"Big Tech" is an informal term used to describe prominent businesses in the electronics/software market sector. It has no official definition. If you post on Slashdot this should be well understood.

Why are you whining about this? Do you have a personal beef with this editor? Why bring up anyone's name at all?`

Slashdot is well known for petty snarky-ness and ADHD style nitpicking, which is one of the reasons I come here. I can indulge all I want in somewhat hostile posting and it fits right in. (This post is an example.) Still, you have managed to irritate me with your dumbass comment, which is some sort of accomplishment, but nothing to be proud of.

Crawl back under your rock.

It's accurate if you realize that "dinner party" is a code phrase for ICE operations where anyone, citizen or not, can be identified at a scene and be held incommunicado by masked goons in an undisclosed location. Because face recognition is infallible and being in public minding your own business is obviously a criminal act under the current regime.

freeing humans for more interesting and specialized work

Translation to normal speech: making humans unemployed, homeless, and hungry without health care or a social safety net in order to increase corporate wealth.

Mushroom behind tiny human visions lacks genes for known psychedelics

They're an advertising company, not a hardware company.

Don't forget the surveillance for profit revenue.

There's so much excess bullshit in Texas they could dry it and burn it to power data centers.

It's part of the bullshit-in/bullshit-out AI bubble.

So 100% accurate replication of C-suite and board of directors IRL behavior.

Think of all the money that could be saved if that class was replaced by AI and their grift was invested in the well-being of normal humans. We could achieve the AI economy that could free so many people from grinding poverty and get a science fiction utopia.

Unfortunately we're going to get the Morloch/Eloi dystopia of H. G. Wells Time Machine, except the elites will consume the underclass. Think of the more recent Harkonnens in Dune.

Look no further then every Trump/DOJ revenge prosecution in the last year, along with the ICE/gestapo masked anonymous death squads, and the concentration camps being built all over the country.

Example: relatives of the NYT reporters who broke the story on the Qatar Trump 747 bribe aircraft being unsafe had their phone records subpoenaed by the FBI.

Don't forget that you are paying for all of it and it's going to get far worse real soon.

What's the going bribery rate for a $7 billion contract?

No matter what Ellison comes out personally richer while the rest of us pay the bill.

Break out the popcorn!

How about basic affordable health care for all by making the billionaire class pay some reasonable tax rate? Instant increase in well being along with eventual increased life span. No medical breakthrough required.

Because road infrastructure is free. Just lay down a strip of Acme Instant Roadway Tape and drive to you're hearts content.

So a completely normal cop.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Where do I sign up?.

No infotaiment or GPS, maybe an AM/FM radio. Optional cruse control. I'd live with hand cranked widows, but some sort of air conditioning would be nice. Pick some second party sourced drive train and engine. Only open source microprocessor hardware/software.

Time to take my meds because I'm clearly hitting a manic phase and need to come down.

Because only morons try to make an argument that's binary all or nothing.