Body snatchers, brand snatchers, identity theft

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Watching Tim Rogers' video Story #6 ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 @ 1:41:50 someone says you can get a 'real' version of a vintage jacket by the original company that made them, rather than a more expensive reproduction.

While this may be true, multiple things differ

1. The company ages

2. The company may have gone through a 'snatching', transforming wildly in terms of its constituent parts. I've been reading a lot about emergence, and while a company may be some form of emergent organism, it is also affected by the top down, and may be completely changed under the skin. A minute or two later in the video it is revealed, also, that the company indicated was not really responsible for the best-quality versions of the original either.

Even still.

Thinking about things that appear to be other things - taking their name, their identity. Identity theft works in part because we trust systems more than faces. Exploitable systems. It's weird to think how much power we've deferred over to systems of trust. Maybe there's something to explore there. We are reduced to different parts in the eyes of these systems. We cannot be transformed, but our avatars are our whole selves in the eyes of these systems. Submitting to become an avatar means submitting to the system's affordances. A security exploit is an affordance.