fucking around, finding out

the minecraft ransomware cabal dictated this one to me

fucking around, finding out

why did you fuck 
around with me
to find out what 
you already   knew, 
that I will always 

come        when you call, 
answer     when you ask, 
listen        when you speak? 


why did I fuck 
around with you
to find out what 
I already knew too, 

that you     won't? 

— Amy Isikoff Newell, December 2023.

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If you have no idea what I’m talking about with the minecraft ransomware subtitle, it’s an obscure joke about a security hole in something called log4j that affected, among practically everything else, minecraft, a couple years back, and I wrote about it here:

Actually I found all these poems written in the sky in a Minecraft world by an unknown attacker exploiting the Log4J vulnerability. They have taken control of the Minecraft world, and said if I didn’t post all the poems on the internet they would never let me have it back and I put a lot of effort into building a functioning supercomputer inside my Minecraft world and the supercomputer is currently busy minting NFTs for me so I really don’t have much choice.