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    I’ve been offloading some books. There’s an interesting book on Restaveks called Restavec by Jean–Robert Cadet with the more localized cover.

    It’s probably still read here in schools. I know some hate it, not because it’s bad, but because reality competes with absurdist fiction.

    The remaining cracks, inevitably exposed by time, will probably be unpalatable to those in a happier century from now.

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    It turns out that I’m not that smart. Supposedly, if you can make links (or citations) of sufficient fidelity (and precision), then you may have outed yourself out (as a human). And here I thought I was doing an excellent job pretending to be a bot.

    At the peak of my fame, I had 500,000+ bots following in my wake spoofing everything underneath the sun. Offering up jason as a sacrifice was not enough.

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    I keep hearing about deep fakes (and fake comments). I got curious and even universities are simulating. Remember when 70,000 bots were doing the Pinocchio?

    Strangely enough, XDA Forums is the last place I’ve ever commented. I rarely read comments nowadays though because they’re too funny (and obviously gamed).

    Casually trusting online services is increasingly risky too given the desperate monetary incentives of generative artificial intelligence.

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    I might be slowly turning more lucid. Things are starting to take on a repeat. I was scanning mildly old tech news feeds and time travelled to old school 2012 high school.

    There was a certain Kony 2012 of worldwide acclaim around that time too (randomly tangential but true).

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    I’ve been thinking about scams lately. The most elusive are both scams and not scams, , scamming from the “superposition” (if you will).

    Scammers thrive on confusion. If large groups of people say that a scheme worked, and others the exact opposite, then something’s phishy.

    What makes ponzi, miracle man, and “dead donkey” scams truly ingenious is that victims may defend the scam. Since it did work or losses were minimal, the misdirection is completely on autopilot.

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    Perhaps it’s just my imagination (related). Imagine you’re shown a bag making clip on YouTube (maybe from Brazil).

    You (on a whim) zip on over to the channel for more sewing, only to be slammed with engagement politics. The commenters (English) never seemed to have gotten the context that it’s a channel in Portuguese about bags (scroll to the end). Then everything magically disappears.

    Do small channels like that just get randomly hacked, hijacked, and then sacked? Interesting.

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    I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon. The marketing material for coins have seemingly vanished. Now it’s , , , or adverts shape-shifting every couple of weeks.

    First it’s C, then C again, then P, then another C, then that C again, then G, then some other G, then L, and then D, now it’s Q or one of the G’s again.

    How’d they switch products so fast? That’s ultra human. I’ve never 10-100x’d with these tools, but many have. What is an ‘AI agent coin’? I wonder if any of you remember the ephemerally fun AI Dungeon?

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