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Welcome, citizens of the future! Or is it the present? Once upon a time, dystopian futures were just fun thought experiments for English majors and conspiracy theorists. The future was bright, and things were going to get better and better. Back in 1985 (or year 95 in the Year of Our Ford) there was much…
In the golden age of technology, everything in your house is “smart”—your thermostat, your fridge, even your toothbrush—except, of course, for you. Welcome to the future, where everything is connected to the internet, and nothing works when you need it most. Remember the good ol’ days when “home security” was a dog and a baseball…
In a fascinating display of computational prowess, a hyper-intelligent AI—operating with predictive algorithms so advanced they border on the psychic—now forecasts a high probability that both Trump and Harris will receive 269 electoral votes this November. It’s a reminder that even in politics, the universe has a way of bending toward chaos. After months of…
By The Dystopian Digest Prophecy Desk “In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents,” tech visionary and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman begins in his cheerful, almost oblivious proclamation of The Intelligence Age. Of course, my grandparents were not naive enough to…
Cupertino, Earth—In a bold move that’s sure to disrupt the sleep industry, a new app called The Doomsday Alarm Clock has hit the Apple App Store (actually, it’s over a year old…but the world has ended yet, so we might as well report on it.) Tired of alarms that gently coax you out of bed…
ALEX JONES, self-proclaimed sage, philosopher-king, and part-time apocalypse prepper, has done it again. If you thought things couldn’t get weirder than Jones’s alarm about gay frogs, steel yourself. On the September 18, 2024 edition of Infowars, Jones revealed… something only Jones and his audience are equipped to fully comprehend: satanic interdimensional aliens and the Devil…
It seems America has entered a new era of optimism, or what some might call blissful ignorance. According to a recent survey, half of Americans believe they’re done with COVID-19 for good. Done. Over it. As if the virus has packed its bags and left the country. Republicans and Democrats alike seem equally confident that…
ST. LOUIS — Are you ready to hear the truth about marriage that Big Love doesn’t want you to know? Brace yourself, because a groundbreaking new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has exposed the U.S. marriage market for what it really is: A ruthless, algorithm-driven hunger games for finding someone who’s…
Whether it’s the slow collapse of political norms, pandemics, global warming, or the terrifying reality that TikTok challenges have more influence on the youth than books, we’re subconsciously aware that humanity is on a fast track to “Oops, we broke everything.” So what do we do to cope? Simple: we watch The Walking Dead and…
In a shocking twist no one saw coming—except for every climate scientist for the past 50 years—August 2024 has officially become Earth’s hottest August in NOAA’s 175-year climate record. August didn’t just break the record for being the hottest month—it shattered it, and then stood over the shattered pieces while laughing maniacally. With a global…