BUILDBRIEF: Invite the Underworld

Apple's evil twin - Breathless AI - Meme is murder

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I’ve been out in the field the past few weeks, including our nation’s capital. The collapse of retail on display inside the Beltway is jarring to anyone who so much as passed through during the false dawn of the Obama years.

I found myself in need of some business casual footwear for a few scenes to be shot on the Hill. Union Station is virtually abandoned by commercial tenants. Almost every mid-tier menswear shop I searched for was Permanently Closed. Finally—the Johnston & Murphy on Connecticut, right across from Brooks Brothers, a stone’s throw from DuPont Circle. The lights were on, but no one was home. Doors locked shut at 2 pm on a weekday. Not a lunch break. Squarely in the midst of the work day and posted hours. I knocked, fool that I was.

Let’s get back in the saddle.

INVITE THE UNDERWORLD

Legit the edgiest Elon post I’ve seen to date: “We have imported the criminal underworlds of 100 different countries.” The inevitable consequence, no doubt, of the all-but-standing policy to “invade the world, invite the world”. Elon is talking about the results of our “immigration policy”, which is not a policy about immigration but a politics of inundation. At that volume, 100 mafias sounds like a reasonable ballpark estimate.

But they’re not all here because of “the border” (what’s left of it). The deliberate dissolution of the line on the map and the line of law ostensibly written in place is only one piece of the underworld puzzle—that seamy mystery being, it seems, the one story we’re permitted to least report on, talk about, speculate around.

This is because penetration by foreign crime organizations is characteristically quite orderly, a systematic inflow into the host body of a late-stage empire. As these behemoths begin to deteriorate, losing the mystique of dominance, everyone rushes in—not just opportunistic bad guys, not just rivals and adversaries, but allies, too, especially allies with the weakest impediments to the well-structured establishment of influence, preferably lucrative.

We’ve got Jay Newman’s Undermoney out there as a recent signpost to the dark caves subject to a fairly durable regime and state-affiliated media omerta. That’s about it.

APPLE’S EVIL TWIN

Don’t be Google, Tim Apple:

Apple Inc. is in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone, according to people familiar with the situation, setting the stage for a blockbuster agreement that would shake up the AI industry. 

The two companies are in active negotiations to let Apple license Gemini, Google’s set of generative AI models, to power some new features coming to the iPhone software this year, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private. Apple also recently held discussions with OpenAI and has considered using its model, according to the people.

At this point, it’s hard to be sure which model is the lesser of two evils. Altman holds a steady lead over Pichai in personal malevolence, but OpenAI is just not as much a part of the USG’s post-Constitutional regime as Google, and its products haven’t catechized its bots into the woke religion to the same ludicrous degree as Gemini.

The lesson here is clear enough. The race to dominate everything with an app for everything has kicked into a still higher gear. Would that AI gave ordinary American citizens the ability to access and use fundamental digital tech to protect their livelihoods, their way of life, their constitutionally guaranteed form of government, their free association and worship, and, ultimately, their humanity. But the automated simulators don’t work that way, at least for now. Bitcoin still offers what is needed, which is why Bitcoin is being gobbled up at speed by the regime.

BREATHLESS AI

Every breath you take, I’ll be watching you? Surveillance is so last decade. Simulation completes the circuit. Chat GPT is now mastering the subtle art of humanesque vocal performance: “You can hear it take breaths, it’s insane.” Well, it’s not insane, or mind-blowing, or whatever. What’s insane is debasing our language to characterize simulated breaths as “it” “breathing”.

People still talk about those greedy social media oligarchs “hacking our brains” by telling algorithms to give us content likely responsive our content desires. Few talk about our terrible susceptibility to abuse analogies, a product of our fallen desire to worship false gods and false idols and to steal the creative powers of God.

MEME IS MURDER

Just to be clear about where things are going—a single, seamless experiential apparatus fusing surveillance, simulation, and spiritual warfare—Googling “french jokes” now leads to a warning:

Memes about groups of people might be disturbing or hurtful

“How much loss of market share is that nudge worth to you,” George Hotz asks Google. He doesn’t quite get it: we are far beyond the world of market share. I guess I’ll have to keep on noticing that the primary use case for this cluster of technologies is compulsory.

Wake up, folks. These tools are optimized for cyber theocracy. Companies are scrambling to exit “muh marketplace” and become part of the established church of the Borg. They’re willing to pay an incredible price to get there. Peter Thiel got a lot of attention for pointing out that Google was hoarding money. His thesis was they couldn’t figure out what to build. Current events suggest another explanation.

If you want to have algorithmic markets, you have to stop the cyber theocracy. If you want to stop the established Borg church of the cyber theocracy, you need to show people the real thing: real Church, real God, real Spirit moving through people body and soul. Do that and the rest will follow.