that's the CIC of Galactica (BS-75)
via wikipedia
"During her service, Galactica formed a part of Battlestar Group 75 (BSG 75), a colonial force described by series creator Ronald D. Moore as a mixed force of vessels somewhat similar to a U.S. Navy carrier strike group.
Like many of her sister ships that survived the first Cylon War, Galactica underwent refits and upgrades (for example, at the end of her career, she was equipped with the latest Mark VII Viper space superiority fighter). However, the computer systems were never networked nor integrated during these refits.
Due to this lack of network integration at the time of the Cylon attack, Galactica was unaffected by the infiltration program used by the Cylons to disable colonial vessels and defense systems, using the Command Navigation Program (CNP), developed by Dr. Gaius Baltar and subverted by Cylon operative Number Six as a back door into such systems."
10/10 experience writing with two fingers on an ipad at the treadmill
but like as a reactionary force to ai and nothing is real on the internet i guess
cant trust shit
i can so see a movement of like:
i trust these irl journalists who are going this old school.
when i see that name in that newspaper, i know in this article there isnt ai misinfo. human error mistake sure, that's human. but that guy literally spends most of the day at the library of congress and just hitting the pavement knocking on doors.
i know shit is dire, so i dont mean to be disrespectful re: this next suggestion
as if we can afford the luxury of whimsical shit
but maybe, re: bayo akomolafe and
'the times are urgent, let us slow down'
it is kinda cool for me to picture someone taking on a journalism project that is exclusively analog
like yea this is only footwork, interviews to cassette. paper records at townhalls and libraries
i know that is so hipster and so stupid
like so trust fund
but i also am so sure as an exercise it would yield actually important shit
maybe it is meant to be a journalism assignment college class idk
all of this stuff is skills
how successful comes down to a lot of stuff
the topic, who you are, where you are at, how you go about it, what you are able to notice, allow yourself to stumble onto
all of this is learning, takes practice, is waymaking, seeps into every other aspect of one's life to enrich it
participating in the discovery proactively
the perseverance it takes
the care it takes
the footwork
the cost in gas
the courage
the sense of when to be relentless, when to back off, like yo those firefighters in this town were not chill and i think i alarmed them that was a bad call
i got a paper map, i got a phonebook, i have gas in my car can afford some wrong turns, i can try asking a waitress at the local diner? i can try the gas station guys. can try the library, the town hall, shit the fire station those guys might be hanging out and chill and might know where this old abandoned mine shaft is
idk, all of this is really interesting
re: discovery tho
cos i think we are getting way more poor, impoverished, losing skills at discovering
at all the methods and means of discovering decades ago
like idk man you gotta wander into that alley there is a tiny record shop down this little flight of stairs allegedly if it didnt go out of business
what makes a sense of having finished having found it
the answer
the end of a wikipedia article?
a tiny rabbit hole hitting links until you reach a paywall you arent paying for? as in: call to action, go get your wallet, nah fuck that
exploring discovery further:
"how do i find what im looking for?"
how do you know when you've found it
how do you know how to know what to look for?
sure how does top results influence sense of 'found'
first 3 pages of results
how does that shape sense of foundness
how does the look of a website, a trusted logo like britannica, a known ubiquitous source like wikipedia create the idea of found
shape what found is
influence what found means
author sets discovery, allows discovery
rather than the most discovery possible is what all authors and all info wants for itself
cos yea that just isnt true
so on my end, as the author, im unlimited
i can add like 80 hashtags like white text on white background things
i can tell one person.. #2vs1892 and that pulls up two of my notes i hashed that way but they cant see any others i didnt hash like that
i can tell someone else search #yoliger and it brings up the fourteen posts i hashed that way
as a reader you cant see any of the hashtags at all. you just know typing in #2vs1892 brought up two notes
re: discovery
the discovery problem
decentralized vs centralization was the solution at the time
as in: why i paused the episode cos i wanted to think about it
"how do i find what i am looking for?"
why is that the only question
as in, wouldnt that be in tension with
"as author: i dont want to be found?"
as in, the presupposition that adding to the web means for everyone, does it? everyone wants to be discovered? does data have an inherent right to be discoverable? does information want to be found? what if i wanted to write in this super niche forum of only freaks, losers, and weirdos cos i trust us but i dont trust them out there?
so this led me to thinking about passwords and hashtags that are invisble
like could i ever be in a place where i wrote something. hashtagged it however i want. hashtag absurd or super ingroup but invisible
as in like: "blah blah blah blah. blah blah blah blah blah.
#onlypolkadotsarewelcomehere #sayfivetomeanfour
and no one can see them at all
you would have to randomly try absurd hashtags or id have to tell you for you to index my post in a search. none of the blah blahs get caught in the search like the search reads all my words as literally: blah blah.. no distinguishing.. no content .. no word searches work.. not ai readable
had to pause at 1:22:15
cos needed silence
finished my walk
writing this standing on the treadmill tho, so which kinda feels like a star trek command station cos typing on an ipad cos on primal
i see the vision of trying to full circle/circle back but that was an ambitious leap, mallers
jm: zuck killed jfk
[out of context, simply a funny statement. in context: in relation to the twitter clown car and fb's ability to operate and execute which is how mallers jumped to the war industrial complex to leap to jfk]
at 1:14:54
5.7.2023
channel: the jack mallers show
money matters full episodes
title: Jack Dorsey discusses the future of Bitcoin, the JFK assassination, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk
takes all kinds
like with the power of many subject matter experts, generalists, and peeps who vibe on the money like just wisdom from the mouth of babes, like a captain planet thing
with forces combined
could get to a cool place on stuff
like cool i need someone 87 years old, someone who is 12, a toddler, a 27 year old, a 23 year old single mom specifically, the neighbor, a rando, and a 63 year old grandma and a campfire
basically: i need a family + a couple extra peeps
and what we can get to consensus on, generally speaking, is probably pretty alright
we have to start valuing wisdom
the kind that takes time
the time that is sacrificed for
the lived experience of time
if i want to learn about puzzles
i want to talk to the guy who has been making puzzles for 47 years
could of done a lot of other stuff, didnt. did puzzles. cost. sacrifice.
have decision fatigue? then down for the count. rest.
my dad has been in so much pain and so tired about trying different combinations of ice therapy and foot soaks he ~has~ reached decision fatigue this holiday and has needed me to executive decision decide and i have cos that's fine, im not weary with pain
but if it isnt like that, if this isnt post surgery recovery what does it mean? decision fatigue
a life unsustainable and constellated poorly at this time. rest and re-evaluate.
you need a fast answer?
flip a quarter
cos that is what you are sourcing from a human being when you ask for a fast answer
might as well be more efficient, spare them, and flip coin
it is just about outsourcing responsibility
in simplicity:
im not saying a central planning communist thing
im not saying a libertarian thing
i am saying: we are human beings with a capacity to understand and remember thru time. yesterday. today. tomorrow. i am saying history. i am saying Not Soundbites i am saying Not Collapsed Context. i am saying it takes the time to say, to explain, and efficiency is off the rails and needs to be decentered as such a major value.
Efficiency is not a good value. it is value neutral. and it is wielded abusively often.
"I dont have time for this" well make the time
lord of the rings is this run time
you can't watch it in the length of an ig reel
im not saying fear factor should have never been aired
im not saying there should be stronger censors
im not agreeing with: if people didnt tune in it wouldnt have been a thing. it is on them, the viewers. sure. let's just prosecute child porn viewers not child pornographers? that's a trash argument. 'listen, the pornographers assaulting children are innocent if you think about it long enough, they are just giving the people what they want. merely being humble servants. if it wasnt that pornographer, some other humble servant would have filled the opening. nature abhors a vacuum. the pornographers actually hate their job. they do it ~for~ the viewers. someone has to provide. and also, they are just trying to feed their families. really, trust me. the pornographers themselves are actually the victims who suffer most cos they are doing this for the bag and in service.'
im not conceding: oh well the free market took it off the air, corrected itself, failing viewership
what isnt a fair argumentation style, like this is twitter, is to jump to some imagined presumed end like you can see the future when that isnt even what im saying
"are men not allowed to reinvent themselves?"
funny how this only comes up about men re: their own wish fulfillment fantasies of zero accountability and no history beyond the present
does anyone let anyone forget about kim kardashian's sex tape
no restitution, no recompense, no compensation, for the meat grinder, if your psyche as a kid got grindered lol enjoy paying for therapy, payday for the network, payday for rogan
all of that all of that.. sure ok fine
but memory holing this dude's history?
like it never even happened?
fuck that.
where were the parents?
first of all, what parent is channel blocking NBC
secondly, the parents? Dad probably still wasnt home from work
Was Mom?
what parents in late stage capitalism
with what free time to make sure their kids didnt flip to something psycho at 8pm on a Monday
this was just ok
ok to normalize, tune into, experience catharsis, get off on, enjoy your feelings of disgust, become hooked, root for someone who has been thru so much you at least hope they get something
what was the genesis? as in, many many factors going into this, including the hypnotization of a constant livestream iv drip, but genesis?
and i made this call to action once and it does matter:
"Fear Factor is an American stunt/dare game show. The series first aired on NBC from 2001 to 2006, then hosted by Joe Rogan."
"According to a 2015 interview with Art Bell, Rogan expected Fear Factor to be cancelled after a few episodes due to objections to some of the content and further stated that he took the job mainly to obtain observations and anecdotes for his stand-up comedy career."
dude knew it was wrong
it is the same for twitch streamers
the marathon stream. i'll do a truman show ordeal for all of you
and if i get this many subscriptions i'll drink this flat mountain dew with four raw eggs cracked in it, i'll shave my eyebrows, i'll sit on this balloon
im saying there is something deeply unwell about this shit, socially
im not saying she is unwell, she is acting normally for this internet culture, zeitgeist
she is the bdsm zeitgeist for her generation on this internet