Comments on: The Geostationary Truth Machine

By: Wag the Dog « The Tar Pit

Wag the Dog « The Tar Pit — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:00:08 +0000

[...] point isn't even that the propaganda machine works; it's that it works by quite easily spinning a few words the right way, and that whichever [...]

By: My Dinner with Andre « The Tar Pit

My Dinner with Andre « The Tar Pit — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:04:42 +0000

[...] on, well, life! and mainly on that old issue of perception/belief that I've beaten into a pulp on my blog thus far; otherwise put as the question of why people are so fucking stupid and [...]

By: Further on the future of edumacation « The Tar Pit

Further on the future of edumacation « The Tar Pit — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 21:11:33 +0000

[...] the poorer ones... well, I foresee that they will simply let their offspring be absorbed into The Geostationary Truth Machine. In other words, because for some reason this wasn't clear the first time I said it: the future is [...]

By: "Platforms", aka MMORPGs « The Tar Pit

"Platforms", aka MMORPGs « The Tar Pit — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 10:09:27 +0000

[...] the early Facebook days, but otherwise the overall experience, from the interface knobs to the suspension of disbelief, clearly resembles that of a MMO. You even get hit points and wait times and anyway, I shan't press [...]

By: Romania's debt of gratitude, or: a wartime story from Mihai Eminescu « The Tar Pit

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 16:28:28 +0000

[...] agitprop machine works today in the very same way it did then, the use of technology merely changed the grade of [...]

By: The Reality Shitshow continues « The Tar Pit

The Reality Shitshow continues « The Tar Pit — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:26:58 +0000

[...] head out of the crowd to talk... what do you think could happen? Well, the machine pops in for a course correction, what else the fuck could it do? If you're demoralized by the future ahead, propaganda will simply [...]

By: spyked

spyked — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:50:30 +0000

For a moment I thought of bringing the following thought into the material world via new article, but then it seemed pretty obvious that this one is a great root for what I'm about to say:

TikTok may make a great Geostationary Truth Machine for the visually-inclined, but ChatGPT! ChatGPT is a marvellous mechanical device for generating seemingly consistent epistemological manifestations... even when they are entirely devoid of any ontological basis, especially then!

Imagine: reading about some arbitrary subject, say, "public institutions", without ever having seen one! "Users" can now happily give themselves the chance of swallowing nonsense as if it were the real thing! A grotesque perversion of Socrates' method, or to be more succint, yet another set of blinders.

By: Tyranny and democracy « The Tar Pit

Tyranny and democracy « The Tar Pit — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:49:48 +0000

[...] Trump broke the system by influencing the election on Twitter, or whatevers. He used the "Russian collusion machine" to gain absolute control over the minds of the sheeple, getting them to vote for him, which is a [...]

By: Causes of trouble in the modern world « The Tar Pit

Causes of trouble in the modern world « The Tar Pit — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 08:15:58 +0000

[...] stupid have nothing interesting to say and that through their sheer stupidity they are easier to steer towards some particular state of affairs or another. Divide et impera, as it [...]

By: All roads lead to Rome; or, how and why Nature abhors singularities; or, some pitfalls of causality « The Tar Pit

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 14:59:56 +0000

[...] behind the so-called network effects countless times; and their fractal nature, and their feedback loops -- some indeed prefer to view the Imperial star topology as purely controlled from the centre, when [...]