<p>Let's not miss or ignore what is happening around the world and specifically in America: As we see hostilities grow over the next few years under a guise of necessity, progress, and security, and perhaps to unfathomable distress, we will witness a subtle yet more powerful undercurrent of grace, generosity, and peace at times that runs, constantly available, to get us successfully through what is coming, should we stay open and receptive to such often gentle persuasions.</p><p><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#America</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#Dystopia</a></p>
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<p>Seems as good a day as any to release this new edition for sale.</p><p><a href="https://lucire.biz/product/nineteen-eighty-four/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lucire.biz/product/nineteen-eighty-four/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lucire.biz/product/nineteen-ei</span><span class="invisible">ghty-four/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/georgeorwell/" rel="tag">#GeorgeOrwell</a> <a href="/tags/nineteeneightyfour/" rel="tag">#NineteenEightyFour</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/thoughtprovoker/" rel="tag">#ThoughtProvoker</a> <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.coop/blobhyperthink.png" class="emoji" alt=":blobhyperthink:" title=":blobhyperthink:"></p><p><a href="/tags/newspeak/" rel="tag">#Newspeak</a> IS our <a href="/tags/ubiquitouslanguage/" rel="tag">#UbiquitousLanguage</a> for <a href="/tags/ddd/" rel="tag">#DDD</a> of Society in 2025. Almost!</p><p>Next time when <a href="/tags/orwell/" rel="tag">#Orwell</a> and <a href="/tags/huxley/" rel="tag">#Huxley</a> come up in <a href="/tags/discourse/" rel="tag">#discourse</a> remember:</p><p>We live in <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a> NOW!<br>Unseen by our <a href="/tags/distractioneconomy/" rel="tag">#DistractionEconomy</a> blindfolds.</p><p>We're the frogs for years, taking a nice warm bath to unsee <a href="/tags/rootcause/" rel="tag">#RootCause</a> of <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> temperature rise:</p><p><a href="/tags/hypercapitalism/" rel="tag">#Hypercapitalism</a></p><p>Vice has free reign as <a href="/tags/truth/" rel="tag">#truth</a> is destroyed.</p><p>We MUST be <a href="/tags/plainspeaking/" rel="tag">#Plainspeaking</a><br>We MUST use <a href="/tags/commonsense/" rel="tag">#CommonSense</a><br>We MUST restore <a href="/tags/reality/" rel="tag">#Reality</a></p><p>✊</p>
<p>Microsoft confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked — you can thank Windows 11's forced online accounts for that</p><p>Windows 11's online Microsoft Account requirement means your PC is automatically backing up its data encryption key to the cloud, and Microsoft says it will hand those over to the FBI if asked.</p><p><a href="https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-bitlocker-encryption-keys-give-fbi-legal-order-privacy-nightmare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-bitlocker-encryption-keys-give-fbi-legal-order-privacy-nightmare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.windowscentral.com/microso</span><span class="invisible">ft/windows-11/microsoft-bitlocker-encryption-keys-give-fbi-legal-order-privacy-nightmare</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/windows11/" rel="tag">#Windows11</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a> <a href="/tags/encryption/" rel="tag">#encryption</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/software/" rel="tag">#software</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a></p>
<p>Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel</p><p>You "may be part of an experiment where your information will be processed by an age-assurance vendor, Persona."</p><p><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.pcgamer.com/software/platf</span><span class="invisible">orms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/discord/" rel="tag">#Discord</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a> <a href="/tags/ageverification/" rel="tag">#AgeVerification</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a> <a href="/tags/persona/" rel="tag">#Persona</a> <a href="/tags/palantir/" rel="tag">#Palantir</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a> <a href="/tags/gaming/" rel="tag">#gaming</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>
<p>After Microsoft laid off 9000 employees, Xbox producer Matt Turnbull suggested affected workers use AI to “reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss”</p><p><a href="https://www.videogamer.com/news/after-microsoft-laid-off-9000-employees-xbox-producer-matt-turnbull-use-ai-reduce-emotional-cognitive-load-that-comes-with-job-loss/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.videogamer.com/news/after-microsoft-laid-off-9000-employees-xbox-producer-matt-turnbull-use-ai-reduce-emotional-cognitive-load-that-comes-with-job-loss/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.videogamer.com/news/after-</span><span class="invisible">microsoft-laid-off-9000-employees-xbox-producer-matt-turnbull-use-ai-reduce-emotional-cognitive-load-that-comes-with-job-loss/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/xbox/" rel="tag">#xbox</a> <a href="/tags/gaming/" rel="tag">#gaming</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/layoffs/" rel="tag">#layoffs</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a></p>
Once again a fully automated, non-human system is denying me access to a resource on the internet because it has determined I am not human enough.<br><br><a href="/tags/2025/" rel="tag">#2025</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a> <a href="/tags/cloudflare/" rel="tag">#Cloudflare</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/human/" rel="tag">#human</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a><br>
<p>I've had this image buzzing in my head for weeks. I'm by no means a graphic designer, but I got impatient and sketched it up myself with <a href="/tags/libreoffice/" rel="tag">#LibreOffice</a> Draw.</p><p>It's for a <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> I <a href="/tags/amwriting/" rel="tag">#amWriting</a>, about a professional troll who lost his job to AI, shortly after helping the Ideology come to power through the use of psychological manipulation. Chaos ensues as the world tumbles toward a near-future <a href="/tags/cyberpunk/" rel="tag">#cyberpunk</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a>.</p><p>(P.S. I am in the market for a <a href="/tags/graphicdesign/" rel="tag">#graphicdesign</a> pro for this project)</p>
<p>Anyone have a favourite dystopian cupcake recipe? Asking for a friend. </p><p><a href="/tags/baking/" rel="tag">#Baking</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#Dystopia</a> <a href="/tags/whatareweevendoing/" rel="tag">#WhatAreWeEvenDoing</a></p>
<p>Recently, I’ve had this recurring dream where I’m having a lunch time stroll with people from work and we are all dressed up in fancy lemming costumes. While we’re walking along a mountain top, I suddenly realise we are way too close to the cliff edge, so I scream out but everyone ignores me and they continue arguing about who they think is the best looking lemming. Just as they start falling off the cliff, I wake up, relieved by my conviction that dreams aren’t real. </p><p><a href="/tags/dreams/" rel="tag">#dreams</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a></p>
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Compare and contrast<br><br>This:<br><p>In the year of the city 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by computer. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Carrousel", a public ritual that destroys their bodies, under the pretense they would be "Renewed" or reborn.<br></p>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan's_Run_(film)" rel="nofollow">Logans Run</a>)<br><br>and this:<br><p>In the year of the city 2274, the colony of human beings on Mars live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by generative AI. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Cloud", a public ritual that destroys their bodies, under the pretense their consciousness would be uploaded to a computer and live forever.<br></p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/mars/" rel="tag">#Mars</a> <a href="/tags/eugenics/" rel="tag">#eugenics</a> <a href="/tags/logansrun/" rel="tag">#LogansRun</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a><br>
Dark House<br><br><a href="/tags/house/" rel="tag">#house</a> <a href="/tags/abandoned/" rel="tag">#abandoned</a> <a href="/tags/abandonedplaces/" rel="tag">#abandonedplaces</a> <a href="/tags/abandonedphotography/" rel="tag">#abandonedphotography</a> <a href="/tags/abandonedphoto/" rel="tag">#abandonedphoto</a> <a href="/tags/urbex/" rel="tag">#urbex</a> <a href="/tags/urbexphoto/" rel="tag">#urbexphoto</a> <a href="/tags/urbexphotography/" rel="tag">#urbexphotography</a> <a href="/tags/lostplaces/" rel="tag">#lostplaces</a> <a href="/tags/lostplacesphotos/" rel="tag">#lostplacesphotos</a> <a href="/tags/lostplacesphotography/" rel="tag">#lostplacesphotography</a> <a href="/tags/decay/" rel="tag">#decay</a> <a href="/tags/dilapidated/" rel="tag">#dilapidated</a> <a href="/tags/derelicted/" rel="tag">#derelicted</a> <a href="/tags/disused/" rel="tag">#disused</a> <a href="/tags/wuensdorf/" rel="tag">#wuensdorf</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a> <a href="/tags/brandenburg/" rel="tag">#brandenburg</a> <a href="/tags/grainy/" rel="tag">#grainy</a> <a href="/tags/filmphotographer/" rel="tag">#filmphotographer</a> <a href="/tags/film/" rel="tag">#film</a> <a href="/tags/photoconversa/" rel="tag">#photoconversa</a> <a href="/tags/symmetry/" rel="tag">#symmetry</a> <a href="/tags/decline/" rel="tag">#decline</a> <a href="/tags/analoguephotography/" rel="tag">#analoguephotography</a> <a href="/tags/analogue/" rel="tag">#analogue</a> <a href="/tags/analog/" rel="tag">#analog</a> <a href="/tags/analogphotography/" rel="tag">#analogphotography</a> <a href="/tags/kiev88/" rel="tag">#kiev88</a> <a href="/tags/fomapan/" rel="tag">#fomapan</a>
<p>French first lady Brigitte Macron and other spouses of world leaders. "It will be formed in the shape of humans. Very soon, artificial intelligence will move from our mobile phones to humanoids that deliver utility. Since our environment is designed for people, humanoid systems are uniquely suited to navigate and operate within our world. They fit well."<br><br>"Imagine a humanoid educator named Plato," she continued. "Access to the classical studies is now instantaneous. Literature, science, art, philosophy, mathematics and history. Humanity's entire corpus of information is available in the comfort of your home. Plato will provide a personalized experience, adaptive to the needs of each student. Plato is always patient, and always available. Predictably, our children will develop deep critical thinking and independent reasoning abilities. The AI-powered Plato will boost analytic skills and problem solving and adopt in real time to a student's pace, prior knowledge and even emotional state. The byproduct — a more well-rounded lifestyle for our children, freeing up time for being with friends, playing sports and developing interests beyond school. A more complete person."<br></p>From Melania Trump pitches robots as potential educators for American schoolchildren <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/melania-trump-robots-educators-kids-humanoid-systems/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cbsnews.com/news/melania-trump-robots-educators-kids-humanoid-systems/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cbsnews.com/news/melania-t</span><span class="invisible">rump-robots-educators-kids-humanoid-systems/</span></a><br><br>The horrors and clowns of the bread and circus.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/geneartiveai/" rel="tag">#GeneartiveAI</a> <a href="/tags/robotics/" rel="tag">#robotics</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/magicalthinking/" rel="tag">#MagicalThinking</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a><br>
<p>"It's Not Me, it's The World."<br>-- Prince Eryck Gutteral</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/confidence/" rel="tag">#confidence</a> <a href="/tags/independence/" rel="tag">#independence</a> <a href="/tags/cynicism/" rel="tag">#cynicism</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a> <a href="/tags/society/" rel="tag">#society</a> <a href="/tags/selfsovereignty/" rel="tag">#selfsovereignty</a> <a href="/tags/satanism/" rel="tag">#Satanism</a> <a href="/tags/selfcare/" rel="tag">#selfcare</a></p>
