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Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren't straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

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What's wrong with Tessier-Ashpool?

[-] Snowcano@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Nothing, I was just saying that it’s a cool cyberpunk corporation name. For me the gaudy names like Meta and X are a little on the nose, true evil lurks under a veneer of banality which I think names like TA have.

I had hoped, that you would notice my user name kind of resembles Count Zero, my avatar is taken straight from a Count Zero book cover, and my home instance is lemmy.villa-straylight.social

Well, you know what they say about explaing jokes and what that does to their funnyness. I guess it was not obvious enough.

[-] Snowcano@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Omg, I’m actually glad you mentioned it because I totally missed it!! I actually have to get around to reading the rest of the Sprawl books. Rereading Neuromancer now and might just keep going in the others.

What are things like at Starylight.social?

[-] _cnt0@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What are things like at Starylight.social?

Small and chill. Like it was an abandoned orbital revolving around the fediverse ;-)

this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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