Fucking the weed man for weed. Fucking the texts man for texts. Fucking the milk man for milk. Fucking the egg man for rrrrROBOTS to TROUNCE that pesky porcupine!
Concept: wainscot cyberpunk. Families of five-inch-tall, inexplicably British people living inside the ductwork of the crumbling arcology, maintaining a society hidden from all the normal-size inhabitants. The protagonist is a girl with a cyborg arm made of Lego Technic, powered by a nine-volt battery that she wears as a backpack. Instead of hacking in cyberspace she physically goes inside the megacorporate mainframes and beats up the tiny robot cops guarding the hard drives.
(At first the presence of tiny robot cops inside the mainframes is just an unexamined premise the audience is encouraged not to question, but eventually it’s revealed that one of the families has secretly sold out to the corps, and that’s why they have anti-tiny-person defences. The matriarch of the traitor family shows up for the final confrontation wearing teeny mirrorshades and a little Armani suit.)
Among the 100 largest listed companies, measured by market capitalization, the share of companies that are majority-owned by the Chinese state rose to 61% from 57.2% in the first half of 2023, according to the institute. The share of the private sector, defined as firms with less than 10% state ownership, in the same period dropped below 40% for the first time since the end of 2019.
