We already live in a dystopia.

In short:

Even if an employer doesn’t require the new ID, remember the UK government said that all IDs will soon have to be verified digitally. That suggests the employer will send the ID image or data to a government server which will respond with whether the person is allowed to work. So all IDs will essentially be turned into digital IDs and the government can make individuals unemployable if they do something the government doesn’t like.

A girl is claiming her TikTok videos were banned and her account was threatened with deletion for talking about Georgia homeowners being forced to sell their homes to make way for power lines to support data centers.

Dawkins points out how the goalposts have been moved from the Turing test without justification and claims it can be viewed as a test of consciousness.

Ukrainian Forces Captured A Russian Position Using ONLY Unmanned Ground Robotic Systems

Comic panels:

Once hailed as an innovative tool for crypto creators to hype their meme coins, the livestream function quickly spiraled into chaos, with users exploiting it for violence, threats, and outright insanity.

The woman filed no official complaint because obviously there was no case. But for AP it doesn’t matter, put it in the headline.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240917114909/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/university-north-texas-corpses-dissected-unclaimed-bodies-rcna170478

Source: https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/08/25/the-protest-park-nobody-asked-for-and-few-were-drawn-to-during-the-dnc/

This obviously isn’t something new that shows up overnight. We already had dating sims and the likes. But with generative AIs, the catch is that of scale and of personalization: not only it is easier to make thousands of virtual partners at a time, each individual virtual partners can be personalized to our liking.

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“Every now and again a story comes along that shows how much goodness there truly is in the world.”

This isn’t safe, either. It is untreated and raw, and several bodies of water have been found to contain pathogens such as E. Coli as a result.