ETERNAL SEPTEMBER - User contributions [en]

Deep-blue

2025-04-22T21:14:08Z

Aidahosa: /* Deep Blue */

==Deep Blue==
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Rudimentary [[ai|A.I.]] (artificial intelligence) designed by I.B.M. Deep Blue became the first computational system to defeat a reigning world chess champion on May 11, 1997, with its controversial win over Gary Kasparov. Following the match's results, Kasparov accused I.B.M. of maleficence and illegal human manipulation <ref> Strangely the "human manipulation" appears to have been in the
form of mid-game nonsensical interjections into Deep Blue's methodical
strategy (i.e. "mistakes"). These instances of aberration led Kasparov to
adopt preemptively defensive postures sacrificing momentum he had built
earlier in the game. </ref>, demanding a rematch.
The company refused, offering no official retort to Kasparov's accusations and
promptly dismantled the machine. Deep Blue is the most notorious amongst a
long line of chess faux-automatons beginning with The Turk, an 18th Century
invention constructed by Wolfgang von Kempelen to impress Maria Theresa, an
Austrian Empress. When controlled by a skilled operator, the Turk became a
formidable opponent, defeating a number of prominent players, including the
heralded statesmen Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. The shell of the
machine was later purchased and displayed by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, though the
exact nature and functioning of Kempelen's original mechanism remains unknown.

Los Angeles

2025-03-07T01:56:46Z

Aidahosa: /* Los Angeles */

==Los Angeles==

Los Angeles

2025-03-07T01:54:57Z

Aidahosa: Created page with "los ángeles!"

los ángeles!

Advertising

2025-03-04T20:06:27Z

Aidahosa: /* Advertising */

==Advertising==
----
Prevailing media theory in the late 1980's and early 1990's drew parallels between capitalism, [[luciferin | Satanism]], and materialistic conceptualism. As the dawning field of consumer analytics began to emerge, media theorists became increasingly concerned with the Reagan-era practices of corporate-led divisiveness on almost every societal scale - from mental/neurological (micro/subjective) to class/race (macro/objective). Of primary concern were the results of various published studies showing direct coralaries between purchasing frequency, general lack of empathy, depression, and deep woods late night white goat ritual sacrifice. Taboot: the [[baconator |Baconator]].

<kbd>Ωref#[mailer_daemon] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/od-on-vaporwave.html O.D. on VaporTech™].''

Advertising

2025-03-04T20:02:07Z

Aidahosa: /* Advertising */

==Advertising==
----
Prevailing media theory in the late 1980's and early 1990's drew parallels between capitalism, [[luciferin | Satanism]], and materialistic conceptualism. As the dawning field of consumer analytics began to emerge, media theorists became increasingly concerned with the Reagan-era practices of corporate-led divisiveness on almost every societal scale - from mental/neurological (micro/subjective) to class/race (macro/objective). Of primary concern were the results of various published studies showing direct coralaries between purchasing frequency, general lack of empathy, depression, and deep woods late night white goat ritual sacrifice. Taboot: the [[baconator |Baconator]].

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/od-on-vaporwave.html O.D. on VaporTech™].''

The Bogdanov Twins

2025-02-27T00:35:03Z

Aidahosa: /* The Bogdanov Twins AKA The Bogdanoff TwinsΩ */

==The Bogdanov Twins AKA The Bogdanoff Twins[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/you-dont-know-br.html Ω]==
[related: The Bogdanov Affair, Megatrend University]
----
Twin French physicists with the given names Grichka and Igor known largely for their bulbous chins and vision-limiting-ly high cheekbones <ref>They deny ever having cosmetic surgery, instead attributing the lack of wrinkles and ripened facial structure to "topical cryogenics". </ref>. The Bogdanov twins are credited in their home country for stoking considerable public interest in the outer reaches of physics, cosmology, and advanced mathematics. Times X, their extraordinarily popular science program aired weekly on French National Television from 1979 to 1989. Highly accredited, both brothers received doctorates from the University of Burgundy - Igor's in theoretical physics and Grichka's in mathematics. In the early 1990's, various [[error|Usenet]] discussion groups conducted a systematic analysis of the Bogdonav's collective publication of the seminal essay "Topological field theory of the initial singularity of spacetime" in the journal ''Classical and Quantum Gravity'' (CQG). The paper was found to be almost entirely nonsensical, intermingling terminology from string theory and cosmology with generally representational but structurally meaningless equation after equation. The paper was peer reviewed and approved by publication by Roman Jackiw of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - an aging European physicist who stood by his recommendation despite "not being able to parse most of the maths". Ignatios Antoniadis of the École Polytechnique, the paper's other steward, later admitted to reading only the first few paragraphs of the document while on vacation in Seychelles. Smelling blood, the Usenet community continued its crusade, discrediting additional essays including "The KMS state of spacetime at the Planck scale", published in the ''Chinese Journal of Physics'', and the related "KMS space-time at the Planck scale", featured in Nuovo Cimento. Both papers used advanced quantum theory to provide insight into the dawn of the universe - yielding a new model dubbed "neon dawn" after the prominence of said element in the aftermath of the big bang. Collectively, their published work, once highly touted, was found to be on par with the Sokal affair<ref>AKA the Sokal Hoax - refers to the publication of a purposefully nonsensical essay by Alan Sokal entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", published in the academic journal Social Text's spring/summer 1996 "Science Wars" issue. The paper, submitted in an attempt to discredit the widely employed peer review process, proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct - a poorly supported but theoretically convincing argument peppered with leftist-leaning jargon that, despite its admitted falsities, continues to gain traction in the metaphysical and Buddhist-adjacent communities.</ref>, leading to the untimely termination of the twin's television contract, a process of discreditation known commonly as the Bogdanov affair<ref> It is worth noting that the twins were highly successful in litigating attacks on their work and character. Despite the conclusions put forward by the Usenet community, the Bogdanov's ideas were never formally disproven within the legal system - and numerous substantial settlements were awarded in their favor. </ref>. Subsequent to their fall from grace, both brothers accepted positions at Megatrend University in Belgrade, a high cost for-profit institution funded by Slobodan Milošević, who was later tried and found guilty of mass genocide by The Hague. The school's flamboyant and magnetic founder, Mića Jovanović, was later found to have plagiarized his doctoral thesis in its entirety. Following Megatrend's dissolution, the twins relocated to Los Angeles to more deeply explore recent advances in the fields of aerobics and kinesiology.

[[File:Bog.png|500px|center|]]

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/you-dont-know-br.html You Don't Know Blade Runner Like I Know Blade Runner].''</kbd>

Steven-seagal

2025-02-27T00:34:53Z

Aidahosa: /* Steven Seagal AKA Chungdrag DorjeΩ */

==Steven Seagal AKA Chungdrag Dorje[https://eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/segal-in-dreamland.html Ω]==
[April 10, 1952-] [related: BitCoinGate]
----
An American/Serbian/Russian martial arts specialist, actor, producer, screenwriter, musician, spiritual guru, and environmental activist, Steven Seagal is one of the most profitable and prolific screen stars of his generation. Seagal claims to be a 7th-degree blackbelt in Aikido and the only caucasian to open a dojo in Japan. His initial run of films, beginning with
''Above the Law'' (1987) and ending with ''Under Siege'' (1992) experienced great commercial and critical success. Beginning in the mid-1990's, Seagal began releasing an almost endless stream of direct-to-video (D2V) releases of decreasing quality and coherence - films that gradually traded edge-of-your-seat martial arts action for more cerebral, environmentally-based content <ref> Perhaps related to the actor's weight gain beginning in the waning years of the 21st-century. </ref>. His entertainment career was derailed over the course of the next decade as multiple women stepped forward with sexual assault allegations - many stemming from late night "casting sessions" with a silk-robed (or sometimes Kimono'd) Seagal. Although the actor issued a blanket denial of culpability, the resulting "hush" settlement payments decimated his substantial wealth. Concurrently, a number of Seagal's stuntmen made public accusations of abuse and unprofessionalism, claiming the actor purposefully struck them while filming in retaliation for questioning his skills and training. The situation culminated in an altercation between Seagal and his stunt double Gene LeBell on the set of the 1991 film ''Out for Justice''. After claiming that aikido training rendered him immune to choke holds, LeBell placed his arms around Seagal's neck and choked him into unconsciousness, at which point Seagal reportedly soiled himself. In the period following, Seagal conducted a notorious
''Black Belt Magazine'' interview in which he disparaged Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris and made a number of hyperbolical boasts, including the assertion that he would "fight to the death" anyone questioning his abilities. In response, the martial artist/stuntman Robert Alan Wall formed his "dirty dozen", a group of established martial artists eager to battle Seagal. Wall later dismantled the group, alluding to threats he had received from what appeared to be the organized crime community.

Outside of acting and martial arts Seagal, has launched many business initiatives, including an energy drink line entitled "Steven Seagal's Lighting Bolt" and an aftershave called "Scent of Action". He was an early adopter of the controversial pseudo-currency [[bitcoin|BitCoin]]. Seagal was found guilty by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for not disclosing payments made to him by Bitcoiin2Gen (B2G) in exchange for "wholeheartedly" touting the value of the ICO via bulletin board posts (BBS) and press releases. The incident became known as BitCoinGate and resulted in Seagal receiving a $157,000 fine and a lifetime ban on promoting any type of digital currency.

Seagal claims the foundation of his martial arts training to be a deep spiritual practice. A devout [[dharma|Buddhist]], the actor has deep ties in the Nyingma community. Lama Penor Rinpoche, a kadam from the Palyul monastery, announced in 1997 that Seagal was in fact the reincarnation of Chungdrag Dorje, a 17th-century terton (treasure revealer AKA discoverer of hidden texts) descended from the most ancient branch of Tibetan Buddhism. In addition to fathering seven children by four women, Seagal is the guardian of Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo, the child of the 10th Panchen Lama of Tibet. Throughout Yabshi's time studying and traveling in the United States, Seagal served as her official bodyguard and minder.

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/segal-in-dreamland.html Seagal in Dreamland].''</kbd>

Destro

2025-02-27T00:34:45Z

Aidahosa: /* DestroΩ */

==Destro[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/house-of-destro.html Ω]==
[related: [[cold-slither|Cold Slither]], [[the-baroness|The Baroness]], Synthnoids]
----
James McCullen Destro XXIV, or, simply, Destro, is a primary antagonist in the
[[gi-joe|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]
franchise. A native of Callander, Scotland, Destro hails from over a millenia of fiercely independent weapons dealers. He is Laird of the Castle Destro in the Scottish Highlands <ref> A castle housing in its dungeon [[error|a large hot pink cthonic squid]]. Destro's fortress was later unwittingly repossessed by Lady Jaye via the Baroness (disguised as the temptress Coverta Fatale) in retaliation for flirting with a young blonde-haired and spritely Cobra cadet. See: "Skeletons in the Closet", ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'', Season 1, Episode 53. </ref>, leader of the Iron Grenadiers, and founder of M.A.R.S. Industries, a weapons manufacturing firm. During the War of the Three Kingdoms, a descendant of Destro's was convicted of providing weapons and munitions to both sides of the conflict and sentenced to life in a highly constricting metal mask known colloquially as a face quod. Prideful to a fault, Destro's family chose to continue donning the mask as a symbol of independence and strength, thus leading to the form fitting beryllium facade that came to define Destro's visage <ref> It is worth noting that Destro's mask is not simply cosmetic or symbolic. Rather, it is a medically necessary device to treat facial hemiatrophy - an extremely rare disorder causing facial tissue necrosis when exposed to the elements. Destro is believed to have developed facial hemiatrophy from having worn a metal mask exclusively from the age of eleven. </ref>. Weapon systems developed by Destro for Cobra include [[cold-slither|Cold Slither]], a mind-controlling [[hair-metal|hair metal]] band featuring the Dreadnoks <ref> A group of chiseled Australian-sounding vandals and thieves that reportedly survive almost entirely on chocolate donuts and grape soda. </ref>, and synthnoids, a breed of borderline-sentient nano-technologically-based shapeshifters (similar to the ''[[terminator|Terminator]]'' franchise's [[terminator|SkyNet]] T-1000) that eventually come to endanger the earth.

Destro is often portrayed as a ruthless and calculating businessman, driven by a desire for wealth and power. Yet beneath his cold exterior lies a complex and nuanced individual, whose motivations and actions are steeped in the rich mythology of his family's history and their centuries-old feud with the Scottish clan, [REDACTED]. Despite his nefarious intentions and thirst for chaos, Destro often exhibits a strong, albeit misguided, sense of honor and loyalty to his fellow arms dealers, as well as a deep and complex affection for [[the-baroness|The Baroness]], a fellow member of Cobra. [[error|Their relationship]], which by most accounts remains unconsummated, is characterized by relentless flirtation, bizarre chivalry, and, at times, maniacal jealousy.

<gallery mode="packed" heights=270 style="text-align:left">
File:destro.png|500px|center|
File:baroness-and-destro.jpg|500px|center|
</gallery>

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/house-of-destro.html House of Destro].''</kbd>

Noid

2025-02-27T00:34:36Z

Aidahosa: /* The NoidΩ */

==The Noid[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/tikrit-imagined.html Ω]==
[related: Domino's Pizza]
----
Voiced by puppeteer Pons Maar <ref> The cultural traction gained by The Noid led to Pons Maar's casting as Saurod in ''[[he-man|Masters of the Universe]]'' despite his extensive and exclusive history in ceramics and performance art. </ref>, the Noid was a fictional character designed to personify and thus dramatize Domino's Pizza's "Delivery in 30 Minutes or Less" advertising initiative. Clad in a tight red rubber body suit extending over his long rabbit-esque ears, the Noid persistently yet ineffectively attempted to prevent the prompt delivery of pizza due to his stated abhorrence "of all things fresh". The Noid's popularity culminated in the development of ''Yo! Noid'', a video game developed by the Japanese software [[konami|Capcom]] for the [[nes|NES]].

However, release of the game was put on indefinite hold after a man named Kenneth Lamar Noid entered a Domino's Pizza in Chamblee, Georgia on January 30, 1989 armed with a .357 Magnum handgun under delusion that Domino's owner Tom Monaghan was personally targeting him with the "Avoid the Noid" advertising campaign. Mr. Noid held two Domino's employees hostage for almost five hours, demanding a copy of ''The Widow's Son'' <ref> A novel largely focused on the interrelationship between  [[error|Freemasonry]] and the  [[error|Bavarian Illuminati]]. </ref> from ''The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles'' by  [[error|Robert Anton Wilson]] as penance for his perceived mistreatment. However, Mr. Noid soon grew hungry and demanded two freshly made speciality pizzas, the eating of which so preoccupied him that his hostages easily escaped. Following the ordeal Domino's discontinued use of the Noid in all North American advertising campaigns <ref> A cessation unrelated to Mr. Noid's behavior according to official Domino's communications. </ref>. However, the Noid's popularity has surged in recent years throughout the Middle East due to Domino's flagship locations in Baghdad <ref> Economists theorize that the active conflict present through the Baghdad region lent extra vitality and drama to the "30 Minutes or Less" pledge, pointing to the Domino's Baghdad Facebook profile which chronicles
recent bombings and sectarian violence affecting the location and its
delivery staff, sometimes in graphic detail. </ref> and Tehran <ref> The opening of an official Domino's location in Iran marked the
first official corporate expansion of a U.S.-based fast food franchise in
the country due to a longstanding trade embargo. Prior to the lifting of the
embargo by the U.S. government, Iran became well known for bootleg versions
of American chains including Mash Donalds, Subways, and Pizza Hats - all
private, single-owner locations shielded from IPR-based prosecution by trade
restrictions. </ref>.

[[File:noid.jpg|500px|center|]]

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/tikrit-imagined.html Tikrit, Imagined].''</kbd>

Blade-runner

2025-02-27T00:34:27Z

Aidahosa: /* Blade RunnerΩ */

==''Blade Runner[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/you-dont-know-br.html Ω]''==
[related: Harrison Ford, Ridley Scott, Tyrell Corporation, Sean Young]
----
Dystopian science fiction film released in 1982 and set in  Los Angeles. The production and release of ''Blade Runner'' was beset with complications and conflict mostly surrounding the unconventional methods of Ridley Scott <ref> Scott was fired from ''Blade Runner'' by the film's investors midway through production. He was however allowed to remain in situ after no suitable replacement emerged, especially considering the complexity of the set design and the incomplete status of the screenplay's ending. Scott's ceremonial firing did result in the loss of "final cut" privileges leading to numerous versions of the film-- according to Scott, this heavily contributed to the film's dismal initial opening. </ref> including his acrimonious relationship with lead actor Harrison Ford. Cast as Rick Deckard, an assassin hired to hunt and "retire" a group escaped slave-class bio-engineered humanoids known as replicants, Ford repeatedly insisted on script changes including removal of the film's voiceover resulting in numerous physical altercations with the director. ''Blade Runner'''s portrayal of the Tyrell Corporation as a "corporate behemoth intent on the reckless development of artificial intelligence for profit and power" predates the comparable
[[terminator|SkyNet]] of the [[terminator|''Terminator'']] series and the efforts of
[[ma-bell|Ma Bell]]. ''Blade Runner'' marked the career apex for the wild-haired starlet Sean Young, cast as Rachael Tyrell, the film's unwitting android ingenue. An extreme "method actress", Young was unable to differentiate her identity from Rachael's <ref> In schizophrenic terms, an [[alters|alter]] melt. </ref> in the wake of the film's success, conducting press junket interviews "in character". She spent the mid-late 1980's struggling with alcohol and [[narcotics|narcotic]] addiction, and was arrested in 1989 for leaving a violently disfigured and bloody doll on the doorstep of actor James Woods. She was later placed under citizen's arrest at the 69th Academy Awards for entering without a ticket (despite having commissioned a designer gown) and slapping a security guard across the face.

The screenplay for ''Blade Runner'' was adapted from ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' by the pioneering sci-fi writer and theologian
[[error|Philip K. Dick]] prior to his 2-3-74 "pink beam" epiphany. Upon achieving "cult status" in the mid-1990's however, Scott was finally allowed to edit the film's footage to his liking. The result, ''Blade Runner: The Final Cut'', stands as the most critically and financially successful version of the film.

[[File:blade-runner.png|500px|center|]]

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/you-dont-know-br.html You Don't Know Blade Runner Like I Know Blade Runner].''</kbd>

Code-x-digital

2025-02-27T00:34:11Z

Aidahosa: /* Code-X DigitalΩ */

==Code-X Digital[https://eternal-september.net/codex-digital/ Ω]'''==
----
Early web logging (or blogging) platform launched by [[Phantom Access Technologies|Phantom Access Technologies]], parent company of [[mindvox|MindVox]], in 1992. The platform enabled users to upload up to 30 individual blog entries, which were then auto-cataloged into a left panel "index pane" on the left side of the site. Users were given access to both an on-platform ASCII generator to create banner titles for their blogs and an image-ditherer - software which converted complex, scanned photos into 2-4 color dithered bit images. Users were given two template color choices - a primary fill color and a line color. Later versions of the platform also allowed up to 2-3 additional colors in individual blog entries and even rudimentary image posting. Typical of the era, auto-scrolling was not enabled.

Unlike the BBS communication systems contemporary to the time, Code-X Digital was designed specifically for longform, one-way communication. The platform's designers (reportedly including [[lord-digital|Lord Digital]]) were reportedly inspired by the ancient tradition of creating compendiums of related knowledge, or [[codex|codices]] ([[codex]] in singular) in singular). Some users (of which there were admittedly rather few) displayed an awareness of this neogolism, weaving references to various codices into their entries (ex. [[codex|Codex Gigas]], [[codex|Berlin Codex]], the [[voynich-manuscript|Voynich Manuscript]]). The overall tone of content on the Code-X Digital platform skewed towards the obscure, the poetic, and the conspiratorial <ref> Though unsupported by any really metrics, the platform was thought to be used mainly by single (often but not exclusively male) individuals who were active users and merchants of cannabis and narcotics, in part due to do easy post modifications allowing for "insider-oriented" cryptographical barriers to entry. </ref>. Despite the platform's lack of direct communication functionality, Code-X Digital's small pool of active users began, over time, to reference each other's postings in subtle ways <ref> As an example, "X" became a stand-in term for a former romantic partner or otherwise unobtainable object of desire. </ref>. The platform fell into gradual disuse in the late 1990's, paralleling both the various legal and personal problems suffered by MindVox's founders and the (relative) popularity of PAT's subsequent platform release, [[phantom-archives|Phantom Archives]]. However, smatterings of poetic hypertext from Code-X Digital's users exerted an influence on a number of artists outside of the platform, including the viciously reclusive experimental composer and hypertext creator [https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/silver-walls.html mailer-daemon].

<kbd>Ωref#<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[error|Code-X Digital]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/codex-digital/ Codex Digital].''</kbd>

The-waste-land

2025-02-27T00:34:01Z

Aidahosa: /* The Waste Land AKA La Terre des Dechets */

==''The Waste Land'' AKA ''La Terre des Dechets''==
[related: T.S. Eliot, Boston Brahmin]
----
Epic poem published in 1922 by Boston Brahmin <ref> Term for Boston's W.A.S.P. (White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant) [disambiguation: [[hair-metal|Hair Metal]]] upper class coined by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in 1860. The term "Brahmin" is taken from the Hindu caste system, meaning ''priestly''. Oddly, the Boston Brahmins supported the Confederacy in the American Civil War of 1861. </ref> Thomas Stearns Eliot OM <ref> Eliot renounced his American citizenship and permanently emigrated to England in 1927 at the age of 39, an act for which he was awarded the Order of Merit by the British government. </ref>. T.S. Eliot, as he was professionally known, composed the poem in 1922 to fulfill a $150 commission from the transcendentalist publication ''The Dial'' while on leave of absence from his job as a teller at Lloyd's Bank <ref> The documented reason for Eliot's leave was "nervous breakdown". Eliot was rumored to have feigned increasingly erratic behavior in the weeks leading up to his request. </ref>. With its sudden changes of tense, perspective, and time period, ''The Waste Land'' was thought to be impenetrable upon its release. The density of its reference points alone was completely unprecedented. Ideas from [[dharma|Buddhism]], [[error|Greek Mythology]], the Hindu [[error|Upanishads]], the poems of [[baudelaire|Charles Baudelaire]], the [[apocrypha]] of [[error|Saint Augustine of Hippo]], and, prominently, the [[error|Tarot of Marseilles]], commingle throughout the poem in a stew of charded narratives and layered imagery. Through the use of digitized lexicography, the poem is now commonly thought of as a metaphorical
[[codex]] for Eliot's tumultuous marriage <ref> Haigh-Wood was committed to an asylum against her will from 1933 to 1947, the year of her passing - a span of time in which her husband never visited. </ref> to Vivienne Haigh-Wood. A vivacious and passionate woman, Haigh-Wood was often represented as a [[incubus|succubus]] or nymph in Eliot's work, lending credence to the rumors that he was a closeted homosexual. Although ''The Waste Land'' is now regarded in most academic circles as canon, the poem was referenced in the ''[[gravitys-rainbow|Gravity's Rainbow]]'' Pulitzer hearings as an example of nonsensical pseudo-literature.

<kbd>Ωref#[Eliot, T.S.] :: ''The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1, 1898-1922.'' 1988. ''"Vivienne ruined him as a man, but she made him as a poet."''</kbd>

Solaris

2025-02-27T00:33:53Z

Aidahosa: /* Solaris */

==''Solaris''==
[Russian: Солярис] [related: Panpsychism, DASST]
----
Science fiction film by [[andrei-tarkovsky|Andrei Tarkovsky]] released in 1972 dealing rooted in panpsychism <ref> The belief that all matter/energy contains grains of consciousness and experiences some form of qualia. Said consciousness can take on a myriad of different forms in accordance with different neurological AKA processing systems. </ref> as evidenced by the eponymous central character, a sentient ocean planet capable of rendering the private desires of astronauts as material hallucinations via the manipulation of neutrino systems. A crew in orbit above the planet is plagued by these spectral visages. The film's central protagonist, a psychologist named Kris Kelvin, is driven mad by the repeated visitations of his ex-lover Hari. Late in the film, the replica drinks liquid oxygen, mirroring Hari's death by suicide ten years preceding - only to be painfully resurrected by the planet, its intentions unknown.

In metaphysical circles, ''Solaris'' is seen to support the Discrete Alien Semanical System Theory ([[solaris|DASST]]) stating that the composition and functionality of any "alien" organism would be sufficiently foreign and completely isolated from our own systems of interaction. Without any direct particle entanglement or similar perceptual system any corresponding semantical systems between entities would essentially be invisible and completely inaccessible, thus the development of conduits of communication with alternate life forms is essentially impossible. The DASST is founded upon the
[[dharma|Buddhist]]/[[error|quantum]]
principle of all-pervasiveness of mind (i.e. the mind as the locus point of
reality), emergent phenomena/causality, and the inherent "emptiness" of all
things. On this basis, it stands to reason that alien life systems may be
plentiful (perhaps infinitely plentiful) throughout the universe, even within
our own solar system, yet completely undetectable because their atomic
configuration either appears to us random [Newtonian Interpretation] or their
collective wave function lacks any entanglement with ours [Quantum
Interpretation]. Furthermore, it could be then extrapolated that "death" is
simply the transition to another discrete semantical system/wave function via
the exiting of corporeal form and that sentient human life continues in what
amounts to be a parallel yet inaccessible universe (heaven/hell).

''"We don't need other worlds, we need only mirrors."''

[[File:solaris-ocean.png]]

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''My Void, My Famine: Exploring the Extraterrestrial Implications of Discrete Alien Semantical System Theory.''
</kbd>

Viewtron

2025-02-27T00:33:41Z

Aidahosa: /* Viewtron */

==Viewtron==
[related: [[error|AT&T]] Sceptre]
----
[[knight-ridder|Knight Ridder]]'s online videotex system
modeled after the British Post Office's Prestel and deployed exclusively on
the AT&T Sceptre <ref> The Sceptre used a standard television set for display and included an infrared wireless keyboard and integrated 1200/75 baud 7-bit
modem. Required for the proper display of NAPLPS geometry-specified pages,
the Sceptre was initially offered to residents of Coral Gables at a discount
of $600, with plans for a wide release at $900 (it was reported that each
unit cost over $1200 to manufacture not including shipping). Upon Sceptre's
discontinuation in 1986 it was estimated AT&T had lost over $80 million
dollars on the venture. </ref> graphic terminal. Viewtron developed strategic
brand partnerships with the ''Miami Herald'', JC Penny, and others. From
the outset, the project was designed to appeal specifically to the tech-phobic
consumers, at times mailing written directions to its users or notifying
customers of new applications via automated phone messages AKA RoboCalls. The
service was later named by PC Magazine as the biggest project failure of
all-time in the field of Information Technology, despite it's phone-based
customer service receiving a conglomerated 99.9% satisfaction rating. The
Viewtron service was initially launched via installation in 125 homes located
throughout the upscale neighborhood of [[coral-gables|Coral Gables]], Florida in 1980, an initiative dubbed "Bowsprit" by the company. Despite the rapid growth of the service in the following years it was determined by Knight Ridder that the vast majority of subscribers used the service for various kinds of secure "[https://eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/pink-twilight.html pink twilight]", perhaps paralleling the end-use of [[videotex|Minitel]]. Throughout Knight Ridder's
operation of Viewtron it maintained an almost authoritarian resistance to the
development of any kind of interactive features, fearing they would lead to "a
dystopia without newspapers, where [truth is relative and information is
generated primarily by the user and exchanged rapidly and without expert
oversight]".

[[File:videotex.mp4|500px|center|]]

<kbd>Ωref#<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[error|Hyperbolic Time Chamber]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/pink-twilight.html Pink Twilight].''</kbd>

Circuit-city

2025-02-27T00:33:30Z

Aidahosa: /* Circuit CityΩ */

==Circuit City[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/rammellzee.html Ω]==
[related: Horizon Gaff]'''
----
Founded by onetime barber Samuel Wurtzel in Richmond Virginia, Circuit City was a once highly successful chain of electronics stores. Launched in 1949 under the moniker Dixie Hi-Fi, the company initially focused on the rare wires and ornate circuitry needed to conduct at-home repair on new television and radio models. Throughout the late 1970's and 1980's, Circuit City was a direct competitor of
[[radioshack|RadioShack]], often purposefully targeting the same markets. Circuit City's shift towards higher priced electronics and gaming platforms like the [[Atari|Atari]] Lynx and the [[nes|Nintendo Entertainment System]]
brought great success and contributed directly to RadioShack's insolvency. As of 1988, Circuit City was the second largest retailer in the United States behind Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Throughout the 1990's, Circuit City company executives made a series of poor decisions, including: aggressively prosecutive teenage shoplifters <ref> Later awkwardly attempting to court them with the slang-spewing mascot "Tech-Tron", for which the company was later issued a cease and desist related to ''[[tron|Tron]]'', the 1982 science fiction film starring [[the-iceman-cometh|Jeff Bridges]]. </ref>, signing an exclusive deal with the already teetering [[Sega|Sega]], forgoing digital sales in favor of increased focus on mail orders, and shifting store layouts to a confusingly named and poorly executed "Horizon" model. Featuring an unexplained peripheral racetrack and centralized, difficult-to-access entrance, "Horizon Gaff" later became industry shorthand for an out-of-touch whacky gaff resulting from boardroom panic. By the close of the decade, most Circuit City stores were badly out of date and in poor locations. Ironically, Circuit City shifted briefly towards the niche electronics and do-it-yourself gadgetry endemic to RadioShack before finally succumbing to liquidation.

<gallery mode="packed" heights=300 style="text-align:left">
File:circuit-city1.jpg|500px|center|
File:circuit-city2.jpg|500px|center|
</gallery>

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/rammellzee.html RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ & K-Rob in Circuit City Parking Lot].''</kbd>

Ornithomancy

2025-02-27T00:33:18Z

Aidahosa: /* Ornithomancy AKA Augury */

==Ornithomancy AKA Augury==
[related: Swans/Cygnets, Crows, Magpie, Thrush]
----
The study and shamanic reading of bird behaviors and flock patterns. Throughout Greek and Roman mythology, birds travel freely between the world of the living and the dead, making them ideal arbiters of the Threshold. As the only dinosaurs still in existence, birds have the distinction of surviving numerous mass extinctions and many species have, over time, developed extremely sophisticated modes of communication and culture, i.e., they are the only animals other than humans to create art [see: [[bowerbirds|Bowerbirds]]]. Although the conglomerate catalog of recognized ornithological omens is prohibitively vast, common representations include the following:

''white birds'': the non-conceptual land beyond space and time, fundamentally unrealizable sexual desire, sex (more generally)

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''thrush'': the speaking of unequivocal truth, the spirit of
[[hades|Hades]] on earth

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''magpie'': fruitless intelligence in the form of compulsive hoarding,
[[jon-and-kate|TLC]] and Lifetime Network afternoon programming blocks

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''bowerbirds'': masturbation, overtly navel-gazey art making, see
[[bowerbirds|Bowerbirds]].

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''cygnet (swan)'': spirituality, beauty, and (somewhat cloying) innocence. The sound of a cygnet "shout" call aka "warning call" without visually apparent source marks the imminent arrival of death either literally or symbolically.

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''flamingoes'': passive observation as in Greek chorus. Also, the vapidity of physical beauty. Also, [[thomas-kinkade|Thomas Kinkade]].

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''crows (black as night)'': change, changelings, the poison of mechanically generated electricity, the impending onset of various forms of [[imago|imago]], both literal and metaphoric.

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''bird inside'': instant death

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''birds landing on humans'': the weight of fundamentally unsolvable mysteries and intoxicating nostalgia (often sexual in nature) on the psyche

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''birds speaking (whether audible or in apparition)'': [redacted]

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''millions of black birds blocking out the entire sky'': varying forms of demonic activity intent on the separation of sentient life from the true nature of reality AKA the [[dharma|Emptiness]], ex. the pursuit of sentient
[[ai|A.I.]], [[skinemax|Skinemax]], etc.

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[[error|Birds of Orient]].''</kbd>

Ramparts-magazine

2025-02-27T00:33:08Z

Aidahosa: /* Ramparts Magazine */

==''Ramparts'' Magazine==
[1962-1975]
----
Preeminent Catholic magazine of the New Left, ''Ramparts'' was notable
for its graphic sophistication and hard hitting (sometimes controversial)
reporting. Launched in [[error|Silicon Valley]], ''Ramparts'' was an early opponent of the Vietnam War <ref> A photo series commonly credited as leading various leaders in the Black Power Movement to speak out extensively against the war. </ref> and published graphic photos of South Asian children killed and maimed in the conflict <ref> As exemplified by the December 1967 cover featured the burning of clearly marked draft cards by the acting editors. </ref>.

Throughout its tenure, the magazine raised a de facto war on the surveillance
community, publishing a series of exposés on links between the [[error|CIA]
and the National Student Association (NSA), Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and the Asia Foundation. ''Ramparts'' also received acclaim for featuring the
extended diaries of both Che Guevara and 
[[error|Eldridge Cleaver]] <ref> Later published externally as ''Soul on [[william-gibson|ICE]]'', Cleaver's writing dates from his time in prison resulting from the [[error|FBI]]'s covert and illegal [[error|COINTELPRO] initiative. </ref>. ''Ramparts'' engaged in intentional obfuscation of its finances - it was widely speculated to operate at a significant loss owing to its glossy production and extensive reporting costs. In the late 1960's, the CIA launched an investigation of the magazine, citing both suspicious financial activity and reported (but later debunked) Soviet ties <ref> Marking the CIA's first investigation into a domestic
publication - a clear violation of the National Security Act of 1947. </ref>. In 1972 ''Ramparts'' was sued by  [[ma-bell|Ma Bell]]
after publishing schematics for construction of a "[[cybernetics|black box]]" enabling free long distance calls, resulting in the magazine's bankruptcy.

<kbd>Ωref#[Cleaver, Eldridge] :: ''Soul on ICE.''</kbd>

Chernobyl

2025-02-27T00:32:56Z

Aidahosa: /* Chernobyl AKA The Chernobyl Zone of AlienationΩ */

==Chernobyl AKA The Chernobyl Zone of Alienation[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/love-theme-from-stalker.html Ω]==
----
A catastrophic nuclear accident at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near the city of Pripyat in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The event, which occurred on April 26, 1986, resulted in the release of over 400 times the radiation of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs combined. A veritable bevy of errors ultimately led to the disaster, including a flawed reactor design, operator errors <ref> An independent study by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimated that, due to the plant's isolation, the mundane nature of the work, and the unregulated availability of cheap vodka, around 30-40% of Chernobyl's staff was likely intoxicated at the time of the incident. </ref>, and startingly inadequate safety protocols. The resultant explosion and subsequent fire at the reactor released substantial amounts of Polonium-210 into the atmosphere and clouded skies throughout central eastern Europe for almost 180 days. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, approximately 116,000 residents in the vicinity of the power plant were evacuated. The total number of deaths attributed to the disaster is estimated to be around 7,000, with thousands more suffering from various illnesses and deformities related to radiation exposure. Immediately following the initial explosion, the Soviet government, in an effort to contain the radioactive materials, enthusiastically but ineptly constructed a massive concrete "sarcophagus" around the damaged reactor. While mildly effective in containing radioactive materials upon its hasty completion, the sarcophagus began to deteriorate mere weeks after its employment, leading to the substantial broadening of the Chernobyl Zone of Exclusion <ref> The purported setting for [[andrei-tarkovsky|Tartovsky]]'s masterpiece ''[[stalker|Stalker]]'', despite the fact that the film was shot in 1979. </ref> and mandating the evacuation of an additional 220,000 residents. Scientists estimate the vacated area will be safe for human re-habitation in the year 22,000 AD.

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/love-theme-from-stalker.html "Love Theme" from Stalker].''</kbd>

Wintermute

2025-02-27T00:32:47Z

Aidahosa: /* wintermuteΩ */

=='' wintermute''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/ghost-hieroglyphs.html Ω]==
[1986]
----
Despite the abstract setting and obscure vocabulary of
[[william-gibson|William Gibson]]'s ''Neuromancer'', the novel's cult success spawned a handful of attempts at dramatization. All failed... mostly spectacularly ''wintermute'', a spin-off television series launched in 1986 set entirely in an exorbitantly costly and brutally indecipherable analog rendition of cyberspace.

Although the show managed to distill the novel's somewhat convoluted plot into a slightly more conventional tragic adventure story, it was marred by a lack of conventional action and forward momentum. ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/ghost-hieroglyphs.html Ghost Hieroglyphs]'', the series' pilot episode, contains multiple extended sequences of an unintentionally glitchy digital ocean, the longest of which spans over 1 minute and 23 seconds. Creator [[steven-bochco|Steven Bochco]] later disavowed participation in the development of ''wintermute'' after Ohio Valley test viewings resulted in aggressively negative audience reactions including two separate [possibly unrelated/bogus] episodes of induced seizure <ref> In the wake of the infamous "[[pokemon|Pokémon Incident]]", it was posited that ''wintermute'''s extended sequences of flashing block color squares could in fact be to blame. </ref>. The series was subsequently never aired. Despite the profound fiscal and dramatic failure of ''wintermute'', the project helped solidify creator Steven Bochco's reputation as a visionary in the field of experimental entertainment television. Unusual for a network program, the progressive rock group Octagon of Dex <ref> A name taken from Gibson's slang for [[narcotics]] in pill form in ''Neuromancer''. </ref> was hired to score the entirety of the series, including the show's now iconic opening credit sequence <ref> Also titled ''Octagon of Dex''. </ref>. Following the untimely cancellation of ''wintermute'', the group released material composed for the show as part of its debut (and only) commercially released album <ref> Also titled ''Octagon of Dex''. </ref>.

: [[File:Wintermute.mp4|500px|align=center]]

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/ghost-hieroglyphs.html Ghost Hieroglyphs].''</kbd>

NeXT BlackBox3

2025-02-27T00:32:37Z

Aidahosa: /* NeXT BlackBox3 */

==NeXT BlackBox3==
[related: NeXT, NeXT Computer, Inc., NeXTcube]
----
Short-lived home entertainment system developed and released by NeXT Computer, Inc. in 1990. The system was notable for its conspicuous lack of playable titles<ref>Unsubstantiated rumours persist that Hideo Kojima was originally contracted to develop a branded and exclusive game for the system entitled Matrix Racer, with Kojima focusing the BlackBox3's formidable computing powers almost exclusively on elaborately varied NPC walking gaits and facial expressions.</ref>and its ingenious yet highly impractical three-screen display requiring specific placement of three identical televisions. The BlackBox3's main gameplay activities were limited to the center screen. The left/right screens were most often dedicated to weapons caches, health meters and other player status information, and cumbersome and poorly rendered [[parallax]] displays of "sideview" content - i.e. passing road signs, cacti, and expanses of sky, grass, or ocean. NeXT's BlackBox3 was developed concurrently with its flagship workstation computer the NeXTcube, a system designed to harness the power of Motorola's room-sized 68882 floating-point coprocessor into a practical and portable size. The NeXTcube was introduced to the general public and industry alike in a ticketed power-point styled KeyNote performance at the Louis M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California. Despite its unprecedented computational power and sleek, modern styling, the NeXTcube failed to gain any significant market share due to its $16,700 price tag and egregious density <ref>Remarkably heavy, the NeXTcube's density approaches that of various porous rock and malleable metal, weighing almost 75 lbs at only 1 cubic foot of volume. </ref>.

[[File:Nextcube1.png|500px|center]]
Original NeXTcube computer

[[File:Nextcube2.png|500px|center]]
NeXTcube BlackBoxxx

<kbd>Ωref#<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[MindVox]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> :: ''[[Konami Dream]].''</kbd>

Linguistics

2025-02-27T00:32:29Z

Aidahosa: /* Linguistics */

==Linguistics==
----
The study of emergent semantical systems between human sub-groups, often seen as arising from a figurative or literal "[[error|fall from grace]]" or "extradition from paradise" (the sound of [[error|bells]]). The need for complex, verbalized language can be said to exist in absence of or in compensation for a lost sense of "knowingness" aka direct experiential access to base reality or the
[[dharma|Emptiness]]. Semantical systems are dimensional in that they physically rewire the brain and give rise to different uses of our perceptual system (i.e. the common ability of indigenous un- or recently contacted tribes to visualize their surroundings from above). Thus language is essentially an organizational device for raw, boundlessly free flowing and seamlessly interrelated data, a "reduction and subsequent extrapolation" of essentially meaningless non-physical interactions into a coherent yet artificial system of navigation. In this light, mental delusions (i.e. [[schizophrenia]]) are rooted not in the physical brain but in malformed semanical circuitry, more specifically the tendency to apply materialistic properties to mental constructs resulting from a highly limited perceptual system - a phenomenon explored at length in the work of [[microsoft|Donald Hoffman]]. Such circuitry is only developed and made "real" through its
[[cybernetics|cybernetic]] interaction with other systems i.e. people, thus commonly diagnosed diseases of delusion can be seen simply as severe divergences from normative and shared language systems and NOT simply as objective mental illness. The core fluidity and flexibility present in the semantical systems of conscious agents is also present in the cybernetic learning systems of digital
[[ai|artificial intelligence]]
[see: [[knight-rider|Knight Rider]]], a commonality often cited by supporters of
[[simulation-theory|simulation theory]].

<kbd>Ωref#[Hoffman, Donald D.] :: ''The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hides the Truth from Our Eyes.''</kbd>

Joybubbles

2025-02-27T00:32:21Z

Aidahosa: /* JoybubblesΩ */

==Joybubbles[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/the-masters-of-deception.html Ω]==
[May 25, 1949 - ] [related: Church of the Eternal Childhood]
----
Born Josef Carl "Carmichael" Engressia in 1949, Joybubbles was the father of phone
[[phreaking]] and an ordained minister in the Church of Eternal Childhood <ref> A non-profit church of which he was the founder and soul member.
The CEC was active on the community engagement front, conducting numerous
phone campaigns with terminally ill and at risk children and launching a
series of "We Won't Grow Up" online discussion groups for traumatized
adults. </ref>. He was born blind and boasted an IQ of over 172. Joybubbles became nominally famous at the age of 7 after discovering and exploiting the frequency of AT&T's "[[phreaking|trigger zone]]", establishing him as the world's first phreaker. As a young adult, Joybubbles successfully monetized his formidable phreaking technique via the sale and dissemination of hand printed long distance calling cards, leading to a period of surveillance and prosecution by the
[[error|F.B.I.]] at the behest of [[ma-bell|Ma Bell]]. As an adult, Joybubbles subsisted off social security and payments for his role as test subject in experimental medical trials. Citing numerous instances of child sexual abuse, Joybubbles officially and permanently reverted to the age of 5 in May 1988, remaining there until his death. In his will it was stipulated that he continue to be listed, in perpetuity <ref> Or until which time [[ma-bell|Ma Bell]] has been designated as a criminal organization by an established form of government. </ref>, as "Joybubbles, I Am" in any Ma Bell owned and operated telephone directory.

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File:joybubbles.jpg|500px|center|
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</gallery>

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/the-masters-of-deception.html The Masters of Deception].''</kbd>

Steven-bochco

2025-02-27T00:32:13Z

Aidahosa: /* Steven BochcoΩ */

==Steven Bochco[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/beautiful-dreamer.html Ω]==
[Dec. 16, 1943 - Apr. 1, 2018, BFA Carnegie Mellon University, 1966]
----
Writer/producer of semi-impermanent and at times abstract sci-fi, legal and
law enforcement-based television dramas through the 1980's and early 1990's
including ''Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue'', and the never-aired
hyper-realistic Hawaiian-based series ''[[byrds-of-paradise|Byrds of Paradise]]''. Widely credited for the introduction of extended story arcs into weekly primetime dramas <ref> ''[[dallas|Dallas]]'' is seen as an early precursor to this approach. </ref>, Bochco is commonly known as the father of
experimental network television. As a showrunner, Bochco was notorious for
extremely risky and sometimes ill-advised production choices, resulting in the
almost immediate cancellation of multiple series: titles including the
cyberspace-based ''Neuromancer'' offshoot  ''[[wintermute]]'', the ''[[terminator|Terminator]]''-offshoot ''[[skynet-syndrome|SKYNET SYNDROME]]'', and ''[[my-nepenthe|My Nepenthe]]'', a time-travel/[[error|cocaine]] trafficking show taking place in both ancient and modern Greece. Born to a concert violinist, musical scoring, especially opening credits, were of vital import to Bochco <ref> ''[[dallas|Dallas]]'' is seen as an early precursor to this approach. </ref>. Throughout his oeuvre, music played an outsized role by contemporary standards <ref> Exceptions notwithstanding, ex:
[[jan-michael-vincent|Airwolf]], [[knight-rider|Knight Rider]], [[otherworld|Otherworld]], etc. </ref>- whether it be the choice to present ''Cop Rock'' as a musical, or his frequent engagement of the mildly progressive rock group [[octagon-of-dex|Octagon of Dex]] in the development of extended opening/closing sequences and in-episode montages.

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/beautiful-dreamer.html Beautiful Dreamer].''</kbd>

Stalker

2025-02-27T00:32:05Z

Aidahosa: /* Stalker */

==''Stalker''==
[Russian: Сталкер] [related: The Zone]
----
Seminal 1979 film by [[andrei-tarkovsky|Andrei Tarkovsky]] loosely based on the 1972 novel ''Roadside Picnic'' by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. The film outlines a journey in and out of [[stalker|The Zone]] <ref> ''And within The Zone is The Room - the full unveiling of damning desire.''</ref>, an alien-generated <ref> The origin of the Zone is never clearly delineated in the film - "alien" here refers to something of strange or unknown origin. </ref> alternate reality physicalized as having color beyond the sepia lens used in the remainder of the film. ''Stalker'' centers largely on the almost immutable nature of core subconscious desire and the role of radioactive and chemical waste as conduits for the supernatural [see: Spiderman]. Due to various environmental and interpersonal conflicts, ''Stalker'' was shot three separate times <ref> Crew from the film claim the second and third shootings are almost identical, with the only difference being the removal of Georgy Rerberg, the film's original cinematographer, from all crediting materials. </ref> in areas rife with toxic pollution, consuming over 16,000 feet of film. In the years following the release of the film, Tarkovsky and a number of other members of the crew died of cancer of the right bronchial tube, including Larisa Tarkovskaya, the filmmaker's wife. Despite persistent rumors to the contrary, ''Stalker'' was ''not'' shot in the [[chernobyl|Chernobyl Zone of Alienation]] <ref> ''Stalker'' was shot on the Jägara River in Tallinn, Estonia. </ref>—the 1986 nuclear disaster took place seven years after the film's release. Remarkably, however, the film alludes repeatedly to the [quote] "breakdown
of the fourth bunker" and features numerous shots of distant power plants, adding credence to claims that Tarkovsky himself was [[error|clairvoyant]]<ref>A claim supported by Tarkovsky's fascination with and subsequent tutelage under famed psychic [[ninel-kulagina|Ninel Kulagina]] whose extensively documented telekinetic abilities directly influenced the closing sequence of the film.</ref>.

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: "[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/love-theme-from-stalker.html Love Theme]".</kbd>

Octagon-of-dex

2025-02-27T00:31:56Z

Aidahosa: /* Octagon of DexΩ */

==Octagon of Dex[https://eternal-september.net/octagon-of-dex/ Ω]==
----
Mildy experimental rock group active throughout the 1980's. Known primarily for scoring a number of promising but ill-fated television series, many in collaboration with the writer/director/producer [[steven-bochco|Steven Bochco]]. The group's only commercial release was self-titled, and included their most successful single, also called Octagon of Dex - a song originally composed for the ''[[william-gibson|Neuromancer]]'' spin-off show ''[[wintermute|Wintermute]]''. The group's connection to Gibson's novel preceded
their work on the series - their name is an appropriation of [[william-gibson|William Gibson]]'s term for a pill of amphetamine <ref> In fact, Bochco's initial introduction to the group came through his exhaustive Neuromancer research. </ref> Infighting within the group often led to controversial musical choices, particularly in reference to the frequency, length, and instrument choice of non-vocal solos <ref> Culminating in the seemingly endless fretless bass solos throughout the [[skynet-syndrome|SKYNET SYNDROME]] score. </ref>.
Although the group never established a mainstream commercial presence, its
credit and montage scoring on shows like ''[[skynet-syndrome|SKYNET SYNDROME]]'', ''[[otherworld|Otherworld]]'', ''[[jan-michael-vincent|Airwolf]]'', and '' [[my-nepenthe|My Nepenthe]]'' are notable for their compositional depth and [attempts at] high-level musicianship. The group disbanded following repeated attempts to score the opening of an aborted '' [[neon-genesis-evangelion|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' American reboot.

[[File: My Nepenthe.mp4|500px|center]]

[[File: wintermute.mp4|500px|center]]

: <kbd>Ωref#<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[phantom-archives|Phantom Archives]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/octagon-of-dex/ Octagon of Dex].''</kbd>

Cenobites

2025-02-27T00:31:46Z

Aidahosa: /* Cenobites */

==Cenobites==
[related: ''Hellraiser'']
----
A class of monks (most commonly [[Christianity|Christian]] or [[dharma|Buddhist]]) known for the forming of "eremitic communities". Governed by a set of simple religious precepts, cenobites sever their contact with the outside world entirely and interact only with members of their sect or group. Due to their extreme isolation, cenobitic communities have been known to exhibit a "collective mental state <ref>
A term coined by [[imago|Sigmund Freud]] later applied to any manner of communal delusion including [[error|Dancing Mania]], [[error|Satanic Panic]], and, tangentially, the Pokémon Shock Incident. Later extended by [[immanuel-velikovsky|Immanuel Velikovsky]] to include the phenomenon of "collective amnesia". </ref>" - an inward facing spiraling mindmeld of delusion resulting, at times, in the perversion of their foundational beliefs. The term ''cenobite'' was appropriated for the Order of the Gash, a small league of extra-dimensional
[[daemon|daemons]] featured in Clive Barker's ''Hellraiser'' franchise of film and literature. Barker presents his Cenobites [re: capitalized] as morally ambiguous self-mutilating purveyors of the extreme no longer able to differentiate between pleasure and pain. The Order of the Gash is summoned by solving (intentionally or otherwise) the Lament Configuration, a puzzle box originally commissioned <ref> With the purpose of calling a [[incubus|succubus]] to occupy the empty flesh of his skinned-alive mistress. </ref> by the pervy French aristocrat Duc de L'Isle in 1784.

[[File: cenobites-img.jpg|500px|center]]

: ''A schism in time/space opens. Slow dissolve to the realm of the Cenobites. Hell as a neverending Labyrinth…''

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/solemn-simulacrum.html Solemn Simulacrum].''</kbd>

Tron

2025-02-27T00:31:37Z

Aidahosa: /* TronΩ */

==''Tron''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/beautiful-dreamer.html Ω]==
[disambiguation: [[metatron|Metatron]]]
----
Speculative fiction film starring [[the-iceman-cometh|Jeff Bridges]] (Kevin Flynn) and advised by famed computer scientist/jazz guitarist Alan Kay released in 1982
to widespread critical apathy. The film centers on the Master Control Program
(MCP) of the computer conglomerate ENCOM <ref> Acknowledged by director
[[terminator|James Cameron]] as a precursor to [[terminator|SkyNet]]. </ref>- a cyber-entity found to have become sentient by [[dillinger-is-dead|Dillinger]],
the company's senior vice president. Knowing that Dillinger has continually
plagiarized Flynn's work, the MCP engages in blackmail <ref> The MCP's motivation for engaging in blackmail is never explicitly stated. Speculation has centered on the MCP's frequent and anachronistic employment of outdated and seemingly misguided sexual innuendo. </ref>. While attempting to hack the ENCOM system to find evidence of said plagiarism, Flynn is digitized by the MCP and downloaded via experimental laser where he finds a non-spatial cyber-reality characterized by game systems in which the loser is "derezzed". ''Tron'' is often cited as the film industry's first attempt at representing the digitally infinite <ref> Preceding by a few years [[steven-bochco|Steven Bochco]]'s cyber-based short-lived television series ''[[wintermute]]''. </ref>, paralleling the development of William Tyler Bell's
[[error|infinity principle]].

[[File:tron-1.jpg|500px|center|]]
[[File:tron-2.jpg|500px|center|]]

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/beautiful-dreamer.html Beautiful Dreamer].''</kbd>

Ragnarok

2025-02-27T00:31:28Z

Aidahosa: /* Ragnarök AKA RagnarøkkrΩ */

==Ragnarök AKA Ragnarøkkr[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/thor-vs-ragnarok.html Ω]==
[related: Yggdrasil, Líf and Lífþrasir]
----
Known within the lexicon of Norse mythology as Twilight of the Gods, Ragnarök is a prophesied series of cataclysmic events that lead to the apocalyptic destruction and subsequent rebirth of the world. Ragnarök is oft catalogued alongside other [[error|Great Catastrophes]], including [[error|The Great Flood]] and [[error|Tower of Babel]] in [[Christianity]], The Great Serpent in Mayan mythology, and the Kali Yuga in Hindu cosmology<ref>The Dharma too speaks of the destruction of the universe, though framing it in non-temporal terms as a necessary and natural ebb and flow of perceived something/nothing out of the Emptiness.</ref>.Various pop cultural mythologies present variants of the Ragnarök concept, most notably [[Transformers]] (see: [[death-of-optimus|Death of Optimus Prime]]), the "Moon Mask" from the ''[[zelda|Legend of Zelda]]'' franchise, Galarian Darmanitan's Zen Mode from [[pokemon|Pokémon]], and The Time Spiral Block <ref> A block that introduces the collapse of Dominarian past, present, and future into one chaotic state, triggering the reconstitution of the multiverse. Comparable to hitting "reset" on an NES.</ref> from [[error|Magick: The Gathering]].

Ragnarök is survived only by a handful of Gods residing in [[Valhalla]] and two humans, Líf and Lífþrasir. The pair, sometimes confusingly and somewhat disturbingly portrayed as twin siblings, aggressively repopulate the world after riding out the End Times nestled in the ''Hoddmímis holt'', a wood commonly understood to represent the Yggdrasil <ref>The "world tree" around which all else exists.</ref>.

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/thor-vs-ragnarok.html Thor vs. Ragnarök].''</kbd>

Legions-of-osiris

2025-02-27T00:31:20Z

Aidahosa: /* Legions of OsirisΩ */

==Legions of Osiris[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/normcore.html Ω]==
[related: Pixote Rambo][disambiguation: [[error|Legion of Doom]]]
----
Followers of the Egyptian God of the Dead. Osiris was reportedly dismembered by his evil brother Set into [[23-enigma|23]] pieces - chards of flesh later recovered by his wife Isis (aside from the phallus). The term Legion of Osiris also became associated with the followers of New York City street poet and cult leader Pixote
Rambo, whose cryptic tags lined the naked black billboards of the BQE and the
[[gowanus-canal|Gowanus canal]] throughout the early '00's. Pixote Rambo referred often to the "Light Bearers", drawing association with [[luciferin|Luciferianism]] and [[copiale-cipher|Oculism]]- as well as [[light-singing|Enochian Light Singing]]. They also repeatedly represented G-d as a fully red or
black triangle and often featured triangular or pyramidion symbology. Pixote Rambo's text art was largely characterized by short edicts espoused in ancient Grecian font and mangled Latin orthography (ex. "chvoas (sp) leads
our orders, orders lead our chvaos" and "angvels (sp) are skreams") treated by their followers as scripture. In addition to their visual work, Pixote Rambo was active as an MC in the late 1990's, at one point collaborating with
the legendary underground hip-hop artist [[rammellzee|RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ]].

[[File:osiris-img-1.jpg|center|500px|alt=PIXOTE RAMBO LEGIONS OF OSIRIS]]

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/normcore.html NormCore™].''</kbd>

Immanuel-velikovsky

2025-02-27T00:31:09Z

Aidahosa: /* Immanuel VelikovskyΩ */

==Immanuel Velikovsky[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/pantheon-of-dust.html Ω]==
[Jun 10, 1895 - Nov. 17, 1979, O.S. May 29, 1895 - Nov. 17, 1979] [related: Collective Amnesia, ''Worlds in Collision'', Theory of Interplanetary Electro-Magnetism]
----
A Russian independent scholar whose book ''Worlds in Collision'' supports the concrete "Bible as Historical Document" theory when seen alongside the work of
[[bicameralism|Julian Jaynes]]. Velikovsky claimed, based on extensive and irrefutable historical and scientific data, that various ancient phenomena (ex. the parting of the Red Sea) were entirely literal occurrences resulting from poorly understood or erroneously dismissed events presented in various religious and [[apocrypha|apocryphal]] texts<ref> According to various historical texts, the Earth "stood still" for a period of time directly paralleling Joshua's plea that God "O Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and you, Moon, in the Valley of Ayelon". </ref>. To elucidate, around 1500 BC Venus <ref> Velikosky's establishment of Venus as a mysterious rogue planetary agent factors heavily in the field of [[venusian-enigmata|Venusian Enigmata]]. See: [[black-drop|Black Drop]], [[error|Ashen Light]], [[venetian-pool|The Venetian]]. </ref> was ejected from the orbit of Jupiter, hurtling much like a comet through the solar system, colliding with Mars and sideswiping Earth, wreaking havoc on tides, weather patterns, and menstrual cycles. The close proximity of Venus' trajectory caused the Earth to switch both electro-magnetic polarity and rotational spin, leading to a swarm of strange and catastrophic phenomena as recounted in the Old Testament and ''[[enochian|The Book of Enoch]]''. He supported his claims by the development of the groundbreaking Theory of Interplanetary Electro-Magnetism which positioned gravity and orbital mechanics as being counteracted by electro-magnetism, a hypothesis discounted at the time by Newtonian physicists currently experiencing a resurgence in the extended [[error|quantum]]/meta-physical community. Often mistakenly labelled as a Creationist [see: [[error|Christian Theology]]], Velikovsky was an empirical scientist also active in the field of psychiatry, publishing in Sigmund Freud's ''[[imago|Imago]]'' an
insightful and revolutionary analysis of Freud's own [[error|cocaine]]-fueled recurring dreams. Collective amnesia, a phenomenon coined by Velikovsky in effort to explain the lack of historical documentation of certain natural disasters and social crises (i.e. the [[tower-of-babel|Tower of Babel]]) is
now commonly accepted in the world of cyber-metaphysics. Velikovsky extensively studied [[error|King Solomon]], seeking to contextualize the king's efforts <ref> As documented in the ''[[lesser-key-of-solomon|Grimoire of Solomon]]''. </ref> to categorize and control alleged demons within the realm of science. Velikovsky claimed that the [[shamir|Shamir]], Solomon's mysterious tool for creating the First Temple, were not supernatural worms or barely, but a rapidly decaying radioactive mineral, most likely malachite. This hypothesis, though controversial, is supported by a number of historical facts:

* The glowing green color of the Shamir.
* The fact that the Shamir was kept in a leaden box wrapped tightly in wool.
* The adverse health effects of those operating the Shamir, including severe bowel and eye irritation.
* The eventual degradation of the Shamir's effectiveness (roughly corresponding to malachite's half-life).

: <kbd>Ωref#[Jaynes, Julian] :: ''Worlds in Collision. 1950.''
: <kbd>Ωref#<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[spectral-peaks|Spectral Peaks]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/pantheon-of-dust.html Pantheon of Dust]''</kbd>

Bitcoin

2025-02-27T00:30:54Z

Aidahosa: /* BitcoinΩ */

== Bitcoin[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/bitcoin-otherworld.html Ω]==
[related: Satoshi Nakamoto, Paul Le Roux]
----
A mysterious and controversial decentralized digital pseudo-currency invented in the late 1990s by a person or group of persons acting under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. Despite its lack of central control and shrouded origin, it has found support among celebrities (ex. [[steven-seagal|Steven Seagal]] <ref> See: [[steven-seagal|BitCoinGate]] </ref>) and, even, national governments (El Salvador). Currently, it is estimated that around 54% of BitCoin interactions involve illegal activity, including - but in no manner limited to - ransomware attacks (ex:
[[eternalblue|Eternal Blue]]), money laundering, and the digital purchase of illicit goods and information. Although Nakamoto's identity remains unconfirmed, many journalists claim him to be Paul Le Roux, a programmer and former drug cartel boss. Le Roux is currently serving as an informant for the US Drug Enforcement Agency after being convicted of [[narcotics]] trafficking. He later confessed to the murder of seven business associates and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. No verifiable electronic transmissions from Satoshi Nakamoto have been identified since the first day of Le Roux's incarceration.

[[File:Bitcoin-img.jpg|500px|center|alt=Atop a marble plaque stands a bust of Satoshi Nakamoto, depicted as a blank-featured metallic face shrouded in a dark hoodie. The hoodie bears the mark of Bitcoin.]]
: Nakamoto in Budapest

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/bitcoin-otherworld.html BitCoin™Otherworld].''</kbd>

Panopticon

2025-02-27T00:30:42Z

Aidahosa: /* PanopticonΩ */

==Panopticon[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/bitcoin-otherworld.html Ω]==
----
Designed in the 18th-century by British philosopher Jeremy Bentham, the founder of modern utilitarianism, a panopticon is a combo physical structure/control system based on the concept of induced paranoia <ref> Similar in flavor to the paranoia experienced by longtime users of [[narcotics]] and [[error|psychedelic]] drugs. </ref>. Occupants of a panopticon are positioned in such a way as to be unable to tell if they are being watched. The term was traditionally most associated with Bentham's controversial prison design in which a towering concrete octagon of cells opens inward to a circular raised guard station encased in tinted glass <ref> An early flaw in Bentham's design involved the visibility of cigarette cherries through even the darkest glass - an issue later mitigated with the development of electronic cigarettes, or, as they are colloquially known, vapes. </ref>. However, throughout the 1980's, the term was adapted by many philosophers and social theorists to describe the disquieting onset of digital surveillance culture as employed by the
[[error|CIA]], [[error|FBI]], and large techno-communications conglomerates like [[ma-bell|Ma Bell]].

[[File:panopticon-img.jpg|500px|center|alt=Illustration from the haunting perspective of a panopticon cell. A figure lies prostrate before you, head bowed toward the watch-tower. There are dozens of identical cell windows lining the walls around it.]]

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/bitcoin-otherworld.html BitCoin™ Otherworld].''</kbd>

Black-drop

2025-02-27T00:30:32Z

Aidahosa: /* Black Drop */

==Black Drop==
[related: Ashen Light]
----
The term black drop refers to an unexplained optical phenomenon involving the passing of Venus [female] in front of the sun [male].

''"I afterwards observed that immediately around the planet [re: Venus] there was a dusky tinge, making it appear as if it had sunk below the sun's surface. The entire scene bore the quality of two not three dimensions."''

The standard (if unsatisfying) explanation of black drop centers on equipment malfunction. Black drop is often seen as relating to "ashen light", another unexplained phenomena associated with [[venusian-enigmata|Venusian Enigmata]]: a subtle blue/green/grey glow emanating from the "dark side" of the planet. Initially, ashen light was attributed to lightning storms on the planet's telescopically unviewable side. However, Japan's Akatsuki probe was recently injected into Venus' orbit for 30 days, finding zero instances of visible lightning. Astrophysicists now posit ashen light to be a physiological disturbance in the mind of the observer<ref> ''"When we build our houses in the pink poison clouds, we will become the Light."'' </ref>.

[[File:black-drop-img.jpg|alt=A small circular shadow passes across the Sun's surface.|500px|center]]

: Venus' black drop effect. Related: [[error|Saturn's Hexagon]].

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: [[error|Saturn's Hexagon]].</kbd>

Neon-babylon

2025-02-27T00:30:22Z

Aidahosa: /* Neon Babylon */

==Neon Babylon==
----
A mythologically-oriented musical ensemble of fluid membership and unclear origin. The group's musical style was marked by the juxtaposition between modern analog synthesizers and more traditional instrumentation such as strings, acoustic percussion, and harpsichord. Documentation of the group is limited to a handful of mono recordings and a series of VHS concert videos featuring
[[error|occult]] imagery. Lyrically, the group focused largely on a grab bag of Illuminati-related subjects, including the [[error|Silurian Hypothesis]], [[error|Saturn's Hexagon]], and the significance of [[error|Alpha Draconis]], as well as the wider world of the ancient mythologies surrounding the Levant. Neon Babylon's activity often overlapped with that of the masked [[illuminati-quartet|Illuminati Quartet]]. As with the quartet, the visages of Neon Babylon members were most often shrouded, either with masks <ref> The group's keyboardist(s) was/were often adorned in a large [[minotaur]] mask - a recurrent symbol in the group's somewhat haphazard mythos. </ref> or crude analog effects. Individual singers from the performance art collective [[error|Shepherds of Apocrypha]] were, at times, featured in various Neon Babylon materials, singing or sprechgesang-ing in both German and Latin.

[[File: A Lake Cimmerian.mp4]]

[[File: Moon Matrix.mp4]]

[[File: Thuban.mp4]]

[[File: March of the Archons - VHS glitch intro.mp4]]

<kbd>Ωref#<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[phantom-archives|Phantom Archives]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/neon-babylon/index.html Neon Babylon].''</kbd>

Rammellzee

2025-02-27T00:30:11Z

Aidahosa: /* Rammellzee AKA RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣΩ */

==Rammellzee AKA RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/rammellzee.html Ω]==
[December 15, 1960 - June 28, 2010] [related: Five-Percent-Nation, Supreme Mathematics]
----
A NY-based gothic futuristic hip-hop artist, opera composer, art theoretician, sculptor, and graffiti writer. Ramm, as he was known colloquially, was a prominent member of the Five-Percent-Nation, also known as the Nation of Gods and Earth (NGE), a Black Nationalist organization founded in 1964 by Allah the Father, formerly known as Clarence 13X. Despite the organization's numerous acts of goodwill and community service, it was targeted as a terrorist organization by the [[error|FBI]] in the late 1960's as part of the [[error|COINTELPRO]]
initiative, leading to a period of discreditation and controversy. The NGE's highly advanced system of Supreme Mathematics, developed in secret by Allah the Father, uniquely attributes both qualitative ''and'' quantitative values to numbers<ref>Due to the impenetrability of the system's [[codex]], Supreme Mathematics were thought by the FBI to be a tool for the covert communication of scientific and military data. </ref>. The method by which Allah the Father derived these values were derived remains a mystery.

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/rammellzee.html RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ & K-Rob in Circuit City Parking Lot].''</kbd>

Mindvox

2025-02-27T00:30:00Z

Aidahosa: /* MindVox */

==MindVox==
[related: Dead Lord, Phantom Access Technologies (PAT)] [see also: [[Lord-digital|Lord Digital]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>
----
A legendary and controversial early Internet Service Provider (ISP) in New
York City, founded in 1991 by Dead Lord and [[lord-digital|Lord Digital]], former members of the  [[error|Legion of Doom]]
hacking group. Mindvox wasdeveloped by the parent company Phantom Access Technologies (PAT) and launched via a Bulletin Board test message posted by the infamous hacker [[phiber-optik|Phiber Optik]] of the 
[[error|Masters of Deception]] while waiting for a Manhattan Grand Jury Indictment. The initial opening of Mindvox as a public
ISP was announced via the essay "Voices in My Head" by Lord Digital, outlining
his vision for cyberspace (a term coined by novelist and poet
[[william-gibson|William Gibson]]) and detailing his experience as both hacker and [[narcotics]] addict. The service was riddled with in-jokes (often profane) and intentional obfuscation, eventually folding due to the instability of its leadership structure, despite lucrative buyout offers from both  [[ma-bell|Ma Bell]] and Viacom, although rumors of a continuing deep web invitation only "shadow service" continue to this day (perhaps speaking to a "[https://eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/pink-twilight.html pink twilight]"). While active, MindVox was a digital locus point for discussions on various forms of harm reduction including drug legalization and LGBT rights and notable for its role in the dissemination of [[william-gibson|William Gibson]]'s ''Agrippa'' in 1992 via staged "leak". The
adherence to cyberpunk aesthetics and values throughout MindVox's existence
stands in stark contrast to the concurrent emerging greed and corporatization
of various  [[error|Silicon Valley]] companies, even those
launched by former hackers and techno-activists.

Throughout the 1990's, MindVox was used by its founders as a conduit for further PAT tech initiatives. Shortly following the ISP's initial debut, a rudimentary web logging (or blogging) platform was released. Dubbed [[code-x-digital|Code-X Digital]], the site failed to garner heavy traffic aside from a small group of off-puttingly dedicated acolytes. In the waning years of MindVox's functionality, [[phantom-archives|Phantom Archives]] (PA) was introduced by PAT as a platform for user-generated digital documentation. Despite PA's comically impractical bandwidth demands, it became a vital tool in the documentation of anti-commercial art and music <ref> In particular the [[no-wave|No Wave]] music scene and neighboring worlds of experimental jazz, hip-hop, classical, and rhythm & blues. </ref> in New York City.

MindVox off-topic warning message:

<code>
-=/[ This Message Has Been FLUNG to the r0mPEr-RuM ]/=-
/\_-\
<((_))>
\- \/
/\_-\(:::::::::)/\_-\
<((_)) MindVox ((_))>
\- \/(:::::::::)\- \/
/\_-\
<((_))>
\- \/
-=/[ You have No Rights / [%] Symbolic Iron Cross [%] / Fascism & Tyranny ]/=-
We have found it necessary to violate your civil rights and CENSOR you.
Please refrain from engaging in any further THOUGHT CRIMES. You will
not receive additional warnings, consider yourself fortunate.
</code>

<kbd>Ωref#<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[error|Hyperbolic Time Chamber]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/pink-twilight.html Pink Twilight].''</kbd>
<kbd>Ωref#<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[phantom-archives|Phantom Archives]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> :: ''[[voices-in-my-head|Voices in my Head]].''</kbd>

Periaqueductal-grey

2025-02-27T00:29:49Z

Aidahosa: /* Periaqueductal Grey AKA PAG, Central GreyΩ */

==Periaqueductal Grey AKA PAG, Central Grey[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/od-on-vaporwave.html Ω]==
----
A cluster of neurons in the human brain peripheral to the cerebral aqueduct.
PAG takes the form of gray matter and plays a central function in analgesia
(pain reduction), abstract mania (see: [[apeirophobia]]), and autonomic responses to threatening stimuli. The PAG's high concentration opioid receptors are activated by many [[narcotics]] including morphine, hydrocodone, and oxycodone. Natural PAG opioid stimulants include waves of extreme nostalgia, teenage fellatio, and
[[dharma|Dharmic]] transcendence of self. The PAG plays a central role in "fight or flight response": extreme and stimulation of the area due to real (or imagined) threat can lead to a misleadingly lackadaisical posture known as quiescence
<ref> A state marked in extreme cases by 1) complete immobility 2) a
feigned smile often read as disingenuous and 3) sudden visualization of an
endless white void and/or the feeling of gradually sinking into an endless

[[error|non-spatial abyss]]. </ref>. Overstimulated PAG can become
activated pathologically resulting in dysregulation - a state commonly
associated with the development of various forms of psychosis, most notably
induced [[schizophrenia|schizophrenic]] [[bicameralism]].

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/od-on-vaporwave.html O.D. on Vaporwave].''</kbd>

Altered-states

2025-02-27T00:29:41Z

Aidahosa: /* Altered StatesΩ */

=='''Altered States'''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/altered-id.html Ω]==
----
Experimental 1980 body horror film starring William Hurt as Edward Jessup, a psychopathologist studying
[[schizophrenia]]
and its relationship to subsumed states of consciousness AKA "[[alters]]" or "[[alters|alts]]". Over the course of the film, Jessup becomes convinced that through sensory deprivation and the use of ceremonial
[[narcotics]] and [[error|psychedelics]] he can bring such suppressed alters to the surface and integrate them into a healthy, holistic system of being. Lacking proper human test subjects, Jessup submits himself to a series of increasingly disorienting experiments. Recklessly pushing further into the void, Jessup eventually experiences biological devolution and emerges from his makeshift sensory deprivation tank as a feral light-skinned troglodyte <ref> Caveman,
[[the-iceman-cometh|Iceman]], Neanderthal. Also, very small in stature. </ref>. The film culminates with Jessup's regression into a maelstrom of primordial ooze that subsequently dissolves into non-physical proto-consciousness. Only a kiss from his estranged wife can save him <ref> The ''him'' most associated with Jessup's primary "public" alter. A fringe but sensical counter-interpretation of the film's ending posits its supposed resolution instead as tragic cliffhanger - Jessup's transcendence into a state of permanent Nirvana thwarted by a misguided and simple-minded shrew. </ref>.

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/wisconsin-yr-so-brutalist.html Wisconsin, Yr So Brutalist].''

Perfect-strangers

2025-02-27T00:29:32Z

Aidahosa: /* Perfect StrangersΩ */

==Perfect Strangers[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/love-theme-from-stalker.html Ω]==
----
American sitcom crucial to the success of ABC's late '80s TGIF Friday-night line-up. The mildly racist show centered on Balki Bartokomous, a wide-eyed simpleton from the mythological Mediterranean island of Mypos recently transplanted to the midwestern megapolis of Chicago, Illinois.

: [[File:perfect-strangers-img.jpg|500px|center=We open on the tranquil vista of a Chicagoan skyline. Delicate, wispy clouds stretch across the heavens, brushing the tips of skyscrapers. Yet our view is much more intimate, a tight zoom on an idyllic riverscape. The surrounding buildings only seem to frame the picture as our eye is drawn from right to left along a sweeping, elegant bridge... But what's this? A lone pilgrim, a sprightly young vessel, drifts merrily through the waters. It barely casts a wake, let alone a shadow -- passing below that resolute overpass. Though the boat follows its path without obstruction, the bridge draws a firm line through our panorama. Not only does it conceal the destination of our solitary subject, but it underscores the thunderous message of the piece. Held up high, splashing its way across our screens, reads the bold yellow text: PERFECT Strangers.|]]

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/love-theme-from-stalker.html "Love Theme" from Stalker].''</kbd>

Venetian-pool

2025-02-27T00:29:23Z

Aidahosa: /* Venetian PoolΩ */

==Venetian Pool[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/cimmerian-winamp.html Ω]==
[see also/disambiguation: [[venusian-enigmata|Venusian Enigmata]]]
----
A public swimming pool located in [[coral-gables|Coral Gables]], a historic (by Floridian standards) city in Miami-Dade county. At 820,000 gallons, it is the largest freshwater pool in the United States. The entirety of the Venetian is filled daily via artesian wells <ref> At the behest of area environmentalists it was discovered in 1987 that the Venetian's daily draining process had significantly depleted the Floridian aquifers sourced for the neighboring area of Coconut Grove, which is the site of the Mutiny Hotel and the largest drug bust in the history of the US (75 tons of [[narcotics|sweet Bolivian white horse]]). Mutiny Hotel is better known as the center of global [[narcotics|cocaine]] trafficking throughout the 1980's and where OJ ate breakfast after escaping murder conviction with his look alike new girlfriend. </ref>. The pool is peppered with romantic nooks, including a disquietingly warm and poorly lit grotto that extends into the surrounding hillside - a veritable bastion for teenage make-outs, especially on autumnal crepuscules.

[[File:venetian-pool.png|500px|center]]

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/cimmerian-winamp.html Cimmerian WinAmp™].''</kbd>

The-baroness

2025-02-27T00:29:14Z

Aidahosa: /* The Baroness AKA Anastasia DeCobrayΩ */

==The Baroness AKA Anastasia DeCobray[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/house-of-destro.html Ω]==
----
The Baroness, né Anastasia DeCobray, is a commander in the sinister communist/terrorist organization Cobra from the [[gi-joe|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]] franchise. Born in Himmelstein, Austria on November 22, 1957, The Baroness is the spawn of wealthy aristocratic (but highly neglectful) parents and was raised in a life of divine privilege and luxury. Approaching adulthood, the Baroness became increasingly disenchanted with her lavish existence and sought to explore avenues for undermining capitalist societal power structures. Enter… ''Cobra''! Undergoing rigorous training in various forms of combat and espionage, the Baroness quickly rose through the organization's ranks - her skills in hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, and espionage unparalleled amongst her fellow recruits. The Baroness' attire is predominantly black, with a red headscarf, and a pair of completely opaque sunglasses <ref> Her de facto signature element - she is often depicted as wearing sunglasses even at night or in non-combat situations. </ref>. Despite her nonchalant demeanor and calculating ruthlessness, The Baroness shares a [[destro|complex emotional relationship]] with Destro, a masked weapons-dealing colleague.

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/house-of-destro.html House of Destro].''</kbd>

Hatra

2025-02-27T00:28:59Z

Aidahosa: /* HatraΩ */

==Hatra[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/another-day-in-my-hatra.html Ω]==
----
An ancient [[error|Mespotamian]] caravan city approximately 180 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Occupying a liminal space between the Roman and Persian empires, Hatra was abandoned after being ransacked in the 3rd century - its stunning ruins were discovered by nomadic herders in the mid-1800's. Hatra was featured as the opening location in ''[[the-exorcist|The Exorcist]]'', leading
directly to its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Subsequently, the area underwent a recklessly costly restoration at the hands of [[Saddam Hussein]]- he demanded each brick be monogrammed with his name (a practice in purposeful emulation of [[error|Nebuchadnezzar]]). Having since taken control of the area, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (AKA Daesh) plans to raze the Ruins of Hatra, claiming its artifacts encourage polytheism. Robust income via
"horror-porn" tourism has thus far prevented the group from actionalizing their threat. Hatra is known in Muslim and Judeo-Christian texts as the origin place of
[[pazuzu|Pazuzu]], ''The Exorcist'''s central antagonist.

[[File:hatra.jpg|500px|center]]

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/another-day-in-my-hatra.html Another Day in My Hatra].''</kbd>

Dekalog

2025-02-27T00:28:48Z

Aidahosa: /* The Decalogue AKA Dekalog AKA Dekalog: The Ten CommandmentsΩ */

==''The Decalogue'' AKA ''Dekalog'' AKA ''Dekalog: The Ten Commandments''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/thor-vs-ragnarok.html Ω]==
----
Polish made-for-TV film released in 1988 known for its egregious length, glacial pacing, and the maniacal fervor of its disciples
<ref>Including the Catholic church - in 1995 ''Dekalog'' was included on "The Vatican List" (a compendium of the 45 greatest films ever made) alongside [[andrei-tarkovsky|Tarkovsky]]'s ([[error|occult]] classic) ''[[andrei-tarkovsky|The Sacrifice]]'' and ''2001: A Space Odyssey''. Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick dubbed ''Dekalog'' "the only extant masterpiece committed to film".
</ref>. Taking place entirely in a brutalist Polish public housing complex, the series is based somewhat indecipherably on the ten commandments as revealed to Moses at Mount Sinai<ref>Written by the finger of God on two stone tablets now stored in the Ark of the Covenant, as pursued by [[blade-runner|Harrison Ford]] in the 1981 film ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''.</ref>.

''Dekalog'' is often grouped Rainer Werner Fassbinder's ''[[weld-am-draht|Wehd am Draht]]'' as a notable (if aggressively abstract) commercial television series.

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/thor-vs-ragnarok.html Thor vs. Ragnarök].''</kbd>

Microsoft

2025-02-27T00:28:36Z

Aidahosa: /* Microsoft Windows™ AKA Windows™ */

=='''Microsoft Windows™ AKA Windows™==
[related: Symantec, Donald Hoffman, Interface Theory of Perception AKA ITP, Conscious Realism AKA CR, Multimodal User Interface Theory (MUI)]
----
A graphical navigation environment initially launched in 1985 by Microsoft as
an operating shell of its MS-DOS. Following its release, the Windows™
operating system came to dominate the world of personal computing, capturing
over 90% of the market share despite its notorious vulnerability to hacking in
the form of [[error|worms and viruses]] <ref> According to recent studies, it is estimated that over 80% of functional Windows™ operating systems are infected with a form of malware, with an average infiltration time of around 8 hours. In a study by Kevin Mitnick found that Windows™ systems unprotected by a firewall were infected within the first four minutes of operating. It is rumored but unproven that Microsoft owns a substantial amount of shadow stock in Symantec, the parent company of the NortonLifeLock anti-virus system, leading to the investigation of alleged GAAP financial reporting violations by Symantec in 1996. </ref>, including the infamous government-developed exploit [[eternalblue|EternalBlue]]. The premiere iteration of Windows™ was known as the "Executive" and included a visual dashboard replete with calculator, clock, clipboard, notepad, calendar, Reversi (a checkers-like digital game), and a rudimentary version of Microsoft's famed Paintbrush™ program. Following the apex of its functionality and adoption in 1998 <ref>The introduction of Solitaire!
</ref>, the Windows™ platform gradually fell out of public favor. In the wake of its long tail slide into irrelevance, the system found new life as an allegorical model for cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman's interface theory of perception (ITP). Hoffman's work centers on the scientifically proven discovery that the human perceptual system has evolved to conceal
and reduce reality in order to maximize "fitness payoffs". The ITP presents the Windows icon-based navigational system as a metaphor for our "mental interface"
<ref> Leading to speculation that a negative feedback loop has developed between computer interface programming/design and our misleadingly representational perceptual system. Perhaps in developing navigable digital technologies we've further cemented our commitment to seeing reality other than as it is. The ring of  [[dharma|samsara]] deepens. [https://eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/solitaire.html Cards cascade against the greenscreen]. We paint in perfectly straight lines, or in pixelated diagonals. Squares and circles. Ideas. Fucking concepts. Is it worth the loss of [[total-freedom|total freedom]] to be an "executive"?</ref>. Objects perceived to possess a discrete identity "out there" are, in Hoffman's view, representation icons - items that can be manipulated but whose form is not indicative of objective reality. This system of reduction and reconstruction maximizes brain efficiency by avoiding the need to process the almost infinite amount of data present in underlying (fluid) reality (re:[[dharma|the Emptiness]]). As a proponent of Conscious Realism (CR), Hoffman subscribes to the Buddhist/quantum worldview that reality has no inherent existence outside of observation - and that perceived reality is in fact non-physical <ref> A trait CR clearly also shares with  [[simulation-theory|simulation theory]] and the  [[error|holographic universe]] model. </ref>. Proponents of both CR and the Buddhist/quantum worldview contend that time/space, particles, and fields are in fact resultant from multimodal user
interface <ref> Briefly: the MUI theory interlinks with ITP, essentially serving as a shorthand term for Hoffman's Windows-based theory of "representative" perception. </ref> (MUI) indigenous to humans <ref> It's worth noting that Hoffman stops before reaching full-on [[solaris|Panpsychism]]- in his model objects (ex. rocks, salamanders, trees) may have some form of MUI yet lack consciousness. </ref>. Consciousness is, in other words, fundamental. Consciousness. Is.

<kbd>Ωref#[Hoffman, Donald D.] :: ''The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hides the Truth from Our Eyes.'' 
Ωref#[Hoffman, Donald D.] :: "[[cybernetics|The Mind As Interface]]". 
Ωref#[redacted] :: "[https://eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/solitaire.html Solitaire]".</kbd>

Dillinger-is-dead

2025-02-27T00:28:20Z

Aidahosa: /* Dillinger is DeadΩ */

==''Dillinger is Dead''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/dillinger-is-dead.html Ω]==
[related: Papeete, John Herbert Dillinger]
----
A 1969 film by Marco Ferreri starring Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, and
Annie Girardot remarkable for its juxtaposition of domestic banality and ultra
violence. Here "Dillinger" refers not to the film's protagonist but to the Great Depression-era John Herbert Dillinger, infamous for his gangster bravado and flamboyant personality. The federal government used the pursuit of Dillinger to rationalize the development of the Federal Bureau of Investigations ([[error|F.B.I.]]) and subsequently increasingly sophisticated (and invasive) techniques of interrogation and surveillance (the legality of which were subsequently questioned in court by actor/historian [[studs-terkel|Studs Terkel]]). Ferreri's film ends with the central character inexplicably uxoricide by shooting his wife in the head and boarding a boat to Papeete, Tahiti, a locale associated largely with artist Paul Gauguin's depiction of prepubescent nascent sexual deviance - the black sand of its beaches later becoming slang (see: Urban Dictionary) for various [[narcotics]] including heroin, morphine, and "downtown brown".

<kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/dillinger-is-dead.html Dillinger is Dead].''</kbd>

Lesser-key-of-solomon

2025-02-27T00:28:11Z

Aidahosa: /* The Lesser Key of Solomon AKA The Grimoire of Solomon AKA The LegemetonΩ */

==''The Lesser Key of Solomon'' AKA ''The Grimoire of Solomon'' AKA ''The Legemeton''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/the-grimore-of-solomon.html Ω]==
----
An anonymous and essentially pseudo-biographical book on demonology commonly
attributed to the biblical figure [[lesser-key-of-solomon|Solomon]]
commonly known as ''The Legemeton''. It appears to have been compiled in the 17th Century, with much of the text bearing stark resemblance to Johann Weyer's
''Psuedomonarchia Daemonum''. Structurally, ''The Legemeton'' is
divided into five books, ''Ars Goetia, Ars Theurgia-Goetia, Ars Paulina, Ars Almadel'', and ''Ars Notoria''. Notably, the ''Ars Goetia'' contains a
comprehensive list of all 72 demons and their various rankings. In 1904 a
version of ''The Legemeton'' titled ''The Book of Goetia of Solomon the King'' edited by Samuel Lidell.

MacGregor Mathers was published by  [[error|Aleister Crowley]], including additional evocations in the [[enochian|Enochian]]
language and a series of essays portraying the described rituals as means of introspective exploration (aka focused meditation) as opposed to summoning.

[[File:lesser-key-img.png|500px|center|alt=72 Goeta sigils]]

The 72 sigils.

<kbd>Ωref#<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[nes|Nintendo]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> :: ''[[solomons-key|Hidden Levels]].''

Sword-of-damocles

2025-02-27T00:28:03Z

Aidahosa: /* The Sword of Damocles AKA The Virtual Sword of DamoclesΩ */

==The Sword of Damocles AKA The Virtual Sword of Damocles[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/virtual-sword-of-damocles.html Ω]==
[related: Ivan Sutherland, Vannevar Bush, DARPA, ARL, HMD]
----
The Sword of Damocles Computer Science Project (SDCSP) was a virtual reality-based research project featuring the world's first [//eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/white-cube-o-death.html Head Mounted Display (HMD)]. Debuting in 1960, the SDCSP precursed the eventual development of functional VR technology by almost 40 years. The project was led by Ivan Sutherland <ref> Commonly considered to be the father of computer graphics. </ref>, creator of the SketchPad™, and his team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Sutherland's system involved an
ingenious combination of rudimentary computer graphics, stereoscopic lensing, hand-sautered electronics, plastic tubing and cosmetic mirrors - along with specially-made sensor gloves <ref> Later known as haptic feedback gloves - now used in a variety of applications including the [[nes|Nintendo Entertainment System]]'s [[error|Power Glove]]. </ref> to track the user's movements.

Following the unveiling of its initial prototype, the SDCSP received seed funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and, later, the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) under contract with [[helicopter-fetish|Bell Helicopter]] for use in aerial weaponry development and aviation training.

[[File: damocles-img-1.png|500px|center]]

Due to the low processing power available at the time, the computational control system used by Sutherland's team was gargantuan, weighing over 3,500 pounds - roughly equivalent to half the helicopter on which it was to be housed.
Occupying over 500 square feet, the SDCSP's central controls generated temperatures upwards of 200 degrees Fahrenheit. The project's military participants were subjected to a variety of grueling simulations, including helicopter and airplane crashes, shipwrecks, and other disasters - resulting in waves of nausea and heat stroke. The project made significant progress until it was eventually shut down in 1974 after a slew of technical difficulties and participant complaints/threatened litigation. Overall, the SOD was estimated by
[[ma-bell|Ma Bell]] to have cost approximately $52 million and was, at the time of its discontinuation, widely considered to be a failure. The SDCSP was somewhat satirically named after a [[error|Greek myth]] in which the (likely
apocryphal) miscreant Damocles was briefly seated on the throne of Dionysius only to find a heavy sword strung gingerly above his head - an analogous reference to the bulky and extremely ponderous equipment employed in
Sutherland's HMD.

[[File:damocles-img-2.jpg|310px|center]]

[[File:White Cube o Death.mp4|500px|center|]]

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/virtual-sword-of-damocles.html VIRTUAL SWORD OF DAMOCLES].''</kbd>
: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber/white-cube-o-death.html White Cube o_ Death].''</kbd>

Running-cola

2025-02-27T00:27:50Z

Aidahosa: /* Running Cola is AfricaΩ */

==''Running Cola is Africa''[https://eternal-september.net/i-antichrist/running-cola-is-africa.html Ω]==
[related: Cybernetic Serendipity]
----
A groundbreaking set of algorithmically-generated lithographs dating from 1968. The prints were created by members of [[error|IBM]] Tokyo's Computer Technique Group [CTG] and debuted as part of ''Cybernetic Serendipity'', the world's first large scale exhibition of computer art held at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts [LICA]. Despite being viewed by over 64,000 attendees, the work failed to sell. It was later acquired by the LICA for £5 and has since been kept in climate controlled storage. ''Running [[error|Cola]] is Africa'' is commonly considered to be the first piece of (aesthetically convincing) [[ai|A.I.]] art - the full set of prints are now valued at approximately 3.8 million dollars.

[[File:running-cola-img.jpg|500px|center|alt=The sparsely-outlined silhouette of a runner in full motion smoothly transforms, from left to right, into a Cola bottle, and the continent of Africa.]]

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/altered-id.html Running Cola is Africa].''</kbd>

Doppler

2025-02-27T00:27:41Z

Aidahosa: /* Doppler AKA The Doppler Effect */

==Doppler AKA The Doppler Effect==
----
The alteration of perceived wave frequency when the observer is moving in relation to the source of the wave. First posited by the Austrian scientist Christian Doppler in his 1842 treatise "On the Coloured Light of the Binary Stars and Some Other Stars of the Heavens and Other Things" and later
experimentally confirmed by Buys Ballot by having a string ensemble play a single highly calibrated sustained tone on a moving train. Modern quantum
physicists see the Doppler effect as an early shift towards observer-dependent relativism, a concept fundamental to the [[quantum|Buddhist/Quantum Worldview]]. The Doppler Effect is known to accentuate the psychosomatic effect of music sounding sad when someone is driving away from you in a car with the radio on,
especially at dusk and/or for an inexplicable reason.

[[File:doppler.png|500px|center|alt=f = ((c±υₓ)/(c±υₛ))f₀]]

: [Where ''c'' is the speed of the wave]

: <kbd>Ωref#[Doppler, Christian] :: ''On the Coloured Light of the Binary Stars and Some Other Stars of the Heavens and Other Things.''

Colonel-john-matrix

2025-02-27T00:27:30Z

Aidahosa: /* Colonel John MatrixΩ */

==Colonel John Matrix[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/commando-in-syntax.html Ω]==
[disambiguated: [[error|Matrix]]]
----
Fictional featured character in the 1985 film ''Commando'' starring action star and former Mr. Universe [[arnold-schwarzenegger|Arnold Schwarznegger]], directed
by Mark L. Lester. Matrix is a former green beret remarkable for his ability
to remain unphased in the face of ultra-violence, perhaps due to transcendent
awareness of his participation in a celluloid-based narrative, a phenomenon
commonly called "the Matrix Effect", with the term matrix here referring not
only to the character's nomenclature but the pixel-based fabric of spacetime
as described in [[quantum-loop-gravity|quantum loop gravity]] <ref> The term "matrix" here also relates here both to [[william-gibson|William Gibson]]'s conceptualization of cyberspace and to the development of control parameters (including tone rows, dynamics, etc) in the  [[error|Second Viennese School]]. </ref>.

[[File:commando.jpg|500px|center|]]

: <kbd>Ωref#[redacted] :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/spectral-peaks/commando-in-syntax.html Commando in Syntax].''</kbd>