A local friend of mine has been putting together a huge outline of ideas for a speculative fiction novel that's rooted in the current geopolitical situation, and we were looking for ideas for fleshing out characters. Specifically, one "faction" she came up with was a group of furries living in an underground bunker, orchestrating a revolution via the Internet and similar technology.
Do folks have suggestions on characters or character archetypes for this group? :3
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tk♲ @junefromthemoon@diaspora-fr.org:Amidst the hustle and bustle of Bangkok’s streets, the giant sun seems to embrace the majestic Buddha statue of Wat Paknam Phasi Charoen, radiating a brilliant glow. The golden-orange light bathes the city, creating a striking contrast between sacred tranquility and the frantic urban life below. The congested traffic, interwoven signs, and tangled wires reflect daily life, while the Buddha statue offers a sense of peace, a spiritual anchor amidst the constant movement of humanity. Stacked images of the sun and the Buddha statue, taken at 800mm focal length using a 400-800mm lens and a Sony A7 Mark V body.
In short: those of us not currently targeted by the regime are living under the normative state, while those targeted by the regime are living under the prerogative state, mirroring Ernst Fraenkel's "dual state" that was the Nazi regime in Germany.
The unfortunate reality is that this regime gets to choose who lives under which law, which means the dividing line can move at any time. :(
"At the time, that's what everyone did. If a hotel wanted electricity, they had their own electric generator," Bezos explains. "I looked at this, and I thought, this is what computation is like today; everyone has their own data center."
Interestingly, he continues to say, "that's not going to last. It makes no sense. You're going to buy compute off the grid. That's AWS."
What if the main reason why these AI corporations are buying up so much hardware is to prevent the consumers from buying hardware because they don't want people to be able to run local LLMs? They're afraid that their business models will collapse when people can use AI without paying them subscription fees, etc.
SomeOrdinaryGamers recently put up this video saying exactly that: their business models will collapse if people can run local LLMs on their PCs, laptops, smartphones, etc.
Your Next Car Will Watch Your Eyes — State of SurveillanceCongress mandated in 2021 that all new cars include "advanced impaired driving prevention technology" by 2027. The tech includes infrared cameras that track your eyes, pupil dilation, and driving behavior. NHTSA missed its deadline to finalize rules because no current system meets the required 99.9% accuracy—even that level would strand tens of millions of sober drivers per year.What Congress Passed
Section 24220 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed by President Biden in November 2021, directed NHTSA to finalize rules requiring "passive" impaired driving detection in all new passenger vehicles carrying 12 or fewer people. The original deadline was November 2024. It passed without action.
The law defines the technology as systems that either:
Passively monitor driver performance to identify impairment and prevent vehicle operation
Passively detect blood alcohol concentration above the legal limit
Both of the above
The word "passive" is key. These systems must work without any action from the driver. No blowing into a breathalyzer. No touching a sensor. Just constant, invisible monitoring.
Just another chapter of this regime's incompetence, just like the airplane crashes in early 2025. Really sucks how people have been dying because of it since the very beginning. :( ♲ mas.to/@fsinn/1162787255501536…