I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
I don't think a lot of people know or realize this - not only were Queer people victims of the Holocaust, when everyone else was freed, Queer people were *re-imprisoned*
Imagine what that must have felt like.
The UK went from “we need to stop kids from watching porn” to actual dystopian mass surveillance in the span of two years
Digital ID is the slipperiest slope of all time
Malls are not dying in Europe, but I have a distinct memory of walking through a dying mall.
It was my 13th or 14th birthday, and my parents took me to my favorite mall for pizza and to look at the video game/DVD store. However, what we did not know was that the mall was filing for bankruptcy and was days away from closing.
I remember immediately feeling like something was weird in the parking lot. Utterly empty. Our footsteps echoed off the concrete, even water dripping off pipes was audible due to the lack of engine noise.
There were barely any people. You had entire hallways of closed stores, utterly devoid of humanity. There wasn't even any music. Just rows and rows of shuttered stores, plain white brick and still dirty floor tiles.
Seeing my favorite place, utterly devoid of life, only the husk and fading memory of it remaining, really stuck with me. It felt like I was watching a terminally ill friend slowly dying in a hospital bed.
Generation Z has witnessed a lot of things they loved as children dying. Blockbuster and Toys R Us spring to mind. And liminal spaces, representations of locations that should be bustling with life, but are eerily empty, speak to us in a way they do not to other generations.