#dystopian — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dystopian, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: May contain mature and satirical content related to political themes and regimes.
A surreal, anime-style illustration of a 1990s political refugee surrounded by the absurdities of totalitarian regimes and the search for moral courage in a dystopian society.
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Recorvia Episode 15
There were very few lights on the lower level of the castle Mallory had broken into. He crept through the dungeon that had way too many easy entrances. He stopped. A terrifying cackling heard around the corner in a small chamber followed by a voice, “AHAHAHA!! Ooooh this is just so riveting!! My lovely lady, oh yes, bless my lady!” Mallory looked through a small peephole and froze, petrified. Inside, a woman lay strapped with leather to a flat stone. Her mouth had a gauze shoved into it […]https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/
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Recorvia Episode 15
There were very few lights on the lower level of the castle Mallory had broken into. He crept through the dungeon that had way too many easy entrances. He stopped. A terrifying cackling heard around the corner in a small chamber followed by a voice, “AHAHAHA!! Ooooh this is just so riveting!! My lovely lady, oh yes, bless my lady!” Mallory looked through a small peephole and froze, petrified. Inside, a woman lay strapped with leather to a flat stone. Her mouth had a gauze shoved into it […]https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/
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Recorvia Episode 15
There were very few lights on the lower level of the castle Mallory had broken into. He crept through the dungeon that had way too many easy entrances. He stopped. A terrifying cackling heard around the corner in a small chamber followed by a voice, “AHAHAHA!! Ooooh this is just so riveting!! My lovely lady, oh yes, bless my lady!” Mallory looked through a small peephole and froze, petrified. Inside, a woman lay strapped with leather to a flat stone. Her mouth had a gauze shoved into it […]https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/
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Recorvia Episode 15
There were very few lights on the lower level of the castle Mallory had broken into. He crept through the dungeon that had way too many easy entrances. He stopped. A terrifying cackling heard around the corner in a small chamber followed by a voice, “AHAHAHA!! Ooooh this is just so riveting!! My lovely lady, oh yes, bless my lady!” Mallory looked through a small peephole and froze, petrified. Inside, a woman lay strapped with leather to a flat stone. Her mouth had a gauze shoved into it […]https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/
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Recorvia Episode 15
There were very few lights on the lower level of the castle Mallory had broken into. He crept through the dungeon that had way too many easy entrances. He stopped. A terrifying cackling heard around the corner in a small chamber followed by a voice, “AHAHAHA!! Ooooh this is just so riveting!! My lovely lady, oh yes, bless my lady!” Mallory looked through a small peephole and froze, petrified. Inside, a woman lay strapped with leather to a flat stone. Her mouth had a gauze shoved into it […]https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/
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Michael HERTER - GAMES. Vol. 4: Futuristic Synthetic Worlds
"Futuristic electronic and hybrid tracks for sci-fi games, cyberpunk worlds, and action trailers."
#electronic #synthwave #soundtrack #cinematic #scifi #cyberpunk #dystopian #hybrid #futuristic #gaming #music
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Michael HERTER - GAMES. Vol. 4: Futuristic Synthetic Worlds
"Futuristic electronic and hybrid tracks for sci-fi games, cyberpunk worlds, and action trailers."
#electronic #synthwave #soundtrack #cinematic #scifi #cyberpunk #dystopian #hybrid #futuristic #gaming #music
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Michael HERTER - GAMES. Vol. 4: Futuristic Synthetic Worlds
"Futuristic electronic and hybrid tracks for sci-fi games, cyberpunk worlds, and action trailers."
#electronic #synthwave #soundtrack #cinematic #scifi #cyberpunk #dystopian #hybrid #futuristic #gaming #music
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Michael HERTER - GAMES. Vol. 4: Futuristic Synthetic Worlds
"Futuristic electronic and hybrid tracks for sci-fi games, cyberpunk worlds, and action trailers."
#electronic #synthwave #soundtrack #cinematic #scifi #cyberpunk #dystopian #hybrid #futuristic #gaming #music
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Imagine a future in which late-stage capitalism became able to scan cadavers' brains and transfer them into chatbots unless the deceased subscribes to a high-tier funerary services plan. Behold the ultimate wet dream of those who think Black Mirror is meant as an instruction manual: KadAIve®!
Alt-text contains important explanation about this absurdist art (such as, the deliberate mimicking of AI slop machine style and the hidden puns/messages within the text), but will likely end up truncated because it's way too lengthy (too many details that ought to be explained). Hell, it's even exceeds the 5000 character limit when I try to paste the alt-text here in the post.
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Imagine a future in which late-stage capitalism became able to scan cadavers' brains and transfer them into chatbots unless the deceased subscribes to a high-tier funerary services plan. Behold the ultimate wet dream of those who think Black Mirror is meant as an instruction manual: KadAIve®!
Alt-text contains important explanation about this absurdist art (such as, the deliberate mimicking of AI slop machine style and the hidden puns/messages within the text), but will likely end up truncated because it's way too lengthy (too many details that ought to be explained). Hell, it's even exceeds the 5000 character limit when I try to paste the alt-text here in the post.
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“Release” is a #dystopian #SciFi #MMRomance by Marie Sexton.
Misha grew up in the “trenches” of lower Davlova, where the poorest citizens scratch out a living without technology while the high-born “purebloods” live in electrified luxury behind the walls of the inner city on the hill. Misha gets taken in by one of the clans, criminal gangs that run all sorts of operations in the city. Over the years, Misha learned the fine art of pickpocketing. Sometimes he also turns tricks to see if a potential mark had a lot of money, and where he kept it.
One day, the clan leader offers Misha a new opportunity. One of the most powerful men in the city is looking for a new toy boy and wants someone “exotic.” The clan leader isn’t just asking Misha to prostitute himself. She wants him to gain the man’s confidence and learn his secrets. The information may provide the catalyst that starts a revolution.
https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2023/review-release-marie-sexton/?ref=mastodon
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“Release” is a #dystopian #SciFi #MMRomance by Marie Sexton.
Misha grew up in the “trenches” of lower Davlova, where the poorest citizens scratch out a living without technology while the high-born “purebloods” live in electrified luxury behind the walls of the inner city on the hill. Misha gets taken in by one of the clans, criminal gangs that run all sorts of operations in the city. Over the years, Misha learned the fine art of pickpocketing. Sometimes he also turns tricks to see if a potential mark had a lot of money, and where he kept it.
One day, the clan leader offers Misha a new opportunity. One of the most powerful men in the city is looking for a new toy boy and wants someone “exotic.” The clan leader isn’t just asking Misha to prostitute himself. She wants him to gain the man’s confidence and learn his secrets. The information may provide the catalyst that starts a revolution.
https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2023/review-release-marie-sexton/?ref=mastodon
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“Release” is a #dystopian #SciFi #MMRomance by Marie Sexton.
Misha grew up in the “trenches” of lower Davlova, where the poorest citizens scratch out a living without technology while the high-born “purebloods” live in electrified luxury behind the walls of the inner city on the hill. Misha gets taken in by one of the clans, criminal gangs that run all sorts of operations in the city. Over the years, Misha learned the fine art of pickpocketing. Sometimes he also turns tricks to see if a potential mark had a lot of money, and where he kept it.
One day, the clan leader offers Misha a new opportunity. One of the most powerful men in the city is looking for a new toy boy and wants someone “exotic.” The clan leader isn’t just asking Misha to prostitute himself. She wants him to gain the man’s confidence and learn his secrets. The information may provide the catalyst that starts a revolution.
https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2023/review-release-marie-sexton/?ref=mastodon
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“Release” is a #dystopian #SciFi #MMRomance by Marie Sexton.
Misha grew up in the “trenches” of lower Davlova, where the poorest citizens scratch out a living without technology while the high-born “purebloods” live in electrified luxury behind the walls of the inner city on the hill. Misha gets taken in by one of the clans, criminal gangs that run all sorts of operations in the city. Over the years, Misha learned the fine art of pickpocketing. Sometimes he also turns tricks to see if a potential mark had a lot of money, and where he kept it.
One day, the clan leader offers Misha a new opportunity. One of the most powerful men in the city is looking for a new toy boy and wants someone “exotic.” The clan leader isn’t just asking Misha to prostitute himself. She wants him to gain the man’s confidence and learn his secrets. The information may provide the catalyst that starts a revolution.
https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2023/review-release-marie-sexton/?ref=mastodon
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“Release” is a #dystopian #SciFi #MMRomance by Marie Sexton.
Misha grew up in the “trenches” of lower Davlova, where the poorest citizens scratch out a living without technology while the high-born “purebloods” live in electrified luxury behind the walls of the inner city on the hill. Misha gets taken in by one of the clans, criminal gangs that run all sorts of operations in the city. Over the years, Misha learned the fine art of pickpocketing. Sometimes he also turns tricks to see if a potential mark had a lot of money, and where he kept it.
One day, the clan leader offers Misha a new opportunity. One of the most powerful men in the city is looking for a new toy boy and wants someone “exotic.” The clan leader isn’t just asking Misha to prostitute himself. She wants him to gain the man’s confidence and learn his secrets. The information may provide the catalyst that starts a revolution.
https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2023/review-release-marie-sexton/?ref=mastodon
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🚨 Oh, joy! Another #dystopian #surveillance toy for the boys in blue 🚔. Because who doesn't love a camera that knows where your car is every second? Citizens, apparently, but who asked them? 🤷♂️
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/flock-cameras-can-track-every-car-in-america-police-love-them-citizens-dont.html #police #technology #privacy #concerns #citizen #rights #HackerNews #ngated -
“By last summer, he published an academic paper imagining multiple #dystopian scenarios. It was called ‘A Taxonomy of #Omnicidal #Futures Involving #ArtificialIntelligence’ - omnicidal, as in everyone dies.” #AI
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3ms4qao3wfc23 -
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 […] -
🚀 Sci-Fi readers! Hindsight Station: Ashes Reborn (Part 1) is FREE to read on Wattpad, with Part 2 arriving this winter.
Join James Fong and a team of scientists, technologists, and warriors as they fight to reclaim humanity's future in this dystopian sci-fi adventure.
📖 https://authormulhall.com/dystopian-sci-fi-hindsight-station-ashes-reborn/
#SciFi #ScienceFiction #Dystopian #SpaceOpera #IndieAuthor #Wattpad #Bookstodon
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🚀 Sci-Fi readers: Hindsight Station: Ashes Reborn is now FREE to read on Wattpad!
Follow James Fong and a team of scientists, technologists, and warriors as they fight to rebuild humanity after a dystopian collapse—and carry its future to the stars.
🔗 https://authormulhall.com/dystopian-sci-fi-hindsight-station-ashes-reborn/
#SciFi #ScienceFiction #Dystopian #SpaceOpera #PostApocalyptic #Wattpad #IndieAuthor #Books
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🚀 Sci-Fi readers!
Hindsight Station: Ashes Reborn Part 1 is now FREE to read on Wattpad.
Join James Fong and his team as they fight to reclaim humanity's future—from a dystopian Earth to the stars.
🔗 https://authormulhall.com/dystopian-sci-fi-hindsight-station-ashes-reborn/
What should come next: a sequel or a prequel?
#SciFi #ScienceFiction #Dystopian #SpaceOpera #IndieAuthor #Wattpad #WritingCommunity #Bookstodon
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#Video shows Navy’s demo squadron #BlueAngels jet flying so low over crowded #beach that chairs & tents went flying &, sand kicked up
Navy said it was conducting a #safety review
Thursday morning #Trump administration officials heaped praise on the #flyover
“The flyovers will continue until morale improves,” #Hegseth wrote
Pentagon’s top spokesman wrote “Carry on Patriots” alongside photo showing a Blue Angels jet just feet above #beachgoers
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Good morning. 🌸🌸🌸
11 July 2026
I use my phone mostly as a pocket‑sized computer rather than a telephone, though I do occasionally make or answer a call. If I want to look something up—anytime, anywhere—I reach for my back pocket, pull out my iPhone, and the world opens. It’s amazing, really, and I know I’m not the only one who does this. But if I set my phone down while moving around and suddenly think of something I want to research, which happens often, I find myself scrambling. Where did I leave it? That moment of panic is unsettling. It’s strange to feel so tethered to an object. In a way, it’s like carrying around a genie everywhere I go—one that can answer any question or fetch almost anything with a tap. Aladdin’s lamp has nothing on this little slab of metal and glass; I get far more than three wishes.
It makes me wonder how I managed daily life for so long without a cell phone. Maybe it’s similar to what my grandparents must have felt when they looked back and asked how people lived without running water or electricity. Was there really life before the automobile? I suspect most of us today wouldn’t last long in that world.
Imagine the chaos if all the cell towers suddenly went dark. It’s not impossible. Then what? Payphones have vanished, and most homes have abandoned landlines. And that’s just the communication piece. If electricity and fuel stopped flowing, survival itself would be at stake.
It’s almost comical that misplacing my iPhone can spark visions of a dystopian future—but here we are.
“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” — Christian Lous Lange
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan
“Big Brother is watching you.” - George Orwell, 1984
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #technology #cellphones #flowers #dystopian #genie
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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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Vaelyra Stryn by Uryan Audio 🎸
Resonant str/pluck synth💻 Mac/Win/Linux (VST3/AU)
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#freeplugin #plucksynth #resonantstrings #cinematic #dystopian #melodic #textural #uryanmodular
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What's this? Hard-hitting future dystopian flooding? Wildly magical aliens enslaved? OVER A HUNDRED FIVE-STAR REVIEWS ON AMAZON?
Get it free.
https://books.bookfunnel.com/scififantasynlsignups/4jxqapihpa
#freebook #dystopian #hopehorror #magic #aliens #writersofmastodon #giveaway #readersofmastodon
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#Palantir is turning the #NHS into a tool for mass #surveillance
NHS England Federated #Data Platform, run by controversial US #military contractor Palantir, gives future #UK government power to use patients’ #healthcare #data against them
- The same thing is being enabled by Palantir into the UK
https://www.opendemocracy.net/palantir-is-turning-the-nhs-into-a-tool-for-mass-surveillance/
#Orwellian #dystopian #BigData #authoritarian #BigBrother #Orwell
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The Longest Journey, released in 1999
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS
Point-and-click; Puzzle; Adventure
Action, Fantasy, Science fiction, Mystery
cyberpunk, time travel, immortality, detective, dark, magic, dystopian, 2.5d, gambling, futuristic, female protagonist, graphic adventure, steam, parallel worlds, bird, chosen one, dialogue trees, conspiracy, pizza, dreams, talking animals, digital distribution, single-player only, anthropomorphism, platform exclusive, world map, voice acting, bink video, pop culture reference, profanity, saving the world, potion, castaway, underwater gameplay, animal companions, movie reference, vending machine interaction, floating island, bread, non-linear storytelling, item combination, dimension travel, one-handed gameplay, fetch quests, recurring character, flashback, kidnapping, scripted events, propaganda, journalist, cutscene menu, escaping imprisonment, fast traveling, italian accent, dream sequence, bartender, cliffhanger, another world, pre-rendered backgrounds, reluctant hero, comic relief, infinite pockets, unresolved stories, lgbtq+, scummvm compatible
From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/the-longest-journey
#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #cyberpunk #timetravel #immortality #detective #dark #magic #dystopian #25d #gambling #futuristic #femaleprotagonist #graphicadventure #steam #parallelworlds #bird #chosenone #dialoguetrees #conspiracy #pizza #dreams #talkinganimals #digitaldistribution #singleplayeronly #anthropomorphism #platformexclusive #worldmap #voiceacting #binkvideo #popculturereference #profanity #savingtheworld #potion #castaway #underwatergameplay #animalcompanions #moviereference #vendingmachineinteraction #floatingisland #bread #nonlinearstorytelling #itemcombination #dimensiontravel #onehandedgameplay #fetchquests #recurringcharacter #flashback #kidnapping #scriptedevents #propaganda #journalist #cutscenemenu #escapingimprisonment #fasttraveling #italianaccent #dreamsequence #bartender #cliffhanger #anotherworld #prerenderedbackgrounds #reluctanthero #comicrelief #infinitepockets #unresolvedstories #lgbtqplus #scummvmcompatible #win #ios #action #fantasy #sciencefiction #mystery -
#London's #Met #Police interest in using Palantir AI technology
#cartoons #PoliceState #AI Palantir #technology #Orwellian #dystopian #oppression #DemocracyNOW #MetropolitanPolice
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... The post was called a 22-point #manifesto that has generated backlash
Post is about #book: ‘The #Technological #Republic’ by Palantir CEO Alex Karp head of corporate affairs Nicholas Zamiska.
#BoycottUSA #authoritarian #Orwellian #Dystopian #tyrants #privacy #evil #dictators #racism #fascism #fascists #USAggression #USThreats
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Two tremendous dystopian whodunnit films
Two recently released dystopian thrillers are outstanding movies and both are available via streaming services.
Mercy (2026)
Source: imdb.comReleased earlier this year, Mercy is a tremendously interesting and entertaining science fiction movie — despite what the critics may say. In fact, the reviews and ratings by viewers of the film are much, much higher than those of the critics.
Rebecca Ferguson and Chris Pratt are tremendous in their respective roles – Ms. Ferguson as the AI generated Judge Maddox of the Mercy Capital Court and Mr. Pratt as a police officer accused of murder. He has exactly 90 minutes to prove his innocence sufficiently to AI Judge Maddox (a threshold below 92 percent likelihood of guilt) or be summarily executed.
Mr. Pratt must prove his innocence while his arms and legs are locked into the execution chair by employing all sorts of evidence gathering techniques that access the court’s ties to the municipal cloud. All technological devices within the city (LA) must be registered to the municipal cloud so defendants can access them. This includes surveillance cameras, live action feeds, cell phones, databases, and other technologies available. He can do this by use of a small hand screen or through voice requests to the cloud and/or AI Judge Maddox.
You will definitely be on the edge of your set while watching Mercy!
Relay (2025)
Released to theaters in 2025, Relay is thoroughly entertaining movie and unique in its story/use of an older technology as the conduit to protect whistleblowers who are being tormented by those entities they called out or implicated.
Relay stars Lily James and Riz Ahmed, who both excel in this film. Lily James plays a whistleblower who is being harassed by powerful corporation that she has dirt on. Meanwhile, Mr. Ahmed play the fixer who uses old-fashion TTY (teletypewriter) relay service to communicate with his clients (the whistleblowers) and to those who are harassing them.
TTY machine – Source: ultratec.comThis movie fan does not recall seeing TTY employed in a movie before and certainly never in such a central role of the plot. Mr. Ahmed’s use of old-fashioned TTY technology makes his communications virtually untraceable. That premise alone makes Relay highly engaging, truly groundbreaking, and a definite must see!
Hope you enjoy both films too. Peace!
#Mercy #ai #art #ChrisPratt #cinema #cities #cloud #clud #dystopian #entertainment #film #fun #history #LilyJames #MercyCapitalCourt #movieReviews #movies #RebeccaFerguson #Relay #relayServices #RizAhmed #Science #scienceFiction #technology #thrillers #TTY -
#AndThen? And then #Mullvad was #censored in #UK
#UnitedKingdom is escalating its #censorship & mass #surveillance
When Mullvad tried to address this with #TV #ad “And Then?”, it was banned on British television
Outdoor ad campaign meant to criticise the TV ban was also largely halted
Here, you can watch the banned ads and explore the entire campaign
https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk
#authoritarian #Orwellian #dystopian #privacy #security #ToxicTories #ToxicLabour #KeirStalin #StarmerOut
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The #US is dragging #Europe back to the days of white #supremacism. Our leaders are playing along
if we want to protect multiparty liberal #democracy and push back against the #FarRight, we should be far more wary not only of #toxic speeches from across the Atlantic but of #Trump’s close ties to Europe’s #xenophobic parties and the many ways in which the US’s #Maga politicians are legitimising far-right ideologies...
#fascism #Trump #authoritarianism #dictators #dystopian #oppression
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I saw this on Mastodon and almost had a stroke.
@davidgerard wrote:
“Most of the AI coding claims are conveniently nondisprovable. What studies there are show it not helping coding at all, or making it worse
But SO MANY LOUD ANECDOTES! Trust me my friend, I am the most efficient coder in the land now. No, you can’t see it. No, I didn’t measure. But if you don’t believe me, you are clearly a fool.
These guys had one good experience with the bot, they got one-shotted, and now if you say “perhaps the bot is not all that” they act like you’re trying to take their cocaine away.”
First, the term is falsifiable, and proving propositions about algorithms (i.e., code) is part of what I do for a living. Mathematically human-written code and AI-written code can be tested, which means you can falsify propositions about them. You would test them the same way.
There is no intrinsic mathematical distinction between code written by a person and code produced by an AI system. In both cases, the result is a formal program made of logic and structure. In principle, the same testing techniques can be applied to each. If it were really nondisprovable, you could not test to see what is generated by a human and what is generated by AI. But you can test it. Studies have found that AI-generated code tends to exhibit a higher frequency of certain types of defects. So, reviewers and testers know what logic flaws and security weaknesses to look for. This would not be the case if it were nondisprovable.
You can study this from datasets where the source of the code is known. You can use open-source pull requests identified as AI-assisted versus those written without such tools. You then evaluate both groups using the same industry-standard analysis tools: static analyzers, complexity metrics, security scanners, and defect classification systems. These tools flag bugs, vulnerabilities, performance issues, and maintainability concerns. They do so in a consistent way across samples.
A widely cited analysis of 470 real pull requests reported that AI-generated contributions contained roughly 1.7 times as many issues on average as human-written ones. The difference included a higher number of critical and major defects. It also included more logic and security-related problems. Because these findings rely on standard measurement tools — counting defects, grading severity, and comparing issue rates — the results are grounded in observable data. Again, I am making a point here. It’s testable and therefore disproveable.
This is a good paper that goes into it:
In this paper, we present a large-scale comparison of code authored by human developers and three state-of-the-art LLMs, i.e., ChatGPT, DeepSeek-Coder, and Qwen-Coder, on multiple dimensions of software quality: code defects, security vulnerabilities, and structural complexity. Our evaluation spans over 500k code samples in two widely used languages, Python and Java, classifying defects via Orthogonal Defect Classification and security vulnerabilities using the Common Weakness Enumeration. We find that AI-generated code is generally simpler and more repetitive, yet more prone to unused constructs and hardcoded debugging, while human-written code exhibits greater structural complexity and a higher concentration of maintainability issues. Notably, AI-generated code also contains more high-risk security vulnerabilities. These findings highlight the distinct defect profiles of AI- and human-authored code and underscore the need for specialized quality assurance practices in AI-assisted programming.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21634
Something I’ve started to notice about a lot of the content on social media platforms is that most of the posts people are liking, sharing, and memetically mutating—and then spreading virally—usually don’t include any citations, sources, or receipts. It’s often just some out-of-context screenshot with no reference link or actual sources.
A lot of the anti-AI content is not genuine critique. It’s often misinformation, but people who hate AI don’t question it or ask for sources because it aligns with their biases. The propaganda on social media has gotten so bad that anything other than heavily curated and vetted feeds is pretty much useless, and it’s filled with all sorts of memetic contagions with nasty hooks that are optimized for you algorithmically. I am at the point where I will disregard anything that is not followed up with a source. Period. It is all optimized to persuade, coerce, or piss you off. I am only writing about this because this I’m actually able to contribute genuine information about the topic.
That they said symbolic propositions written by AI agents (i.e., code) are non-disprovable because they were written by AI boggles my mind. It’s like saying that an article written in English by AI is not English because AI generated it. It might be a bad piece of text, but it’s syntactically, semantically, and grammatically English.
Basically, any string of data can be represented in a base-2 system, where it can be interpreted as bits (0s and 1s). Those bits can be used as the basis for symbolic reasoning. In formal propositional logic, a proposition is a sequence of symbols constructed according to strict syntax rules (atomic variables plus logical connectives). Under a given semantics, it is assigned exactly one truth value (true or false) in a two-valued logic system.
They are essentially saying that code written by AI is not binary, isn’t symbolically logical at all, and cannot be evaluated as true or false by implying it is nondisproveable. At the lowest level, compiled code consists of binary machine instructions that a processor executes. At higher levels, source code is written in symbolic syntax that humans and tools use to express logic and structure. You can also translate parts of code into formal logic expressions. For example, conditions and assertions in a program can be modeled as Boolean formulas. Tools like SAT/SMT solvers or symbolic execution engines check those formulas for satisfiability or correctness. It blows my mind how confidently people talk about things they do not understand.
Furthermore that they don’t realize the projection is wild to me.
@davidgerard wrote:
“But SO MANY LOUD ANECDOTES! Trust me my friend, I am the most efficient coder in the land now. No, you can’t see it. No, I didn’t measure. But if you don’t believe me, you are clearly a fool.”
They are presenting a story—i.e., saying that the studies are not disprovable—and accusing computer scientists of using anecdotal evidence without actually providing evidence to support this, while expecting people to take it prima facie. You’re doing what you are accusing others of doing.
It comes down to this: they feel that people ought not to use AI, so they are tacitly committed to a future in which people do not use AI. For example, a major argument against AI is the damage it is doing to resources, which is driving up the prices of computer components, as well as the ecological harm it causes. They feel justified in lying and misinforming others if it achieves the outcome they want—people not using AI because it is bad for the environment. That is a very strong point, but most people don’t care about that, which is why they lie about things people would care about.It’s corrupt. And what’s really scary is that people don’t recognize when they are part of corruption or a corrupt conspiracy to misinform. Well, they recognize it when they see the other side doing it, that is. No one is more dangerous than people who feel righteous in what they are doing.
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BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity
I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you in the social graph, accounts you follow, interact with, or share mutual connections with, are prioritized and shown more prominently. Replies from accounts that are farther away in that network are down-ranked. They are pushed far down the thread or placed behind “hidden replies.”
Each person gets their own unique view of a thread based on their social graph. It creates the impression that replies from distant users simply don’t exist. This is true even though they’re still technically public and viewable if you expand the thread or adjust filters. Bluesky is explicitly using features of subgraphs to moderate without moderating. Their reasoning is that if you can’t see each other, you can’t harass each other. Ergo, there is nothing to moderate.
Bluesky mentions that here:
https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-31-2025-building-healthier-social-media-update
As a digression, I’m not going to lie: I really enjoyed working on software built on the AT protocol, but their fucking users are so goddamn weird. It’s sort of like enjoying building houses, but hating every single person who moves into them. But, you don’t have to deal with them because you’re just the contractor. That is how I feel about Bluesky. I hate the people. I really like the protocol and infrastructure.
I sort of am a sadist who does enjoy drama, so I do get schadenfreude from people with social media addictions and parasocial fixations who reply to random people on Bluesky, because they don’t realize their replies are disconnected from the author’s thread unless that person is within their network. They aren’t part of the conversation they think they are. They’re algorithmically isolated from everyone else. Their replies aren’t viewable from the author’s thread because of how Bluesky handles social neighborhoods.
Bluesky’s idea of social neighborhoods is about grouping users into overlapping clusters based on real interaction patterns rather than just the follow graph. Unlike Twitter, it does not treat the network as one big public square. Instead, it models networks of “social neighborhoods” made up of people you follow, people who follow you, people you frequently interact with, and people who are closely connected to those groups. They’re soft, probabilistic groupings rather than strict labels.
Everyone does not see the same replies. Bluesky is being a bit vague with “hidden.” Hidden means your reply is still anchored to the thread and can be expanded. There is another way Bluesky can handle this. Bluesky uses social neighborhoods to judge contextual relevance. Replies from people inside or near your social neighborhood are more likely to be shown inline with a thread, expanded by default, or served in feeds. Replies from outside your neighborhood are still public and still indexed, but they’re treated as lower-context contributions.
Basically, if you reply to a thread, you will see it anchored to the conversation, and everyone will see it in search results, as a hashtag, or from your profile, but it will not be accessible via the thread of the person you were replying to. It is like shadow-banning people from threads unless they are strongly networked.
Because people have not been working with the AT Protocol like I have, they assume they are shadow-banned across the entire Bluesky app view. No—everyone is automatically shadow-banned from everyone else unless they are within the same social neighborhood. In other words, you are not part of the conversation you think you are joining because you are not part of their social group.
Your replies will appear in profiles, hashtag feeds, or search results without being visually anchored to the full thread. Discovery impressions are neighborhood-agnostic: they serve content because it matches a query, tag, or activity stream. Once the reply is shown, the app then decides whether it’s worth pulling in the rest of the conversation for you. If the original author and most participants fall outside your neighborhood, Bluesky often chooses not to expand that context automatically.
Bluesky really is trying to avoid having to moderate, so this is their solution. Instead of banning or issuing takedown labels to DIDs, the system lets replies exist everywhere, but not in that particular instance of the thread.
I find this ironic because a large reason why many people are staying on Bluesky and not moving to the fediverse—thank God, because I do not want them there—is discoverability, virality, and engagement.
In case anyone is asking how I know so much about how these algorithms work: I was a consultant on a lot of these types of algorithms, so I certainly hope I’d know how they work, lol. No, you get no more details about the work I’ve done. I have no hand in the algorithm Bluesky is using, but I have proposed and implemented that type of algorithm before.
I have an interest in noetics and the noosphere. A large amount of my ontological work is an extension of my attempts to model domains that have no spatial or temporal coordinates. The question is how do you generalize a metric space that has no physically, spatial properties. I went to school to try to formalize those ideas. Turns out they’re rather useful for digital social networks, too. The ontological analog to spatial distance, when you have no space, is a graph of similarities.
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NEW EPISODE: Time to talk about the 2025 remake of The Running Man. Better than the original, or all around a mistake? Come see! #TheRunningMan #SciFi #SFF #Dystopian https://youtu.be/DY6Kf-rfy7Y
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The re-made "RUNNING MAN" should have been called "The Hiding Out Man" and is boring beyond all belief. Watch Arnold's version instead. #runningman #therunningman #arnold #actionandadventure #action #adventure #survival #running #futuristic #dystopian #dystopianfuture #meta
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The Fools Have Been Fascinated
6000 x 3375
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The Fools Have Been Fascinated
6000 x 3375
#InspirationWallpapers #WordWallpapers #QuotesWallpapers #SocialCommentary #ThoughtProvoking #NeonArt #Dystopian #MuzzledIntelligent #FoolsFascinated #FreedomOfSpeech #CriticalThinking #DigitalArt #NeonSign #DarkAesthetic #Reflections #NightScene #DeepThoughts #ModernSociety #QuoteArt #MessageArt #ProfoundQuote #ConceptualArt #WaterReflection
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Comic Crusaders Podcast #614 - Vaho Talks XERO
Actor, producer, and now comic book writer Vaho joins Al Mega on the Comic Crusaders Podcast to talk all about his upcoming Mad Cave Studios release, XERO!A haunting, genre-bending graphic novel, XERO takes...
https://comiccrusaders.com/podcast/comic-crusaders-podcast-614-vaho-talks-xero/
#Al Mega #comic book interview #comic crusaders podcast #dystopian comics #Felipe Flores #Indie Comics #Mad Cave Studios #October 2025 comic releases #Vaho #xero -
I'm in I.T. at Big Law. It looks like my firm could be targeted next (he said, posting an article about which law firms could be targeted next).
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With A Soundtrack Like This, Could There Be A Better Racing Game Out There? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNhpGweu66k #hd #hq #ps2 #gem #ship #speed #pcsx2 #games #quake #fusion #redout #racing #gaming #series #racers #feisar #future #rocket #shield #wipeout #leagues #console #redline #gravity #british #speeder #weapons #longplay #upscaled #exciting #reflexes #strategy #upgrades #fullgame #letsplay #nostalgic #nostalgia #dystopian #liverpool #podracing #soundtrack #mariokart #futuristic
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Wipeout Fusion Is The Best Racing Game I Ever Played. What's Yours? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhCr-2QO94s #hd #hq #ps2 #gem #ship #speed #pcsx2 #games #quake #fusion #redout #racing #gaming #series #racers #feisar #future #rocket #shield #wipeout #leagues #console #redline #gravity #british #speeder #weapons #longplay #upscaled #exciting #reflexes #strategy #upgrades #fullgame #letsplay #nostalgic #nostalgia #dystopian #liverpool #podracing #soundtrack #mariokart #futuristic #challenges
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> On any online space, you should consider who you give power to. Who has the control over who you choose to associate with?
I concur 100% with this assertion.
> All that the instances who sign the fedipact are doing is signalling to some of us that somewhere is safe for folk who don't want to engage with Facebook at all.
I don't think that's all, and actually, What those instances may (inadvertently) be signalling is that they will take it upon themselves to remove the Freedom of Association from the user themselves, without prior expectation or consultation.
I don't know where "Freedom of Speech" entered the conversation, but the notion of "Freedom of Association" has indeed been taken from those who have chosen to excercise those privileges belonging to the users themselves. Waking up and realizing that you can no longer communicate and share recipes with grandma, without evern having been consulted, is an affront to the Freedom of Association - it's inclusive of an even larger issue surrounding the reasons that *smolweb and single-user and self-hosted platforms are protective of such principles Freedom of Association.
Further, it serves to create an environment (especially when so many platforms now support migration ingress) where one's Fediverse accounts are considered ever more transient, as the realization that having an account on a silo based Fediverse instance is the antipathy of #Fediverse and #DeSoc philosophies.
It also erodes the trust between the average user and administrators that you thought you could entrust with respecting your freedom of association with.
> This is a Freedom of Association issue, ...
it is indeed, and a betrayal of trust for anyone who realizes that it is the overreach by someone else to decide that you should not have the Freedom of Association that likely brought most folks to the Fediverse in the first place.
I did a little non-scientific, anecdotal survey by contacting people I know on many of the instances that arbitrarily decided to remove those freedoms from their users overnight, and discovered that many have already migrated to other instances, or are contemplating it - the interesting thing? Many of my acquaintances had already decided to, or even configured their accounts to block #Threads; but to have someone else tell them what they're allowed, or not allowed to do, is a violation of someone's freedom to choose for themselves by despot personalities who dismiss the relevance of a right to choose for oneself.
It's a simple matter, to block instances, at the domain level, from one's own user account, and on most Fediverse platforms, there's actually an announcement utility (usually only used to beg for donations) whereby administrative staff can inform their user base of their own ability to control how they themselves choose to exercise their own preferences with respect to #Freedom_of_Association.
Ironically, when perusing the stats, it's the very largest (deprecated, monolithic silo oriented) Fediverse instances (in terms of the # of user accounts and MAU) that have chosen NOT to trample upon the individual user's Freedom to Associate with whom they themselves decide.
NOTE to Fediverse instance admins: Please take under consideration the trust that has been placed in you with respect to the freedoms all individuals are entitled to determine for themselves - reach out to your user base, deploy surveys, collect votes, whatever, but please don't just decide for someone else what you decide is good for people who are NOT YOU.Subjugation and assimilation into the Borg Collective goes both ways folks.
#AYBABTU (All Your Base Are Belong To Us)
#tallship #despotism #dystopian #authoritarianism
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December 17, 2023 - Day 351 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 371Game: Mind Scanners
Platform: Steam
Release Date: May 20, 2021
Installation Date: Aug 31, 2022
Unplayed: 473d (1y3m17d)
Playtime: 1h15mMInd Scanners is a 2D pixel-art game about psychotherapy in a dystopian society.
The game is set in a society where everything within the walled city in which you live is tightly controlled, while outside the walls, people are gathering.
This society is seemingly run by some kind of AI system, and that system has locked up your daughter for being mentally ill.
You take a job as one of the titular "mind scanners", with a goal of infiltrating "The Structure" to get to your daughter.
You're sent out each day with your little machine, which runs a "mindscan" on each target, allowing you to declare them "sane" or "insane".
If "insane", you play a series of minigames with each minigame targeting a particular type of "insanity" to proceed through a process of "curing" them.
I kept playing as long as I did in the hope of "rescuing my daughter", but the game ultimately became repetitive and boring, feeling like I was just treading water waiting for the next story beat.
This is another game whether the game didn't rise above the pixel art, and the subtext of the game just made me feel icky.
In spite of spending over an hour playing Mind Scanners, I wish I could get that hour back; it's a:
1: Nope
#MindScanners #PixelArt #2D #Dystopian #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay
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It's time for #PrideMonth and great #reads! Check out these #scifi, #fantasy, #urbanfantasy, #spaceopera, #dystopian, and #superhero #books!
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