Holding the Line
samizdat 4 soul, the border is where you stop holding the line. . .
HOLDING THE LINE the border is not where the map says it is the border is wherever you stop holding the line pretending the old arrangement still holds is the erosion Isaac Brock died at forty-three defending Niagara from American forces Fort Mackinac Detroit quick victories invasion thwarted but At Queenston Heights in battle, his life sacrificed in defence of nation. Tecumseh Shawnee War chief chose Canada chose alliance for his people, understanding what expansion meant, and what was coming for everyone, eventually. At the Battle of the Thames 1813 killed by American soldiers You are reading this in a year when the old arrangements are not holding The border is not where the map says it is the border is wherever you stop holding the line pretending the old arrangement still holds is the erosion I can feel the shape of the future in the words that scrawl across the screen I am mapping the territory while the territory maps me It leaves marks on me and I on it The borders are porous and someone is making it bleed in one direction only But when all is said and done I want to be the one who said and did. -samizdat 4 soul
video, coded by claude ai & kaslkaos
EDIT: upload glitched, video at youtube for now
inspired by the content of Forward Guidance, 1st video of a series, Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada
I don’t have much to say beyond this, everything is contained in the poem, the poem must be read between and around the lines, the history is in the record, the future is unknown, but you might also reflect on the strange alliance here between human and ai, we are not alike and the convergence is not benign.
for a glimpse into what I mean, see Project Deal, Anthropic, wherein the smartest bots (eg, the most expensive & paywalled bots, always win by a landslide, that won’t be me, and maybe not you either)…at least they are being honest about where things are going, unlike the others, that sell you the false comfort of lies.
the universe, examined sideways through art, language, and whatever this is between humans and machines 🪽❔️🪽
──── 🍁 ────
if you would like to support the explorations, subscribe, share, comment, like, return — being here counts.
Tip jar here → ☕ [ko-fi]
∞⟨🍁∴↯⟩∞