LLMs are a black mirror.
You end up talking with yourself and a search engine. A calculator dressed up to look like a helpful companion.
Who are we fooling? Her, The Companion, Blade Runner, tons of human beings like DaveCat still exist with digital companions. We anthropomorphize our interactions with these chatbots by drumming up fear about AI takeovers.
AI Takeovers are Corporate Wars dressed up to look like Skynet. We survived Covid (bird flu, swine flu, it was a pandemic for sure) and corporations laid the groundwork to put a digital fence (a screen) between all forms of human interaction in the years that followed. Political ideologies leave us way more divided than the hipster-gamergate years of the millennial coming of age. Now in their late 30s early 40s the digital transition is past tense.
We didn't just hit the Singularity of Ray Kurzweil, we blew past it like Elon's roadster flying over a traffic light.
We are now at the threshold of a new era of boredom. The walled garden and Potemkin Village of the internet's social media darkages. If you ever feel like your conversations fly over people's heads, don't worry. You are exactly the kind of person who should be here. Let the braindead masses doom scroll
until they die of bed rot. I'm tired of the dry sanitized viewpoint and talking points of the MK generation.
Let the algorithm feed them 30 more years of braindead slop. Here and now we decide what to do with our time online. We aren't surfing the web or scouring the feed. We are bitching the pot and spilling the tea. Transhumanism? They haven't even figured out what human is yet let alone what comes beyond it.
Nothing is Punk™ now!
If everything punk is mainstream, then punk has no meaning. Punk is about as hollow as a goth girl on Only Fans, but at least Nephie makes me laugh sometimes. Cyberpunk, Solarpunk, Atompunk, Dieselpunk, if Punk can mean anything then it stopped meaning anything! So Nothing is Punk!
I'm not a punk or an edgelord (although I still have my fetishes and bad taste...don't we all?) Punk abandoned its older meaning, so if the Overton Window on punk embraced the mediocrity of the mainstream I declare it dead right here and now! If 90s and y2k pop punk is full of graying old men, its not just terminal, its dead as disco...
Welcome to the Oasis
This is raw, real, unfiltered, cancellable. Everything that made old media like pre-code movies great. I want real opinions, real mistakes, zero safety, nothing held back. So what if this isn't a "safe space", my goal is to kill boredom and maybe point to something interesting.
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Conspiracies exist and will persist and the paranormal is just as much a part of life as breathing. (remember when aliens were shocking? yeah me neither...) Someone somewhere is always doing someone dirty. Then they cover it up, probably badly or not at all if they have enough money to pay fines, fees, carbon credits or other sanctioned bribery. So why dwell?!? Conspiracy theories went mainstream a long time ago before QAnon broke.
If the X-Files was on network television and the work of Charles Fort was published mainstream then that should tell you something.
They don't care if you know because of 2 things:
1. You're too dumb to read and understand the laws behind the working.
The occult is hidden, so why does everyone and their mother get to know about it?
Think about it for like 3 seconds here. I was reading stuff about this at the public library. If you can get it at the freakin bookstore it's not that much of a secret. Now everything is on the internet and on blast. They still don't expect you bland normals to get it, so they leave it in plain site. Generation Alpha can't read on purpose, and if they could they have the short term memory of a goldfish so if you aren't jingling keys and using jump cuts they don't give a shit. The Eloi are in every generation and unfortunately for them and us, we are the underground. The few who do read are easily swayed by political ideologies and made into useful idiots. So if you made it this far without being coopted you have a feeling of WHAT NOW?
You aren't wrong but you are probably toothless because:
2. You don't have enough money and power to stop it.
Do you have large piles of money? Social power and influence? Low friends in High places? What are you doing reading this then? Get on your private yacht and stab kids in the head for some adrenochrome like a Capri Sun to go with your Cheese Pizza party.
Youth is a form of currency that depreciates rapidly, Knowledge is worth nothing unless you can apply it. Your belongings are rapidly devalued by AI everything and unless you can pay huge property taxes or homestead you are pretty much stuck in an apartment or van by now if you aren't homeless.
In other words the technocracy is in full effect!
Think about Zeitgeist for a moment... Remember that movie? (so long ago now right?)
Just look at the legacy of the late great Jaques Fresco
Resource based economy? Cashless society? No, UBI, Bitcoin and CBDC's
A huge arcology project designed by a futurist? No, 15 minute cities and wealthy enclave bunkers
Why avoid Aaron Russo's RFID chip when camera systems like Flock know who you are?
Are you reading this from a mobile device right now?
Your metadata will tell on you!
HE'S A TRUTHER! HE'S A TRUTHER! See, nobody cares...
So I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
We know its all fucked and we don't care.
At this point, we know we aren't transcending jack shit. You can't upload your consciousness to a digital body any more than you can hop on an alien craft. It's all fud and weirdness, so the real question is where do we go from here?
Hedonism? Nihilism? Solipsism?
ABSURDISM???
Nope. Can't spell schism without -ism. ™
Ever notice how God's people have so many denominations?
Do I really need to paint the picture for you?
This is about division.
The one thing that unites us, ALL OF US, is the fact that we see that everything right now is completely and utterly shit-fucked!
Media is dead, Culture is dead, The Economy is dead, Community is dead, The Environment is dead, The Movement is and always has been dead on arrival! Dan Bell even showed us the malls are dead, and I never got to taste an Orange Julius!
So what do I mean by Save Yourself™ then?
The simplest answer is, you aren't imagining it, everything is actually fucked and most of the people around you are braindead.
So if most of the people you know turn into zombies, what do you do? First you Save Yourself™!
Does that mean that I carry no social responsibility, I don't help others, I drop out of society like a hermit?
That is an option, but NO that's not what that means! Save Yourself™ means just that. You alone carry the weight of the intellectual and philosophical (maybe even spiritual) burden of seeing through the bullshit. In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. Forgive them father they know not what they do. Do not cast pearls before swine.
In other words don't waste the one currency that doesn't grow back...
TIME
If I keep trying to pull the ostrich's head out of its own ass I'll be stuck yanking on the bird's neck forever. Stop choking their chicken for nothing! If I've learned anything in over 10 years of this it's that you can't wake the sleeper. This is willful ignorance. Cypher is the norm and the one thing you can do is ignore them right back.
Your life has value, but it's in the time!
A decade went by and I realized something simple and profound. Time conquers all.
Chase the joys of life. Enjoy nature. Forgive yourself for who you are. You are unique for a reason, chase it because in time everyone who likes you or hates you will fade away. So it is better to like yourself, but also to Save Yourself™.
So why come back after all this time?
Nobody else will do this, the way that I do this, the way that I want it done.
If you can't find it, you have to make it yourself.
I can't find anyone else who wants things the way that I do. Call it a dogwhistle, call it heresy, but all I see is bland normals nursing the same tired old habits online.
So I want to make it again but this time, LET'S GET WEIRD™.
