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Government and corporations continue building the #TormentNexus by equipping the race police with classic #StarFrontiers weapons.
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Government and corporations continue building the #TormentNexus by equipping the race police with classic #StarFrontiers weapons.
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« Why Do Tech Bros Always Learn The Wrong Thing From Sci-Fi? » by De-Monetise
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RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117044615886264428
There's a Judge Dredd -comic from the 1980s where an artist tries to get a job by showing his art to a comics publisher, who immediately runs the portfolio through a computer, creating a "robot artist" that becomes a fan favourite.
The human artist is left starving, unemployable. In the twist of the story he succeeds in "killing" the robot, and Dredd sends him to prison.
Just a recollection of one episode of "don't create the torment nexus".
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RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117044615886264428
There's a Judge Dredd -comic from the 1980s where an artist tries to get a job by showing his art to a comics publisher, who immediately runs the portfolio through a computer, creating a "robot artist" that becomes a fan favourite.
The human artist is left starving, unemployable. In the twist of the story he succeeds in "killing" the robot, and Dredd sends him to prison.
Just a recollection of one episode of "don't create the torment nexus".
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Wenn sie auf dem „Torment Nexus“ bestehen oder: Dein Auto sollte dich nicht ins Gefängnis fahren
Vor ein paar Wochen hat ein selbstfahrendes Taxi der Marke Waymo in San Mateo, Kalifornien, zwei Kinder in die Hände der Polizei gebracht. Die Maschine stellte fest, dass ihre beiden 15-jährigen Fahrgäste Alkohol tranken und mit Spielzeugwaffen herumschossen, also alarmierte sie die Polizei, fuhr von selbst auf einen Parkplatz und schaltete sich aus. Die Kinder wurden daraufhin von den bewaffneten Männern (und möglicherweise Frauen) festgenommen, die gnädigerweise beschlossen, die Teenager nicht hinter Gitter zu stecken, sondern sie ihren Eltern zurückzugeben. Diesmal.
Fast jeder Artikel, den ich zu diesem Thema gelesen habe, will unbedingt betonen, dass die Kinder nicht im Auto eingesperrt waren, dass sie frei waren, zu gehen. Dass es den beiden Fünfzehnjährigen freistand, von einem beliebigen Parkplatz aus zu gehen, Gott weiß, wie weit von zu Hause entfernt. Als ob das alles in Ordnung machen würde.
Und ich habe viele Artikel über den Vorfall gelesen, weil mich mindestens ein Dutzend Leute in den Beiträgen getaggt oder mir Nachrichten dazu geschickt haben. Denn 2015 veröffentlichte Vice eine Kurzgeschichte von mir namens One Star, in der es um einen nicht-binären Graffitikünstler geht, der in einem selbstfahrenden Taxi gefangen ist, das beschließt, ihn ins Gefängnis zu fahren. Es ist eine kurze Lektüre, kaum länger als mein durchschnittlicher Newsletter.
Ich kam mir damals, als ich sie schrieb, richtig clever vor. Die Idee dazu kam mir, als ich mit ein paar Freunden in dem Van, in dem ich früher gewohnt hatte und den ich „Leviathan“ getauft hatte, quer durch das Land reiste. Weil er gigantisch war und die Zivilisation verkörperte.
Selbstfahrende Autos befanden sich zu diesem Zeitpunkt gerade mal in der Proof-of-Concept-Phase, aber ich erklärte, dass ich es toll fände, wenn „Leviathan“ von selbst fahren könnte – wenn ich einfach hinten in meinem eigenen Bett schlafen könnte, während mein Van mich dorthin bringt, wo ich hinwollte.
„Wenn sie selbstfahrende Autos erfinden, werden sie die Leute einfach ins Gefängnis fahren. Das weißt du doch, oder?“, sagte mein Freund zu mir.
Ich hatte keine Antwort für ihn, denn er hatte recht. Es gab nie eine Chance, dass eine Strafgesellschaft wie die USA selbstfahrende Autos als etwas anderes entwickeln würde als eine Erweiterung der sozialen Kontrolle und der Strafjustiz.
(...) Weiterlesen in meiner Übersetzung des Essays „When They Insist Upon the Torment Nexus or: your car should not drive you to jail“ von Margaret Killjoy /@margaret vom 29. Juli 2026
#KünstlicheIntelligens #ArtificialIntelligence #CapitalismIsADeathCult #Anarchismus #TormentNexus
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Wenn sie auf dem „Torment Nexus“ bestehen oder: Dein Auto sollte dich nicht ins Gefängnis fahren
Vor ein paar Wochen hat ein selbstfahrendes Taxi der Marke Waymo in San Mateo, Kalifornien, zwei Kinder in die Hände der Polizei gebracht. Die Maschine stellte fest, dass ihre beiden 15-jährigen Fahrgäste Alkohol tranken und mit Spielzeugwaffen herumschossen, also alarmierte sie die Polizei, fuhr von selbst auf einen Parkplatz und schaltete sich aus. Die Kinder wurden daraufhin von den bewaffneten Männern (und möglicherweise Frauen) festgenommen, die gnädigerweise beschlossen, die Teenager nicht hinter Gitter zu stecken, sondern sie ihren Eltern zurückzugeben. Diesmal.
Fast jeder Artikel, den ich zu diesem Thema gelesen habe, will unbedingt betonen, dass die Kinder nicht im Auto eingesperrt waren, dass sie frei waren, zu gehen. Dass es den beiden Fünfzehnjährigen freistand, von einem beliebigen Parkplatz aus zu gehen, Gott weiß, wie weit von zu Hause entfernt. Als ob das alles in Ordnung machen würde.
Und ich habe viele Artikel über den Vorfall gelesen, weil mich mindestens ein Dutzend Leute in den Beiträgen getaggt oder mir Nachrichten dazu geschickt haben. Denn 2015 veröffentlichte Vice eine Kurzgeschichte von mir namens One Star, in der es um einen nicht-binären Graffitikünstler geht, der in einem selbstfahrenden Taxi gefangen ist, das beschließt, ihn ins Gefängnis zu fahren. Es ist eine kurze Lektüre, kaum länger als mein durchschnittlicher Newsletter.
Ich kam mir damals, als ich sie schrieb, richtig clever vor. Die Idee dazu kam mir, als ich mit ein paar Freunden in dem Van, in dem ich früher gewohnt hatte und den ich „Leviathan“ getauft hatte, quer durch das Land reiste. Weil er gigantisch war und die Zivilisation verkörperte.
Selbstfahrende Autos befanden sich zu diesem Zeitpunkt gerade mal in der Proof-of-Concept-Phase, aber ich erklärte, dass ich es toll fände, wenn „Leviathan“ von selbst fahren könnte – wenn ich einfach hinten in meinem eigenen Bett schlafen könnte, während mein Van mich dorthin bringt, wo ich hinwollte.
„Wenn sie selbstfahrende Autos erfinden, werden sie die Leute einfach ins Gefängnis fahren. Das weißt du doch, oder?“, sagte mein Freund zu mir.
Ich hatte keine Antwort für ihn, denn er hatte recht. Es gab nie eine Chance, dass eine Strafgesellschaft wie die USA selbstfahrende Autos als etwas anderes entwickeln würde als eine Erweiterung der sozialen Kontrolle und der Strafjustiz.
(...) Weiterlesen in meiner Übersetzung des Essays „When They Insist Upon the Torment Nexus or: your car should not drive you to jail“ von Margaret Killjoy /@margaret vom 29. Juli 2026
#KünstlicheIntelligens #ArtificialIntelligence #CapitalismIsADeathCult #Anarchismus #TormentNexus
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It'll be like this soon with Books and AI, ...the ones the AI companies haven't destroyed that is.
Fahrenheit 451, innit?
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It'll be like this soon with Books and AI, ...the ones the AI companies haven't destroyed that is.
Fahrenheit 451, innit?
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Having recently read Vernor Vinge's _Rainbows End_, where a significant part of the plot is tech companies digitizing and destroying physical books to feed the text into online repositories for AI-assisted research, seeing this story going around has a very "torment nexus" feel to it.
"AI companies - or their intermediaries, shielded by NDAs - are systematically buying physical books from secondhand markets, slicing off their spines for high-speed scanning, and pulping the originals."
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Having recently read Vernor Vinge's _Rainbows End_, where a significant part of the plot is tech companies digitizing and destroying physical books to feed the text into online repositories for AI-assisted research, seeing this story going around has a very "torment nexus" feel to it.
"AI companies - or their intermediaries, shielded by NDAs - are systematically buying physical books from secondhand markets, slicing off their spines for high-speed scanning, and pulping the originals."
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'Yang told Fortune that AI agents can’t fully participate in the online economy yet because payments and liability aren’t solved.
“If we don’t have the infrastructure to do proper payments for agents, then agents aren’t buying and selling, and if agents aren’t buying and selling, then they aren’t generating economic activity,” Yang said.'
As usual, the Tech Industry sees the "Horrible Future Dystopia" as their next "Business Plan".
#AIBubble #AIScrapers #TormentNexus
https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/dead-internet-theory-bots-agents-majority-web-traffic/ -
'Yang told Fortune that AI agents can’t fully participate in the online economy yet because payments and liability aren’t solved.
“If we don’t have the infrastructure to do proper payments for agents, then agents aren’t buying and selling, and if agents aren’t buying and selling, then they aren’t generating economic activity,” Yang said.'
As usual, the Tech Industry sees the "Horrible Future Dystopia" as their next "Business Plan".
#AIBubble #AIScrapers #TormentNexus
https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/dead-internet-theory-bots-agents-majority-web-traffic/ -
@knwmoon @batkaren Another example of dystopia as instruction manual for these weirdos.
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@knwmoon @batkaren Another example of dystopia as instruction manual for these weirdos.
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RE: https://agilodon.social/@thirstybear/116975201474585514
These Tech Bros really don't get the meaning of cultural texts, do they? No wonder they see dystopian Science Fiction as a playbook.
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RE: https://agilodon.social/@thirstybear/116975201474585514
These Tech Bros really don't get the meaning of cultural texts, do they? No wonder they see dystopian Science Fiction as a playbook.
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‘The Torment Nexus is just a tool!’
‘Could the Torment Nexus be conscious?’
#consciousness #AIConsciousness #TormentNexus #TormentNexusConsciousness #JustATool
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‘The Torment Nexus is just a tool!’
‘Could the Torment Nexus be conscious?’
#consciousness #AIConsciousness #TormentNexus #TormentNexusConsciousness #JustATool
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116952909311745687
They saw Robocop and thought "what a cool idea"
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116952909311745687
They saw Robocop and thought "what a cool idea"
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@psh
When the pushback for experimenting on unsuspecting populations with untested tech exceeds the shareholder value that it "creates," will we finally begin to claw back a livable planet from the oligarchs?
I hope it's not a rhetorical question.
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@psh
When the pushback for experimenting on unsuspecting populations with untested tech exceeds the shareholder value that it "creates," will we finally begin to claw back a livable planet from the oligarchs?
I hope it's not a rhetorical question.
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You don't try to warn the fascist about the Torment Nexus.
They are already on board with building it. They either already have a plan for one, or they're out waving their flags, hoping that someone with more power has a plan to build one.
No, you write science fiction about the Torment Nexus to warn the rest of us how to recognise Torment Nexus plans, what people say when they're trying to justify a Torment Nexus, and how to sabotage a Torment Nexus once it's been built. #TormentNexus
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You don't try to warn the fascist about the Torment Nexus.
They are already on board with building it. They either already have a plan for one, or they're out waving their flags, hoping that someone with more power has a plan to build one.
No, you write science fiction about the Torment Nexus to warn the rest of us how to recognise Torment Nexus plans, what people say when they're trying to justify a Torment Nexus, and how to sabotage a Torment Nexus once it's been built. #TormentNexus
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Thought: we've been talking about the Torment Nexus wrong.
It's a joke: science fiction writers told us about the Torment Nexus as a warning, not an instruction manual!
But it's a really depressing joke. It makes you feel like, 'Why the fuck did we bother warning you about the TN? It's just giving you ideas!'
But that's mixing up who the 'you' was us writers were talking to.
By and large, we were not talking to those in power; we were trying to warn the people, the rest of us. #TormentNexus
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Thought: we've been talking about the Torment Nexus wrong.
It's a joke: science fiction writers told us about the Torment Nexus as a warning, not an instruction manual!
But it's a really depressing joke. It makes you feel like, 'Why the fuck did we bother warning you about the TN? It's just giving you ideas!'
But that's mixing up who the 'you' was us writers were talking to.
By and large, we were not talking to those in power; we were trying to warn the people, the rest of us. #TormentNexus
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#ISAC und #6G: Datenschützer warnen vor Massenüberwachung und fordern Regeln
"ISAC macht Mobilfunk- und WLAN-Netze zu Radarsystemen. Die Datenschutzkonferenz warnt vor erheblichen Grundrechtsrisiken und neuer Massenüberwachung durch 6G."
Sie bauen buchstäblich die Überwachungstechnologie aus The Dark Knight. 🫠
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#ISAC und #6G: Datenschützer warnen vor Massenüberwachung und fordern Regeln
"ISAC macht Mobilfunk- und WLAN-Netze zu Radarsystemen. Die Datenschutzkonferenz warnt vor erheblichen Grundrechtsrisiken und neuer Massenüberwachung durch 6G."
Sie bauen buchstäblich die Überwachungstechnologie aus The Dark Knight. 🫠
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When Technologists Forget the Warning
The thing about #techbro culture is that some of the most #elitists people grew up loving stories that warned us about the #techshit they are building. They read the dystopias, watched the films, they understood the dangers of unchecked capital, concentrated power, surveillance, artificial intelligence, inequality, and corporate control. Then many of them decided “Great idea. Let’s build it.” as the #geekproblem made them think they knew better. This is what our #fashionista class call […]https://hamishcampbell.com/when-technology-forgets-the-warning/
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When Technologists Forget the Warning
The thing about #techbro culture is that some of the most #elitists people grew up loving stories that warned us about the #techshit they are building. They read the dystopias, watched the films, they understood the dangers of unchecked capital, concentrated power, surveillance, artificial intelligence, inequality, and corporate control. Then many of them decided “Great idea. Let’s build it.” as the #geekproblem made them think they knew better. This is what our #fashionista class call […]https://hamishcampbell.com/when-technology-forgets-the-warning/
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A Trillionaire is another Torment Nexus creation come to life. Just stop it.
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A Trillionaire is another Torment Nexus creation come to life. Just stop it.
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@cstross have you writers ever thought about suing these guys for stealing your nightmares and making them our reality?
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@cstross have you writers ever thought about suing these guys for stealing your nightmares and making them our reality?
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"Over the past year, the Torment Nexus has taken the world by storm, completely changing the way that people live their day-to-day lives. However, this entire category of tool is very new, and new features and best practices are coming up all the time, sometimes invalidating the previous ones. This talk will cover the basics of the Torment Nexus: how it works, what it's composed of, what its limitations are. While this will not cover the theory and math behind True Torment™, it will include technical details behind how the Torment Nexus makes use of True Torment™ in order to help you more efficiently and effectively suffer." #TormentNexus
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"Over the past year, the Torment Nexus has taken the world by storm, completely changing the way that people live their day-to-day lives. However, this entire category of tool is very new, and new features and best practices are coming up all the time, sometimes invalidating the previous ones. This talk will cover the basics of the Torment Nexus: how it works, what it's composed of, what its limitations are. While this will not cover the theory and math behind True Torment™, it will include technical details behind how the Torment Nexus makes use of True Torment™ in order to help you more efficiently and effectively suffer." #TormentNexus
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Okay, since I cannot possibly justify spending money on yet another domain, but someone on here could surely put it to good use:
tormentnex.ai is free.
hf
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Okay, since I cannot possibly justify spending money on yet another domain, but someone on here could surely put it to good use:
tormentnex.ai is free.
hf
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"Our results demonstrate that self-sustaining AI-driven cyber-threats are nolonger theoretical. We must prepare for autonomous generative adversaries: malware systems that propagate without human operators and are defined not by fixed exploit code, but by the capacity to reason about targets, adapt to observations, and synthesize attack logic in real time." #ai #generative #tormentnexus .. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03811
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"Our results demonstrate that self-sustaining AI-driven cyber-threats are nolonger theoretical. We must prepare for autonomous generative adversaries: malware systems that propagate without human operators and are defined not by fixed exploit code, but by the capacity to reason about targets, adapt to observations, and synthesize attack logic in real time." #ai #generative #tormentnexus .. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03811
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Is there anywhere this can be watched other than TormentTube™?
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Is there anywhere this can be watched other than TormentTube™?
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Mere moments after discovering the thing called, "the torment nexus," I discovered that I was living within it.
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we have invented the “keep human brains alive in a jar and conduct experiments on them” from the popular epistemological conundrum “what if we are just brains in a jar some asshole is conducting experiments on?” #TormentNexus
