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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno if you recall
this naphex character. possibly
the best illustration of
the concept republic's
to date known (though he was doing iirc webcams or exchangesd or somesuch, not directly casinos. but -- just as marginal a cvasi-business)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly so, concordance seeker seeks concordance. "don't
tell me about disparate objects, let's compare pairs
that are well matched, item-description-and-review"
mircea_popescu: because he can't rely on others, see ?
the IM judges "well,
there's concordance between
the marketing copy on
this webpage and what my
TW is
telling me" and
the
TW judges "well, nobod ycan be
trusted anyway, here's my caesar cipher -- at least it is my own"
mircea_popescu: and
the
TW is very vulnerable in
that a lifetime spent in his own coffin swimming in
the liners has produced in him
this ability
to self-bless. so he's going
to do "some secret
trick" and
that'll make it all good.
mircea_popescu: well, yes. in
the exact sense "nobody got shot for buying ibm" : as far as IM is concerned,
the marketing copy suffices, he doesn't understand
the workings anyway and moreover is well inhabituated
to not expect
to understand.
mircea_popescu: as a result
the former perceive
the need but don't know how
to proceed and
the latter antiperceive
the need and well,
the blind leading
the
thirsty results in many salty snacks.
mircea_popescu: the latter are a deeply asocial sort, utterly incapable of very basic
tasks such as "exist in
the world without a farcical self-secreted notion
that you know what's going on".
mircea_popescu: the former are a deeply atechnical sort, utterly incapable of very basic
tasks such as "compare
these
two items".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the way
that sort of
thing works (it's "business" in a very limited and marginal sense)
there's
two kinds of marginals involved : "idea men" and "technical wizards".
mircea_popescu: republic in being. very much
the same mechanism as in "you don't need a buncha paperwork for pizarro,
the forum can resolve disputes for you anyway"
mircea_popescu: moreover,
there's nothing wrong with incomplete lists -- let
the fellow come and ask, "oh, but what about Y! GOTCHA" only
to not gotcha and
therefore...
mircea_popescu: yes, but it's a decreasing scale of importance. every enumeration gotta stop sometime, and imo if one's not sold by
those items adding more isn't
the way
to go.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-10 15:30 mircea_popescu: "why are you reading
that crap ?" "because i wish
to know how
the news relates
to me. spoiler : it doesn't." is verbatim contained in
the slavic word's meaning.
mircea_popescu: this is EXACTLY what pravda even is. it's not "truth" sole and alone like
that. it's also "proofed" and "proved" and "certified" and so forth.
mircea_popescu: "why are you reading
that crap ?" "because i wish
to know how
the news relates
to me. spoiler : it doesn't." is verbatim contained in
the slavic word's meaning.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so no, it's not
that "apple
this" and "microsoft
that" and "war on web" bla bla bla. if you permit internet access
to inflate, you end up with a bulk of morons who STILL have no business on
the web, once
theyr'e
there, just like
they had no business on it before
they were
there.
mircea_popescu: in short : i am saying
that "the problems"
that naive holdouts from
the 80s and 90s perceive confront "the open web" are chiefly in
their imagination.
the
truth of
the matter is
that
the same sort of scum
that creaded
the 1950s pravda in
the first place are simply re-implementing it out of "web" nowadays.
mircea_popescu: but i seriously do not see
the need for a "web"
to support
this nonsense.
they'd be much better served by a single pravda.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: eir opinion"
to
the "interviewer" evidently
taxes
the system,
there's no substance
there so it's just as well
that
there's no substance demanded downstream.
mircea_popescu: this evidently works well enough for
the "what does
the news mean
to me" crowd, seeing how
the vapid "celebrities"
that can't fucking spell (lulzy case in mp household recently, as girl
tried
to bring
testimony of uma
thurman re her being mistreated, only
to see her charge collapse under heavy laugther at how WOMAN CAN NOT SPELL) have ~nothing
to say anyway. getting a bunch of soccer players
to dress up in suits and speak "th
mircea_popescu: "William, Prince of Albania explained What is William, Prince of Albania? Explaining what we could find out about William, Prince of Albania. [Search domain everything.explained.today] everything.explained.today/William_of_Wied/" << check out
this gem. "what
they could find". guess how
the could works.
mircea_popescu: but i mean, seriously,
this particular fragment repeated verbatim dozens of
times AND NOTHING ELSE ?
mircea_popescu: truly
this is a waste.
turn off
the web, it's weasting electricity bitcoin could put
to better use.
mircea_popescu: we're approximately in
the position where across
the land
there's museums dedicated
to maintaining COPIES of original pieces of airplane fuselage fallen on
the island.
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck does
the electricity need
to be burned so
the SAME EXACT fragment of cargo cult is repeated 50
times ?
mircea_popescu: BUT!
the internet consists of a vast plurality of... EXACT COPIES.
mircea_popescu: the phrase originates from a nephew of
the romanian king,
temporarily mbret of albania. he left during ww1, cuz actual people were doing
things, exactly like a 19yo would leave
the 14yos he was playing with when
the cheerleaders show up.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-19 16:29 asciilifeform: His personal computer, federal prosecutors alleged, held more
than 10,000 images and videos of such material, protected under
three layers of passwords.'
a111: Logged on 2018-09-05 17:40 asciilifeform: if 'digital evidence'(tm)(r) supposedly 'found' on some zek's hdd can be 'evidence', why not
this.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-10 14:54 mircea_popescu: "we found
that
the BMC code responsible for processing and applying firmware updates does not perform cryptographic signature verification on
the provided firmware image before accepting
the update and committing it
to non-volatile storage."
mircea_popescu: it so
totally pays
to be one of
these usgistani "investigative journalists"...
mircea_popescu: oh, and in "comunismu-ntii
te-ajuta,
tac
tac
tac, si apoi
te executa pac pac pac" lulz : let's open our hymn books at
the roger casement page. first knighted for "exposing" "atrocities" in usg's enemies at
the
time (boers and whatnot), was
then hanged (and declared a faggot) for proposing
the germans help liberate his homeland from usg in ww1.
mircea_popescu: "i have no money, no job, and Bernie has been
the biggest political influence in my life"
mircea_popescu: "we found
that
the BMC code responsible for processing and applying firmware updates does not perform cryptographic signature verification on
the provided firmware image before accepting
the update and committing it
to non-volatile storage."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the usg machinery is not powered by sense. if you didn't know you wanted
to move
to miami, hereby you find out. if you're not
the sort who finds
this out
thusly,
terrorist.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i suppose my wut is spurious ; while it's
true i can eat it about as much as salt, nevertheless salt ALSO comes in kg boxes. << It doesn't really come in much smaller packages.
They go UP from here.
mircea_popescu: and
today's new york looks like 1998 chicago, and so going.
mircea_popescu: trades so much on
the latin underneath, i give you 0% chances!
mircea_popescu: i suppose my wut is spurious ; while it's
true i can eat it about as much as salt, nevertheless salt ALSO comes in kg boxes.
mircea_popescu: usg is "how
to go
through
the motions of doing
things withouy doing anything" and usg "opposition" is "how
to go
through
the motions of opposing usg, without fucking anything up for
them".
they're not all
that substantially different.
mircea_popescu: in fact,
there's no serious reason
to suspect pantsuited clowns of any peculiar relationship
to reality.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
That's
the
testimony, does not appear
to be
the reality
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
Terminal disconnect from reality
a111: Logged on 2018-09-09 20:07 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this cleverness leads
to "implemented solar panel out of wooden stick"