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this is the most "sum up our present day cyberpunk dystopia in a single image" thing i can think of
#cyberpunk #dystopia
#dystopia
59 posts · Last used Oct 07
At the GO Transit railway station.
What kind of dystopian SciFi future have I arrived in?
#GOTransit #SciFi #Dystopia #IHateThisTimeline
Minulla on hiukan ongelmia Taheref Mafin Shatter Me: Uusi valtakunta -sarjan aloituskirjan, Katso minua, kanssa. Tämä nuortenkirjaksi ja romantiikaksi luokiteltu dystopia on aluksi melkoisen tuju väkivaltakuvauksineen. Kirjassa mm. leikataan päitä, revitään lapsilta sisälmyksiä ulos ja seitsemänvuotias tappaa aseella. No, dystopinen maailma on selviö.
Suurin ongelma on, että tarinan maailmaa kuvataan aivan kuin sen pitäisi olla lukijalle tuttua huttua, vaan minä ainakin jäin miettimään mitkä uusperustajat, ketkä viholliset, ja mikä neurojuttu, johon jotkut kuuluu ja jotkut ei, mitä ovat sektorit ja sijaishallitsijat. Nämä varmaankin saavat selitykset seitsemänosaisessa aloitussarjassa Shatter Me, jota ei ole suomennettu. WSOY:ltä kerrottiin, että koelukijat ovat parjänneet ongelmitta sarjan kanssa ja kirjailijan agentillekin on sopinut, että sarjan maailmaan hypätään vasta tässä jatko-osassa. Minulle se tuotti hieman ongelmia.
Dystopiaksi Katso minua on reipasotteinen. Päähenkilöistä löytyi loppupuolella tunteiden teinipiirteitä. Oli lihaksikkaita ja kauniin eteerisiä, joihin ihastua. Romantiikka astuu kehiin. Onneksi traumat ovat ja pysyvät, joten kovin yksinkertaiseksi asiat eivät mene. Raakuus säilyy. En ole varma vielä jatkanko sarjan lukemista. #kirjamastodon #dystopia #lukeminen #kirjafedi
There are still some 💾 floppy disks left of my Original Soundtrack Album "Future in the Past" and it's Bandcamp Friday, so if you get anything today, I get your support without any deducted fees (and it costs you nothing more).
If you are a fan of the old Amiga and PC days, this might be a tribute limited edition to check out:
👉 https://albertorizzoschettino.bandcamp.com/album/future-in-the-past
Thanks for your support in all these years!
#bandcampfriday #floppydisk #retrogaming #cyberpunk #dystopia #gamemusic
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Encrypting your emails is a great first step against #MassSurveillance \#dystopia: u.fsf.org/1bq #FSF #FreeSoftware
if you’re in the US, please be aware there’s a new set of laws being discussed at the Senate THIS WEDNESDAY that threatens your privacy and freedom of speech on the internet.
if these pass the Senate like they passed the House, there’s a good chance that every website will implement an ID checkpoint to force you to verify your age.
this is your LAST CHANCE to contact your senator and let them know that you don’t want these laws to pass. you can go to the following website to contact them more easily.
PLEASE let your friends and everyone know, both here, on other platforms, or offline, about this situation. we are all in this together.
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#ageverification #uspol #politics #privacy #dystopia
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” published 76 years ago about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast: https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj = a shortened version of the short story, also summarized in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)#Plot_summary #Bradbury #dystopia #shortstory
The movie wasn’t an instruction manual 🤦♂️
“The FBI office in charge of maintaining the terrorist watch list is seeking an artificial intelligence system for pre-crime policing, according to procurement documents obtained by Reason.”
reason.com/2026/07/28/m...
#USpol #crime #scifi #law #dystopia
Minority Report Looking
AP: Some robotaxis approved to operate without steering wheels and losing the brake pedal could be next
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/some-robotaxis-approved-to-operate-without-steering-wheels-and-losing-the-brake-pedal-could-be-next
#aipocalypse #robotaxi #ai #dystopia
Stop scanning us all with facial recognition
#FacialRecognition is out of control in the #UK and there are no clear #laws in place to protect our #privacy.
Unlike #CCTV, facial recognition doesn’t just record what you do:
We must stop this ...
#DemocracyNOW #privacy #Orwell #Dystopia #oppression #PoliceState #HumanRights #HumanTracking #FreedomLost
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The movie wasn’t an instruction manual 🤦♂️
“The FBI office in charge of maintaining the terrorist watch list is seeking an artificial intelligence system for pre-crime policing, according to procurement documents obtained by Reason.”
https://reason.com/2026/07/28/minority-report-fbi-seeks-ai-for-political-watch-list/#USpol #crime #scifi #law #dystopia
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What it should be called? Or what it's called if there is such thing? I mean a dystopia showing a failed attempt at #solarpunk. A revolution that was good in general but went terribly wrong because the well-meaning people failed to recognize the true source of the problem, or just a revolution that allowed some corruption to persist and then the corruption overtook? And the honest people were cheering for it because it looked like what they wanted on the surface. #Omelanoma (Omelas melanoma)? #Greanwash? #Greenfash? Or just #dystopia?
I'm glad this didn't happen 🫣
#environment #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeIsReal #cars #london #tfl #history #ThrowbackThursday #activism #dystopia
I just realized there should exist a cannon of dystopias that #solarpunk s point to as a warning on what is going to happen if we don't actually #decolonize our supply chains when building solarpunk or keep the capitalist ownership structure when building our green future.
To me, the prime example of this is the movie #elysium. A paradise space station in the clouds full of greenery and high tech and loads of lowlifes on the earth, rotting on the wasteland.
I was recently shocked that people clapped for a skyscraper with a roof garden with fruits that was showed on Andrew Millison channel. People called it solarpunk! A tiny bunch of locals in the comments pointed out that the workers that keep those gardens up don't enjoy their fruits. They are low pay. The relatively tiny output (1t annually) of that garden goes to a luxury restaurant there and it's reserved only for the VIP to brag it's extra fresh.
We should be banging those people with the whole range of dystopian dynamics that it reproduces!
What other dystopian classics do you recommend to warn people against solarpunk fail?
#dystopia #cyberpunk #antiutopia #utopia #eutopia
Based on traditional Korean devices, get yourself an open source human cooler with an artisan made bamboo lattice, a sturdy option for getting from A to B at 40c. Download your open source plans today to build your future cooler human! #europe #summer #climate #ai #dystopia #elnino #opensourcehardware
Just in case you wanted more dystopia in your life. Governments are slowly redefining terrorism to mean any action that goes against current government policy. See the UK's categorisation of people supporting Palestine Action and the USA's prosecution of protestors against ICE.
#uspol #ukpol #dystopia #terrorism #politics
https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-the-openai-models-that-hacked-hugging-face-were-active-on-the-internet-for-days/
He adds that the company eventually brought the situation under control with the help of an open-weight Chinese AI model that lacked the guardrails other models place on cybersecurity-related tasks.
#openAi #huggingface #infosec #cybersecurity #cyberpunk #dystopia
How to build #solarpunk (the aesthetic vision without the social change) - watch now 00:59s
Instructions were unclear. Penis stuck in an #elysium sky paradise for the rich while the poor are burning on the wastelands.
Do not. Walk. Towards. Omelas.
#omelas #dystopia #cyberpunk #scifi #ursulaLeGuin #LeGuin #greenwashing #climateCatastrophe