Submitted 1 day ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/tim-cook-sam-altman-and-more-attend-trumps-uk-state-banquet/
Top tech names were on the guest list for the banquet thrown for President Trump during his second state visit to the U.K. on Wednesday.
Technofascists wants everything you have for their use. AI steals your artists, writers, academics works. Surveillance capitalism wants to live invisibly inside your world to report to others. The majority of our dozy fuck public is wholly complicit. America is not a democracy.
Literally everything about this is disgusting.
At this point, I feel like its gone from “these companies are disgusting kissing up to the orange one” to “if they don’t go, they’re risking being on the receiving end of a massive company ending lawsuit/cancel war from the right and his Orangeness.”
Both are disappointing and I’d rather go elsewhere, but the second is far more dystopian and probably more reflective of the current state of things.
Cowardice is a poor excuse when the people in question are ultra powerful, ultra rich, and sheltered from any and all harm from these traits.
Fuck em. These are trash people.
Behold my collection of tamed “powerful” people.
Apple is one of the few companies whose cult I think could rival MAGA.
Tim Cook gets no brownie points from me for sucking up to 40-whatever-number-he-is.
Clinging to daddy’s coattails.
While the EU are investing in self hosted, open source technologies to get away from the US, the UK is doing the opposite.
Story of the UK in general.
Not all is green in the EU, we’re fighting yet another attempt to read our private messages.
I know. It’s not only an invasion of everyone’s privacy but also pretty fucking unworkable. Hopefully people in charge will realise just how unworkable it is in time. However…Guestures at the UK and OSA
It’s only conspiracy theory that rich people meet and decide about the world.
Tim Cuck
That’s Tim Apple
They should stay the fuck out of my country. Bloody parasites.
Unfortunately they’re the royal family and it would upset a lot of people if they were sent away.
Ohh, look, a list of companies to disinvest from.
Boom bee bop 💥
These guys make my skin crawl. But the main guy also makes my skin crawl.
Please please some just them all please
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
All of these people are fucking traitors, and we will not forget their groveling.