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I'm not obsessed with it in the way that 90s suburban dads were about WWII history, but it crosses my mind quite a bit. It challenges my inclination that large governments and organizations aren't really capable of intricate conspiracies because they're too bogged down by politics, red tape, and interpersonal bullshit. I linked a good podcast episode about it!
Feb 20, 2024
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Been watching a lot of stuff lately that touches on the intersection of geo-politics and the cyberization of the body (see Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, X-Files, The Shrouds, etc.)
So often people are really down on how complex and amorphous the plots can be but isn’t that the whole point?
What better reflects our reality than a messy shadow world brimming with malicious government and tech sector actors seeking to weaponize our bodies and minds? These stories aim for a certain realism and achieve it in their refusal to provide clean answers.
So often, there is no truth for us anymore. Everything is a false flag, everything is a psy-op, who does the smoking man really work for? We’re the victims and we can only grasp at half-truths and accept that we’ll never know. Yet in accepting that, we reach a deeper truth of another kind.
So often people are really down on how complex and amorphous the plots can be but isn’t that the whole point?
What better reflects our reality than a messy shadow world brimming with malicious government and tech sector actors seeking to weaponize our bodies and minds? These stories aim for a certain realism and achieve it in their refusal to provide clean answers.
So often, there is no truth for us anymore. Everything is a false flag, everything is a psy-op, who does the smoking man really work for? We’re the victims and we can only grasp at half-truths and accept that we’ll never know. Yet in accepting that, we reach a deeper truth of another kind.
Apr 26, 2025
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🤔Hi. Niece of a YouTube conspiracy theorist and former right wing slop watcher who still tracks conspiracies in her 9-5. conspiracies lose their ✨magic✨ when you’re researching them and tracking their impacts. but these few come to mind:
Old favorite from my crazy uncle (who does not know I exist): they replaced the queen of England and other world leaders with a robot. you can tell because the original queen has no Adams Apple. But the robot queen does.
A more recent, growing conspiracy: Pfizer ( the vaccine/antidepressent guys) are injecting mRNA into your cheese blocks. this gmo-mRNA cheese will be used for nefarious purposes (population control, etc). This would be funny if it wasn’t getting really popular with crunchy yoga influencers falling down the alt right pipeline.
A silly one: AZ gubernatorial candidate and current Voice Of America head Kari Lake claiming that Baby Gonzo wearing a dress on the Baby Muppets animated kids tv show is proof that “they” are trying to indoctrinate and destroy America. the homophobic satanic panic: baby muppets edition.
the dominion voting machine stuff: I don’t think people fully realize how insane the election denial conspiracies were. biden/china/venezuela/OBAMA/a random election official/some guy who was dropping off his wife’s ballot/insert Jewish figure here colluded with ”antifa”/the deep state/demon-rats to steal the 2020 election. People stormed the Capitol over this. arizona paid millions to audit their votes because of this. it was debunked, but they just kept going. I remember watching the my pillow guy and these conspiracy theorists at a conference like 1 year after the 2020 election presenting a slide with evidence that … somehow… included a reference to Pizza Hut. And this shit just keeps going. Because conspiracies never die, they just adapt.
Old favorite from my crazy uncle (who does not know I exist): they replaced the queen of England and other world leaders with a robot. you can tell because the original queen has no Adams Apple. But the robot queen does.
A more recent, growing conspiracy: Pfizer ( the vaccine/antidepressent guys) are injecting mRNA into your cheese blocks. this gmo-mRNA cheese will be used for nefarious purposes (population control, etc). This would be funny if it wasn’t getting really popular with crunchy yoga influencers falling down the alt right pipeline.
A silly one: AZ gubernatorial candidate and current Voice Of America head Kari Lake claiming that Baby Gonzo wearing a dress on the Baby Muppets animated kids tv show is proof that “they” are trying to indoctrinate and destroy America. the homophobic satanic panic: baby muppets edition.
the dominion voting machine stuff: I don’t think people fully realize how insane the election denial conspiracies were. biden/china/venezuela/OBAMA/a random election official/some guy who was dropping off his wife’s ballot/insert Jewish figure here colluded with ”antifa”/the deep state/demon-rats to steal the 2020 election. People stormed the Capitol over this. arizona paid millions to audit their votes because of this. it was debunked, but they just kept going. I remember watching the my pillow guy and these conspiracy theorists at a conference like 1 year after the 2020 election presenting a slide with evidence that … somehow… included a reference to Pizza Hut. And this shit just keeps going. Because conspiracies never die, they just adapt.
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Here it is, folks! Volume I of what could very well be a continuous project. Thank you so much to everyone that submitted - I smiled the entire time I was putting this together. It's best listened to with headphones ☺️
Liner Notes:
This collection of field recordings is a collaborative effort with users of PI.FYI, each of which recorded their own pieces. It features audio from all over the world and exhibits eclectic moments from London Underground commutes to cuckoo bird calls in Dhaka to the sounds of a century-old American diner.
Online communities like PI.FYI often represent a diverse set of people, places, and experiences, but together, the submissions form a living collage that highlights the commonalities of modern life - a unifying message for such a tumultuous time. The first track features all of the sounds played at once in an attempt to create an audio snapshot of an online community but in their offline lives.
The individual recordings are unedited except for minor gain and compression adjustments for consistency across the collection.
Online communities like PI.FYI often represent a diverse set of people, places, and experiences, but together, the submissions form a living collage that highlights the commonalities of modern life - a unifying message for such a tumultuous time. The first track features all of the sounds played at once in an attempt to create an audio snapshot of an online community but in their offline lives.
The individual recordings are unedited except for minor gain and compression adjustments for consistency across the collection.
