American cartoonist and office culture satarist, Scott Adams is dead and many people are pointing to others and saying "Scott was YOUR GUY!" either directed at office louts, engineers, or dissolusioned white men with emotional regulatory issues and a bone to pick online. Scott may have been all of these things, but I still struggle to point the finger and lay a definitive label on the man as any of the common "Title"-Guy/Bros that seem to sum up so many individuals so well in our current day and age.

If you do a deep enough dive on Scott Adams you will see he was no ones dude not even his own. He was a self centered computer engineer whose success lampooning office culture in the most banal terms possible with such memorable characters as Dilbert, Dilbert's Dog (Dogbert), Dilbert's Cat (Catbert) and the Spikey Haired Boss (lovingly known as Spikey Haired Boss) led him to believe that he was a savant destined for buisness and entertainment success. His trilogy of theological sci-fi novels were about as successful as his vegan microwave Dilburritos. He was a defacto office comic artist with no competition, just like Cathy before him there was no struggle for dominance over the niche Adams found himself at the center of. His desire to be a provocateur and voice of wisdom cost him his newspaper syndication at a time when there were no new newspaper comics to take his place. He was a master of failure capable of losing even when success was guaranteed. His "cold" response to the death of his son and the dissolution of his marriage as a result had a further impact on his relationship with his fans and community. Even his appreciation for Trump was as a hypnotists and puppet master taking control of a mass of easily manipulatable proles and as a dictator of the Vox Populi. Dilbert as was Scott were conglomerations of nothing. Ideas and vague notions coalesced into an easily identifiable mound of starch and fat designed for mass consumption but palatable by only those dwelling within the middle ground of a Ven diagram of Smart Enough to Get The Joke and Too Dumb To Know They Are The Punchline.

I love the dichotomy of an engineer or scientist who sells themselves to everyone, but most-of-all themselves as a realist but cannot shake the very human drive to believe in woo-woo.

That being said, I will continue to obsess over this saga that I have watched unfold since the first time I peeled open a copy of the local paper, sighed, shook my head, and said I don't get it. I will not rest until I read the "final" Dilbert comic. But my search has been long and without reward. I will not get a subscription to read it. Information wants to be free.

This is not to speak ill of the dead, but as a touching off point for thoes who ask Why? I imagine most people will be entering this story from the perspective of someone who does not read the daily comics who was not aware of Dilbert going dark all thoes years ago and who either thinks the film Falling Down is incredibly offensive or a super cool movie. If you think Scott Adams and Dilbert by extentsion are emblatic of everyhing wrong / right in the world then I implore you to explore the man behind the comic and the comic behind the man deeper than you have. All art is a reflection of the artist and the world in which they inhabit that's the beauty and anthropoligcal value of art. Yes I am implying Dilbert has value. Please don't unsubscribe.

P.S. Maybe we are boming Iran today. Watching that Pizza Index keep going up. We were at Defcon 4 when I woke up. It's at 2 now. (Yes, Defcon 5 is the lowest level of Defcon, Defcon 1 is the highest readiness level of Defcon. Telling someone they are on Death-Con Five means literally nothing.) I am considering setting up a better more bespoke Osint tracker than this garbage gambling advertisment of a "Pentagon Pizza Index". I am WELL aware of the dozens of obvious reasons this is trash intellegence and am doing my own research as I look at building my own setup. Advice is always welcome check out the contact page.

Image Credit DeathRayGraphics

The following is a stream of conciousness blog appearing here [un]edited. Written on (26003) between the hours of 2am and 8am PST while waiting for offical word from the US government on it's attack on Venezuela.

_Situation Room_

_January 3rd 2026 2:28am PST_

The United States has seemingly captured the president of Venezuela. I am watching live now, 6 screens at once, bisected across two monitors. The Pentagon Pizza Index (Defcon 4), BBC News (Live London) The Economic Times (Raw Live Stream of what I assume is Western Caracas due to not having sunlight yet), AlJazeera (English, showing talking heads, b-roll, and footage scraped from social media), Agenda Free TV, and the Weather Star 4000. It's hard at times to tell who is talking but I am too wired and too tired to do anything else. I am debating logging into the BBS just to have someone else to chat with but for now I am wrapping myself in data, hoping to stay up until the presser in 5 and a half hour from Mar-A-Lago. The swamp I was raised and educated in now a center for global political events. I'm getting the BBS, I haven't logged-in in over a year, and I have never connected on my PC, what's another screen among 6 feeds and the tiny box in which I now write.

Update, NO IDEA what the ET [Economic Times] has on their feed but it is confirmed not live and is in-fact looping, I saw the feed end and restart in real-time play button and all, going to something else. Times of India just showed footage of a tank I haven't seen anywhere else but it is, perhaps, not footage of Caracas. The sun his rising over the city behind whoever is running Agenda Free TV at 6am on a Saturday. [Local Time]

This is so much to process I am not even sure why I am writing all of this. Rains rolling in might as well open a window and get a cup of tea it's going to be a long night. I wont act like "Russian Friendship Tea" is tea in a perfected form but it is tea in powdered form, filtered through a handful of cultures and stages of industrialization it is Asiatic Tea as imagined by the southern United States populace and then condensed into powdered form. In-short, it's Tang, Lipton, All Spice, and few Cloves it reminds me of the holidays it reminds me of late nights, early mornings, and the middle years of the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Funny I should mention that.

I watched the clock hit 3:33:33 on the 3rd day of the year of our lord twenty twenty six. The BBC is telling me that Venezuela is about to wake up and celebrate the capture of Maduro. I've logged into the Multi Relay Chat via a secure BBS connection on a third screen and lit the sad light. No one is online / awake as far as I can tell, even Steve from Agenda Free TV is taking a break, as I suspected it is really only him. Times of India is looping the same footage over and over again, Steve has the same feed I have seen elsewhere. Does Venezuela not have social media streamers?

I found one Ceedveher, I will follow-up with people from the nation as to how they feel.

messages translated using google.

¿Como se siente la gente en Venezuela? [How do people feel in Venezuela?]

Por favor, responde por chat, no hablo español lo suficientemente bien como para entenderte. [Please reply via chat, I don't speak Spanish well enough to understand you.]

te lo resumo en una palabra aún "shock" [I'll sum it up in one word: still in shock.]

Gracias, estoy muy agradecido. Entiendo poco, pero siempre estoy aprendiendo. [Thank you, I'm very grateful. I understand little, but I'm always learning.]

[Anon]: no nos quisieron joder el cañonazo jejeje [They didn't want to mess up the big shot, hehehe]

[Anon]: los videos estan brutales [The videos are brutal]

[Anon]: has navegado por X? [Have you browsed on X?]

[Anon]: el heli neutralizando cuando comenzo atacarlo el anti aereo, un heli! jajajaja [The helicopter neutralizing the anti-aircraft when it started attacking it, a helicopter! Hahahaha]

[Anon1]: tu dices que fue negociación? [You're saying it was a negotiation?]

[Anon1]: también vi raro lo de cilia [I also thought the thing with Cilia was strange]

[Anon2]: Fue operacion quirurgica con patada en los huevos [It was a surgical operation with a kick in the balls]

StreamElements: ¡Recuerda suscribirte a mi canal en YouTube, para disfrutar de más contenido! https://www.youtube.com/@ceedveher [Remember to subscribe to my channel on YouTube to enjoy more content!]

[Anon]: y ellos decian sus BOTS que era potes de humo jajaja incluso en el programa de diosdado [and their BOTS were saying it was a smokescreen hahaha even on Diosdado's show]

[Anon]: segun verificando algunas fuentes en X ya se encuentra en el portaviones [According to some sources on X, he is already on the aircraft carrier]

[Anon]: Eso fue en la guaira [That was in La Guaira]

[Anon]: seguro ellos tendran las razones y nosotros desconocemos [Surely they have their reasons and we don't know them]

[Anon3}Buen dia idolo, saludos desde argentina, la felicidad es inmensa,te y les mando tres abrazos, sonrie LATAM, es increible lo que estoy viendo. Sinceramente nunca creí ver esto [Good morning idol, greetings from Argentina, the happiness is immense, I send you and them three hugs, smile LATAM, what I'm seeing is incredible. Honestly, I never thought I would see this]

[Anon]:puedes navegar en X? y mostrarnos algunos videos [Can you browse on X? and show us some videos]

[Anon2]: No quisieron hacer el clasico carpetazo de vietnam porque van a llenar the macdonalds y starbucks LUL [They didn't want to do the classic Vietnam-style cover-up because they're going to fill up the McDonald's and Starbucks LUL]

Replying to @[Anon2]: No quisieron hacer el clasico carpetazo de vietnam porque van a llenar the macdonalds y starbucks LUL [Anon]: tu cuenta es sospechosa [your account is suspicious]

Live footage of people in Miami celebrating

Steve is talking now I am so tired. This is shocking and I think civilians may have been killed but its looks like this is something that could have happened under any administration. Trump is not a huge outlier, was this done at this time as a distraction, yeah prolly, but at this moment we are not at war. Trump has someone to put on a show trial as a distraction from anything that might come out about him. Nothing will happen about any oversteps the US makes during this operation because the United States does not have to abide by International Humanitarian Law.

Right now the people seem to be in shock but excited about a new future and what could be next but at this time the streets are empty. I would not be surprised if I found out that someone on the inside sold out Maduro to the US and it was a quick handover. A little shock and awe to scare them into surrendering and a promise his wife would not come to harm. Then someone with a bit of forewarning could swoop in an take advantage of the power vacuum. He's being flown to New York for Narco-Terrorism Charges he has been wanted for since 2020. A strong military presence in the streets is a sign that this might be correct.

It's all pontification at this point and I am all out of caffeine. I've got 3 more hours to learn all I can about the past century of Venezuelan Geo-Political History while copping as many translated updates from the Venesueuzlen government.

New York State hosting another high profile court-case. I suspect this will be a lot of security and circumstance. Still a lot of talk about international law which the United States has never agreed to abide by or uphold.

Dozed a moment. Caught up on several decades of corruption and the future of my own homeland. Months of military build up, civilian videos are starting to be disseminated, scary, scary stuff. Many civilians likely hit. This is very upsetting stuff but I feel like this would have happened under any us imperialist administration. This isn't super unlike the US or anything. This is pretty par for the course. This might not even be a smoke screen, this might just be a coincidence. Charges since 2020 is pretty cut and dry especially if they stuck under the opposition party. The strange focus on "stolen land and oil" are confusing of course, the talking heads are waiting just like me for trump to explain this in his very eloquent manner and put us all at ease, or rather kick off another day of the news cycle. 24 hours of sound bites in a single presser aught to make them all happy for the day and keep their bosses in red meat until April.

39 passed the hour the presser begins one by one all feeds switch to the same man speaking behind a microphone. He's comparing this with terrorist strikes. This is a bit wild. Boogieman bumps off boogieman must be the headline in Europe. These are strange political winds. We are going to RUN the country. Until we can transition power... Oh this is not going to go well. We are just legit stealing their oil. I don't think he was supposed to call this an attack. He's invading them in 2025 for socializing their oil industry in like the 70s.

Donroe Document, Monroe Doctrine. This is related to it. I was actually hoping for an explanation but we surpassed it. Donroe Document. Gen. Raising Cane? Is that a real guy? Oh my goodness this is prolly bad for a bunch of reasons. Are we going to unleash the full might of the US military against the entire world at this point? Absolute Resolve. Are there OTHER countries that the media has worked tirelessly to create informed consent towards using force against? N. Korea, Iran, Greenland? Okay if you don't have the context, Greenland is a joke.

They got the greenlight at 10:47? About 12 hours ago. We RUN the country now? How does this not become a protracted insurgency? HOW? I guess we have the might for it, and our kids don't drink anymore, are you gonna put vape carts in the MREs? How does this kind of thing go down in SECRET?!?! It's CRAZY. 3:29 EST and they had bodies on the Aircraft carrier. BOOTS ON THE GROUND! We are doing it. A long protracted insurgency. The kind we are super good at fighting for a long time and ALWAYS WIN. Love it. SO MUCH WINNING. It happened. I can't handle so much winning. Please stop. The GROUP running it is the people behind him oh my fuck. OH GOD. Oh fuck. If they have military based on foreign soil then they can do whatever they want there, they can send people there. I think they can do whatever they want. Who would stand in his way now? Oh fuck its me. I'm the country legacy media has been creating consent to cause harm to. Did he just throw the lady who offered him her Nobel prize under the bus? This is beyond fucking nuts. Who knows what's next. I have no idea. He walked off. Christ. I'm going to bed. We run Venezuela. FML

Many take Nietzsche out of context when selectively quoting...

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

Shortened to "the abyss gazes also" for maximum effect the phrase evokes a sort of universal truth beyond its intended meaning another phrase of such a kind is "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." This is Newtons Third Law of Motion which can be seen paradoxically echoed through Zen Philosophies nonduality and the karmic cycle of samsara. The Yin-Yang symbol is the illustration that opposing forces are often interconnected. This is all to pose the rather simple question...

"Do the eyes of the dead steal our life from us?"

Watching someone die is very different from watching it happen in movies or even in gore videos online. Nothing prepares you for the multisensory explosion that is the death of a human being. Nothing can give you back what you lose when you look into eyes that you once knew to be full of life but are now abyssal portals to a realm conglomerated of nothingness or are perhaps in the processes of becoming that which is best left unseen. The body itself begins to change rapidly, the skin color of the recently deceased or dying is a kaleidoscope of colors often thought to be unhuman. Purple, Blue, Grey. As the individual cells in the body expire due to lack of oxygen they do change colors. As anyone who has tightly wrapped dental floss around their fingers will be able to tell you. The eyes may remain open or may shut, during an examination they can be held open to check for dilation reaction when exposed to a bright light, this is a common test to see if an expiring person is dead or alive.

There are also sounds and smells, being in a situation when someone dies may also heighten the senses to a point where someone may recall a specific taste caused by an increase in epinephrine and/or noradrenaline in the brain. The recently deceased may soil themselves as their muscles relax at the moment of their final passing. The sound of someones respiratory system failing on its own is a particularly memorable and incalculably inhuman sound.

Shutting the eyes of the dead is a common practice in several cultures. Placing coins over the eyes of the dead is also a similar practice found in the western world. The eyes of the dead hold no special or supernatural properties. Just as the eyes of the living hold no special property but they are called "the windows to the soul" by William Shakespeare. In fact, they are just organs, semi external, connected directly to the brain, as are our ears. But the ears are not the window to the soul, unlike animal ears they cannot show emotion, are often dirty, and all around kind of weird looking. But the eyes show emotion, they react to stimuli constantly, and we notice subconsciously when we look into the eyes of someone we know, that they are alive.

When we look into eyes we once knew to have life in them and instead see that life to be absent and we arent prepared for it, it changes something in us. Thats not violence. Thats life, which is death. People die every day for strange reasons. Its the most common part of life next to birth. Its a universal and inescapable part of life. People will die. People will be killed. Witnessing the void behind pale eyes is not a tragedy. It our societies view of death, often inspired by religious images of suffering that paint our own experiences when viewing it in-person for the first time.

The dead do not suffer, even if they did during their transition from life to death. We, the ones still alive suffer. But our suffering is selfish. We suffer in the stead of those who cannot suffer themselves because we presume they would, if our places were exchanged. Our self imposed suffering at the death of those who mattered to us is our way to show the joy we experienced at the idea of their life. It is a part of life. Its an unpleasant part but without lifes unpleasantness there would be no pleasure.

I will leave you with a poem from one of my favorite writers whom, herself, is deceased, Julia Winslow.

Haunted

(reprinted without permission from "Never Too Late To Be Forgotten- The Julia Winslow Reader")

I know that spirits around me are real
I see them every day
The only question there seems to be
Is when a body dies do they stay

Do they weep in halls at night
And stare from window panes
Are they forever restless
Have they forgot their names

Some say that ghosts are real
Personified memories of want
But of all the souls that Ive watched leave
Mines the one that haunts

Im the one stalking the halls at night
the one who moans at the moon
Locked inside of memories fowl and unright
While stumbling through forsaken ruins

Some say that ghosts are energy
Left after tragic demise
But the ones who do the haunting
Are the ones that yet survive

The ones who weep In halls at night
And stare from window panes
The ones forever restless
whove all but lost their names

The survivors brought to bitter woes
By fortunes outrageous times
The only real ghosts that are on this earth
Are the ones that are still alive

You may fear it, this idea of spirits
Staring out from within or without homes
But as long as there are ghosts out there
Ill never feel alone

I want to talk briefly about what I want this website to be. I first envisioned this as a BBS board hosting a forum where like-minded people could discuss Neo-Luddism in the modern era, that is to say, the ways we reject technology, what technology we choose to interface with, and why we choose these things for ourselves and perhaps even our families. I don't want this to be a place for constant distain for technology. I am not "Anti-AI" in the strictest terms. But I am against the misuse of technology to debase the human spirit. I think this is a time we need to ask ourselves if we want to continue allowing our fates to be shaped by technology we cannot understand our control and is there a way we can live separate from the world slowly being taken over by technology we abhor?

I have already setup my gaming area and I will start posting about free, open-source, or traditionally designed games which is a way I have been rejecting AAAA gaming for a long time and is a part of my personal Luddism.

I will also setup forums and a place for articles written by myself and hopefully you on how other folks can utilize luddism in their own personal lives if they choose. I think that's the beautiful thing about a DIY movement like this, everyone will have their own unique style of how they implement it and sharing with each other ways to avoid negative technological interactions can be as diverse as browser and email service choice to cassette tape collecting and zine making. So please don't be shy share how you reject tech in our GUEST BOOK!

From MySpace,

with love,

Space Witch

Image Credit ASCII Studio

As I write this I am tired, but invigorated. This world of technology, politics, and angry places beats a person into ash, but we persist as do the dandelions do on broken airport tarmac. Persistence may be a non-renewable resource but our wells have not yet run dry. Welcome.

It's 5:30am and the city is still asleep. I will crawl into bed soon, too late. I am happy that I am finally doing this. Excited at the future. Relived to be finally "done" with the homepage. Everything here is placeholder more or less.

It was amazing coming back to this, I haven't done HTML since Myspace was the big thing, but I had Xanga in elementary school. But it all flooded back to me and I knew what I was doing, looked up a template and started working. I got all this done in a few hours.

What inspired me to make this website was my friend Kimi they make a really crazy webcomic and do cool computer stuff like this all the time and when she showed me I looked upon her website with envious eyes.

I had the idea for this to be a BBS a first but realized I had no idea what I was doing and abandoned the project. I feel very strongly about this Neo-Luddite movement and have wanted to share my feelings about it publicly for sometime. I also played the video game HypnoSpaceOutlaw and that REALLY got me feeling the want to have my own page again. I think someone on a subreddit said this website was like HypnOs and I realized what this was and got a template. I will be using other templates for my other pages likely gotten from other pages that I will link to and give credit, I cannot yet create my own templates but I will try to get there.

Expect more ramblings in the future, although I hope to categorize them better. Please leave a message in the guestbook. I would love to hear from you.

Yours sincerely,

SpaceWitch

image credit: viksoe