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The Zoomer Systemspace is summarized well here
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American allies are interesting. One may surmise that this is a tolerable list, but the polish leave much to be desired. The top three, drawing from our 250 year history, would quite possibly be the Japanese, French, and Australians, or possibly the Dutch
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If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why.
@log4j rooted his Samsung and found an always-on hot mic, automatic content recognition, geolocation, network mapping, ad targeting and user profiling, shared with Samsung's "400 partners".
A lot of it can be blocked in <15 min, wrote a basic guide below.
What your TV is doing
The main culprit is ACR (automatic content recognition). Your TV screenshots what's on screen, fingerprints it, and sends it home to build your ad profile. Samsung does it every 500ms, LG every 10ms [1].
What is insane: it happens on connected devices too.
Plug in your laptop, your console, your work machine, and your TV can fingerprint that via HDMI [1].
He also found that if your Samsung doesn't have a mic, it'll look for one from a connected soundbar or bluetooth device.
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It's on by default, and you likely agreed to it on the setup screen you clicked through in 10 seconds.
Step 1: Turn off ACR
Samsung: Terms & Privacy → Viewing Information Services
LG: Live Plus
Vizio: Viewing Data
Roku: "Use info from TV inputs"
Sony/Google TV: Samba Interactive TV
Menus vary by model, but those are the names to look for. While you're in there, opt out of interest-based ads, reset your advertising ID, decline every optional privacy agreement, turn off voice recognition, and delete apps you never open.
Step 2: Give smart devices their own network
Put the TV, cameras, speakers and vacuum on your router's guest/IoT network. The logic is simple: these devices rarely get patched. If one gets compromised (getting drastically more frequent with AI), it shouldn't be able to see your other devices or home network.
Step 3: Block trackers for the whole house with DNS-level filtering
NextDNS (cloud-based) is easy and has a solid free plan. Pi-hole is a little bit more work if you prefer self hosting. For simplicity we'll focus on the former.
1. Sign up at nextdns.io (free tier is plenty)
2. Privacy tab: add a blocklist (OISD is a good bet) and turn on Native Tracking Protection for Samsung, LG, Roku, Amazon (see attached image)
3. Setup tab: copy your endpoint
4. Paste it into your router's DNS settings as DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS (or use the IPs + "Link IP" if your router only does plain DNS)
5. Bonus: block outbound port 53 except to your router. Some devices hardcode their own DNS to get around you
Then open the NextDNS logs and watch how often your TV phones home. It's eye-opening. If an app or update breaks, find the domain in the logs and allowlist it.
Why they do this
TV prices are down 97% since 2000 [2]. Most of that is better manufacturing and brutal competition. But once margins on the hardware hit zero, the cost moved to you.
In Q3 2024, Vizio lost $6.7M selling TVs and made $115.8M in gross profit from ads and viewing data [3]. They've said on earnings calls that they keep TV prices low to grow the audience they sell to advertisers. Walmart bought them in 2024.
This isn't a conspiracy theory either. Vizio paid $2.2M to the FTC in 2017 for tracking 11 million TVs without consent. Last December, Texas sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over ACR. Samsung and LG have since agreed to stop collecting that data without explicit consent [4].
TL;DR
1. ACR off
2. Ads + voice off
3. Smart devices on their own network
4. NextDNS filtering on the router
Sources:
[1] ACR study: arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203
[2] Cost of US consumer goods: aei.org/economics/chart-of-t…
[3] Vizio Q3 2024: sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
[4] Texas v. Samsung: texasattorneygeneral.gov/new…
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Arguing over which white people are the biggest lefties while Gov. Abbott gives Texas away to Indians (who vote 95% Dem) and Trump cheers on the job he's doing.
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BABY CRYING COUNTER inside a TV spying on you ffs this shit has to be regulated out of existence
The Saudi dont get credited for weaponizing their school shooter demographic by turning them into exploding martyrs. America used to send would-be columbiners to fight cartels and third world nations, and we should blow up mexico cartels again
All we get is a domestic gladio
the difference between being ruled by eunuchs vs homosexual is that a castrato is a state-dependent homunculus, a homo isn't. The first has to be created to fulfil a role, the other emerges organically and inherently more ambitious. Hormones also play a role
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Patriarchy didn't invent female weakness; Bourgeois domesticity did
Stone-Gimbutas crowd calls this “peaceful” because peaceful means 'finished off the aboriginals'
Then comes paradise: wall to wall houses, livestock underfoot, blood and ritual in rooms you cannot escape
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BAP's basic thesis is, in essence, that popular culture has effectively supplanted, in the minds of many at least, the mythologies and rites of prior eras and that this, naturally, adds a new layer of smoke and mirrors to reproduction
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These books are probably the closest one can get to IRL Lovecraftian tomes, things that would drive an otherwise well to do person into a wailing somnambulist.
What I mean by this is, if one starts from a relatively ordinary worldview, and imbibes the information of these works, and is unprepared, they will become madmen in some form, either catatonic, raving paranoiac, or an obsessive mystic.
For example, with Two Babylons, it forwards the theory that the Catholic Church (and possibly by extension the Orthodox Church,) is in fact a crypto-babylonian and crypt-grecoroman cult. This, if you are a protestant, is of course horrifying, but if one is a Catholic, it leads to other possible conclusions.
Telenothians demonstrates the fear of atavism and of course, the birth of the monstrous in both nature and at home, possibly without the knowledge of anyone else, a trait shared to a lesser degree by Sperm Wars; Bandler's scrawlings betray a sort of secularized casual hyponosis.
Lovecraft's writings are fundamentally about invasion, and the realization that one has been invaded when, previously, they may have only seen or experienced a few otherwise isolated or plausible even 'within the bounds of normal' symptoms, when it turns out to be a fishman and frogman genestealer cult in new england. Lovecraft's writings are about the Phenomenal World, in the Kantian sense, realizing something Noumenal has firmly attached itself to your now ordinary reality.
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Even on the microscopic level, male fertility is a function not only of number of sperm but of their motility, that is, their restless movement, which increases the chance of conception. Sperm are miniature assault troops, and the ovum is a solitary citadel that must be breached. Weak or passive sperm just sit there like dead ducks. Nature rewards energy and aggression.
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A while ago I wrote a small essay analyzing the book 'Sex at Dawn' by Christopher Ryan, and eventually it hit me that Telegony is effectively the metaphysical or sorcerous component to cuckoldry.
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Catholic mysticism: Oedipus Complex with Mary, Opus Dei self flagellation, Goth architecture.
Protestant mysticism: The Nephilim control the sperm banks
