and we haven’t talked since my indictment for obvious safety/distancing reasons
ok so this is obviously a fucked up sentencing, but i do feel like i need to clarify this is not just about the GTA hack, by the time he hacked rockstar he had violated bail about 3 times (he hacked rockstar from an amazon firetv stick while on bail and banned from using electronics, actually the coolest shit anyone has ever done), this sentencing is still extremely disproportionate but it’s about like 5 different hacks really
also i wanna clarify that being a risk to corporations is absolutely not the same thing at all as being a risk to other people and that’s a bullshit money hungry accusation, because at the end of the day that’s all this is about.
this whole situation is so fucked being a risk to corporations should be a constitutional right
It’s a sad fact that every long running universe based upon themes and tones of isolation, limiality, and cosmic horror gets worn down by overexplanation, overpopulation of the universe with entities, overuse, and eventually irony and financial exploitation. Derlething happened to Lovecraft, it happened to SCPs, it happened in record times to the backrooms.
If you try to build a collective work with vibe of subtle unease and liminality, someone will invariably introduce a guy that looks like this:
for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the “question only a human can answer” which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.
luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.
if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?