As I clearly am not going to be writing every day and as I also am not willing to give up on this place (again) and mothball it (again) only to stand it up next year under a new banner (again). This November edition is my marker in the field; of life, of myself, of […]
EPR (popularly known as ‘quantum entanglement’) proves not only that everything is connected, but that everything is interdependent. And by everything, I mean both that which we can observe and that which we never will but can deduce from the negative space containing that scattered information… known ever after to us only as ‘the imponderable’. […]
Company: Blizzard Entertainment Payment Processor: Adyen Infraction: Inability to decline permission to retain CC data after purchase. Judged bad faith as purchase of battletag change allows this decline, but subscription does not because….? (They don’t want you to have to explicitly renew. They know you most likely will forget. They will profit from helping it […]
Simple facts reveal simple truths: Amazon, AGS, and Twitch often know who streams exploits. When pressed beyond plausible deniability, they give a 24 hour suspension to “attractions” (both protag and sploitag). Conversely, small or non-revenue streams get 1 week or greater. Just like “Facebook/Meta”, Twitter, Reddit, any other “social” media, and life over-all, there are […]
Mind you, I have no insight whatever into how you’ve designed things outside of your (very) basic lumberyard documentation. So I’m just making up contextually accurate names to point out that “each database is separate by region” does not make this “unpossible” in the least. A small and relatively basic ebus that receives and delivers […]
For those who still do not seem to grok the depth and breadth of sophistication that is only accelerating in surveillance methods and techniques, I submit this paper (one author of which is noted, “Work done at Google.” on the first page). In it, you will find that technology can now parse video, audio, and […]
Humans have spent all existence confining, defining, and refining concepts of relation between things. Any activity can be defined as a series of state changes whose only common denominators are energy / matter in a positive / negative / imponderable state. The level of refinement needed is inversely proportionate to the level of sustainability expected. The […]
It occurs to me that much of the mess plaguing “social networks” at the moment arises from a failure to genuinely reflect and remind ourselves about what it means to be “social” and what it means to “socially network”; to revisit what “social networks” may legitimately be defined as and, more importantly, to establish what […]
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The pure seed pattern is that which is present in all things. It is the driver of all evolution, the cycle of all living things, and The singular, paradoxical anomaly in any organized system, and/or/else/not (all non-organized systems). You can find the pattern anywhere that you can develop a way to “look” for it. It […]