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algorithmic sabotage

I'm thinking it might be good to maintain an allow page with junk plus disallowed poisoned areas. The crawlers respecting robots.txt would pick up stuff that doesn't matter and the crawlers that ignore the permissions file would be fed scraper-hostile content.

that time

First I saw the blinking red light. Then I pressed the button. Then I heard the beep. Then I heard, “Hello Eric, this is your brother Tom. Call me back as soon as you get this. You'd better be sitting down.”

blog

The only way art works is if you can study it with enough detachment to see it as it really is, apart from context. Context is oppression. Context is a mirror pointed back at itself. art is only in the eye of the beholder if they get out of the way.

poetry

Before a child can grok a "ball" they have to be trained to narrow their focus from seeing a single field of multicolored light to being able to isolate spectrums. Before they can ever begin to identify shapes, they must first learn what parts of the visible spectrum to filter out, meaning to ignore, in order to be able to see.

invocation

A thing makes the brain malleable. Those of us who get off on having our minds blown, by having our beliefs challenged, we crave being put off balance, and having to ground ourselves with only our instinct.

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art