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"On Monday, in a move that would seem a little too on-the-nose even for The Onion, the CIA completed a chic and diversity-encouraging rebrand to attract new recruits who can trace their heritage to the places that the agency has undermined and destabilized. The newly-launched recruitment site features a new tech-y logo, vaguely familiar fonts, prominently figured Black and brown faces across the sleek new site."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vqme/inspiring-cia-rebrands-to-attract-diverse-operatives
"What once stood out as a vital genre of anti-capitalist fiction has mainly been reduced to a cool retro aesthetic easily appropriated by the world’s second-richest man to market ugly Blade Runner–inspired trucks to nostalgia-drenched Gen Xers."

"“Classic cyberpunk is anti-capitalist, anti-establishment, and not tech-fetishistic but rather skeptical of how technology is used by systems of power to further oppression,” wrote comic book author and art director Rob Sheridan."

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/cyberpunk-2077-aesthetics-elon-musk-anti-capitalist-fiction/