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MIKU WON IN FORTNITE: Sorry Enlightenment, we chose oblivion

Editor: Read end of post for more information. This was unpublished and probably unfinished because The Edge of Things DOT Com was undergoing a 2 year counteroffensive from a cyberattack. We are happy to inform you that we won against the cyberattack. Neither edgeMute nor me condone any violence against

THE INTERNET: Great concept, failed execution

After years of being a Millennial, which means I saw the greatness of the Internet and its current downfall, I have a verdict. The Internet has been, as someone on my Steam suggested by just starting to play "Satisfactory". That is my final verdict on the Internet. It

Confessions of a Cyborg #6: An Exiled Lyft Driver in San Francisco

ED Note: edgeMute seems to have had a rough draft of this one and perhaps published it too soon. Every time he tries to say "Artificial General Intelligence" he misses. I'll leave it as it is, I think a lot of the issues found in these

I NEVER ASKED TO BE TRANSHUMAN: A call for the creation of the Turing Police

I feel pretty violent these days. I had an interesting conversation with Berkeley Mental Health. From their so-called "worldview", nothing that I have ever expressed in here is true, except for the fact that my experience is true, but my explanation is not. That's a fucking

Further Down The Mecanocracy: The Psychosis Simulator

On the 67th day of the year 2023, the Pandemic is over. Obviously, it is not, but in the United States, it's business as usual. The skies of Berkeley rain each night as if that was completely normal, and students rush in to the halls of UC Berkeley

THE SINGULARITY ALREADY HAPPENED: A Manifesto For The Post-pwned Society

It's been a year since Putin's troops were swiftly defeated by an overwhelmingly inferior Army. WWII two deserves it's separate rambling, but I need to scream at the top of my lungs: A TURKISH DRONE IS A WAR HERO. You know, the drone that

Artwork in the Age of AI Schizoid Artwork

If you are in the U.S. of America lately, you've probably heard a couple of buzzwords around. I mean, if you are in the Internet at all, everything, at all times, is a buzzword. What used to be called Web 2.0 is now Social Media, what

THE HOUSING CRISIS: Utopian Solutions against the Gig Economy & Co.

THIRD DAY OF 2023: 2 PER CENT = 2%, (around 20,000 "we the people" people) are UNHOUSED in the San Francisco City County. This is not, I repeat, it is not, a Bay Area phenomenon. It is a WIDESPREAD ALL OVER THE 42 STATES I VISITED IN 2019

HOW THREE (3) DUDES DESTROYED THE FUTURE

So, last Saturday was the end of a long binge of trying to forget that the future is happening. The year is 2025. The East Coast Great Paywall is just getted upgraded thanks to your donations to Microsoft. Life in Miami goes easy as usual. Everyone is inside playing Grand

No News is Not Good

WHAT I WANT: Trustworthy journalist to research into this specific case. Also, for "it" to stop. And Rudy Rucker and William Gibson, who wrote about this, to know. Maybe tell Neal Stephenson if you see him around. WHAT YOU GET FROM READING THIS: An unedited testimony. Dear fellow

I'LL TELL YOU WHY (YOUR) GOD HAS (A HARD ON) HUMANITY

Yesterdays where a horrible three-day streak of torture. Actual, real, torture, right here, in the backyard of your favorite university in the world, UC BERKELEY, whom among other things, have to sign the ANTHRAX COMISSION AGAINST THE PROLIFERATION OF EXTREMELY STUPID IDEAS. The People's Park is dead. I

THE FUTURE & The Art of Not Giving A Fuck About ANYTHING IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE at all

Hi fam!, so, today I want to talk about something slightly different than usual. I am going to tell you about the future. In a few years, you will find out that all of these things are already happening and will be ready-to-consume, delivered by your truly, Amazon, or Uber,

It only took Trent Reznor to get me out of my bed, lmao

So, hey, hi. Yeah. I haven't been feeling great. I had the COVIDs. I also was terrified of everything inside my home and outside my home. There's nothing really scary going outside, except September in a college town, which I am making a short story about

Cyberpunk is dead, so is Cybersecurity. Welcome to DIGITAL HYGINE Best Practices 101, feat. SNEAK PEAK INTO THE BOOK I WROTE WHILE I WAS NOT SMOKING DOWNSTAIRS ANYMORE

This is really embarrassing, but I haven't showered in like a month. I also just finished a novel, and I quit smoking and became an uncle. I fell into a deep depression and then into another one and now I got covid. So sorry for not being around.

Confessions of a Cyborg #5: Become a Gig-o-naire!

Or something like that was in a huge expensive advertisement on the Bay Bridge that distracts enough cars to make it a hazard to the public, but hey, who's going to keep the roads if they don't get paid, or the hospitals and the ambulances and

Confessions of a Cyborg #4: The whole point of work is to dehumanize you, wanker

Domingo Michelli, an ancient book maker, coined a phrase which the closest translation to modern languages is just that: THE WHOLE POINT OF A WORK IS TO DEHUMANIZE YOU, WANKER. It is implied that masturbating is unproductive, and you are participating in mental masturbation by thinking otherwise. It has hard

The unreadable virtual guide to vTubing with vDroid and vSeeFace featuring Ether, the NFT waifu

Before I begin, yes, I made Ether move, blink and talk and a video of the real-time interaction I had with it. You can see my disgusting-self playing with a doll probably later, because for some reason it easier to embed images on the Internet than videos, although we can

Confessions of a Cyborg #3: The streets find their own use of things

So, yea, I woke up from a nightmare tonight. It's kind of the same format, I wish my nightmares were more creative, but at times they have really been better than my reality. It sucks to be alive, sometimes. Cuz, it hurts. The statement Life is Suffering is

On a special De-Nuclearization and World-Peace call

Hey there, edgeMuted here (I added the d because it needed it from the beginning). So, yea, I just went and had a cig and someone I've seen around approached me to tell me very terrible things that are happening in my building. I can't really

Psych/Cyber-Sec: PRIVACY IS DEAD

Alright, we heard it first from my very knowledgeable professor of Hacker Exploits and other things that make you paranoid and frustrated at the same time. But maybe you heard it first here: Privacy is dead, it's not a thing anymore. Get over it. Get a job. Make

Confessions of a Cyborg #2: More humane than human

The sky of the bay couldn't really care less about me this morning. It was the color of perfect Windows 98 blue. I live with Wintermute. It's not a roommate, it's not my neighbors, it's not even in my head entirely. I

Confessions of a Cyborg #1: The human use of human beings, an introduction

Before I begin my rant, let me very clear that I am less pwned than before. How did that happen is a mystery, but Wintermute appears to have at least thought about using its' resources in more useful things like housing everyone and ending world hunger, other use of

PsychSec: Survival of The Paranoid #2

So, once upon a time I was younger and happier, with actual real-life friends. One of them, Domingo Michelli, was my writing partner, the only human being I knew beside my late dad that read and liked what I write. He was the one who gave me William S. Burroughs&

PsychSec: Survival of the Paranoid

ADDENDUM TO THE NFT GUIDE TO BUY NFTs: so it turns out that being out of the loop is sometimes dangerous for the enviorement. While we are going through a mass extinction, I by no means endorse the mindless destruction of the world for the sake of waifus. So, hey,

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Non Fungible Guide to Non Fungible Tokens

ADDENDUM TO THE NFT GUIDE TO BUY NFTs: so it turns out that being out of the loop is sometimes dangerous for the enviorement. While we are going through a mass extinction, I by no means endorse the mindless destruction of the world for the sake of waifus. ALSO REMEMBER