based in london, the .ink blog is published by christoph hargreaves-allen (‘CH-A’) - AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, NEWS ANALYST AND INFORMATION-THEORIST.

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we’re living through the “GOLDEN AGE of intelligence”…which is to say the following.

CYBER-surveillance is ubiquitous; like broadband. our digital actions ARE monitored non-stop, 24/7/365. OUR PHONE CALLS are parsed phonetically and semantically - for intonations of mood and/or keywords, both of which can swiftly be monetised. known and unknown organisations track our behaviour on- and offline, collecting lists of our interests and habits, our fears and desires, and so on. potentially-lucrative activities are distributed and predictively analysed for their dollar value every time we click online. our digital activity is not only surveilled, in real-time - it’s also sold at virtual auctions conducted in nanoseconds. all the time that’s required for a click to open a new page, and enough time ( typically <1 sec’) for advertisers to select targeted users based upon their real-TIME actions. time enough for interested commercial parties to bid for then buy an ad’ slot on the next page you or I view.

according to a source inside the consumer finance and tech’ industries, the average click [with metadata regarding the user who’s clicking] fetches between $100 and $250 at automated auctions. details of OUR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP NETWORKS ARE HARVESTED every second…and traded between 2nd, 3rd and more parties. curiously, the profits gained from the sale of your personal data (and mine too) is pocketed by the brokers and their clients. the user - the source of this valuable data - receives 0.00% of the gross proceeds of this fabulously profitable sub-sector.

it’s impossible to hide in the 21st century.

the HUMAN NEED to belong and to communicate with like minds - and to seek PEER APPROVAL, across SOCIAL-MEDIA PLATFORMS - has led to an intriguing phenomenon. one that’s easily overlooked…

the abundance of individual exhibitionism on these platforms obscures a less-detectable, EVEN MORE WORRYING, tendency in most social-media userS. this is an unconscious DISPOSITION toward SELF-CENSORSHIp - especially when it comes to controversial topics. our increasingly UNQUESTIONing SUBMISSION TO DOMINANT NARRATIVES or political correctness contributes to the phenomenon - which is unexpectedly strong in democracieS where freedom of speech is taken for granted…AND YET IS exercised less and less.

the truth is, it’s not JUST what you do or say or like online. it’s ALSO what you don’t do or DON’T say online that reveals MUCH about you. this is the most valuable data of all. THIS IS THE REAL ‘CYBER-STALKING’ - INDUSTRIAL ANALYSES OF YOUR SHADOW SELVES.

yet our prudent approach to uncomfortable issues means we refrain from discussions of some of the most important dilemmas of our time. the INDIVIDUAL’S withdrawal from public discourse (FOR FEAR OF ALIENATION: THE PENALTY FOR BUCKING GROUP-THINK) creates a vacuum which misinformation and covert propaganda fills instead.

leading to the creation of a so-called tyranny of the mainstreaM - whereby web citizens are happy to agree with others but will most often decline to disagree IN PUBLIC - for fear of disapproval or social and professional harm stemming from the (courageous; DEMOCRATIC) act of SPEAKING FREELY in THE public DOMAIN. EFFECTIVELY, WE ARE STALKING OURSELVES AND OUR BEST FRIENDS.

TRUST NOBODY ONLINE - AVOID THE WORLD WIDE WEB. THAT IS THE BEST ADVICE, IF ALSO THE LEAST PRACTICAL - THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE - OPTION. EXCEPT IT ISN’T. IT TURNS OUT THAT FOR EVERY HOUR SPENT GAZING INTO YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN, IT REQUIRES 3 HOURS TO REFRESH THE POSITIVE BASELINE-MOOD YOU FELT BEFORE ENGAGING WITH ONLINE MEDIA…THE LATEST STUDIES SHOW.

ANYWAY. WE CAN’T HELP IT. IT’S AN ADDICITON. AND the aforementioned ‘vacuum’ is filled up BY, instead OF HUMAN TRUTHS, an ersatz, unrepresentativE ‘consensus’…which is manipulated and EVEN re-engineered by political agents and special interests COLLABORATING WITH them.

digital consensus-manufacturers have all kinds of agendas to meet, from political to industrial TO military to communications mandates. consent is manufactured when our personal opinions are influenced, through feedback loops, by topics re-framed accordingly so as to fit our profile. (it’s performed by algorithm.) NEVER MIND THE TEMPORAL ASPECT OF SOCIAL FEEDS - THE FAKE SYNCHRONY WHICH IS EXACTLY (THE SYNCHRONY, THAT IS) WHAT GETS US HIGH. SHAME IT’S AN ILLUSION - BUT, REALLY, WHO CARES?

the digital content we see CAN BE ‘virtually’ orchestrated by interventionists impossible to identify. the result is that social media provides a distorted or massaged version of the truth that has been manipulated much than it might seem. so well-disguised is it under its mask of spontaneity, it’s impossible to discern online intervention and surveillance.

the world we see online is a disingenuous facsimile of the ‘real world’. the breaking stories we seek in digital news are targeted, re-framed versions of the actual news - -despite seeming so real thanks to high-definition TV screens.

what we see is a mirror of some kind. just don’t forget the mirror is a broken one.

THE DEMAND, therefore, FOR REDACTED, filtered, verified and considered NEWS is higher than ever. Filtered news. call it ‘intelligence’, maybe - to separate it from the narrative-driven newscasters’ stories? if you like breaking news, the most accurate news is probably found only on a few wires and on bbc|world channels or in the better (print) newspapers.

information is over. analysis is the new ‘press’. the demand for no-bullshit news has rarely been sharper or higher. NEITHER HAS THE need TO MONITOR THE NEWS (and social) MEDIA FOR TRACES OF PROPAGANDA AND MISREPRESENTATION WHICH easily GO UNNOTICED IN our HURRY TO KEEP UP WITH a media culture permanently on fast-forward.

…HEY - AT LEAST IT’S ENTERTAINING. AND YOU FEEL IN CONTROL BECAUSE YOU DO ALL THE HARD WORK - GIVING AWAY YOUR DATA, OPINIONS, AND MORE FOR FREE. DILIGENT SLAVES OF THE DIGITAL OVERWORLD: IT’S ALREADY TOO LATE.

#WE_r_FUCT.

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ZOOMAMI

ZOOMAMI

Christoph Hargreaves Allen

That's a name you should know

If you dunno by now

Better catch a repeat

Cos he rules the ways

He rolls like surfers do waves

He cruise, like his name not Tom but he like highway.

He cool. He Hugo. He's as chill as a Puffin who been huffin highways --

H.H.ro we back in business

Love to tha Siz and that's no illness.

Family matters like it's not not business.

EPMD is for extra visits.

In the mill

We keep the krill

We hold the algae still

The kelp makes its own forests

I don't see no deep-lakers down there tending to the dendrils like they be Morris

Who the fuck Morris

He some kind of car got forgotten, renamed, retooled, made mini by way of XOROX

What kinda crazy name is that?

If you weren't a superhuman I'd call you a bat!

Anyways

The point is real is what I'm saying

I've perfected the art of thinking by delaying

That way we be free from the tempo of AI & all its gaming

Can't code me

I'm snitch name for Braining

It's a new discipline would killed the Olympics in Beijing

It's like semantic athletics including doping.

It's chaos as one-way while you're hoping!

Its message be real simplez:

How you coping?

If you hit speed bumps

Nah worry

Whole thing be trop'ing?

Trop' what's that?

It's a fucking banana in your ice pack_____.

It's no no meaning.

Semantic imprints

Like lasers beaming

Last only as long as light be streaming

Then trance return to former Beings.

Then everything gels like you freewheeling.

Reversing tricycles on the corridors red and screaming.

If screaming was a silence without sound.

Then the fear of it,

The connect a wit --

They all be screaming.

Cos fear is a gear that outlast the year even if the old dear doesn't revere what is here what is now what is young what is dumb what is happening what is --

Scrappling. That's word for happening.

Twist of lemon.

Karate zen monk.

Monkey's eleven.

Don't say laundry box

No say rolling table

Steals on wheels got mass appeal.

Beemers on test got sass o' feel. Driver or a geek, surfer or a turtler? --

Don't matter which one you done or which way the switch blades.

Not about the machines

Tho nothing doper than a submarine

- with SPACE in it.

Like a gin Palace or a 747 jet, innit?

That's how you see the real variety.

Subaquatic.

Take your time.

Sea level - minus Z.

I hope we can get down there

And make discoveries

Then bring back up onto earth level and help the recoveries.

Fingers crossed. Wait and see.

Time is coming

For H20 to get real deep.

When that tide hits there's only 1 pro I'll be calling her deets --

Her name is Sesia

Queen of the Oceany

We put our trust in her.

She can count on us, as if she needed delegatees -

We counting on her

Like it's Arithmetic.

Like it's a cause of celebrity.

EPMDeeper we back in bidnis.

EPMCreeper we like snakes on Vine that seek the is-ness.

V to the sea to the otter and his cuz the manatee --

Hey yo

Fuck humanity

At least they can wait.

Put em on ice like a wedding cake fearing the temp makes it go wavy gravy.

None of them piquant momentos or mementoes matter, ho ho --

Plates will clatter.

Cities will shatter.

Rivers will back up.

Streams will get jacked up....

That's all okay.

No fear. NFGs,

Feel no way.

::

Only thing that matters

Is the Ocean

And it's iriedescent rays.

And while that misspell is a messy one it may not be a mistake. Kelp and Ganja are not like, irreconcilably, night and day.

So you go sis.

Go in yo own time.

Marine life.

U got this.

I'm backing you

We all backing you

Til the end of time --

SHARK WEEK on Primetime.

Rather be meat for a triple jaw

Than birdfood for landlubbers counting they's and yours'.

Whatever works for your space and time.

All I'm saying is:

It's ocean time.

All I'm saying is my sis,

She's a top crip.

She practically invented ocean tides.

And never mind.

She got this.

She gangster.

It ain’t wet Brain--

It's called Subaquatic K-Rhyme.

Not a crime

But a new way to view sealions without disturbing the environs...

You get me.

Kind.

Love to the phosphorus

Lights in deepwater....

....be like the Grail of our Time.

Your watch.

Your find!!

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Madness

No meaning here

Just a crazy brother loving rhyme.

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