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PopularUsername ,

I always thought this for the financial market: Standard & Poor

Moody

The Fed (as in, the past tense of feed)

intelati ,

fannie mae and freddie mac have this distinct dystopyian taste to me

FlowVoid ,

Those are just nicknames people use because the real names are long and boring.

“Fannie Mae” is actually the Federal National Mortgage Association (aka FNMA). “Freddie Mac” is actually the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.

imaqtpie ,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

TIL. I always wondered what the deal was with those names.

nayminlwin ,

There’s also E Corp from Mr. Robot.

poudlardo ,
@poudlardo@jlai.lu avatar

That one was clealy google, not the other way around

vis4valentine ,
@vis4valentine@lemmy.ml avatar

Is more Tencent or Samsung that Google.

poudlardo ,
@poudlardo@jlai.lu avatar

Yeah but samsung in nowhere near Google’s influence in US and worldwide. But I agree these companies are HUGE in Asia.

vis4valentine ,
@vis4valentine@lemmy.ml avatar

Samsung is EVERYTHING in Korea. Not so much in the west beyond phones and smart tv’s, and Laundry machines or whatever, but in Korea, Samsung does EVERYTHING.

poudlardo ,
@poudlardo@jlai.lu avatar

Yes chaebol is a concept in itself

iturnedintoanewt ,
@iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee avatar

TVs, Phones, Washing Machines? Samsung! Cars, trucks? Also, Samsung! Heavy machine equipment, cranes, etc? Believe or not, also Samsung! The Chaebol that does it all!

nayminlwin ,

There was even a scandal involving cancer causing work environments with Samsung like in the show.

vis4valentine ,
@vis4valentine@lemmy.ml avatar

Oh shit

fsxylo ,

And the characters called it evil corp anyways so it might as well have been the name.

Tzig ,

Not exactly, most of the characters seem to call the company E Corp but the main character (who’s also the narrator) “corrects it” in his head.

hungryphrog ,

I’m still waiting for the cool neon signs.

z3rOR0ne ,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/39499d59-23ac-42ab-ab14-959196116bdb.png

Hadriscus ,

The lady eating a cherry is burned into my brain. In the Blade Runner point-n-click game she would appear every time you’d fly out from the marketplace, because it was a prerendered cutscene.

neutron ,

Nah, we got cheaper and brighter LED lights blasting 24/7 and annoying everyone trying to sleep instead. Neon signs are retro now.

youRFate ,

I also like Alliant Techsystems, then merged with Orbital Sciences Corp into Orbital ATK.

They are part of NGIS (Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems), so evil things might come from there.

Apex_Fail ,

If DARPA was Lawful Evil

WhoRoger ,
@WhoRoger@lemmy.world avatar

I find it amusing how nobody noticed when Valve changed their name to Valve Corporation ages ago, and people keep referring to it as Valve Software.

Varyk ,

Yea, X Corps definitely becomes the manufacturer of the protein bar machines on snowpiercer

Hadriscus ,

And lab-grown artificiel pet snakes as in Blade Runner

intensely_human ,

Art creates the future. Whatever we envision we steer ourselves toward, consciously or unconsciously. A vision has gravity, and pulls people toward it. The more a vision is etched into people’s minds, the more likely we will live it.

I’m convinced Apple’s overall aesthetic is based on Star Trek: TNG. Or at least it was for a phase, until we got bored with it and took it even further.

postmateDumbass ,

Nah, calling the visions of aging tech bros on HRT art is a stretch too far.

Zalack ,
@Zalack@startrek.website avatar

They’re talking about the visions of sci-fi authors, filmmakers, and artists. The tech Bros are the ones being drawn towards those artists’ visions.

SnipingNinja ,

Reminds me of the “torment Nexus” meme

MossyFeathers ,

https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/05e5ae2f-f856-4858-b767-b277bad02356.jpeg

postmateDumbass ,

Look what has been done with 1984 and A Brave New World.

postmateDumbass ,

It aint the same vision.

They smashed the Rose-colored glasees in favor of orher lenses, one tinted the color of money. The other a swirl of gluttony, power, and dopamine.

RegularGoose ,

Shitty art is still art.

intensely_human ,

It must suck to spend all day hating

postmateDumbass ,

Nah, it mostly sucks to have watched the tech bro crowd take something wonderful, that bemefited everyone and twist it into personal profit streams devoid of any soul and/or humanity.

I know those types are going to destroy us all, but everyone sucks so just let the bad times roll. Then the heads will follow. Rolling on the floor.

CocaineShark ,

If you think about it, all sorts of fucked up things that are happening now have been portrayed as a bad thing in past media: Virtual words, virtual-fuckin’ land (not 100% sure this one is real, still really hoping its not), misuse of AI, smart houses, where everything is controlled by a remote (which relies on electricity / wi-fi), even stuff like alexa, which is listening to every word you say, at your home…

olutukko ,

Haha yeah the virtual land was true thing. it was a crypto scam if I recall correctly. Everything nowadays is just crypto scam

echodot ,

You can just call it crypto. The scam bit is implied.

vox ,
@vox@sopuli.xyz avatar

what’s the point of selling “virtual land” if it’s practically unlimited anyway? (artificial scarcity?)

RoyalEngineering ,

Yes absolutely. Virtual land = Yet another NFT

WhoRoger ,
@WhoRoger@lemmy.world avatar

Yes

Nioxic ,

Amazon web services

Doesnt sound so evil…

DNOS , (edited )

Maybe not yet … I bet they will soon catch up … Btw in italian Ammazzo means to kill can u see some similarities… 😉

reverendsteveii ,

Amazon comes from the Greek meaning ‘breastless’. Trans agenda confirmed 💯💯💯

morrowind , (edited )
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

There’s a company called Hashicorp that’s been in the news recently. Literally perfect

nbailey ,
@nbailey@lemmy.ca avatar

Heh, people from 50 years ago hearing that my job is terraforming using Hashicorp equipment would be very disappointed.

intensely_human ,

Terraform it all. Pave the moon. Dairy Queens on Mars. Uber in the skies of Jupiter.

Badland9085 ,

Hashicorp’s been around for years; since 2012 actually. Used to be a pretty cool company, looked up by many, like a shining beacon in the darkness. It’s unfortunate where they’ve gone to now.

intensely_human ,

I wondered what Badland was talking about, but I nodded along like I knew. Maybe the next words out of his mouth would be an explanation of what he’s just said. It could happen.

rolaulten ,

I don’t know what part your unaware of - so let me do the ELI5. They (HashiCorp) created a tool called teraform which is used for defining what servers/other infrastructure you use in places like AWS. Up until recently this was open source under the Mozilla license to something that’s not quite open, but not fully closed source (yet).

Badland9085 ,

I intended to give an explanation, but since this community is pretty general, i.e. we have people from basically all walks of life here, many with little to no involvement or understanding of the tech industry, so I decided to leave it out cause it would be too much to explain.

[email protected] has given us a pretty brief explanation, but I think it can be further simplified, though would require a lot more knowledge build up (i.e. more words). If anyone’s interested, I can try to write a fireplace story, though I can’t say I’m the most qualified person to do so, or give an absolutely accurate story.

jtk ,
@jtk@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I don’t get how the name is dystopian. Is it from a book or movie or something? Search only turns up the company you’re talking about.

intensely_human ,

Could be that it mixes what sounds like a Japanese name with an English word, which makes it seem like a company from Japan operating in an English speaking place.

In the 1980s people expected that Japan was going to take over more and more American business. Japan was a major player and so sci fi written then — including that which was cyberpunk dystopian — assumed there’d be companies like “Ford” but named after Japanese guys.

Also it’s not “Hashi Corporation” it’s “HashiCorp” which implies a sort of pop-cultureification, like the company has sort of compacted over the years, and gotten less Japanese (known) and more hybrid Japanese-American-Corporate-Marketing (unknown, megacorps have shady cultures, they’re new things).

If HashiCorp were to show up in a movie, it would be in a holographic ad someone flies past.

neutron ,

And we are kind of getting there, but we often see multinational megacorps with Chinese or Korean names/origin.

Braydox_ofAstroya12 ,

As long as we get coporate songs like this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=6HTR0BiFehA

Again

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_cnt0 ,
@_cnt0@lemmy.villa-straylight.social avatar

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.

Braydox_ofAstroya12 ,

No please anything but the raisins

tpyo ,

My favorite shirt ever:

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CrayonRosary ,

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Good!

EssentialCoffee ,

You mean like this?

Or this?

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Braydox_ofAstroya12 ,

Sigh they dont make coporate propaganda like they used too.

But yes that

tpyo ,

Holy shizz I forgot about that song. thanks for the rememory

Speiser0 ,

Do these also count: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-QThIoXfkswww.youtube.com/watch?v=HRVoJnxjpFg

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vidsid ,

God, that last one was brilliant. It gave me a flashback.

21Cabbage ,

Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations Inc is a pretty good one too.

PostalDude ,
@PostalDude@lemmy.basedcount.com avatar

We live in the world where Mr robot failed and gave up.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

My favorite is literally just “Brand.” The “generic” brand company. Although I feel like they leaned purposefully into the cyberpunk shit.

SnipingNinja ,

Can’t even find anything about them

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

That’s how generic it is!

Infynis ,
@Infynis@midwest.social avatar

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

odium ,

Crazy to think they named Norse gods after the protagonist of the wheel of time.

intensely_human ,

Almost teleological in its implications!

SpaceNoodle ,

There’s also Palantir, which does exactly what you think

redditcandoone ,

Which is annoying because it’s a fucking good name.

evatronic ,

“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?

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