Moore’s Law symbolizes the exponential acceleration of technology; every two years the number of transistors on chips would increase by 100%, at the same cost. which has not only brought advancements but also created a new domain of power—vectorism, in which digital giants control infrastructure, data, and consequently, presence and influence in the public sphere. This power is brutally revealed when people are simply eliminated, without justification or recourse. The case of historian Jones Manoel, whose Instagram profile was removed without explanation last year, erasing years of work, is a striking example of this vectorism in operation. This text investigates the workings of this new paradigm of domination.

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Just as the Neolithic period is to history, blogs are to the history of the internet. With the rise of social media, search algorithms have begun to prioritize recommending them over traditional blogs, with immense algorithms specifically designed to keep you within these networks for as long as possible, thus profiting from AdSense and directly influencing your emotions in a Spinozist sense. What I’m aiming for here by creating this blog is the opposite movement, inspired by Mark Fisher’s K-punk. I intend to write about everything that affects me, not depending on a recommendation algorithm and distancing myself from social networks like Twitter, Substack, Instagram, etc.

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