This is a marginal technical improvement on a very old strategy.
that is the future 1980s cyberpunk dreamed of
It is very funny to think about Cyberpunk aesthetic as aspirational. Real “guy reading Don’t Build The Torture Nexus thinks about how cool it would be to live in the Torture Nexus” moment.
Incidentally - and I can’t find the fucking citation because Fuck Google but I promise it exists somewhere - there’s speculation that the “Birds Aren’t Real” hoax was itself a test-run of mass manipulation of public media. Sort of the hat-on-a-hat of conspiracies.
there is so much stuff i suspect is actually a psyop that i prefer not to think about it because i’m just gonna go mad.
the timing here makes absolute sense though, it came just before fascism started spewing their own qanon nonsense which is probably it’s own op in itself.
Trying to sort out what’s a hoax, what’s an op, and what’s a grift can be a fool’s errand, especially given that you can kinda drift from one to the other based on how much traction you’re getting.
I was listening to the TrueAnon episode “A People’s History of SantaCon”, which took a long and confusing walk from the Birth of Jesus Christ, through the Progressive Era labor movement, past subsequent class conflicts and derivative left-wing protest campaigns, into and out of and into Burning Man, and then into a naked money laundering scheme predicated on buying tickets to what was originally an annualized theater school stunt.
What is SantaCon? A generational grift? A populist avante garde reaction to crass consumerism? Cover for criminal activity? For espionage? A consequence of crass consumerism gone off the rails? A stupid meme? A “mind virus”? All of the above? Idk.
World’s a crazy place, though. That much is clear. You’ve got Santas getting hand jobs in the local drug store and nobody can explain how it happened.
Pigeon ‘caught with backpack of drugs’
A 16-year-old was arrested for using a remote-controlled car to smuggle drugs across the border, officials say
If you want to get super old-school…
High Times Magazine states a family of dolphins was used by drug smugglers to carry tons of cocaine from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico to the Florida coast. 4 December 1978
This is a marginal technical improvement on a very old strategy.
It is very funny to think about Cyberpunk aesthetic as aspirational. Real “guy reading Don’t Build The Torture Nexus thinks about how cool it would be to live in the Torture Nexus” moment.
hey pigeons aren’t cyberpunk at all.
unless those people are right about them not being real.
Incidentally - and I can’t find the fucking citation because Fuck Google but I promise it exists somewhere - there’s speculation that the “Birds Aren’t Real” hoax was itself a test-run of mass manipulation of public media. Sort of the hat-on-a-hat of conspiracies.
there is so much stuff i suspect is actually a psyop that i prefer not to think about it because i’m just gonna go mad.
the timing here makes absolute sense though, it came just before fascism started spewing their own qanon nonsense which is probably it’s own op in itself.
Trying to sort out what’s a hoax, what’s an op, and what’s a grift can be a fool’s errand, especially given that you can kinda drift from one to the other based on how much traction you’re getting.
I was listening to the TrueAnon episode “A People’s History of SantaCon”, which took a long and confusing walk from the Birth of Jesus Christ, through the Progressive Era labor movement, past subsequent class conflicts and derivative left-wing protest campaigns, into and out of and into Burning Man, and then into a naked money laundering scheme predicated on buying tickets to what was originally an annualized theater school stunt.
What is SantaCon? A generational grift? A populist avante garde reaction to crass consumerism? Cover for criminal activity? For espionage? A consequence of crass consumerism gone off the rails? A stupid meme? A “mind virus”? All of the above? Idk.
World’s a crazy place, though. That much is clear. You’ve got Santas getting hand jobs in the local drug store and nobody can explain how it happened.
i for one am glad santa can at least get their coveted hand jobs.