It becomes normal for corpo officials to have visibly armed and armored escorts after two or three more get gatted.

Taylor Swift/BTS album & a marvel movie are leaked onto torrent sites, leads to Millennium copyright act two: copy harder.

One or two SMRs come online, immediately start a nuclear panic.

First AI chatbot inspired mass shooting.

The EU does something stupid that can only harm it because Berlin and Paris are chasing the low IQ alcoholic vote.

Western company overplays its hand in Africa, gets clapped by locals.

UK tries to ban local generative AI. UK MP/Devolved administration official busted for generating AI CP (this isn't the cause of the attempted ban though)

Next fad in the small web is producing and hosting extremely twee podcasts/internet radio shows, all on the same topics, as an extension of making Zines that are all on the same topics. (I will listen to a great many of them)