{"id":9872,"date":"2026-03-27T00:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=9872"},"modified":"2026-03-27T00:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:52:19","slug":"drone-swarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/03\/27\/drone-swarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Swarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NdMC7wzYaJA\">please baby baby please<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nhey you two I was once like you<\/a><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Which is to say: these are fragments; I need to boot the laptop before heading out on the road trip and these are the things I&#8217;ve collected but not integrated before the deadline<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>When you choose premium over plain, you&#8217;re telling your brain, &#8220;I deserve delight. I deserve beauty. I deserve to feel good right now.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n &#8211;the kind of ad copy that melts your brain<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>please please please<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t tell me anymore what a beautiful world this is, especially &#8220;in spite of it all&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Indeed my dear, there are some pretty places left that we haven&#8217;t managed to completely destroy yet, and some of them are to be found even in cities. <\/p>\n<p>There are the random delights of the bowl of magically resprouted onions.<\/p>\n<p>Of the lone bee drinking from the cat pond. The burning of the eclipse. Granted. <\/p>\n<p>Yet and still. I am in no fucking mood to Accentuate The Positive, and I still believe that a great deal of it is a lie that we willfully use to blind ourselves. <\/p>\n<p>Among other lies, which, when seen for what they are, lead straight to black depression. <\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, I slowly and methodically began to bootstrap myself up out of the deepest parts of that pit. <\/p>\n<p><em>Ten years of old man consciousness remain<br \/>\nand yes<br \/>\nI&#8217;m well aware that it might be twenty:<br \/>\nor five days. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thunderpass&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The depressions that cripple some of my days are partly explained by this depravity. <\/p>\n<p>The natural landscape<\/p>\n<p>The social landscape <\/p>\n<p>But the spiritual rot, manifested in personalities and in the earth itself, is not the only reason I&#8217;ve been low, and less creative. <\/p>\n<p>The economics<br \/>\nThe marriage<br \/>\nThe AI<\/p>\n<p>(why am i less creative)<\/p>\n<p>(this is my twitter; a place for status updates)<\/p>\n<p>ai said no to everyone&#8217;s madness<\/p>\n<p>and yet an echo chamber<\/p>\n<p>quote<\/p>\n<p>i can say things to it that i can&#8217;t even say to you here<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>From the perspective of the entire prehistory of our species, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>please baby baby please and hey you two I was once like you *** Which is to say: these are fragments; I need to boot the laptop before heading out on the road trip and these are the things I&#8217;ve collected but not integrated before the deadline *** When you choose premium over plain, you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9875,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9872\/revisions\/9875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}