…since

…ok…I…bore myself sometimes isn’t really the right way to put it…if it bored me…it…would work itself out different…but…that…so…I do stuff like dip these under the ones you’d presumably be looking for…the way I did not once but twice to low-key soft-bury this one that was sort of a précis of mostly one side of a conversation I didn’t get to have with someone else as ticked off about some other stuff on the subject of how one little column on one little sliver of how the voodoo with the silicate hens’ teeth of incalculable value is going when they run the thing that isn’t the thing that would work the way the super-smart prompt optimizer guy “instructed”…somehow…in earnest…& how if you “ask grok” you were getting…all of 11% utility out of the hardware that physically represents the sunk cost bottleneck forming the moat around the command economy ruleset for the stuff apparently in command of the economy

…it’s a problem

…I dunno who I have to thank for the kermit .gif being in our media library…but…thank you…I’ve probably used the ones with snoopy at a typewriter enough times for that to be nearly as lazy as sticking with the sunday header image for the DOT…thought maybe that might take the edge off…but…probably needn’t have worried what the tumbleweeds would think of my dubious life-choices…so…I’ll spare us the indignity of pasting in the stuff I bracketed this bit with later in that day when I further indulged in talking to myself out-loud-but-in-my-inside-voice

…&…I don’t want to make people take the kind of tinfoil path that leads to adding (faraday) to every class of possessions you own like you might require the services of a muderbot within your expected lifespan…or mean to imply that I am somehow preternaturally immune to not knowing stuff it would pay to…but…without specifically launching into another “are you FUCKING seeing this – THIS – right-fucking-here…how in all that’s sacred can this possibly STILL be what passes for “works” because it gets interpreted as what the fucking money thinks in its infinite wisdo…ohhhhh….is that why treating LLMs as entities seems such a common instinct we’re calling that natural?” flaming tailspin of flippant dispair…about AI, anyway…I…might have seen one of the others but basically kind of short-changed what these were going for…the first one I remember thinking it was pretty neat someone built…sort of the way I thought the paperclip browser game was pretty neat…but…sort of the same way…only so many tabs you can justify when we all have too many of those as far as the browser tells us…amirite?

https://sinceyouarrived.world

…just me, then?

https://sinceyouarrived.world/sky

…they…call the .world one Vol. I…& /sky Vol. II…& this would be III…which de la soul would have you know can be the magic number

https://sinceyouarrived.world/discovered

…anyway…I pretty much don’t remember noticing they’d done II & III…but…like discovery could also apply to a specific sub-set of legal proceedings wherein copious corroboration of the underlying facts material & germane to the matter under dispute may lie…in…the internet…&…eh…some other stuff we do maybe more of than we think we do…there is another sort of discovery…&…I’m not trying to get everyone to throw away all their toys & start soldering components together in a shed that’s a faraday cage built to blow up like gene hackman’s joint in the will smith movie that owes more than it admits with the casting to the conversation…or…am I thinking of a mel gibson one…bruce willis, maybe…either way…living in a faraday cage &/or apartment wired with enough munitions for your panic button to make any corpses yours for all that god or science could say when “they” come for you…IV…is…well…I don’t necessarily “like it” like it…like…I don’t like that “it’s like that – that’s the way it is”…but…given it oh-so-fucking-is the way the iceberg was sort of near where the unsinkable boat aimed to go…I…kinda like that someone did it…&…if they were going to…they did it up nice & didn’t leave it all clunky-looking which is kinda like looking like a grown up works if you wanna make a point about web-traffic & how that works…the ways only some people give a fuck about…or…in some cases actively don’t want to be made to have to know or think about…how their ride works “under the hood”…so

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

…the level of surprises in store are…pretty variable on an eye-of-the-beholder basis…in several senses…like…it’s specific every time…you’d learn less looking at what it would look like for me if I clicked on that link from where I’m typing than if you clicked it from different browser/device combos that you actually use to see if there are differences or if you’re stuck with it or whether you’d see a reason to care about any of it or go about finding the ways there are to nudge the stuff you use to go the places you do into whatever might optimize your convenience:fuck-you-why? ratio for the need-to-knows that aggregate into your we-live-here-now footprint

…&…I’m not quite as sure as @myopicprophet would be when I say this…but…all the same…we’ve had some friction/downtime in pretty-recent memory that you’d be forgiven for making you think “hard to imagine this happening to [insert online chat venue]”…or…”who fucked up & why is the thing not doing the thing when I’m not asking a lot over here?”…or…whatever…but…like…there’s a reason everyone & their dog got a facebook page until too many parents of parents in the mix drove the cool kids off their twitter training wheels & into the wild wastelands of tik tok & snapchat & telegram & signal & murkier shit & eventually somewhere someone built a dare-based marketplace like jackass by etsy…rather than all the cupboards under the stairs not in use as harry potter’s bedroom getting made over into homebrew family rackspace

…it’s all shits & giggles until somebody’s lulz shit your bed

…so…I dunno…if you clicked that last link…& you appreciate how lots of the “some places would – we didn’t – but most places…” stuff that page mentions are things that myo made this place to not do…when some force majeure isn’t wresting his say on what’s there or if there even *is* a there there when you try to land on it out of his grasp