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.

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.

I came across two search engines. The first is super precise. The second is able to dredge up ultra obscure stuff (photos of Norman’s Cay).

1. https://thesifter.org (food)
2. https://stract.com (general)

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.