#dystopian — Public Fediverse posts

Recorvia Episode 15

https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/

Recorvia Episode 15

https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/

Recorvia Episode 15

https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/

Recorvia Episode 15

https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/

Recorvia Episode 15

https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/

“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

Post-Apocalyptic comics to read when you want to feel stressed. From zombies to wastelands, explore the end of the world at startercomicbooks.com. #PostApocalyptic #ZombieComics #Wasteland #StarterComicBooks #Dystopian #WalkingDead #EndOfTheWorld Whose artwork can make you buy a comic before you even read the solicitation? https://startercomicbooks.com/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Facial Recognition is spiralling out of control in the UK and there are no clear laws in place to protect our privacy

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/facial-recognition-is-spiralling-out-of-control-in-the-uk-and-there-are-no-clear-laws-in-place-to-protect-our-privacy/

Facial Recognition is spiralling out of control in the UK and there are no clear laws in place to protect our privacy

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/facial-recognition-is-spiralling-out-of-control-in-the-uk-and-there-are-no-clear-laws-in-place-to-protect-our-privacy/

Facial Recognition is spiralling out of control in the UK and there are no clear laws in place to protect our privacy

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/facial-recognition-is-spiralling-out-of-control-in-the-uk-and-there-are-no-clear-laws-in-place-to-protect-our-privacy/

Facial Recognition is spiralling out of control in the UK and there are no clear laws in place to protect our privacy

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/facial-recognition-is-spiralling-out-of-control-in-the-uk-and-there-are-no-clear-laws-in-place-to-protect-our-privacy/

Facial Recognition is spiralling out of control in the UK and there are no clear laws in place to protect our privacy

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/facial-recognition-is-spiralling-out-of-control-in-the-uk-and-there-are-no-clear-laws-in-place-to-protect-our-privacy/

... thelonggoodbye ... by *ines_maria

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#blackandwhite #bnw #monochrome #architecture #tunnel #vanishingpoint #leadinglines #minimalism #symmetry #scifi #dystopian #cinematic #highcontrast #grainy #solitude #urban #noir #geometry #industrial #abstract #sony #sonycamera #sonye #sonyilce7rm4a #voigtlaender #voigtlander #hyperwideheliar #flickr #thingsdavidlikes

Mini data centers outside your home. Yeah… no thanks! https://youtu.be/ZoYeJwN7Rkw?si=xlBMS054F-uIQxHl

Two tremendous dystopian whodunnit films

Two recently released dystopian thrillers are outstanding movies and both are available via streaming services.

Mercy (2026)

Released 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.

This 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!

Poll: What’s next?

#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

#Ministry - #FaithCollapsing (1989)

"you are the dead. remain exactly where you are. make no move until you are ordered."

"Ministry samples the film 1984, which tells the story of a dystopian society with a totalitarian regime that oppresses its citizens. This is an extract from the scene in which protagonist Winston Smith and his lover Julia, who have been hiding their illegal affair from the secret police, are raided by the regime. 'You are the dead' echoes Winston’s previous statement that 'we are the dead', as in their #totalitarian society, their choice to rebel is a self-imposed death sentence."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68DJCaqEpDc

#FridayNightMusic #IndustrialMusic #NineteenEightyFour
#80sMusic #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #Fascism
#Disappeared #Authoritarianism #SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Palantir #USPol #WorldPol #Dystopian

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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#PalestineAction saga shows #dystopian #doublethink now Labour policy

It’s cliché to bring up #Orwell’s #1984 in reference to govts

In latest twist of #Labour’s #proscription of #Palestine Action as a terror group, there is 1 concept it introduced that is more than fiction: doublethink is now UK Govt policy

High Court ruled Home Secretary made “significant” error in proscribing Palestine Action; , The move is “disproportionate” & unlawful

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25854074.palestine-action-saga-shows-dystopian-doublethink-now-labour-policy/

#ToxicLabour #Starmer

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.

Stop #FacialRecognition

This could be the last meaningful chance to push back on 24/7 #facial recognition in #UK

Putting cameras on our high streets, we’re all treated like #suspects in #digital #police #line-up, with our photos taken repeated for identity checks 24/7

We’ve created a speedy tool to help you respond – it takes just minutes but could help protect privacy for a generation.

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stop-facial-recognition/

#PoliceState #authoritarian #Orwellian #dystopian #ToxicLabour #KeirStalin

NEW EPISODE: Jim reviews the "classic" dystopian post-apocalyptic novel from 1987, Swan Song. Have you read it? Should you? Come see what Jim had to say. This may not be a popular opinion, but sometimes you need to take the stand. #SFF #SwanSong #dystopian https://youtu.be/A5q-5VKy61Q

🚀 New Sci-Fi Release: Hindsight Station – Ashes Reborn

The dystopian space saga begins!

Join James Fong as he fights through disaster and reaches for the stars.

💥 13 chapters now live

📖 Two new advance chapters weekly on Patreon
👉 https://www.patreon.com/collection/1822524/

Older chapters soon on Wattpad + Chapter One on my author site (Author Mulhall).

#SciFi #Dystopian #WebSerial #PatreonAuthors #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #FuturisticFiction #HindsightStation #ScienceFiction #AmWriting

What happens when morality survives only as performance? In Simulacra, Chapter 26 of Propensity, three teenagers discover that right and wrong are just old lines the species keeps rehearsing.

👉https://ridleypark.blog/2025/11/01/simulacra-when-the-camera-becomes-the-conscience/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propensity

#Simulacra #RidleyPark #Propensity #Baudrillard #SpeculativeFiction #Philosophy #Dystopian #Fiction #CinematicWriting #Ethics #Podcast #blog #Reading #Writing #Fiction #HumanCondition #books

Magical Realism. Shamanism. Post-apocalyptic survival. Coming of age. Found Family.

All of that and more in a short adventure in future Oregon after the great Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquakes have ravaged the west.

Meet Rodney, a seven year old boy who can see the spirits of the dead. Meet Justin, a mostly-absent father who still wishes the best for his son. Meet AJ, the bridge between them and commander of the militia forces sent to liberate the community of Sutherlin from their evil overlords.

https://mybook.to/1stKnightShmnKindle

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In the world of today... I hope they never get to know our names.
I hope they stay tangled in their show, forget about us enough to have room in the gaps to breathe, grow and then overthrow.

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#photography #modeling #dystopian #altmodel #easterneurope #darkart #darkartist #photographer #urban #photo #anarchy

This is going to be a very, very horrible and lethal timeline/reality to just be a mundane human without any occult or esoteric knowledge or psychic and magical abilities in. Considering the rate of survival for “normal” people, I do not envy them. My husband and I are very sensitive to magical and psychic energy. For my husband, it boosts his divinatory and precognitive abilities. He will suddenly start having visions and will develop an interest in refining his astrological skills. For me, it makes me very hungry as a vampire and dark. If you are a regular human, you are pretty much screwed. If there is a nuclear war, and you are a regular human, you will probably die.

I think that’s how magical skills and psychic abilities will probably spread. I think it will spread through natural selection following a nuclear war. That’s why I think magical organizations trying to make the world more magical through their magical operations being horrified that we are teetering on the collapse of civilization shows how asinine and short-sighted their goals were. Evolution works through survivorship.

It’s conventionally asserted and believed that magic shifts probabilities. Shifting probabilities, even on small scales, changes the stochastic aspects of radiation. The number and energy of radiation particles detected at a given location and time fluctuate randomly due to various environmental factors. In addition to that, when radiation interacts with matter, such as in scattering or absorption processes, the outcomes are probabilistic. That means that a magician who has a latent ability to shift probabilities and the implicit desire to live will shift probabilities so that high-energy radioactive particles are unlikely to hit and shred their genetic and cellular physiology. A really neat way to visualize this is to create a DIY cloud chamber and record it and have it in the vicinity whenever you do any magical operation. If your magic has a bit of power, it will interfere with the background radiation via changing the ionization energy of what you see in the cloud chamber. You will be able to see it.

Want to prove Einstein’s Special Relativity? Build this.

I try to keep the woo down and avoid using buzzwords as buzzwords. A field is a structured set. In mathematics, a set is a collection of distinct objects, considered as an entity. A field is a structured set. A structured set refers to a set equipped with additional elements or operations that give it a specific organization or arrangement. So, we can say that a psychic field is an organized collection of entities that possess subjective characteristics, i.e., qualia. The properties in the topology of that field would have values.

If we say that each property or cell of that field is at equilibrium, then a wave is when one cell is not at equilibrium and propagates a change. It spreads a change to the other adjacent cells that push them out of equilibrium. If you have a grid and all the values are 0, a wave would be a change in values from the first row and first column from left to right. It would wrap around each row and changes the values from 0 to a different value, too. That is a wave. The ability for one psychic entity to propagate a wave of change to another is the potential energy, i.e., dunamis, and the actual changing of those other things is energia. There are analogs to potential and kinetic energy on a psychic level.

While it may seem like I am some flavor of animist, I am on the fence about that. I frequently say that will is analogous to mass in that mass is a property that resists acceleration. Will is a phenomenological property that when you try to get someone to do something, their will intervenes and resists you. Consent is a property where a person’s will does not act to stop you. When someone explicitly violates a person’s consent, they are acting against the will of that person. Psychic phenomena imply a more fundamental, higher-dimensional phenomenological domain. From that perspective, a table has a psychic aspect to it where it can experience and observe itself. But, when I act on that table, the table cannot resist me. It has no will. Conscious entities have a will. An entity that is a body of experiences is not necessarily conscious and doesn’t necessarily have a will. It’s still energy to be ordered, where it begins to have a will when it interacts with my will. It would be analogous to massless energy — light. So, manipulating psychic energy that comes from the existence of tables and rocks would be like manipulating light. It has psychic energy that emerges from a subjective characteristic of experience where the rock reflexively perceives itself, yet it has no will. Mythologies, stories, and fictions are ways that we can organize this energy, where the seed of its emergence as a conscious entity comes from collective will.

Earth has an atmosphere of gas around our planet. Psychic fields are coherent and cohesive in the same way gas or liquid is. Similar to how there is a flow to liquids and air currents, there is a flow to our consciousness. In the same way this gas can heat up in such a way that it drives air currents and streams and creates storms and all sorts of other meteorological phenomena, energy added to the psychic atmosphere of our planet can do similar things. Because my husband and I are highly sensitive to this, we experience an increase in our abilities and an alignment of our personality traits in certain ways. There’s a huge psychic storm building up. I wonder if it is cyclical. Something similar happened a few years ago, so I wonder if the cyclical spiral society finds itself in beneath the heavens is being mirrored above in the heavens.

#anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #Astral #astrological #astrology #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #divination #dystopia #dystopian #egregore #egregores #energyWork #godforms #Metaphysics #nuclearWar #occult #occultism #pagan #paganism #paranormal #psychic #Psychokinesis #servitor #servitors #vampire #vampires #witch #witchcraft #WorldWar #WorldWar3 #WorldWarIII #WW3 #WWIII

Introduction

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-3265-8e67-d2a5-bf1331151414

Here, we see each other…

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-7965-8d12-0f5f-b40744602445

Freedom

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-4065-8c0f-ad1c-510527405921

In the Spree

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1765-8bf1-dc10-f83879307038

For God's sake

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1965-8bf0-4861-b96372696658

Gypsies, finks and outcasts

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-6665-8bef-034d-dc9790973172

Gypsies, finks and outcasts

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1565-8bbf-094a-7d1952644844

Introduction

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1165-8bbc-02f1-66f838603792

Introduction

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1465-8bae-5cbf-8d9258507344

Introduction

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-7265-8bac-cd9c-664160105608

Defend right to protest

The Tory government is threatening a crackdown on any #protest

#Tory Home secretary has called the demonstrations “hate marches”

Govt also claim merely flying a #Palestine flag may be a crime

Plans for new definition of extremism target all protests – which will criminalise dissent

Stop the attack on right to protest in #Britain

Petition
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@Aaidanbird Hi! I love your cat’s name. And I’m still masking up, too. I also believe that #CovidIsNotOver & in the importance of #AccessibilityForAll. Glad to meet another #ScienceFictionWriter! I’m wrapping up a #ya #dystopian #romantic #fantasy series now!

@Aaidanbird Hi! I love your cat’s name. And I’m still masking up, too. I also believe that #CovidIsNotOver & in the importance of #AccessibilityForAll. Glad to meet another #ScienceFictionWriter! I’m wrapping up a #ya #dystopian #romantic #fantasy series now!