Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Return to medieval
Via Wolfstreet:
Monster Ellison, the main driver and source of tech monsterdom,is moving out of Frisco now that he's bombed it. He's demonstrating our return to pure medieval times by creating a literal exact feudal city-state.
The entire island of Lanai is now Monster Ellison's duchy.
Working from anywhere for Ellison means working on a 140-square-mile island, a former pineapple plantation that Ellison acquired (98% of it) in 2012 from David Murdock who’d obtained it via his purchase of Castle & Cooke that Dole Food had spun off. The economy on Lanai has been dedicated to tourism: It has three luxury hotels that Ellison owns, plus a grocery store that Ellison owns, a school, an airport where Ellison’s corporate jets drop him off and pick him up, and about 3,000 residents whose jobs mostly depend on Ellison’s operations on the island. Ellison also owns part of the housing on the island, and to top it off, he bought the only local newspaper – another billionaire buying up newspapers.This goes way beyond the typical rich fuckhead's estate. Estates are inside ordinary cities and have to depend on sewers and streets and power systems. An entire island owned and occupied by one demon is a NATION. Every demon's goal is to become the universe. All other objects, including meat objects, must be obliterated, and the universe shall consist of ME AND ONLY ME. Monster Ellison is getting closer to the goal, and will now be the model and plan for all the other demons, just as he was the model and plan for Github/Room 101. Irrelevant literary footnote: You could base an interesting story around a group of Luddite Lepers, heretics who cling to real science and real logic, re-colonizing the neighboring island of Molokai. The Duchy Of Ellison would start a war, cocky and confident with AI robot weapons. The Lepers would respond with Real Intelligence and unhackable mechanical weapons. Next day, speaking of lepers, a well-organized and dramatic protest in Vienna. The protesters are dressed as Virus Zombies, carrying signs like "Our breath kills".
Labels: 2000=1000, endless hell
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