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)

Anyone have a favourite dystopian cupcake recipe? Asking for a friend.

#Baking #Dystopia #WhatAreWeEvenDoing

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

Dark House

#house #abandoned #abandonedplaces #abandonedphotography #abandonedphoto #urbex #urbexphoto #urbexphotography #lostplaces #lostplacesphotos #lostplacesphotography #decay #dilapidated #derelicted #disused #wuensdorf #dystopia #brandenburg #grainy #filmphotographer #film #photoconversa #symmetry #decline #analoguephotography #analogue #analog #analogphotography #kiev88 #fomapan

I am psyched to announce last night I finished a new song.

"Welcome To 2025" is the hard-hitting opening track to SECTOR 1, my immersive, empathy-driven #antifascist #art project.

It is now available on #SoundCloud. The link is below.

https://soundcloud.com/peteorrall/welcome-to-2025

#industrial #cyberpunk #dystopia #empathy #electronicmusic #SECTOR1 #musicproduction #MastodonMusic #fiction #WelcomeTo2025 #Music

I've finished: I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

While I Cheerfully Refuse hits most of the usual post apocalyptic genre tropes, it is no regular post apocalyptic adventure novel.

Rainy is a quietly competent protagonist, and viewing this dystopian world from his perspective is what setts this novel apart.

Reminiscent of Station 11, it is a more literary work.

Literally (Actually) pitting Rainy and Lark, with her used book shop, against the illiterate anti-intellectualists.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/73d19b03-b69f-476b-9e63-6e3d9f6ab14b

@bookstodon @audiofiction
#dystopia #postapocalyptic #literary #amReading #bookstodon #AudioBooks

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."

"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."

From Melania Trump pitches robots as potential educators for American schoolchildren https://www.cbsnews.com/news/melania-trump-robots-educators-kids-humanoid-systems/

The horrors and clowns of the bread and circus.

#AI #GenAI #GeneartiveAI #robotics #education #MagicalThinking #dystopia

"It's Not Me, it's The World."
-- Prince Eryck Gutteral

#quote #confidence #independence #cynicism #dystopia #society #selfsovereignty #Satanism #selfcare

Yellow-orange skies from Canadian wildfire smoke, ever-worsening news about federal agents murdering an innocent person for no discernible reason, and the US continuing along its "war crimes as policy" trajectory. The Dystopia Index is high in Maine today.

#maine #dystopia #USPol #MEPol #ClimateChange #wildfires