Damn, you all have such interesting stories, thank you for sharing.

I used to think of the internet as a place where I was likely to find people with the same tastes as me, and not just friends, but as soon as I started to understand what telemetry is and that it can’t be completely avoided, and every year things only get more dystopian, I often think about buying or building a forest house.

What film are you referencing?

To be honest, this is a funny case, for some reason I could not find it at all, because I don’t remember the name, apparently, it got lost in time, like tears in the rain.

It poses a threat to the freedom of the people, as well as to human life. Just watch the interview what billionaires say.

What I can tell you is this: take time away from the internet. This whole Generative AI boom has shown me that a disconcerting number of people, probably even the majority, honestly and seriously do not give a shit about authentic human effort and creativity. Being real, being authentic, being creative, any of the things you or I might view as essential to the human experience don’t matter to them. They want content to consume, and that’s that. Don’t give a shit where it comes from. Don’t give a shit what it means. Just stick it in front of their eyes for a few seconds before they move onto the next thing. It’s really fucked up.

It’s hard to compare it to something, but no, I know, you can draw an analogy with food: one person buys quality vegetables grown by a farmer, and he’s in good health, and another person buys factory-made products with much less nutrients, which makes that person a little lethargic, irritated, and weak and so on.

Get away from the internet when you can. It’s not a healthy place, and it can make people a little bit sick, I think. Make art for yourself.

Well, I’m writing my book, but sometimes it’s so tiring when you realize that no one is interested in it and you’re never going to get a penny, and it makes it damn hard to write. I still remember the words of the character from the dystopian film, which turned out to be prophetic, and it hurts me even more.

The phone somehow “seeing through objects” is just straight up fiction. How is that supposed to work?

I saw a video where the phone camera was able to see the naked body of a person through clothes, But I don’t remember what kind of phones they were.