Confessions Of A Conspiracy Broker

Conspiracies are commodities. No, really, let me explain ...

The About page for this Substack says that it is “a site about the online aspect of 21st century conflict, both “operations technical” and “operations psychological”. We’ve done a fair job of sticking to that, but there have been a few small digressions, times where I’ve made some observations about the “weaponized weirdos” that involve themselves in online operations. The two recent Wikileaks related posts, Julian Assange Flipping? and Julian Assange Timeline, have kicked that into overdrive.

Last December saw Individual None and Deflecting DerpOps. Today we’re going to take a museum trip and have a look at the Conspiracy Brokers.

Attention Conservation Notice:

This is a review of some old productions, a look at a new one that’s still just a rabbit hole, not a proper trail head, and some commentary on how these things work. If you’re not involved in producing outbound content this might still be useful in terms of learning to assess things. Purely up to you if you want to step into the funhouse.

Conspiracy Brokers:

The Conspiracy Brokers date to late 2011, but the content has come and gone over the years, so the introductory post, Conspiracies Are Commodities, is date stamped for today’s date in 2016. Here are the first two paragraphs.

What do you know about conspiracies? I mean what do you truly know?

There are a lot of people who read about them, some who have varying level of skill in finding them, but never before has anyone revealed the shadowy world market where they are traded, the secret system whereby global elites purchase the things they need to shape world events.

What do perceive based on only having that much information? Pause and note how you view things before you go any further.

OK, so here is what I see, what I intended when I wrote that.

The Conspiracy Brokers are a Subgenius culture jamming effort against weaponized conspiracy theorists, which seeks to create a therapeutic double bind, playing on their mental quirks, as inventoried in the Recursive Fury paper. They experience a feeling of empowerment when they find “dots” and “connect” them. If they so much as entertain the existence of this group, by implication they are NOT empowered, they’re “sheeple”. The broker they are in conflict with is always going to best them, being an agent of whatever shadowy, nefarious “they” the conspiracist fears the most.

The manner of delivery of this material is basically a malign alternate reality game. I was still considering pushing it more broadly as recently as ten years ago, as evidenced by the @RecursiveFury Twitter account, whose password I long ago misplaced. That expansion never happened, but the site has remained a psychic snare for anyone who starts obsessing about me.

Kookpocalypse 2012:

The 2012 Kookpocalypse was a Conspiracy Brokers production. This was announced in advance (but NOT defined!) and a countdown timer was set for February 6th, 2012. Among the obsessives bothering me at the time there was a white nationalist attorney in Virginia, and he spun out so hard I’ve got audio of him crying in court because the judge wouldn’t give him a protection order against me. He was so fearful he bought guns and absented himself from his home for a period of time.

That day, February 6th of 2012, happened to be the one year anniversary of the LulzSec intrusion into HBGary. The company had been proposing ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) cells to corporate America. I released a torrent entitled Breitbart ISR Cell that contained the research I had on the clutch of obsessives who’d been bothering me, as well as their handlers.

Now have a look at The Kookpocalypse Conspiracy Alpha & Omega. There are a bunch of dots, some intentionally created, but most just interesting support material I happened to notice in the wild. If you’re inclined to pareidolia, there is SO MUCH PROOF of the expansive nature of the actual conspiracy in there.

Game Play

Last June I started a public campaign on one of my Tumblr sites with a post entitled Shall We Play A Game?, on the 40th anniversary of the release of WarGames, the movie that turned that question into a catchphrase.

If you read the most recent twelve posts in there you’ll find a familiar feel. I was preparing the trail head for a game that would require the same analytical/tracking skills covered in last September’s Boot Camp. I set aside development of that two weeks into the Infowar Irregulars Bulletin v2.0, in a post entitled Patterns.

Patterns came out a week short of the three year anniversary of the research phase.

Note that I’ve never said precisely what I was intending, nor have I ever admitted to any public content associated with it. It still exists, it’s still quite viable, and maybe some day I’ll have a compelling reason to set it in motion again. If I do that and I do mean IF, I won’t say anything, it’ll just happen organically.

Conclusion:

I like puzzles and strategy games. I enjoy writing, both the professional, analytical tone I take here, and the loopy delusions of reference persona I take on when doing things like Shall We Play A Game? for fun. But I’ve learned I have to be careful.

Back in 2012 there was a gag called the Computational Troll Dynamics Supercomputer. The crazy people took that so deadly serious that the FBI *raided* my former employer in order to seize it. The actual hardware existed, it was just dated, heavy, power hungry, it was mostly parted out by the time they got there, and I was long gone.

Did you read far enough in Conspiracy Brokers to find Eliminating Organic Ignorance With Artificial Intelligence? Why don’t you put that article on one half of your screen and your news feed on the other. I wasn’t wrong, I was just a little bit premature.

While I was writing this I dug out the graph I made of that unnamed trail head. I hate to see so much R&D go to waste. Maybe after the election I’ll come back, actually fire it up, and take it out for a spin.