I've seen this one. "those people"
Having talked about his before we'll skip the intro. I don't mean fuzzy ideas about fuzzy stereotypes which turn out not to exist beyond fuzzy headspace. I mean the idea that "those people" are out to get you, which seems predicated on the idea that they...well, that they actually give a fuck.
For instance those people are are anti gay marriage. Always creeping and croaking w. their obscene anti-life agenda (or whatever they are doing). And yet...don't most of those people not really care that much? I don't mean they don't feel emotion about this, I mean...do they donate? Do they format and inform and define and develop their positions on the issue? Do they march, act, organize such?
Clearly some folks do in fact do just these things. For legalized weed. More awesome guns. Removing a woman's right to choose. Jesus. And of course clearly those people do in fact have power and influence and an agenda. However, near as I can tell, most of "us" are not "them", even as most of us are being account as "those people" by somebody else.
I know I've considered this before but of course now, when I'm writing about it, the examples all escape me.
I don't know, I suppose, perhaps, those war loving murderthrill psychos in the red states that think we should be nuking Iraq to glass and maybe Israel and some of those other countries as well might be an example of an example. Or the limp-wristed bed-wetting liberals that hate all guns and want all guns taken away and think we should just be nice to criminals and understand them and we'll all be happy together.
So, it's not that I don't think people w. exactly those sentiments exist, and certainly it's got nothing to do w. if they are correct or not to feel and think that way, more it's to do w. if they are indeed acting on those sentiments and to what extent those actions (if any) are of importance to what comes next here in the world.
To me it seems as if those who know (the ones I'm listening to) have an assumption that those who do not know (the ones about whom they are speaking) must themselves also know. For instance in martial arts it's common to complain about (well, everything, but...) how dumb X people, or X style, are, or how misinformed X or Y is about the pet topic. For example a Silat school which does a lot of knife work talks shit about "those Karate guys" who do their dumb x-block defenses against unrealistic overhand knife attacks (extra, what I believe are irony points, if the Silat place doesn't actually feature anything but received wisdom about such subjects to being with) and yet...that Karate school is a point-sparring tournament school. They compete in kata demos, and "yellow card for contact to the face" type tournaments. The Silat guys of course are not just disapproving, they are also incensed by the bad and possibly lethal information being spread by these evil (and stupid) Karate dorks, and the *damage* being done, not just to Silat, not just to Karate, but to all of SELF DEFENSE!!!!
I know, particularly on these internetz, that spending a lot of words complaining about the dumbness of others is in fact the reason to exist. That venting spleen, ranting, etc, is a respected and traditional art form of the new medium (and was hardly unknown prior).
In the end I just find it strange and entertaining to watch folks make assumptions about a people by making the same sorts of assumptions about them that they are upset to have made about them. I find it stranger and funnier still when folks who do actually know stuff about stuff seem incredulous about other people (who do not know those things) are making such ignorant statements.
Like how shocking it is that there was a Satanic Panic about role-playing games back in "the day" when any young gamer, or stoner or death -rocker could have explained that what was being talked about had roots in effectively nothing.
Conversely of course the rule proving exception (or "Black Swan" as I understand them to be popularly called these days) can appear anywhere as well, only complicating the issue to those on both sides (apparently). I *A* legal carrier of a conceal pistol blasts up some poor fools at the local fastfood exchange then this means to the gun grabbers that ALL such individuals are not just capable, but actually edging always towards that kind of extreme violence. Where as for gun nuts this just reinforces the obvious need for a concealed gun. When in fact, I think, that such things are mostly avoidances of the underlying issue. Why did THIS guy do THAT in THAT location? Likely it's got nothing to do w. conceal weapons, nor guns, nor politics.
Likely it's got to do w. his unfocused rage towards "those people" and how they are always chewing w. their mouths open and how they know that irritates him and he just can't fucking stand it anymore.
Likely that has to do w. something else as well. Impotence (literal or otherwise), job stress, general stress really, it's all always often general stress nonsense isn't it? I mean the biologically mechanically insane are a touch more statistically rare than stress cases so usually (I think) the stress comes first and makes people "act" insane, rather than them just being that way.
Humans are really good a certain things in my estimation, and lying is one of them. We're best at lying to our selves and best at lying about our selves. So it's not surprising then that most folks are often unaware of almost anything but themselves and that what they are aware of is mostly bullshit. Phantasmal.
Funny? Just me?
Monday, June 15, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Waiting for it to hit
Here's the thing that's been percolating. Parts of it.
The darkside of light-chasers.
The yin and yang. It's, I think, simplistic to resort to binary sorting measures for most "real" things. But...binary is so fucking helpful!
Assignment\Alignment
When there is doubt, there is no doubt
and suchlike.
Self\Other
Internal\External
Good\Evil
It's not, at all, that these things don't exist, and often things will exist in a paired state, how can they not? Flip your slider bars the other way and.....there you go.
Inversion is easy.
So...in people what have we got if not this same dynamic?
I think that it's (stupidly) much like The Force. Dark side, Light side. There's that binary again.
It's easier to kill than to heal. It's easier to rape and take what you want by force. And it's hard to argue with results.
"More powerful? No. Quicker? Yes. Easier."
But this is...what, our Chimp nature instead of our Bonobo nature?
Most of life is an attempt to justify what you want, or rather it's a series of attempts to rationalize you doing those things.
This applies to the subject of murder. "They" are not "us". "They" threaten "our" way of life. "They" must be destroyed.
Not worked with, not healed, not anything except that false (IMO) binary of murder.
Often mercy comes from a place of strength. Steve Perry has a Ghandi quote I like, "better violence than cowardice" (paraphrased).
So then, why not be strong so that you don't have to use it? Be strong so that you can be merciful. Is this against the rape-ape nature of humankind? Survival is a brutal game, the weak are "Eliminated" and don't get to play any more.
Strike first to win. The person who is willing (and able) to take things that extra step farther faster is likely to win. The first person to resort to murder is likely to be the one left standing at the end of things.
There is a power to murder. I should stop to clarify that when *I* say murder what I mean is the taking of another human life. I do not like to sanitize this. Self-defense. Righteous Kill. Justifiable force. War. Whatever. It's murder. I don't of course mean this to in some way make it out that those who've done so are "bad guys". Again, it's just murder, it is what it is and I don't, personally, like to dress it up in soft language. There is a power to murder. People will fear you. You can resolve problems simply and easily...and absolutely. You can use the threat of your murder power to gain compliance.
This is the dark side. Murder is easy. Humans are fragile and there are so so many wonderful weapons out there. Strangle a person with a mouse cord. Gouge their eye out with a credit card. Fuck, just beat them to fucking death with your X-box or your HDTV. If the intent is there....
So. The only general paradox we (meaning I) find is that of course if another person is willing to use the murder power on you...you must be strong enough to be merciful when you defeat them. But...you still have to know how to, and be able to, defeat them. Which requires....that same murder power. IMVHO and totally unexperienced opinion. (I like it that way btw)
But that's the Light Side\Dark Side thing innit? You can gain the power of murder by using it. Or you can gain the power of murder by learning to access it and then not using it. One is easier. That base darkness in the human nature. Rape. Murder. Steal. Fuck those assholes! I do what I WANT!
Denial of a thing in the face of lacking that capability is weak and meaningless. If I'm a pacifist because I can't fight then, sorry, but it doesn't mean anything. Denial of an option as a choice. I think this is stronger and more better.
So. That's part of it. The essential human choice. It's easy to get what you want. But...does what you want really matter? Isn't the restraint of that impulse the noble thing? Isn't that the powerful thing?
It's easy to opt for Dark Side. Faster. Easier.
It's harder to chose life, restraint, and such. Honor.
It's the investment in that restraint that makes us noble I guess. Tho of course "noble" might just mean "royalty" and then...it's, historically, basic the opposite of the general contextual usage of the word.
It's easy to justify all of this stuff. The Bible. The Qu'uran. Yellowcake uranium. But it's a false polarization. The man who has, or sees, only two options, is just binding himself to blindness (insert s\he, pronoun of preference, qualifier) and restricting things, falsely to that binary. When you can submit or fight. Lame. What about going lateral? Outside of the box? This is the sign, I think, of control and power. Having options, creating options for others, allowing options to be exercised.
And if they are unreasonable? That's what you've acquired and refined this war knowledge, this murder power, for.
NOT so that you can use it. So that you can not use it. So that you are aware of it's existence. Face your fear.
I'm naked and fearless....and my fear is NAAAAAKED!
This is the Light Side path to power. Unrelenting, unwavering staring in to the place of darkness. And then...restraint. Not denial of the possibility but denial of the false binary choice.
It's such an easy little mindset to slip in to. If you are good at violence why not use it to get what you want? Because that would be weak and easy. Hard things are worth doing because they are hard. And denial is hard. It's of course easy to deny that which you reject or blind your self to. Which, for most people, I think, when I'm feeling judgmental and superior, is critical thinking. Examine your illusions. Examine your assumptions. Why? Just to see what happens.
It's easier to learn that to teach. Teaching is hard. You have to not just be able to do the thing but also be able to explain it. How it works. This is deeper. This is more noble. To teach others, to share what you have realized. I think.
And it's the same for the rest of it as well. Murder. To know it, learn it's ways, and teach them to others, but not to exercise it. If you don't know, if you reject, then you've just given up. Failure basically. How is that useful? "Math is stupid" "Martial arts are for violent people and the insecure"
A saying (it's mine AFAIK, or at least independently conceived) I like is: No judgment without knowledge.
This can be rephrased as "walking a mile in somebody else's shoes".
The "mercy" of the weak. What is it worth? I let you live because I cannot (not "am unwilling" but "am incapable")kill you. I let you return to me after cheating on me because I am unable to reject your love. Meaningless.
The Dark Side is easier, it is faster, but it is not more powerful. Each day we all get to make that choice. In so many small ways. So many big ones. Often we are constrained by the invisible bounds of our upbringing and culture. The mental force walls of those around us. "Permission" and yet....does this mean we should not examine them? Does it mean we should not delve in to our options to fucking kill people? I do not think so, personally.
Cops often seem to get the short shrift from civilians. And, of course, to be fair, as should be obvious, cops are just people too, they can make that Dark Side choice as easily as anybody else. It's easier to hate than to love. To project instead of accept.
The doing of hard things is inherently noble. Challenging limits.
Doing easy things is....somewhat less so. Do the drugs. Fuck the sluts. Drink the beers and drive home. Steal stuff from work. It's easy. And corrupting. Once you can see past that barrier that society projects in to the mind....if one line of blow is good...two must be better. If bustin' yo' nut in a sluts butt is good then...more sluts, more nuts, that's the answer?
But what about loving and fucking only one person for the rest of your life? Harder. More noble? I would tend to think so. But what about even harder options? Loving somebody who strays. But this is only if you can do this from a place of choice. If you back down and show your belly because you can't fight. Weak. If you do so voluntarily to resolve a situation. Stronger? More noble? I think so.
The weak want things to matter, because they project their weakness on to the world around them. This is their singular vision. Their only option. They must fight. There's no other choice. They must take him back after he fuck their best friend because otherwise who will really love them?
So....wrap this up. Only 1500 words. But then, it's such an easy subject. There are a lot of rewards for being powerful (able to control reality) and there are often few rewards for restraint. In fact you'll be mocked more for that won't you? Being powerful and not "using it"? But then that's the weak talking, the Dark Side, insulting you, drawing you out, provoking you. "What are you a pussy? Hit me you little bitch! C'mon be a fucking man!"
But the true mark of a man would be...not caring so much if the Dark Side thinks you are weak. It is weak. It projects that singular view on to you. And this is a trick. To make you buy in to it's view. To get a rise out of you. To use that response as proof you are no better than it is. But that's yet another false binary. You can think about rape and murder (your two basic worst crimes) and so what? If you think about them, consider them, and then don't do them, then you are strong. Then you are in control. Weakness is about loss of, lack of, control. Give in. Do it. It's easy. It's fun.
So then. To really wrap this up, before I get lost in my word lust again. This is the choice humanity faces and the choice each of us face as individuals. Chose life. It's harder. It will make you a better person. It will make us all better people. I think Obama might be up to this task. But he'll be tested of course. Because, again, the thing about it, the Dark Side, is that it's always right there, that's what makes it powerful, seductive, the option is always open. Anytime you want. And the triumph of our better nature over the easy thing is what moves us closer to unity and Godhood. The ability to make the choice, not the giving in to urges and singular path stupidity. You can of course only DO one thing. 10,000 paths but only one bears your name. But if you see only one path, only two....
We are all alone in this, together. Let us comfort each other, support each other. Not predate and reduce and degrade. Raw power, exerted, is weak. Strange isn't it? Well, whatever to you jerk! *I* think it's strange. Counter-intuitive. But then maybe intuition lies? Maybe it's not really intuitive at all, maybe it's just the unexamined truth and our assumptions coming from that lack of knowledge with which we are judging the world we see around us. Maybe it's easy to choose the Dark Side when you've got nothing else in your paradigm. But then, it's always easy to choose that. Path of least resistance. Increase entropy. Building is hard, destruction is easy. Learning and doing is easy, teaching and understanding is hard. Hard is better.
There's something more here. I can't quite see it yet. Alteration and control of reality is the True Work. But understanding and awareness is the Great Work. Seeking to understand yourself. Seeking to understand others. Particularly that last one. Self is easy. It's always right there. We're never alone from our selves if we do not seek that out. But others....they are hidden, mysterious, inconsistent, they'll lie to you, lie about themselves...and...can we forgive that? Allow it to happen mercifully? Can we forgive them? If they can forgive themselves it's another thing. But we can forgive them for doing this easy thing, can't we? Isn't that exactly the Light Side *choice*? To forgive those who trespass against us.
(booyah 2k again!)
The darkside of light-chasers.
The yin and yang. It's, I think, simplistic to resort to binary sorting measures for most "real" things. But...binary is so fucking helpful!
Assignment\Alignment
When there is doubt, there is no doubt
and suchlike.
Self\Other
Internal\External
Good\Evil
It's not, at all, that these things don't exist, and often things will exist in a paired state, how can they not? Flip your slider bars the other way and.....there you go.
Inversion is easy.
So...in people what have we got if not this same dynamic?
I think that it's (stupidly) much like The Force. Dark side, Light side. There's that binary again.
It's easier to kill than to heal. It's easier to rape and take what you want by force. And it's hard to argue with results.
"More powerful? No. Quicker? Yes. Easier."
But this is...what, our Chimp nature instead of our Bonobo nature?
Most of life is an attempt to justify what you want, or rather it's a series of attempts to rationalize you doing those things.
This applies to the subject of murder. "They" are not "us". "They" threaten "our" way of life. "They" must be destroyed.
Not worked with, not healed, not anything except that false (IMO) binary of murder.
Often mercy comes from a place of strength. Steve Perry has a Ghandi quote I like, "better violence than cowardice" (paraphrased).
So then, why not be strong so that you don't have to use it? Be strong so that you can be merciful. Is this against the rape-ape nature of humankind? Survival is a brutal game, the weak are "Eliminated" and don't get to play any more.
Strike first to win. The person who is willing (and able) to take things that extra step farther faster is likely to win. The first person to resort to murder is likely to be the one left standing at the end of things.
There is a power to murder. I should stop to clarify that when *I* say murder what I mean is the taking of another human life. I do not like to sanitize this. Self-defense. Righteous Kill. Justifiable force. War. Whatever. It's murder. I don't of course mean this to in some way make it out that those who've done so are "bad guys". Again, it's just murder, it is what it is and I don't, personally, like to dress it up in soft language. There is a power to murder. People will fear you. You can resolve problems simply and easily...and absolutely. You can use the threat of your murder power to gain compliance.
This is the dark side. Murder is easy. Humans are fragile and there are so so many wonderful weapons out there. Strangle a person with a mouse cord. Gouge their eye out with a credit card. Fuck, just beat them to fucking death with your X-box or your HDTV. If the intent is there....
So. The only general paradox we (meaning I) find is that of course if another person is willing to use the murder power on you...you must be strong enough to be merciful when you defeat them. But...you still have to know how to, and be able to, defeat them. Which requires....that same murder power. IMVHO and totally unexperienced opinion. (I like it that way btw)
But that's the Light Side\Dark Side thing innit? You can gain the power of murder by using it. Or you can gain the power of murder by learning to access it and then not using it. One is easier. That base darkness in the human nature. Rape. Murder. Steal. Fuck those assholes! I do what I WANT!
Denial of a thing in the face of lacking that capability is weak and meaningless. If I'm a pacifist because I can't fight then, sorry, but it doesn't mean anything. Denial of an option as a choice. I think this is stronger and more better.
So. That's part of it. The essential human choice. It's easy to get what you want. But...does what you want really matter? Isn't the restraint of that impulse the noble thing? Isn't that the powerful thing?
It's easy to opt for Dark Side. Faster. Easier.
It's harder to chose life, restraint, and such. Honor.
It's the investment in that restraint that makes us noble I guess. Tho of course "noble" might just mean "royalty" and then...it's, historically, basic the opposite of the general contextual usage of the word.
It's easy to justify all of this stuff. The Bible. The Qu'uran. Yellowcake uranium. But it's a false polarization. The man who has, or sees, only two options, is just binding himself to blindness (insert s\he, pronoun of preference, qualifier) and restricting things, falsely to that binary. When you can submit or fight. Lame. What about going lateral? Outside of the box? This is the sign, I think, of control and power. Having options, creating options for others, allowing options to be exercised.
And if they are unreasonable? That's what you've acquired and refined this war knowledge, this murder power, for.
NOT so that you can use it. So that you can not use it. So that you are aware of it's existence. Face your fear.
I'm naked and fearless....and my fear is NAAAAAKED!
This is the Light Side path to power. Unrelenting, unwavering staring in to the place of darkness. And then...restraint. Not denial of the possibility but denial of the false binary choice.
It's such an easy little mindset to slip in to. If you are good at violence why not use it to get what you want? Because that would be weak and easy. Hard things are worth doing because they are hard. And denial is hard. It's of course easy to deny that which you reject or blind your self to. Which, for most people, I think, when I'm feeling judgmental and superior, is critical thinking. Examine your illusions. Examine your assumptions. Why? Just to see what happens.
It's easier to learn that to teach. Teaching is hard. You have to not just be able to do the thing but also be able to explain it. How it works. This is deeper. This is more noble. To teach others, to share what you have realized. I think.
And it's the same for the rest of it as well. Murder. To know it, learn it's ways, and teach them to others, but not to exercise it. If you don't know, if you reject, then you've just given up. Failure basically. How is that useful? "Math is stupid" "Martial arts are for violent people and the insecure"
A saying (it's mine AFAIK, or at least independently conceived) I like is: No judgment without knowledge.
This can be rephrased as "walking a mile in somebody else's shoes".
The "mercy" of the weak. What is it worth? I let you live because I cannot (not "am unwilling" but "am incapable")kill you. I let you return to me after cheating on me because I am unable to reject your love. Meaningless.
The Dark Side is easier, it is faster, but it is not more powerful. Each day we all get to make that choice. In so many small ways. So many big ones. Often we are constrained by the invisible bounds of our upbringing and culture. The mental force walls of those around us. "Permission" and yet....does this mean we should not examine them? Does it mean we should not delve in to our options to fucking kill people? I do not think so, personally.
Cops often seem to get the short shrift from civilians. And, of course, to be fair, as should be obvious, cops are just people too, they can make that Dark Side choice as easily as anybody else. It's easier to hate than to love. To project instead of accept.
The doing of hard things is inherently noble. Challenging limits.
Doing easy things is....somewhat less so. Do the drugs. Fuck the sluts. Drink the beers and drive home. Steal stuff from work. It's easy. And corrupting. Once you can see past that barrier that society projects in to the mind....if one line of blow is good...two must be better. If bustin' yo' nut in a sluts butt is good then...more sluts, more nuts, that's the answer?
But what about loving and fucking only one person for the rest of your life? Harder. More noble? I would tend to think so. But what about even harder options? Loving somebody who strays. But this is only if you can do this from a place of choice. If you back down and show your belly because you can't fight. Weak. If you do so voluntarily to resolve a situation. Stronger? More noble? I think so.
The weak want things to matter, because they project their weakness on to the world around them. This is their singular vision. Their only option. They must fight. There's no other choice. They must take him back after he fuck their best friend because otherwise who will really love them?
So....wrap this up. Only 1500 words. But then, it's such an easy subject. There are a lot of rewards for being powerful (able to control reality) and there are often few rewards for restraint. In fact you'll be mocked more for that won't you? Being powerful and not "using it"? But then that's the weak talking, the Dark Side, insulting you, drawing you out, provoking you. "What are you a pussy? Hit me you little bitch! C'mon be a fucking man!"
But the true mark of a man would be...not caring so much if the Dark Side thinks you are weak. It is weak. It projects that singular view on to you. And this is a trick. To make you buy in to it's view. To get a rise out of you. To use that response as proof you are no better than it is. But that's yet another false binary. You can think about rape and murder (your two basic worst crimes) and so what? If you think about them, consider them, and then don't do them, then you are strong. Then you are in control. Weakness is about loss of, lack of, control. Give in. Do it. It's easy. It's fun.
So then. To really wrap this up, before I get lost in my word lust again. This is the choice humanity faces and the choice each of us face as individuals. Chose life. It's harder. It will make you a better person. It will make us all better people. I think Obama might be up to this task. But he'll be tested of course. Because, again, the thing about it, the Dark Side, is that it's always right there, that's what makes it powerful, seductive, the option is always open. Anytime you want. And the triumph of our better nature over the easy thing is what moves us closer to unity and Godhood. The ability to make the choice, not the giving in to urges and singular path stupidity. You can of course only DO one thing. 10,000 paths but only one bears your name. But if you see only one path, only two....
We are all alone in this, together. Let us comfort each other, support each other. Not predate and reduce and degrade. Raw power, exerted, is weak. Strange isn't it? Well, whatever to you jerk! *I* think it's strange. Counter-intuitive. But then maybe intuition lies? Maybe it's not really intuitive at all, maybe it's just the unexamined truth and our assumptions coming from that lack of knowledge with which we are judging the world we see around us. Maybe it's easy to choose the Dark Side when you've got nothing else in your paradigm. But then, it's always easy to choose that. Path of least resistance. Increase entropy. Building is hard, destruction is easy. Learning and doing is easy, teaching and understanding is hard. Hard is better.
There's something more here. I can't quite see it yet. Alteration and control of reality is the True Work. But understanding and awareness is the Great Work. Seeking to understand yourself. Seeking to understand others. Particularly that last one. Self is easy. It's always right there. We're never alone from our selves if we do not seek that out. But others....they are hidden, mysterious, inconsistent, they'll lie to you, lie about themselves...and...can we forgive that? Allow it to happen mercifully? Can we forgive them? If they can forgive themselves it's another thing. But we can forgive them for doing this easy thing, can't we? Isn't that exactly the Light Side *choice*? To forgive those who trespass against us.
(booyah 2k again!)
Monday, December 15, 2008
Tired
You know how you are tired sometimes, all day, didn't sleep well, didn't get enough sleep, and then...finally, time to sleep again, get "caught up" and....you can't sleep? And then it's not very good sleep and then you wake up too early? Yah. Like that.
So I asked for a topic and got: Mumbai stuff.
One thing I find interesting is that people often blame technology, read a bit today about how technologically advanced the gunmen were. Like they used Skype and GPS and Google Maps and stuff. Wow! So advanced! They are computing at a 3rd grade level!
So of course Google Maps is to blame! and cell phones (evil evil cell-phones!) and Skype!
What? I mean, really, What!?
Here is the issue, one more time, slowly: You can't prevent terror attacks very well.
That's it. You can stop them, counter-intel, infiltration, fronts, informants, etc, etc. But you are very unlikely to be able to prevent them at all period. Particularly in a very poor country were many cops don't have guns, most of them don't practice with them, nobody gets serious CT training, high population density ( = target rich environment) and non-exotic weapons. So, yes, good idea, let's blame Google. DAMN it if only they hadn't had those maps why....uh...yah, I don't know either.
Responses. Because you kinda gotta do something. Particularly when it's a provocative attack from a hostile and mostly lawless nation. But...what? Attack them? Good answer, kill more people, yours and theirs, waste resources, make yourself MORE vulnerable to attacks, etc. Pressure? Yes, obviously, of course you do this. International conglomerative pressure is best. Still tho...then what? The attacked has happened. They are unlikely to do it again. Particularly not in the same place in the same way. Sort of like being suspicious of your girlfriend AFTER she cheats on you...ain't likely to do much good then.
You can catch those that did it...maybe make somebody feel better. It's hard for me to relate to this one, never had much sourceable trauma myself. Not sure how I'd feel. Seems like the damage is done.
In general state sponsored terror, which this seems semi-likely to be, tho I think it's again a example of using terror for domestic control and international intrigue. The US wants in to Pakistan, wants to get out of that bad press we keep getting about accidentally murdering a bunch of school kids, or random dumbfucks, poor unlucky bastards, that Kashmir, Waziristan region of fuck is no doubt an operating base for many bad motherfuckers. You know, freedom fighters. Of course we don't really have a lot of spare forces to invade and occupy that shit (thanks George), and if we did they'd be attacked constantly (we're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here) and make more enemies than we'd kill. And the Pakis themselves can't do it, for...basically the same reasons, tho at least that'd be internal shitstorms. India can't do it, for obvious reasons.
You can't likely get your security apparatus (as they like to call them) upgraded to...as mentioned, not do much of anything about anything.
You can get pissed and angry (what?! India?! Angry at Pakistan?! Surely not!). You can plan counter-terror attacks and covertly support them with your own internal secret police types. That's likely to be productive.
But I think the generally agreed upon standard is that...you have to kill the source, cut the root, etc. Poor angry people without hope make good terrorists. See Chechnya, see Afghanistan, see Ireland. Angry rich socially and culturally isolated people also make good terrorists. See the 9-11 dudes. Or Usama B.
It's a newer smarter world now. Terrorism doesn't provoke sympathy and change, it doesn't draw good attention. It's a tool you use against yourself. "I cut myself...just so I can feel...anything! My life is so daaaaarrk!"
Yes, I think terrorists are basically the emo teens of the international set. They can't get their way so they wreck daddies car and have a lot of unprotected sex and cut themselves. Develop drug habits. Anything for attention. And just like in real life with real teens the attention the get will just be used to oppress them further. Grounded. Restricted. Ganged up on.
Invest invest invest. But. These are "culturally backwards" parts of the world. They are not clamoring for more TV and consumer goods. They really don't want us. But, at the same time, they are fucking dirt poor, easy to infiltrate, intimidate, extort, and control. So...what?
Give Pakistan money to give money to them? Wells and schools and such? We are actually doing this, but there's a hitch in that Pakistan can't reveal to them that the money is coming from America, AND Pakistan is a corrupt country so a lot of that money never gets to where it's supposed to go, and if we bring in our folks to monitor and direct that money...then people know where it's coming from.
I suppose one answer would be to...move a bunch of new and friendly people in there. Equip them well with cash, hardware, and guns. If your next door neighbors suddenly have lots of cool stuff, are happy, and smart, AND well armed...maybe eventually...you want some of what they've got? And because they've got big guns and APCs in their yards you can't just take it from them, which is what would normally happen. Maybe that would work.
Ultimately it's going to be a solution that is sneakier than force, sneakier than building allianances against them to force them to do whatever, or allow us to do whatever. That's the tricky part these days I think, trying to be sneakier. The problem isn't the problem, it's the source of the problem and probably the source of the source. Water in the basement is an issue, but less so than a leaking hot water heater, which is less of an issue than the broken pipe under the foundation.
I discussed this on the other blog, but I think it's the same solution really. Fuck them in the butt and stab them in the back and do it so they think it was their buddy and so he thinks it was them. Sneaky. The new world of economic warfare.
So I asked for a topic and got: Mumbai stuff.
One thing I find interesting is that people often blame technology, read a bit today about how technologically advanced the gunmen were. Like they used Skype and GPS and Google Maps and stuff. Wow! So advanced! They are computing at a 3rd grade level!
So of course Google Maps is to blame! and cell phones (evil evil cell-phones!) and Skype!
What? I mean, really, What!?
Here is the issue, one more time, slowly: You can't prevent terror attacks very well.
That's it. You can stop them, counter-intel, infiltration, fronts, informants, etc, etc. But you are very unlikely to be able to prevent them at all period. Particularly in a very poor country were many cops don't have guns, most of them don't practice with them, nobody gets serious CT training, high population density ( = target rich environment) and non-exotic weapons. So, yes, good idea, let's blame Google. DAMN it if only they hadn't had those maps why....uh...yah, I don't know either.
Responses. Because you kinda gotta do something. Particularly when it's a provocative attack from a hostile and mostly lawless nation. But...what? Attack them? Good answer, kill more people, yours and theirs, waste resources, make yourself MORE vulnerable to attacks, etc. Pressure? Yes, obviously, of course you do this. International conglomerative pressure is best. Still tho...then what? The attacked has happened. They are unlikely to do it again. Particularly not in the same place in the same way. Sort of like being suspicious of your girlfriend AFTER she cheats on you...ain't likely to do much good then.
You can catch those that did it...maybe make somebody feel better. It's hard for me to relate to this one, never had much sourceable trauma myself. Not sure how I'd feel. Seems like the damage is done.
In general state sponsored terror, which this seems semi-likely to be, tho I think it's again a example of using terror for domestic control and international intrigue. The US wants in to Pakistan, wants to get out of that bad press we keep getting about accidentally murdering a bunch of school kids, or random dumbfucks, poor unlucky bastards, that Kashmir, Waziristan region of fuck is no doubt an operating base for many bad motherfuckers. You know, freedom fighters. Of course we don't really have a lot of spare forces to invade and occupy that shit (thanks George), and if we did they'd be attacked constantly (we're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here) and make more enemies than we'd kill. And the Pakis themselves can't do it, for...basically the same reasons, tho at least that'd be internal shitstorms. India can't do it, for obvious reasons.
You can't likely get your security apparatus (as they like to call them) upgraded to...as mentioned, not do much of anything about anything.
You can get pissed and angry (what?! India?! Angry at Pakistan?! Surely not!). You can plan counter-terror attacks and covertly support them with your own internal secret police types. That's likely to be productive.
But I think the generally agreed upon standard is that...you have to kill the source, cut the root, etc. Poor angry people without hope make good terrorists. See Chechnya, see Afghanistan, see Ireland. Angry rich socially and culturally isolated people also make good terrorists. See the 9-11 dudes. Or Usama B.
It's a newer smarter world now. Terrorism doesn't provoke sympathy and change, it doesn't draw good attention. It's a tool you use against yourself. "I cut myself...just so I can feel...anything! My life is so daaaaarrk!"
Yes, I think terrorists are basically the emo teens of the international set. They can't get their way so they wreck daddies car and have a lot of unprotected sex and cut themselves. Develop drug habits. Anything for attention. And just like in real life with real teens the attention the get will just be used to oppress them further. Grounded. Restricted. Ganged up on.
Invest invest invest. But. These are "culturally backwards" parts of the world. They are not clamoring for more TV and consumer goods. They really don't want us. But, at the same time, they are fucking dirt poor, easy to infiltrate, intimidate, extort, and control. So...what?
Give Pakistan money to give money to them? Wells and schools and such? We are actually doing this, but there's a hitch in that Pakistan can't reveal to them that the money is coming from America, AND Pakistan is a corrupt country so a lot of that money never gets to where it's supposed to go, and if we bring in our folks to monitor and direct that money...then people know where it's coming from.
I suppose one answer would be to...move a bunch of new and friendly people in there. Equip them well with cash, hardware, and guns. If your next door neighbors suddenly have lots of cool stuff, are happy, and smart, AND well armed...maybe eventually...you want some of what they've got? And because they've got big guns and APCs in their yards you can't just take it from them, which is what would normally happen. Maybe that would work.
Ultimately it's going to be a solution that is sneakier than force, sneakier than building allianances against them to force them to do whatever, or allow us to do whatever. That's the tricky part these days I think, trying to be sneakier. The problem isn't the problem, it's the source of the problem and probably the source of the source. Water in the basement is an issue, but less so than a leaking hot water heater, which is less of an issue than the broken pipe under the foundation.
I discussed this on the other blog, but I think it's the same solution really. Fuck them in the butt and stab them in the back and do it so they think it was their buddy and so he thinks it was them. Sneaky. The new world of economic warfare.
More of the same
What to write, what to write, what to write? This blog is so small, I send so much around to my peeps in teh emailz, I can't remember what needs talking about and what does not. Only fools and friends read this thing anyhizzle (and some of them might be one and the same!) and the fools are a figment of my fevered...ff..ff.f..some work for thinking involving and f. To be sure.
On another blog there was talk of getting people off of the planet, permanently, in order to reduce environmental impact. It's not my blog (obviously) so I'll stick to questioning it here.
This isn't really what I want to write about.
But let's go with it, a thought experiment as a guy I know likes to say.
Energy costs go up, resources diminish, people pile up, over crowding, not enough of anything for anybody, this is the Malthusian Crisis. Already we consume more energy per person than at any other time in history. Unless my theories about recurrent human civilization transcending the dimensional boundary as nano-tech reduces their ruins to atomic rubble are correct. And they probably are.
Of course we also *generate* a lot more energy now than ever before (as indicated by the fact that we're consuming so much more).
Stress and strain, ecosphere in the balance, what results?
Pessimistic: A lot of people die. I don't think people as a people will die, but lots of us will, this reduces our footprint, causes weird planetary consequences, and life, as life, if not as human civilization, goes on. Woo. But I think we are likely to survive such a scenario as well. Will the post-fuckup be like the pre-fuckup? Unlikely. Of course, obviously. But...you know..so fucking what right? Shit happens. More precisely shit IS FUCKING GOING to happen. To you. To me. To people we love. Etc. Does this mean we should lay down, roll over, and spread our cheeks for the cosmic dildo coming from the sky? Not anymore than it does in MA\SD circles. We should work to prevent it. We should certainly work to prepare for it.
Meh. Lost interest, lost the thread. Posting....
On another blog there was talk of getting people off of the planet, permanently, in order to reduce environmental impact. It's not my blog (obviously) so I'll stick to questioning it here.
This isn't really what I want to write about.
But let's go with it, a thought experiment as a guy I know likes to say.
Energy costs go up, resources diminish, people pile up, over crowding, not enough of anything for anybody, this is the Malthusian Crisis. Already we consume more energy per person than at any other time in history. Unless my theories about recurrent human civilization transcending the dimensional boundary as nano-tech reduces their ruins to atomic rubble are correct. And they probably are.
Of course we also *generate* a lot more energy now than ever before (as indicated by the fact that we're consuming so much more).
Stress and strain, ecosphere in the balance, what results?
Pessimistic: A lot of people die. I don't think people as a people will die, but lots of us will, this reduces our footprint, causes weird planetary consequences, and life, as life, if not as human civilization, goes on. Woo. But I think we are likely to survive such a scenario as well. Will the post-fuckup be like the pre-fuckup? Unlikely. Of course, obviously. But...you know..so fucking what right? Shit happens. More precisely shit IS FUCKING GOING to happen. To you. To me. To people we love. Etc. Does this mean we should lay down, roll over, and spread our cheeks for the cosmic dildo coming from the sky? Not anymore than it does in MA\SD circles. We should work to prevent it. We should certainly work to prepare for it.
Meh. Lost interest, lost the thread. Posting....
Friday, December 12, 2008
New Materials\Post for a Friday
So I've here's some shit that's been sitting my brain pain fermenting.
Let's suppose a few things:
Everybody and everything in the world that matters has a FaceSpace or YouGoo page.
Everybody and everything in the world that matters it's own personal IP\webspace.
As heavily discussed here and in The Before Time blog, everybody and everything has a computer on itself at all times and that computer is on the 1nt4arw3bz at all times.
Further we might suggest that all such PODs (Personal Omni Devices for those just joining us (my imaginary friend and his buddy)) are wired for sound and video, because....they would be.
Ok. So that's this weeks assumption set.
Now, back to the FaceSpace YouGoo.
A bar is owned by company X and they want to remodel it. Patrons and fans of bar X protest, they do this as they do right now, by creating a FaceSpace YouGoo page\group for it.
As is currently true each POD has it's own unique number (the IP mentioned above, the MAC address, the person\entity with which it's associated, etc, multiple confirmations of unique identity) and thus we can do some interesting maths.
If bar X earns X revenue over X period via X customers then you can determine exactly, or nearly so, certainly to a greater degree than currently possible, how much you bring in, how much the refurb will cost, and how much the protest site traffic will cost you. Thus allowing you to determine if it's worth your time (money) at all to remodel.
Further, as word spreads via the YouGoo FaceSpace your traffic goes up for various reasons, and it becomes detrimental to even really consider it.
This is direct democracy via FaceSpace YouGoo. And it mostly exists now. That Wal-Mart iPhone is going to be a phucking game changer mang. No lie. I dunno why Apple (aka Stevie J) is so smart and everybody else is so dumb, but...he is, and they are, and it's goin' down in your town...tonite!
That App store is exactly the thing. First indicator. Cloud computing suggests the next part (meaning piece) of it.
Here's an app I'd like to see, one that monitors your emails and FaceSpace YouGoo accounts and all the pictures and links and such there-in, and figures out if you've already gotten a link or not, and then tabulates them so you can refresh your memory or pick up where you left off.
This also allows you to track and tabulate various trends. The more your friends send you a link the more you count hits for that link, maybe it becomes worth clicking at some point. You can monitor how fast you hit certain links, or how fast compared to your various networks (the social kind) you are on the edge, track your own viral rating.
With a large enough datapile (oh sweet datapile) you can even begin to engage in your own forms of spam filtering, auto-responding and the like. Tired of "blah blah blah 3 year old blah blah blah daddy in Iraq blah blah blah Amerikkka right or wrong blah blah blah heart warming blah blah blah" mass forwards? Now your filter catches them, kills them, and mass forwards the snopes debunk link back down the chain of link backs.
So. There's a post for a Friday for you. Direct Democracy via FaceSpace YouGoo.
The greater your levels of inter-operation become the more data can be pulled from such a...uh, what would we call it? Inter...net? Maybe that.
How much does protester X actually spend at Amazon? So then how much does their protest really matter? But what about back scatter? What about the friends they influence? Can we use their viral rating to determine presumed\predicted social influence? If so can we further use that free demographic FaceSpace YouGoo data to see how many folks they influence and how much those folks spend on Amazon (or Bar X, or M$, or The Apple App Store, or...) and then actually have some idea of how much "bad press" is actually going to impact your bottom line?
Does this become a viable feedback path for consumers to influence large corporations?
Even for a week or month to demonstrate power. Nike uses Indonesian sweatshops and "everybody" stops buying Nike for a month. That's going to be a bad month...or is it? Maybe those ppl that buy Nike feel the 3rd world, race to the bottom, globalized economy is a good thing and they just spend MORE money to generate MORE work for the poor benighted Indonesians.
Point being this is just another aspect of the datapile model of application. Point being this technology is here, right now, today.
I'd stop there, but this isn't even 1000 words. That's BULLshit. I'm outta blogging shape is all.
What are some other things? Have I done the public transport parts yet?
Equip your buses and taxis with PODs as well (drivers are obsolete, but if we leave them in then...it's their PODs we're using for the public good) and the PODs have GPS (again, this is all real right now) and so now we know where the taxis and buses are all the time (hello App Store money money) and we can ping them with pick up info, times, estimated time of arrival. No more missing the bus by 2 minutes. No more inconvienent stops.
And then we take it a step further. Here's an App Store app for you: Micropayments! I think I did this one already, well, too bad jerks! So now because you can charge shit already with your phone (uh...see the App Store, for instance, ringtones, etc (again, all really real right now)) but between friends. Or between random jack-offs. Like the guy giving you a ride to work. You use your "Thumb App" app and put in your destination (because it's already GOT your location) and somebody close by pings you back with his rates (or maybe that's automated too) and because the odds suggest that if you are going somewhere then somebody else is going there you ride along with them, they get a bit of $$$ from your POD, and buses and taxis die. Or people become buses and taxis as required.
Again, all possible, right now.
How about poetry slams? Street performers?
Same same. Publish your POD data via App Store and play in the street and folx throw you bling via the 1nt4rw3bz as they walk by, as you do open mike poetry, as they read your blog, watch your YouGoo vidz, etc.
Oooh! We're over 1K words now, but I'll keep it goin' 'cause I like you so much.
How about bar-bidding? Bars provide "free" wi-fi, which PODs connect to, you then publish your bar page on 1nt4rw3bz with drink prices (prices you're paying, obviously, from your POD) (goodbye servers and wait staff? maybe....) and then you use App Store app "Bar Hopper" which contains a "hopper" (Oh I lulz myself) of local bars, with locational data. And drink prices\specials, and then the bars monitor their inventory and other bar prices and selectively raise and lower and start and stop specials all night long, to provoke churn\traffic. You can also provide all kinds of other info. Use App Store app "Where all the white women at?" (aka "Where da bitchez at?" aka "You mind if we dance wif yo dates?") to determine where the chicks are, go to that bar, or where people are NOT, so you can leave the loud bar and go to the quiet bar. Or a bar that's too loud raises their drink prices and everybody leaves, and now the quiet bar people come to your newly emptied bar (because really you just wanted to get rid of your stock of house tequila, so you put it on special, ppl showed up, tequila was drank, and they left).
So there's another mass app.
Mass Transit. Bars. What else?
What's missing?
Currently you can use PODs to connect to the 1nt4rw3bz and you can use that to find all standard internet data, but that data is largely non-local, even when App Store does stuff to localize it to you (that lunch app, directions, etc) it's a one-way thing. You know your location, and it knows theirs, but they don't know yours.
So PODs need to act as local area servers, which should be a pretty trivial programming task in fact. Particularly since you're going to be using local wi-fi hotspots for net access anyway. It already HAS a client list from it's DHCP table. Just reverse publish that down the pipe and go for P2P connects and publishing.
Finally a word about the ON (again Omni Net for those who are new here (all 0 of you)) it's here now. I thought it would take time, but it's actually already ready already. Cell nets ARE the ON. That white-space deal Google fucked out of the FCC? Same\same. Wi-Max? Same\same.
And what does Intel (and Marvell (and others)) have in it's labs? Software radios. The only thing you need for serious ON action.
So, the POD is here now, the ON is here now. Thus my future vision comes to fruition.
The datapile is already pre-extant. It's here it's just not connected to itself yet. Matter of time. All that data is money (interesting posit btw for those who like business\money) so ppl guard it jealously, but of course if you don't share money you can't make money and so the data will merge, the datapile will E-merge (little putar joke there) and there it is.
Final bits missing:
FN (fun? phone? I'd probably go with phone for retro-throwback potential)
high-density WORMS (the S is for Storage (or maybe Solid State (WORMSSS?)))
transparent data access\data access tracking&logging
I read something recently about the P2P networks being retuned to search local nodes preferentially for data, so that's real now too.
Cars that drive themselves
and of course the SHEL.
And the Integrated Reality devices.
One final word since I ain't think I gotz it here yet.
Intel said recently they've got their 32nm process scaling up for production. Atom SOC at 32nm should be out next year therefore. This is the (I think, for now) ultimate POD chip, combined with software radio for ON, and (ideally, fuck Apple) Android v2 phones for the POD platform and there we go.
Software changes the world instantly. That's the secret of software.
I'm almost at 2K for today. So I'm going to keep going.
But what?
Implications about truth via datapile? That's been done (by me) already. But for instance, using the above, The Seattle Mariners are trying to oppose a strip club being built near their stadium. Theory I heard was season ticket holders (richies!) would be up-nosed about this, and never ever come to their local ball clubs games again if they had something as evil as a strip bar next door (nevermind that this is stupid, just roll with it) so...how to test it? Datapile.
How to test anything?
One of the assumptions of economics I have trouble with is the idea of homo economus, the rational actor. Often this takes the form of various theories from behavioral econ to account for non-rational "rational" behaviors. But also we have situations of information dis-parity. If you don't know what's on sale how can you but it preferentially? So using localized ON data now you can know. And those in charge of price fixing, uh, setting, can know also. A "flat" marketplace.
Point here is that you can then use the datapile to test for rationality, to test for vendor trust, and so on and so forth.
Suppose you go see a movie opening weekend. You leave the movie, your POD says, "Hey jerk, wanna fill out a quick survey on this biatch for a 1$ refund on your ticket price?". Here are some interesting ideas for that:
The production company gets this data OR the theatre gets this data and sells it to the production company OR a internet site comps you more on your ticket price than either and you give them your info first, and they scoop the bigger sites OR you are walking by the theatre and your POD tells you movie times AND what the last audience thought of it AND if there is enough info in the d-pile you can even get demo-data right out of that stream (all folx within 2 deltas of your demo-data enjoyed it, oldies didn't, kids didn't (so you don't take your kids)).
On-demand similar vendor instant coupons. "I notice you got Sugar Frosted Choco-bombs...would you like to save .50$ on them and on Item X (organic DHA supplemented milk)?"
The ability to directly drive consumer culture like this is then contrasted against the ability of the consumer to use the "flat" market to extract market intel against you (the companies).
How about App Store app "deal breaker" that scans for sweet deals against your wish list at all times? "There's a sale at Penny's!!!!" /airplane
and on and on like this. Because of the App Store SpaceFace YouGoo Marketplace you get on-demand software, software provides your instant social change methodology\"upgrade path", and the world is never the same again. Wal-mart gives you cheap PODs (if you've got streaming media what do you need 100GB of storage local to your POD for? You can only listen to one song at a time) and it's fucking ON!
Software provides "reverse" localized data. Software provides public transport. Micropayments from phone to phone (Android v2 should feature on-board biometrics to go with your PIN unlock and software provides "pass code" vocal recognition (this is all so your POD is *yours* and less susceptible to theft (of course if all PODs are on the ON all the time...how can anybody really steal them very effectively?)) provide all kinds of crazy shit. Internet agents (software) provide constant scanning (again, this is really real right now, RSS feeds, push-data, etc).
Direct democracy via iPhone (POD is so much better). Movie reviews. "Flat" markets.
And so forth.
Let's suppose a few things:
Everybody and everything in the world that matters has a FaceSpace or YouGoo page.
Everybody and everything in the world that matters it's own personal IP\webspace.
As heavily discussed here and in The Before Time blog, everybody and everything has a computer on itself at all times and that computer is on the 1nt4arw3bz at all times.
Further we might suggest that all such PODs (Personal Omni Devices for those just joining us (my imaginary friend and his buddy)) are wired for sound and video, because....they would be.
Ok. So that's this weeks assumption set.
Now, back to the FaceSpace YouGoo.
A bar is owned by company X and they want to remodel it. Patrons and fans of bar X protest, they do this as they do right now, by creating a FaceSpace YouGoo page\group for it.
As is currently true each POD has it's own unique number (the IP mentioned above, the MAC address, the person\entity with which it's associated, etc, multiple confirmations of unique identity) and thus we can do some interesting maths.
If bar X earns X revenue over X period via X customers then you can determine exactly, or nearly so, certainly to a greater degree than currently possible, how much you bring in, how much the refurb will cost, and how much the protest site traffic will cost you. Thus allowing you to determine if it's worth your time (money) at all to remodel.
Further, as word spreads via the YouGoo FaceSpace your traffic goes up for various reasons, and it becomes detrimental to even really consider it.
This is direct democracy via FaceSpace YouGoo. And it mostly exists now. That Wal-Mart iPhone is going to be a phucking game changer mang. No lie. I dunno why Apple (aka Stevie J) is so smart and everybody else is so dumb, but...he is, and they are, and it's goin' down in your town...tonite!
That App store is exactly the thing. First indicator. Cloud computing suggests the next part (meaning piece) of it.
Here's an app I'd like to see, one that monitors your emails and FaceSpace YouGoo accounts and all the pictures and links and such there-in, and figures out if you've already gotten a link or not, and then tabulates them so you can refresh your memory or pick up where you left off.
This also allows you to track and tabulate various trends. The more your friends send you a link the more you count hits for that link, maybe it becomes worth clicking at some point. You can monitor how fast you hit certain links, or how fast compared to your various networks (the social kind) you are on the edge, track your own viral rating.
With a large enough datapile (oh sweet datapile) you can even begin to engage in your own forms of spam filtering, auto-responding and the like. Tired of "blah blah blah 3 year old blah blah blah daddy in Iraq blah blah blah Amerikkka right or wrong blah blah blah heart warming blah blah blah" mass forwards? Now your filter catches them, kills them, and mass forwards the snopes debunk link back down the chain of link backs.
So. There's a post for a Friday for you. Direct Democracy via FaceSpace YouGoo.
The greater your levels of inter-operation become the more data can be pulled from such a...uh, what would we call it? Inter...net? Maybe that.
How much does protester X actually spend at Amazon? So then how much does their protest really matter? But what about back scatter? What about the friends they influence? Can we use their viral rating to determine presumed\predicted social influence? If so can we further use that free demographic FaceSpace YouGoo data to see how many folks they influence and how much those folks spend on Amazon (or Bar X, or M$, or The Apple App Store, or...) and then actually have some idea of how much "bad press" is actually going to impact your bottom line?
Does this become a viable feedback path for consumers to influence large corporations?
Even for a week or month to demonstrate power. Nike uses Indonesian sweatshops and "everybody" stops buying Nike for a month. That's going to be a bad month...or is it? Maybe those ppl that buy Nike feel the 3rd world, race to the bottom, globalized economy is a good thing and they just spend MORE money to generate MORE work for the poor benighted Indonesians.
Point being this is just another aspect of the datapile model of application. Point being this technology is here, right now, today.
I'd stop there, but this isn't even 1000 words. That's BULLshit. I'm outta blogging shape is all.
What are some other things? Have I done the public transport parts yet?
Equip your buses and taxis with PODs as well (drivers are obsolete, but if we leave them in then...it's their PODs we're using for the public good) and the PODs have GPS (again, this is all real right now) and so now we know where the taxis and buses are all the time (hello App Store money money) and we can ping them with pick up info, times, estimated time of arrival. No more missing the bus by 2 minutes. No more inconvienent stops.
And then we take it a step further. Here's an App Store app for you: Micropayments! I think I did this one already, well, too bad jerks! So now because you can charge shit already with your phone (uh...see the App Store, for instance, ringtones, etc (again, all really real right now)) but between friends. Or between random jack-offs. Like the guy giving you a ride to work. You use your "Thumb App" app and put in your destination (because it's already GOT your location) and somebody close by pings you back with his rates (or maybe that's automated too) and because the odds suggest that if you are going somewhere then somebody else is going there you ride along with them, they get a bit of $$$ from your POD, and buses and taxis die. Or people become buses and taxis as required.
Again, all possible, right now.
How about poetry slams? Street performers?
Same same. Publish your POD data via App Store and play in the street and folx throw you bling via the 1nt4rw3bz as they walk by, as you do open mike poetry, as they read your blog, watch your YouGoo vidz, etc.
Oooh! We're over 1K words now, but I'll keep it goin' 'cause I like you so much.
How about bar-bidding? Bars provide "free" wi-fi, which PODs connect to, you then publish your bar page on 1nt4rw3bz with drink prices (prices you're paying, obviously, from your POD) (goodbye servers and wait staff? maybe....) and then you use App Store app "Bar Hopper" which contains a "hopper" (Oh I lulz myself) of local bars, with locational data. And drink prices\specials, and then the bars monitor their inventory and other bar prices and selectively raise and lower and start and stop specials all night long, to provoke churn\traffic. You can also provide all kinds of other info. Use App Store app "Where all the white women at?" (aka "Where da bitchez at?" aka "You mind if we dance wif yo dates?") to determine where the chicks are, go to that bar, or where people are NOT, so you can leave the loud bar and go to the quiet bar. Or a bar that's too loud raises their drink prices and everybody leaves, and now the quiet bar people come to your newly emptied bar (because really you just wanted to get rid of your stock of house tequila, so you put it on special, ppl showed up, tequila was drank, and they left).
So there's another mass app.
Mass Transit. Bars. What else?
What's missing?
Currently you can use PODs to connect to the 1nt4rw3bz and you can use that to find all standard internet data, but that data is largely non-local, even when App Store does stuff to localize it to you (that lunch app, directions, etc) it's a one-way thing. You know your location, and it knows theirs, but they don't know yours.
So PODs need to act as local area servers, which should be a pretty trivial programming task in fact. Particularly since you're going to be using local wi-fi hotspots for net access anyway. It already HAS a client list from it's DHCP table. Just reverse publish that down the pipe and go for P2P connects and publishing.
Finally a word about the ON (again Omni Net for those who are new here (all 0 of you)) it's here now. I thought it would take time, but it's actually already ready already. Cell nets ARE the ON. That white-space deal Google fucked out of the FCC? Same\same. Wi-Max? Same\same.
And what does Intel (and Marvell (and others)) have in it's labs? Software radios. The only thing you need for serious ON action.
So, the POD is here now, the ON is here now. Thus my future vision comes to fruition.
The datapile is already pre-extant. It's here it's just not connected to itself yet. Matter of time. All that data is money (interesting posit btw for those who like business\money) so ppl guard it jealously, but of course if you don't share money you can't make money and so the data will merge, the datapile will E-merge (little putar joke there) and there it is.
Final bits missing:
FN (fun? phone? I'd probably go with phone for retro-throwback potential)
high-density WORMS (the S is for Storage (or maybe Solid State (WORMSSS?)))
transparent data access\data access tracking&logging
I read something recently about the P2P networks being retuned to search local nodes preferentially for data, so that's real now too.
Cars that drive themselves
and of course the SHEL.
And the Integrated Reality devices.
One final word since I ain't think I gotz it here yet.
Intel said recently they've got their 32nm process scaling up for production. Atom SOC at 32nm should be out next year therefore. This is the (I think, for now) ultimate POD chip, combined with software radio for ON, and (ideally, fuck Apple) Android v2 phones for the POD platform and there we go.
Software changes the world instantly. That's the secret of software.
I'm almost at 2K for today. So I'm going to keep going.
But what?
Implications about truth via datapile? That's been done (by me) already. But for instance, using the above, The Seattle Mariners are trying to oppose a strip club being built near their stadium. Theory I heard was season ticket holders (richies!) would be up-nosed about this, and never ever come to their local ball clubs games again if they had something as evil as a strip bar next door (nevermind that this is stupid, just roll with it) so...how to test it? Datapile.
How to test anything?
One of the assumptions of economics I have trouble with is the idea of homo economus, the rational actor. Often this takes the form of various theories from behavioral econ to account for non-rational "rational" behaviors. But also we have situations of information dis-parity. If you don't know what's on sale how can you but it preferentially? So using localized ON data now you can know. And those in charge of price fixing, uh, setting, can know also. A "flat" marketplace.
Point here is that you can then use the datapile to test for rationality, to test for vendor trust, and so on and so forth.
Suppose you go see a movie opening weekend. You leave the movie, your POD says, "Hey jerk, wanna fill out a quick survey on this biatch for a 1$ refund on your ticket price?". Here are some interesting ideas for that:
The production company gets this data OR the theatre gets this data and sells it to the production company OR a internet site comps you more on your ticket price than either and you give them your info first, and they scoop the bigger sites OR you are walking by the theatre and your POD tells you movie times AND what the last audience thought of it AND if there is enough info in the d-pile you can even get demo-data right out of that stream (all folx within 2 deltas of your demo-data enjoyed it, oldies didn't, kids didn't (so you don't take your kids)).
On-demand similar vendor instant coupons. "I notice you got Sugar Frosted Choco-bombs...would you like to save .50$ on them and on Item X (organic DHA supplemented milk)?"
The ability to directly drive consumer culture like this is then contrasted against the ability of the consumer to use the "flat" market to extract market intel against you (the companies).
How about App Store app "deal breaker" that scans for sweet deals against your wish list at all times? "There's a sale at Penny's!!!!" /airplane
and on and on like this. Because of the App Store SpaceFace YouGoo Marketplace you get on-demand software, software provides your instant social change methodology\"upgrade path", and the world is never the same again. Wal-mart gives you cheap PODs (if you've got streaming media what do you need 100GB of storage local to your POD for? You can only listen to one song at a time) and it's fucking ON!
Software provides "reverse" localized data. Software provides public transport. Micropayments from phone to phone (Android v2 should feature on-board biometrics to go with your PIN unlock and software provides "pass code" vocal recognition (this is all so your POD is *yours* and less susceptible to theft (of course if all PODs are on the ON all the time...how can anybody really steal them very effectively?)) provide all kinds of crazy shit. Internet agents (software) provide constant scanning (again, this is really real right now, RSS feeds, push-data, etc).
Direct democracy via iPhone (POD is so much better). Movie reviews. "Flat" markets.
And so forth.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Your mark of the beast, now in custom chrome
In the end we'll all need a number, a nice unique number, *our* number.
They are going to start taking genetic material from certain criminals soon, or even from people charged with crimes, but not convicted of them. You can get your own personal gene read-out already and once you own that data you can then look up any correlations that might pop up as new data comes along.
We'll all have cell phones and we'll all have emails and myspaces and websites and....why bother?
Why not have just one number?
Your genetics are your cell phone number are your website is your resume is your myspace.
It's not here yet and it's not being engineered for, because most people are not technological futurists, but, it'll come in time.
And why not really?
The thing is access control and data shaping and it will still be lop-sided and funny looking, but let's start the convo:
You own your data. But your interactors might own it too. If you buy a movie ticket you own the financial transaction, but the theatre (if they still exist) owns some of it too, not your CC number maybe, not your demographic info, but maybe, but they can at least say "Person saw X movie and X time and paid X". Your CC company (if they still exist) owns some of it too, the transaction record, your verification of the charge, but they might not own knowing what movie you saw. So ALL of the data is yours and some of that data is theirs too.
It's all a big rolling ball of dung in the end.
This is why it's about access notification and access management. Because you can't stop the funk.
We can either suffer under the watchful eye of who knows who. Or we can all watch ourselves\eachother\reality TV.
I don't mind the government watching me, I just want to watch them in return and I want to know what they are watching. If the internet has demonstrated anything it's that we'll watch anything and that mostly the world is composed of people we don't want to watch. A typical internet paradox. I could watch Japanese girls puking on each other, or Two Girls One Cup, but...really...no, pass.
So there's the Public Record which I've talked about, recap: All public audio\video records are digitized and stored where anybody can access them, and then there's the implications of that. And I think what we'll learn is that...we'd rather not be watching.
We could create algos to insta-splice pattern matched collages of clips. Everybody in public picking their noses right NOW. Everybody kissing. Everybody wearing your bands favorite T-shirt (or your favorite bands T-shirt even).
That's all limited by the search speeds and bandwidth, but mostly, the single number idea, you can look back on your day, watch who watched you, watch yourself.
Extend to internet land. You can watch your data and see watches it and what they watch it for.
This impacts the "life as internet" idea as well, since you are always wired, you are always watching feeds, like the newscrawl on cable, but it's your's and only your's. Like RSS feeds, but so much more, because most of it is going to be blips about who is accessing your data.
So to simplify all of this we'll each get our own single number, which we can mask and alias and all that, sure sure, and then it all falls out from there.
They are going to start taking genetic material from certain criminals soon, or even from people charged with crimes, but not convicted of them. You can get your own personal gene read-out already and once you own that data you can then look up any correlations that might pop up as new data comes along.
We'll all have cell phones and we'll all have emails and myspaces and websites and....why bother?
Why not have just one number?
Your genetics are your cell phone number are your website is your resume is your myspace.
It's not here yet and it's not being engineered for, because most people are not technological futurists, but, it'll come in time.
And why not really?
The thing is access control and data shaping and it will still be lop-sided and funny looking, but let's start the convo:
You own your data. But your interactors might own it too. If you buy a movie ticket you own the financial transaction, but the theatre (if they still exist) owns some of it too, not your CC number maybe, not your demographic info, but maybe, but they can at least say "Person saw X movie and X time and paid X". Your CC company (if they still exist) owns some of it too, the transaction record, your verification of the charge, but they might not own knowing what movie you saw. So ALL of the data is yours and some of that data is theirs too.
It's all a big rolling ball of dung in the end.
This is why it's about access notification and access management. Because you can't stop the funk.
We can either suffer under the watchful eye of who knows who. Or we can all watch ourselves\eachother\reality TV.
I don't mind the government watching me, I just want to watch them in return and I want to know what they are watching. If the internet has demonstrated anything it's that we'll watch anything and that mostly the world is composed of people we don't want to watch. A typical internet paradox. I could watch Japanese girls puking on each other, or Two Girls One Cup, but...really...no, pass.
So there's the Public Record which I've talked about, recap: All public audio\video records are digitized and stored where anybody can access them, and then there's the implications of that. And I think what we'll learn is that...we'd rather not be watching.
We could create algos to insta-splice pattern matched collages of clips. Everybody in public picking their noses right NOW. Everybody kissing. Everybody wearing your bands favorite T-shirt (or your favorite bands T-shirt even).
That's all limited by the search speeds and bandwidth, but mostly, the single number idea, you can look back on your day, watch who watched you, watch yourself.
Extend to internet land. You can watch your data and see watches it and what they watch it for.
This impacts the "life as internet" idea as well, since you are always wired, you are always watching feeds, like the newscrawl on cable, but it's your's and only your's. Like RSS feeds, but so much more, because most of it is going to be blips about who is accessing your data.
So to simplify all of this we'll each get our own single number, which we can mask and alias and all that, sure sure, and then it all falls out from there.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Hot Viral Meme
I think I've got a handle on it now. It was confusing me for weeks. Making my brain hurt on the inside. Casting me in to doubt. But now I've assembled new meaning and....it's ON.
In the old days myth was reality. Only the most basic of data structures could be propagated. And thus only the most basic data.
Humans make meaning. We call it "pattern recognition" but that's like saying a computer is just a bunch of ones-and-zeros. It's not really accurate, because it describes only the physical level, not the holistic level, after all we do more than recognize patterns, if all we did was recognize patterns we wouldn't really do much would we.
We create patterns. We create reality. We determine reality by ascribing meaning to the patterns we see. We call them good or bad. We call them right or wrong. We call them true or false.
"Constant flow of becoming" is a phrase I saw in a myspace.
Whoops. Ate sugar, brain turning off, as insulin floods system. Bad idea.
There's a war on, a struggle to make meaning matter, to root it in tradition and history, to make the meaning mean something, stand for something, be true.
That is the big lie.
It is what it is now, it's a field effect with many poles. You don't determine anything but your vector in it. Any ray in a vector storm.
I am whatever you say I am, if it wasn't, then why would I say I am?
If you go to disco night, dressed disco style, is it really disco style? Yes, because everybody will know what it is there. Doesn't matter if it's real disco or not, because there is no real disco....except of course the one you are at, making it, real disco.
There is no predicting the future. There is only creating the future by selling people on your ideas to the point that they do them.
American are obsessed with celebrities! Americans are obsessed with celebrities! Americans are obsessed with celebrities!
But really we're obsessed with American Idol, which creates celebrities from nobodies and fulfills the promise above.
Americans are obsessed with celebrities, so the media is obsessed with stories about celebs, because since we're obsessed with them means we'll click thru and give them money (what they want) in return for what we want (pictures of Brittney's cooch) meaning that when you visit your favorite media site there will be pix of Brits cooch, because that's what they are reporting, you can't read the story about the space proteins, because they didn't publish that one, because....Americans are not obsessed with space proteins.
Viral. The networks enable viral. Hot Viral Meme.
It's like a pulse of information that flows around the world.
We must break the language barrier and then it will end. Then we can be as one, as viral becomes universal and the omnidevice carries it directly in to our heads as it occurs.
It's the carrier wave that we sync to. We all know William Hung. We all know Paris Hilton has a lazy eye. We all know Dwayne Wade is retiring. We all know the Rolling Stones are getting back together. We all know Hillary will never win. We all know that WTC7 was a controlled demo.
Individually we'll have our opinions, but those opinions are formed from truth fractions, from meaning memes, from a snowstorm of confetti we mush together like play-doh in to what we see right now.
It's all kinda obvious I'll admit. Why was it giving me trouble? Because I wanted it to mean something more than it does. It doesn't mean anything. It just is that way. Learning to ride the tides somehow. Learning to fit in to the world waves.
Fit in. Conform. Hold tight. Relax...here it comes again.
There is a thing beyond language. Before language. Meaning. Words are imperfect. Text is worse. But meaning is something we know in our bones because...it's what we do, it's ALL we do. We are the hot viral meme of planet earth.
We will spread to the stars and make them mean something and give them names. And those names will mean something by God!
It is what we say it is as we say it. It's the perfect magic.
Vista is a load of crap. Terrible. Buggy. Just...plain....BAD! Slow.
And as it was written so shall it be.
Macs "just work" and as it was written so shall it be. The idea of just works, the idea of simplicity and elegance in design become simplicity and elegance.
Yah. I'm done here for now.
In the old days myth was reality. Only the most basic of data structures could be propagated. And thus only the most basic data.
Humans make meaning. We call it "pattern recognition" but that's like saying a computer is just a bunch of ones-and-zeros. It's not really accurate, because it describes only the physical level, not the holistic level, after all we do more than recognize patterns, if all we did was recognize patterns we wouldn't really do much would we.
We create patterns. We create reality. We determine reality by ascribing meaning to the patterns we see. We call them good or bad. We call them right or wrong. We call them true or false.
"Constant flow of becoming" is a phrase I saw in a myspace.
Whoops. Ate sugar, brain turning off, as insulin floods system. Bad idea.
There's a war on, a struggle to make meaning matter, to root it in tradition and history, to make the meaning mean something, stand for something, be true.
That is the big lie.
It is what it is now, it's a field effect with many poles. You don't determine anything but your vector in it. Any ray in a vector storm.
I am whatever you say I am, if it wasn't, then why would I say I am?
If you go to disco night, dressed disco style, is it really disco style? Yes, because everybody will know what it is there. Doesn't matter if it's real disco or not, because there is no real disco....except of course the one you are at, making it, real disco.
There is no predicting the future. There is only creating the future by selling people on your ideas to the point that they do them.
American are obsessed with celebrities! Americans are obsessed with celebrities! Americans are obsessed with celebrities!
But really we're obsessed with American Idol, which creates celebrities from nobodies and fulfills the promise above.
Americans are obsessed with celebrities, so the media is obsessed with stories about celebs, because since we're obsessed with them means we'll click thru and give them money (what they want) in return for what we want (pictures of Brittney's cooch) meaning that when you visit your favorite media site there will be pix of Brits cooch, because that's what they are reporting, you can't read the story about the space proteins, because they didn't publish that one, because....Americans are not obsessed with space proteins.
Viral. The networks enable viral. Hot Viral Meme.
It's like a pulse of information that flows around the world.
We must break the language barrier and then it will end. Then we can be as one, as viral becomes universal and the omnidevice carries it directly in to our heads as it occurs.
It's the carrier wave that we sync to. We all know William Hung. We all know Paris Hilton has a lazy eye. We all know Dwayne Wade is retiring. We all know the Rolling Stones are getting back together. We all know Hillary will never win. We all know that WTC7 was a controlled demo.
Individually we'll have our opinions, but those opinions are formed from truth fractions, from meaning memes, from a snowstorm of confetti we mush together like play-doh in to what we see right now.
It's all kinda obvious I'll admit. Why was it giving me trouble? Because I wanted it to mean something more than it does. It doesn't mean anything. It just is that way. Learning to ride the tides somehow. Learning to fit in to the world waves.
Fit in. Conform. Hold tight. Relax...here it comes again.
There is a thing beyond language. Before language. Meaning. Words are imperfect. Text is worse. But meaning is something we know in our bones because...it's what we do, it's ALL we do. We are the hot viral meme of planet earth.
We will spread to the stars and make them mean something and give them names. And those names will mean something by God!
It is what we say it is as we say it. It's the perfect magic.
Vista is a load of crap. Terrible. Buggy. Just...plain....BAD! Slow.
And as it was written so shall it be.
Macs "just work" and as it was written so shall it be. The idea of just works, the idea of simplicity and elegance in design become simplicity and elegance.
Yah. I'm done here for now.
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