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United Surveillance States :: Official Homepage
An apparent surveillance-state fiction site presenting cameras, smart-city technology, citizen analytics, social credit, and public-safety propaganda as an official network.
Why it surfacedIts archival web texture is unusually committed: a 2002 timestamp, a webmaster apologizing that “the popups are load-bearing,” a camera unit with a mood (“watchful”), and a social-credit bureau where bragging costs four points. The fake-official language and detailed links to a live map, threat center, forum, and transmission archive make this more than a generic dystopian landing page.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.