#bravenewworld — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bravenewworld, aggregated by home.social.
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Sex dolls.
Where being dumb and hallucinating is a feature, not a bug. Though, as always, disposing of a dead body is still a problem. For others. For some:
«While discussing how best to dispose of a lifelike doll, one member of the Doll Forum recommended investing in a chainsaw. “Live out your wildest chainsaw massacre fantasy!”»
#Elon? 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂?
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@blogdiva Republicans are so smart... it's like they're Pre-Clogs or something.
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AI companies are buying up rare books, digitizing them and destroying them in order to monopolize access to the information.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/heres-a-balm-if-the-idea-of-destroying-books-to-train-ai-breaks-your-heart/MAD joined #DemandProgress and others decrying the practice and calling for action. We'd love to see Congress also moving to block this practice, too.
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Watching people looking for seats for the last 10 minutes, while this guy watches videos...
Oblivious.
I mean, even a stand. 🙄
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Was ich will? Eine Mischung aus #Cyberprep und #StarTrek.
Was ich bekomme? Eine Mischung aus #Cyberpunk, #1984 und #BraveNewWorld. -
Facial Recognition is spiralling out of control in the UK and there are no clear laws in place to protect our privacy
Stop scanning us all with facial recognition Unlike CCTV, facial recognition doesn’t just record what you do, your face becomes a barcode in the same way as your fingerprint or your DNA. We must stop this. The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, recently revealed her chilling vision of building a “panopticon” where “the eyes of the state can be on you at all times.” Your passport photo is now being searched by police facial recognition systems, even if you have done nothing wrong […] -
#BraveNewWorld timeless sci fi gets a new treatment. https://oldaintdead.com/brave-new-world-is-it-the-good-place-or-the-bad-place/
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#BraveNewWorld #TVSeries All it takes to change everything is one disruptor. https://oldaintdead.com/brave-new-world-is-it-the-good-place-or-the-bad-place/
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Brave New World, is it the good place or the bad place?
Brave New World is a TV series based on the famous sci fi novel by Aldous Huxley. I read the book many decades ago and barely remember it. This adaptation moves through a world that is either a utopia or a dystopia, depending on which character you look at. […]https://oldaintdead.com/brave-new-world-is-it-the-good-place-or-the-bad-place/
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Have People Changed?
Taking a look at how people may have changed since Covid.https://lynnefisher.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/have-people-changed/
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@evawolfangel Das müssen diese #KI - Vorteile sein: Wird man beim kopieren erwischt, schiebt man's einfach darauf. #BraveNewWorld
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RE: https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-4237fc9c-b251b872d7a5eed9
#Bargeld ist umlaufender Datenschutz.
#Digitalzahlung ist gelebte Überwachung, #bravenewworld
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SHUT DOWN UK’s MINISTRY OF TRUTH
#BigBrother Watch’s investigation revealed that #secretive #UK #government #disinformation units have been #spying on #political #dissent and suppressing free speech online.
Take action:
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/ministry-of-truth/#take-action#privacy #surveillance #DemocracyNOW #FreeSpeech #SocialMedia #authoritarianism #authoritarian #ToxicPolitics #dystopian #Orwellian #BraveNewWorld #HumanRights
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#UK #MinistryOfTruth: the #secretive government units #spying on you
Key Findings
A few:
- MP Caroline Lucas was included in an “Election #Disinformation Report” for calling former PM, #Boris Johnson, a liar
- #Starmer all had comments critical of his govt analysed by anti-misinformation units ...#BigBrother #HybridWarfare #repression #DemocracyNOW #ToxicWestminster #ToxicPolitics #FreeSpeech #Orwellian #dystopia #BraveNewWorld
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Durante la revolucion industral teniamos los fallos de fabricación. Mientras la automatizacion funcionara, bien, si el proceso fallaba, una #remesamala. Después llegamos los informáticos. Mientras lo hicieramos bien, los procesos se repetian, si algo cambiaba, ui, en la tele por culpa de un #errorinformático. Ahora llega la #IA y tooodo son alucinaciones y #sesgos de entrenamiento. #BraveNewWorld
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#BraveNewWorld Aldous Huxley hatte ja keine Ahnung wohin die Reise geht #Kernschrott #Plattformarchitektur
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I’ve finished reading ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley.
I think I’m a very good reading cadence.
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#SciFi
(2/2)#TheMatrix saga
#Orwell' #1984
#Williams #Otherworld saga
#Terminator saga
#PlanetOfTheApes saga
#TheHandmaidsTale (not the book)
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Blog: What Does it Mean to be a Savage?
One of the themes in Brave New World is what it truly means to be a savage. The hero of Brave New World is a character named John, who grew up on an Indian reservation in New Mexico. His mother, Linda, came from London, where the people are “civilized.” However, her idea of civilization is filled with soma (a drug that appears to act as a sort of opiate), free sex, overconsumption, and every vice imaginable, obeyed immediately. Meanwhile, the “savages” of the reservation where John grew up look down upon those things and the people who engage in them. John thinks that mindset is better and more moral, thus when he’s brought to London, he’s so disturbed by what he sees that in the end, he kills himself. He recognizes that he was never the savage; the people of “civilization” were.
According to Mirriam-Webster, “savage” means to be untamed, or “lacking the restraints normal to civilized human beings.” By this definition, a savage would be animalistic in their desires. If they want to sleep with someone, they do it. If they want to pig out on food or buy ridiculous amounts of something, there’s no moral guide stopping them. Any desire that they have must be fulfilled as soon as possible.
In Huxley’s Brave New World, we see the “civilized” people acting like this. There are no moral restraints on anyone in this world. The only unspoken rule is not to do anything that would place morality on the shoulders of the people. This is why the government of this world does whatever it can to destroy the old way of life and keep people from ever interacting with it. The more animalistic people are, the easier they are to control.
Meanwhile, in New Mexico, the “savages” are mostly Indians who haven’t conformed to the new way of life. They work to keep the old traditions alive. Thus, the government agrees to let them live, as long as they stay on the reservation.
Ironically, though the Indians are called “savages” and painted as such in the brave, new world, their actions speak otherwise. Overall, their civilization practices restraint because they have morals. Yes, some of their practices are barbaric, such as flogging themselves as a sign of bravery. However, they try not to drink copious amounts, they have monogamous relationships, raise children, and don’t accept hedonism as a good thing. In fact, Linda is thoroughly hated by the wives in the reservation because she’s a drunken prostitute who steals their men. Except for the guys that have slept with her, everyone dislikes her for her immoral ways.
Further, the people in Brave New World have very different views of goodness and beauty. In civilization, “art” is whatever happens to satisfy one’s sexual desires. That’s why most of the “feelies” (movies you can literally feel) are extremely pornographic with very little plot. Meanwhile, when John the Savage arrives in London, he is very well read in Shakespeare. He loves it because while Shakespeare’s plays often display the depravity of Man in his fallen state, he recognizes the beauty of humanity because there’s a higher morality. Thus, the struggle between Man wickedness and his capacity for good appeals to John.
This is a sign of civilization, as a civilized person strives for goodness. A savage strives not for beauty, but what satisfies his base desires.
The savages in Brave New World are not the people living on the reservation. The true savages are those living in the “civilized” world, ruled by rampant hedonism. They may be easy to control, and it may have led to a peaceful world, but ultimately, they have no humanity. They lost it and became no better than intelligent apes. However, those living on the reservation are the truly civilized ones because they kept their humanity. They know what it is to struggle against the world and themselves. They acknowledge a higher morality that goes outside of themselves to live by. Thus, though they may live in squalor and have some backwards practices, they don’t deserve to be called savages.
Until next time,
M.J.
#AldousHuxley #Blog #BraveNewWorld #Civilization #DystopianNovels #Morals #OpinionPeice #philosophy #Writing -
I’ve finished ‘Conan The Barbarian vol 2’ book and started the next in my line. ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley.
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📰 Ah, drivers forming a union in Massachusetts? 🚗🧑🤝🧑 How quaint! Surely, the #ride-share behemoths will quake in their boots at the thought of a collective bargaining effort that requires #JavaScript and an ad-free experience just to read about it. 😜 #BraveNewWorld
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/uber-lyft-drivers-massachusetts-form-first-us-ride-share-union-2026-05-26/ #driversunion #Massachusetts #collectivebargaining #BraveNewWorld #HackerNews #ngated -
TFW the search engine gives a garbage set of results for your query, the actual results are mostly AI SEO slop, but you still find the solution because the slop is higher quality than the official documentation.
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Republicans have discovered their SOMA.
MAGA’s favorite psychedelic
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/488995/trump-rogan-ibogaine-executive-order-psychedelics-ptsd#Ibogaine #OpiateForMasses #BraveNewWorld #AldousHuxley #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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Oh, the brave new world of 1995! 😂 An assembly-powered Windows 9x subsystem for #Linux because, clearly, what we all need in 2023 is the joy of dial-up #nostalgia. 📞✨ Get ready for cutting-edge software that requires JavaScript just to read about it! 🙄
https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x #braveNewWorld #assembly #Windows9x #dialUp #HackerNews #ngated -
i found this to be a very interesting take on Orwell & Huxley
It really fits well w/ the discussion of the book, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, by Jake Broe on his yt channel, which i posted a couple days ago (i recommend watching that too)
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Agentic AI and Spy vs. Spy
Ich bin irgendwas zwischen geschockt und fasziniert, was OpenAIs neues "ChatGPT Image 2.o" in der Lage ist, zu erzeugen.
Aus "Mache einen Cartoon im Stil von "Spy vs. Spy" aber als Thema "Agentic AI". Schwarz/Weiss, im typischen Stil von MAD Magazin / Antonio Prohias" macht es mal eben das:
Achja, und aus einem von mir hochgeladenen Bildmacht es in windeseile, je nach Prompt …
"Erstelle ein Blueprint-Poster mit einem einzigen Motiv, wobei du ausschließlich das Hauptmotiv aus dem hochgeladenen Bild verwendest. Stelle es als klare, weiße technische Strichzeichnung auf einem tiefkobaltblauen Blueprint-Hintergrund mit dezentem Raster dar. Verwende flache 2D-Schemastriche, orthografische Konturen, Hilfslinien, Maßangaben, Pfeile und minimale technische Beschriftungen. Die Komposition kann auch 2–3 kleinere Detailausschnitte oder alternative Ansichten enthalten. Halte das Layout schlicht und ausgewogen, ohne Schattierungen, 3D-Effekte, Beleuchtung und zusätzliche Objekte.":
"Erstelle ein Poster im Vintage-Botanik-Stil, das das Hauptmotiv so interpretiert, als wäre es in einem wissenschaftlichen Atlas aus dem 19. Jahrhundert abgebildet, und nutze dabei nur die sichtbaren Details. Verwende feine Tintenlinien, zarte Schraffuren und einen realistischen, aber idealisierten Illustrationsstil. Gestalte die Illustration mit leuchtenden Farben aus dem hochgeladenen Bild auf weißem Hintergrund. Platziere eine zentrale Hauptillustration, ergänzt durch kleinere Detailstudien, Hilfslinien und Diagramm-Verweise, die Form und Struktur mit kommentiertem Text analysieren. Füge dezente Beschriftungen und Markierungen ein. Der kommentierte Text sollte in einfachem Englisch verfasst und leicht lesbar sein.":
"Entwirf eine Tarotkarte im klassischen Rider-Waite-Stil, die auf dem basiert, was du über mich weißt. Gestalte mich als handgezeichnete Figur mit kräftigen, aber unvollkommenen schwarzen Strichen mit zittrigem Charakter und variierender Stärke, sowie flächigen Farben ohne Schattierungen. Füge subtile Tarot-Elemente rund um die Figur ein. Verleihe dem Ganzen eine Papierstruktur und den Eindruck eines Drucks.":
"Erstelle einen Comicstrip, der sich auf das Motiv des hochgeladenen Bildes bezieht. Gestalte den Comicstrip im markanten Stil der Sonntagscomics mit dicken Konturen, Rastertexturen und leuchtenden Farben der 1980er Jahre. Wähle ein klares, übertriebenes visuelles Element aus dem Foto aus und baue die Geschichte darum herum auf, sodass sie zu einer lustigen oder unerwarteten Pointe führt. Halte die Dialoge kurz, natürlich und gut lesbar, und achte darauf, dass der Witz auf den ersten Blick klar verständlich ist, ohne zufällig oder verwirrend zu wirken.":
Tja. Wie ich vorhin aus einem Reflex heraus auf Mastodon schrieb:
Ich verabschiede mich von der Idee, mit Illustration oder Design jemals nochmal meinen Lebensunterhalt bestreiten zu können. ChatGPT Bilder 2.0 ist leider krass.
Und selbst wenn sich die Kreativität in Zukunft vielleicht eher darin ausdrückt, dass man die Prompts massiert – ich denke, "bei uns" werden einfach Illustrations-Jobs nicht mehr landen, und selbst wenn, dann nur noch schlecht bezahlt, weil, hey, geht doch jetzt schnell.