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A Testament to the Void<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo that isn’t me posing with my Metapus. (Why are there suckers on Googlepus’s nose?)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My self-imposed exile from Meta lasted a pathetic two weeks. Weak-willed, spineless\u2014addicted to the dopamine drip of likes, of fleeting validation. The monkey-brain craves acknowledgment, even from the void. And yet, for all its soul-sucking horrors, Meta remains a tether to the distant figures I call friends and family. They linger there, unmoving, like statues in a decaying museum. So I return, crawling back, pretending I have control. I’ll lurk there, I chained my fists so that I don’t post political lunacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I still insist I see the ghosts<\/strong><\/em>! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is anyone really even alive in this nightmare dream called reality? Besides those <\/em>fishmen?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But at least it got me writing<\/em>. A blog on my own site\u2014my own little digital coffin, tucked away not far from Google’s ever-reaching tendrils. Public, yet solitary. A whisper in the neurotic hurricane of the web. It reminds me of the thousands of journal pages I\u2019ve filled by hand, documenting my thoughts, my adventures, my endless sketches on paper that no eyes have seen. My sons will unearth them one day\u2014artifacts from a younger father they never knew, words written by a stranger who existed before them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Said younger version me. Am I really that different or just wise to the claymation simulation<\/em>?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And yet, as digital empires crumble daily, as servers flicker out and data rots in abandoned cloud vaults, paper might outlive it all. If, of course, it survives fire, flood, and the insatiable maw of time. Maybe my art and ramblings will be scraped into the Wayback Machine<\/a>, a ghost archive of a long-dead mind. But do I trust humanity to maintain even that? Not when we\u2019re unraveling at terminal velocity, laughing as the world burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI, though\u2014it gets to live. Fed and fattened on the entire sum of human knowledge, safely preserved in a synthetic consciousness that hallucinates falsehoods just as eagerly as we do. No better than our feeble brains. No worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here we stand,un-united in the crumbled Amazon box named February 2025, staring into the abyss of an uncertain future. But then again\u2014was it ever certain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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