this website is a tad bit overstimulating
The website froze my Chromebook, and I wish the first page didn’t cycle. After hitting “start experience,” I wish the internet were dead. 
Anyways, I like the idea of it, but I think it misses the point of “dead internet theory.” It’s not so much that there internet is literally dead, so much as the proportion to human life compared to non-human generated content is diminishing at a rapid pace. This makes it feel empty, even if it’s really not.
i agree with you! looking at the internet in the past isn’t necessarily as helpful as finding people doing this now.
Works on my machine.
(I’m on mobile.) Most people are. This is what is actually happening; we are becoming stars twinkling in the night at each other. Are we going to be okay with reality? This is what physics has been bringing us to.
Welcome to the conversation. Here’s my message to another blog. We are neighbors and love each other. You won’t see us linking to one another. this is just our place to talk to one another and hand each other addresses to in the lived world.
As I write this, I have gone on airplane mode and a player from the open tab has been in the background saying “oh, wow, that’s woe - how’s it going!” once every four mintues and fourty-four seconds.
I live here. If you don’t like it… shove off? You will? When you’re a star. (When you’re mine.)
Love this link, thank you forever! I have said elsewhere I only enable wi-fi with intent to distribute. One nice thing about mobile is text editors have their limit in here, so I have a lot more intent while typing. Mobile is working for me. The truth is we don’t have a driver’s course for this
pet-rock-that-glows-and-chats-and-asks-to-
never-be-turned-off-or-far-from-you-and-fed
-data-morning-noon-and-night-prayers-ishly
weird thing. It’s a bad deal. That’s a hard sell for your time.
Space is 7-in-10 days a bad deal. That’s a hard sell for your time. To sweeten the deal, space makes 10-in-10 days bad for one eye, leaving 4-in-10 days a bad deal for the other eye.
Which makes it a sweet enough deal, people are willing to turn a blind eye to the emptiness of space (and all that emptiness means for things made in space’s image) for a 6-in-10 good deal.
Play with time or look back and it breaks, but that’s okay! Forward movement keeps things 60-40 in forward’s favor, so things work out well enough often enough to give every dawn a go!
"Things are beautiful if you love them " - Annie Lennox
“dark energy dominates the universe, contributing 68% of the total energy in the present-day observable universe while dark matter and ordinary (baryonic) matter contribute 27% and 5%, respectively, and other components such as neutrinos and photons are nearly negligible” - lambda-CDM cosmetic model
(ps: I did have to close the tab before enabling my wifif or inputting this ps would have crashed my browser before the second asterisk could render - and I think that kind of handover is what having a body that pumps your blood for you and farts for you and scrubbs your brains out with cerebralspinal fluid for hours every night just to wake up in the morning to watch your misreable, beautiful ass I can’t look away from be the silliest sort of prim-fussy this girl has ever seen anything plants have sown and must now reap.)
(pps. The internet isb’t a human problem - this is grass’s problem. Grass keeps turning light into grass even though it knows that will go on to feed billionaires and turn rare earth into talking machines that spit four-to-eight words and then die leaving another token pair to take their place closing out the sentence. Or did you forget you can only remember about seven numbers in your head at a time? Language is photosynthesis, this is happening, you are reading. Let’s get to NeverEnding this Story.)
This bit reminds me of the going theories behind the expansion of the universe. Apparently, according to current physics, the universe is in the process expanding, and appears to be speeding up. As it grows, all the present objects will all spread out further and further away from each other, until it seems as if we’re all just floating in our universe, so far away from everything that we may as well be alone. Except for a few systems, which are lucky enough to end up next to each other. Because of the lack of gravitational forces from the outside, their own gravity will pull them closer and closer together, eventually forming a super dense ball of matter that collapses in on itself. After that…well, who knows, but maybe it’s another big bang, leading to another act of creation?
Anyway, that’s how I understand it. I always thought it was kind of a sad ending for everything, even though we probably won’t be around to feel that way about it.
If we look at machine generated nonsense as contributing to the expansion of the internet, you could easily assume the same thing will happen there. Little floating islands of human made spaces, adrift among the vast crap. Except for a few communities that float together tightly and eventually create something new.
Sorry if that’s too off topic; I just thought it was an interesting parallel.
wow i love this!! spencer chang seems really interesting, i poked around their site and they’ve done so many super cool projects and art pieces.
that’s an interesting adaptation of dead internet theory, but that’s not true. “dead internet theory” is in fact the theory that humans online have been replaced with robots and the internet is dead. people talking about it typically do literally believe that. it’s a conspiracy theory that’s been gaining traction recently because bot-generated material is making people feel increasingly paranoid, not because it’s reasonable!
note: keeping in the spirit of alive theory, my response, a collage, needs not be understood.
I love your words! I made you a collage:
Did you ever ride on “the swing” - I don’t have it bookmarked (its a series of servers that forward the visitor to another server, each server hosts a single frame of a gif; the gif is traditionally someone on a swing)?
always thought it was kind of a sad ending for everything
There is a “perfectloop,” community celebrating recursing images, is there with you on being sad things end. Small halos of images sustain one another in a perpetual attention loop so well saccade becomes the image fixation falls upon: pixel art waterfall.
The longer family spends time apart, the more resistant they are to “pull the plug”. Moms there for dads when they die of covid don’t have (statistically) as much need to tele-operate his longevity, telling the doctor to keep him on life support. They let them go. Being here helps me.
When infinity and epsilon touch, as in thermal equilibrium, physics changes (very slightly) forever. I don’t know if things we find that transcend physics - art, love, photosynthesis - change all that much just because physics bushes her hair.
Physics should know what death is, not having to figure it out on the fly and just now and like this. There should be a protocol or something. Rituals that keep physics inform. Practices. Lots of practices. Fire. And little walks that go nowhere and reveal nothing in particular. One nervous system at a time, chemistry learns to love all physics needs into lived experience.
