dystopia

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.

#USA #America #Dystopia

Seems as good a day as any to release this new edition for sale.

https://lucire.biz/product/nineteen-eighty-four/

#GeorgeOrwell #NineteenEightyFour #novel #book #bookstodon #dystopia

#ThoughtProvoker

#Newspeak IS our #UbiquitousLanguage for #DDD of Society in 2025. Almost!

Next time when #Orwell and #Huxley come up in #discourse remember:

We live in #dystopia NOW!
Unseen by our #DistractionEconomy blindfolds.

We're the frogs for years, taking a nice warm bath to unsee #RootCause of #ClimateChange temperature rise:

#Hypercapitalism

Vice has free reign as #truth is destroyed.

We MUST be #Plainspeaking
We MUST use #CommonSense
We MUST restore #Reality

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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

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.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-bitlocker-encryption-keys-give-fbi-legal-order-privacy-nightmare

#Microsoft #Windows11 #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #encryption #technology #software #dystopia

Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

You "may be part of an experiment where your information will be processed by an age-assurance vendor, Persona."

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

#Discord #privacy #surveillance #AgeVerification #enshittification #Persona #Palantir #dystopia #socialmedia #gaming #technology

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”

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/

#microsoft #xbox #gaming #tech #ai #layoffs #enshittification #dystopia

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.

#2025 #dystopia #Cloudflare #AI #human #web #tech #dev

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 #LibreOffice Draw.

It's for a #fiction I #amWriting, 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 #cyberpunk #dystopia.

(P.S. I am in the market for a #graphicdesign pro for this project)

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.

#dreams #dystopia

Compare and contrast

This:

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.

(Logans Run)

and this:

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.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Mars #eugenics #LogansRun #ScienceFiction #dystopia