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Episode 3 of .thedotfiles is now available! In this one, I speak with Taylor Hulsman, an expert on botnets, and the creator of Hashchan, a decentralized imageboard which fights back against the relentless spamming that is granted by anonymity. We also cover the dizzying reality of bot-driven narratives that drive the way people think and act, and try to cook up some white pills along the way.

Timestamps:

Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

0:55 A community of idiots will inevitably be joined by idiots who believe they are in good company

8:34 Dead internet theory and slop

11:39 I complain about how AI slop ruined my beloved em dash, and we talk about other weird AI mannerisms

14:24 The trustful collapse of the web

21:45 …But yet the trust will still be there if they are told it is right

24:20 Cryptocurrency taken over by moonboys and bot farms

27:15 Imageboards and why they are losing popularity

32:57 Cloudflare, Cambridge Analytica, Elgin Air Force Base

41:30 What were your favorite image boards?

44:37 How hashchan is blocking spam vs how other imageboards are

48:26 Moderation and image hosting solutions to prevent illegal activity on hashchan

52:23 Hashchan’s progress so far and the long game

01:00:12 How proof of work on hashchan incentives holders of Ethereum and

01:09:24 Ethereum privacy

01:16:06 Ethereum culture’s problem

01:20:53 Roman Storm

01:31:48 The Botswarm Gulag