18.9.26
I was perusing a few 'underground' sites (lolz:not) of various individuals. so cookie cutter, dry, dull, lifeless. and these are supposed to be sharp, classy individuals, blehehehe. shit is there some master template everybodies just recycling to be one of the in crowd? starting to wonder b/c that's what I'm getting. and I have to say the only one I found with an infusion of personality was a nerd girl's variation (she's an artist + computer geek apparently). I noticed that everyone wrote, designed and created shit to draw attention to themselves much. like everything had to pimp themselves as brand. conditioning from social media, recommend deprogramming at once. boring people isn't the same thing as wowing them. you just don't have the wow factor I guess. this is a pattern emerging here: the rejects, or the 'dissidents' not getting much attention from the attention deficit economy seek attention in other ways. flocking together, making the s...
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cyberspace
internet cultu̷r̷e̷
15.9.26
communications disruptions "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." - Sun Tzu , The Art of War ^^^^ this is where Bruce Lee came up with that quote 'the art of fighting without fighting ' in Enter the Dragon 🐉. and if you never seen that, go watch that shit right now. and nowadays, an enemy can't fight you if you're fighting one another. we being the enemy of our mutual enemy: big gov, big tech, big pharma, big everything. its good they have that bigness b/c its an identifying marker to illustrate themselves as being exactly what they pretend they're not: your enemy. and enemies never want you to know their threat profile. trust + believe me I'm a secret agent. yet the primary tactic any enemy force almost always employs isn't ginormous bombs or bullshit, it's communication disruption. how can you organize, marshall, and plan w/o it? we spend insane time pretending to be communicating with people, when we'...
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2026
cyberspace
internet cultu̷r̷e̷
12.9.26
The funny thing about the IndieWeb is that it started with a genuinely good complaint. The web did get weird. It did get centralized. It did get swallowed by a handful of companies that turned what was once a messy collection of personal spaces into a handful of giant, sanitized platforms designed around keeping people endlessly scrolling. The idea that maybe people should own their own words, their own archives, and their own little piece of internet real estate is not some ridiculous nostalgia trip. It is a pretty reasonable reaction to what happened. The problem is that every good rebellion eventually develops its own culture, its own language, and eventually its own little hierarchy. The people who set out to escape the machine sometimes end up building a smaller machine with nicer typography and a more tasteful color palette. That is where the IndieWeb starts getting funny. Because there is a certain kind of personal website floating around that feels less like a persona...
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cyberspace
indieweb
internet cultu̷r̷e̷