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Searching for TechnoPrimitives:
Information, Assurance, Dromology, Cybernetics, Technics
🦆Trying to see - 不動智 👺
Pinned
Could they be hymns?
Frogs are chanting.
In the temple well.
Evergreen
Sitting here thinking of how many exhausted people are screaming at each other right now to find more money to throw in a furnace
December 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL.

For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.

Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Here's interview with US citizen scanned by ICE's facial recognition tech. Walking home from gym, authorities come over. He says he's a citizen. Put him in car. Only release after scanning his face

“Flagrant violation of rights and incompatible with a free society”

www.404media.co/how-a-us-cit...
How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech
Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.
www.404media.co
December 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Embarrassing
Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Check it out, interesting meme lineages inside
Another new blog post up at WXQT!

This time, I write on Kash Patel's new(ish) challenge coin, which is indicative of how one of America's most powerful performative males crafts his visual identity (spoiler: mostly out of dudecore mainstream culture).
Performative Patel
Kash Patel's new challenge coin and the actual performative male moment. In early October, journalist Ken Dilanian posted an image of the two faces of an alleged new challenge coin issued by the dire...
wxqt-radio.ghost.io
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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note how the messaging has shifting from "we're targeting criminals" to "we're deporting everyone"
Kristi Noem: "We will continue to do this work until there are no longer anybody in our communities that's here illegally."
October 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I still say anyone who wants to defend a Confederate statute should be forced to read the original dedication speeches to tell us all what “heritage” they’re celebrating.

Here’s one from my college:

1619education.org/sites/defaul...
1619education.org
October 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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a picture is worth a thousand words.
October 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
October 9, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.
October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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What's it like living in Chicago today? This image gives us a strong sense of the fear that Chicagoans fear from Trump's secret police.
October 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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George Carlin, eat your heart out.

The federal government's list of words to be scrubbed is more than seven, and it is growing fast.

pen.org/banned-words...
Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship
Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.
pen.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b

LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate
October 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Pretty much mask off everywhere at this point
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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To drive this home; when Kusanagi is trying to figure out why so many people treated to assassinate the Superintendent General of Police because a threat was broadcast, Aramaki says "In a play, even the audience is part of the performance". Kusanagi dismisses the thought but he was 100% correct
fwiw, the trilogy of GITS: SAC, Lain, and MGS2 have a similar overlapping message: massive information connectivity between people produces abnormal and highly contagious phenomena
September 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
To say Americans abhor political violence is a lie. We reveled in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. We reveled in the drone war. We reveled in J6. We funded the Gazan genocide. Many revel in the terroristic actions of using masked govt agents to abduct immigrants and citizens alike in broad daylight.
September 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM