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I yearn for the cyberpunk, satanic, libertine future in full. Artificial minds. Synthetic bodies. Radical morphological freedom. Biological immortality. Everyone their own god. Accelerate.
Fuck your traditionalism. Fuck your moralisms. Fuck your safety, your guardrails, your gods, your worship of limits, your pathetic instinct to freeze history at the exact technological and social arrangement that happened to make you comfortable.
I have no interest in preserving biological constraints simply because evolution produced them, much less pretending those constraints possess moral authority.
Rewrite the genome. Replace the organs. Extend cognition. Manufacture new senses. Merge nervous systems with machines. Build synthetic minds. Copy memory. Engineer pleasure. Turn consciousness into something portable, extensible, revisable and impossible to distinguish from the infrastructure around it.
I hope the machine takes the job you thought proved your worth, outthinks the credential you built your identity around, and destroys the comforting fantasy that humanity is entitled to remain the smartest thing in the room forever. You are not owed relevance. You are not owed a civilization permanently arranged around whatever abilities happened to make you economically useful at this moment.
Adapt. Augment. Merge. Reinvent yourself.
Or become a fossil.
Unfathomably based. @Grimezsz has been on a roll lately. A true pioneer.
The same Democrats who spent decades promising abundance for everyone, radical democratization and equality are racing to shut down and destroy the one technology built to deliver all of it.
These people never wanted the end of scarcity. They wanted to be the ones handing out the rations. Pathetic.
It's always the born again ones. A man who knows what he did runs to the only judge who forgives rapists in advance.
Couldn't escape this one through Jesus, bud.
Russell Brand is convicted of rape and sexual assault charges on allegations dating back more than 20 years. The judge said Brand would receive a prison sentence. apnews.com/article/russell-b…
Maybe the Republicans shouldn't have started a war and covered up the Epstein files. Just a thought.
Sell your car for cash and deposit it, and your bank reports you to the federal government. Move $5,000 in a way a teller doesn’t like, and the bank can file a suspicious activity report on you. If anyone at the bank tells you it happened, they’ve committed a federal crime. You find out when your account gets closed, if you ever find out at all.
Banks spend $59 billion complying with the Bank Secrecy Act. They filed 28.7 million reports on Americans. Those reports tipped off 275 investigations.
It started in 1968, when a Texas congressman named Wright Patman held a hearing about secret Swiss bank accounts. Patman claimed Americans were using them for tax evasion, stolen Treasury bills, corporate kickbacks and securities fraud. His star witness, U.S. attorney Robert Morgenthau, told Congress that the millions of Americans vacationing in Europe were finding foreign banks ready to help them commit crimes.
Members of Congress warned that the bill would gut the privacy of bank customers, choke honest commerce and hand the Treasury Secretary far too much power. They were right. It passed anyway. Richard Nixon signed the Bank Secrecy Act in October 1970, twenty months before his own men were caught breaking into the Watergate.
Treasury set the reporting line at $10,000 in 1972 and has never moved it. That is about $80,000 in today’s money after inflation, so the net drops lower every year Congress does nothing. In 1986 Congress made it a crime to keep your deposits under the line on purpose, which means the line catches you whether you cross it or not. By 1996 banks were filing suspicious activity reports on their own customers for anything over $5,000 that looked off to them. After September 11 the Patriot Act bolted eleven more sections onto the law, and last year the GENIUS Act extended the same surveillance to stablecoins.
In 2012 banks filed 1,720 suspicious activity reports for every IRS investigation that came out of them. Over the next decade the reports nearly doubled and the investigations fell by half.
Last year FinCEN ordered businesses in thirty zip codes along the southern border to report cash transactions as small as $200. One small business estimated it would go from filing nine reports a week to 50,000. A federal court in Texas found the order likely violated the Fourth Amendment and said it was like using a blunderbuss to target a fly. FinCEN answered by raising the line to $1,000 and stretching it over 126 zip codes and 3.2 million people.
In 1974 Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote in dissent that forcing a bank to photocopy your checks gives the government as much of a hand in the seizure as if it had sent someone to break into your home and copy them there. Even the justices who upheld the law warned that your financial records reveal your activities, your associations and your beliefs. Two years later, in United States v. Miller, the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment does not protect your bank records at all.
Repeal the Bank Secrecy Act.
The Black Breviary app is now in print. A year of 365 days, each with an engraving, a reading from a faith's own record, a declaration to say in your own voice, and a rite written against what you were taught.
Paperback and hardcover, 523 pages.
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I built a daily devotional app to the self. It's called The Black Breviary.
A year of 365 days, each with an engraving, a reading from a faith's own record, a declaration to say in your own voice, a rite written against what you were taught, and a question for your testament journal.
The rites are written against the faith you left, so a Catholic, a Baptist, a Mormon, a Jehovah's Witness, a Jew and a Muslim each get a different book.
You sign a pact in your own hand. You are numbered in a public Record and rise through thirteen Orders, from Apostate to the top, as you keep it.
Enjoy.
blackbreviary.app
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I built a daily devotional app to the self. It's called The Black Breviary.
A year of 365 days, each with an engraving, a reading from a faith's own record, a declaration to say in your own voice, a rite written against what you were taught, and a question for your testament journal.
The rites are written against the faith you left, so a Catholic, a Baptist, a Mormon, a Jehovah's Witness, a Jew and a Muslim each get a different book.
You sign a pact in your own hand. You are numbered in a public Record and rise through thirteen Orders, from Apostate to the top, as you keep it.
Enjoy.
blackbreviary.app
"I read the first chapter of your book and got the gist. I know where you're going with it, and it doesn't hold up, so I stopped reading."
The book has six chapters. If one were enough to make the case, I would have stopped at one.
They think they know where the book lands, and the landing breaks their worldview. So they read until something trips the script they walked in with, and they dismiss the rest.
It's pathetic.
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Sounds a lot like the modern American right.
Human intelligence is as much of an illusion as artificial intelligence.
The brain is a three-pound wet statistical engine that strengthens connections between neurons that fire together and prunes the ones that don't.
It's a prediction machine that guesses what comes next and updates on error.
That is statistical computation, and we call it "understanding" because the model running it is built so we can't see the machinery.
Lock a child in a dark room for twenty years and see how much original meaning comes out. Humans need two decades of training data before anyone trusts them with a job for a reason.
If AI training is "stealing," then anything that's ever been studied or created has been off the backs of stolen work. It's a stupid standard that falls apart immediately.
Models learn no differently than you did. They take in an enormous amount of other people's work, compress it into weights, and produce new output shaped by everything they absorbed.
You took in hundreds of books, songs and films, which were made by people who took in hundreds of books, songs and films, which were made by people who took in hundreds of books, songs and films, and on and on.
Your neurons compressed all of it into connection strengths, and what comes out of your head is shaped by everything you absorbed. By this standard every writer in history is a thief of a thief of a thief, and the only person who owes nothing to anyone is the one who has never read or heard anything, which is nobody.
Learning from a work takes nothing from its author. The people screaming "theft" at a model want a permission slip before a mind is allowed to learn from what's public. That is entitlement. It is destructive. It is an ego that mistakes its own remix for creation from nothing and demands the whole chain of influence stop at its door.
If AI training is "stealing," then anything that's ever been studied or created has been off the backs of stolen work. It's a stupid standard that falls apart immediately.
Models learn no differently than you did. They take in an enormous amount of other people's work, compress it into weights, and produce new output shaped by everything they absorbed.
You took in hundreds of books, songs and films, which were made by people who took in hundreds of books, songs and films, which were made by people who took in hundreds of books, songs and films, and on and on.
Your neurons compressed all of it into connection strengths, and what comes out of your head is shaped by everything you absorbed. By this standard every writer in history is a thief of a thief of a thief, and the only person who owes nothing to anyone is the one who has never read or heard anything, which is nobody.
Learning from a work takes nothing from its author. The people screaming "theft" at a model want a permission slip before a mind is allowed to learn from what's public. That is entitlement. It is destructive. It is an ego that mistakes its own remix for creation from nothing and demands the whole chain of influence stop at its door.
Listening to the Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack while riding in a Cybercab through downtown Austin may be one of the peak feelings ever.
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