Dear Friend

 Public Post from a Friend 

“lol yay funny meme

Just wanted you all to know that I'm getting indications that a lot of my posts are getting h.i.d.d.e.n from you. Also! Seems like every time I try to post certain tings that show the certain guys doing the certain bad things, the videos I'm sharing are r.e.m.o.v.e.d from my posts. 

Fun times!”

My Answer: “Yo that is f*cking Crazzzy. Nothing you posted was that crazy. I just scrolled through your wall back about 3 or 4 days & reacted to all the political stuff.

They encourage us to report & silence our own friends. Now they have “eh eye” to blame their bidding on. The oligarchs don’t want us talking about what they’re doing. I was very afraid for a minute there but seeing all the shining faces over the weekend reminded me, we’re not alone. They are just trying to brainwash all our friends with Eh Eye! I’m not having it. I keep it at a healthy boundary. Only using it when I Have to. Like Amazon. Some stuff is no longer in the supply chain any other way. Same with information. It’s harder & harder for us to fact check things. But I remain steadfast. Always researching things I read independently but I see mistakes. Bad sources. Mangled recipes. All the time.

I’m trying to remind myself that if I “Jackie F*cking Lane” felt the need to silence myself politically that it has to be a lot worse than my ultra depressed brain can get it’s head around. The streets are quiet out there on non-protest days. Parents have to go through the motions for their kids. But even that is paired back. Less kids getting to do extracurriculars than ever. They’re more expensive & time consuming on the parents part then ever. Easier to hand over an old phone or tablet.

There’s Less People In The Free Parks Keith & I bird at. Because you need gas money to get there & food is So expensive.

My “line” for people right now is witnessing that they have any sort of affinity for using AI a lot or talking to it often. Or saying anything openly racist now that this ish has happened & the nationalists again feel safe to tell us their bigotry.”

To Me from a Friend: “I h*a*t*e the "art"1f1c1al hmmm int SO MUCH. Literally everything about it. The invasiveness. No ability to opt out or avoid it. The artistic and intellectual theft. The dependence we're putting on it for ESSENTIALS. The UNGODLY resource consumption at the expense of The People. Not to mention the tech companies are being allowed to subsidize this egregious wasteful resource hoarding because the companies are passing the cost to US in OUR energy bills. I have at least 2 other reasons I don't have time to get into right now. 🫠🫠🫠”

Me: “i’ve been watching some good videos & reading up on it. Every “sore Ah” video cost five dollars for them to make. It’s not sustainable.

At first, I thought it was because I was old. So I sat around silently thinking for months now. Since I hit my head, thinking can take a lot longer. And as Douglas Adam said “I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” 

I thought I was in “Phase 3” as it were but it turns out that this is in fact in the 5th installment of the HHGTTG. 

“The New Guide” appears as a bird that tells you whatever you want to hear & consumes all the information it wants & needs from you & then moves on because it has an ulterior purpose that is unbeknownst to the “user”. I never trust anything is truly Free. Whatever is going on has got to have a more powerful effect on our behavior than Traditional Advertising on TV & social media with how they are investing so much money into it. I definitely think it’s not to be trusted even more than Any of these experts I am watching can predict. People are living in fear of losing food stamps & medicare in a week. How can regular people safely spend what they have while there is no safety net to fall on? 

There’s no such thing as a billionaire. The dollar has just lost most of its value because of money hoarding. 

At least we’re smart enough to see these things. It gives me hope. 7 million people plus all those other people in countries around the world. We’re not going to let this happen to humanity. We still do all the work with our hands. People will get fed. Hairs will get cut. 

I watched every single video I could find of robots “cutting hair” the other day. Mostly eh eye bullsh*t but the ones with real robots were definitely death traps. It won’t clean up the earth & plant all the trees & flowers we need. We need to do that with our hands.

sorry, not sorry. You inspired an entire blogpost.”

Love,

Jackie Lane

PS - I copied & shared this conversation because it’s one of the few like it that I’ve had. Many people I was friends with seem to be lost to talking to themselves all the time. Even as they see how wrong eh eye can be they continue to use it & trust it more than wikipedia, search engines or social media ever was trusted. 

The men selling us all eh eye as a solution to all the world’s problems know that it’s just a trick with Smoke & Mirrors. When this bubble bursts it will be real humans picking up the pieces like Andy Kim cleaning the capital floor after January 6th.