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Word of the Day: Hyperstition
Via the Wiki: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperstition
ALSO Via the Wiki: Nick Land
And now it's a MOVIE: http://hyperstition.org/
Continue down the rabbit hole...
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Getting a lot of press today, that the Good Emperor Trump has put a 90 day hiatus on Tariffs, this the media is framing variously as "He's come to his senses" or "he's made his point", etc, etc.
Naturally, in this time of Global Uncertainty, all induced by a certain orange melon, following this announcement the markets rebounded. And a certain Bluesky user by the name of "Unusual Whales" noted that margins trading begun before the announcement, with some users seeing 2100% gains in a matter of a couple of hours.
Now given the downward trending of the market, due in no doubt to Trumps unpredictable tariffs and changing his mind; and looking at how this volatility is benefitting his cronies, it seems fair to say that all this is by design. This collapsing of the markets and global uncertainty is being done to benefit those closest to him in the administration, via offshore and shell accounts.
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/unusualwhales.bsky.social
What is remarkable is how few of the new agencies are willing to confront this, although - as well by design, he keeps them busy with sooooo many other things, like illegal deportations, arrests, gutting infrastructure, etc.
This does recall that bit in Brexit where Nigel Farage shorted the British Pound, in effect betraying the entire nation and lying to them about the benefits of Brexit so that he could profit from it. (
Many of the same tactics were on display, the Xenophobia, bring the jobs home, etc. And while Britain has to some extent recovered from this, and never prosecuted Farage, I doubt very much the USA will ever recover from Trump
USA. The new Hungary, Old Romania.
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They started off innocently enough.
A fat orange tabby, off on some adventures. AI generated nonsense designed to keep you from reading the news or your friends feed or doing something, anything more productive than this. Facebook, or Meta.
Fat Orange Tabby pulling vegetables, cooking dinner, going on a date.
Hundreds of these videos, more than I could watch if I sat at the computer or on my phone 24 hours a day.
The cut-scenes give it away, different cats (same Fat Orange tabby, but if you look you might spot differences), different kitchens, different and occasionally nonsensical vegetables, backgrounds. The models aren't preserved, the videos are just generated 1 scene at a time and then stitched together with a "Plot".
The plot has been growing darker. The cat, as you might guess, gets tired of eating vegetables. Orange cat befriends chicken, then gets in fight, sharpening knife upon a whetstone (or AI's poor imagining of this), Orange cat eating chicken.
Same again, this time with mice, orange cat throws a bomb into a hole in the wall, mice pour out, orange cat rides home on a bicycle with a basket full of mice, makes dinner. Mice swimming in the soup. Orange cat rescues rabbit, eats rabbit. Or catches fish (with a bomb) or a thousand other trivial details, the story the same, Orange cat finds pig, cow, etc, etc, and finds ways to eat it. Every prompt is reused a thousand times, and the results are stitched together in a narrative.
The plot thickens. All is the same, only Orange cat - when he has dinner made, calls a friend with his cellphone and invites them over for dinner. Here comes rooster/lion/tiger/panther with a case of beer. They toast the beer before dinner and then rooster/lion/panther etc falls over, clearly drugged. Orange cat whets the knife again and cooks them up for his next dinner...
Or skins them and pretends to be a lion....
There are thousands of these, every one different, every one the same. Sometimes they have subtitles, in English, Chinese, most often they don't.
They evolve in the course of days, Lion/Tiger/Panther get muscular, ride motorcyles with sunglasses and lots of gold chains.
Same story.
Now the story takes a twist, all the animals begin protesting, "Arrest Orange Cat", "Orange Cat to Jail", duck as prosecutor, lawyer, or doctor after Orange cat takes a beating.
Orange cat in jail in chains, Orange cat sobbing.
The sound effects - the same music, every video, the “guffaw” you hear in a lot of the “comedy” videos, or a psychopathic baby laugh at the end, or maybe something a little generic, but it’s always the same.
I’m coming to the conclusion that they are encouraging some sort of revolution, Fat Orange Cat is a metaphor for US Politics, devouring strangers and then his friends, that somehow, subliminally, entire populations are being groomed to revolution by inane AI videos on Facebook. There's no other explanation.
In the end that's how the war will be won, by a population so dumbed down with distractions, AI nonsense, that it won't be common sense or decency that leads them to revolution, it will be a dumb AI Orange Cat video when everyone decides Fat Orange Cat needs to get what it deserves...
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Of course, the person that immediately springs to mind is Danielle Smith, who's been pleading on US media for Trump to intervene in our federal elections process.
This, of course, is unacceptable, and continues a fine Albertan (and increasingly American) tradition of "Shoot First...", or "Easier to ask for forgiveness...". On her knees in Mar-A-Lago. This is the kindest way to frame it. In any other terms it would be called Treason, but Alberta's long been ahead of the curve in "Hypernormalisation" - excusing and rationalizing corruption and abuse when done by it's elected leaders.
Her endorsement of Pierre Poilievre should be taken as an endorsement of Mark Carny, Poilievre, conspicuously silent since Trudeau stepped down, the villain has lost his nemesis, his semi-earnest laughable attempts to distance himself from Trump (and Trump's attempts to indirectly praise him by saying he "gets along with liberals" - counting on his reviled Northern reputation to steer voters into Poilievre's camp).
Then there's the newspapers, the Edmonton Urinal and Democracy Imperilled, the Irrational Post, all of which are majority owned by US interests and have increasingly started to throw shade on Carny's reputation, to rationalize Smith's decisions to campaign for Canada in the US, to slowly (they hope) bring people around to the viewpoint that being annexed (never a state, more a Puerto Rico, wherein our resources our up for plunder without the obligations a Government usually takes for it's citizenry) would not be a bad thing, maybe even a good thing...
Columnists, such luminaries as the convicted criminal Conrad Black, or the sock-puppet Rick Bell, all trying to steer a largely ignorant base into their camps....
Smith, her inane list of demands presented to Carny, her threats to "hold a referendum" - or, given her leadership, and - ha - Alberta - I'll ignore the spell-check and spell it as it should be - "referendumb" - on what? Whether Alberta should "Secede" or "Join the US"?
You could put it all down to just more inanity in the news cycle, more idiocy, more distraction and you'd be right, but she's a very populist flavour of stupidity that resonates with Albertans.
The ongoing dismantling of healthcare - "Privatization" she styles it, in which the communal assets of the government - Hospitals, Utilities, etc - built and paid for by the people of the province, are sold off to private interests, with the argument that this will "reduce costs and improve efficiency". This is, of course, and outright lie, as has been proven time and again.
She's a traitor, both to her province and her country. And I recall with fondness those days of moral certainty when we'd as a nation hang them as an example. Now, well, our liberalness in these issues is as much a problem as a certain brand of Conservativeness south of the border.
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Which refers to the unwritten rule of drawing lots and cannibalism for shipwrecked sailors. An interesting read, note as well the interesting parallel between the Richard Parker of Edgar Allen Poe's & the Mignonette, and the double entendre of "Owen Coffin" - "Owing a Coffin", but life is frequently stranger than fiction...