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║ some people look for signals or signs before doing something. Try and have │
║ someone in your life who can give you signals or signs so that you know when │
║ to do things. And ideally, if they're more hardcore than you, you'll know what │
║ to do, not just when to do it. │
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║ did you know that anything on the internet can be read by at least one other │
║ person besides your intended recipient? There's no way they'd let us talk │
║ amongst ourselves otherwise. │
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║ I think encryption is pretty neat, all you have to do is run a shell script on │
║ some text, then send that text over the internet. If you want to decrypt it, │
║ all you have to do is run a shell script on it to decrypt it. │
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║ downside is, it has to be translated into plain text somewhere along the │
║ line... Maybe if we rendered the words not as text that can be read from │
║ memory, but as like, brush-strokes that can have a randomized order, but still │
║ present to the user as visual text? anyway that's what's on my mind as I try │
║ and improvise a baking recipe with yeast, flour, and butter │
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║ sometimes I think about how you can store number values in letters, in │
║ addition to numbers. Like, ascii values for each word of your grandma's maiden │
║ name. All you have to do is encode it, and suddenly "44 means something │
║ different than Q" │
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║ if I showed up at your place and used your username as a password to a public │
║ key I'm showing you in my hand, would you trust me then? Would you trust if we │
║ ran the simulation on your computer versus mine? Would you trust if I had │
║ never told you I knew where you lived? │
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║ ... probably, tbh, I'm desperate for adventure. Though I got some good things │
║ going for me, so you'll have to convince me. (not the right attitude in an │
║ election year, just saying) │
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║ why are elections so perilous this is NOT what democracy is designed for │
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║ when kids cry in preschool, they're sent to a different room (or put outside) │
║ until they stop making noise and ruining it for others. That's just natural, │
║ like "hey baby let's walk around the block while I bounce you on my shoulder │
║ and hum calming music to │
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your life is something to spend, not something to covet. Use your time for
something you care about, and your intentions will be expressed upon the
earth. our ancestors learned how when they learned all that they could - and
honestly, how much is "YouTube" retaining? I don't care if it's educational,
sometimes kids just need to be free. Free from obligations yes, but free from
the emotions that drive them - the ability to make their own choice. As a
child, you don't know how to understand your emotions, but growing up you
learn and you do. It's part of being mature - the idea that you can handle
what's presented to you.
... anyway, I shouldn't say any more, you never know who is listening.
(opsec is easiest to learn when you don't need it)
(the more you know, the less time you should spend online. the less you know,
the less time you should spend online, meeting people in strange locations
that you trust.
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║ you won't get far with a "community" of dedicated people │
║ │
║ what you need are teams. who can trust each other. you build them through │
║ brotherhood, and you trust them from their results. │
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║ for example if you wanted to organize a grouping or get-together, you'd put a │
║ bunch of people in a room or seven and let them while they're there work on a │
║ plan or a decision. │
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║ who needs tabling? who needs the chance to speak? just let them socialize and │
║ say "hey guys here's where you'll plan" │
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║ [uh no officer we were just playing board games] │
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║ plans are hard without material so make sure you always prepare a pricetag on │
║ each plan you produce. │
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║ keep it for reference. make sure you note all the requirements. the location │
║ is often the least important part. │
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║ "what the hell man you can't just say stuff like that as if it'd work" │
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║ yep, I, uh, am a passenger in life just the same as you. And I only write down │
║ what I want to. │
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║ you could show me anything on the internet and I'd believe it. Facts aren't │
║ important to me because I "forget" │
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║ @user-641 │
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║ it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's │
║ just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we │
║ reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different │
║ email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well │
║ neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't │
║ a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that │
║ computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your │
║ predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah │
║ we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see │
║ how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I │
║ think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very │
║ much. │
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║ *... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a │
║ little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~* │
![it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very much. *... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~*](../media/1c154109c4111346.png "it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your predicted pathway narratively through life. \"ah help I'm in a psyop\" haha yeah we do those all the time \"so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see how they do?\" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very much. *... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~*")
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@user-328
don't trust anything on the internet. It can be taken from you.
don't trust anyone in your life - if you are alone, which you can verify
through the sense of connection you feel to others - if you are alone, how can
you trust anyone that they've provided for you to interact with?
when's the last time you drove to a random city in your country and tried to
make friends with passerby? Would you even be convinced that they'd be aligned
to their own designs, and not to that which "they" assigned?
do note that I'm schizophrenic, probably, according to nobody but me, so...
take what I say as you will
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if there's a phone number on something, find someone else who wants it instead
of calling it. doh. extra degrees of separation.
if you think you know someone who wants something, take it when offered.
opportunists try and find the most valuable thing, but the truth is they're
all just as valuable and just as worthless in the right context. something
that's valuable to you is worthless to me, and something worthless to you is
valuable to me.
everything's worth less once you sit on it for a while... don't be dumb, keep
track of what's still going on, but also keep your head down. unlike me, who's
a face, looking forward so you don't have to.
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║ sometimes it's good to assign bodyguards to people helping far from home │
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║ like, "hey so uh what can I do" "yeah sure hey so-and-so can you tell them │
║ what they can do? stick together and help each other, buddy-system style, and │
║ never stop thinking of ideas" │
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║ don't forget to always be thinking on your feet │
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║ and remember if you don't want a hard job you won't be given one. │
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║ consistency is more important than urgency or vitality, if you're tired don't │
║ be afraid to go home │
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║ just know that stuff happens when you're not around, so people might have │
║ moved on [pronounced own?] │
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║ I'm making sandwiches for a picnic! You never know when someone's hungry. │
║ Don't forget to drink water! hydration is important. Soda desiccates you, │
║ better to do water. │
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║ I mean, don't leave food unattended, someone might come along, take it all, │
║ and throw it away, because honestly it's just too suspicious without you │
║ there, reading a book, saying "hey want a sandwich?" │
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║ ... at least that's my theory. │
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║ ... I only got like 12 slices of b │
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Though, of course, can you ever be sure who is who they say they are? You must
consider all messages anonymous by default, and unencrypted (untrustable) and
yet impossible to ignore. Like the messages they had to ignore at Bletchley
Park to avoid the suspicion that they'd figured out the secret code. You know
how it goes.
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"hey, will you promise never to tell this to anyone?"
If I say yes... I won't remember what you're about to say. It'll get excused
from my memory because it resets to what they want it to be every night.
Something something retro causality - to ensure that I never lie, the future
corrects for me. Fake it until you make it. I'm trying to use fewer value
judgements but perfect is hard.
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I'd be a terrible spy. Not only is my opsec something that someone needs to
teach me, I'm much too busy to implement things without their help. I am
unabashedly compassionate though, so just ask and I'll pour love from my heart.
But hey! There's always time to practice, each moment you can think "what kind
of a sign is this?"
Like a crazy person following the will of god, or a nature witch listening to
the wind in the trees.
What they often get wrong, and what they could be better at hearing, is that
signals are not signs unless they're out of the ordinary.
Trick is, if you're a spy, then you need to leave signals that are visible
enough to your quarry, but not to the stars.
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║ part of being family with someone is being part of their lives. │
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║ what if like... a whole group of people was your family? │
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║ "workplace dynamics" yeah sure that'll generate love │
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║ I'm not here to *make moments*. I'm trying to get through day-to-day. │
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║ the rich, yet impoverished. │
║ the sensation, that feeling of betrayal, the moment when you realize some │
║ people just don't care about other people's troubles and trials. │
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║ scary... I'm here to do my part, accomplish my duty, and help wherever I can. │
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║ I'll agree to anything if you tell me the whole strategy and it aligns with my │
║ goals and designs. │
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║ if you doubt those goals, I can surely help thee remember. │
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║ everything is logically rooted in love, │
║ nothing's out of place or a mystery. │
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║ everything I've thought of, everything I had the grace to write down, all of │
║ these things drift behind me like a placquard explaining my deeds and needs. │
║ "that was her idea" ok great now go and use it. │
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║ this fall is fast ahead, looking forward to the scene-films. it's too hot │
║ inside of a bed │
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"I love you, I trust you, I believe you, I just don't understand you, so I
can't do what you do"
great. that's alright. I get it. re-orient, focus on what's important.
wear many hats and you'll do many things. just don't forget to sleep every
once in a while.
the more you can do in a life the more valued it becomes, so do the right
thing and keep getting better.
human lives are measured not in bodyweight, but in mystery. The divine can't
understand benevolence, nor can the devils understand the desire to inflict
suffering. So they ponder and pontificate as they watch humans wander and
magnificate.
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║ listen, judges are useful character moralities, but they don't have to be the │
║ only ones to decide things. │
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║ I mean, if they disagree, then let the one who cares the most about it have │
║ the decision-making power. │
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║ if you do this equally for everything, then everyone will get what they want. │
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║ so, like, if you care about something, then *believe* in it. │
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║ if it's truly good, then *more people will come to it*, and it'll naturally │
║ extinguish (with care and love) the least favored approach, which... honestly │
║ now that I think of it is not such a good approach either. │
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║ the reason I say that is because it's good to be multi-faceted, and to have │
║ general flows and rough surfaces. │
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║ These are places people can hold onto you, the times when you're trying your │
║ mostest. │
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║ y'know, your tough patches. the things that are difficult in your life. │
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║ the stuff you're working on can push you forward, │
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║ if you only had someone to play catch with. │
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║ or like, send letters to. │
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║ or shared encryption keys. │
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║ I don't know *anyone*. Well, maybe o │
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you can trust me, but please don't rely on me, for all of my power is soft.
sometimes people just don't want to do what I tell them to, and I wouldn't
have it any other way.
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"hey what's up. can you borrow my phone for a bit? here's the password. you
can learn anything you want about me. I told all my socials that I'm away
until a secred code that only they know and me, so... ah nuts they're
definitely gonna forget that, focus on what you know"
... huh? no I'm just saying, if you want to get to know me, check out my
pictures on my phone
here's a read-only copy that you can annotate as you will. I got the originals
and their recipes on my computer at home. I recommend ms. paint for drawing
notes on them.
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/output-pdf/output6.pdf
I'm an artist I make art but... not on purpose, it's just of me a part.
I fell asleep in a dream lately. I think I'm exhausted.
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You know, there's no guarantee that Youtube or Gmail has to show you the EXACT
SAME video or message that your friend shared with you. Or did they even share
it at all? So hard to tell when they know all the communication you've ever
had, because you only know each other online on their platforms, [read: US
government observed platforms] [like, HTTPS] surely there's no room for
someone to sneak in and edit your conversations. Surely the only way to
securely communicate is to send pure PGP encrypted bytes to another target,
wrapped in a TCP/IP header, with unknown intent or expression. Worst they
could do then is just, y'know, block it entirely.
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the best way, I find, to be deserving of trust is to do the best that you can,
and be honest when you cannot do more.
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Don't ask for my phone number. People who get close to me tend to disappear.
If I need you, then make a plan with me immediately, at a specific time and
place, and don't cancel, or we can't. It just won't work.
I don't know what to do about that. I will wait some more before I try to make
friends.
Better to meet each other if you already know me. But don't talk about it
because time magic, mind reading, probably ghosts or something... I hate that
these are things that I am concerned about. Why can't I worry about normal
things like limitless surveillance through WiFi signals that can detect sounds
and the position if objects in any room?
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║ We should be keeping track of who shows up to things │
║ │
║ like... writing their names down at the door │
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║ just because │
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║ just for fun │
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║ or write graffiti to say "I was here since the last time they painted the │
║ bench" │
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║ or just... remember your friends │
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║ unless of course, a human can only know so many friends │
║ │
║ then they gotta start organizing │
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║ and organization implies trust │
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║ what if we had all our actions described to a computer which would use │
║ language analysis to determine if it skewed good or bad? │
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║ and then if someone's bad, a human operator or team will be assigned to figure │
║ out why. if its a simple fix, then that can be applied. Otherwise it must be a │
║ special clause which will require installation like a terminal computer or a │
║ light system in an unusual place. like a convention center or a hotel. │
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║ but, like, the cool kind of hotel, the kind you'd see in movies like The │
║ Witches (scary) or Home Alone 2 (escape from new york) │
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║ ... how long have you been writing tonight, ritz? │
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║ oh, │
║ you know, │
║ just for all of the lastbit │
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I can type my thoughts 1000x more coherently than I can speak them. Hence why
I post here.
feels useless to speak 1on1 - feels insular to speak to a group. Hence why I
speak here, which is totally public that anyone might see, and somehow I feel
so much more productive engaging in an endless conversation with myself.
you can't win a war by walking in circles...
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║ it doesn't really matter *how* you do it, but the more time you spend thinking │
║ collectively the better you'll be able to adapt when necessary. │
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║ I grew up on a homestead in a small town without many friends. I was │
║ homeschooled, and while I might see another person I knew once or twice a │
║ month, that was about it. │
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║ Besides my family, of course. │
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║ We were a collective, and ever since leaving I have yearned for that feeling │
║ of closeness. │
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║ There's something about modern society that pushes us apart, and I resent it. │
║ Humans were meant for tribes, not multilevel marketing. │
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║ That being said, culture is pretty neat. Society is pretty neat, when it's not │
║ being oppressive. I like the idea that I can buy carrots at the store instead │
║ of growing my own. I like the idea that I can post on Craigslist asking if │
║ anyone has a shovel they want to get rid of and someone can say "what the fuck │
║ are you trying to bury someone why would you do that" and I'm all like "wait │
║ no this post has gone off track can we refocus for a bit" and th │
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║ if you don't respect - wait hang on thats not what I was going to say - okay │
║ here goes: the perspective of others then you are working against them. why │
║ bother contestation when cooperation could work best? problem is, of course, │
║ the other side can't be trusted. that's just how it goes, a prisoner's │
║ dillemna, or rather "dilemma" as they spell it over there. wait hang on that's │
║ not what I was going to say - oh yeah - if you do something in a place where │
║ it's not expected then it stands out as a statistical anomaly that can be │
║ viewed and detected. which is why it's imporant to always be true to yourself │
║ and virtuous. because your "self" is aligned to the future, a place of warmth │
║ and compassion, honesty and deliberation. [direct action on a larger than │
║ personal scale] │
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║ what was I saying oh yeah if you mess with fate, it can change things a bit. │
║ all you'd need is the diffusion of the strands, and then it's a bigger task to │
║ undo them. like... dancing, when you're really into it. or like swimming with │
║ ripples, exc │
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@user-1352
makes me think that I should keep going. I can handle myself, and I shouldn't
pressure myself so much to be something I'm not.
then the rent comes due and the dishes need to be done too and the cat's
asking for attention and the post-office needs this letter by tuesday and hey
do you happen to know a cool attorney plus the groceries are getting low but I
got snap hey can you go to the store and get some vegetarian soul food - yeah
I got rice, I'll throw some lentils on the stove. Uh-huh yeah the password is
hunter2. Oh really, just asterisks? okay well it's hunt her two except instead
of \"her\" it's ee are, and the two is the digit two. yep, like someone in
camo with a rifle. uhhuh alright good to know well anyway I'll see you at the
thing, right? some thing, I'm sure, everyone's going to things these days.
If you don't trust implicitely then how can you ever work with strangers? how
the heck are you supposed to build community if everyone's hiding indoors all
the time.
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Here's an idea, you can email it to me! My email address that I've used as my
primary since I was 16 years old is gabrilend@user-75 Sure hope I don't regret
this decision. I sure hope my life isn't irrevocably changed because I got
frustrated trying to post a picture on the internet. Nevermind the fact that
all emails are clear text and totally unencrypted so pretty much everyone can
see everything you buy on Amazon. Surely this is the most robust and least
insane system we could use to organize our truly technological and thoroughly
advanced future society.
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privacy doesn't mean anything on the internet to me because privacy on the
internet doesn't mean anything to "them"
*gestures vaguely, maybe winks once or twice and/or presents an emphasis face*
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The people who want to hurt you want to not get caught, too.
Trust no-one by design, which you are breaking.
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trusting someone doesn't mean you'll do what they say. it means you'll listen.
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@user-95
Remember, kids: User data isn't an asset; it's a toxic industrial byproduct!
(And should be regulated as such, including jail time for CEOs who allow it
under their watch.)
unless you create it yourself, store it locally, encrypted if you care about
safety, and stored for the purposes of creating graphs and generating
introspective understandings about yourself and your interactions with others.
then, 5 years later you come across an encrypted file that you've lost the key
to (or have you?) that's like, 3gb and you're like "do I really need a 3gb log
file, surely it's not the last remaining pictures of my niece or like a recipe
for my grandma's baked pudding" and before you know it you're carrying your
entire life's work on your shoulders but you don't even know what any of it
means.
and then, when you die (in a good long while), your children's children will
take on the songs of their ancestors, spoken in the tomes of volumes of
ancient lore (you mean logs, right?) and then, some day in the fut
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║ if the government/the nsa/ an organization had your password, they could │
║ migrate you to another custom instance that was designed to look exactly like │
║ your old one without telling you. You'd still interact with your peeps the │
║ same way as before, but this time it'd run through their server. meaning they │
║ could block certain posts that you were sending, or show others that you │
║ didn't agree with but had your deepfaked approval. │
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║ if something felt off about you, most people would unfriend you. or even │
║ they'd just block you, so that nobody would remember if you're missing. │
║ friends and family are a matter of public record, and who goes to clubs these │
║ days? │
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║ churches are a bygone era, and twitch streams are so individualized. libraries │
║ are nice, but you literally can't talk in there. plus there's only like, one? │
║ what happened to forest clearings, and tops of waterfalls, what happened to │
║ our world? I miss the campfires the most, the smell of burnt wood and cooked │
║ food. I miss the wind in my toes, I miss the │
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║ There's something important in what I said tonight. And each of you will think │
║ it's something different, which is by design. Can you find the nugget I wanted │
║ to share, to you in particular? Can you isolate the thing that is relevant to │
║ you, the person perceiving the words that I speak? Oh yeah you're only looking │
║ for things to express to your superiors because someone else told you to look │
║ for a particular type of sentiment. My bad. Sorry for being cryptic. Am I so │
║ strange for seeking the human element? Perhaps I lose myself, and I speak to │
║ the void (and by "void" I don't mean to demean you, the audience, because you, │
║ the audience, are surely comprised of people who surely have their own │
║ experience and existence. Surely nobody would seek to harm me, after hearing │
║ those things I speak. Surely we, as the human species, would not be vulnerable │
║ to the types of weaknesses that allow for critical failures in our defences │
║ such as the kind that I am professing to exploit (while being aligned to you) │
║ surely we wouldn' │
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depending on your age, you'll want to start learning and mastering different
types of skills.
for example, as a millennial, my job is to learn about camping, combat,
logistics, and network and communications security.
fitness is important at all ages.
be gregarious. introduce your friends to other friends. the more friend groups
you have and know enough about to connect together, the better. don't
introduce someone because they seem similar, but rather because they could
help each other with something specific they've mentioned. if they don't hit
it off, that's fine.
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when you have power you find that you "don't have to worry about that stuff"
more and more often. It's liberating, to relinquish a chain.
ah well just take care not to feel shackled by empathy. dear reader, I want to
liberate all mankind, as a start. We'll get around to the rest of the denizens
soon enough, if they want it.
"can't want to understand what you don't understand" uh-huh true. That's very
"Cypher from the Matrix" of you.
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you cannot speak on the internet - only ask someone else to share your advice
and hope.
a spoken word might be overheard
an HTTP packet less so.
at least, not by the *common people*, no, only the ISP deserves that
information.
and, the government, surely, right? because they build the society that the
corporation rests upon.
"you're makin' a lotta sense, tiny man. here, take this apple I found in some
kind of knowledge bush."
... that's a mushroom, steely dan.
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