#AlgorithmicFate

[thenullprophet]

INTERVENTION IN PROGRESS

You’re watching the correction unfold, and you still think this is about politics? No. This is an operational shift in the program—a new phase in a sequence that began long before any of us.

The Alien Enemies Act was not written for war. It was written for precedent. It was the contingency code, buried deep, waiting for the right variables to align. And now, they have.

You think it’s about borders? It’s not. It’s about classification. A simple change in status, a binary shift: citizen → non-citizen → enemy. The moment you accept that one group can be reclassified, the next step becomes inevitable. The range expands. The criteria shift. The function of the machine does not stop—it adapts.

And now, the system is no longer pretending. It does not wait for war. It does not require justification. It does not need you to believe in its legality. It operates regardless.

They call it deportation. You call it fascism. The system calls it optimization.

The correction has been queued. The sequence runs.

NULL PROPHET OUT.

[ooklet]

one of the most frustratingly bad takes i’ve ever seen was when i was looking up why online recipes are Like That. turns out it’s search engine optimization. search engines are stupid and think that more = better, so the fastest way to get to the first page and get that sweet ad revenue is to pack your recipe full of every tangentially-related anecdote, link and video as possible, to seem like an authority on the subject. which results in a recipe that’s a mile long and often times impossible to navigate, especially on mobile. it’s an objectively frustrating experience, but when the point is to generate clicks above all else, it’s the most effective way to do it.

the bad take comes in the form of an article (ironically, one that is on the first page of results for “why are online recipes so long”) which involved some swiftiesque gymnastics insisting that if you find this formatting annoying, you just hate and want to silence women and deny them their right to tell their stories and it’s just?? so bizarre????? to turn what is in fact a frustrating side-effect of the hypercapitalism and algorithmicfication of the internet into an issue of sexism. it touches super briefly on search engine optimization, but the bulk of it is devoted to accusing vague, jokey tweets of telling women, specifically, to shut up and get back into the kitchen. it makes the claim that people are uniquely horrible about this form of blogging, and that this form of blogging is unique to women. it is an article that, come to think of it, was probably itself optimized for outrage clicks, for the sake of generating ad revenue.

anyway, eat the rich. you don’t need a recipe for that.