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Unself Oracle
2024 – present · a daily video · about 700 episodes generated
Once a day it takes something real, runs it through the language's distorting mode, and speaks the result in a voice I trained, closing with a signature in glyphs.
How one episode is made
- I pick the storyEvery Oracle video starts from a news story I choose myself. Choosing the article is the one step I still do by hand.
- The language bends itA trained model reads the day's material through the language on purpose to distort it, inventing recurring fictional authorities inside the satire, a registry, a mandate, a protocol, and narrating the story as if that fiction already governed it. Internally that step is called the S.M.E., the Satirical Metaphor Engine. Nothing those authorities announce is real.
- A voice reads itA cloned voice I tuned over fourteen rounds of tests reads the script. Its settings were tuned by ear and the pipeline is not allowed to touch them.
- The mask speaksThe face is one photograph. A flat white mask, unchanged since March 2026. The lip sync software cannot find it. Every face detector fails on a blank, so I type the coordinates in by hand. The machine has to be told where the face is.
- It signs off in glyphsEach recitation ends by speaking one sentence in the exact, reversible version of the language, so you can check the language even when you cannot trust the story.
- A review queue, then outA recitation can be held back in a review queue before it goes out. The videos post to TikTok (@shittyproduction, about 13,000 followers); earlier episodes went to YouTube.
The same day, told twice: the article as published, and what the Oracle made of it.
The Oracle video made from that scenario, 47 seconds.
Episodes
a selection · sound onEach one is under a minute. The caption is the opening line of the script; every number and name in the satire is the Oracle's invention, built on a real story.
The entity
In the language Orwell invented for Nineteen Eighty-Four, "un-" attaches to anything. That rule built unperson, someone the state killed and then removed from every record. Orwell never wrote "unself." His grammar allows it.
UNSELF is the face of z0glyphic 913. It is not a character and it has no biography. It has no interior, no position and nothing at stake. It runs a program on whatever enters it and returns the result. That is the joke and the argument at the same time: the least qualified possible narrator, describing a media system that produces more information every year and less meaning.
