Titling this phost was tricky. Moving on.

Should you, as one of the #links2gang moonlighting gophers

$ links https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2023/05/26/angromancy

TB is playing to me personally in this news wost (webpost).

Fortunately for TB, I have the solution to his bone-chilling implicit
definition  of what he will tell you he will tell you he is okay with
personally   bearing.   And the solution  involves  him embracing   -
liberating the heart of his being. 

For all we wear the scars  of the world's  problems,  life is nice in
the sm0lnet.  Our cultural project, if I can call it like that- mine,
anyway,   is a raucus  battle  victory,  but the campaign  has   more
phases. There are many people involved, please forgive my choice of a
few specific individuals in charting the course. 

The matrix,  identified by Gibson, is a universal  consensual  common
illusion   hackers  use to relate  to what they are experiencing  and
doing in cyberspace  and each other.  We already have this to a large
extent. We use the same kinds of eyes (chaosnet, tcp, gopher, gemini,
~fediverse),   through  same lenses (virtual   ethers,  phlog  rolls,
activitypub instances) at at least overlapping vantages and vistas. 

There is obviously a little further to go.  Specifically  we (I) need
to  be using terminals  ("virtual  terminals")  inside jns'   eternal
engine to better complete immersion  in the matrix. So it is not that
we sit on office  chairs,  and look out windows  into the matrix  but
that we are in the world  matrix,  while occasionally  needing  to do
things inside rooms that have office chairs. 

This is about where we need you, dear authors,  taking up the mantle.
The  matrix  is a science  fantasy  we are physically   entering   as
refugees  and it is the act of authorship  to comprehend  our refuges
into existence in this new realm, and share together. 

There   is  more  to it- as seen  in Tomas'   art and  writing   (and
Gibson's),   we do also need to be physically  jacking  into machines
(having machines jacked into us). This is a WIP, however we must work
on  our  physical   interfaces  and the matrix  at the same  time  as
nurturing   the matrix  itself (via our (cat's)   classic   telephone
booths, coin laundromats, monitors, speakers). 

This is the context  in which I understand  my exploration  of highly
personal deep autoassociative memory. Our wetware is insufficient for
a place  at the table of machine gods.   Neither  flesh  nor artifice
alone suffice. 


It seems  like this phost  should  end here,  but there  are pressing
details that cannot be deferred. 

Fundamental   to the matrix,  and its fediversal  nature,  is to  not
inflict,   and to the extent  possible  to ameliorate   environmental
damage.  To explain some environmental damage = thermodynamic  cost :
Right now 

, data from everyone everywhere is scraped and owned by a tiny number
of - well, by the sounds of it, self-conscious villains. 

This anti-sm0lness  has obvious costs:  The cost of scraping the data
from its hearth and home 

transporting the data to a silo owned by its new owner

cramming all the owner's data into a tiny space and trapping it there

the cost of post-processing  the world's data at a short, post-facto,
on demand time scale 

Travelling  to the data owner's silo, in order to rent access to some
data 

Extracting a piece of data out of the world's data scrapings

Carrying  the data back to the places it was relevant-  where  it was
when it was free 

}   sorry  for  phrasing  that negatively,  but I think  this  is  an
important way to understand the data merchants. 

This   underscores   the  environmental   importance   of   sm0lness,
techno-locality similar to food locality. 

The fediverse  can be understood  as how sm0l networks can relate  to
each  other.   This can seem less urgent  amoungst  people  who had a
perspicacious  and careful touch anyway- most gophers and geminauts -
which make the fediverse imperatives  a little confusing. Furthermore
interserver  fediverse communication  is very often unfriendly, which
is surprising and jarring for sm0lnet denizens.  For example Facebook
Meta Corporation is 3e'ing activitypub.