On : Fabric™

I have just found @0x49fa98‘s discarded notebook. The ink was smudged, and covered in illegible symbols, the scribbling of a madman. What follows is what I had to interpolate as best I could. Here is part 1 :

Everything you say follows you forever; your words, your actions. These form a thread, a searchable record. All you say is rendered into the cloud. Your “friends” and “mutuals” can react to your words, add them to a memory, or even play them back later. You have joint ownership of all your memories, your history. If your friend “Otaku_underlord56” shows a memory of you to “Furryw0lverine”, you get an alert.

Fabric™, allows you to manage your threads, our words have become our virtual clothes. Sometimes a friend will go deep diving, and react to something you said years ago. Oh yeah, I remember saying that. That was witty. Then again, I am haunted by dwelling on some embarrassing memory from years ago. Like picking a scab, I will go back to watch it again.

Some people turn off their history but it’s weird; How do you react to someone like that, when you can’t know what they care about, without asking them? If you’re afraid of your words following you, you must be saying bad things.

We all edit our history for private reasons, but the truth is, convenience of Fabric™ outweighs any privacy concerns for the average person. In theory things you say are only visible to people who saw them, but second-order network effects have a way of revealing what should be hidden. ’Tis better to consider everything public, the only reason everyone doesn’t know everything about everyone else is because signals get lost in the noise.

The dark Fabric™ that weaves us.

These days all the most esteemed speakers are corporate brands. They weave their slogans into moral preaching to the sound of sincere applause. Fast food companies hire racist anonymous edgelords to promote their products in the midst of a rant about living in tech dystopia.

There is literally no difference between an ironic and a sincere product endorsement. We’re living in tech dystopia, it’s boring, you’re a cog, you have no inner life, you just jerk off into a sexbot all day, buy more corporate sugar water you sick fucks, I recommend Eldritch Energy, it’s the brand I drink. Read old racist books, don’t give in to woke capital mind control, support me on patreon.

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by @0x49fa98

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