#Dreaming In Dystopia

[gbhbl]

Album Review: Dirty Sound Magnet - Dreaming In Dystopia (Wild Thing Records)

It’s a trip that everyone should experience at least once. After all, how do you know if you’ll like it, if you don’t?

The evocative psychedelic rock trio Dirty Sound Magnet will release their new album, Dreaming In Dystopia, on 20th October via Australian label Wild Thing Records. What does psychedelia really mean in the context of music? How can music make you feel as though you’ve taken some odd-looking mushrooms? How can music create vivid colours, dreamy headspaces, and the sense of the soul being separated…

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Everyone I knew was wearing a clock as a shirt but the time was slightly different for all of them. Like, my mom’s might have said 6:43 while my brother’s said 8:02. When I pointed it out I got shunned from society by the “time wizards” and banished to the woods where I lived with other people who’d been cast out.

[mervynbunter]

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was visiting a dystopian-type city and that my name was “Bee’s Burt”. When I told people my name, they would cower in fear and then Jessie from Pokémon appeared and started melting.

[kdmatheson]

"WAKE - WORLD" kd matheson 2024

[liminally-spaced]

[kalashtars]

genuinely the worst news headline I've ever woken up to

[mckitterick]

OpenAI previews voice generator that produces natural-sounding speech based on a 15-second voice sample

The company has yet to decide how to deploy the technology, and it acknowledges election risks, but is going ahead with developing and testing with "limited partners" anyway.

Not only is such a technology a risk during election time (see the fake robocalls this year when an AI-generated, fake Joe Biden voice told people not to vote in the primary), but imagine how faked voices of important people - combined with AI-generated fake news plus AI-generated fake photos and videos - could con people out of money, literally destroy political careers and parties, and even collapse entire governments or nations themselves.

By faking a news story using accurate (but faked) video clips of (real) respected and elected officials supporting the fake story - then creating a billion SEO-optimized fake news and research websites full of fake evidence to back up their lies - a bad actor or cyberwarfare agent could take down an enemy government, create a revolution, turn nations against one another, even cause world war.

This kind of apocalyptic scenario has always felt like a science-fiction idea that could only exist in a possible dystopian future, not something we'd actually see coming true in our time, now.

How in the world are we ever again going to trust what we read, hear, or watch? If LLM-barf clogs the internet, and lies pollute the news, and people with bad intentions can provide all the evidence they need to fool anyone into believing anything, and there's no way to guarantee the veracity of anything anymore, what's left?

Whatever comes next, I guarantee it'll be weirder than we imagine.

Here's hoping it's not also worse than the typical cyberpunk tale.

PS: NEVER ANSWER CALLS FROM UNKNOWN NUMBERS EVER AGAIN

...or at least don't speak to the caller. From now on, assume it's a con-bot or politi-bot or some other bot seeking to cause you and others harm. If they hear your voice, they can fake it saying anything they want. If it sounds like someone you know, it's probably not if it's not their number saved in your contacts. If it's about something important, hang up and call the official or saved number for the supposed caller.

[victoriapedroza]

Hotel Cecil, Most haunted hotel in Los Angeles.

2023

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[andrhomeda]

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[dreams-of-mutiny]

Everyone is trapped in a world that reflects both their desires and their imperfections—just as I am. I often find myself lost in a beautiful daydream, envisioning a world where chaos fades and order takes root. I imagine a peaceful, undisturbed environment, a neo-noir-futuristic landscape filled with enlightenment and balance. But even in this vision, a utopia of my own making, I cannot escape the flaws I carry. In shaping this better world, I displace the wishes and views of others, creating a dystopia within my utopia. Still, it remains a beautiful vision, something to cling to. Yet, I cannot help but wonder—what do people truly aspire to? It seems to me that they aim for so little, content with mediocrity and ignorance. I don’t mean to be harsh, but it feels like there's a lack of depth, a lack of consideration in the world around me. And if the world is not dystopian enough for some, they support chaos. But chaos is always in the process of becoming order. Perhaps, then, we all pursue our own strange kind of utopia, shaped by the desires of the soul. What we share in common is this paradox, this shared dystopia that reflects our imperfect aspirations.

~ For my friends on Tumblr ~

[cultofcreatures]

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[maxiwaxipads]

some people put charms around their house like the cross to ward away evil spirits… do you think pikero hangs bargain jeans to keep tuxam away but it only works for a little while until tuxam has gathered the courage to clean up

[one-time-i-dreamt]

There was a new South Park movie where it was super dystopian and robots that were working for the government were stealing and imprisoning people left and right, Kenny eventually had to step up and save South Park and his friends, it also guest starred JK Simmons and Idris Elba, it was called Kenny McCormick: Rising.

[whump-captain]

i have a problem called new ocs and my only solution is redrawing memes lazily

[ID in alt]

[kdmatheson]

"ARMAGEDDON" kd matheson