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Dear Tech Companies, please stop ruining cool words. First you took "uber" and now you're coming for "grok". Please stop!

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Fuckers took "meta".

Word, Windows, Apple, Amazon

They won’t stop until all words are taken.

>> 'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we're not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,' he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. 'Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?'

Thank you. Beautiful quote.

Always worthy to consider how close or far we are away from reaching a No turning back apex of these pathologically dysfunctional societies.

Working in technology is thrilling in part because we get to help shape, or power transformations in society. It makes me I guess a little bit more aware of the fluidity of society and it's injustices by contributing to the creation of technology that can be used to help or harm it.

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