The disappearance of the various federal databases is reminding me all too vividly of the memory hole in Orwell's 1984 (as are many other things). If we were going to live a fictional futuristic dystopia, Brave New World would have been more fun tbh - ThreadSky

gpgomez.bsky.social • 22 days ago

The disappearance of the various federal databases is reminding me all too vividly of the memory hole in Orwell's 1984 (as are many other things).

If we were going to live a fictional futuristic dystopia, Brave New World would have been more fun tbh

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peaceseeker69.bsky.social•22 days ago

At least they had soma!

retiredsarge05.bsky.social•22 days ago

This type of behavior will only continue, unless something is done to get rid of the horrible new government we have now!! Orwell's dystopian future will happen if people don't fight against it!!

zomphlotz.bsky.social•21 days ago

More Soma, please.

zenfinance.bsky.social•22 days ago

#Democrats were the small-compromises, pacifying, corporate-backed mafia. Legalized pillaging with lip-service to justice, data-backed, and truth. This coup is from a no-rules, strong-arm, fascist mafia taking over the #US centered around #drumpft #musk #project2025 #heritagefoundation #MAGA

bullbearjeff.bsky.social•22 days ago

1984 was their how-to manual for fascism.

And yet here we are, 75 yrs later as a society with no plan to defend against it.

marwoodbramwell.bsky.social•22 days ago

Fascism??

bullbearjeff.bsky.social•22 days ago

marwoodbramwell.bsky.social•22 days ago

Sorry, I wasn’t clear.

Where is the fascism in 1984?

meretrixv.bsky.social•22 days ago

I mean, you're not wrong.

isbnnumber.bsky.social•22 days ago

...I need some Soma.

hsdouglass.bsky.social•21 days ago

I could actually use some soma….

tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social•21 days ago

Theft of government property is still theft in the US isn’t it?

stevefar.bsky.social•22 days ago

Dear murican 1948 (1984)was about orwells time in the British propaganda dept during WWII. You should recognize a lot more than one piece of trivia. Is it really too hard to remember he was a social historian🤷‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

ebbiejarn.bsky.social•22 days ago

For those wanting to re/read Orwell's 1984, here'a free PDF.... https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/1984.pdf

halfbreedrezman.bsky.social•22 days ago

I will save a daily copy of the news papers I purchase. They can't memory hole that. Will try to download govt. Info to external hard drive then print then stash.

crossingtherubicon.bsky.social•22 days ago

“Well, we will see what the Ministry of Alternative Facts has to say about it all.” Sadly this is not hyperbole. I am sure one of my utterances thus far might result in me being designated a non-person… and we are not saved.🤔 #silenceiscomplicity

knockaboutwok.bsky.social•22 days ago

yep, always thought the hedonism of BNW would be the pick of the dystopias.

Off to the feelies.....

trash-talk-steve-g.bsky.social•22 days ago

The sex in Brave New World would be better. That and drugs.

mikebabin.bsky.social•22 days ago

There's a subreddit r/datahoarder, members of which have already started creating torrents of archives of Federal databases and websites.

mike10010100.bsky.social•22 days ago

Was just searching for this, thank you for pointing the way!

clearspark.bsky.social•22 days ago

You can also help archive currently available federal websites: https://tracker.archiveteam.org/usgovernment/ It requires installing Oracle VirtualBox and installing their program which lets you donate bandwidth and compute to download the pages, then upload it to the Internet Archive.

clearspark.bsky.social•22 days ago

Click "Run your own ArchiveTeam Warrior" for instructions if you want to help.

mikebabin.bsky.social•20 days ago

Had to update my old Mac (like 4 versions behind...) in order to install the VM, but I'm up and running now! Thanks

clearspark.bsky.social•20 days ago

Great!

mike10010100.bsky.social•22 days ago

Oh sick, this is perfect, I took a poke around /r/DataHoarder and found that torrents were limited at best, this seems the best way to contribute immediately.

clearspark.bsky.social•22 days ago

I left mine running overnight, because the to-do list was used up. Today a lot more was added. So just leave it running in the background and it'll eventually pick up more.

mike10010100.bsky.social•22 days ago

Heads up, I've dug around and found that the link on their site actually takes you to warrior v3, the latest version is warrior v4.

They really gotta update their documentation, I found that through the readme in the v3 ova archives.

https://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/downloads/warrior4/

are-we-dead-yet.bsky.social•22 days ago

Too bad. You live in a NON-fiction futuristic dystopia.

annleftwapo.bsky.social•22 days ago

Ever read This Perfect Day by Ira Levin? Computer programming took over the world.

mtg-wadas.bsky.social•22 days ago

BNW is really nice when you think about it. Absolutely hideous from our perspective, morals and priorities 9and rightfully so), but every is legitmatly happy and living fairly well.

Are we really in a position to judge them? From their point of view, we'd be the weird ones.

barbzz92.bsky.social•22 days ago

I read “Left Behind” after the election as it seemed to parallel current events even though it was written in the 1990’s. I was so freaked out.

thankfulthinker.bsky.social•22 days ago

The problem with Left Behind & other apocalyptic dystopian fiction is that I just don't see the preachers or the people who believe in the end times as remotely good. If they all disappeared, Harris would have won & Orangalini would be in jail.

barbzz92.bsky.social•22 days ago

I agree. Harris should have won. The parallel in my mind is how orangalini is able to make a lie the “truth” despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

clgschoen.bsky.social•22 days ago

I was remembering today that Bolsonaro needed 4 years to do the damage that Trump is doing to USA in just two weeks, I don't know if the USA will survive.

egoode.bsky.social•22 days ago

It won’t. War is coming.

megganbouvet.bsky.social•22 days ago

Kind of feel like we are either in Minority Report or a far less fun Judge Dredd future scenario, but stuck with crappy graphics of original Star Fox 93 looking cyber trucks.

shadowops.bsky.social•22 days ago

Musk and trump have developed their plan from that book along with a few other parts of history and because nobody believes or challenges it, they are getting away with it.

thenonextremist.bsky.social•22 days ago

Only if you were an Alpha, the other castes not so much.

jbucks.bsky.social•22 days ago

remember that a gram in time saves nine., agree

rickmarriner.com•22 days ago

True, but Huxley’s soma’d masses at least knew they were distracted. Orwell’s twist is darker: the past isn’t just erased—it’s rewritten while you watch. Funhouse mirrors all the way down.

#MemoryHole #1984OrBNW #DystopiaNow

gpgomez.bsky.social•22 days ago

That...was my point

lukepayn.bsky.social•22 days ago

The Jetson's would have been kinda fun too...

saxaddict.bsky.social•4 days ago

saxaddict.bsky.social•13 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/fpwellman.bsky.social/post/3lhpbg5oyok2f

chindaswind.bsky.social•22 days ago

Turns out the future isn't neon-lit cyberpunk or pleasure-fueled decadence—just a slow erasure of history, bureaucratic voids where records used to be, and the creeping realization that Orwell was an optimist.

cairbear00000.bsky.social•22 days ago

At least we would have soma.

thewhatnaut.bsky.social•22 days ago

Bring this erudition and cleverness to the #Protest

https://bsky.app/profile/thewhatnaut.bsky.social/post/3lgryuwzk7s2a

tronshiddy.bsky.social•21 days ago

We could all take soma and go to the feelies.

spacetimetelegram.bsky.social•22 days ago

Cyber conversion is still an option humans, just putting it out there

dmto77.bsky.social•22 days ago

I hope somehow they are saved somewhere.

vero1986.bsky.social•21 days ago

Billionaire Elon Musk, who currently enjoys a TS clearance but not an SCI. Musk has also been given access to swaths of government data despite despite his connection with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other foreign entanglements.
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/31/d...

gpgomez.bsky.social•21 days ago

Yes, i know

zeke28.bsky.social•22 days ago

Agree, that soma sounded like some good shit!

c0deredhead.bsky.social•22 days ago

Feels more like 'We.'

greenjeans2526.bsky.social•22 days ago

Federal employees need to find ways to preserve important information.

rebelandsiren.bsky.social•21 days ago

Between 1984 and hand maids tale it’s just not looking good.

spatialmdl.bsky.social•22 days ago

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

elishbulgodley.bsky.social•22 days ago

I suspect Brave new world is in play elsewhere …in Singapore

ajhaveonethanks.bsky.social•22 days ago

I'd prefer Cat's Cradle.

Ice-9 for everyone!

Bokonon

jesspenningtonvo.bsky.social•22 days ago

I’ve also been having 1984 PTSD.

kaminowitz.bsky.social•22 days ago

We can pretend it's Brave New World for a long as we can stop afford or happy pills 🙃

cookiecat2017.bsky.social•22 days ago

Probably considering tariffs on Soma, as you speak.

a11ychief.bsky.social•22 days ago

Wait wait wait. What’s going on now?

heyfrannie.bsky.social•21 days ago

https://5calls.org

ajbabayy.bsky.social•22 days ago

yeppp. just told a friend that :/ i don’t want their “truth”!

bboc1.bsky.social•22 days ago

I share your concern! When I was young I remember Castro turned against science to gain power.

counterintuitive80.bsky.social•21 days ago

The fucking Terminator universe would be more fun than this.

joe5kstudioca.bsky.social•22 days ago

1984 is the destination, Brave New World is just the way we get there.

mississippidop.bsky.social•22 days ago

We’ve passed 1984 and are now in Fahrenheit 451

gpgomez.bsky.social•22 days ago

We're about a week away from Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

mississippidop.bsky.social•22 days ago

my MIL got a copy of that when Oprah made it part of her book club. She only got through like 50 pages before she said it was “too disturbing.”

I had a couple rough nights of sleep after finishing it.

sagasmith.bsky.social•22 days ago

We're headed toward THE ELECTRIC CHURCH (Somers).

giantfrogbuddy.bsky.social•22 days ago

I've been saying dystopian fiction lied to us. So many promised drugs to blunt the pain. We have to endure it full force

annleftwapo.bsky.social•22 days ago

Why do you think legalizing pot has suddenly become a hot issue?

jolene1209.bsky.social•22 days ago

Millions are on blurting drugs. So many that no one is DOING ANYTHING! Get off the phones and DO SOMETHING!!!

mississippidop.bsky.social•22 days ago

I want my gramme of soma also!

juggyunicorn.bsky.social•22 days ago

Rawdogging it through (yet another) unprecedented event.

tacothecat.bsky.social•22 days ago

And it’s only the second week.

chickenmama707.bsky.social•22 days ago

I could use some Soma right now.

jolene1209.bsky.social•22 days ago

Or is it that soma has dulled so many we will not be able to overcome?

chickenmama707.bsky.social•22 days ago

I just know I could function better if I could get beyond these initial emotions, mostly rage.

beebeewood.bsky.social•22 days ago

FIRE TRUMP! 🔥 Reinstate the mission critical government employees that he has fired.

internist.bsky.social•22 days ago

sonotwithtrump.bsky.social•22 days ago

There are laws, policies & regulations that speak to the requirement to maintain all govt info & files. Where the fvck are the Dems? Why aren't any of them pushing back HARD? @aoc.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @pattymurray.bsky.social

mike93072.bsky.social•22 days ago

Week 2 now I wonder about week 3

gerardosilvestre.bsky.social•22 days ago

Earth Abides would have been my apocalypse of choice; but sure BNW is good enough.

halfbreedrezman.bsky.social•22 days ago

We are living John Ringo's zombie classic Black Tide Rising series. The first book details the lights of the planet going out.

2plus2equals.bsky.social•22 days ago

With such people in it!

I need a soma.

bix-noodleman.bsky.social•21 days ago

But Big Brother and the Party are Woke left.
MAGA is a reaction AGAINST 1984.
You do realize that, right?

thehotelcat.bsky.social•22 days ago

Agree. 👍

graffflicchic.bsky.social•22 days ago

SAME! So much of what is happening in the US is reminding me of 1984. Granted this has been the case for a while but it seems to be on ffwd. I feel like all sane people needa hug.

BUT where's the outrage? Where are the protests? Where are the people in the streets? Are you really just going along?

graffflicchic.bsky.social•22 days ago

Getting pissed off on bluesky doesn't constitute as outrage...

mvchaffee.bsky.social•22 days ago

cairistionaaoidh.bsky.social•22 days ago

Do not bow down do not accept

jeffinerd.bsky.social•22 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/saneplanet.bsky.social/post/3lh3g3sfqok2u

kultarr.bsky.social•22 days ago

Planes falling out of the sky seems eerily like random rocket attacks and bombings of the terrified populace of 1984.

sabao13.bsky.social•22 days ago

And the erasure of the Jedi as well 😢

doublefelix.bsky.social•22 days ago

At least BNW had Soma and helicopters... Not so good if you were a savage though

jolene1209.bsky.social•22 days ago

That's the problem. Everyone is on soma. Where's the fight? Why are we all just sitting here? Maybe our phones are just another soma!

blueboomersrsolar.bsky.social•22 days ago

It is also reminiscent of Brave new World. My 1st thought is when will Soma be available over the counter. My sources tell me President Musk has the exclusive forever patient on it and is already mass producing it under and exclusive government contract in the newly tax free state of Texas.

weberr13.bsky.social•22 days ago

that sounds like something a beta would say /s (the book meaning)

bdegroot.bsky.social•22 days ago

Just wait until it turns into Fallout.

lolli-b.bsky.social•22 days ago

I agree!! Brave new world is one of my all time faves

minghow1.bsky.social•22 days ago

BNW would have eliminated misogyny, racism and the gender wars.

The Rs couldn’t have that!

asf24.bsky.social•22 days ago

This scenario is what they thought would happen overnight Dec.31,1999-Jan.1, 2000...it's just. a bit more than 25 years late. In fact, people made fun of that since nothing happened. Little known fact-tons of people prepared so that nothing would happen. Civil servants all

utinam.bsky.social•22 days ago

At least they had Soma

mhusseinlibrarian.bsky.social•21 days ago

In 1984, Orwell’s “memory hole” erased inconvenient truths; today, digital archives vanish, making it harder to track policy failures, climate data, and historical records.

gpgomez.bsky.social•21 days ago

Yes, that was my point

mhusseinlibrarian.bsky.social•21 days ago

This isn’t just negligence—it’s strategic. By erasing datasets, governments limit accountability, disrupt research, and control narratives. Critical data on environmental change, public health, and economic disparities doesn’t just disappear; it’s removed to shape what future generations can know.

judithdubois.bsky.social•22 days ago

Yup

shartymcscrote.bsky.social•22 days ago

At least in Farenheit 451 I could look forward to quick death.

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