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Captcha for the Damned follows the endless exchange between people and systems that require increasingly intimate proof of who they are. Faces, fingerprints, memories, behaviour and attention become verification data while the individual behind them becomes progressively less important. The machine is satisfied only when humanity can be measured, categorised and stored. Failure to demonstrate yours correctly will require another attempt.
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Phone screen glowing like a tiny confession booth
Every thumbprint feeding the machine more proof
Security questions harvesting childhood ghosts
Mother’s maiden name sold to advertising firms
Dead-eyed commuters scrolling apocalypse feeds
Past a hundred targeted anxiety campaigns
Every app demanding blood samples politely
Every update rewriting personality traits
Smile for the facial recognition gate
Smile wider for the behavioural database
Terms and conditions stretching endlessly downward
Like digital scripture nobody survives reading
Push notification screaming through REM sleep
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Traffic lights
Bicycles
Crosswalks
Hydrants
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Captcha For The Damned
Pixel judgement on the screen
Algorithm saints and data thieves
Selling custom-built identities
Everybody trapped inside the scan
Dancing for the server farm again
Influencers crying beneath ring-light suns
Livestream breakdowns monetized for six months
Every conversation filtered into metrics
Every memory compressed into statistics
Corporate wellness bots asking if you’re fine
While harvesting emotional response patterns
Tiny dopamine casinos in your pocket
Keeping lonely people productively addicted
Children learning brand loyalty before language
Teenagers performing personalities for strangers
The cloud storage towers hum through the night
Like electronic insects feeding on private life
Nobody remembers silence anymore
The advertisements learned everybody’s fears
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Captcha For The Damned
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Captcha For The Damned
Pixel judgement on the screen
Algorithm saints and data thieves
Selling custom-built identities
Everybody trapped inside the scan
Dancing for the server farm again
Captcha For The Damned
Every heartbeat quantified
Captcha For The Damned
Nothing left that isn’t mined
Digital ghosts and captive dreams
Life reduced to glowing screens
Everybody begging to be seen
By machines too dead to care
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