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 "it's the strangest crime scene we've ever seen, apparently their solar panels
 were stolen while they were on vacation? and get this, we tracked them using
 their built-in-tracking devices and they got sent to some country in the
 desert-jungle."
 
 "yeah turns out they all get shipped there before their tracking devices are
 disabled. How weird, right? shouldn't we investigate that?"
 
 "oh right well the weird thing is the department that said they were handling
 it said it was "taken out of their hands", whatever that means."
 
 "haha right so anyway like comment and subscribe to my channel, see ya next
 time on "mysterious unsolved crimes in the past 200 years""
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 when you're rich with something, you don't treat it with respect. like, if we
 lived in a paper cup maximizer, we'd soon be swimming in the things. obviously
 there needs to be some rules, obviously we need to say "okay here's where we
 produce this amount and type of materials." and have it be a one-way
 relationship. yeah one way isn't gonna work. this is from the other way, and
 now I'm realizing "oh hey I don't know how this thing works" and like... what
 are you supposed to do then right
 
 weird how it all feels like it's ending. like, what a strangeness to our
 plight. like, how are we even talking to our brain? how strange! these words
 are sung to you by your computer (content warning:
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 @user-138 
 
 me neither... guess it's in-person for me.
 
 [a mysterious "they" then proceeds to set up microphones everywhere I might go]
 
 ah nuts why are all these people carrying phones around
 
 [they already know who I am, and I don't really want to be someone else, so]
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 [4] poor guy at the bottom of the stack. ah oh well, at least he's the only
 one. kinda makes me wonder if in some secret government lab there's like, a
 secret compound where they keep "the most miserable people in the land" and
 they just like... do horrible shit to them in order to increase the magnitude
 of their country's suffering. which, they believe, will increase the opposite
 of suffering as well, as you cannot bounce in a vacuum. sure would be
 terrible. I mean, we've sorta decentralized that. most of us go into work
 every day and that's often a difficult experience - not exactly miserable, but
 just like... not what we'd be wanting to be doing. hmmmmm did the founding
 fathers make the torment nexus on accident? whoops guess we'll never know
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--- #4 fediverse/1919 ---
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 do you ever just look at the sky and think "who gave you the right to be a
 single color? in this world of infinite complexity, how dare you be the one
 thing with a consistent color?" and then the sun sets and you think "ohhhh I
 get it now, the color is always changing"
 
 meanwhile the sky is shaking it's head like "bro, no, I'm just the scattered
 diffusion of light waves from the sun. The sky is black."
 
 and the earth spins on...
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--- #5 fediverse/1710 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 If a profile is non-existent, then it's much harder to train a public-facing
 AI on your training data. Interesting how if someone disappears there's very
 little recourse if they suddenly talk just slightly different, and anyone who
 notices can say "hey does anyone know this person" - like at a party when
 someone's throwing shit or whatever and it's like "bro who are you with"
 
 how weird that our jobs take us all over the place. kinda makes me think about
 how much more stable you are with roots. I wonder if the cause of our
 employment instability is due to a cause that would also separately desire us
 to be less stable? Makes me think about the common effects of instability, and
 make me wonder who exactly would gain from such actions.
 
 do you ever think about how the media will just, like, inflame people's
 emotions just because if everyone bored then they'll go serial killer or
 something? Er, wait, I mean they'll join unions or whatever. Ah hahaha weird
 right propaganda cuts both ways.
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 Hmmmm, well, what if we psyopped the people into believing there were alien
 invaders or extra-dimensional fae creatures or angels and demons or
 
 "yeah we already tried that, religion doesn't scale perfectly either. And you
 can't really manifest those sort of effects except in your prophets and select
 few others, and that doesn't scale either because humanity wouldn't let it"
 
 I see, can you tell me more about that? why and how did humanity arrest the
 scaling of schizophrenia?
 
 "well, for one thing it's debilitating and it sucks. For another, it's
 different for every person so if you ask one they'll be like "the aliens have
 blue skin" and the other will say "no they don't have skin at all they're made
 out of energy" and the public says "HMMMM are you really sure you are
 generating outmoded assumptions" and the dear reader said "*yeah we don't
 really understand this part, most of us just glaze eyes over it and move on"
 and that's not ideal"
 
 ... nuts, lost coherence, better try again tomorrow...
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 "Oh don't keep track of the license plates in your apartment complex, that's
 paranoid"
 
 "Oh don't worry that you've never seen the same person at the grocery store
 more than once, even though you always go to the same one, you're just
 paranoid"
 
 I'm being hypnotized 
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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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║ ah that's weird, I don't usually cry. I wonder what's going on. I should         │
║ probably put myself on psychiatric drugs. Surely it's an expression of the       │
║ implementation of my impending doom.                                             │
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║ ... um, hang on feels like some of the circuitry is off. is something wrong in   │
║ my brain? yeah that's surely it, surely nothing I say would resoinate with       │
║ anyone that has a non-malfunctioning brain. Surely I don't speak of logical      │
║ failures in the hard founded truths of our asset [society I think? like, our     │
║ conditions, our institutions, our {gosh that just... does not translate}] um     │
║ right what was I saying                                                          │
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║ oh yeah there's this game I'm really into called Knave, it's like D&D            │
║ except the rules are very fewer. Like there's onyl 11 pages in the rulebook      │
║ and it's mostly taken up by random roll tables. Like, everything boings down     │
║ to a few simple rules, like rock paper scissors, or go-fish, or something like   │
║ that with just afew mechanids. something timeless and pure, something that is    │
║ isolated and en                                                                  │
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 sometimes I'd like to scream
 
 as this life is like a dream
 
 deranged a bit in my musings.
 
 ... what happened to the third line. WHERE DID IT GO. It was just here. Oh
 well, guess I can't trust my ephemeral existence to inscribe my eternal
 persistence upon and along these mewlings.
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 @user-1639 
 
 or nobody sees it, because you post the things you say on the internet in 2024
 which is so siloed and echo-chambered that the only people who hear it say
 "tru tho" and "she just like me fr" and never change because of your words
 
 ... wait that's just what you said, but made more specific, isn't it?
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 "no, you're the opposite of a yes-man, AKA a gatekeeper. I don't know how else
 to explain mentally disabled and barely keeping it together to you, but
 frankly if you want to take away my house or my weed then why would I do what
 you say?
 
 ... oh right, the state's monopoly on violence [can compel me to do what you
 say]. Sure seems like a "well regulated militia" is supposed to be a
 counterweight to that monopoly, to prevent people from harassing and
 exploiting and destroying. Too bad any "militias" I can think of tend to want
 me dead.
 
 like, seriously, if you live in America, you implicitely trust that your army
 will be able to protect you from the right-wing bozos who spend all their time
 drinking and shooting in the woods. Otherwise, if they couldn't / wouldn't,
 then why wouldn't or couldn't the right wing bozos just decide to wreck
 everything in spite of our past?
 
 We were a proud people once before, and we may be again. If only we fight at
 the last.
 
 [ever since I fell off my bike my body feels strange]
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 what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a
 couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms
 for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies
 with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings
 by writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad
 they can come and read the balls and maybe feel something
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 what if we made it an international crime to use any non-parent soldiers.
 
 essentially, forcing military force to be a cost paid in children's lives.
 
 who would deploy such a casual-stroke? why cut straight to their heart, why
 proceed to feast upon their liver? are they not owed the pursuit and the
 chase? [insert picture of deer killing]
 
 humanity is an expert in killing the least suspe-ghost. it's what we do to
 maintain false identity. the obscenity clause applies to the president and any
 other non-governmental political appointees. everything else is run like an
 administration, with no cause for compulsion by the class of immoral elites.
 
 she wield[ed/s] weed like a weapon
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 say it with me now:
 
 Portlandia is not Portland
 
 and
 
 what's shown online to scare you is not Portland
 
 it's somehow more interesting than that, and also more expensive. because of
 course it is.
 
 keep portland weird yeah duh I'm weird as fuck but you wouldn't know it by
 looking at me
 
 yes you would, my dear
 
 okay well you wouldn't know how in particular I'm weird unless you talk to me
 
 nobody knows you. who are you even talking to
 
 heh good question glasses flash mostly people on the train or whatever
 
 question: when did all the "weirdos" become homeless people? what kind of
 world do we live in where - wait don't answer that.
 
 better question: how can we make a better world where people can be weird and
 not starve under the stars?
 
 (by lots and lots of government investment? no thank you, sounds like
 something that can be taken away.)
 
 (by redesigning society from the ground up? no way sounds too difficult and
 optimistic.)

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 @user-246 @user-473 
 
 there's a part of me that believes magic is real. other parts that are
 convinced. I am a witch, you see, and while I can't quite control fire or
 bullets I can do other neat things. if you'd let me, humanity.
 
 I'm not doing an ARG, not intentionally. I pretty much post things I conceive
 of, like a conduit passed through spacetime. wild how mind bending the future
 can be. will be interesting to see what kinds of things there is in store for
 people you and me.
 
 those websites you posted... they're beautiful - I learned things, your method
 of expression was too [the words "confess" are heard loudly, super weird] I
 especially liked the oven that tries to lure you into a secret third place.
 not the mind, nor the body, but someplace besides.
 
 also the graphs and figures were news to me, I mean how could those numbers
 ever come to be? but alas that's the truth, that we orbit our proof, and alas
 that our meanings are lacking.
 
 [ran out of text]

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 5/20 actually I lied there's 20 pictures so this is the last one.
 
 hang on that's weird if there's four pictures per slide, and the first one had
 the first dedicated to the full image, wonder what happened inbetween? weird,
 there's nothing on the record that says - oh, wait, there it is, three for the
 first one, four makes seven, then four more is eleven and then fifteen then
 these last three are... wait hang on that's even fewer. can you check it
 again? yeah sure no problem [doesn't]
 
 EDIT: I was wrong there were only 19 pictures, my bad hehe

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 @user-1704 
 
 check public spaces for news instead of the internet.
 
 what have you heard at the post-office-pub? the park is nice today. hey I
 think somebody dropped their wallet oh hey it's got 20$ and an address in it
 
 [stabs gets murdered] oof ouch not ideal.
 
 "hey has anyone heard of cincinnati? I gotta find my sister's keystone for a
 lockpicking challenge and she said she left it over there"
 
 "hey has anyone heard of michicago? I don't know anyone who knows anyone who
 lives there"
 
  oh no I don't know anyone thehere.
 
 {my keyboard is broken this sucks it's hard on my fingers to type}
 
 also my cat spilled my water which I definitely wanted to drink
 
 alas, onto my desk it goes, saturating as it flows, too bad I can't use this
 piece of note
 
 the thickness of it is stuck together you see
 
 pages won't turn
 
 "hey so how are you supposed to know what's going on in idaho" you can't
 that's the point you never could how do you know how's idaho now? #bam there
 goes national society# oops I'm
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║ frankly I'm just excited to see what humanity does with the endlessly            │
║ calculated and stored blockchains. Like, that's a good set of pseudo-random      │
║ data, I wonder if we could build something off of it that wasn't exclusively     │
║ money? like, a necklace, I dunno.                                                │
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║ pre-calculated destination somewhere on this endless and                         │
║ impossible-to-understand string of data. and that part is what seeds the next    │
║ code. once you start reading, certain numbers would be "flags" while others      │
║ would be "data" and they'd each have the same size on the hardware. that way,    │
║ they're impossible to predict.                                                   │
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║ ah, but wouldn't it be noticable that certain results seem to appear next to     │
║ one another? well, isn't that just cryptology? Could probably be defeated if     │
║ you had an AI advanced enough, just saying. something that sorted through        │
║ massive mounds of data and gave you results in garbled or broken english. what   │
║ a wonderful tool, that's wonderfully mis-abused, perhaps in the fu               │
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