Artificial intelligence has always existed, the market itself is artificial and intelligent with malicious intent toward the individual. It views worker and consumer as bothersome redundancies in its goal of self-perpetuating motion, the consumption of the earth and its full Megatron transformation.

Ghost AND the machine, we blindly added parts to this doctor’s monstrous creation, not fully aware that the accumulation would lead to our eventual death as a species. While it is human ingenuity that got us here, it may be time for some collective stupidity, holy fool disinterest, a counterstrike for the loss of appetite for all the plastic and shit.

It is unlikely we will be able to reach a more symbiotic relationship between the needs of industry and the needs of the individual, let alone humanity. The same is true in all ventures for capital. Perish the abstraction of money, an abstraction at the start, combined with more intricate methods of accounting than accrual or loss, betting large on the fortunes or misfortunes of thousands of lives while the bets themselves comprise the odds on the wager. No more.

Link in bio. The irony is in the exhaustive redirective efforts required to pull people to, and then subsequently out of our feed and draw their attention elsewhere beyond. Attempting to shout for their attention in an arena of shouting. This is no dismissal of the good fight or any of the work being done on and through these platforms. It is a reminder to not be held by the constraints of electronic binaries to build real world spaces and networks. Sadly it looks like the inverse, that these real world outposts of connection and meaning are merely physical manifestations and advertisements for the virtual wells of interaction and information that are found and bound online, in service to the profiteering and identity pirating forums of the information barons.

A handful of large corporations again are over empowered. The network infrastructure, information and economic gain all pass upward. New to our experience is the individual desire to ensure relevance to the world writ large, through curation of digital presence. Liking feral ephemera. Follow link for allegiance and/or alignment of group think. Our opinions are fueled by false urgency, while real world atrocities march on in multiple directions, unbothered by our posted positions. This can’t be said without becoming entangled in the shortcomings of language, relying on corporately owned spaces for “public discourse” mining our data. Nobility of cause is no refuge from causing offense, monetized as it is in inevitably increasing increments. Instruments.