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This was also subsequent:

That's inherent to the concept of virality - it contains the requirement to throw shit at a wall until something sticks. You just need to identify a cheap/free resource that's happy to waste time throwing shit around. These days bad actors can fully automate that task in realtime.

The most important thing in today's Epstein files may involve 4chan. In 2011, Epstein met with 4chan creator Christopher "moot" Poole; that same day, Poole launched the /pol/ board that 3 years later would be the heart of Gamergate. And Gamergate was the start of the movements that led to Jan 6. 1/

I don't think it's anything like a plan, I think it's just a set of techniques that you start using until they take on a life of their own.

Just found this thread...

bsky.app/profile/capi...

There were others in Epstein's circle who were thinking along these lines. Bannon, for example. You're correct that there's not enough to be certain, but I think there is enough for this to be a realistic possibility.

Image text: "The 4chan thing feels strategic. With network propagation theories you want to create these little tight clique pressure cooker communities with very fast, intimate conditions to nurture feedback loops, the prolific nature of those tight loops then breaks out of the clique and starts to transmit to a much wider graph. This is how local music scenes mutate and then break out and go global, or knowledge is transmitted by close academic collaborators and then catches fire with wider citations. Makes me wonder whether using 4chan as a proving ground for nihilist brainrot atrocity was a deliberate and strategic scientific experiment."

@notsaved.bsky.social, @clivehenry.bsky.social ^^^ you seeing this? ^^^

Wrote a post elsewhere that I'll screengrab below. Realistic possibility that this connection hints at /pol/ being a deliberate psyop to bootstrap a vicious circle race to the bottom to test which shit might float.

Just uploaded this to YouTube, noticed that it was generating captions (there's no speech), here's the "transcript":

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Heat. Heat
Heat. Heat
me
Heat
Heat. Heat

thought this was a shitpost and oh jesus

/pol/ seems like an effective laboratory of acceptionalism; a place to test which hateful motivators can escape containment and get picked up and accepted by the normies. tbf, that's all social media to some degree; it's just that the shittiest of 4chan is using it to take over the world.

"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something

That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:

When Ian McKellen next appears as Magneto in Avengers: Doomsday the writers can pull on that Coronation Street multiversal thread, if they so choose.

I have advocated internally via Teams that Dress to Impress is controlled via carefully designed upper, lower and outer constraints.

YouTube video by The Cheat Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) - Trevor's Planet of the Apes Story

My bad, he's a Liverpudlian, he just lived in Croydon.

^^^ This is absolutely how you should run an empire.

@notsaved.bsky.social you here in 2026?

Ben Kingsley's Trevor Slattery is one of those weird artefacts that Marvel does because the people who work there are chaotic. Let's burn comic fans with a joke twist character who's an actor from Croydon. Now let's put him in scenes with Tony Leung and Awkwafina. Now let's give him his own show.

Binged it last night and loved it, very slow, melancholy comedy with a single Atlanta Season 3-style interlude, and now Coronation Street is canon in Marvel.

^^^ accurate

There's a work event with the global team next week, dress code: "dress to impress."

selfie with cooling towers

"Babe, come to bed." "hold on im insulting this former top US envoy to the Middle East online again."

Hey hotel, thanks for the Sheeran mag, it's going in the fridge, next time kick me in the balls, it'll be less of an insult.

"everyone is talking about machine learning but no one is talking about machine yearning" used to be a joke, but now they are playing it straight

It's my daughter's birthday tomorrow - but I'm at a conference, so she can have her Minichord early. These are great little devices, fraction of the cost of an Omnichord, very hackable, fun Steven Universe soundtrack generators.

You're making it seem a lot cooler than it is

Is it just me, or does that new Korg acoustic synthesis thing just sound a bit bollocks?

Winning the wrong game With studies upon studies showing that actual measurable productivity gains through “AI” (which these days basically means chatbots) are really hard to come by and that “workslop” (meaning the extra w...

"we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through"

Cataloguing my albums that feature no-input field recording: recordings made in the field but not of the field, or framed as the field but not made in the field.

Largely talking to myself, in more ways than one, but will commit to the bit, because I'm enjoying it, which is the only important thing.

Paris Public Spaces 2, by Eric La Casa + Seijiro Murayama 8 track album

Terrific start for new record releases in 2026. Beautifully recorded, slyly mischievous, subtly musical.

NP | Paris Public Spaces 2 - Eric La Casa + Seijiro Murayama