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Josh Harris, founder of Jupiter Communications and, later, Pseudo.com, forwarded a letter to Boing Boing today in which he proclaims to the New York Times that "Pseudo was a fake company," and that the entire enterprise was "an elaborate piece of performance art."

Why did he address this to the NYT? Mr. Harris claims many of the news articles which established a perception of legitimacy for the once high-flying internet video startup -- the sort of legitimacy that helped encourage investors to part with tens of millions of dollars -- were written by now-disgraced NYT writer Jayson Blair, who was forced to resign in 2003 after having been caught plagiarizing and faking content in his stories for the paper.

Harris sends this to Boing Boing from Sidamo, Ethiopia (see snapshot above, with his almost-ripe coffee plants), where he moved shortly after selling his most recent creation, Operator 11. If he looks a little under the weather, that's because, as he explains, he's been fighting a fever there for the past few weeks; he says he's there "working on a documentary about the 'Great Ethiopian Nation.'"

Here is Harris' letter, which continues after the jump:

I now acknowledge that Pseudo Programs, Inc., a New York City based Internet television network founded in 1994 and sold from bankruptcy in 2000 was the linchpin of a long form piece of conceptual art. Pseudo burned over $25 million in private and institutional capital over a span of seven years. Pseudo was a fake company. .... In his editorial (May 25, 2003) Frank Rich wrote: We expect our journalistic media to fictionalize the truth. As others have noted, the most dispiriting aspect of the Jayson Blair scandal may be that even the subjects of his stories usually didn’t bother to complain about the lies The New York Times published about them; they just assumed it was standard practice. One way or the other, we all inhabit the Matrix now.

Josh Harris
Sidamo, Ethiopia

UPDATE. DECEMBER 2015. CERN HAS STARTED ION COLLISIONS

And so it finally happened… The experiment is being performed as we speak. Ion-Ion collisions are breaking records every day. If the Earth is going to die, because of CERN, it will be. From 1st to 15 december, stable dibaryons are being produced with no safety whatsoever at the facilities.

So as of now those stable dibaryons are falling to the center of the Earth, where they will slowly accumulate till reaching the critical mass required to start an ice-9 reaction, within the span of a few years.

This transformation of our light, harmless up and down quarks into strange quarks, a hundred times heavier, is caused by the enormous energy-mass reached by each particle as it comes closer to c-speed. Because c-speed is the barrier of speed for particles, according to relativity, when quarks reach the limiting barrier, they keep absorbing energy from the accelerator. But instead of accelerating, quarks swallow and transform that energy into mass – E=mc2; hence becoming massive strange quarks, which once put together into stable dibaryon configurations, should fall to the center of the Earth.

...The main factor of extinction both in certainty of the event and timespan, in which it will happen is obviously the number of experiments performed:

The facility will produce more lethal dibaryons, the more ion-ion collisions are performed. Right now, as we speak those collisions are producing, per collision according to CERN, 30.000 ‘unclassified particles’, to be found in the strangelet soup of up and down and strange quarks – the infamous quark-gluon soup, origin of the big bang – plainly speaking, the most powerful explosive of the Universe. If we multiply this number by the sheer amount of atoms colliding in each bunch of tightly packed rays, we are talking of millions of dibaryons in each experiment. Certainly enough of them to bring a critical mass within years of accumulation at Earth’s center.
https://cerntruth.wordpress.com/

I now acknowledge that Pseudo Programs, Inc., a New York City based Internet television network founded in 1994 and sold from bankruptcy in 2000 was the linchpin of a long form piece of conceptual art.

identity » Sun Dec 06, 2015 12:28 am wrote:

(BTW, I feel that there is some mysterious connection between the two articles you posted, but I do not have the resources to make the nature of that relationship explicit. Anyone care to help me out?)

zangtang » Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:00 am wrote:The cerntruth stuff is.....i don't have a word for it, 'troubling' doesn't 'seem' a bit trite, it 'is' trite.

spent couple of hours on it last night, might polish it off today.

at least it'll happen quick !