And now that's gone (the golden age). Free, open digital communication is closing, and we are entering a very dark period of centralized AI controlled digital lives. Forget about the Internet. It's gone. Formosahut-type sites are dying out with their maintainers, and they won't come back.

The monopolies have won.

We need a succession plan! But you're right - it's too late now to say 'Oh, AI is gonna take over our lives if we don't do something!' - the war is well & truly lost already, before a shot was even fired.

There are very smart, wealthy ORG people who have been looking into the digital future ever since the 80s, which makes me wonder how much of that data-base training of humans was part of a grand plan.

The computer/internet has always been a double-edged sword - it gave the individual more information/communication options, but it has also been deployed as a dark, dangerous monster of centralized control.
Centralization of control is nothing new - it's as old as civilization, but AI allows it to be taken to a whole new level.

When CCP first started weaponizing the internet for that purpose, i wondered whether it was even possible to put the genie back in the bottle - but it was - & as you say, we're now past the point of no return.

The only thing that could possibly alter that course is a cataclysmic reset - but that's gonna kill most of the world's population - so it's not looking real rosy either way.

PERSON
You never [returned a book, deposited a check, filled out a form]

ME
No, I'm sure that I [did all that].

PERSON
But the computer says you didn't.

I remember once I actually had to go 'read the stacks' in a library to find the book I had returned in spite of what the computer 'said'.

The 80's and 90's was a horrible time for technology. It was incredibly fallible, and yet we were being socialized to be subservient to databases. You couldn't question what the computer 'said'.

Then there was a period when things started working very well, and on top of that, people were freely sharing ideas. We're talking here about roughly 1995-2005. THAT was the golden age of the internet.

And now that's gone. Free, open digital communication is closing, and we are entering a very dark period of centralized AI controlled digital lives. Forget about the Internet. It's gone. Formosahut-type sites are dying out with their maintainers, and they won't come back.

The monopolies have won.

I'm going the latter. Wikipedia had already proven itself during Covid to be a malevolent info-controlling force - only conclusion i could draw was that its cyber-space (which started as a neat idea) had become over-run by United Front Work Dept operatives.

It used to be that google would-auto bump Wikipedia to the top of a search - now it's AI. AI must have gotten an awful lot of it's info from Wikipedia - it was free to access - but was it free to AI or did money change hands?

Or is it the same hands? is probably a better question. Was all that info cunningly harvested via Wikipedia to fuel AI.

In a statement that would make Aldous Huxley blush, here's what the White House put out yesterday:

"The drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons," Source

So... when all those press conferences were going on weeks ago, they were, what's the phrase, oh yea, fucking lying out their asses!

And then of course this means that Trump is just another bitch serving the Man, like we always knew he was, because he's allowing them to hide WTF type of research was going on or why we were lied to for so long; in short, what they're hiding. Pussy.

(my bold, italics)

Brilliant post. Missed it in the wash-up.
More cold-hard-evidence that actors grabbing all the attention (in a finite pool of it), are: actors (whose roles are to lie-out-their-asses in order to grab attention/control the image - as much as possible), so the MAN can promulgate its agenda.

We're reduced to Plato's Cave audience members. Some things never change.

"The drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons," Source

So... when all those press conferences were going on weeks ago, they were, what's the phrase, oh yea, fucking lying out their asses!

And then of course this means that Trump is just another bitch serving the Man, like we always knew he was, because he's allowing them to hide WTF type of research was going on or why we were lied to for so long; in short, what they're hiding. Pussy.

Dan, the honourable founder of Formosahut overlapped 24 into 25. Which is a normal thing to do, it's only an arbitrary cut-off date in a continuous world. Personally, i feel bloody relieved when we get away from days being called Christmas Eve/Day, Boxing Day, New's Eve/Day - back to normal Monday, Tuesday ...

Dan's first intriguing post on Exploding cyber-truck connection to drones is here.

This post is continued from Dan's last post.

Dan wrote: And now, poof, it's gone. It never happened. Not a peep in the media about it.

That's a golden rule of investigation: No evidence (presented by MSM), is evidence. Of a cover-up.

On the positive side, nobody believes a single fucking word that MyGov.Orgs/MSM say, anymore. The days when you could message it all back into the bottle are gone.

Given the Cyber-bomb welcome to 25, the backstory to it (anti-gravity propulsion is existent military tech), i'm seeing 25 as: The Year of the Drone

The ramifications, of a quite plausible mega-breakthrough in military/population control are ... mind-boggling ... but also a logical extension in the rise of the machine.

Re his ID being recovered, did you mean from his phone? The article says police found a 6-page manifesto on his phone. It's not clear from the article if that was found in the cyber-truck - it would be strange if it was - & his body was supposedly beyond recognition.

The article also says the 'bomb' was made up of: fireworks and other explosive material

So mainly fireworks, i guess. Otherwise you wouldn't be leading with fireworks.

There's some talk about DNA discrepancies, do you know anything about that?