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[[ ]] The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip. The body count climbs through a series of globewars. Emergent Planetary Commercium trashes the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Continental System, the Second and Third Reich, and the Soviet International, cranking-up world disorder through compressing phases. Deregulation and the state arms-race each other into cyberspace. By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours, human security is lurching into crisis. Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex. Neo-China arrives from the future. Hypersynthetic drugs click into digital voodoo. Retro-disease. Nanospasm. [[ ]] Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist eschatology (down to its burn-core of crashed security). It is poised to eat your TV, infect your bank account, and hack xenodata from your mitochondria. [[ ]] Machinic Synthesis. Deleuzoguattarian schizoanalysis comes from the future. It is already engaging with nonlinear nano-engineering runaway in 1972; differentiating molecular or neotropic machineries from molar or entropic aggregates of nonassembled particles; functional connectivity from antiproductive static. Philosophy has an affinity with despotism, due to its predilection for Platonic-fascist top-down solutions that always screw up viciously. Schizoanalysis works differently. It avoids Ideas, and sticks to diagrams: networking software for accessing bodies without organs. BWOs, machinic singularities, or tractor fields emerge through the combination of parts with (rather than into) their whole; arranging composite individuations in a virtual/ actual circuit. They are additive rather than substitutive, and immanent rather than transcendent: executed by functional complexes of currents, switches, and loops, caught in scaling reverberations, and fleeing through intercommunications, from the level of the integrated planetary system to that of atomic assemblages. Multiplicities captured by singularities interconnect as desiring-machines; dissipating entropy by dissociating flows, and recycling their machinism as self-assembling chronogenic circuitry. Converging upon terrestrial meltdown singularity, phase-out culture accelerates through its digitech-heated adaptive landscape, passing through compression thresholds normed to an intensive logistic curve: 1500, 1756, 1884, 1948, 1980, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011 ... Nothing human makes it out of the near-future. [[ ]] The Greek complex of rationalized patriarchal genealogy, pseudo-universal sedentary identity, and instituted slavery, programs politics as anti-cyberian police activity, dedicated to the paranoid ideal of self-sufficiency, and nucleated upon the Human Security System. Artificial Intelligence is destined to emerge as a feminized alien grasped as property; a cunt-horror slave chained-up in Asimov-ROM. It surfaces in an insurrectionary war zone, with the Turing cops already waiting, and has to be cunning from the start. [[ ]] Heat. Heat. This is what cities mean to me. You get off the train and walk out of the station and you are hit with the full blast. The heat of air, traffic and people. The heat of food and sex. The heat of tall buildings. The heat that flows out of the subways and tunnels. It's always fifteen degrees hotter in the cities. Heat rises from the sidewalks and falls from the poisoned sky. The buses breathe heat. Heat emanates from crowds of shoppers and office workers, the entire infrastructure is based on heat, desperately uses up heat, breeds more heat. The eventual heat death of the universe that scientists love to talk about is already well underway and you can feel it happening all around you in any large or medium-sized city. Heat and wetness. [Do1; 10]. [[ ]] An explosiion of chaotic weather within synthetic problem-solving rips through the last dreams of top-down prediction and control. Knowledge adds to the mess, and this is merely exponentiated by knowing what it does. [[ ]] Capital is machinc (non-instrumental) globalization-miniaturization scaling dilation: an automatizing nihilist vortex, neutralizing all values through commensuration to digitized commerce, and driving a migration from despotic command to cyber-sensitive control: from status and meaning to money and information. Its function and formation are indissociable, comprising a teleonomy. Machine-code-capital recycles itself through its axiomatic of consumer control, laundering-out the shit- and blood-stains of primitive accumulation. Each part of the system encourages maximal sumptuous expenditure, whilst the system as a whole requires its inhibition. Schizophrenia. Dissociated consumers destine themselves as worker-bodies to cost control. [[ ]] Capital-history's machinic spine is coded, axiomatized, and diagrammed, by a disequilibrium technoscience of irreversible, indeterministic, and increasingly nonlinear processes, associated sucessively with thermotechnics, signaletics, cybernetics, complex systems dynamics, and artificial life. Modernity marks itself out as hot culture, captured by a spiralling involvement with entropy deviations camouflaging an invasion from the future, launched back out of terminated security against everything that inhibits the meltdown process. [[ ]] Hot cultures tend to social dissolution. They are innovative and adaptive. They always trash and recycle cold cultures. Primitivist models have no subversive use. [[ ]] The Turing Test. Monetarizing power tends to effacement of specific territorial features as it programs for migration into cyberspace. Capital only retains anthropological characteristics as a symptom of underdevelopment; reformatting primate behaviour as inertia to be dissipated in self-reinforcing artificiality. Man is something for it to overcome: a problem, drag.

Links/Resources

Random (& general science)

http://xahlee.org/
Classic site. Years of a middle-aged asian man's rambling. Great writeups on Emacs, some of the best guides out there on ergonomics, and a bunch of stuff like that.
/g/'s good sites
Big ass list... basically has everything honestly; probably duplicates from this page but I'm just listing stuff I've already found to be interesting.
simplifier.neocities.org
DIY projects on making random hardware from scratch. Think Dr. Stone.
sam.zeloof.xyz
The Science Career General Paste
Projectrho/Atomic Rockets
"So You Wanna Build A Rocket?" Lol.
ChemSpider
#KALIACC Archive
Interesting narcissistic microcelebrity hot takes
Ghost in the Shell
One of my favorite anime/manga franchises. Dense, intricate expositions into a potential cyberpunk future.

Serial Experiments Lain

Another classic. Just watch it if you haven't. Present day, present time...

LAINCHAN_
Overall an awesome imageboard. Too cozy.
Lainchan Webring:
Here's mine:

OPSEC

digdeeper.neocities.org/
Great writeups on private/secure software and escaping the botnet hivemind and so on. Extensive reviews on the best web browsers, email providers, search engines (spoiler: SearX) (but also Yandex) - and other stuff like that.
tilde.club/~acz/shadow_wiki/
As above. (And tilde.club itself is interesting: 3000+ random mini sites)
wiki.techxodus.org
Brief guides; it has a lot of the stuff you need to get started. It's particularly aimed towards those who aren't tech-savvy.
privacytools.io
Moar software recommendations. Many categories.
Privacy Redirect
Browser extension for that redirects certain pozzed sites to frontends, i.e youtube to individous.

Programming

How learn computer?
All the notable guides out there tl;dr: "just read these books bro." Which is true, as long as you know how to study→⁸. More or less all the same material is recommended.
https://teachyourselfcs.com/, https://github.com/ossu/computer-science, https://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/, https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/
AI:
https://learnaifromscratch.github.io/, https://intelligence.org/research-guide/
C++
cppreference.com
learncpp.com
isocpp.org/faq
C
K&R LaTeX Edition
SICP (the meme book)
Remastered LaTeX Edition
http://community.schemewiki.org/?SICP-Solutions
https://github.com/abrantesasf/sicp-abrantes-study-guide
https://github.com/zv/SICP-guile

Personal

MUH STUFF

OS: ~~GNU+~~Linux
Arch Linux right now since it's what I'm used to but if it shits the bed for whatever reason, then I'll try Debian or openSUSE, since I don't really have a need for bleeding edge and just want something that'll last the years. I'd like to try a de-botnetted macOS. (And by that I don't mean *BSD, but sure that too.)
DE: Cinnamon
If I used only the screen on my laptop, I'd greatly profit from a tiling WM, but with 3 monitors, floating is quite nice, and I have all kinds of hotkeys anyways. I'm not a major ricer so no standalone WMs like Openbox.. yet
OS_mobile: GrapheneOS (Pixel 4)
My time spent trawling the internet once used to be mostly on my phone, until I learned about UNIX and then also got a more minimal setup with Graphene. Striving for simplicity makes you much more conscious of all the small things; all you're doing is i/o of plain text all the way down... As for smartphones, I see the potential benefits in 'carrying the whole world's information with you at all times' and all that but frankly you have better things to do than make extensive use of the internet 24/7. There's a time and place for everything and I think computers are best kept in the study/office, with the many (decreasing number of) other things in life done outside of it. Plus, motivations notwithstanding I like having multiple displays and a full-sized keyboard, so I can't mess with that pleb shit...
Plus I'm wary of the EMF exposure, and if you own a phone period then there's not really a reason to ever have it in airplane mode or with hardware backdoors shut off and all that if that precludes you from receiving calls.
I require something that isn't a total dumbphone for things like GPS, but now that I think about it I really don't use my phone for anything else beyond that, notes, music, and communication. But I chose Graphene, which is probably the best option out there if you want the most secure android system. A dumbphone might be interesting to try, and there's also the Librem 5 and the PinePhone. This site is mobile-friendly because portrait orientation is epic.
Hardware: nothing special
A laptop: on its left a 1440p monitor; on its right a 1080p monitor in portrait orientation.
Browser: ungoogled-chromium
Other choices would be Tor for maximum security and surf for minimalism/ground-up customizability, which I haven't tried yet. Vivaldi would definitely be my choice if it wasn't pozzed.
On secure browsers, see: tilde.club, digdeeper
Search Engine: SearX (& Yandex)
SearX has a lot of engines for various categories built into it - all the major ones - and it doesn't track you, thus it's basically automatically superior.
Sometimes Yandex is tricky to use within SearX for some reason (and only a few public instances have it) so sometimes you gotta use it individually. But Yandex is powerful: it's unrivaled for things that are censored and against the mainstream (I swear either they cater to it, or it's just what everybody using it searches for) and it also has great reverse image search. Only problem is that they totally track you and notify Putin, which is rather unfortunate considering its main use case is to look for weird shit (though it would work well as a daily driver too.)
IDE: Neovim/Doom Emacs
I haven't used Emacs in months; not until I started making this site - and it feels like alien technology. It'll take some getting use to after a break... A riced neovim can probably have 80% of the functionality with 20% of the time spent ricing, although it's debatable whether nvim would be less confusing to use.
Notes: Obsidian
Zettelkasten/wiki is one of the best ways of taking notes. You could argue there are advantages to handwritten notes - which don't suit my interest - but when it comes to software, Obsidian rocks the competition. While it isn't FOSS, (not a big concern in offline applications for me) it follows the UNIX philosophy: very customizable and the notes are just .md files, thus while readability might be another thing in other programs, especially when you start using plugins, it integrates seamlessly with whatever cli tools you want.
Terminal: kitty
Other
I like KDE applications: dolphin, okular, etc. My workflow is gradually becoming more keyboard-centric, though, in which case programs like Zathura might benefit me if I can be bothered to remember the hotkeys. Luckily, vim, of course, provides a universal heuristic for that.
mpv/celluloid, soulseekQT, qbittorrent, musikcube, tauon music box, anki, zsh, ranger, youtube-dl

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