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‘Cost Me the Election’: Data Centers Trigger Voter Backlash (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] 1 point 3 months ago* (2 children)

I remember that episode. Not exactly what I’m talking about, and I think it’s different enough that it’s worthwhile exploring in a separate episode. Like Fifteen Million Merits.

But you get the idea

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    15 Million Merits is about being unable to turn away from the advertisements, the cyclist can't even close their eyes too long except during sleep.

    The advertising in Common people is literally taking over a person's body to advertise to the people around them without their knowledge just cutting off their consciousness for a broadcast of a targeted ad.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Common people is about having a person’s co-opted, while 15 million merits is about having advertisements involuntarily pushed on a person. I think the idea under discussion here is a fusion of both concepts from opposite perspectives. I’d say it’s worth exploring in its own episode.

    Contemporaneous perspectives have shifted. As they had when each previous episode was written. That’s what’s particularly cool about black mirror. It’s an organic anthology. Previous concepts get revisited as technological terrors evolve (or our ideas of them do).

    Edit: spells & grams

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