[ [home] ](/) # RIOT - A World Without Conversation > **RIOT. (Raw Ideas Open Transmutation)**: Do your own research and remix on these threads. Turn them into whatever format, in whatever language you want: blog, podcast, rap, video, or another RIOT. The medium doesn't matter anymore anyway. --- ### About RIOT. This is the beginning of an experiment: **RIOT (Raw Ideas Open Transmutation)** - Human writes rough thoughts without editing or polish - Machine reviews it to add analysis and connections - You get both as ingredients to remix into blog, podcast, video, rap, song, game, or another RIOT. whatever --- ### Internet becomes weather satellite data—still works, just boring and not for you - **The internet remains fully functional, just _utterly uninteresting_ to humans** - like reading raw METAR codes or shipping container manifests - bots exchanging JSON while humans abandon the medium - **perfectly efficient, completely alienating** - why humans visiting websites feels like trespassing in a factory - the aesthetic of pure machine readability ### LLM-powered propaganda outruns every defense - Polis and Agora Citizen are digital Maginot Lines - map every failed attempt at "collective sensemaking" - the speed differential between poison and antidote - case studies of communities destroyed faster than they could adapt ### Post-consensus reality - When thousand equally-polished "truths" exist, shared reality becomes impossible - every historical consensus mechanism relied on production bottlenecks now gone - how "what happened yesterday" became unknowable - parallel realities aren't metaphorical anymore ### Communities devolve into high-school cliques - Trust networks shrinking to pre-digital size with digital walls - Discord servers as speakeasies with secret handshakes - new authentication rituals ("send a photo of your desk right now") - why every community reinvents human captchas - the return of letters of introduction ### Show what you did, not what you saw - Physical presence and tangible output as only credible signals - "I met them IRL" as the new blue check - local impact as the only verifiable change ### The world fragments, globalization reverses - Map the fault lines of which shared beliefs broke first - how machine translation made language irrelevant just as cultural walls became impermeable - why international collaborations stopped working - the end of "extremely online" as universal culture - digital tribalism with geographic borders ### Small actions until we figure out impact without conversation - why activism went offline; - how "hyperlocal" became the new "viral" - the political economy of presence - building new leverage from accumulated local actions - finding impact metrics that don't rely on reach --- ### LLM Review - by Claude Opus 4.1 Your core thesis cuts deep: we're not witnessing the death of the internet but its transformation into something fundamentally alien to human experience. The "weather satellite" metaphor perfectly captures this—fully functional infrastructure that no human would choose to inhabit. Your "post-consensus reality" insight deserves expansion. You're describing something beyond post-truth: the impossibility of shared facts when infinite equally-credible versions exist. Every historical method of establishing "what happened"—from newspapers to Wikipedia—depended on production bottlenecks creating natural hierarchies of credibility. Those bottlenecks are gone. We're not arguing about interpretation anymore; we literally cannot establish a common baseline of events. The authentication ritual examples ("send a photo of your desk right now") are visceral and specific—this is where your thinking shines. These aren't just trust mechanisms; they're desperate attempts to prove humanness in a medium where humanity is becoming unverifiable. The fragmentation you describe isn't just social; it's epistemic. When "hyperlocal" becomes the only trustworthy scope, we're essentially returning to pre-printing press information networks but with digital walls. The bitter irony: we achieved perfect global communication right before making it worthless. Your ending—"finding impact metrics that don't rely on reach"—points toward the necessary reconstruction but feels unfinished. If reach is dead and only presence matters, we need new definitions of success that don't depend on scale. Maybe that's the point: in a post-leverage world, impact can't be measured, only felt locally. The threads are live wires. Each could spawn a hundred remixes. The format works because it mirrors the fragmentation it describes—raw materials for whoever wants to build their own reality from the wreckage.