Search results for tag #dystopia
I remember this episode of Black Mirror
https://fortune.com/2026/03/17/robot-dog-patrols-data-centers-ai-infrastructure-buildout/
The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized database containing intimate details about every resident of this country, fully searchable by artificial intelligence. This powerful tool would empower the government to conduct previously unimagined levels of surveillance and harassment against its own people.
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/17/government-surveillance-centralized-database-privacy/
#US #privacy #surveillance #AI #technology #dystopia #fascism #AgeVerification
A redditor (Ok_Lingonberry3296) traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records across 45 states to figure out who's behind the age verification bills.
The answer is Meta - a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.
Page: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file
Page backup: https://archive.ph/2026.03.13-193015/https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file
Reddit discussion: https://web.archive.org/web/20260313143853/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/
#Meta #Facebook #AgeVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #socialmedia #technology
I swear dealing with complaints to big companies goes something like this:
I call them. No one answers, the recording tells to send them an e-mail or fill some form.
No one ever replies to the e-mail or form.
I give them a 1 star review. I'm almost instantly contacted by a customer service rep, whose mandate is to get me take that review down.
In about 30 years, it’ll be released—featuring an Indiana Jones fully reconstructed from 40 terabytes of archival footage.
The plot is peak recursion: an AI generates code for Harrison Ford's digital twin to battle a rogue algorithm in virtual pixelated jungles. Pure digital cyberpunk wrapped in a "cassette futurism" and Cold War aesthetic:
"Soviet scientists in a secret bunker under Magadan accidentally awakened an ancient Sumerian algorithm trapped within copper circuits. This proto-AI doesn't just want to conquer the world, it wants to rewrite history by purging everything chaotic and illogical... namely, the USSR."
In the end, Indiana defeats the virus by simply pulling the plug. A digital silence falls over the world, while the 2056 audience pays for their tickets in crypto-yuan, fully aware that the film itself was created by the very AI the hero was fighting on screen.
#futureofcinema #GenerativeAI #SciFi #Cyberpunk #CassetteFuturism #RetroFuturism #DigitalTwin #DeadInternetTheory #Recursion #Dystopia #TechNoir #ColdWarAesthetic
We’re going to nuke Tehran and still be expected to join our daily standup call the next day.
Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing
This is just terrible. It's also the future Big Tech wants for all of us.
Futurism: The AI-Generated Tilly Norwood Just Dropped the Worst Music Video We’ve Ever Seen https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-tilly-norwood-worst-music-video @Futurism #dystopia #deepfake
To distribute an Android app outside Google Play, starting September 2026, developers will need to register with Google, submit government ID, and pay a $25 fee. Even if they're using F-Droid or the Amazon Appstore, stores Google doesn't own or operate. Privacy groups are pushing back.
https://reclaimthenet.org/open-letter-google-android-developer-verification-policy-criticism-2026
#Google #Android #enshittification #dystopia #software #monopoly #technology #idverification #privacy
Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online
The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/kosa-online-age-verification-free-speech-privacy/
#AgeVerification #IDverification #privacy #surveillance #censorship #dystopia #technology #USA
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
"I wonder how the government of California plans to enforce it?"
#AgeVerification #dystopia #privacy #surveillance #software #technology #Linux
Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’
AI chatbot ‘Patty’ is going to live inside employees’ headsets.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/884911/burger-king-ai-assistant-patty
SWARM makes biology programmable. We mass-deploy sensors and compute through living cyborg swarms—real insects carrying ultra-light payloads (sensors, edge AI, secure communications), coordinated by our swarm autonomy and mission control.SWARM Biotactics. Here's a page at Vertex Ventures, a US-based VC associated with Temasek, about them: https://vvus.com/portfolio/swarm-biotactics/
SWARM Biotactics is developing a new category of robotics: living, intelligent systems based on insects – equipped with custom-designed backpacks for control, sensing, and secure communication. These modular bio-robotic swarms augment the natural mobility of real organisms with AI, advanced sensors, and swarm intelligence – enabling silent access, close-range ISR, and real-time data collection where no other system can reach."Living, intelligent systems based on insects". "Augment the natural mobility of real organisms".
Does anyone know why this was excluded from the Wayback Machine? Go try to add it and see.
I'm going to save a copy locally because this is really scary stuff.
I already avoid the subscription/streaming economy as much as I can. I strive for digital autonomy. I #selfhost everything I can. I avoid LLMs like the plague. I avoid plastic like the plague. (Yes, I avoid the plague like the plague too. #maskup )
I try not to participate in the surveillance economy. All my appliances are smart enough to mind their own business. We've been railroaded into smartphones like everyone else, but we run a privacy-centric OS on older phones. We avoid processed foods. We burn clean energy, even if we can't afford solar yet - our town makes carbon-free electricity available at a fairly steep cost.
And yet, none of this matters if we don't all move together on it.
This feels incredibly important for people to read and understand.
“It took 72 hours🚨for the deal architecture to start unraveling.
India just postponed its trade delegation to DC. The trip was scheduled for Feb 23-25 to finalize the interim deal they negotiated at an 18% #IEEPA rate *no longer exists…
The EU Parl’s trade ch Lange is proposing to freeze ratif of the Turnberry AGR entirely… Called the sit “pure customs chaos.”
Meanwhile 2 carrier strike groups are converging on the Arab…”
-SA Perera
#Tariffs #Economy #Dystopia #USPol
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/the-six-clocks-how-a-supreme-court?r=6p7b5o&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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An image featuring a man with a raised fist in front of a building resembling a courthouse. Bold text reads, "THE SUPREME COURT DETONATED $2.4 TRILLION AND WALL STREET CELEBRATED."
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The image contains a text discussion about legal authority related to trade agreements, specifically referencing Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, its expiration, and implications for international trade and tariffs. The passage highlights various deadlines and regulatory changes impacting trade policies…
Across the nation, people are dismantling and destroying Flock cameras that conduct warrantless vehicle surveillance, and whose data is shared with ICE
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling
#Flock #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #technology #USA #ICE
Age verification vendor Persona left frontend exposed, researchers say
Runs facial recognition against watchlists and politically exposed persons, screens “adverse media” across 14 categories (including terrorism and espionage), and assigns risk and similarity scores.
"pRoTeCt tHe KiDs"
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/age-verification-vendor-persona-left-frontend-exposed
#Persona #AgeVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #AI #technology #Discord #Roblox #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Lime
"Discord alternatives" searches jump 10,000% overnight as the gaming platform introduces global age verification — Is a total collapse imminent?
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/discord-alternative-search-10000-percent-stoat
#Discord #AgeVerification #IDverification #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #dystopia #security #technology #gaming #messaging #socialmedia
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."
#Discord #privacy #surveillance #AgeVerification #enshittification #Persona #Palantir #dystopia #socialmedia #gaming #technology
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
#cyberpunk #dystopia #disability
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ironbound-oberon
I have cochlear implants and I can only buy
parts to fix them or upgrade then from 1
corporation bc of tech exclusivity.
upgrades to get new processors for both
ears cost $23k & insurance only covers
90% (and it’s “good” insurance)
cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the
disabled. fight for universal healthcare,
fight against capitalism NOW.
dovewithscales
I want all the abled people reading this to
go price check a power wheel chair.
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The image displays a modified version of the famous "This is fine" meme, featuring a cartoon dog with wide eyes and a hat sitting calmly at a table with a mug of coffee while the room around it is engulfed in flames. Superimposed on the yellow and orange fire are four logos representing major artificial intelligence models: the rust-colored square with a white spark for Anthropic (Claude) in the top left, the green circular swirl for OpenAI (ChatGPT) in the bottom left, the white square with a multicolored four-pointed star for Google (Gemini) in the top right, and a black square with a white stylized circular symbol with a diagonal line (the logo for Grok) in the bottom right. The dog sits passively amidst the burning room, with a speech bubble above its head reading "THIS IS FINE" in all capital letters.
@fiend_unpleasant @NilaJones @blogdiva @dgodon
Movie that describes this scenario
Sleep Dealer Is a Dark Reflection of Our Current World — And a Warning of What’s to Come
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/sleep-dealer-2008-movie-retrospective
Book Promotion: Download a great free story and spend some time in another world. #goodbooks #reading #amreading #fedibookfair #aliens #readers #legendary #space #military #boost #spaceship #writing #monsters #planets #futurism #dystopia #time (4b57) https://books.bookfunnel.com/scifi-cgharris-promo/tzq61fmpzs?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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.
#Microsoft #Windows11 #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #encryption #technology #software #dystopia
Book Promotion: Download a great free story and spend some time in another world. #boost #monsters #futurism #planets #goodbooks #amreading #legendary #readers #space #reading #dystopia #time #writing #aliens #military #fedibookfair #spaceship (4b62) https://books.bookfunnel.com/scifi-cgharris-promo/tzq61fmpzs?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
It's the year 2046.
The only two remaining political parties are Accept and Ask Me Later.
Everyone is losing.
HT @Natasha_Jay
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This is a Tom Gauld comic strip about a female writer whose fictional dystopian novel becomes a reality. The essential information is:
A writer decides to write a novel set in a horrific dystopia.
Frame 1 - "I'm going to shut myself away and write a novel set in a horrific dystopia"
Frame 2 - 5 years later "Finished"
Frame 3 - she steps out into a real life dystopia of women under control and armed guards, tanks and helicopters and exclaims "Damn!"
"Palantir is here to disrupt and make these various institutions we partner with the very best in the world, and when it's necessary, to scare our enemies, and on occasion, kill them"
Our reality has become a bad #JamesBond movie plot
And why do these #techbros always look like they're on drugs?
#Techbro just gleefully talking murder. And it's presented cheerful and mundane. What a #dystopia we live in
AP: Monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis and AI is complicating efforts to capture them
https://apnews.com/article/monkeys-st-louis-96c55834c7f17854cc4362db891ca8fa
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Monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis and AI is complicating efforts to capture them
I heard Santa actually survived but then got deported to CECOT #memes #meme #darkhumor #dystopia
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This meme presents a dark humor scenario formatted to look like a screenshot from a live television news broadcast. The main image depicts a grim, snowy landscape where Santa Claus's wooden sleigh has crashed and is smoking. The sleigh is wrecked, and Santa Claus is lying face down and motionless in the snow. Several reindeer are also lying dead or injured on the ice around the wreckage. The text overlays provide the satirical context with a red Breaking News banner that reads US FORCES SHOOT DOWN SANTA. Below that, a yellow news ticker features a fictional quote attributed to Trump stating HE HAD A BIG RED SACK OF DRUGS.
Pennsylvania High Court rules police can access Google searches without warrant
The court’s ruling suggests that using the internet now means agreeing to be searched.
https://reclaimthenet.org/pennsylvania-court-rules-no-privacy-in-google-searches
#Google #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #dystopia #technology #police #lawenforcement
404 Media: Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/
#privacy #AI #surveillance #bigbrother #dystopia
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Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, which are designed to capture license plates as people drive by, Flock’s Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras designed to record and track people, not vehicles. Condor cameras can be set to automatically zoom in on people’s faces as they walk through a parking lot, down a public street, or play on a playground, or they can be controlled manually, according to marketing material on Flock’s website. We watched Condor cameras zoom in on a woman walking her dog on a bike path in suburban Atlanta; a camera followed a man walking through a Macy’s parking lot in Bakersfield; surveil children swinging on a swingset at a playground; and film high-res video of people sitting at a stoplight in traffic. In one case, we were able to watch a man rollerblade down Brookhaven, Georgia’s Peachtree Creek
Unfortunately, I found out about this event after it was over. But I'm bookmarking the host and will keep an eye out for future conferences!
#IndigenousFuturisms #Seattle - 2025!
Saturday, November 15, 2025
12:00 PM 8:00 PM
North Seattle College (map)
"Join the #IndigenousFuturistsSociety and their community partners for Seattle’s first indigenous futurisms experience!
"This event will take place at North Seattle college and will include workshops, panels and interactive experiences featuring indigenous youth, adults, and elders from our communities.
"Event Description: indigenous futurisms - Seattle is envisioned as an intragenerational, multi-sensory experience that brings together a #community dedicated to imagining and building a brighter future, rejecting #dystopia. The event will feature workshops, panels, and showcases, cumulating in a community celebration! It aims to explore Indigenous Futurism and #Solarpunk concepts, focusing on how we can use social imagination to create a better world and the skills we need to develop now to achieve it.
"Key Components:
- Immersive World Experience: Walk through the multi-sensory worlds, with food, inspired-outfits
- Workshops: Led by and for Indigenous folks, covering various skills and topics.
- Panels: Discussions on Indigenous Futurism, Solarpunk, and related themes.
- Showcases: Presentations of current projects and initiatives.
- Dance Party: A celebratory conclusion to the event."
Source:
https://www.indigenousfuturists.org/events-2-1
#SolarPunkSunday #IndigenousPeople #Futurism #DreamingTheFuture #Technology #TraditionalKnowledge
Thank God for the Sinners!
Part II: Profit & Loss
→ https://open.substack.com/pub/ficklefutures/p/thank-god-for-the-sinners
#shortstory #fiction #creativewriting #Scifi #dystopia #Christofascists #fascist
US will require EU citizens to give all biometric data including DNA in new ESTA requirements
#USA #EU #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #technology #tourism #travel #enshittification
Thank God for the Sinners! Part II: Profit & Loss is here! Check it out: https://open.substack.com/pub/ficklefutures/p/thank-god-for-the-sinners
#shortstory #fiction #creativewriting #Scifi #dystopia #Christofascists #fascist
Thank God for the Sinners! Part II: Profit & Loss is here! Check it out: https://open.substack.com/pub/ficklefutures/p/thank-god-for-the-sinners
#shortstory #fiction #creativewriting #Scifi #dystopia #Christofascists #fascist
2 Days until Nationwide Facial Recognition! Surveillance with Ring & Flock #flock #amazon #surveillance #facialrecognition #ring #amazonsidewalk #dystopia
"Microsoft wants a full dossier of my life to delete a Minecraft account I created 10 years ago"
Microsoft is breaking GDPR law by refusing to delete this user's account.
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1pba8dz/microsoft_wants_a_full_dossier_of_my_life_to/
#Microsoft #Minecraft #privacy #enshittification #dystopia #technology
“Amazon🚨vastly accelerated nitrate poisoning of an entire town and refuses to do anything about it.”
-J Ward
For hundreds of communities who’ve been saddled with #DataCenters in recent years, the bulky fixtures are sources of unbearable noise, soaring energy prices, plenty of electrical fires, and debilitating rare cancers…
#Amazon #Bezos #Oligarchs #BigTech #AI #Dystopia #Fascism #Poisoning #Boycott #Protest #USPol
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-data-center-oregon
EU Council Approves New “Chat Control” Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance
By disguising coercion as consent, the EU’s plan enlists tech companies as willing agents in its quiet expansion of digital surveillance.
https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-council-approves-new-chat-control-mandate-pushing-mass-surveillance
#EU #EuropeanUnion #ChatControl #AgeVerification #surveillance #privacy #dystopia #censorship #technology #corruption
I'd say they've lost the plot, but that's like saying the Milky Way galaxy is bigger than a walnut.