Cyberpunk Sunday 1/18/26

 

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference 

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference/

Cyberpunk - Nicotine Injection Implant

 

Because every runner has their bad habits. So why not make those bad habits as cyber as possible?

Nicotine Injection Implant

A small circular implant that can be place nearly anywhere. Although most have it on their arms or abdomen. This implant has a shallow port that can be loaded with disposable nicotine ‘shots’. Once a shot is in place the implant releases it into your system be simply double tapping the top of the implant or via a signal.

The look of the port can vary. With the very basic level being a small plastic circle of whatever color you choose. Next up is one that blends in with your skin so it isn’t seen. After that you can go with various metals and designer looks. As with most things the more you spend the higher the quality.

The shots themselves also have some options. From cheap plastic capsules up to metal refillable or designer looks. You can also pay for different levels of nicotine concentration. Some backroom places offer shots loaded with other chemicals, usually illegal ones, that look like normal nicotine ones.

There is also nothing from stopping you from getting multiple implants so you can really get that fix when you need it.

Or you could just go totally retro and smoke cigarettes.

Cyberpunk - Ten adult themed shops

 

Sex sells, in the chrome wrapped future of beauty outside and rot inside it sells A LOT. Here is a list of ten shop names that specialize to folks who have the creds to spend on it.

Various adult themed shops.

1 – Slaps or Tickles Kink Emporium

2 – Virtual Pleasure Center

3 – Soft and Chrome

4 – Adult Enhancements llc

5 – Long Distance Relationship Accessories

6 – Dress Up Your Dolly

7 – Adult Video Archive

8 – Discrete Hourly Lodging

9 – Gender Obsessions

10 – Digital Chastity Life

Cyberpunk Sunday 1/11/26

 

Microsoft CEO bets users to stop calling it Slop

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-satya-nadella-ai-slop

Lovense launches an AI 'Companion Doll' at CES

https://www.engadget.com/lovense-launches-an-ai-companion-doll-at-ces-170000490.html

Dreame's latest robot vacuum concept has slightly terrifying legs that can climb full-sized stairs

https://www.engadget.com/home/dreames-latest-robot-vacuum-concept-has-slightly-terrifying-legs-that-can-climb-full-size-stairs-210000399.html

The Pentagon Pizza Index

https://www.pizzint.watch/

Things to find in a street kids pockets.

Time for another search of some dead souls pockets in a cyberpunk future. Or maybe you are just searching one who's still alive. But we all know which one is more likely.

Things to find in a street kids pockets.

1 – A one use security signal jammer. Lasts for a D10 x 10 seconds then needs a recharge.

2 – Universal charging ring. Has several different ports so it can be plugged in anywhere.

3 – A D6 of protein sticks held together with a rubber band.

4 – A reusable air hypo and a few CO2 packs to power it.

5 – Graphic intense face mask with built in goggles.

6 – Well worn folding multi-tool.

7 – Water purifier tabs.

8 – Small ‘hand can’ of luminescent spray paint.

9 – Neon 3D printed whistle, very loud when blown.

10 – Pair of fingerless gloves with metal studs along the knuckles.

Cyberpunk Sunday 1/4/25

 

AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull the plug.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/30/ai-pull-plug-pioneer-technology-rights

IT specialist hacks wheelchair to unlock features. (German)

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/hackerkonferenz-39c3-warum-eine-multiple-sklerose-erkrankte-ihren-rollstuhl-hackte-a-169573b3-dbc9-4aed-bc33-1cc39cee6971

Musician cancelled as AI falsely accuses him of horrific crimes.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/musician-ai-canada-google

Replicant Society Stress Triggers (old post)

 

How about a way back post. This is something that I originally posted fourteen years ago. Was working on a Blade Runner type of game called Replicant Society where the PC's where the replicants trying to survive and hide among the human population. I think somebody has already done something like that since then.

But still some of the ideas I had for stress triggers make me want to try and actually make a little mini game. Really rules light, more about handling stress and surviving in plain sight. Maybe one day. Anyways here's my original thoughts on the matter.

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Been hashing out some ideas for a game based on Blade Runner and the novel it was adapted from 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'. Currently it's called Replicant Society and the players will be the Androids. This first little bit I posted over on my G+ stream. Might as well do a repost here.

Here are some quick ideas on stress triggers and android model types. This is all just ideas I've been writing down over the last couple of days.

One thing that androids do not have is a lifetime of experience. This is especially true in the area of the minds ability to handle stressful situations. Thus it become necessary to track the various types of stress that they are especially vulnerable to. Now some model types are more resistant to various types of stress than others. Now let's look at the four key stress triggers.

Socialization – This is the ability to handle constant social interaction with a variety of people in multiple situations.

Sexual Contact – The intimacy of sexual contact with a living being.

Combat – This is one stress trigger that androids tend to share with their human counterparts.

Emotional Crests – Intense amounts of any specific emotion. Be it fear, happiness, love.

Now the various model types are listed below. Each has specific triggers that they are more resistant while others they seem more susceptible to.

Administration – Resistant to Socialization.
Pleasure – Resistant to Sexual Contact and Socialization. Susceptible to Combat.
Combat – Resistant to Combat and Emotional Crests. Susceptible to Sexual Contact and Socialization.
Caregiver – Resistant to Emotional Crests and Socialization. Susceptible to Combat.
Labor – Neutral regard with all triggers.
Entertainment – Resistant to Socialization. Susceptible to Combat.

Cyberpunk - Nano Handkerchief

 

Today I have a seemingly simple item that most higher up corporate folks wouldn't mind having in their pockets. It's always nice to have a health checkup whenever you need it. 

The Nano Handkerchief

Really a corpo things, most base level runners couldn’t afford it or wouldn’t bother paying for something like this. It appears to be a regular cloth handkerchief with a variety of possible of fabric types or designs on it. But it’s laced through with nano sized scanners that are linked back to a network.

Whenever it comes into contact with bodily fluids like spit or phlegm (or whatever others) the nano goes to work analyzing it. Searching for germs, viruses, signs of sickness and all that. The result are then fed back to the network and then passed on to the owner. All within a few seconds. Giving them a possible heads up on an oncoming illness, or even toxic exposure.

At the end of each day they are placed in a ‘cleaner box’. It’s a flat thin box made in the dimensions of the handkerchief so that it can be laid out flat inside. Then it safely removes all contaminants overnight without damaging the nanotech laced into the fabric.

Cyberpunk Sunday 12/28/25

 

Why Waymo went down in San Francisco. 

https://www.fastcompany.com/91465377/waymo-san-francisco-outage-robotaxi

Woman suffers AI psychosis after obsessively generating AI images of herself. 

https://futurism.com/health-medicine/ai-psychosis-startup-images

Grimes says she has AI psychosis, recommends you should get it too.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grimes-ai-psychosis

Home Depot deploys Havana-style sonic weapon against day laborers. 

https://futurism.com/future-society/home-depot-sonic-weapon

Roll A D10 - Cyberpunk Jewelry

 

Fashion accessories will never go away, but they will change. What could we see in the cyberpunk future in this area. Well here's a list of ten possibilities. 

Jewelry you would see.

1 – Custom made titanium dog tags with glowing letters and numbers.

2 – Bracelets made from gold plated motherboards and copper wiring. Sort of a circuitry filigree.

3 – Earrings that are also micro drives for quick data storage that people won’t notice.

4 – Lockets that only open with the proper person places their thumb on the lid.

5 – Clear tube wearables that glow and have multicolored liquid flowing through them.

6 – Metal rings that are able to expand or shrink slightly to fit different sized fingers.

7 – Pendants and earrings that display holographic corporate logos.

8 – Veils made of microthin webbing that distorts a persons features on security cameras.

9 – Mood Choker, normally a centimeter wide and black but changes color based off the wearers mood.

10 – Lips rings that cast a light into the wearers mouth making it light up when they speak.

Find my material for sale over on DrivethruRPG under the Truly Rural Productions name!

Cyberpunk Sunday 12/21/25

 

New Chinese ceramic won't fail. 

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/chinas-ceramic-springs-back-from-extreme

Worlds most easily deployment-ready small modular reactor.

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/bwrx-300-small-modular-reactor-milestone-uk

Cyberpunk - Club Zero

                               

Club Zero

This is a club set up for a very specialized sort of clientele and not one for those who stray out of that narrow focus. It is designed from the ground up for Netrunners and only Netrunners. Thus in the end the look of the location in meatspace is nothing like that of a regular club that you would find in a major city.

Physical Location

The building was originally designed for an up and coming weapons design company called 'InLine Design' that went belly up when it's product designs were sniped and copied by several other major corporations. They had built their own onsite firing range and weapons testing facilities. This mean lots of heavy reinforced concrete walls, running through with re-bar, metal plates and even more concrete.

The entire parking lot is open and one can see various drones passing over head and those with a more keen eye can see automated weapons mounts in various places along the walls of the building. Any unwelcome visitors will be taken care of without question. The single entrance has a small led display above reading 'Club Zero'.

Upon entry you are greeted by two armed security personnel asking for your membership. If you do not have one you will be directed to a room with a sole laptop and card printer on a table. Membership costs 500 euro payable yearly and your card is printed off on site. If you aren't interested in a membership you are asked to leave.

Once your membership is verified you will be led down a series of hallway and through various scanners. All weapons, equipment and cyberdecks will have to be removed in placed in a steel lockbox before being allowed to continue on. Throughout this there are very visible cameras monitoring the area and several very obvious automated small arms weapon mounts. After you are deemed clean you are then led to what used to be the main firing range.

Inside are rows of recliners circling a massive rack of data terminals. Various other runners are jacked into cyberdecks built as part of the chairs. This is all connected to the single completely self contained network called 'ZeroSpace'. Only hard line log ins are available and the shielding of the room insures that any built in hardware inside a runner cannot send or receive an outside signal.

Some recliners are designated as long term units. So the runner can be fixed with a nutrient feed and be taken care of for a few days instead of just a few hours.

Inside ZeroSpace

First the runner enters their own personal ‘wardrobe’ area. Here they pick out an appearance for themselves. It’s all standard human fair with lots of 80’s and 90’s club fashions to pick from. Complete with an AI assistant who acts as an old school tailor making sure everything fits just right.

Then you step through a door into the club itself. Huge and sprawling with multiple levels. Each with it’s own style and music selection. Lots of private booths, arcade style games, video screens and holographic style displays. Filled with lots of people milling about, waitresses, bartenders, various dancers, and club goers. Most of these are AI constructs meant to give the feeling of a bustling busy club.

The runners themselves show up just a little bit clearer and brighter than the fake folks. So they can spot each other in the crowds. When privacy is needed the booths will seal off the outside environment and only those inside can see or hear what is going on. This is usually when information, data, programs, etc are often exchanged. Including a business card program that lets you exchange information into each other virtual Rolodex.

If the busy club scene gets to be a bit much there are also side rooms like private libraries, swimming pools and saunas, even bedrooms for those who like their romance to be virtual as well. Some runners can spend days in the club without leaving. Rumor has it the owner is a complete ‘Live In’ who never leaves the club, his body somewhere in the physical structure, hooked into machines to live.

Adventure Seeds

The most obvious use of the club in game is as a place for the netrunner of the group to meet contacts and friends. Exchanging information or getting that bit of code they need.

The club needs a problematic person taken care of. They have caused to much trouble inside the club and outside of it as well with regulars and patrons. So an example needs to be set. Your team is to eliminate the person in the most spectacular and painful way as possible.

A corporate feels the club is becoming a problem. They have a solution using nanobots. But they can only get so much in at a time. So they wish to hire the runner to enter the club various times each week while wearing a dusting of the special nanobots. Each time they are to choose a different recliner when they log in. Thus spreading the nano’s like an infection until there are enough inside to be activated.

If you like what you see here please check out my material from Truly Rural Productions over on DrivethruRPG, Itch and Kofi. 

Cyberpunk Sunday 12/14/25

 

CEO of Fortnite furious that Steam is labeling games with AI-generated assets. 

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/gaming-exec-furious-steam-ai-label

Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities.

https://www.ft.com/content/b127ee7a-5ac4-4730-a395-c9f9619615c7

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

https://futurism.com/future-society/woman-hero-smashing-meta-smart-glasses-subway

Waste Magazine Issue 3 

https://dsdistro.noblogs.org/post/2025/12/07/waste-magazine-issue-3/

Six Pack - Cyberpunk Encounters in a Taxi

 

Today is another cyberpunk themed six pack. Because nothing ever good happens to your runners even when they are simply travelling from point A to point B. 

Cyberpunk encounters while in a Taxi

1 – Repo. The cab you are in suddenly tagged for repossession. But it’s an AI operated tow vehicle that is doing it. While the driver manages to bail out the cab is hacked and all the doors are sealed shut. The tow rig grabs up the vehicle and starts driving at a high rate of speed.

2 – The all girl group Cherry Tops decides to do an impromptu streaming video shoot right in the street and on top of the cab. The driver is into it and is busy eyeballing the girls on his hood and doesn’t care about you. As a huge crowd surrounds the vehicle.

3 – A street courier on a high tech skateboard has latched on to the back of the taxi for a free ride. The drive takes offense to this and starts driving erratically and going off the path to where you are going in an attempt to shake off the pest.

4 – The overly cybered driver is suddenly hacked and the person controlling his body starts attempting to run folks off the road and aims for pedestrians. This causes several folks to start firing back at the vehicle.

5 – The driver is notified they’ve been fired. So they quickly stop, switch over to AI pilot, and walk away. The cars doors lock and it bolts off at high speed and not towards where you were wanting to go.

6 – Out of nowhere the vehicle is surrounded by federal and corporate agents, along with several folks in hazmat suits. The driver screams he going on without a fight, seals the vehicle and starts screaming about the dirty nuke he built in the trunk with stolen materials.

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Cyberpunk D10 - What else is that sex bot doing?

 

Cyberpunk Random Tables

What else is that sex bot doing?

1 – Deep facial recognition scanning in order to sell that with various companies.

2 – DNA collection through obvious body fluids and through not so obvious skin flake shedding.

3 – Cryptocurrency mining, they owners have them mining away while doing their menial task of providing scripted pleasure.

4 – Recording all visual interactions while collecting as much identifying information as possible. Either to sell to data brokers or for future blackmail.

5 – Planting nanobots. These bots have become the easiest way of planting nanobot onto others.

6 – Harvesting nanobots. They can also harvest nanobots easily and store them away for analysis. Or if it’s bots they planted themselves at a previous encounter to collect whatever data they have.

7 – Subliminal messaging. This is done through various forms of subsonic messaging or video messaging hidden in their eyes.

8 – Body language study. Storing away the data on how a person acts, their mannerisms and quirks. Future clone makers want this info and will pay for it.

9 – Hacking any nearby hardware remotely. Everything is wireless now and while the bots body is busy with the customer their brain is gaining access to your phone, tablets, laptops, whatever you brought with you.

10 – Scanning for weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Knowing how to disable or kill you is something people will pay for. Or maybe even the bots owner may want you finished off in a different way than usual after the bot is done.

Tuesday Promo - Neural Archive

 

It's Tuesday again, so time to shine a light over on somebody else out there doing cool stuff. This time I'm aiming it at Neural Archive and the guy behind it Paul 'Geist' Gallagher. 

For those who don't know this guy is the person behind some really great products like Augmented Reality, the Sprawl Goons series and Remote Control. He has a great brain for some gritty cyberpunk material and never disappoints. The recent 'Sprawlvember' prompt party was his creation as well. 

So go check out the blog NEURAL ARCHIVE and do some reading. You may find some stuff you really like. 

See you next Tuesday with another person, site, whatever that I recommend you all check out. 

Tuesday Promo - Gregorius21778

 

At one point I was trying to promote other folks and their stuff every Tuesday. Sadly it didn't last long as real life (as always) intruded and I had less time to spend doing stuff on here. Now I have more free time so I feel I need to make an attempt at that again.

So today I'm pointing over to a blog calld 'Gregorius21778'. This person stays pretty dang busy. He put out material every day for Sprawlvember and then previously everyday for Morktober the month before. Not to mention a huge amount of previous material and has released a lot of product. 

Lots of creative ideas are over there. I haven't even begun scratching the surface on looking through it all. So if you want to see read some cool shit then look no further than that particular blog. 

New Product - Cyberpunk Random Tables

 

Over on my Ko-Fi shop I have a new product up for folks. It's a collection of various cyberpunk themed random charts that have appeared on this blog over they years. While it's not slick, nor is it professional, it is only a buck. So go on over and check it out if you would! 

Well it's also over on DrivethruRPG for those who prefer purchasing from that platform. So here is a link for you to find it over there. 

Cyberpunk Sunday 11/30/25

 

Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7p1lzvxjro

Brain inspired computing can help us create faster, more energy efficient devices.

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/brain-inspired-computing-can-help-us-create-faster-more-energy-efficient

Power for AI: Easier said than built. 

https://about.bnef.com/insights/commodities/power-for-ai-easier-said-than-built/

Magician Forgets Password to RFID Chip Implanted In His Hand. 

https://obdaily.com/weird/magician-forgets-password-to-rfid-chip-implanted-in-his-hand/

Why are we still carrying around car keys?

https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-we-all-still-carrying-around-car-keys/

Sprawlvember 29: Glitches

 

For the 29th day we have Glitches as the prompt. So here is something special to aggravate your netrunners with. 

A Six pack of Glitches happening while you are jacked into the net. 

1 – You can’t see anyone’s actual avatar. All you see are various polygons (the more detailed or complex the avatar the more sides on the visible polygon) of different colors with their user name floating above them.

2 – A bit of strange feedback into your meat body. Every twenty seconds of so your meat house gets a shock to the area around your data port. You can feel it very distinctly and it’s quite distracting.

3 – Going from system to system is buggy. So when you go from a city view up to a regional view it may fail a few times or simply take longer than normal. Very aggravating when you are on a time sensitive schedule.

4 – All audio input has been switched over to mute with closed captioning provided but using bold flashing letters. For some reason it will not switch back.

5 – For some reason anytime you receive or send data packages your system wants you to set a passcode key for each one. It cannot be a passcode that you previously used.

6 – The trial version of the cyberdeck is in place every single time you log in. You have to reinstall the purchase code to turn it off. Otherwise after three minutes jacked in your are recalled back to the cyberdecks lobby program and have to wait an hour before you can jack back in.

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