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Probing Assbook + Warren Ellis
8 years ago
General
Inferred discovery:
Radicals that generate and disseminate content which sabotages their own claimed causes do not respond to earnest, well-intentioned advice warning about attacks. They do not respond to direct messages either. I might add that (perhaps surprisingly) these individuals do not know me to be a "problem". The theory is: they dont actually /care/.
This was a test. Since it doesnt look like FB is going anywhere anytime soon (They just posted record profits last quarter. Apparently people cant get enough of this shit, and advertisers want to be all over it.) It's better to try to figure out how it ticks, than to remain scared of it.
I still think it's a toilet.
And if anything, the details of the Russian ads (assuming the released examples are even real), speak to the depth to which Facebook has been becoming a toilet for some time now. The Russian Trolls just simply clogged it. Just like the on the International Space Station (there was a point where the Russian provisions had meals with too much fiber in them and it caused issues with the delicate hardware of theirs, and other's national space toilets. Google it, it's hilarious.)
Anyway:
Facebook is an awful surrogate for social interaction. It's too much of an in-your-face form of Old Media, and becomes more and more like it every day as it replaces Old Media more and more. Warren Ellis wrote something about this back in 2007 in /Shivering Sands/, but back then we (nerds) thought it was cool, that this inevitability would always stay ahead of, and outside the reach of Those Who Make Things Suck, in the vaguest sense, whomever that may be at the time. Now, Zuckerberg is a reckless powerbroker and the Chinese are making fun of him, and Warren Ellis is a crotchety old fart, prematurely-aged from a diet of RedBull and food paranoia, now shambling around his manor, waving his cane and mumbling at passersby, claiming that one day, Zuckerberg will focus the world's telecom infrastructure to fire a beam of blistering, sanctimonious microwaves directly into his heart. "Thereby exploding it like a frog with a straw up its bum."
(Metaphorically)
That day was somewhere in 2014. It already happened. He might very likely be a zombie.
Radicals that generate and disseminate content which sabotages their own claimed causes do not respond to earnest, well-intentioned advice warning about attacks. They do not respond to direct messages either. I might add that (perhaps surprisingly) these individuals do not know me to be a "problem". The theory is: they dont actually /care/.
This was a test. Since it doesnt look like FB is going anywhere anytime soon (They just posted record profits last quarter. Apparently people cant get enough of this shit, and advertisers want to be all over it.) It's better to try to figure out how it ticks, than to remain scared of it.
I still think it's a toilet.
And if anything, the details of the Russian ads (assuming the released examples are even real), speak to the depth to which Facebook has been becoming a toilet for some time now. The Russian Trolls just simply clogged it. Just like the on the International Space Station (there was a point where the Russian provisions had meals with too much fiber in them and it caused issues with the delicate hardware of theirs, and other's national space toilets. Google it, it's hilarious.)
Anyway:
Facebook is an awful surrogate for social interaction. It's too much of an in-your-face form of Old Media, and becomes more and more like it every day as it replaces Old Media more and more. Warren Ellis wrote something about this back in 2007 in /Shivering Sands/, but back then we (nerds) thought it was cool, that this inevitability would always stay ahead of, and outside the reach of Those Who Make Things Suck, in the vaguest sense, whomever that may be at the time. Now, Zuckerberg is a reckless powerbroker and the Chinese are making fun of him, and Warren Ellis is a crotchety old fart, prematurely-aged from a diet of RedBull and food paranoia, now shambling around his manor, waving his cane and mumbling at passersby, claiming that one day, Zuckerberg will focus the world's telecom infrastructure to fire a beam of blistering, sanctimonious microwaves directly into his heart. "Thereby exploding it like a frog with a straw up its bum."
(Metaphorically)
That day was somewhere in 2014. It already happened. He might very likely be a zombie.
