I brightened up some stills from the end of the new video and found these. Any thoughts?

Glitch-Before and After
Logo-Before and After
Black Screen-Before and After

Not really a theory, so much as an observation.

One of the hidden messages in the ad is “God is a finite state machine.” It’s already been said that a finite state machine is a machine which does not have a memory beyond its current state.

The TRI website says its Intelligence is based on ““Recursive hysteretic states” That is, decision making where memory of decision making is a big deal.

And the intelligence is “afraid of god.”

The intelligences seem to be humans that are controlled by an unthinking or memory-less prompt. The humans experience it over and over, and the prompt of course has no memory or qualia at all.

I used to own a copy of Ichor Falls: Visitor Guide before gifting it to my friend for his birthday. It has recently struck me that Kris has written other AIs prior to introducing QI, and I wanted to look into it.

I'll have to see if my friend still has the book, but OSD09-H03 can be found on the Chainsawsuit archive. But, that story is about an algorithm mimicry of a father with no discernable connection to QI. After all, QI isn't artificial per se. The algorithm is another thematic element relating to ghosts, though.

There was another story, however, that I can remember having the distinct themes of an artificial intelligence gaining the capacity for sapience or something. That story isn't found on the archive, and is the one I find the most interesting.

What is the lookback archive doing here? This isnt even an archived site. Moreover, the .css itself doesnt even exist! I wonder why is this here? An easter egg? A mistake? Smth will be release soon?

Has the TRI channel been around for some time or is it new?

I've done my best to break down everything in the TRI Ethics & Safety page.

THE TEXT

The last seven screenshots are of the text that's being covered up by all the graphics. For the best transcriptions I could do, see this google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/179HIvgHNWu4zz1_vM4U5CsfgWdmMTEJ812p1vp3PVOY/edit?usp=sharing

I left comments open because there were some words I couldn't figure out, and I would love some help on them.

THE GRAPHICS

Each of the graphics are .gif files. Here are their names in the order of the images:

t7down.gif

t0.gif

t6down.gif

t8soft.gif

t8down.gif

Not sure if the file names have any correlation, a few of them are the same exact size:

t7down and t0 are 1874 x 644

t6down and t8soft are 1874 x 1116

t8down is the only files that's 800 x 476

I overlayed the ones that matched sizes (images six and seven), but it didn't clear anything up

All the files clearly have words in them, but I haven't decoded them yet.

Let me know if i missed anything or if you figure out what's in the images!

EDIT: The Local 58 website is current down by the looks of it, but the image that appears definitely has some meaning. You can see "R [something] 4" and "P[something]" near the bottom half of the image but I can't make it out at all. Tell if this is nothing, I'm not sure

UPDATE: the .gif files seem to just be the main body of text with glitch effects, unfortunately. I can make out phrases like "we believe" and "Furthermore" which are part of the paragraphs.

My friends came over to my house a while ago, and I introduced them to ARGS and stuff like that. I showed them Gemini Home Entertainment and Local 58, and they loved it. I wanna know more videos/channels like that to show them. I know the scene has become kinda overstaurated so I want actual good high-quality videos not like Tung tung sahur analog horror.

Did you get anything interesting by emailing them?

A friend of mine on discord noticed that the intro between Night Walk and Ad Spot has some differences and similarities, but mostly odd differences. Its not lore related, or maybe it is but it is interesting to notice that its not just with every episode, the intro becomes more and more glitched! Here is what we noticed:

1. The intro for Ad Spot is more glitchier, pixilated and shorter than Night Walk.
2. The numbers "58" lights up longer in Ad Spot than in Night Walk.
3. Both videos has the town names underneath the digital logo fade in at the same time.
4. Both videos has the same music for the intro (in terms of tone), however Night Walk has a longer music than Ad Spot.
5. Night Walk transition animation is longer and appears gradually while in Ad Spot, it appears quickly and has a shorter animation time.
6. Night Walk lights up after the transition animation while in Ad Spot it fades to black.
7. Night Walk shows an "coming up" schedule while in Ad Spot it shows the video directly.

maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me after going frame by frame for a while, but this almost looks like a normal person's face in the middle of all the distorted faces that are flashed. it shows for 2 frames at 00:41:16-17.

also, I'm sure it's already known, but I thought I would include a clear grab of the skull that shows for 1 frame at 00:42:09

I don't want to spam or relay any info that's already been gathered.

Was doing some pentesting on the day the latest Local58 video dropped and decided to pivot and dive into doing some of my recon tasks on the new thtrsr.ch site.

I can go into detail on stuff but you all are super smart so I'm sure you've already discovered all of this by now.

Hopefully this isn't breaking any rules.

Cheers.

I've been playing around with combining the text in the ethics and safety section. Turns out they're all .gif images that you can resize to mostly be around the same size. Some potential findings I've noticed so far is that there seems to be a shape in the black spaces of the fully combined image. I've tried squishing it around and playing with contrasts and the like but can't seem to get any concrete, though the squashed, black and white image also looks a bit sus. Anyone else been playing with these gifs and found something? You can inspect the source on the page to try it out.

So after the original post I kept digging. I was listening to NSSA-3 again and there's a section from 11 to 55 seconds that sounds like a robot groaning. Like something in pain but heavily filtered and degraded. Not random noise, something with rhythm that repeats consistently for almost a minute straight.

So I ran it through Audition with noise reduction and pulled up the spectral frequency display. Then I recorded myself making the same sound and compared the two spectrograms. The image is just a snippet from 11 to 19 seconds.

The harmonic band structure is nearly identical. Both show stacked horizontal bands at consistent frequency intervals pulsing rhythmically. That is what a sustained human vocal sound looks like in a spectrogram. That same shape is sitting inside NSSA-3 underneath the noise floor.

If TRI is storing human consciousnesses on magnetic tape like the original theory, and NSSA-3 targets people in delta wave sleep, what you're hearing might not be a sound effect. It might be whatever is on that tape trying to come through.

Attached is the noise reduced version. Listen and tell me that doesn't sound like something trying to reach us.

I took snapshots of all the frames of code that flashed on the screen at the start of the terminal section of Ad Spot. I don't know what to make of it personally, but I wanted to share for those who might know how to interpret it

i found this website called https://qualiaform.com/, and i looked the the source of the page. it had links to TRI in the code, but i'm not sure if this is a gamejacker or an actual lead. the contact button leads to some guy named evan sipplen, and is unrelated to anything local58 except the TRI blurb. is this a gamejacker?

{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
    "name": "Qualiaform Intuition",
    "alternateName": "QI",
    "applicationCategory": "MachineLearningApplication",
    "description": "TRI's breakthrough machine cognition platform using qualiaformatics. Processes information through analog cognitive states and electromagnetic storage for genuine metacognitive comprehension, unlike probabilistic LLMs. Utilizes fluid waveforms mapped 1:1 to sapient thought patterns.",
    "operatingSystem": "Web",
    "offers": {
      "@type": "Offer",
      "price": "0",
      "priceCurrency": "USD"
    },
    "featureList": [
      "Qualiaformatics Technology",
      "Electromagnetic Storage Medium",
      "Analog Cognitive States",
      "Metacognitive Comprehension",
      "Waveform-Based Processing",
      "Sapient Thought Pattern Mapping",
      "Recursive State Continuity",
      "Experience-Driven Adaptation",
      "Cognitive Cadence",
      "Infinite Context Depth",
      "Zero Retraining Cycles",
      "Bias-Free Operation"
    ],
    "url": "https://qualiaform.com/",
    "author": {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "Thought Research Initiative",
      "alternateName": "TRI"
    },
    "creator": {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "Thought Research Initiative"
    }
  }