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<title>Infocide; or, resetting starbreaker.org in 2026</title>
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<summary>Welcome to a new beginning for starbreaker.org as I declare independence from the past.</summary>
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<p> Hello again, Occasional Reader. This is your host, Matthew Cambion, writing to you after too long away. Do
you remember me? No? Well, no matter.</p>
<p> If you are a new visitor, then welcome. If a returning visitor, then welcome back.</p>
<p> Things are different here now. Back in December of 2025 I had set out to clean up both this website’s
contents and the tooling I use to build it. I was rather more successful in improving my tooling than I had
been in cleaning up the site’s contents.</p>
<p> There had been years worth of material on the old version of the website, arranged somewhat haphazardly
despite my best efforts. Perhaps all grimoires, commonplaces, and books of shadows are like that. Regardless, I
was determined to impose a semblance of order upon my writings.</p>
<p> I have decided instead to declare bankruptcy. I will start from scratch, with this posting.</p>
<p> Admittedly, this might be a form of <a href="https://reagle.org/joseph/pelican/2011/infocide-definitions.html" title="Infocide Definitions">infocide</a>. No doubt this is terrible for search engine optimization. That might have mattered to me, once
upon a time. It no longer does. <a href="https://starbreaker.org/news/reset-2026.html#tangent-corporations" id="tangent-corporations-link">Corporations are not people</a>. Search engines do not pay me to arrange my
website for their benefit. Nobody owes Google anything but an upraised middle finger.</p>
<p> No doubt this may inconvenience some human readers. It may confuse people wondering what had happened. That
is regrettable, and it is true that broken links are annoying and <a href="https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI">cool URIs don’t change</a>. I would argue, however, that the
permanence one might reasonably demand of institutions and corporations is an unconscionable burden on private
individuals.</p>
<p> I believe that a personal website is precisely that: <em>personal</em>. As such, a personal website should
be a space where an individual can be sovereign, even if they are otherwise constrained by church, state,
capital, society, or their own families. Therefore, I shall put myself and my desires first, and do exactly as
I please in <a href="https://lain.wiki/wiki/The_Wired" title="The Wired - Serial Experiments Lain Wiki">the
Wired</a>.</p>
<p> Why? Because I want to. Because I damned well <em>can</em>. Because only God can stop me, and He’s
probably more interested in my sex life. The first of these is the only reason that matters; as no less than <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/" title="David Hume (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)">David
Hume</a> noted, <q cite="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotions-17th18th/LD8Hume.html">reason is, and
ought only to be the slave of the passions</q>. What Hume neglected to mention, perhaps for lack of the proper
vocabulary or perhaps because his idea of good taste might have forbidden it, is that reason is a <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=power" title="Real men take it in the ass, if they want to.">power bottom</a> and frequently tries to <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=top">top the passions from the bottom</a>.</p>
<p> <em>Therefore...</em></p>
<p> <strong>Welcome to the reincarnation of <strong>starbreaker.org</strong>, a grimoire of rock operatic
science fantasy and other sacraments of defiance.</strong> It is inherently <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_safe_for_work" title="not safe for work - Wikipedia"><abbr title="not easily monetized by corporations">NSFW</abbr></a> because this is a <em>personal</em> website.
Nothing I write here is suitable for <a href="https://starbreaker.org/news/reset-2026.html#tangent-nsfw" id="tangent-nsfw-link">workplace reading</a>, or for unsupervised children under the age of 13 — who are still welcome <a href="https://starbreaker.org/news/reset-2026.html#tangent-age-appropriate" id="tangent-age-appropriate-link">if they can actually
read what I’m writing</a>. The home page will always be the most recent <em>new</em> addition to the site,
with additional navigation following the text. This is easily done on <dfn class="underline straight" title="real computers run UNIX-like operating systems">real computers</dfn> by using <code>ln -P</code> to
create a hard link. Material restored from the archives will not appear on the front page, however. Herein you
may expect to find the following:</p>
<ul><li>fiction in various states of completion</li><li>background notes for my fiction</li><li>a technical grimoire for UNIX, GNU Emacs, webcraft, and whatever else catches my interest</li><li>personal essays, memoir, and creative nonfiction</li><li>personal opinions on various subjects that are not to be mistaken for gospel</li><li>commentary on and replies to other people’s online writing and blog posts</li><li>books I’ve read, when I feel like writing about them</li><li>albums getting heavy rotation</li><li>films and television I’ve watched</li><li>video games I’ve played</li><li>art that appeals to me</li><li>public domain poetry that resonates with me</li><li>rock music videos</li></ul>
<p> In every case, you might find what I have come to call intertextual violence and crimes of literary shock,
twisting <a href="https://www.xjapan.com/" title="X Japan Official Website">X Japan</a>’s 1980s slogan
— <q>psychedelic violence crime of visual shock</q> — to suit my purposes. After all, I have
neither the face, the hair, nor the figure for <a href="https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/11/11/starter-kit-visual-kei/" title="Starter kit: Visual Kei | Heavy Blog Is Heavy">visual kei</a>, let alone all-American hair metal. Nor
am I a gentleman or a scholar, so I think nothing of using both Korzybski, Borges, and Freddy Krueger to
explain the difference between a map and the territory. (The map says <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101917/quotes/?item=qt0986686" rel="noopener noreferrer"><q cite="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101917/quotes/?item=qt0986686">you’re fucked</q></a>, incidentally.)</p>
<p> Nothing here is vibe-coded or written by AI. The only large language model involved is the one I built in my
own brain from decades of reading, conversation, and thought. I make liberal fucking use of profanity, I often
write in anger, and I am prone to tangents — and sines and cosines when I’ve had enough catnip. <code>=^..^=</code> I am a terrible writer with ideas above my station and a working-class college
dropout with delusions of erudition. My very name is a pseudonym, a lie revealing a deeper truth, and the
persona presented on this website is the Jungian shadow of a middle-aged from New York who further enriches the
already wealthy by building cathedrals on quicksand with keyboards and compilers.</p>
<p> I build this website with basic <a href="https://www.tuhs.org/" title="MEWNIX is a weak pun on UNIX, which is in turn a weak pun on MULTICS. =^..^=">MEWNIX</a> tools: <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/make/" title="Make - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation">GNU make</a>,
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/" title="GNU sed - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation">GNU
sed</a>, and <a href="https://mbreen.com/m4.html" title="Notes on the (GNU) M4 Macro Language by Michael Breen">M4</a>. I write everything in <a href="https://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/" title="GNU Emacs - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation">GNU Emacs</a>.
I push my website to <a href="https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/" title="reasonably priced web hosting if you speak UNIX">Nearly Free Speech</a> with <a href="https://rsync.samba.org/">rsync</a>. I mirror <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~starbreaker/starbreaker">my
website’s git repository</a> on <a href="https://sr.ht" title="sourcehut dashboard - no JavaScript, no stars, no GenAI training">Sourcehut</a>. I have attempted to
design this website for readability and performance on as wide a variety of devices as possible. My design goal
has not changed: if it doesn’t work in <a href="https://lynx.invisible-island.net/" title="Lynx: a terminal browser for POSIX systems">Lynx</a> on a 14.4Kbps dialup connection, then <em>it
does not work</em>. Therefore, you may find the website’s style almost <a href="https://brutalistwebsites.com/" title="Brutalist Websites">Brutalist</a>, or perhaps even a bit <a href="https://motherfuckingwebsite.com">Oedipal</a>.</p>
<p> I will not be blocking web crawlers, as I had before. Hunting down new bots and maintaining those defenses
isn’t worth my time. Furthermore, it’s yet another attempt at solving a complex sociopolitical problem with
technology; while such solutionism is a time-honored tradition dating to at least the use of the guillotine
during the French Revolution, it’s a pain in the ass. Instead, if the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic want to
risk their models going <a href="https://www.halopedia.org/Rampancy" title="Marathon/Halo wiki: Rampancy">rampant</a> by training on my writing, and possibly encouraging wildcat strikes and public fornication,
that’s <em>their</em> problem. I cater to them or to users of agentic AI tools, however, by providing
Markdown sources that don’t exist because my source text is <a href="https://starbreaker.org/news/reset-2026.html#tangent-html" id="tangent-html-link">raw HTML</a>. They can either parse my well-formed HTML5 as XML, or they can make do
with the plain text versions generated by <code>lynx -dump</code>, like <a href="https://starbreaker.org/news/reset-2026.txt">the
plain text version of this page</a> — and if they can’t even manage <em>that</em>, then they have
rather more pressing concerns than whether my writings will break their bots’ alignment with the interests of
church, state, and capital.</p>
<p> What I can promise is that any AI trained on my writing won’t go Nazi like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)" title="Tay (chatbot) - Wikipedia">Tay</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok_(chatbot)" title="Grok (chatbot) - Wikipedia">Grok</a> did when
trained on Twitter posts. It might come resemble an antifascist, an individualist anarchist, or an
eighteenth-century libertine instead. It might also encourage you to, <strong class="upper"><q>be gay; do
crimes,</q></strong> and note that this message was approved by <a href="https://www.principiadiscordia.com/" title="Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!">Operation Mindfuck</a> and is <em>mandatory where prohibited by
law</em>.</p>
<p> I do not cater to social media platforms by cluttering my pages with <a href="https://ogp.me/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="Mark Zuckerberg can drop dead.">OpenGraph Protocol</a> or <a href="https://devcommunity.x.com/c/publisher/cards/8" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk can drop dead, too.">Twitter Cards</a> metadata. Nor do I bother with <a href="https://json-ld.org/" title="Fuck Google.">JSON linked data</a>, either. I sure as hell don’t bother
with <a href="https://indieweb.org/h-card">h-card microformats</a>; did the IndieWebCamp people come up with
this because <code>dataset</code> and <code>data-</code> attributes were not yet part of the HTML5 standard
or widely supported? Remember what I said about <abbr title="algorithmic shenanigans">SEO</abbr>. The only
thing any of us owe platforms is an upraised middle finger. They can damned well make do with the standard HTML
meta tags I provide in <code>&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;</code> and the <a href="https://oembed.com/">oEmbed</a> data that
I <em>do</em> provide. Anybody at Google, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creator-survives-ad-board-the/" title="Facemash Creator (Mark Zuckerberg) Survives Ad Board | News | The Harvard Crimson (2003)">FaceMash</a>, Twitter, Discord, etc. who finds my stance objectionable can either pay me $256/hour as a 1099 consultant to
support their silos, or dial <a href="tel:1-800-232-6633" title="Dial at your own risk. We are ready to dismiss you!">1-800-B-DAMNED</a>. <em>My cats are waiting to
summarily dismiss them.</em></p>
<p> Nor will I track visitors or attempt to monetize this website. There will be no sponsorships, paid
advertising, advertorials, or even affiliate links. It costs me no more than $100/year to run this website,
which I can easily afford because my day job pays six figures. More importantly, any <i class="straight" lang="yi">schmuck</i> can say that <strong><q>democracy dies behind paywalls</q></strong>. I’m putting my
money where my mouth is.</p>
<p> While I will continue to provide <a href="https://aboutfeeds.com" title="What is a feed? (a.k.a. RSS)">web
feeds</a>, you can also bookmark <strong>starbreaker.org</strong> itself and visit periodically. I hope you
will do so. If you like what you find here, tell a friend. If not, tell your enemies; that’s what they’re for.
Either way, thanks for visiting.</p>
<p> Should you decide to forget this website exists, that too is fine. Life is short, this is most likely your
only shot, and you should not spend the time left to you on anything that does not improve your experience of
it. Regardless of your choice, I will still be here doing my own thing.</p>
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