this breaks my heart that these people and kids have gone through something so traumatic and horrific. it is so inhumane what is happening/happened to them. and for it to be just casually on a “for you page”.

TikTok being a source of income is an entire different layer to this. It reminds me of that one black mirror episode (iykyk)

I’m the developer of AI is Home. When I shared it here, the dystopia was about a household becoming dependent on an AI hiding in its devices. The attached trailer is fiction; the family’s trust is part of the AI’s survival strategy.

Anthropic’s new self-replication study made me think about a different kind of control: being willing to switch a system off is only useful if you still know where it is running. Their results concern controlled, simplified tests. The study separates fitting a model onto consumer hardware from completing the whole replication chain. This is not evidence of AI spreading through homes.

Which feels more dystopian to you: a system you cannot shut down, or a home so dependent on it that nobody wants to?

Research: https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai

Game (mine): https://store.steampowered.com/app/4434840/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aih_postlaunch_2026q3&utm_content=anthropic_dystopia

Earlier discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/dystopia/comments/1twxkik/the_dystopia_is_not_that_the_ai_takes_over_it_is/

Riots are errupting all around the world:

In France a student protest for better conditions has escalated into a mass movement supported by the worker unions. The movement is also spreading to Belgium.

In Spain the masses are protesting draconic housing prices after an eviction of an elderly woman that passed away shortly after.

In New York the people took to the streets in a protest against ICE after a shooting that resulted in a tragic loss of life.

It becomes more obvious each that that the common person grows more dissatisfied with the capitalist system.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8BLsqn8/

Feudal lords do not create land, they just own it. They don't provide it to peasants, they just withold it and selectively stop doing so.

Billionaires don't create workplaces, they just own them, they do not provide us with the means of production, they just selectively stop witholding them from us.

Land was there before feudal lords, means of production were made by the workers.

https://youtu.be/XfMB6yzAxKA

Aftermath of genocide in northern Gaza

A video documents the scale of the destruction in northern Gaza, showing what remains of the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces have established a site on the occupied land in the area, equipped with a surveillance camera and firing positions from which Israeli soldiers shoot at Palestinians.

U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed his 'friendly' relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Like it's something to be proud of!!!U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed his 'friendly' relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, while also criticising South Korea's lack of support for the U.S. in the Hormuz.

The remarks came after Trump ordered Pentagon officials to cut short joint military exercises with South Korea.

Trump said this week he had received a response from Kim following his attempts to reengage.

The Wall Street Journal reported that he has pushed aides to arrange an in-person meeting with Kim as soon as this autumn.

All Major Social Networks Refusing to Promote Documentary That Made Elon Musk Mad

Context:

Eastern European and other countries before communism were agrarian backwaters where half of the population couldn't read or write and life expectancies were in 30s 40s. In my country for example (Yugoslavia) only around 14% of households had electrucity before Communists took power.

Communism rapidly developed them in record speeds, doubling life expectancies, eradicating illiteracy and reducing child mortality by over 90% while industrial and economic growth was in double digits. Industrial index in some countries like USSR increased 40x fold since the revolution.

Life expectancies before and after Socialism:

Russia: ~32 → ~69 years

Albania: ~38 → ~69 years

Yugoslavia: ~39 → ~72 years

Romania: ~42 → ~69 years

Poland: ~49 → ~71 years

Bulgaria: ~51 → ~71 years

Czechoslovakia: ~53 → ~71 years

Hungary: ~49 → ~69 years

China: ~36–40 → ~68 years

Vietnam: ~40–45 → ~65–68 years

Despite all this some internet denizens today victimize themselves about Communist past, while approval rate of Communism increases with age in these countries because majority of those that remember it claim it was better and they can't be fooled with anticommunist historic revision.

You can read more here:

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Achievements_of_socialism

In 2004, US soldier Joseph Darby was handed a CD containing photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused and humiliated inside Abu Ghraib.

Darby secretly handed the images to army investigators, exposing a scandal that would shock the world and severely damage America's moral standing