Facebook Feature of 32bit.Cafe

Hey All! I started a Facebook page and group recently to create an avenue where people on FB can discover this movement. I love this movement very much and want more people to have the opportunity to discover it, which is why I feel it is important to have a space on these platforms that consistently promotes this movement. Every day I feature different websites across the small web that I think are helpful or interesting. It’s something I intend to consistently promote, so if anyone is interested in joining and sharing your websites there, here are the links. :slight_smile:

FB page:

FB group:

I’ll also mention, for those who value their anonymity, anonymous posts are enabled for the group so feel free to submit your sites to the group that way. Additionally, Facebook now has the option where you can create additional profiles that are linked to your account, which makes it easy to create pseudonym profiles you can join the group and comment with.

And last but not least, the first feature I did on the FB page was on the 32bit Cafe, which I wanted to share! ^^ I think you guys do amazing work here and this is such an amazing resource for newcomers to this movement. The feature for this site can be found here:

I wasn’t able to successfully link an Instagram to the page, Meta doesn’t really provide good explanations to why they block you from doing certain things, so if anyone’s feeling particularly motivated to create something like this page for IG, Twitter/X, Tiktok, or other mainstream platforms, let me know! Lets affiliate and help people on these platforms discover this movement. :)

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To be clear, are anonymous submissions anonymous to you as well, or only to other users?

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Only to others. As admin I’d be able to see where all submissions come from. If that is bothersome though, you’re welcome to join using a pseudonym profile. :slight_smile:

Damn, can’t even see what’s going on as Facebook has blocked me being able to view it :sob:

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Augh that sucks :frowning: I hate Facebook lol. I tried to link an instagram account to double schedule site features but my account is apparently restricted and they won’t tell me why. :sweat_smile: The only way I can possibly fix it is if I submit my ID in an appeal, but I’m not doing that. Sometimes I feel like they do this stuff on purpose just to try and mine more data out of people. :unamused:

This is exactly what they do, and why myself or the majority of people in this community don’t engage with the user hostile silos at all.

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I definitely don’t blame you! If it weren’t for my friends being on there and the fact everyone local to me uses marketplace to buy/sell, I would have left years ago. I have an IG but don’t really use it anymore. But I figure if I’m on one of these platforms anyways, I may as well try and use it to help bring more people over here. I’ll take one for the team. :laughing:
If there ever comes a point that they require ID to keep or create an account though, that’ll be the day I leave Meta for good. I feel like that could be a possibility, now that they have their Meta ‘verified’ system that requires ID to get a little blue check mark. In a few years when people can’t tell what’s real and what’s AI anymore, it wouldn’t surprise me if they start enforcing ID verification on all accounts. Just my own speculation though.

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I don’t want to derail this thread, but please allow me to “go off the deep end” for a moment, for I am more than willing to look foolish or insane if it will bring others to wisdom…As utterly bizarre as it might seem, people new to “alternative” spaces on the Internet probably need to know these things the most, and I cannot shake a deep feeling that this must be shared here…

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Indeed. It will also probably ramp up and become progressively more invasive as ideas like the “Internet of Things” (IoT), the “Internet of Bodies” (IoB), and “Smart Cities” are pushed ever harder. Everything has to be “connected” because The People™ demand it!

For example, check out these suggestions by a group of researchers from Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, OpenAI, and Stanford’s Internet Observatory:

Current policies regarding social media usage range from not requiring any form of registration to requiring that accounts be affiliated with real names and unique email addresses, and, at times, requiring users to submit “video selfies” for proof of personhood. However, any of these approaches can be circumvented by malicious actors: they can register many “burner” email addresses to create fake accounts and hire inexpensive labor to complete proof of humanness checks.

Platforms could, however, more uniformly require higher standards of proof of personhood in order to verify that content is not being produced by an AI and reposted to their sites. This could involve requiring more reliable forms of authentication when users sign up for an account, for instance, by asking a user to take a live video of themselves posing, or asking for some alternative form of biometrics. Alternatively, platforms could require users to occasionally pass tests to demonstrate humanness before posting content; these tests could either be administered randomly, at periodic intervals, or when a particular user is posting at a high volume. CAPTCHAs are one way to demonstrate humanness in this way; however, a determined adversary can cheaply circumvent them. Outside of tests, another proposed approach includes decentralized attestation of humanness.

from their whitepaper, Generative Language Models and Automated Influence Operations: Emerging Threats and Potential Mitigations.

In other words, not only would those systems require access to even more things that uniquely identify you as an individual (“biometrics”), it would also require you to “prove” your “humanness” by prompting you for specific actions. How long until that type of behavior modification is connected to some form of currency, like that infamous Microsoft patent? To quote:

CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA

Human body activity associated with a task provided to a user may be used in a mining process of a cryptocurrency system. A server may provide a task to a device of a user which is communicatively coupled to the server. A sensor communicatively coupled to or comprised in the device of the user may sense body activity of the user. Body activity data may be generated based on the sensed body activity of the user. The cryptocurrency system communicatively coupled to the device of the user may verify if the body activity data satisfies one or more conditions set by the cryptocurrency system, and award cryptocurrency to the user whose body activity data is verified.

People are already starving in the streets within supposed “first world” countries, and circumstances are worse for many of those within the “global south”. If such technology were implemented, it would greatly exacerbate the problem. :disappointed_relieved:

Those might seem like leaps in logic, so what am I getting at? Technology in general is useful, but that utility has hard limits that people generally do not seem to understand. The long-term trend behind all of that is fully-fledged “IT-backed authoritarianism” woven into every aspect of life

Some people in “The West” criticize the CCP for the existence of “The Great Firewall” and the mass surveillance done through companies like Tencent, ByteDance, etc. But surely Google, Meta, Amazon, and so on are the exact same thing done under the guise of “capitalism” rather than “communism”? How much do the labels and rationalizations really matter when any person tries to gain at the expense of another?

For example, how different are “Human Capital Management” or “Social Impact Investing” and “Human Capital Performance Bonds” from “Social Credit Scores” when everywhere is considered a potential “market” and everything becomes “monetized”?

Of course, none of it has ever been far from the government anyway. “Silicon Valley” is an outgrowth of military research and not much has changed. Data brokers work with government organizations for a lot more than implementing “surveillance capitalism”. As another example, they create “digital twins” for the purposes of “war game simulations” involving everyone on Earth. Why? There is so much data stored in the “Silicon Slopes” that part of the push for “better AI” is to comb through it more “efficiently”.

Just look at the roster of companies that are a part of programs like PRISM and Tempora, which are used by people within governments to spy on everyone else. Can any secretive alphabet organization be trusted with much of anything, especially after things like Project MKUltra, COINTELPRO, Project Shamrock, and many other “black ops” have been repeatedly uncovered? Transparency! What can happen when things like “social media” become the tool of a corrupt government? Did you know the automation of genocide has happened before?

Part of computer literacy is becoming fully aware of the environment that we are in. The Internet use of nearly the entire world is filtered through various “Internet Service Providers” (ISPs) or hardware made by companies located within the jurisdiction of the different “Eyes Alliances”. That is a significant part of “military intelligence” within the U.S. and Europe. In turn, it trickles down to so-called “fusion centers” operated by local “law-enforcement agencies”. That entire structure can easily become the foundation for what some would refer to as a “police state”.

In the same way that aspects of medicine are being automated to people’s detriment, there is a push for things like “predictive policing”, which is the ironic task of trying to catch “criminals” before they have done a “crime”. Are there biases within the algorithms and data sets that further cement pre-existing inequalities? What about when businesses hire their own private police forces, like a group of mercenaries? If a prison is a business, then how does it make money? So many questions.

…I could go on and on about how the same patterns are being repeatedly expressed throughout society the world over in different ways, but I will stop there. What is currently at stake is so much bigger than simply being able to build our own websites or getting some “digital veganism” into our diet. [Don’t get me wrong. That is wonderful. I do not discourage it and I am partly working towards the same. Therefore, I love what you are doing here and I generally support it.] However, how many people (including those deeply involved in the “tech industry”) understand just how much we all, quite literally, are living out “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism”? Personally, I choose to “opt out” of any and all systems of manipulation and violence.

Again, I am definitely NOT suggesting that anyone become paranoid and embrace extremism in response to this dire situation, nor sabotage their own technological tools and become an “anarcho-primitivist” as they prep for ecological collapse. I simply wish to point out that only personal integrity and sincere striving towards virtue is going to matter in the end. Please remember this carefully whatever may come on the horizon. It might seem incredibly scary, but do not act in fear. “Mystery Babylon” (control through “commerce”) is about to get devoured by “The Beast” (control through “government”), especially within the U.S. and U.K. Shortly thereafter, “The Beast” will be slain by a way of living founded upon true kindness and consideration [*see Rev. 17-19 for details]. Please note that this message is not particularly “religious,” but the metaphors are useful for seeing the deeper truth.

God willing, I will be able to share more research on this forum soon. The problems are not insurmountable when faced with Agapic Love.

Peace :dove:

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I totally agree! I haven’t done quite as much research but am aware of a lot of what you’ve mentioned. We’re kind of in a very deep hole at the moment, and while the small web is maybe a few steps up from the bottom of the hole, in the grand scheme of things we’re still deep in a hole that I’m not even sure we can get out of. I was watching Shane Dawson’s ‘How A.I. Is Going To End The World’ video today, and while he does tend to over dramatize and fear monger quite a bit for sensationalism, there’s a lot of truth to the video and what I think is coming. It kind of got me thinking too that maybe the ‘antichrist’ the religious believe is coming isn’t even a human, but more of a spiritual construct of everything that takes us away from who we are as humans, the total inversion of humanity’s essence, if that makes sense. The ‘Mark Of The Beast’ could be giving so much of yourself to it that there’s no point of return. And I think a lot of that has to do with AI, and merging humanity with AI down to the physical level. Once you pop a chip into your brain and merge yourself with AI, I’m not sure there’s any coming back from that. It opens the door to the potential of total mind control, mind surveillance, potentially becoming ‘hackable’, amongst a plethora of other things. Who really knows where it could all lead to. But I do know a lot of what they are trying to achieve can be found within ourselves already. But again, it all comes back to the total inversion of ourselves.

That Small Web has been a really great escape from a lot, and while it might not be total liberation in the grand scheme of things, I’d love to see this movement become more widely known so people know it’s an option. Most people online stay primarily inside these giant social media silos, and I hate Facebook as much as the next person even though I still use it, but I also think in order to help people escape one layer of the matrix, there’s gotta be a door somewhere in there they can find in order to even know there’s a way out. They need to be exposed to information and ‘exit’ doors in spaces they already reside, because they don’t know there’s anything else out there to escape to. These are the spaces we need to share this kind of info to the most if we really want to help people and wake them up to this stuff. They’ll likely never come across it otherwise.

As for the overall problems we’re facing and the depth of corruption, I honestly have no idea how we’re going to navigate out of that because there are so many layers. I think a lot of people have an idea but have just numbed themselves to it and accepted it, as sad as that is, because what can we really do to stop it all? It’s far too much to fully comprehend how organized, calculated and corrupt it all is. But I think to an extent we can probably use some of their tools against them, in ways that are unfavorable to them. Everyone’s just gotta find their strategy and focus on an area they feel called to take action in. :) Find your thing and do good with what you know, and hopefully others will feel inspired and it’ll create a ripple effect.

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