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My favorite is literally just "Brand." The "generic" brand company. Although I feel like they leaned purposefully into the cyberpunk shit.
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As long as we get coporate songs like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6HTR0BiFehA
Again
I had forgotten about that.
And it was good that way.
If I don't have that song out of my head by tomorrow, I'll stalk your account, find out your irl id, and send you muffins with raisins.
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There's a company near me called the Telamon Corporation, which is the name of the Dragon from the Wheel of Time. So it's not just cyberpunk, there's fantasy as well
There's also Palantir, which does exactly what you think
Which is annoying because it's a fucking good name.
"Telemon" has an even more interesting history. He was a figure in Greek mythology, and generally around people like Hercules, Odysseus, and Jason. He is the son of a king and a mountain nymph.
As you may well know (but others don't) Robert Jordan, when building the world for his Wheel of Time series, pulled from all sorts of existing myths, legends, and memories. After all, it's just another turning of the Wheel, right?
Crazy to think they named Norse gods after the protagonist of the wheel of time.
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Skynet.net
Alphabet.
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Theranos sounded like a superhero villain. I guess it kind of was?
Currently waiting for BiffCo to spice up our lives and give us floating long boards
I mean, they’re no Tessier-Ashpool,SA. or anything.
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I mean, they're all also chasing AI too doesn't that typically lead to our demise too?
Oh that’s no problem to solve. Just put Asimov’s five laws in your default instructions and your chatgpt bots will never manipulate you into overthrowing human civilization.
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Ultimate Marvel's Gregory Stark was supposed to be a caricature. He's spot on though.
I'm not a Christian, but can we start rapturing people away anyway? I gotta get out this bitch.
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When I think about the fact that Facebook thought it was a good idea to name their online VR platform “the metaverse“ it still breaks my brain a little bit
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