This is not the cool cyberpunk dystopia we were promised.
B. Travern ⌨️
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Another Twitter refugee, https://travernblogging.blogspot.com
This is not the cool cyberpunk dystopia we were promised.
https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines
This is not the cool cyberpunk dystopia that we were promised.
“Welcome to the future of policing,” Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said[….]
The Las Vegas fleet was a donation totaling about $2.7 million from Ben Horowitz, co-founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm known as Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, and his wife, Felicia Horowitz.
https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-tesla-cybertruck-police-metro-f8294c00635009a78fa8a86741eec2ca
Tech billionaire's donation brings Tesla Cybertrucks to Las Vegas police
The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November. The fleet of 10 Cybertrucks was a gift from a billionaire venture capitalist for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill sees the addition of the trucks as part of a larger effort to enhance the department's technology. The donation has raised concerns from government oversight experts about private donors’ influence on public departments and the boost to the Tesla brand. The department is the latest U.S. city to turn to Tesla models even as Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company has face blowback because of his work earlier in the year to advance the president’s political agenda and downsize the federal government.
This is not the cyberpunk dystopian supervillain we were promised.
Bloody Temu knockoff Hubertus Bigend.
This is not the cool cyberpunk dystopia we were promised.
The self-described Paper of Record is embracing genAI with a program called “Echo”—as though the NYT wasn’t an echo chamber already.
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/16/2025/new-york-times-goes-all-in-on-internal-ai-tools
Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism! : Army Orientation Branch: Information and Education Division : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
March 24, 1945. Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 Fascism! A sheet printed and distributed by the United States War Department as an educational tool for...
Everything old is new again.
https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
Why I’m keeping my Mastodon account, part the Nth.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/
The people should own the town square
It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control.
