# welcome fellow cyberspace traveller tired of the regular undead webs and how awful it's getting though too often more obviously worse for some than others general systematic degradation of online existence (not in fact life) by evil near-future hypercorporations internets-as-luxury-alternative-lifestyle visionary 'robert what' sees nought but unstable constitutions steeped in gold false pride and blood nowhere do they see the sweet humanity and equable moderation which ought to be the foundation of any online social treaty to then directly pretend to imagine 'republic of bob' - alternative internet pastime as a social relationship a visionary way to think about and *around* web3 digital neoliberalism artificially intelligent misnomers and 'the future of the nets' more something casual and friendly that happens between people in the collective imagination an informal culture protocol and social matrix an expansive laboratory of the radial imagination for adventurous creatives to hang out no institutions no bosses no budget to think of rob as the nets's largest cooperative social experiment kisa: keep the internets strange agnes researcher henry swanson: what almost like they already weren't already miles davis mind responds: such statements are of course based on the unchallenged / ideological assumption that the internets weren't always entirely sterile undead and spawned from the leaking pustule-ridden backside of global hegemonic zombie capitalism one darkly laughable implication of course being that the only way forward is for researchers to /somehow compete with artificial intelligence and go head to bot to human-ai web3 meme-stock cult-bubble stack at planetary scale in short the same old white grift only now with even worse consequences should the baskets succeed // republic of bob