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Friday Fun Thread for August 23, 2024

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DESTINY'S SCHIZO ARC - [KINO EDIT]

(Obligatory: am not a fan of Destiny)

Funny video. IMO some of the accounts he's identifying as fake are fake, but a lot of them are just real people who are kinda dumb and are imitating each others' weird writing styles. Seems probable that some things involving the Chilokian guy are fake, but that's not really that surprising imo, people sometimes make fake identities on the internet and photoshop videos and edit photos, and now that AI exists they use those too!

I’ve never taken LSD but legitimately that whole video felt like a trip. Honestly, having followed some of these cyber-chemtrails (way before AI bots) I fully empathize with Destiny’s schizo-ness. The web is weird.

(I often think of something an Irish writer called Kevin Barry once said. “The Internet is an infinitude: it contains the best and worst of everything.”)

This thing was fucking catnip for me. This gets way better then Destiny bothered digging into (though he touched on it), turns out the old white dude he was obsessing over is running a climate change doomsday cult, and now I'm digging through their stuff trying to figure out if they're relatively harmless and just fleecing the vulnerable, or did they manage to recruit some high-level people and are "penetrating ze cabinets". Ukraine got sick of their shit apparently, citing "pro-Russian messages" but even that feels odd, because I haven't seen anything all that pro-Russian about them. Shit's wild.

Not gonna lie, while I haven't gone off the deep end to quite that extent, I was feeling very similar recently.

Dead Internet theory: Confirmed.