Shout out odyssey , brand new day, avengers and dune but this is the film I’m waiting for and the only one I’d commit to a 12am screening for.
4 years… for me this my gta 6 equivalent in movies rn
I fear the UK gov. hates anyone born like 1/2 years either side of the millennium. New GCSEs, new A levels, Covid uni, loss of opportunities such as this. Actually SYM
Back in my day we had to keep our blazers on unless the teachers gave us permission to take them off. And if we were in a French lesson our teacher made us ask in French.
UK telecoms just launched a kill switch for phones stolen from retail stores.
Good. Phone theft in London is down 20% this year. The first use case is always good.
But let's look at what the UK has built in 2026.
Every device in the country is scanned for nudity by law.
Signal: ordered to build a backdoor into encryption.
Apple: sharing IMEI data with police, remotely disabling stolen iPhones globally.
Telecoms: new kill switch for retail theft, activated before a device ever reaches a customer.
Adults: must verify identity with a face scan, a passport, or a government ID to use social media.
Children: banned from disappearing messages, VPNs, livestreaming, and romantic AI.
Police: 40 facial recognition vans rolling out nationwide under a £140M AI program.
now the telecom kill switch.
each one of these individually is defensible.
curbing phone theft: yes.
protecting children online: yes.
stop terrorists using encrypted apps: yes.
verify ages to keep minors off adult platforms: yes.
The UK now has:
— a remote off switch for every phone
— a real identity tied to every social media account
— a scanner on every device
— facial recognition on every high street
— A backdoor is requested into every encrypted message
built piece by piece. justified one news cycle at a time.
What do you call it when you put all of them together?