#we live in the stupidest cyberpunk future

[titleknown]

The fact that this is A Thing We Have To Worry About now really feels like a "Don't Create The Torment Nexus" situation but very specifically for Minority Report...

@stupidsexyfuture

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 5/23/2023

six sentences or less bc that's the kind of week it is

listening

straighten up and fly right from the nat king cole songbook, covered by sammy davis junior. i have a lot of fondness for the nat king cole songbook bc my grandmother had a lot of fondness for it, and this one was very comfortably in our (contralto) ranges. really burrowing into the comforting familiar as we enter the Cross Country Move Hellzone (tm). spotify

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reading

lot of documentation for work bc i am trying to build a google sheet + calendar for our grants and reports such that when someone adds OR EDITS a row in the grant/report tracker it creates a new google calendar event OR UPDATES existing events. i may have to give up on that second half.

in non-work stuff, it is hysterical how many hackers brian krebs (infosec reporter/journalist/researcher) is able to interview. like when this guy was asked "yo is this your code targeting a specific mastodon server with a crypto scam" the response was

Clicking the “open chat in Telegram” button on Zipper’s Lolzteam profile page launched a Telegram instant message chat window where the user Quotpw responded almost immediately. Asked if they were aware their domain was being used to manage a spam botnet that was pelting Mastodon instances with crypto scam spam, Quotpw confirmed the spam was powered by their software.

“It was made for a limited circle of people,” Quotpw said, noting that they recently released the bot software as open source on GitHub.

we live in the stupidest possible cyberpunk future.

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watching

i don't know jack about shit about cars and i don't know what the fuck jennings motorsports on youtube is talking about 80% of the time but a friendly guy with a calm voice talking through how he's going to get some cars in the worst shape you've ever seen up and running again? yes good thanks, i've blown through his entire backlog in the last week in my second monitor while i've cleaned data. this man is essentially rebuilding this rare limited edition shiny holographic car from half a frame and a panel LOOK how fucked this thing is.

love the Will It Run? videos bc the answer is almost always yes AND SOMETIMES HE EVEN DRIVES THEM DOWN HIS DRIVEWAY AND BACK even if the cars are barely holding themselves together. the horse souls in these machines can be coaxed back into resurrection with the proper burnt offerings and application of liquefied dinosaur

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playing

the charm of Powerwash Simulator is somewhat dampened by its extremely buggy achievements bc i KNOW i could get all 40 so fuckin easy if they just WORKED. i didn't get the "main campaign completed!" achievement despite spending nearly forty hours 100%ing every job, so i think the rarity of the achievements is somewhat inaccurate, bc it's more like, did you happen to play through that level at a time when the achievement was working? despite all that, it has been incredibly effective at damping generalized moving anxiety and it's a tremendous catch-up-on-podcasts game. it's hysterical to me this was published by square enix bc this style of simulator game is usually published by Playway or a Playway company, a shadowy network of about a hundred small polish studios, many of which went public and had IPOs in order to hand over a controlling interest of the company to Playway. long history of annoying business practices such as remaking more popular games with the serial numbers filed off and making demos to gauge interest and THEN only making about one full game for every twenty demos, which is very irritating for players. not this one tho, it's in fucking brighton in the uk, no relation!

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making

this is going to be cleaning and move prep for the next six weeks. i deep cleaned (even mopped!) my kitchen and bathroom last weekend bc it uh. really needed it, and that's the most exciting thing i did. no progress on cleaning the flip clock radio bc i do not currently have the patience to sit down with qtips and get in all the little grooves.

[bentothuglife]

Waiting for a prescription at the pharmacy and the blood pressure machine is playing ads on repeat. We are living in the stupidest cyberpunk future

[nuclearblastuk]

FOREVER STILL | UNVEIL MUSIC VIDEO FOR TITLE TRACK 'BREATHE IN COLOURS'  

On March 29th, FOREVER STILL will unleash their sophomore full-length release 'Breathe In Colours' via Nuclear Blast. Inspired by a dystopian cyberpunk future and the fact that some of the biggest works in that genre, Blade Runner and Akira, are set in 2019, Denmark's highflyers have adapted a dark musical concept for this record and take a look at the world being on the verge of ecological collapse, while humanity is fleeing into cyberspace to escape the horrors of the real world.

After the epic 'Rew1nd', the band now unveils the second single of their upcoming album - their title track 'Breathe In Colours'. The song title and album name was inspired by a memory from Maja's past, as she explains:

"The album title was born from an experience, I had as a young teenager, where I started wearing all black and a friend of my mother’s suggested that I wear more colours. I told her that it’s just an aesthetic preference and she replied that it was okay “as long as I remembered to keep the colours on the inside”. At that time I thought, it was the stupidest thing, I’d ever heard, since wearing black clothes doesn’t automatically mean you’re sad inside. Despite thinking that, her words stuck with me and I was able to have it make sense in a new way much later in life. For this album it’s an affirmation that even though the world sometimes seems cold and grey, there is still colour and kindness to be found, but in order to see it, we first have to find the colours on the inside."

Watch the music video for the haunting track 'Breathe In Colours' here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOo0qgHpCac

Pre-order your physical or digital version of FOREVER STILL's sophomore album now: 

http://nblast.de/FSBreatheInColours

In case you missed the first videos, make sure to watch them here:

'Rew1nd' music video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--CQeGZvo9M

Trailer #1 - about the album concept: 

https://youtu.be/AWdYqvomrXc

Trailer #2 - theremins and rough, electronic sound:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhboKRULcvc

The 'Breathe In Colours' tracklist reads as follows:

01. Rewind

02. Fight!

03. Breathe In Colours

04. Is It Gone?

05. Survive

06. Do Your Worst

07. Pieces

08. Rising Over You

09. Say Your Goodbyes

10. Embrace The Tide

Bonus:

11. Is It Gone? (Acoustic Version)

12. Perfect Day

When Philip K. Dick wrote what would later become Blade Runner, no one would have believed that the dystopian cyberpunk future he imagined 2019 to be, would be so similar to the world we live in today…

This realisation is what sparked the idea for the new album from FOREVER STILL – 'Breathe In Colours'. With their sophomore full-length album, the band has evolved their songwriting skills even further and didn’t want to produce a carbon copy of its predecessor 'Tied Down', released in 2016. Instead, the new album drifts both into more epic moments, while frontwoman Maja Shining also delivers her heaviest screams to date. And for the first time, the songwriting duo of singer Maja and multi-instrumentalist Mikkel Haastruphave decided to make the album a more collaborative effort and therefore brought their long time live drummer, Rune Frisch, into the studio with them to record the drums - a big step for the two young musicians who handled everything on their own on the previous record, from music videos to band photos, the album production and even concert booking. After sweat, blood and tears and the surprising use of a theremin, the result of FOREVER STILL’s efforts to break through the numbing grey, is a surprisingly diversified and mature album that breathes fresh air – and colours – into the bland rock scene.

[marlowekana]

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[titleknown]

In other news of “We live in the stupidest cyberpunk dystopia,” this.

Good god has the adoption of more and more user-unfriendly practices in the “AAA” games industry been one of the under-spoken regulatory failures of the modern era...

[titleknown]

This article really did hit home how close we are to the IRL version of this scene happening in our lifetimes (CW: Gore):

[titleknown]

Can we all agree that it’s fucked up how the employee-mandated Wal-Mart Cheer is basically an IRL version of The Bunny Song from Veggie Tales?

I mean, minus the threats of death-by-incineration for noncompliance, but they’d probably do that if they were legally allowed...

[titleknown]

Fun fact, the guy who voiced Colonel Campbell in Metal Gear Solid did a reading in-character of the Mueller Indictment. Truly we do live in the stupidest cyberpunk future...

[titleknown]

In other news, here is a neural network Deep Dream generator that makes random anime girls. What a time to be alive...

[titleknown]

And in other “we live in the stupid Cyberpunk future” news, there is now a “3d print your fetus” service....

[titleknown]

Reblog if you’re sick of feeling hopeless that the future is going to be anything but a corporate boot stamping on a human face forever.

[titleknown]

Body Mod Idea: Brain LAN! Link up with other brains (and some video games) using your mind!

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know 

I worry about the possibility of bad-cyberpunk-style hackers getting into my brain meats and also the issues inherent with installing a jack in your skull, but it could be neat I suppose...

[titleknown]

Blogging this, which I found out via @mostlysignssomeportents both because it’s a good example of how Trump’s vision of “job creation” was built on lies, and in a broader sense the so-called “job creators” care far less about creating jobs than maintaining the circus spectacle that current capitalism is built on...

...but even beyond that, holy shit this is a fucking Kafkaesque nightmare, fascinating in the same way that a carwreck is, except there’s also a dragon there, and he’s fucking the wrecked cars...

[titleknown]

In other news, we live in the stupidest cyberpunk hell-dystopia.