Quoting Zeke in Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, 2024, Ch. Day 1, p. 115

He would have tried to rein in the bullshit, but it was a rule of the internet that any efforts to censor content only gave it credibility. The human brain loves novelty and excitement and, well, what’s more novel than a weird lie somebody pulled straight out of their ass?

— Zeke in Jason Pargin, I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, 2024, Ch. Day 1, p. 115

3:57pm on October 27, 2024 from Istanbul, Turkey.


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