Odyssey 5 (2002)

… five space travelers … witness the destruction of the Earth; they are given the opportunity to travel to the past to identify and prevent the cataclysm.

Rubicon (2010)

… an innocent character is caught up in, and slowly unravels, a major conspiracy.

Fantastic picture quality (for me, a hi-fi geek with a JVC projector). I forget to follow the plot while admiring the cinematography.

But they do: https://murena.com/america

How about Murena Fairphone/Shiftphone with non-rooted /e/OS and locked bootloader?

The hypersane smart get called crazy by conformists.

It may be U.S. plutocrat strategy to weaken political enemies by killing their companies.

Consider Microsoft destroying Nokia and their Linux phones to benefit fellow American companies Apple and Google.

Consider the Destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base.

There are many custom ROMs based on AOSP: GrapheneOS (for security against hacking and confiscation), LineageOS and its descendants /e/OS, iodéOS, and crDroid, etc. CalyxOS is not doing well right now, but it should be back in a few months.

Make sure you can relock the bootloader after installing to protect against attacks through the USB connector.

Murena ships /e/OS preinstalled on the European Fairphone and Shiftphone. Iodé similarly.

Then there’s Volla phone which can have Linux (Ubuntu Touch) and and VollaOS (AOSP-based) on the same phone. There are other Linux phones, but nobody recommends them for normal consumers.

Stop exaggerating. The OpenAI speech-to-text service is a paid extra you don’t accidentally switch on, and telemetry is off by default and hidden in the developer options menu.

(But yeah, OpenAI was a disgusting choice. The default should have been local, even if it’s worse.)

Not CalyxOS right now.
https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/

I went with /e/OS, and it works well, even bank apps.

I believe capitalism is the problem, and should be replaced by a retroactively-estimating value-production reward-system. Only the economy is overhauled, not society.

Capitalism bastardised the internet to be like this. There was a communal web in the making.

https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Consider the destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base.
https://lemmy.world/post/24108120

Quora’s enshittification has that vibe too.

Twitter.

If they’d choose to do dysgenics, sure. Why though? Making a slave race?

Eugenics could be used ethically to improve humanity

Improving humans via new eugenics by transhumanists is compatible with human rights.

We allow natural mutation to produce illness and other problems. Why not design babies?

Gene editing will be cheap and widespread. What laws produce ethical results? Should personal eugenics be a human right? How about parental eugenics? Which baby designs are ethical? Don’t say the current natural ones, because many of them are unhappy, ill, or die young.

Misplacing the blame

Genocidal people having used eugenics as an excuse for mass murder doesn’t make eugenics itself bad. Blaming eugenics does nothing to prevent further genocide with excuses. Hate does genocide, the various excuses do not.

(Similarly, over-optimistic fools slamming one version of communism on a whole country without prototyping different versions in villages first, crashing the whole country, doesn’t make communism itself bad. Blaming communism does nothing to prevent foolhardy mistakes in societal change. Development should be nimble, prototypes should be cheap.)

We don’t ban money because it’s used to hurt people - we regulate dangerous stuff to protect human rights. Or, should regulate.

Eugenics works on animals:

Dogs have better social skills than wolves = eugenics.
Some dogs have trouble breathing = dysgenics.
Stray dogs in the wilderness are worse hunters than wolves = dysgenics in that environment.

Humans could be better:

Humans could be designed to work well in their lives:

• No disease, no ailment, unless asked for by patient candidate.
• Happy childhood in a family where everyone’s personality is compatible with each other, DNA-matched.
  (can even be done by trading babies, without gene editing)
• Happy working career, DNA-matched.
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Humanity could be better:

Humanity could be designed to work well in its evolution:

• Better thinkers for avoiding disasters.
• Fewer born sociopaths, less risk of human extinction on purpose with future weapons.
  (If a time comes when anyone can make humanity-ending technology, we may have to ban undesigned babies on a whole planet. Separate free-range planets for dangerous organic humans.)
• Fast adaptation to environmental changes, such as Mars colony in unhealthy 1/3 gravity.
• Better disaster survivability through diversification.

Separate the human kinds from incompatibles

Echo chambers (countries, languages, professions) are cultures protecting their own environment from incompatible cultures. When a group of people demands seemingly absurd laws, they should be allowed to apply those laws to all volunteers, babies being non-volunteers with universal rights. At least personal eugenics should be legal, like body modification is now. Ear piercing is a modification some abhor.

Transhumans and conservatives need to stay away from each other, and current technology could help: phones could navigate people, routing incompatibles around like oil and water. On shared ground, weirdos would always happen to be on the other side of the street. Train cars and elevators filled with groups of people approximately their own kind. All cars good looking on every commute, timed just right for people’s tastes. On the web, OkCupid and Quora used to be good at that, matching tastes and interests.

Do the opposite of what the for-profit sensationalist media does, smearing the wildest progressive stunts in the conservative’s face, because rage sells, anger is addictive. The blame is mistakenly placed on the depicted, not the media breaking people’s boundaries by pushing incompatible people into knowledge of each other.

If they got access to the DNA data that many companies collect to analyse heritage and health, the eugenics could work well.

Changing the business model from pay-to-play into escrow-held matching success reward would change dating.
If a user likes another, and wants more matches of the same kind, they must admit the dating company was successful, and the escrow pays them.
If you choose not to release the payment, it means the match was bad and the matching algorithm must be corrected according to your stated reason for dissatisfaction. If you hold on to the deposited money despite success, your matches get worse.

The mistake was to push an individual solution to a systemic problem. He should have tried to get mandatory tipping banned.