05 / October 19

Polybius by Sinneslöschen, Nitro Zeus: Psyop and Rumint

“cells that fire together, wire together”
— folk saying

Topics

Polybius's Histories v. laodogmatika, Arcadia, the Polybius square, and fire signals; Polybius by Sinneslöschen: psyop, rumint, social engineering, and vaporware; TAO, Olympic Games, Nitro Zeus, and cyberkinetic/rumor warfare; DARPA SMISC and INCAS, GCHQ's JTRIG; Trevor Paglen's Society of the Psyop; Young Slime Life, swarm v. slime dynamics; agent v. swarm v. protean ooze; David Roden and Posthuman Life; parasocial slime life: Roberta Breitmore, Lil Miquela and the Brud, Tilly Norwood, Particle6, Misaligned; swarm dynamics, drone swarms, agentic swarms; theorycels v. operators; D&D to MUDs to MMORPGs; ARGs: ong's hat, the Beast, ilovebees, Year Zero, Synydyne, Cicada 3301, gamejacking, and occult memetics; Bernard Suits, C. Thi Nguyen, Games: Agency as Art; Gamergate and algorithmic radicalization; no true airgap, opsec, exploits; the Deep Private: Black Cube, Psygroup, Palantir, Academi, AnonOps, Wikileaks, Resistbot, elonjet

Readings 2

Society of the Psyop Trevor Paglen from Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems Eric Bonabeau et al.

Additional Reading & Primary Documents 2

from Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking Christopher Hadnagy from Slime Dynamics Ben Woodard

Lab

Duct tape brain

RAG, vector db
Building bot personality and tools