Tag: tech dystopia

• 2025 letter | Dan Wang

  January 3, 2026

  Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal’s Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair https://danwang.co/2025-letter/ more ›

• Cory Doctorow: How AI is ensh*ttifying the web | Part Two of the Prospect Podcast interview

  December 6, 2025

  Looking for part one? Click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9XRREj1DSo On this episode of the Prospect Podcast, our hosts Ellen Halliday and Alona Ferber are joined by journalist, tech activist and sci-fi writer… more ›

• The Cyberpunk Guide: 50 Years of High Tech, Low Life Across Literature, Film, Anime, Comics & Gaming –

  October 25, 2025

  Cyberpunk explained: the cultural movement that merged technology with rebellion, from Neuromancer and Blade Runner to global variants and modern derivatives. https://retrofuturista.com/the-cyberpunk-guide-50-years-of-high-tech-low-life-across-literature-film-anime-comics-gaming/ more ›

• Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines

  October 22, 2025

  Tele-operators in Manila control robots and train AI for global firms, as offshoring automation creates new tech jobs and new risks in the Philippines. https://restofworld.org/2025/philippines-offshoring-automation-tech-jobs/ more ›

• Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes

  August 11, 2025

  Elon Musk’s xAI launched a Grok chatbot feature that creates nonconsensual nudes of celebrities despite efforts to purge this content from the internet. https://www.theverge.com/internet-censorship/756831/grok-spicy-videos-nonconsensual-deepfakes-online-safety more ›

• German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software

  August 6, 2025

  Police and spy agencies are keen to combat criminality and terrorism with artificial intelligence. But critics say the CIA-funded Palantir surveillance software enables “predictive policing.” https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117?maca=en-newsletter_en_bulletin-2097-xml-newsletter&at_medium=Newsletter&at_campaign=EN more ›

• Inside Anduril, Palmer Luckey’s Bid to Build a Border Wall

  May 31, 2025

  How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plans to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda. https://www.wired.com/story/palmer-luckey-anduril-border-wall/?utm_source=perplexity more ›