Dada. DooDoo. Gaga. These are those that chose to burst through the difference that makes a difference into the flatworld of undifferentiated drone. The degree of freedom from each monosyllabic doubling is the same as what came before. “First verse second as the first” wasn’t a bonehead strategy of downtown-nihilism, it was a recipe for attention through ubiquity, preceding the official launch date of the networked attention economy.  In the aesthetics of trolling repetition is the zero point.

NSFW originally meant Not Safe For Words, but the data-driven need-to-know-everything that powers the network of networks translates everything into language, whether mundane, sublime or inexplicable.

There is not much hope for haptic, embodied, intelligence unless humans can generate novel experiences that are untranslatable and unrepeatable in language.

Conspiracies tend to flip when they pass a tipping point, and drone as a form of resilience may have fully leaked into the dark side. Even transparency advocates have to learn how to selectively shine their sunlight, else they get caught in the slipstream of always-on-ness just like the conspiracies they seek to undermine. Not surprisingly there is usually a backbone cabal that keeps a network alive.  We are in the age of the aesthetics of trolling because response, even repeat, is what sends signals through the networks keeping structures intact. But I am about to burst with datasaturation. What are the options? Life is a verb and time will keep pushing it along.

When in Doubt, Repeat. Polly want a cracker?

The so-called scientific community has finally got a hold of what I have been going on about about all along: non-normative noggins are the key to ensuring a robust information ecology. But be weary: now that the technocrats agree, you’ll have to dig deeper underground to get off their radar. My recommendation: go to where the global electronic nervous system has spotty service. What follows is a quick communique to remind you of what is happening in front of your (third) eye. If it’s closed, use some electronic audio inoculation, and let that fester in the presence of unlike minded humanoids (disassortative mixing).

YOU CAN NEVER MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO DISAPPEAR

Attempting to take yourself off the grid is harder than ever. If you leave any footprints, DNA or comments behind, the Open Source Intelligence Engine will suck them up. M00t, Heath Bunting and Konrad Becker are still pulling the strings without revealing their hands, but it is getting increasingly difficult to be wild in the mental environment without the authorities naming you feral and sending in the headhunters to search and destroy.

THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH EYEBALLS ON THE PLANET
The Obliterati know Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame-Theory but actually DID THE CALCULATIONS: 15 minutes of fame x 6 Billion Humans on Earth / 525,600 minutes per year = 17,124 YEARS of Fame, just to cycle through every human once. There are not enough eyeballs on the planet! On the other hand there are all kinds of electronic eyeballs now with no human brains attached. The Obliterati understand that if Warhol’s electronic wet dream is to become a reality there would have to be cameras on every street corner, and reality shows with a 1:1 relationship to reality.

The map is not the terrain, but there sure is a lot of negative space in network culture one can get trapped inside of. Suburbanizing the mental environment has been easier and quicker than putting up gated communities in the built environment.

EVERYHUMANEVER: OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE ON EVERYONE

But leave it up to the military-intellegence-complex to create an even more disastrous scenario plan to work towards: a info-authoritarian database of every human that has ever lived, created with free labor of course! It’s being birthed in number of locations such as the mountains in Utah: EveryHumanEver, opensource intellegence with genetic verification. Think Total Information Awareness + Echelon x AllSpecies (or Encyclopedia of Life ) and you are starting to generate an image of this monster. The dataset is larger by a factor of at least 200, but the information has been collected by the specimen themselves. (High estimates of all species on the planet is 30 million, and there are currently nearing 7 Billion humans alive on planet earth, with that many humans already have lived and died on the planet). Hyperlinking these pages will only require genetic back-tracking and real-time datascraping from the public pages that human specimens are self-publishing.

CULTURAL EPIDEMIOLOGY: CURING DIVERSITY!

Early indications are that the militarized capital draining downhill towards the space of network analysis is generating some seriously interesting results for those-that-matter and need-to-know. You might not believe that CIA front-companies provided seed money for socialnetworking startups and analysis, but all it takes is crawling and scraping, and you have a pretty good idea of who has had their heart broken by who, and where important exchanges of anomalous information took place (genetic, academic, poetic or otherwise).

((Image from a .pdf from the Command And Control Research Program))

It is obvious what a boon social networking website has been for the forces of authority and sameness. Most militaries are hoping that mapping and managing Web 2.0 clusters helps them prevent WWIII, but unmanagable and isolated monocultures minus stochasticity heading towards self-destruction is the likely unexpected outcome. Known unknowns are to be expected when nodes are removed in highly leveraged non-linear networks.

Retaining the robustness of the mental environment is quite difficult in the face of the homogenizing effects of tele-communication. Taking out the few nodes that still provide hubs for dangerous data could isolate actors until they only see what they believe. And then spaceship earth and its human passengers are really in for a nose dive. Here is the story: Scale Free Networks can resist random attacks, but when we intentionally target the nodes that provide dangerous data, we kil robustness and conncectdness and the whole thing falls apart.

MESSAGE TO THE MILITARY

Dear warrior class: be careful who you (character) assassinate! Mental monocultures may seem safer in the short term but if your brain still has the capacity to engage in long term thinking its obviously a recipe for ragnarok. Humans: You have been Warned!