BE : More Ch 4 departure

[Mark Kohut]

We also all know that Deep Archer is probably an elusive allusion to Lew
Archer of Ross McDonald's mysteries, made very overt in *Against the Day. *

The Deep Web is a kind of new space to become new in human self-organizing,
yes.

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 12:41 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

>  The idea seems to be that Deep Archer will get introduced via
> “mom-approved first person shooter” game.
>
>  At this point  it’s still a bit vague as to what Deep Archer is,  as far
> as I can tell (help me here) it is a visual setting in live time internet
> space which is unreachable by search engines( how long can that last and
> doesn’t this require 1 or more(???)  servers somewhere that do have coded
> addresses?). To get there the user takes on an avatar, a digital persona,
> there is no description of how this avatar connects to the actual user’s
> persona but as we find out later people are recognizable in deep archer.
> The avatar can move around in this space (“It’s a journey.")
>  .The advantage of meeting this way, ghost to ghost, is that you leave no
> trace and may meet anyone who happens to be in the same terrain.
>
> It is this leaving no trace that is of great interest to Microsoft, the
> military…..and Gabriel Ice’s hashslingerz. ( none are interested in “the
> journey” aspect of the code)
> "It’s the security design—like nothing any of these people’ve ever seen,
> and it’s makin them all crazy.”
>  and hashslingerz has already approached them with a highly generous offer.
>
> Maxine does not disclose her interest in evaluating hashslingerz.
>
> “Yeah . . . think I’ve . . . heard that name. That’s where you were today?”
> …...
> "Maxine is much too familiar by now, even God forbid intimate, with this
> cover-your-tracks attitude.”
>
> Vyrva is sending out mixed signals about money, reluctance about big
> inflow of cash, but hustling beans babies and she seems to be involved in
> looking for VCs.  Ziggy thinks the beanie babies are a bad investment and
> Fiona is not into them. So you know, wassssup?
> Are Maxines suspicions about Lucas right  or something else.
>
> Departure? What is Pynchon or the rest of us leaving, and where do we go?
>
> It seems to this not very high tech  reader that this choice of open
> source availability  of untraceable connectivity vs commercial/military
> control of communication space really contains the idea of a more radical
> return to the original sales job of the democratizing effect of the
> internet. In other words if there was a version of deeparcher able to fend
> off the state it would be a revolutionary force as long as it lasted.
> Pynchon seems to be siding with that potential of the hacker world and a
> kind of secret postal system. Where have we seen that before?
>
> The setup of deep archer is sort of similar to facebook only no tracking,
> no traces. Facebook launched in 2003-4 took off big and played hard to get
> before selling out into the google plan of consumer surveillance capitalism
> with military options on the table. Carefully avoiding anything you might
> call evil, at least on the surface. Now they want to rebrand it closer to
> something like deep archer with avatars and shit.  The fact that  for over
> a decade it turned into the battleground of the meme wars was not an
> obvious development but very profitable.
>
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