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{{a|systems|}}The great agglomeration.  
{{a|systems|}}The great agglomeration.  
 
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Every exchange, conversation, chat, chat-up line, rant, rave, jibe & troll; <br>
Every exchange, chat, chat-up line, rant, rave, jibe & troll; <br>
Every miscued punchline, dad joke, cracker joke, every happy hols & rick roll; <br>
Every miscued punchline, dad joke, cracker joke, happy hols & rick roll; <br>
All rock & roll <br>
All of rock & roll <br>
Every greeting, question, query, inquiry & search; <br>
Every question, query, inquiry & search; <br>
Every spam, phish, & mass-mail flyer flogging the merch; <br>
Every spam, phish & mass-mail flyer flogging the merch; <br>
Every interrogation, excoriation, evisceration & demolition; <br>
Every interrogation, excoriation, evisceration & demolition; <br>
Every thread, sick burn, everything anyone just left here —  <br>
Every thread, sick burn, everything anyone just left here —  <br>
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Every comment on the blog by whoever was wowed; <br>
Every comment on the blog by whoever was wowed; <br>
Every ping-back, come-back, wise-crack & hot-take; <br>  
Every ping-back, come-back, wise-crack & hot-take; <br>  
Every precis, submission, footnote & annotation;
Every precis, submission, footnote & annotation; <br>
Every careful articulation & each throw-away comment;  
Every careful articulation & intimate moment
Every like, smiley, thumbs-up, thumbs-down, chin-scratch & heart;
Every jilt at the altar & throw-away comment; <br>
Every helpful, not-helpful, retweet or share —  
Every like, smiley, thumbs-up-or-down, heart & chin-scratch <br>
 
Every helpful, unhelpful, retweet or share — <br>
As long as it was ''captured'' on digital flypaper
As long as it was ''captured'' on digital flypaper<br>
 
Then deceased, then stripped, dried out, expired, and ''gutted''.}}
Then deceased, then stripped, dried out, expired, and ''gutted''.


Gutted of its context, its personal genealogy — its ''life'': these metaphors are dead, expired, shuffled off the mortal coil and with the choir eternal — embalmed, denuded of circumstance, emotional state, timbre and nuance; sanded down and its serial numbers and identifiers removed; genericised, blended and bunched into a warm, brown [[entropic]] emulsion that clogs and congeals.
Gutted of its context, its personal genealogy — its ''life'': these [[metaphor|metaphors]] are dead, expired, shuffled off the mortal coil and with the choir eternal — embalmed, denuded of circumstance, emotional state, timbre and nuance; sanded down and its serial numbers and identifiers removed; genericised, blended and bunched into a warm, brown [[entropic]] emulsion that clogs and congeals.


''This'' is the petrol that feeds the engines of [[big data]].
''This'' is the petrol that feeds the engines of [[big data]]. This is the material which GPT has ingested.


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The great agglomeration.

Every exchange, chat, chat-up line, rant, rave, jibe & troll;
Every miscued punchline, dad joke, cracker joke, happy hols & rick roll;
All of rock & roll
Every question, query, inquiry & search;
Every spam, phish & mass-mail flyer flogging the merch;
Every interrogation, excoriation, evisceration & demolition;
Every thread, sick burn, everything anyone just left here —
Let that sink in;
Every cry for help; offer to help, refusal to help,
Every self-serve, grand-stand, own-book talk & play to the crowd;
Every comment on the blog by whoever was wowed;
Every ping-back, come-back, wise-crack & hot-take;
Every precis, submission, footnote & annotation;
Every careful articulation & intimate moment Every jilt at the altar & throw-away comment;
Every like, smiley, thumbs-up-or-down, heart & chin-scratch
Every helpful, unhelpful, retweet or share —
As long as it was captured on digital flypaper
Then deceased, then stripped, dried out, expired, and gutted.

Gutted of its context, its personal genealogy — its life: these metaphors are dead, expired, shuffled off the mortal coil and with the choir eternal — embalmed, denuded of circumstance, emotional state, timbre and nuance; sanded down and its serial numbers and identifiers removed; genericised, blended and bunched into a warm, brown entropic emulsion that clogs and congeals.

This is the petrol that feeds the engines of big data. This is the material which GPT has ingested.

See also