@chpietsch @quincy @aral @cstross

Watch "The Corporation"!

https://przej.me/w/c94cf09f-2fa6-43f6-87ac-b29d5ca76606

#TheCorporation

@quincy

This film makes the point that corporations are psychopaths. I find it very convincing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(2003_film)

#TheCorporation

@aral @cstross

> We can’t live in a world with what he calls “counterfeit people.”.. Artificial people will always have less at stake than real ones, and that makes them amoral actors, he added. “Not for metaphysical reasons but for simple, physical reasons: They are sort of immortal.”
.. We need strict liability for the technology’s creators,

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

In the profile of #EmilyMBender, #DanielDennet makes me think of #TheCorporation, #LegalPersons and then Lewis Mumford's #MegaMachine

> .. the corporations.. have a goal for.. the population. They have to be turned into completely mindless consumers of goods that they do not want. You have to develop what are called "#CreatedWants". So you have to create wants. You have to impose on people what's called a #PhilosophyOfFutility. You have to focus them on the insignificant things of life, like fashionable consumption. I'm just basically quoting #BusinessLiterature.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/quotes/?ref_=tt_trv_qu
#NoamChomsky in #TheCorporation

The metaphor of the golem is also a great way to explain the special class of problems caused by corporations. Unlike the psychopath, the analogy of used in the doco The Corporation, the golem is not a person, just vaguely person-shaped. It's not capable of being malicious because it's not capable of being self-aware. Humans with psychopathy can be taught to simulate empathy using their intellect, even if they can't feel it.

#corporations #TheCorporation

> From childhood, this #King had been led to act as a sovereign should. What about us?
> By means of the American Revolution, colonists took sovereignty from the #English #monarchy and invested it in themselves.
--- #Poclad's #RichardGrossman
It's quaint that we still spend attention on #Royalty queens and kings. It won't be a complete waste if we learn how to be #Sovereign and put #TheCorporation in it's place the way #KingCharles did in 1628. The new guy even has the same name.

How to see
#TheCorporation:
- https://archive.org/details/The_Corporation_
- https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wDvd69gwRj8

I didn't like the 1982 movie, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, at the time but think of the (wrong) quote a lot "Learn it, Love it, Live it."
The other parts I remember seem critical of miserable suburban life but the on-line stuff turned up in a quick search makes it seem like a fun blonde Hollywood movie. John Holt wrote about a HS documentary that got past teachers and principal but scandalized the public.

> Why help these guys ruin what’s left of the internet, much less civilisation?...
The #Mindset also includes a #FaithBased #SiliconValley certainty that they can develop a technology that will somehow break the laws of physics, economics and morality to offer them something even better than a way of saving the world: a means of escape from the apocalypse of their own making.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
#DouglasRushkoff on
#SocialDarwinism #NeoLiberalism #TheCorporation #WealthyPsychos

> .. #academics generally ignored the fact that Uber was spending billions of dollars of investor cash to subsidise both drivers and passengers and that “payouts” to drivers were not the same as income. Claims about the quality of jobs or prices were therefore unsustainable, he [#HubertHoran] argued.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/12/uber-paid-academics-six-figure-sums-for-research-to-feed-to-the-media
#BoughtProfessors #DiscipinedMinds #TheCorporation #Corruption #Economists

> #Houston tops this list as home to 7 of the 100 top ecocidal planet killers, followed by #Jakarta, #Calgary, #Moscow, and #Beijing. The richest person on the list is #Russian oil magnate #VagitAlekperov, who is currently worth $20.7 billion.
> The map is in the form of a cartogram which represents the size of countries by their cumulative carbon dioxide emissions since industrialization.
https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/names-and-locations-of-the-top-100-people-killing-the-planet/
#Polluters #EcoCide #TheCorporation #PlanetKillers #FilmsForAction

> #Pfizer’s earnings call from February reveals it expects to make close to $22bn in revenue from #Paxlovid sales.
> the #WTO must begin to act on behalf of all countries it claims to represent – not on behalf of a few #RichCountries in the pockets of the #PharmaceuticalGiants.

#HugoLópezGatel shows me
#pharmaceuticalcompanies as examples of #TheCorporation psychopathy.

> This timeline is a great education tool to explain how corporations have used the legal system to gain constitutional "personhood rights" through court decisions and how people have organized to gain constitutional rights through amendments (with a few exceptions)...
There are three pdf files which correspond to three print sizes. The content information is the same on them all.
https://www.movetoamend.org/timeline
#MoveToAmend #TheCorporation #PersonHood #LegalFiction

> "You want sanity, democracy, community.. intact Earth? We can't get there obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters... We can't get there kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder.. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating #disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth."
https://www.poclad.org/BWA/2013/BWA_2013_Aug.html
#RichardGrossman #Poclad #TheCorporation

BlackBox proprietary algorithms.
#MoveToAmend #Poclad #TheCorporation
https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/blog-twitter/official/en_us/company/2021/rml/Algorithmic-Amplification-of-Politics-on-Twitter.pdf

> 水俣病が新発生/カニ食べた少年，魔の禁漁区は獲り放題/なお続発の恐れ https://minamata195651.jp/pdf/news/news_1956kara1960.pdf

Like Piya in #AmitavGhosh's #TheHungryTIde, I wish I knew more about #crabs.. Maybe they have a high tolerance, or affinity, for #OrganicMercury and other heavy metals, pollutants in general? While all other cathes were going down, #crab catches went up one year during a tough time in #Minamata. #水俣 #水俣病 #チッソ #チッソ病 #ザコポレーション #水銀 #mercury #MethylMercury #TheCorporation #IndustrialCivilization #Omnicide

https://write.as/bs2lr/plot-picts-and-pip-lines-with-arrows-and-bitmaps

> 宮城県が運営権を一括して売却した上下水道と工業用水の計９事業について、民間企業による運営が１日から始まる。全国初の事例で、水質の安全性を確保しながら、水道料金の値上がりを抑制できるか注目される。
> 運営するのは水処理大手「メタウォーター」（東京）など計１０社でつくる「みずむすびマネジメントみやぎ」（仙台市）。宮城県は昨年１２月、運営権を１０億円で売却する契約を締結した。期間は２０年。情報通信技術（ＩＣＴ）の活用など業務効率化で、約３３７億円のコスト削減を見込む。施設は県が引き続き所有し、水質検査や管路の維持管理も続ける。
https://kahoku.news/articles/knp2022033101000754.html
#水 #民営化 #水の民営化 #佐久間智子 #ザコーポレション #TheCorporation

> 宮城県が運営権を一括して売却した上下水道と工業用水の計９事業について、民間企業による運営が１日から始まる。全国初の事例で、水質の安全性を確保しながら、水道料金の値上がりを抑制できるか注目される。
> 運営するのは水処理大手「メタウォーター」（東京）など計１０社でつくる「みずむすびマネジメントみやぎ」（仙台市）。宮城県は昨年１２月、運営権を１０億円で売却する契約を締結した。期間は２０年。情報通信技術（ＩＣＴ）の活用など業務効率化で、約３３７億円のコスト削減を見込む。施設は県が引き続き所有し、水質検査や管路の維持管理も続ける。
https://kahoku.news/articles/knp2022033101000754.html
#水 #民営化 #水の民営化 #佐久間智子 #ザコーポレション #TheCorporation

> 日本でも「郵政」の次には、「水道」の民営化が狙われている。世界では、一九九〇年代は「水道民営化」の一〇年であった。グローバル水道企業は、世界銀行などの国際金融機関に支援され、各国の政府や政治家と癒着し、巨大な利益をあげながら、世界の水道を手中に収めてきた。しかし、世界のほとんどの地域で、「水道民営化」は失敗した。その結果、水質悪化、料金高騰…、貧しい家庭が水道を利用できなくなったりしている。民営化反対運動は拡大し、かつての公営水道を改善した新たな公共水道が構築されてきている。本書は、市民・水道局員・研究者など水道に直接関わる現地の人々の手によって執筆された、世界１７ヶ国の水道民営化の実態、新たな公共水道に向けた闘いをまとめたものである。
https://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-01-9784861821295
#水 #民営化 #水の民営化 #佐久間智子 #ザコーポレション #TheCorporation

> ... the industry finds out in advance about challenging programs and causes them to be altered or cancelled, frequently by threatening a libel suit.
[An] example was Monsanto's successful effort in 1997 to quash the showing on a Fox TV station of the Akre-Wilson program on some problematic features of Monsanto's recombinant bovine growth hormone rBGH.
- https://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/ScienceWars/junk2.htm
#JunkScience #TheCorporation #EdwardHerman #Monsanto #GMO #rbgh #chemicalindustry #regulatorycapture

> Corporate junk science plays an extremely important role in the public relations and regulatory strategies... It aims, first, to reassure the public that pesticides and other chemicals are not a public health threat and are essential to economic growth and welfare. But it is also designed to create enough confusion and uncertainty among legislators and regulators,... preserve the industry's freedom to...
- https://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/ScienceWars/junk2.htm
#EdwardHerman #JunkScience #TheCorporation #massmedia