The New Transparency

[Clinamenic]

sounds like a job for the archivist

 

[version]

 

[woops]

is @version an AI? scouring threads for relevant terms to cross-reference with the text of Don DeLillo novels and quoting several related paragraphs. Eventually the @version mainframe became self-aware enough to realise user @woops was always complaining about this and randomly selected liam gallagher videos instead?

 

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I just realised I could tag myself 100 times and overtake Corpsey on the Leaderboard!

 

[version]

Wish we could find that derpy drawing someone made of him, sitting in a spaceship or some such.

Barty drew it. He was writing a space opera.

 

[version]

i'm actually 20,000 words into a space opera novel about dissensus at the moment. version's character's called The Archivist.

"I, The Archivist, know not to forget the long shadows cast by the searing light of the past. My recklessness as a younger man, shall too cast darkness over my legacy. Now boy go, the hadron gunner ship, the galaxy needs you. In time I shall join you, but for now, I must erase the mushroom sick from my mother's carpet"

 

[woops]

instead we get a slim book of music criticism, i for one feel cheated

 

[version]

wait till you get the ads for things you only thought about then!! me and version get those all the time

I don't. I have ad and script blockers.

 

[woops]

I don't. I have ad and script blockers.

i get more and more pissed off with shit popping up on my computer all the time as if someone else controls it, like the antivirus continually hassling me, i've noticed that something often changes my homepage to safe search somehow and i have to change it back, i think something has disabled my ad blocker too as i get ads on youtube all of a sudden

 

[Leo]

wait till you get the ads for things you only thought about then!!

@suspended's ideal world.

 

[woops]

we all want to get ads for things we haven't even thought about yet

 

[version]

i get more and more pissed off with shit popping up on my computer all the time as if someone else controls it, like the antivirus continually hassling me, i've noticed that something often changes my homepage to safe search somehow and i have to change it back, i think something has disabled my ad blocker too as i get ads on youtube all of a sudden

Which ad blocker you using? You want uBlock Origin.

 

[woops]

ok i'll check it out but tbh my brother installed the one i was using and i'm useless as fuck at that kind of stuff

 

[Leo]

the new transparency isnt caused by the network or the software, it's caused by the devices,

"guns don't kill people, people kill people"

 

[woops]

when smartphones are criminal, only criminals will have smartphones. i think we've passed the point of countries outlawing internet access though

 

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@craner

 

[Leo]

cheater

 

[Leo]

your total will be marked with an asterisk.

 

[Clinamenic]

I think there could be a major potential flip regarding consumerism, about positively incorporating brands into one's identity, in a way that feels less like a corporate invasion of the psyche. I think the arrangements could be interpreted differently, from both a corporate and consumer perspective.

Form the former, brands and products would rely on "community leaders" to foster the sort of impressions made by the brand/product.

Anyway it seems this kind of widespread dissatisfaction with being reduced to a consumer, factors into the kind of prevailing dystopian perspective which predominantly seems fueled by climate change and profound wealth inequality, i.e. "corporate feudalism".

It'll only be that bad if single-bottom-line reasoning is still the dominant reasoning, and that is becoming less tenable, with people seeming to be holding brands to higher ethical standards, combined with liberal democratic efforts toward sustainable global economy.

 

[woops]

@craner's self-referential system aside,

woops said:
yes, this figment of the worst parts of my mind is a universal truth. that's the fun of being a french (or french-inspired) intellectual, same goes for Mark Fisher and PKD

maybe this was an unfair comment on my part.

mark fisher's whole thing is about how depression is systemic, not a result of unbalanced brain chemistry, but a result of the environment he lived in. he tried to demonstrate that capitalism (capital-k-capital) was "depressogenic", that depression was not a flaw in the individual. he didn't listen to the caretaker and other depressing music and write about it just from a personal point of view. he looked at what it was about the conditions of what he was experiencing that might lead to feeling depressed. of course, the system can never admit that it might induce feelings of negativity, tantamount to admitting it has failed.