"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

"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

"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...

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

“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...

“rich enough to play The Sims with real people” a real late stage capitalism vibe

"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...

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

A Tesla Cybertruck on fire outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas. If this isn't #cyberpunk...

"Investigators hope the lifelike hologram will help jog memories and draw attention to the unsolved murder." #cyberpunk

"The street finds its own uses for things." (negative). #cyberpunk www.inquirer.com/news/kensing...

"Uncommon dialects"? sites.google.com/view/rainbow...

Unfortunately #cyberpunk.

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

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

"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...

"...the street finds its own uses for things" -- @greatdismal.bsky.social, "Burning Chrome" (1982)

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe." #cyberpunk chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/06/tran...

Perplexity is able to achieve this partly through apparently ignoring a widely accepted web standard known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol to surreptitiously scrape areas of websites that operators do not want accessed by bots www.wired.com/story/perple...

"They sent a slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair." @greatdismal.bsky.social, Count Zero (1986) #cyberpunk futurism.com/the-byte/vid...

"... he'd explained that the cubes housed the recorded personalities of former executives, corporate directors. "They're not conscious. They respond, when questioned, in a manner approximating the response of the subject."" @greatdismal.bsky.social, Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) #cyberpunk

*Expensive agents from some First World intelligence agency are haplessly trying to find you, they're sending bewildered satellite messages "He was here just a minute ago, what the heck happened" youtu.be/d_79CyrpZPw?...

"The digital [Tupac] apparition performed “Hail Mary” to prove that we are no longer forced to choose between riding or dying. Within a year, the company that created the computer rendering filed for bankruptcy." #cyberpunk

Data poisoning to counter AI – the most #cyberpunk of all poisonings. "Nightshade exploits a security vulnerability in generative AI models ... that they are trained on vast amounts of data—in this case, images that have been hoovered from the internet. Nightshade messes with those images."

“And [spoiler] doesn’t really exist?”   “He’s as real as the fox.”   Hani looked doubtful. “How real is that?” - @joncg.bsky.social, Effendi (2002) Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan's party has used an AI voice clone of him to campaign from prison. #cyberpunk www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

"He knew that the trodes he used and the little plastic tiara dangling from a simstim deck were basically the same, and that the cyberspace matrix was actually a drastic simplification of the human sensorium" @greatdismal.bsky.social, Neuromancer (1984) #cyberpunk

"Don't look at the idoru's face. She is not flesh; she is information." - @greatdismal.bsky.social, Idoru (1996) #cyberpunk futurism.com/sports-illus...

The product is “100 percent fatal,” says McIntyre. “That is why we are uniquely situated among the Y Combinator companies.” www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/13/1...

The JSTOR Daily Sleuth is a game that "tests your ability to detect whether the title of an academic research paper is authentic or generated by AI." daily.jstor.org/jstor-daily-...

'"Entirely process; infinitely more than the combined sum of her various selves. The platforms sink beneath her, one after another, as she grows denser and more complex..." The eyes seemed to grow dreamy, in the light of passing storefronts.' @greatdismal.bsky.social, Idoru (1996) #cyberpunk

The Uyghur Forced Labor Checker Chrome extension notifies you when you’re shopping with a brand that may be implicated in using Uyghur forced labor. Everyday #cyberpunk. chrome.google.com/webstore/det...

"Deep Eddy killed his translation program, switched spexware, and scanned the man. ... Most people had no idea of the profound capacities of spexware. Most people still didn’t use spex. Most people were, in a word, losers..." @bruces.bsky.social, "Deep Eddy" (1993) code: github.com/acui51/monoc...

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