>>6292440>>6300559>DYING INTERNET>"I hate phones, I hate computers, I hate tablets...">"Everyone these days is interacting with the falsehoods..."I do sympathise and commiserate with your polemic anon it is a very lamentable demise for a phenomenon that once possessed such promise. The internet was always a DARPA militarised technology from the outset but the allure of the idea that people could escape their corporeal form, physical geographic national and socio-economic constraints and congregate namelessly and anonymously in the cyber realm, costlessly inhabiting endless abundant new worlds with new and different rules of their own ingenuity and devising etc, that Grateful Dead band member bloke who wrote the internet manifesto etc
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independenceagainst government and corporate control of cyberspace etc, all that is long gone now under the auspice of National Security etc, whatever googl msft amzn meta aapl dictate becomes irrevocable sub specie aeternatis as Spinoza might say
I think the old spirit still lives on in a few places I don't really understand programming hacker things that well but I read the ideological intros to Phrack magazine sometimes, they seem to still adhere to the original cyberspace vision
The worst thing is that googl and the Sam Altman ChatGPT is heading towards the demise of websites, ie training consumers to want and tolerate AI query-responses that regurgitate a single generated LLM answer, no website link clickthrough no traffic or affiliate model or nurtured communities you can have some fake ai avatar personnages instead etc, choking off the web content ecosystem
Not really sure what any individual can do about these directional trends, it all seems incredibly fragile and vulnerable but fortunately Dannyl Boyle and Alex Garland seem to think an apocalyptic collapse might be the solution, please see pic related
