Esthétique rétro-futuriste, lumières néon et nostalgie des années 80/90.
Had to slog through this build - just not enjoyable, wire management was bad and some lack of details on the first floor - could not figure out the reason behind the build process on this one - it looks good finished , but to me it was a struggle getting there .
When news broke of Peter Thiel comparing AI safety figures like Eliezer Yudkowsky to the "Antichrist," most commentary dismissed it as clickbate hyperbole. Having broken down night 1 of his lecture in detail, treating it purely as a cheap insult misses the actual Western intellectual canon he is deploying on stage.
Thiel's lecture rests on a very specific lineage: Vladimir Solovyov's Short Tale of the Antichrist (where the Antichrist presents as a hyper-moral, safety-obsessed philanthropist,) Rene Girard's mimetic theory (where safety becomes a scapegoating mechanism), and Carl Schmitt's political theology. He uses these texts to argue that the real civilizational threat isn't just apocalyptic risk, but a global safety regime that enforces total technological stagnation to manage that risk.
What makes the lecture interesting isn't just the texts he cited (Bacon, Solovyov, Girard, the Bible), but the critical structural canon he intentionally left out, specifically how safety apparatuses function under Ivan Illich, Ulrich Beck's Risk Society, and Habermas.
I wrote a full essay mapping out the complete canon behind Night 1, directing what Thiel said on stage versus what his framework omits. Curious to hear how people here evaluate his use of Solovyov and Girard. Does his framing of safetyism as stagnation hold up intellectually or is he misapplying the source material?
Dragon magazine No. 64 • August, 1982.
A 1988 concept illustration of a futuristic, SWATH-derived trimaran cruise ship. The cutaway design features a central atrium hotel structure, a revolving restaurant, a tilt-rotor VIP transport pad, a cinema, and an internal ferry dock.
Walking through transit hubs and public corridors now requires involuntary enrollment in automated biometric databases. Private vendors and municipal networks harvest physical identities without consent—corporate voyeurism masquerading as infrastructure.
Asking algorithms for personal privacy politely does not work. The working concept: the "Magic Glasses" (or anti-pervert frames)—clear Wayfarer-style frames retrofitted with exposed circuitry, manual toggles, and pulsed near-IR emitters.
The objective isn't absolute stealth; it is active operational friction against digital peeping toms. When ambient observation becomes non-consensual voyeurism, wearable optical pushback is the only reasonable response.
We’ve been developing THE CUBE, an adult cyberpunk graphic novel set in an AI‑driven floating dystopia where human emotions are harvested as energy.
Here’s a look at the Cube itself — the heart of this world.
Curious to know what you think
I was remembering a scene from a book i read like 30 years ago where a guy is (iirc) about to get intimate with someone and the tech in his stomach area starts talking to him and freaks out the woman. I think the story took place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with leftover tech still existent but i can’t remember the series. I thought it might’ve been called battle or war world but I that’s not the most descriptive name to find it. Anyway, just looking for movies or books or comics where high-tech low living in a wasteland is a thing.