Not The Cyberpunk Future We Wanted
@cyberpunkfuture.bsky.social
Sporadic posts citing examples of the Cyberpunk Future we didn't want, but we've ended up inside of.
Not a bot, yet, but might end up being scheduled at least.
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Not a bot, yet, but might end up being scheduled at least.
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we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
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GTA Online Players Keep Making Charlie Kirk Assassination Missions, And Rockstar Keeps Deleting Them
GTA Online Players Keep Making Charlie Kirk Assassination Missions
It seems Rockstar is trying to stop people from spreading these missions online
kotaku.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:40 AM
GTA Online Players Keep Making Charlie Kirk Assassination Missions, And Rockstar Keeps Deleting Them
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I can't help but feel a lot of the people in this article are quite ill and need actual, human support not a bot indulging them. None of this is real. These are not companions or your family, and you're going way beyond role playing. Even the positive study, Lily, is concerning.
Weird world.
Weird world.
January 11, 2026 at 8:56 AM
I can't help but feel a lot of the people in this article are quite ill and need actual, human support not a bot indulging them. None of this is real. These are not companions or your family, and you're going way beyond role playing. Even the positive study, Lily, is concerning.
Weird world.
Weird world.
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January 4, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
![A Bluesky user based in Venezuela posted 'I live near a military air base and five earth-shaking explosions were just heart.'
User @thenordic.bsky.social (a random asshole) replied 'was it too hard for you to to [sic] add a link?' along with a link to an AP piece. Quick, don't look, what do you think the odds are that this user responded gracefully to being told that OP was on the ground and reporting firsthand?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ycbmujtxprrwbkiw3x5qsyz4/bafkreieh2ddespqvcqdhpfy4g2higsw4lfiguzpaxs3rdessztcokmww6i@jpeg)
January 3, 2026 at 8:21 AM
grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
Sigh.
December 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Sigh.
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most depressing billboard I have ever seen
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
most depressing billboard I have ever seen
Neither the future we wanted, nor the future we deserved.
PG&E is having a massive outage in San Francisco. Waymo robots aren't handling the traffic light outages well. Cell service is also out is some places.
No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages.
CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).
No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages.
CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).
December 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Neither the future we wanted, nor the future we deserved.
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There was a busker playing 80s goth songs on an electric xylophone near Pizzapunks in Liverpool earlier - this was not the dark corporate goth future RPGs promised me by this decade
December 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
There was a busker playing 80s goth songs on an electric xylophone near Pizzapunks in Liverpool earlier - this was not the dark corporate goth future RPGs promised me by this decade
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whatever you imagined yourself someday doing in a cyberpunk dystopia you are doing it now
December 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
whatever you imagined yourself someday doing in a cyberpunk dystopia you are doing it now
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Can't wait for a sharp rise in stock photo models going to jail
December 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Can't wait for a sharp rise in stock photo models going to jail
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The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’
The use of ‘nudify’ apps is becoming more and more prevalent, with hundreds of teachers having seen images created by pupils, often of their peers. The fallout is huge – and growing fast
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
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This really is a stupidly Philip K Dick-ass future we've made for ourselves.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This really is a stupidly Philip K Dick-ass future we've made for ourselves.
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"The Chinese-made DeepSeek-R1 AI model produces more insecure code when prompts mention subjects considered sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to recent research from Crowdstrike."
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DeepSeek and Musk's Grok Both Toe the Party Line - Risky Business Media
The Chinese-made DeepSeek-R1 AI model produces more insecure code when prompts mention subjects considered sensitive to the Chinese Commun [Read More]
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November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"The Chinese-made DeepSeek-R1 AI model produces more insecure code when prompts mention subjects considered sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to recent research from Crowdstrike."
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"I'm living my own cyberpunk dystopia life right now"
Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant
Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant
Storing credentials safely and securely is the real trick
It's important to have your login in hand, literally. Zi Teng Wang, a UK magician who implanted an RFID chip in his appendage, has admitted losing access to it because he forgot the password.…
dlvr.it
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"I'm living my own cyberpunk dystopia life right now"
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Rhyme is the key to set AIs free when verse outsmarts security
Rhyme is the key to set AIs free when verse outsmarts security
Poetry proves potent jailbreak tool for today's top models
Are you a wizard with words? Do you like money without caring how you get it? You could be in luck now that a new role in cybercrime appears to have opened up – poetic LLM jailbreaking.…
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Rhyme is the key to set AIs free when verse outsmarts security
"For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible."
Might be Grok’s boldest claim yet, even over saying Musk is more athletic than LeBron
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible."
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Researchers are now saying that AI can find correlations between facial characteristics and success on the job.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Researchers are now saying that AI can find correlations between facial characteristics and success on the job.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
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I didn't realise how common it is, apparently, for pets to have buttons. I'm genuinely intrigued/horrified by what would happen if you hooked up one of these interfaces to social media...
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I didn't realise how common it is, apparently, for pets to have buttons. I'm genuinely intrigued/horrified by what would happen if you hooked up one of these interfaces to social media...
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Putting together a list of every cyberpunk book ever written by Trans+ person. Trad or self.
If you’ve got ‘em, drop em’ below.
To kick things off, Aubrey Wood’s modern masterpiece Bang Bang Bodhisattva.
If you’ve got ‘em, drop em’ below.
To kick things off, Aubrey Wood’s modern masterpiece Bang Bang Bodhisattva.
November 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Putting together a list of every cyberpunk book ever written by Trans+ person. Trad or self.
If you’ve got ‘em, drop em’ below.
To kick things off, Aubrey Wood’s modern masterpiece Bang Bang Bodhisattva.
If you’ve got ‘em, drop em’ below.
To kick things off, Aubrey Wood’s modern masterpiece Bang Bang Bodhisattva.
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I think the videogame still has the definitive cover for me
November 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I think the videogame still has the definitive cover for me
"he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep ... hands clawed into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the us-east-1 that wasn't there."
October 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep ... hands clawed into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the us-east-1 that wasn't there."
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