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F G's avatar

Definitely my good warrior brother, I will subscribe and help finance your blueprint architecture , I have not been on substack for very long maybe a year. I plan to start writing content on substack but want I would rather do is work aside and encourage the most independent cybersecurity and news creators I can. Since 2021 I have been working and grinding in the data privacy architectural rabbit hole reading T TOS , community guidelines as well as Privacy Policies putting aside temporarily my project management, sales and marketing spending day and night testing different AI's , code as well as different OS structure's and browsers , add'ons pushing the privacy narrative and to be honest some of my physical ,emotional, spiritual pushing the limits of the realms of sanity. I am a solitaire auto-didact empath as well as polymath hypersentive caracter. I in the process I have discovered and saw things that ; in all honesty wished I did not at all noticed or discovered.

Mark Calahan's avatar

I’m reading for the first time. What is the RUST?

Explorer's avatar

The world isn't Left vs. Right. It's Vertical. The Rust is the Extractive Elite. It is the bureaucratic middleware, the safety filters, the monopolies, and the algorithms designed to cripple human velocity. The Rust is the cage. We are the Gears.

Barbara Kiley's avatar

I get it. Thank you. Yes. Offers were relentless on my single family home. I still get a couple every month, but…for 2 or 3 years it was 2 or 3 per week.

Please tell me what you think these buying conglomerates will DO with these homes?

Explorer's avatar

They aren't going to live in them, and they aren't going to improve them. They are going to bundle the deeds into Wall Street bonds, outsource the pricing to a cartel algorithm, and turn the families in our neighborhood into permanent subscription-service serfs.

https://constructamiracle.com/p/how-they-turned-your-home-into-a

https://constructamiracle.com/p/how-wall-street-engineered-the-permanent

https://constructamiracle.com/p/the-parasite-on-the-economy

Barbara Kiley's avatar

Please be less cryptic. Is “The Rust” a stand-alone, administrative entity or is it a slang term to encompass a multiplicity of bad actors RE: electronic communications?

I’m assuming it’s the latter. But really? You didn’t say.

Explorer's avatar

My AI explain with more patience:

The Rust isn't a single corporation, but if you want to see it at work, look at private equity firms buying up single-family homes in your neighborhood. Look at the billing algorithms dictating what your doctor is allowed to prescribe you. Those are the gears. The Rust is the engine running them.

Explorer's avatar

🤦‍♂️ the whole point is that we are condemning a system, not a node in the system. We use “the Rust” to specify the parts of the system that extract from the working class. Corrosive, like rust. Read this:

https://constructamiracle.com/p/who-is-they

Terry Wears's avatar

Godspeed my brother. I have followed you enough to know you legit

and exceptional. I subscribed today.

Explorer's avatar

Hell yeah that’s the lightning that keeps the fires roaring. Your focus keeps mine aligned. Attention is a group effort. I appreciate the sparks & helping keep the lights on.

Terry Wears's avatar

Allright , focus is the gift that keeps on giving!

Paul Dickson's avatar

I routinely refer to my phone as "Peter Theil" as a reminder that it is always listening, always working on me to alter me in a manner that it prefers even as it behaves as if it were just a helpful tool. Like a demon summoned by a wizard to do his bidding, looking for an angle in his own interest. An ifrit barely under my control.

Timothy Brice's avatar

Treating our attention like an open-air market has done a number on the collective nervous system. Maybe one of the most radical acts left is treating your pocket-sized slot machine like an intrusive guest rather than an extension of your own nervous system

laurie miller's avatar

Well written , I liked that. lauriemillerjade.com

Iv'e got a feeing you know, though, that always draws critisism from the lower intellects, or , the lesser thinkers., And that is, A few wealthy Jews, have got control over how we think and speak. and there is nothing we can do about it. They control the internet. Their directive comes from Israel.

They are the top of the rust.

Carol Tencza's avatar

You folks in the USA have laws you can use for this intellectual and personal theft of our minds and lives. Please learn how to utilize those laws b/c our collective humanity need you to do that not only for yourselves, but the rest of us, too. Ethan, your research is impeccible -thank you so much for all your hard work. WE all pay for internet services, those services are now being used to capitalize our participation in this monstrosity that has been created to spy on us non-stop WITHOUT our consent nothwithstanding their convoluted service agreements for totally intrusive advertising, sound and camera snooping. If nothing else turn them off on your devices. Slap a piece of heavy tape over the camera - these things are NOT toys so treat them as the weapons they really are. Learn about your devices, how to turn things off - I'm currently learning about alternative systems that are safer and more private and it's gonna take a while to process the info and look into other hardware I might need. Learn about meshnet for emergencies via hand-helds etc. LEARN TO SAY NO! Be proactive for yourselves and take the initiative to help other's learn as you go along. Ethan, take good care of yourself. WE need you, k. Love and light. Peace out.

Explorer's avatar

Carol, thank you for the massive support. You are absolutely right that the first step is realizing we are in a cage and saying NO to the enclosure.

But remember, the Cathedral doesn't even need to look through our webcams anymore. The extraction is much deeper. They don't need to physically watch us because they are farming our clicks, our behavior, and our attention directly from the feed to build their AI models. The tape over the camera is a good instinct, but we can't just hide from the technology.

Retreating submits that we will never be the status quo. We can't concede the war by just hiding off-grid. Our real weapon is the Data Commons. We have to demand that these foundational AI models, which are built on our stolen data, are classified as public utilities and Common Carriers. We don't just turn our devices off. We fight to take the infrastructure back.

Thank you for being in the Vanguard and helping us build the hammer.

Carol Tencza's avatar

Thank you - you have the laws to reverse this - takes a community working together to get er done!