"Everybody looks at everybody all the time and you don't need to be a celebrity to feel the need for privacy. I myself was recently in big trouble with my Confessor for being slow to post a birthing video. I'm not talking about being either an extrovert or an introvert: I'm talking about people who don't believe privacy is a perversion, people who think it might even be a virtue."
I have AI hype, online form, and online survey exhaustion. Working in tech has taken a turn for the worse. Is this really what we want to do with our days? #dystopia#tech#ai
"Although I'm no longer with you in person, my darling, I love you so much. I remember the day we met as clearly as if... You can now make purchases in Bitcoin; visit our storefront now... it were yesterday. The yellow dress you wore was so... Get 10% off the new Apple iPad. Say 'PADOFFER' after this memory..." #AI#dystopia
Ok ok, so I started #reading E. M. Forster's #TheMachineStops and it is a #ScienceFiction short story, and it pretty much predicts a lot of stuff in today's society it is actually scary :blobcatnotlikethis:
Red states like Ky are planning to eliminate income taxes to move to an entirely sales tax system. They plan to tax all goods & services, so presumably your doctor, home care, your bookkeeper, and your contract labor will all have to charge you sales tax on top of their regular co-pays & fees.
Of course, that means the brunt of all taxes will be paid by the low wage working poor, and the rich will not be affected - nor pay any tax on their income. Small biz is screwed.
Of course, this being the GOP in Kentucky, they will no doubt slap sales taxes on Food & Medicine, too, just to make sure they hurt the poor as much as possible.
B/c that's what right wing christians do - hurt the poor, disabled, elderly by depriving them of food, med care, affordable housing, and then criminalizing homelessness for good measure. In the name of their evil god.
Gdybym napisał to opowiadanie przed 2020, to - o ile w ogóle wpadłbym na taki pomysł - byłaby to groteskowa dystopia. Ale ponieważ pisałem je w "owym roku", jest tylko lekko - naprawdę lekko! - podkręconym odbiciem rzeczywistości.
Quand un #JdR sort chez #Dystopia je n'hésite pas une seconde. Je ne suis pas encore très familier de la proposition de #Marchebranche de @Thomas_Munier, mais je suis sûr que cette proposition m'ouvrira de nouveaux horizons et sera réalisée avec un soin méticuleux.
Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight...
Subposting from another conversation a little... while teaching #Psychology in #ScienceFiction course the students and I once figured out that there are some easy ways to create a #dystopia . The ones I can remember right now:
A reasonable-sounding rule or law is administered in technically consistent but problematic way (often by a bad actor or someone/something with no consideration for kindness, harm, etc.).
Something that cannot or should not be experimentally manipulated... is.
#2 is my fave, because I can do a bad imitation of the Standard Deep Voiced Movie Announcer Guy and say things like
"In the future, where gender is assigned by a computer..."
or
"Imagine a world where sexual orientation, mathematical ability, and food preferences are decided by a government genetic lab..."
This movie (and the year it was released) is now forty years old. That's older than than the gap between when the book was written and the year it was based upon! Are we more of a #Dystopia society now than what Orwell envisioned? I don't know about that, but our current music sure isn't as cold and #SynthPop heavy as heard here. #ElectronicMusic#NewWave
Kiedyś ukończyłam kurs przygotowujący do właściwego zachowania w razie zagrożeń typu wojna, kataklizm, świat pogrążony w chaosie. I co, gdy wysiadło światło na dzielni okazało się, że moje powerbanki są martwe. I po co mi było ten kurs robić?
The true story of a fake dystopian town Scarfolk (scarfolk.blogspot.com)
Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight...