Saoirse¹ Facts

From the diary of B.A.D. Finnigan (orig. Dublin) discovered in the ruins of Cork Cathedral Crypt 20— below an inscription reading "Find here the mind of 'Bad Finn' may he ride Golden fields through Eternity" its meaning and significance are much debated with the acknowledgment of the unknown coder being creator of infinite code.

Excerpt from Battlegrounds: the rise of Social Anarchists in the 21stC by Edwardo Logan Chen, Professor of Modern Antiquities, University of New Oahu, Venus, 2129 A.D.

Saturday / December / 2028

The Bot Interviewer ask me who I am.

I'v bin about looking for work after Da² broke his arm on the construction. Bunking off school is easier when they can teach you nought…

So I was filling the interview form for the Meta®…daft name and logo that…any igiot knows the sign for infinity is a bollocks finite loop going nowhere…

I twas thinking that we can squat work at home an take care of Da so he don't get hooked by the meds…

And the Bot asks me to "define facts according to Meta manifesto"…like their his holiness holding out the ring…

So I is cracking away at Das' cracked 2003 Del®-iminator keyboard, CRT slowly going green… motherboard 5th hand scrounged from recycle scrap now running on the Linux to save memory…I'm showing the Bot my 'replica' Caltech Masters diploma with the grad with an honers in Communication Technology and telling it that "facts" are there to help "Facebook save the world"…

When the pop-up stops everything proclaiming

"Fact checking to be discontinued in 4 Days 23 Hours 53 Seconds" counting down, an

"This constitutes notification of termination of all service contracts in compliance with…" every labor law anywhere listed longer than the library Britannica…

So I got the sack.. not too bad mornings work…I figure I'll bunk off to see ma pony with the boys go for a canter through The Blocks…

An all the while ma heads rollin over that these billionaire gits are taken away ta truth and how I orta stick it to em for a lark…hit them where it matters, in the green and maybe help us lads along…

Sunday / December / 2028

Brother King said he "…had a dream…" look where that got the poor sod…I decided to do it better with a plan…a plan which starts with the idea of the open source of the Wikipedia Frankensteined into the first free social media platform, no ads, no money, no funky manifesto and fully funded by the fact that on that ride I'd written a line of encryption code that is unhack-able an I'm making it free to use for a 1p royalty every time.

Monday / December / 2028

The only people paid are P-grammers an fact checkers, do what you want, but if you lie or hurt yourself or others we're after you corporation, government or Jack Faggot³ down the road you can use it free but know "the people" always watching…I hit enter and its off an runnin…

Now git…I'm going for a canter with ma kith and kin…

Tuesday / December / 2028

[Press clipping pasted on the next page]

"Social media stocks crashed today⁴ with the release of the 'Saoirse Facts' open source social platform. Powered by Frankie Secure infinite code⁵ encryption released simultaneously, the platform allows users Add and Subscription Free Communication and Information Sharing supported by .5 billion moderators. Attempts to hack on the day of release by China, North Korea, Russia and the NSA were all ignored by the cloud based platform which appears to exist only in cyberspace. Pentagon spokesman stated that to stop it "we'd have to turn off the Internet".

Prosecution moves by numerous governments for Cyber Vandalism are being hampered by the fact that nobody has taken ownership of Frankie Secure or Saoirse Facts. Looks like the free social platform is here to stay.

Facing Page

[Rough drawing of three small horses and teen riders galloping through scrubby fields and broken buildings. Dated "Dec 2028"]

¹Freedom - Irish language

²Da - Father: Irish Dialect

³Bundle of sticks or piece of turf: Irish

⁴Within 126 hours of Scorsie Facts and its encryption engine going live all social media platforms were bankrupt and without employees who all migrated to becoming fact checkers for SF along with .5 of a billion of their fellows.

⁵In reality it was not code but a pocket universe of constantly growing and changing constellations. B.A.D. Finnegan surmised hies thoughts in later diary entries. " symbols an numbers limit creation so I wrote throw away code that simply spawn 'it' off and consumed the code in its first instance of existence...so it cant be hacked as there is no way in except its function which is to encrypt entry and exit to Saoise Facts.

T.E.W. Prak seeks the moments found between the words, the literary music between the notes (Boulangar 1893-1918), playing with word “bendies” like “Tenashious D” (Shankar, Jones - 2023) of language to find the unexpected. A polymath teacher, designer, author, filmmaker whose work crosses and re imagines genres and forms seeking moments of truth. Prak is a published short story andiron fiction auther who resides in regional Victoria Australia, caught in constant mid thought, in the ‘period’ between the ocean and the trees.

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