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Not The Cyberpunk Future We Wanted
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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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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
January 3, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Sigh.
I still think cell phones like this should have been a thing
December 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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most depressing billboard I have ever seen
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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).
December 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
"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]
risky.biz
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"I'm living my own cyberpunk dystopia life right now"
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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"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
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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.
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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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
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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.
November 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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I think the videogame still has the definitive cover for me
November 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"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
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October 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I have gotten two different ads in a row on TikTok that start with an ai generated woman about to fuck a horse interrupted by an ad for roofing. It’s so great that every ad is gonna be like this now, Nazi or hentai ai slop trying to sell you utilities.
October 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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In the worst possible way, everything is a computer now.
The automaker pushed out a telematics update that evidently wasn't ready, resulting in cars losing power while driving and then becoming stranded.
Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend
Jeep has pulled the update; owners are advised to ignore it if it already downloaded.
arstechnica.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
something something uses something the street something ...
October 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM