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Re:Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 3... by stuxnet79 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @05:13PM (#48390153)
What makes this even more hilarious is that Meta's rebranding was in part inspired by the metaverse concept in Snow Crash. You can bet that Zuckerberg, along with many other tech executives, have read this exact passage while mining the book for ideas. Life imitating art?
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Re:Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 3... by redsocksfan45 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @05:37PM (#48390474)
Tech corp execs also read the rest of Snowcrash, unfortunately, so besides the metaverse crap we also got Snowcrash's "gig economy" labor hellscape.

See also, Jennifer Government, numerous works of PKD, etc.

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Re:Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 3... by dmoy on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @07:03PM (#48391293)
It's the torment nexus, which literally came out of a reaction to Facebook's rebrand to Meta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus

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