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“What’s that?” she asked. “The ugliest T-shirt in the world,” he said, and kissed her cheek. ... “So ugly that digital cameras forget they’ve seen it.” Zero History (2010) by @greatdismal.bsky.social #cyberpunk
‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy
theguardian.com
"When I first saw the Meersbrook robots, they had been decorated. Someone had put handwritten name tags on them all. This way you could distinguish them, recognise them, humanise them even." – @seanmorl.com #cyberpunk nowthenmagazine.com/articles/why...
Why Do I Hate The Delivery Robots?
Full conscription into the machine war has expanded to Sheffield. I went to meet our mechanical overlords in Meersbrook Park.
nowthenmagazine.com
deleting a white supremacist dating site live onstage while dressed as the pink power ranger has got to be one of the most cathartic hacker experiences
*You can escape the Amazon/Walmart-ChatGPT funnel by wearing a Chinese AI-shopping device right on your face
*"Everyday Cyberpunk" is probably a better everyday term than "cyberpunk social realism" *But, well, one is a term-of-art about writing books, while the other is about being blown to pieces in a jungle by some wicked thing buzzing overhead
// everyday.cyberpunk //@everydaycyberpunk.bsky.social · 8mo agoAs Everyday Cyberpunk a chart as you're likely to see. #cyberpunk #drones
We're now working on a romcom about a Chinese AI and an American AI that get together behind their users' backs. Not sure what the meet-cute will be. #cyberpunk www.chinatalk.media/p/why-americ...
Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends
and what it all means
chinatalk.media
"the street finds its own uses for things" @greatdismal.bsky.social, Burning Chrome (1982) "This gives you an AI-generated mock driving licence for your MP based on public data." #cyberpunk use-their-id.com
Use Their ID
use-their-id.com
"the street finds its own uses for things" @greatdismal.bsky.social, Burning Chrome (1982) 'An interactive video training for getting into nightclubs', specifically Berlin's (in)famous techno club Berghain. Uses face recognition and your computer's mic. #cyberpunk berghaintrainer.com
Berghaintrainer
Berghaintrainer. An interactive video training for getting into nightclubs.
berghaintrainer.com
"Don't wear them glasses too long. Starts to feel like a knife turnin' in your skull." THEY LIVE (1988) #cyberpunk sidequestvr.com/app/43239/re...
Real Life Ad Block on SideQuest Oculus Quest Games & Apps including AppLab Games ( Oculus App Lab )
Block ads in the real world using the Quest's AR features and passthrough cameras. Ad block is no longer limited to web browsers, now you can block the advertisements that pollute our built environme...
sidequestvr.com
You thought cyberpunk was going to be mirrorshades and wireblades? It’s a guy in Bangalore with eight open chat windows pretending to be a 20 year old American woman and using jailbroken AI to come up with sex talk.
"How do the stories about--" she hesitated, having almost said the loa, "about things in the matrix, how do they fit in to this supreme-being idea?" "They don't. Both are variants of 'When it Changed.' Both are of very recent origin." @greatdismal.bsky.social, Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) #cyberpunk
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
rollingstone.com
“Motive,” the construct said. “Real motive problem, with an AI." @greatdismal.bsky.social, Neuromancer (1984) #cyberpunk #AI #hacking www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/a...
AI code suggestions sabotage software supply chain
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
theregister.com
“rich enough to play The Sims with real people” a real late stage capitalism vibe
ostonox@ostonox.com · last yr.mr beast talking about the human lives he has trapped in simultaneous simulations with "cant wait to upload these" is why black mirror can never be as good as it used to be
"Cocteau Behavioral Engineering, B.E. will continue rehabilitation by altering your behavior through synaptic suggestion during cryogenic sleep." Demolition Man (Daniel Waters & Jonathan Lemkin, 1992) #cyberpunk www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘An ideal tool’: prisons are using virtual reality to help people in solitary confinement
Participants view scenes of daily life as well as travel adventures – then process the emotions they trigger through art
theguardian.com
The street finds its own uses for things in order to replicate 19th-century art fads. Your phone (turned off) is also a 'Claude glass'. from the UK's National Gallery on IG: www.instagram.com/reel/DF5SQUj... #cyberpunk
A ChatGPT-4–authored (check out that opening paragraph) advertorial about a novelty MAGA assault rifle? #cyberpunk, sadly.
People who laugh at a Tesla exploding are showing their ignorance of automotive engineering. This is a normal part of the development process, and the data gathered from the explosion will help Tesla to one day build a car that doesn’t explode
"Investigators hope the lifelike hologram will help jog memories and draw attention to the unsolved murder." #cyberpunk
Amsterdam red light district: Hologram aims to solve sex worker's murder
The fatal stabbing of a Hungarian teenager, killed shortly after she gave birth, has baffled police for 15 years.
bbc.com
"The street finds its own uses for things." (negative). #cyberpunk www.inquirer.com/news/kensing...
Some in Kensington say police are using Narcan on people who aren’t overdosing
Amid Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s Kensington crackdown, some drug users accuse police of using naloxone improperly — by administering it, or threatening to do so, on people who are not overdosing.
inquirer.com
Sometimes the uses the street finds are just mean. "Bolt has restricted "inter-country" requests between Nigeria and South Africa after the two countries' social media rivalry reached an all-time high...with people booking and then cancelling rides in the other nation as a prank." #cyberpunk
Bolt halts 'inter-country' rides after Nigeria-South Africa row
People were booking and then cancelling rides in the other country as a prank.
bbc.com
Traffic Cam Photobooth is a website that allows anybody to locate their nearest publicly available traffic camera and use it to take pictures of themselves. #cyberpunk trafficcamphotobooth.com
Traffic Cam Photobooth
Take selfies with traffic cameras! An anti-surveillance site by WTTDOTM.
trafficcamphotobooth.com
"The cab was old and was somewhat seedy, needing repairs; its irritability showed in the activity of its autonomic circuitry." Now Wait For Last Year, Philip K Dick (1966) #cyberpunk www.latimes.com/california/s...
Driverless Waymo taxis disturb peace, sleep in Bay Area by honking — at each other
Waymo's robotaxis have started occupying a new San Francisco lot at night. Nearby residents are finding the self-driving cars honk, for some reason, at each other, often waking them up.
latimes.com
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe." #cyberpunk chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/06/tran...
Translation: He Jiayan on the "Accelerating Collapse" of the Chinese Internet
Late last month, a WeChat article about the “collapse of the Chinese-language internet” attracted tens of thousands of views and spurred an enthusiastic response before it was eventually censored. Wri...
chinadigitaltimes.net
