hyperbolic :)
@aral@mastodon.ar.al But still, we should keep an eye on any them volunteering to colonise Mars, just in case.
@alastair Indeed 