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-[//TODO: the bit about "the platform is the algorithm" kind of shows up unexpectedly at the end. Go backward and point it out, more and more.]
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 # platform as place
 
 [discord message - simulate, from Bat] Why do you hate people on tiktok so much? Is it just portrait-orientation?
@@ -21,7 +19,7 @@ I don't know if people still have a feeling of a Home Forum.
 [note] Somehow I doubt they've brought back the eponymous Links, rofl
 I won't bore you with mine, but I'll say that even now "NWS" feels right and "NSFW" feels weird.
 "So what?" you may say. "Cultures emerge, something something diversity etc". 
-Microcosms of culture are all well and good. But that's not what's happening on modern social media. Every interaction with other people is mediated through an algorithm that sorts you into a group of like-minded people, and shields you from dissent. An account on a website is not membership in a community, it's placement within a market segment.
+Microcosms of culture are all well and good. But that's not what's happening on modern social media. Every interaction with other people is mediated through an algorithm (often labeled "AI" for marketing reasons) that sorts you into a group of like-minded people, and shields you from dissent. An account on a website is not membership in a community, it's placement within a market segment.
 
 ### slang is [vertically challenged] for [abbreviated] language
 
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 ### hypothetical - atomic wallet 
 
 I know lots of people just add "reddit" to every google search they run to hopefully get actual people talking to each other - but I think people forget, 
-[//TODO: i swear there's like, n-word audit or something?]
+[https://www.reddit.com/user/nwordcountbot/]
 reddit has a proud history of fun and/or useful bots. 
-[that photo of atomic wallet]
+[https://www.reddit.com/r/atomicwallet/comments/apeyp8/is_atomic_wallet_fully_open_source/]
 The value of getting conversation from reddit is that when someone says something stupid, someone else can tell them they're stupid. 
 Is atomic wallet open source? some braindead marketron says:
 [alt] yes :) it *uses* open source *components*!
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 [quote from grapes of wrath. chapter 5? about the bank. "it's not me, it's the monster". somewhere around 1:22:50] some of them were cold because they found long ago they could not be an owner unless one were cold. and all of them were caught in something larger than themselves. Some of them hated the mathematics that drove them, and some were afraid. But some worshipped the mathematics because it provided a refuge from thought, from feeling. these men would take no responsibility for the company because they were men and slaves. While the banks were machines and masters. Some of the ownermen were a little proud to be slaves, to such cold and powerful masters. "when the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size. "we have to do it. we don't like to do it, but the monster's sick.. something's happened to the monster." "the bank owned the land then. But we stayed. And we got a little bit of what we raised." "we know that. All that. But it's not us, it's the bank. But the bank isn't like a man. [...] That's the monster." [...] "we're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't like a man." "yes. the bank is only *made of* men." "No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”  "the monster owns it." [...] "the monster isn't men. but it can make men do what it wants."
 
-In 1939, the Grapes of Wrath talked about the bank. our monster is The Algorithm. Like a capricious dark god, its wrath is unpredictable and its favor is unreliable. Its only directive: 
+In 1939, the Grapes of Wrath talked about the bank. our monster is The Algorithm. 
+[fade from black on the rotating d13]
+Like a capricious dark god, its wrath is unpredictable and its favor is unreliable.
+[stop rotating, arm extend from within]
+Its only directive: 
+[have the arm pick up the stack overflow logo, drop it in a pyre in front of the golden calf "shareholder" shrine]
 sacrifice for the shareholders.