Anonymous ID: c55a37 July 28, 2022, 12:04 p.m. No.16922401   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3519

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https://damagemag.com/2022/04/21/the-internet-is-made-of-demons/

 

The Internet is Made of Demons

Sam Kriss

April 21, 2022

Review of Justin E.H. Smith, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022).

 

According to one theory, the internet is made of demons. Like most theories about the internet, this one is mostly circulated online. On Instagram, I saw a screenshot of a Reddit post, containing a screenshot of a 4chan post, containing a screenshot of Tweet, containing two images. On the left, the weird, loopy lines of a microprocessor. On the right, the weird, loopy lines of a set of Solomonic sigils. Caption: ‘Boy I love trapping demons in microscopic silicon megastructures to do my bidding, I sure hope nothing goes wrong.’ In other versions, the demons themselves are the ones who invented the internet; it’s just their latest move in a five-thousand-year battle against humanity. As one four-panel meme comic explains:

 

The king’s pact binds them. They cannot show themselves or speak to us.

1) Create ways to see without seeing

2) Create ways to speak without speaking

 

Pictures of more Solomonic sigils, progressing into laptops and iPhones. The fourth panel, the punchline, has no words. Only a giant, mute, glassy-eyed face.

 

This theory is—probably—a joke. It is not a serious analysis. But still, there’s something there; there are ways in which the internet really does seem to work like a possessing demon. We tend to think that the internet is a communications network we use to speak to one another—but in a sense, we’re not doing anything of the sort. Instead, we are the ones being spoken through. Teens on TikTok all talk in the exact same tone, identical singsong smugness. Millennials on Twitter use the same shrinking vocabulary. My guy! Having a normal one! Even when you actually meet them in the sunlit world, they’ll say valid or based, or say y’all despite being British. Memes on Instagram have started addressing people as my brother in Christ, so now people are saying that too. Clearly, that name has lost its power to scatter demons.

 

Everything you say online is subject to an instant system of rewards. Every platform comes with metrics; you can precisely quantify how well-received your thoughts are by how many likes or shares or retweets they receive. For almost everyone, the game is difficult to resist: they end up trying to say the things that the machine will like. For all the panic over online censorship, this stuff is far more destructive. You have no free speech—not because someone might ban your account, but because there’s a vast incentive structure in place that constantly channels your speech in certain directions. And unlike overt censorship, it’s not a policy that could ever be changed, but a pure function of the connectivity of the internet itself. This might be why so much writing that comes out of the internet is so unbearably dull, cycling between outrage and mockery, begging for clicks, speaking the machine back into its own bowels.

 

This incentive system can lead to very vicious results. A few years ago, a friend realized that if she were murdered—if some obsessed loner shot her dead in the street—then there were hundreds of people who would celebrate. She’d seen similar things happen enough times. They would spend a day competing to make exultant jokes about her death, and then they would all move on to something else. My friend was not a particularly famous or controversial person: she had some followers and some bylines, but probably her most divisive article had been about tax policy. But she was just famous enough for hundreds of people, who she didn’t know and had never met, to hate her and want to see her dead. It wasn’t even that they had different political opinions: plenty of these people were on the same side. They would laugh at her death in the name of their shared commitment to justice and liberation and a better future for all.

 

pt 1

Anonymous ID: c55a37 July 28, 2022, 12:06 p.m. No.16922681   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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"Migrant backgrounds" aka Illegal black africans and muslims. Welcome to cultural enrichment because diversity is our strength. Cut off their dicks and send them back to where they came from. Will solve problem.

Anonymous ID: c55a37 July 28, 2022, 12:10 p.m. No.16923157   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Stumbled on this earlier today. It's a repost on YT of an old History show about doomsday prophets other than Nostradamus.

 

This was made 10 years ago to take advantage of the 2012 fears.

 

Edgar Cayce, Joseph Smith, Fr. Malachi…

 

Play it in the background and realize that they are talking about NOW. Especially the last part about the end popes. The 112th Pope is the last one. They were on the 111th when this made.

 

Francis is the 112th and when he is ended, it's all coming down.

 

Francis is retiring.

Anonymous ID: c55a37 July 28, 2022, 12:10 p.m. No.16923180   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Readygov

@Readygov

Lightning can strike you before rain begins & after it stops.

 

If you're outdoors and see a flash of lightning or feel the rumble of thunder, dash inside. #SeeAFlashDashInside

 

Stay inside for at least 30 minutes after the last lightning or thunder.

 

More:

https://www.ready.gov/thunderstorms-lightning

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