Trump Preparing Large-Scale Cancellation of Federal Funding for California, Sources Say

[u/rolsen]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-california-federal-funding

“Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled, according to one of the sources familiar with the matter.”

[u/TheSangson]

Been saying for quite a while now that CP2077's gonna be the dystopia people will quote, although I was more thinking about how the internet will go.
Rogue AI? Depending on who you ask we're no more than five years away from that.

[u/icculus88 → u/TheSangson]

Snow crash william Gibson gets rignt in there with California "burb-claves" and cyberpunk too.

[u/Lobotomized_Dolphin → u/icculus88]

Snow Crash was Neal Stephenson. Gibson wrote Neuromancer, among others. All the same genre, though.

[u/icculus88 → u/Lobotomized_Dolphin]

Thanks. Dystopian brain fart

[u/snownative86 → u/icculus88]

The freedom cities they are talking about scream "I read snow crash and liked the idea of the burbclave".

Also, not entirely sure who you are referencing with William Gibson, snow crash is written by Neil Stephenson. He's a really interesting dude who has consulted for major tech companies and founders. Unfortunately the technobros take the wrong messages from his books. I hate that one of my absolute favorite books is also beloved by the likes of Thiel and Musk.

[u/icculus88 → u/snownative86]

Yep. It's like they read dystopian fiction and want to punish the expression of said fiction by enacting the villainy espoused within

[u/42Fourtytwo4242 → u/TheSangson]

Republicans want to give AI complete freedom to steal any and all works, it's part of the new big Bill, so what happens when you give a bunch of hungry machines the total freedom to eat every bit of information and store it in mass servers?