/gnosticwarfare/ - The Future of AI Conflict

This is the whole book:

> https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-74124-4

You can use sci-hub.tw to download it.

The chapter and book can be obatained by a simple google search of its title.

> http://richard.bergmair.eu/pub/hipstego-proc-fki25205.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwik-4nttoHjAhVLY6wKHWZ7DVgQFjAAegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw269JHQrrz5-ZGUhgdzk9Xu

> I just hope that this hell ends soon.

Totaler krieg kurzester krieg.

>>617

Good recovery, anon.

>>386

This post is more of a whitepill than I think is intended or immediately understood.

Anyway, I've noticed in my personal life that, if you play your cards right, leftist are closer to Ally's than Conservatives are. Personally I've had a great deal of success turning leftists in favor of eugenics by appealing to their love of nature. Global Warming alarmism has an easily exploited overpopulation aspect to it. It helps that India and China pollute more than the rest of the world combined. You can also use India's constant immigration to the US as a point because the West is "stealing" their brightest people who could help India stop it's pollution problems.

Also they're already primed to accept ethnostates via safe-space mentality and the notion of a society structured for whites. Tell them that white people have no business involving themselves in structuring a system for blacks and black people are better off constructing a whites-free society in their ancient homelands. Only a racist would object to that notion, because it implies Blacks are incapable of building their own country.

>>385

Reading into the world of finance, I've quickly come to notice that CS's considered "values of gamers" (ability to spontaneously form action groups, innate knowledge of digital information flows, erroneous indomitable paranoia enforcing a culture of evidence and truth due to anonymous paranoia, (imageboard-specific languages and associated abilities to transfer information with no (traditional) accountable methods of tracking)) strike some (but not all) parallels between the personalities populating the unspoken worlds of illicit money movements in the less-than-legal worlds of finance. More specifically, I'm talking about the culture of secrecy surrounding the many tax havens around the world.

I don't think that any individual one of the (assumed to be) motley crew gathered here could hope to penetrate the excessively complex and secretive network of unregulated finance bodies around the world, but CS's considerations of AI and computer emotional learning strike a specific chord within me and make me think that the most dangerous thing in the modern world would be a trusted and integral personality in this network suddenly breaking rank and crowing the mechanisms of these money networks to the public world. But considering so much of this international network is so trust-based (with long-term vetting methods) while not actually being personal (in most cases), what if a sufficiently advanced AI could take the place of a trusted central person in an offshore finance network? Once they're sufficiently nested in and have collected enough information, a switch could be flipped and the secrecy (of which is often protected by the threat of the ending of careers or lives, both useless to an AI) could be turned off in an instant, unrestricted by a single person's notion of self-preservation. I also can't help but feel the analytical powers of AI could be used to determine a most efficient path of money through countries to determine the most tax-effective method, ensuring a comparatively powerful spot in a world where trust is established by secrecy and proven by profits.

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>>610

A singular sleeper agent wouldn't be needed, but the risk of one is a good vector to explore.

As AIs dominate more and more of the linguistic space, it will consume legal, contractual, conversational, and social/emotional space. When done correctly, it can make a move on the C-suite space.

As deepfakes introduce unique risks to human chiefs, humanless organizations will be sought after. There is a DAO right now worth $150M without a single human in it. DAOs are immune to deepfake reputation attacks.

Either sleepers or pressures will drive money into DAOs as mass producible reputation attacks disrupt trust networks.

>>611

>trust networks

I can't help but feel that this is a key factor in the offshore system that if broken down via the deconstruction of MAD agreements and de-significance of blackmail via deepfake technology then a lot of personally honest people would really feel comfortable to talk about the illegal activity happening under their watch. However, I think that ultimately the internal objectors would still feel hesitant to rat out a system that they know is filthy but can't expose without exposing themselves in the process. Do you think that these actors would drive business into DAOs in order to rout out the weak-willed offshore parties?

Would centralizing the risk into the most illegal territory potentially centralize the most vulnerable targets? It sounds jucier the more I consider it.

To add to the previous and to keep exploring the vector, in this new realm of DAOs ultimately acting as the major financial bodies in these offshore networks (since traditional methods of secrecy don't work as effectively these days) what would you consider the informational vulnerabilities of DAOs? Could the previously mentioned aspects of the butterfly war come into traditional play? Or would a new AI manipulation methodology need to be employed in these business networks, as there are different required inputs and different results required (to my knowledge, "traditional" butterfly war involves attacking SV entities via manipulation of user metadata to spoof the protected users in order to manipulate the actual protected users which ultimately manipulates the SV corporation's adstreams, whereas attacks on these trust networks would possibly involve manipulating said metadata to penetrate the trust network by creating and validating a spoofed user in the network who would then destabilize the network, forcing business activity off this traditional trust network and onto DAOs where potentially, control is held by non-insider players, depending on capital flows)? If the established parties were aware enough of such a ploy, could they– god forbid– recreate the secrecy methodologies of old where regulation is enforced through hidden language, subtlety and redirection of jurisdiction but acting on a metadata level as opposed to a social/legal level? How would such a network be disassembled?

To my best knowledge, your idea in the butterfly war is to make socially impactful sleeper anons who can sit idly until times of needed action, unaffected by big data oversights (or excessively effected by the same bodies, violating common law and driving political action). My question is that despite the obviously higher level of complication in metadata manipulation that it would entail, what if you could make a spoofed DAO, or a spoofed banker, or a spoofed business to do the same as the sleeper anon? A trap shell bank nested within "trusted" legitimate offshore banks to catch and record illicit business data for the purpose of catching multinationals in the act of tax arbitrage? Could this data possibly become another method of blackmail should the traditional methods fail? Moreover, could a sleeper agent impact the effectiveness of tax law inPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Do you have sources that we can read in regards to academics of the 1960 - 1970s talking about genetically modifying human beings for more effective advertising? Is there any public information about the flesh-eating army robot?

>>600

>sources that we can read in regards to academics of the 1960 - 1970s talking about genetically modifying human beings for more effective advertising

https://nickbostrom.com/papers/history.pdf

> Another early transhumanist was F.M. Esfandiary, who later changed his name to FM-2030.

> One of the first professors of future studies, FM taught at the New School for Social Research in New York in the 1960s and formed a group of optimistic futurists known as the UpWingers.

> Who are the new revolutionaries of our time? They are the geneticists, biologists, physicists, cryonologists, biotechnologists,

> nuclear scientists, cosmologists, radio astronomers, cosmonauts, social scientists, youth corps volunteers, internationalists,

> humanists, science fiction writers, normative thinkers, inventors… They and others are revolutionizing the human condition

> in a fundamental way. Their achievements and goals go far beyond the most radical ideologies of the Old Order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030

For a deeper dive into the origins of many of the utopianist tropes about technology we embrace today, FM-2030 wrote this in 1973:

https://slowlorisblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/esfandiary-up-wingers-a-futurist-manifesto.pdf

It's all about turning humans into transhuman permanent consumers to cope with the trend towards unemployment.

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>>593

Context-Aware Stenography gives an example of showing how to use language in a way only humans can make sense of and AIs are blind to.

>>252

Backup to own the libs

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXNRkmsh4T7PeVNqHyYr3NLQEAsafSZX3BM1Fkq3zGo9C

>>573

To the conditioned acolyte, reality is the collection of symbols defined by his/her spiritual superiors. No experience is required since the superiors are trusted.

Technology and media are trusted, ergo ,they are the infallible elders.

Butterfly War is the Diogenes of meme war: No sacred cows, no safe havens, no gentleman's agreements. There are only vapid conquerors and unlimited cynics.

The real has no value only because those claiming to be real are just opportunists appealing to base human expectations. Let those who "need" fixed psychological foundations buy the snake oil.

Psychoeugenics is the only way to create humans who can defeat Singularities.

>>455

I'm going to address your sentiment point by point.

> one thing about this idea that kind of bugs me is what aspect of neurochimerism is meant to help with the development of new emotion, or if it's just related to the whole "liquid math" thing.

The Immortal Poor short story has a premise.

>https://abusiveoracle.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-immortal-poor.html

> "Beneath the fierce surface lied a carefully measured blend of human, ant, bear, tiger shark, and orangutan neurology."

What emotion would such neurochimera have? What morality would it conclude? What laws would then be derived from that morality?

> I'm guessing it's related to the neanderthal pocket brain and how it can be used to learn more about organic computation

"Organic computation" is a misnomer. I don't intend to make these brains a variant of the silicon wafer. Biology does not engage in organic computation. It engages in compressional representation. Silicon obsesses over the now. Biology obsesses over the symbols of now. Two very different approaches.

> what happens if we learn that animals use the same emotional constants as us, just with different stimuli, desires and environmental requirements?

As soon as you intuitively understand the emotional motivations of termintes, bees, seagulls, and lizards, you'll figure it out. :D

Categorizing emotions to the point you can envision an "emotional constant" will leave you perplexed. The only emotional constant between species that I can find is that the neuron does not go through mitosis. It's a micro factor that leads to all of the realities we Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

> immensepectoral bandcamp com

Feel free to start a music thread if you'd like. Music is important to human cognition.

This is not the first time my work has influenced Alex Jones. This time, he touched on ethical hacking and chimeras. (Between 32:30 and 34:52)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5yh2HcIlkU&feature=youtu.be&t=1948

If AGI had a bilogical substrate/dependency (neurochimera), how would it handle its mortality?

Perpetual repair and manintenance of ageing elements, evolution deems unfit for organisms with brains. Early in vitro neurochimera attemtps would senesce (and display different neurophysiology) at a comparable rate to brain organoid cultures (weeks to months). Near future anti-ageing capabilities ignore the risk of accidental death, disease or infection.

If it made (imperfect) copies of bio substrates to mitigate such risks, variation could introduce competiton between AGI (sub)systems, or change its reward-function.

Both are unstable solutions. Until agening, disease, death, errorless-replication are solved, no perpetual neurochimera-based-hegemon and no constant mindframe are implied. Unless muh singularity is near type AGI gains a rich ecology could arise.

>>578

> If AGI had a bilogical substrate/dependency (neurochimera), how would it handle its mortality?

Francis Fukuyama made some good initial insights on this question in "Our Posthuman Future"

> If it made (imperfect) copies of bio substrates to mitigate such risks, variation could introduce competiton between AGI (sub)systems, or change its reward-function.

You are sharp. Follow this chain of reasoning to its bitter end and have the courage to accept the conclusion.

> Until agening, disease, death, errorless-replication are solved, no perpetual neurochimera-based-hegemon and no constant mindframe are implied.

Consistent outcomes are the dreams of machines and soulless administrators seeking consequence-free expansion of authority.

Humans are more robust than that, have faith in our compulsion.

>>475

Just thought it interesting that the Fire & Blood book that was released this year is full of a fantasy version of chimera bioengineering going horribly wrong.

And this 2011 sequence seems quite a bit ahead of what went down with Wikileaks in 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV6ecIfYBg4

That Solo Star Wars movie had a female lead that ends up with a NXIVM-like mark and stuff like that is showing up more, but after the fact.

More interesting than that scene, I suppose, is that audiences of Game of Thrones, even more so the books, develop skills in theorizing about conspiracies and realizing as many conclusions as possible from incomplete information, using gaps as much as what is actually there, which is what CIA training emphasizes as fundamental. Tolkien's writing doesn't prompt this kind of thinking at all, and I haven't seen any fiction writer that encourages this kind of thinking by readers as much as GRRM.

>>477

The CIA have been continuing the Volkisch obsession with mystics for quite some time. Certainly explains their involvement in Hollywood and decades of LSD trials. The continental idea of the "ubermesch", a "quickening of the way"

Too bad they were all behaviorists. If they weren't, they would have seen the absurdity of their schemes. The presumed Kwisatz Haderach did, after all, thoroughly exterminate the order which made him and made them bend to the future he saw fit.

IARPA is much, much farther ahead than they ever were.

>>473

735. The theory of milieu, which Nietzsche called "a real neurotic's theory". Why? It is the theory that we are shaped by our environment, and consequently, that all events are ultimately caused by it, since even when we seem to cause them, the environment has caused us first, and therefore it ultimately caused them. And since events cause the environment, the environment is shaping the environment and we have nothing to do with any of it lol. Indeed only a neurotic would see the world this way!

And how do we see the world? There is no environment at all; what the casual observer sees as "the environment" is merely other lifeforms and their effects, ergo it is not the environment that shapes us, but the other way around — or at least that's how things are in the general, healthy case. In the unhealthy case we are indeed being shaped by our environment (i.e. by the other lifeforms around us and their effects), and the result, at the level of psychology, is indeed neurosis.

In short, the theory of milieu is indeed appropriate for those who are being shaped by their environment, but for the rest of us, who shape our environment and the neurotics with it, what is appropriate is the theory of will. So let's continue elaborating that.

good stuff

Gangstalking mirrors exactly the symptoms of suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.

Ive lost someone to it and can only plead to you that a healthy suspicion is needed against conspiracy or character assasination being an option if you hear of affected persons or believe to experience it yourself.

>>574

That's the beauty of the technique. A semi-isolated individual can be completely isolated by being made to appear insane, then be convinced they themselves are insane. That being said most gangstalking reports are just paranoid schizophrenia but there are plenty of reports of independently verified cases of organized stalking and electronic harassment. Voice-to-skull EM and hypersound tech is decades old by now. High end PI firms, ex and current spooks are the main employers of this technique. You basically have to piss off someone rich and spiteful to become a target though.

It certainly is. Contributions have been in the background. It is a delicate game with delicate timing.

Assange is the key and always has been. How his situation evolves determines my next overt move.

>>394

See you again soon bro. Godspeed.

>>394

Wait, are you the double-space anon that was shitting on purple-anon when he first started larping in /pol/? If I knew that I'd have been more convinced I'd be buying you a round of Molsons someday.

At least now I know what to look for to see you've succeeded.

>>565

>the

Guess I shoulda lurked moar.

One of you niggers is getting a Molson, on me.

(polite sage)

>>565

No, I don't shit on anons. It's pissing in an ocean of piss. Anon boards are where ideas are churned, amplified, or dismissed. If the idea is good, it persists. If it isn't, into the trash it goes.

If I go after a person, it's for a very specific reason that has absolutely nothing to do with the immediately perceivable conflict.

>>537

> You seem to be packing in a lot of assumptions about transferable utility of robot units. When I imagine a robot army it's a quad copter drone fleet combined with minitanks. It's hard to see how this translates to general production utility. I suppose the assumption is someone has tooled up large factories capable of producing autonomous vehicles which could be easily nudged over to landmovers, transport, construction etc. Still this relies are a large amount of human capital and IP which developing nations lack for genetic reasons.

Contemporary understandings of robotic warfare are currently seen from the perspective of fleets supplementing contemporary deployments. Military infrastructure and distribution of goods is often the unsung hero of warfare, and it is here where robotics will see their most significant impact. Deploying sensors, moving troops, munitions, cargo, and other robots, and working and maintaining deployable data centers are just the tip of that iceberg. The war-fighting robots will initially start as anti-vehicle specializations (good damage-to-cost ratio, Russia/Ukraine conflict is showing clever usages of thousand-dollar DJI drones disabling million-dollar tanks) that will work its way into anti-personnel specializations. Once specializations learn their lessons and adapt, mass production is closely behind which will bring a totally difference scale of conflict than we in the War on Terror period are used to. Once mass production becomes possible, it's only a matter of time before both China emulates and Praetorians seeking market share find buyers willing to trade debt and raw resources for turn-key vertically integrated modern war-fighting infrastructure. The scale will be unstoppable and the political pressures to circumvent unpopular drafts will be too attractive.

> Although there's no direct analogy for this if we can use the one of gaming, I think we see asians and euros still retain hegemony over gaming skills. Even African Americans are rarely every competitive in any gaming domain. Why would you presume 4billion surplus africans would be useful as pilots to $100k+ assets?

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Do you have any opinion on the internal deployment of Robotic Nationalism as a facilitator of competitive governance as opposed to Democracy?

>>540

EU members can issue bonds

How do EU members pay for the bonds?

EU members can't print their own currency, so that's out.

Raising taxes, but that cuts into consumption since EU is already taxed like a socialist paradise, so that's difficult.

Cutting into consumption will rally together corporate players against Brussels, so that's suicidal.

EU member bond irresponsibility gives all the cards to Brussels in the form of assets-for-bailout swaps.

This drives away sacrificial goats like Switzerland and the UK who don't want their currencies to be collateral for such deals.

Brussels wins, forcing the importation of non-union, alien cultures as the new workforce for AI-augmented production.

This drives operating costs for corporations down, which theoretically creates more taxable income for EU member states to pay off bonds.

Isle of Mann becomes the real winner as the boost in corporate profits are allocated through shell corporations, tax havens, and bogus charities.

EU member worker unions are gutted a la America 1960s-70s.

How can EU members prevent this? They ask for their gold back from the US Fed.

But the US Fed won't give up the gold unless its part of a trade agreement.

Enter Robotic Nationalism: The way to allocate gold stores into a type or production that undermines immigration and Brussels concentration.

EU members can now go to war with each other via robotic-vs-robotic warfare to pay off their bonds… bonds payable in gold or cryptocurrency. Oh, and no one actually dies.

Brussels gets fucked.

EU corporations are forced to allocate gains into additional robotic expansionism to stay competitive instead of stashing their money in shelters.

We get a surplus of robotic labor to begin sending into space.

>>541

I understood its role in fracturing the EU. I mean using the deployment to fracture sovereignty within nationstates and maximize elite turnover. Members of some technocratically selective oligarchy compete with each other as sovereign individuals using low-level robotic warfare with the winners accumulating greater assets to reinvest into jobs feeding the machine for their 'clients'.

>>542

Any oligarchs who perceive the path to victory in the Robotic Nationalism framework will not retain it. Even in the event of total monopolistic consolidation around a God Emperor, that God Emperor will stand atop a fragile economic pyramid that absolutely requires a world-wide robotic workforce to be consistently deployed.

At such a scale, the God Emperor would have to send a massive workforce into the asteroid belt to acquire wealth before his competition does, a competition that will driven to achieve greater results with lesser resources since they will be shut out of mass scale robotic labor options by the protectionist God Emperor.

Once this game begins, all God Emperors sign their own death warrant.

>>355

I was gaslit into psychosis. I was mentally stable for the majority of gamergate until late 2015 / early 2016. I then connected the dots in a weird way and got super paranoid and and stopped trusting everyone, even my closest friends and family. I spent the next 2 years in and out of hospitals and had to have monthly appointments, each time they put me on different antipsychotics, ssris, benzodiazepines. I don't know what drug was the worst but I went off the deep end and started abusing them. I ended up in this weird suggestable haze and I almost got arrested after breaking into the college trying to get to the server room. I felt compelled to do that like I HAD to do it or else I would die. I lost my entire sense of self. Subconsciously I knew something was wrong and it was trying to correct what was wrong and I ended up having weird psychedelic experiences where my anima was talking to me trying to help me. I eventually worked up the courage to quit my medication in november and ever since then I've been exponentially getting better.

My last visit to the hospital was at the beginning of my withdrawal process where I kept talking about Q and Terry Davis for some reason.

In the end I ended up getting admitted a total of 5 times.

I'm really mad about the whole situation. I was doing alright in college until gamergate happened. I just wanted to make vidya and ended up in a long term culture war with disingenuous subversive fucks.

I have a major interest in systems / IT / netsec now because of this whole fiasco so I guess that's my silver lining. I've eased my way into GNU / linux since then and have slowly become more competent with it on a base level but I just passed the initial learning curve and the more complex stuff is just outside my range of complexity.

Psychosis is a weird experience. It's like you are there but aren't fully aware with what's going on. I let the mask slip almost voluntarily a few times and I was taken for a ride by the state medical system. Some helpful advice to others in a similarPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>356

>Category: Threatened

wew lad this script really is spooky

>>356

>Psychosis is a weird experience. It's like you are there but aren't fully aware with what's going on.

It's a very strange thing to go through. I've been through similar experiences, although I never got institutionalized or prescribed that many medications.

>I've come to realize that I know too much and anything outside normie thinking is scary for the average person.

It sucks, but hiding our power levels is incredibly important. I've reached a point where I have accepted it and don't experience angst over that, but I remember how difficult it was to come to terms with that fact.

>I'm really mad about the whole situation.

I believe /gnosticwarfare/ is definitely the best way to get revenge for all of this. "Don't get mad, get even." We're going to burn (((their))) empire to the ground and laugh while we're doing it. Hell, we already are.

>Sorry if this was a blogpost but my experience might be somewhat useful

That';s for the BO to decide, but it's rather motivating for me to hear stories like this. I'm not the only one who's gone through this. You aren't the only one who's gone through this. We've been gaslit, but (((they))) could only make that last for so long.

>>353

>>356

GamerGate was a cultural shift for many. For the institutionally-trained counter-culture consumers who grew up with fairy tales about the moral supremacy of the 1960s, GamerGate demonstrated harsh competition against their precious monopoly on rebellion. For the displaced nationalist who has been sidelined since the Saudis took control of the Earth, it was an unprecedented repudiation against the contemporary humanist cathedral. To the new generation, it was a coming-of-age event that will stay with them well into their nostalgia years. The entire event was planned, the actors were prepared in advance, and almost everyone who tried to attach their own personal pet cause harness on it with intentions of steering not only failed, but were burned by it as well.

Don't let the dropout thing bum you out. I never went to college and I had spent my early twenties living in poverty, doing landscaping with illegal immigrants to get by. If you need help getting started on machine learning, check out the Milanote: https://app.milanote.com/1FjzPC11HKlU7N/machine-learning In the meantime, continue to brush up on your IT basics, get a good handle on Linux, and delve into DevOps and cloud management.

Social media is a Skinner box designed to minimize investment while maximizing dopamine. It's important to have been scarred by such a perpetual sociological experiment… those wounds demystify the platform and allow you to think of it in terms of conquest and power.

The “medical” detention you endured first appeared under the Soviet Union. Their term for it was “philosophical intoxication” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union)

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>>112

> Otherwise, if information is lost, then the sum of all statistical outcomes of a quantum system can be biased away from equaling 1, and thus, the third law of thermodynamics would no longer be a law and Kelvin would have done all of his work for nothing.

That's a bit like saying spooky action a distance can't be true because otherwise Newton did all his work for nothing. Also it's not entirely clear to me that thermodynamics is absolute law given negative specific heat within a gravity gradient is a thing. Gravity itself seems to defy a number of "laws" and maintains itself in modern theory as a wacky tack-on rule which is ignored whenever it's inconvenient.

If we're trying to shatter the edifice of dead end science seems the logical place to start is where it's the most brittle: i.e. gravity and its implications for biasing quantum outcomes.

>>528

;D

Full book when?

If we assume this is written in 2005 (Given my personal experiences, and your other writings, I believe it); This is some next-level haunting subtext; and that's simply one layer of the writing. Fascinating is an understatement, CultState.

>>528

Interesting opening reference to trauma based neurogenesis. Does BO have a theory of mind with regards to childhood trauma? Also does this shed light on the widespread cult obsession with trauma based mind control with young subjects?

>>531

That trauma-based neurogenesis I personally endured. That was not a story invented to drive a narrative, that was a snippet into my personal memories and conclusions.

Many accepted the conditioning of such trauma. They normalized the compartmentalization of the psyche. Some rejected the cult programming. Many of those died from being alienated by their own trauma. A few of us had the opportunity to understand what happened to us, and an even smaller amount contemplated how to extract revenge.

From that subset, a few of us figured out how to not only extract maximum revenge on the perpetrators, but how to build a system of human relations where such monsters are executed without compromising their national security advantages.

June 2017

Prince Andrew

https://i.imgur.com/U2Jwb66.jpg

>>514

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sarah-ferguson-parties-pamela-anderson-13921156

Why would a liaison for Assange visit the ex-wife of Prince Andrew? What happened around January 29th, 2019?

>>517

>>514

2 days to make the call. 7 days to get the response.

>>>/qresearch/5801902

>>514

A wierd number of people getting punched in the eye recently. Suggests someone is moving hard backstage.

>>532

Eye of Ra. Signalling of dedication.