Top tech names were on the guest list for the banquet thrown for President Trump during his second state visit to the U.K. on Wednesday.

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    Technofascists want everything you have for their use. AI steals your artists, writers, academics works. Surveillance capitalism wants to live invisibly inside your world to report to others. The majority of our dozy fuck public is wholly complicit.

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    At this point, I feel like its gone from “these companies are disgusting kissing up to the orange one” to “if they don’t go, they’re risking being on the receiving end of a massive company ending lawsuit/cancel war from the right and his Orangeness.”

    Both are disappointing and I’d rather go elsewhere, but the second is far more dystopian and probably more reflective of the current state of things.

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      Apple is one of the few companies whose cult I think could rival MAGA.

      Tim Cook gets no brownie points from me for sucking up to 40-whatever-number-he-is.

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      13 days ago

      Cowardice is a poor excuse when the people in question are ultra powerful, ultra rich, and sheltered from any and all harm from these traits.

      Fuck em. These are trash people.

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    It’s only conspiracy theory that rich people meet and decide about the world.

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      Unfortunately they’re the royal family and it would upset a lot of people if they were sent away.