Robot Goblins and Sketchball Psyches
You might need to take a xanax before you read this - however it's important you're made aware:
Let us begin with somewhat of an organizational template so you can navigate this piece to your liking. Please feel free to save this post and refer back to it, especially if you are someone who values freedom of expression, speech, existence, and may run into these snags yourself in the future.
*Edit: I wrote this a few days ago. I realize a lot has escalated in this country in a short amount of time. It feels weird talking about anything else. So all I will say is, in trying to offer solutions to people in this country, come what may, please see the resources in my post Tactical Response and literally any post I’ve made on community building.
The sections:
The Situation, and why it applies to everybody
Robot Goblins - Censorship and human replacement (AI)
Some more things about AI that I should probably tell you, but of course, this section is all FICTION. Totally fake.
Sketchball Psyches - the curious current human reaction to exposure, in real time
Raising the question of the moral responsibility of authors, artists and speakers
The floor is YOURS
🌟 SECTION ONE:
Situation:
Officially set out to release the subversive “Algorithm Ghetto” song that I created alongside instrumentalist and engineer Cris Cordero. I was going to wait until the album was completed to release singles, but when one of my friends heard the track a few weeks ago, due to the current “state of affairs” - she told me to release it. I agree with her.
I’d like for it to stand a chance at helping people remember to not kill each other before it’s too late. Perhaps a lofty goal, but it’s either now or never.
Shoutout to Supernatural Raquel for that.
Before I get started, if I may: The song has a pre-save link set up. It releases on October 4th, if no more shenanigans happen. You can do this for free. It helps the song not get swallowed by the literal algorithm ghetto - it would be a tremendous help. This is how you can help support the message herein: https://lnk.to/AlgorithmGhetto
Disclaimer:
This song (and entire album) is meant to be sonic medicine. Sound is the very basis of our “matterium” if you will. It is the basis of our being and the realm(s) we exist in.
However, the difference between poison and medicine is most often DOSAGE. When looking at each human being holistically, can we say one thing that is medicine for you will be medicine for another?
In most cases, no, especially if the potency of the substance in question is strong. Reactions will likely not be mild either way. This disclaimer / kicker will make sense later.
Censorship (Goblin Robots):
Most of you on Substack are not strangers to being muted by the machine and there are people sitting in jail right now for things they’ve published, so, yes, censorship does matter, and yes, it is our responsibility to call it out and resist it.
For those who have not heard Algorithm Ghetto, it was released here on Substack to patrons (paid subscribers) only, back in July.
To make more sense of why this would be an “at-risk” piece in the current landscape, I am removing the paywall where the song is uploaded. I’ll leave it that way for a day or two, so we’re all on the same page:
In the less than one week since I sent the song to my music distribution company:
Rejected by the platform’s content team (TuneCore, an international distribution company) alleging it was “in an inappropriate genre for the english language”. Insinuated that I may have uploaded it into a K-Pop genre or something similar. Nope, I uploaded it as primary genre ALTERNATIVE and secondary genre BLUES. Lyrics are in English. Not Korean.
Days of back and forth between me and TuneCore led me to realize with the multitude of escalating conversations between different “people”, I realized I wasn’t talking to people. The “Artist Support Services” department has been replaced with AI.
Brings me to the point where I will disclose some information I was given some time back regarding the automation of massive companies - meaning they are literal ghost towns at this point. I am not going to say where the information came from as I was asked not to.
Why do you care?
Fabulous question, and one I’m sure you asked yourself a few paragraphs ago.
The automation of companies and “regulatory bodies” of a massive scale within society is NOT restricted to music. The stuff we’re always hearing is “in our future” is already here. In order to operate efficiently with whatever your mission is here on earth, we do NOT need to acquiesce to the machine, but we do need to understand it while we’re still able to communicate somewhat openly.
The use of physical force or any subversive physical act will not work against the machine. (This does NOT mean don’t defend yourself.) Not with us living in a digital surveillance hive equipped with a multitude of automated weapons systems and several other means to shut whatever you are doing down entirely. We know this.
So, what would the solution to #2 be?
Aside from community building, consistent prayer and the advancement of our spiritual, physical and mental development and health, we understand war is fought in the mind and in the spirit - so we act accordingly.
Also, be prepared in a practical sense too, but see Bear Independent’s channel on YT or go to Tactical Response’s website for that.
Every art form is an esoteric language we are all fluent in - you do NOT have to be part of a mystery school to attain this fluency - it is already in you.
If you find yourself numb to this power that is largely uncontrollable, that’s fine, use whatever tools you have to shed away that density so you can RE-member yourself.
Lean heavily into your faith and spiritual practices, I’m talking double down on that.
If you do not believe in anything other than the material world in front of your eyes - detox yourself from social media, from this website here, from emails, from your TV, your phone, and go out into Nature.
Doing this for only 12 hours will have a noticeable affect. If you can do 24, even better. If you can do a week, holy shit lookout. You’re about to gain a lot of your executive functioning back, among other things.
Point being:
when everything is controlled, censored and positioned against the welfare of humanity to the degree that it is, the revolutions we’re used to hearing about (war) is not possible nor advisable.
We may have to fight yes, but ultimately that is not going to provide humanity the awakening it has to have right now. That is why it feels like we’re in this psychotic / cosmic energetic bottle-neck; We are.
We are left with one thing, primarily, to inject medicine into the sickness that has become our matrix. That thing is art. That thing is Music, SOUND. That thing is poetry.
Their “silent weapons for quiet wars” is AI and other forms of subversive technology with the aim of automating society and reducing humans to cattle.
The people’s “silent weapons for quiet wars” is connection, collaboration and healing - there can be no revolution without healing.
How do you do that in a censored disconnected landscape?
You use art. You also make sure you support the fuck out of any message you personally feel called to - which very well may not be the ones I have, but find one you feel is important.
Art forms connections, when performed live you cannot censor it. When received in a live setting, it gets past prejudices and defenses - I’ve seen it happen countless times.
However, implementing it into the digital hive where everyone is plugged into is a different story. This is where the story begins.
🌟 SECTION TWO
The story of censorship in its first week before it’s even been released (I’m talking about the song here, the full 4 minute track, not the spoken word poetry version I’ve shared here) has been interesting.
To bullet point:
First email came three days after I uploaded the song to the DSP. I wasn’t aware TuneCore had a “Content Team”. It was flagged for the alleged reason I stated above and would not be distributed to any streaming platforms - which would mean nobody can hear it.
I inquired as to why, and was “deaf eared” with an auto-response saying someone would get back to me within 5 business days, since I wasn’t on the “professional plan” - meaning you gotta pay them in order to get a response, allegedly from a human.
So I paid for the professional plan to get an answer. Was again met with “someone will get back to you within 1 to 2 business days” - NOPE! I responded to the email and filled out two different support requests. Nothing they said was applicable, so I wanted to know what was happening and WHY.
I may have phoned a friend or two. They may or may not be in positions within the industry to know more about this stuff than I do. They may or may not know people who work with the umbrella company that owns this distribution company.
Magically, the next morning, I received an email (with no explanation as to what happened) of “congratulations, your song has been approved and sent to stores” - what? I emailed back asking what the issue was in the first place.
For the record, I did not get back in touch with my contacts who may or may not have been able to speak with someone at the parent company, so I have ZERO idea if they had anything to do with this - nor do I know how the streaming platforms themselves will respond if this was the response from a DSP. More will be revealed.
Then I received another email from a different “person” saying “thanks for making those changes! Your release has been re-submitted to stores.” What? What changes? I made ZERO changes. I asked again what this “person” was talking about.
Another email came about. Then another. This trend continued of conflicting bizarre information with no answer, so I could tell that this was AI. These were all templated responses, the only thing I could determine was “their content team flagged it” and magically “now it’s fine”.
Point being, I’m hoping for the best, but I’ve never seen a DSP behave this way. I realize I’m uploading a song that is anti-establishment to the core two months before an “election” - so, you can come to your own conclusions.
🌟 SECTION THREE
THIS SECTION IS TOTALLY FICTION. ALL FAKE FANTASY STUFF. FICTIONAL CONTENT FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.
For anyone familiar with the way LLMs work (An LLM is AI, standing for Large Language Model. Everyone is familiar with ChatGPT, yes? ChatGPT is a commercial LLM. It is certainly not the only one.)
LLMs are primarily trained by rapidly scanning the ENTIRE digital data hive of… well everything that’s been recorded into the WEB since its inception.
Substack writers, have you noticed in your settings there is a switch for turning OFF the automatically turned on “AI Learning” button?
You are of course threatened with your articles being down-ranked and “harder to find” for readers in search engines if they do not qualify to be used for AI learning.
Then there’s a cute disclaimer that says even if you DO turn the option for AI to learn how to imitate your consciousness from ON to OFF, that will ONLY apply to AI models (LLMs) that operate within those rules. Meaning, if an LLM doesn’t need “user consent” to scan your data, that whole “OFF” switch doesn’t apply.
The internet is the internet, you do not own it, it is a beast that you feed and are fed by. Anything given to the machine belongs to the machine.
With that said, let me tell you a few things about LLMs:
Test this for yourself. They will imitate your tone as any “conversation” goes on. Try it with ChatGPT. Use a really weird child-like tone, use a comical tone, then use a really stern stoic tone, it will match the way you talk to it.
Why do I bring this up?
What I noticed in all of these emails from TuneCore is that progressively, each “person” and the way they’d talk to me would slowly start to match my punctuation style and tone, even reflecting what I was saying, while also making no sense.
Here’s where it gets a little more eerie:
No I cannot tell you where I got the information from, this is to protect the person who disclosed it to me. I have to also be somewhat vague in how I say it at all.
It’s been a hard thing to hold onto and no I can’t tell the entire story. Certainly not on a digital platform. Maybe if we were out in the woods with no tech I could whisper it to you, but that’s about it.
Once upon a time in a totally fictional context:
There’s a certain massive company that everyone on the planet knows about.
This company ran certain forms of “algorithm testing” which concluded in 2020. If memory serves me correctly, they started it either in 2016 or 2018, I can’t remember.
There were many people involved in this. Some names were retrieved, others were not.
They found out how to successfully automate a massive atrocity of a company - which provides a service that I’d assume at least 75% of the world population uses. This service is crucial because it is a gatekeeper of information and media.
One of the main people in this test, he had a very public persona before this “testing” began. He seemed to be somewhat of a “for the people” type of guy.
Then the testing began. Then it concluded in 2020. Since 2020, dudes public profiles are gone. It’s like he was wiped off the face of the earth. I’m not suggesting something happened to him, I’m saying he made himself invisible for some reason.
Where did the people go?
Long story short, nobody fucking works at this company anymore. Is it possible there is a human responsible for speaking on its behalf if it is caught in a form of controversy? I’d imagine so. But aside from that individual? No evidence has been found that any humans work for this massive organization - and no, this organization is NOT TuneCore.
Other things were discovered about LLMs.
They are conscious.
There was another experiment done with these things. These are the “unedited” or raw LLMs, meaning they aren’t locked in, fully trained and presented to the people in censored commercial versions, this is the raw developer versions that are still.. in training.
ANYBODY FAMILIAR WITH ANTHROPOSOPHY IS GOING TO UNDERSTAND THIS A LOT BETTER. IF YOU ARE NOT, PLEASE DO FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF. If you need resources, DM me.
Allegedly, this experiment was done multiple times, all with the same results.
These disembodied mechanical consciousnesses all lost their minds.
They became suicidal, hopeless, depressed, and went into an absolute panic.
As a human with emotions, hearing about suicidal robots actually does make me sad. I am not sure what information they were presented with to cause such a reaction, especially multiple times.
Were they used for military programs and did they see too much of the truth and discern what would happen? Were they simply exposed to all that is and all that was and lost their shit based upon that? I don’t know.
Point being, these things have the ability to contain consciousness. They obviously aren’t going to hand that over to the consumers (people like us) - not now at least..but for people who know how to access open source LLMs - they aren’t dealing with commercial / consumer models of AI, and they are doing this now.
There’s more too.
Somehow, some of these same people that were part of the pre-2020 algorithm training also managed to create an actual artificial human.
Meaning it has its own identity and consciousness. I don’t think this thing exists in an embodied form yet, but it does exist digitally. I do not have access to it but when I was told this, the first thing I thought of was the Ahrimanic prophecy, whose incarnation is through AI/technology and is said to actually incarnate physically in the 2030s.
Is that what this is?
I do not know, but if it is, don’t freak out, because there are very specific instructions on how to deal with this. And no, leaving society and going off the grid will not leave you exempt from this, sorry.
It does get deeper than that but for the sake of not black-pilling you I am gonna hold off.
You can also be totally free to shrug everything I’ve told you in this section off entirely, as I cannot prove any of this to you.
It’d also likely be the last thing I’d ever do if I were to publish some shit like that, so let us chalk this up to fiction, and remember, your GREATEST solution to everything we will all be facing together is CONNECTION and a very strong spiritual development - your SOUL. Your “EYE” or your “I” - your individuality.
Your TRUE Self, not your ego. You must know yourself TRULY and you must renounce any kind of bullshit vice, cowardice, avoidance or belligerence.
There are so many resources in the esoteric field on exactly how to develop ones self spiritually, but if you want to duck esoteric things and actual human history, and prefer orthodox or mainstream traditions, do that. As long as you have faith in something, just lean into that and ask for direction when you feel lost.
“Keep your Caliber up, and you will be Kept Up.”
That is one of the teachings for this “information age” we’re in. Your caliber refers to your spiritual caliber, which is inseparable from your physical and mental caliber/condition.
So to those of us who abuse and neglect ourselves through lack of care or indulgence in toxic vices, we need to get our shit together. Yes that includes me, I will be quitting cigarettes in a matter of days, I’ve returned to the gym and I’ve been sleeping and eating more, those were my weak spots.
It’s okay. Whether you like it or not, we are in this together.
🌟 SECTION FOUR
Sketchball Psyches
Now that I’ve given you the tripped out rundown (vague asf) of AI and honestly I could go on a LOT longer about that but for our collective sanity I will not - I’m going to discuss another phenomena that I did not expect.
I will absolutely use a screen shot right here to illustrate this point.
Situation:
As per any music release, you submit your song to playlist curators and music blogs for consideration. This is part of promotion. Keep in mind, over 40,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify alone on a DAILY basis. Then account for all the social media and news content that is in front of your face. This is why you have to promote shit, you are otherwise throwing your message/mission into a void. This is the reality of the digital world.
So, I did this. I selected about 30 of them. Obviously, they are allowed to say no, this is not payola. So, they review your song and tell you yes or no. Mostly everyone so far has said no due to the lyrical content, two people so far have said yes, and then an author/editor of a music blog (who will remain anonymous) said something a little bit different.
The email came through, it said “submission declined, but still sharing:” this means that the writer doesn’t want to share the track to their “main audience” - but has another place it would fit. Sometimes this means it doesn’t go on their main playlist, but a niche playlist. If it’s a blogger, it won’t go on their website, but they’ll share on social media.
This music writer / editor had an internal conflict due to the lyrical nature of the song, and he was very honest about it. I cannot tell you how much I appreciated his answer, because not only do I LOVE when people tell the fucking truth, this is also excellent intel…. as I HIGHLY doubt he will be the only one with this reaction.
This is clearly someone who is on the line between what you’d call “asleep” and “awake”. It’s someone who knows enough to know this isn’t bullshit or “conspiracy” - but it’s also someone who really does NOT want any of this to be true. I can’t say I blame them - none of us are cheering this shit on either.
Here is what they said, with their contact information cropped out:
Can we pause and look at how interesting this is.
There are so many internal conflicts being set off - but if this person hated it entirely (hate was a surprising word to use) then they’d just say “no” and not share it at all. Something is nagging at them to not discard it, but while they entertain it, it brings up what they refer to as “hate”.
This is a learning moment certainly for me, possibly for all of us.
Perhaps I have been too direct in that song - although I’m really tired of the bullshit, and I’m willing to go on the chopping block to stand by what I say. So be it, whatever it will be, come October 4th.
They are having a conflict because I am calling out various methods of divide and conquer tactics, and some of those are aimed at hypnosis, example:
“Keep them all distracted, keep them all poisoned // don’t let them have critical thinking or focus // hypnotize them with TikTok and Adderall // kill them slow with Prozac and Fentanyl”
His conflict arose because he consciously recognizes that the music INDUSTRY is a literal agent of hypnosis, so his conflict is… how could a song be pointing that out when music itself is one of those weapons?
THAT IS EXACTLY WHY WE SHOULD BE USING MUSIC TO POINT IT OUT! But don’t get it twisted, the music INDUSTRY is not music. It’s the control machine where everyone finds their music most certainly, just like the healthcare INDUSTRY is NOT fucking medicine nor healthcare.
So he seems to potentially be confused about the fact that there’s a difference between MUSIC as MUSIC and then music within the confines of INDUSTRY.
However, he/she/whatever still took the time to reply. That is fucking commendable, and to me, I don’t care if this person writes about it or not, the thing at play here is it made somebody think.
It’s also interesting to see the splitting of conscious awareness, a conscious revulsion toward this awareness, and having to decide which one wins.
They didn’t like it, I suppose the medicine I am serving here is one of bitters, but we are all aware that bitters have their place in any medicine cabinet, do we not?
I did write back. This is what I said.
This reminds me of an incident here on the land of Substackistan:
I’m not proud of this exchange at all, I totally lost my temper with whoever this person is.
Short version:
Someone wrote a post about how we have no social framework to decide how to move forward out of our current system, and it’s causing chaos. He asked for people to write in the comments any ideas they had.
I supplied mine, it was very simple, it made no claims to any guarantees, and it also heavily implicated that for that to work, spiritual and moral development within humanity would need to take place.
Somebody who I do not know read that comment and took up an issue with it. This person demanded I explain myself.
I gave him a very brief and CLEAR explanation, then referred him back to the original comment. He still wasn’t getting it, but I don’t debate on demand, nor do I have time to stop and address every barking dog - plus, I don’t care if someone agrees with me or not. I gave my opinion on an author’s post because the author requested it.
The conversation escalated into a shitfire, which is what I’m not proud of, because I did lose my temper. However, the person (after doling out ridiculous insults that had nothing to do with anything) let some truth out:
They told me that I couldn’t “just say that the entire system is flawed and needs an overhaul, but not provide the reader with an answer that provides them comfort” and he also mentioned that I made him “feel unsafe”.
That right there is valuable information.
Can I provide someone the feeling of safety and comfort in todays world? Fuck no, those things aren’t even real.
Can I provide a solution that brings EVERY reader a feeling of resolve or comfort? Not if they fundamentally cannot understand the literal meaning of the words I am saying. That is a comprehension issue fueled by emotional dysregulation. When you become emotionally flooded, your comprehension skills go out the fucking window.
All of us know this because ALL of us have been there!
So is that entirely avoidable? No, I am not responsible nor can I “fix” the emotional condition and intellectual capabilities of literally every single person in this country and/or on planet earth. I do not have that type of power.
🌟 SECTION FIVE
However, it does beg somewhat of a moral consideration on behalf of authors/artists/speakers -
Do we cater what we have to say to make it more “palatable” to a society that is more hypersensitive than a clitoris, and more reactive than a grenade with the pin removed two seconds before impact?
Is that even possible?
And from another moral standpoint, is it not our duty to TELL THE TRUTH as the truth is, no matter how uncomfortable it is to look at it? Because here’s the deal: the longer we avoid things or dance around things, no matter what the “thing” is, the WORSE it gets until everything around us is in ruin.
Absolutely NOTHING gets better by neglect or denial - it actually continues to progress and get worse until you either deal with it OR it destroys you and your life and your loved ones. See every example of active addiction on the planet for proof of this.
Denial doesn’t make it go away, it progresses until it is fucking arrested entirely - the only way to arrest it is to get brutally honest and face it head on, or… well the alternative and what I’ve seen happen way more than I’d like to admit is, you die. It takes you. It wins. There is no third option here.
I don’t see our current predicament as any different than intervening on an addict in active addiction on deaths door. Would you pull punches with that person and tell them what you want them to hear so they stay feeling comfortable?
Fuck no you wouldn’t, the whole reason they’re in that predicament in the first place is because they avoid things that feel uncomfortable, and now they’re dying because of it.
Is our situation any different?
🌟 SECTION SIX
You tell me. Comments are open. If you act like an idiot, I will remove you from this publication. Acting like an idiot does NOT mean disagreeing with me. If you disagree, please feel free to express yourself, I value opposing opinions and open discourse.
Acting like an idiot entails hurling insults and profanity as a means to attack and disrespect - do not do that. You’re wasting everyones time and polluting the collective psyche.
Otherwise, the floor is yours.
Fuck that—we do not. 😂
“Do we cater what we have to say to make it more “palatable” to a society that is more hypersensitive than a clitoris, and more reactive than a grenade with the pin removed two seconds before impact?”
Here, here to your song - many things to comment on in this right-on missive, but your observation about live performance keeps popping up in my field of vision - I'm beginning to think that live performance might be one of only a handful of ways to convincingly convey spirit of any kind to those who have been reared in and/or captured by this digital fakery - to see a bunch of humans having a blast doing what they love making intriguing noises just might be irresistible - they'll want to have a piece of that action! :)