• whaleross@lemmy.world
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    The “move fast, break laws, reap profits, socialize losses” strategy.

    Fuck em. Fuck em all with a fork in the eye.

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      “move fast and break things” applied to the ecology and humans. Except without the “fix it” stage

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    When the fines aren’t big enough, they’re just the cost of doing business.

    Penalties for fuckery like this should be at GDPR levels, meaning a percentage of global turnover of the parent company.

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    Google’s green image looks increasingly like a marketing layer over an industrial land grab. A company worth trillions wants ever more land, power and water for AI, and now it’s accused of clearing Finnish forest before environmental assessments were complete.

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    This whole ai thing starts to remind me of the paperclip game. Slowly everything is consumed and turned to ai

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    You know how people have been doing those horrible crimes where they destroy datacentres?

    I hope people don’t realize the same thing can be done to places like Google’s offices. But if they do, I also hope they’d be responsible enough to make sure no low/mid level employees were in the building. I bet, and this is just too sad, that the executives would be the prime targets 😔

    That would be tragic. Super duper tragic.

    So tragic.

    Tragic.