Hello Dystopia

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.
~ Ray Bradbury ~

[Matt O'Brien @ObsoleteDogma]

Nothing will make you more against AI than hearing what kind of world the people behind it are trying to create

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

💳A digital bank Revolut is rolling out an Orwellian 'pay with face' technology.

This means customers could use facial recognition to pay for everyday essentials.

“How people want to conduct their banking is their choice, but they should be under no illusions that giving away their biometrics is safe”

“This month, Revolut gave a fraudster the home addresses, passport details, and face data of some users. Affected customers have been left vulnerable to phishing attacks and fraud.

No system is ever entirely secure. Revolut may feel they are offering convenience, but they are also normalising a dangerous technology, and it is users who bear the risk.”

- Jack Coulson [@JCoulson1013]

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https://t.co/ykq0YQ0sUY

[Jenny 🌺 @G0AwayHeat]

Hawk Tuah really fumbled the bag, she could be Secretary of the Interior by now.

[Future Adam Curtis B-Roll @adamcurtisbroll]

Piers Morgan Uncensored teases a clip of an AI-generated actress called 'Tilly Norwood' glitching and switching to Chinese during an interview with Tom Conti, September 2026.

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

Straight to jail

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

I can’t remember being more disappointed by any politician. @andyburnham needs to abolish the House of Lords. It’s a vector for corruption. Because that’s what this is. A pay-to-play capture of a UK lawmaker by Silicon Valley’s worst firm.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Cory Doctorow's new post on whether AI will kill humanity

[Maarek @Maarblek]

This computer model that I made says the world is going to end if you don't give me trillions of dollars and unlimited political power

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Anthropic and OpenAI have only one way to survive: convince everyone that LLMs are so dangerous that open source models (and essentially commoditised LLMs) must be banned and the whole industry offered on a plate to a cartel of two (or three)

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Guys these people don’t care about AI safety… it’s not the end yet. They are rather counting that your fear of the Terminator movies will make you talk about safety rather than (if you read the article) the very obvious government-protected AI cartel they are proposing

[WIRED @WIRED]

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. https://t.co/8z1OodyuAj

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

AI companies: “why aren’t we trusted?”

Also AI companies: meet the Stalker9000!”

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

The new iPhone Duo lets you play Subway Surfers and doomscroll on Tiktok at the same time.

[Miss Pemulis @barbariana]

Mi plan de retiro es que me mate la IA.

[Financial Times @FT]

How nationalists, religious fundamentalists and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future: https://t.co/QFBO2d3y8U

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen.

The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

More from @DRBoguslaw below:

https://t.co/pZv9kQr4eB

[onion person @CantEverDie]

all new technology is just two catagories these days: surveillance or military tech