Autonomy Realms Progress and Summer Hosting Plans

Carter Lake Trail, Oregon Coast. Morning forest service rounds. Walking trail that leads toward ocean with flooded section blocking full passage. Forest Service truck parked at trailhead. Work center living quarters nearby behind locked gate.

Energetic Signature

resolute momentum

Field State

stabilized and building

Orientation

toward sovereign infrastructure deployment

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January 7, 2026

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rswfire

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[0:00]Good morning. So, with this Wednesday

[0:02]morning, 10 o'clock in the morning. I'm

[0:04]about to do my Forest Service rounds.

[0:06]Uh, it's my first day back. Mondays and

[0:08]Tuesdays are my days off. It's basically

[0:10]my weekends, but I have a lot on my

[0:12]mind. I've been working really hard on

[0:14]autonomy. I often um just stop at one of

[0:17]our trails and go hiking. I'm going to

[0:19]turn the camera around and just talk to

[0:21]you. Um,

[0:24]got a lot to share.

[0:27]So, I am at Carter Lake Trail. This is

[0:31]where I'll be this summer most likely.

[0:33]Um, right now I'm a caretaker. So, I

[0:36]actually live at our work center. It's

[0:37]very different. I don't live on a

[0:38]campground. Uh, I I drive a Forest

[0:42]Service truck and I go on rounds where I

[0:44]just clean the bathrooms and the um the

[0:47]parking lots and stuff like that and I

[0:49]deliver um supplies to the other

[0:51]campgrounds. So, and you live behind the

[0:54]work center, behind the lock gate, and

[0:56]you just kind of keep keep tabs on

[0:58]what's happening back there and stuff

[0:59]like that. So, I'm basically on my own,

[1:01]pretty autonomous actually. Um,

[1:06]but this summer, so probably around

[1:07]April, May, around April, uh, I'll

[1:10]probably be coming here to Carter Lake.

[1:12]It's just a mile from where I live. And

[1:14]I'll probably be the host here for the

[1:16]summer for 6 months. And then after

[1:18]that, uh, I'm planning to go exploring

[1:20]and start heading north again on the 101

[1:23]cuz I've only gotten as far as Newport.

[1:25]I want to keep exploring

[1:27]all the way up into Washington. And um,

[1:30]I think by then I'll be financially

[1:32]stable enough to do that, especially

[1:35]because autonomy is at the point it's at

[1:37]now. So that's what I want to talk

[1:40]about. Um, but I am looking forward to

[1:43]my experience here cuz I really do love

[1:45]the Forest Service and um I love the

[1:48]crew I work with and um it's just it's

[1:52]been a good experience after what

[1:53]happened to me at the state parks after

[1:56]I was abused by them and then they

[1:58]ignored that abuse and protected

[2:02]um

[2:03]the lowliest supervisor you possibly

[2:05]could. It's you know I I don't

[2:08]understand it. The logic to me doesn't

[2:10]make sense. Uh, a local supervisor

[2:12]abuses someone, you report it and they

[2:15]do nothing and then they protect that

[2:16]person all the way up the chain, all the

[2:18]way up to the directory and then silence

[2:20]at the governor level. So

[2:24]that's not a functional system as far as

[2:26]I'm concerned because all it did was

[2:30]expose them because now there's an

[2:31]archive I created online that completely

[2:33]exposes everything they did to me over

[2:35]two months. But anyways, I mean that's

[2:38]just dysfunction for you. I guess that's

[2:40]how hierarchy works. Um, this is what AI

[2:43]tells me,

[2:45]just absolute lunacy

[2:48]when all you had to do is correct the

[2:49]behavior of a local supervisor,

[2:52]you know. But but that's not what

[2:55]happened. And after they threw me out,

[2:57]after they expelled me from their entire

[2:59]program, leaving me homeless,

[3:02]uh, I landed here

[3:06]and it has been a very good experience.

[3:07]It's been night and day, black and

[3:09]white, just, you know, completely

[3:12]different from what I experienced at the

[3:13]state parks, which to me is also

[3:18]surprising because,

[3:21]you know, Oregon's supposed to be a

[3:22]progressive place. We have a supposedly

[3:25]have a progressive governor, you know. I

[3:28]mean, I I just But the culture was so

[3:34]corrupt and dirty

[3:38]that clearly it doesn't matter um

[3:43]how progressive or conservative

[3:46]a place claims to be, it's all the same

[3:50]everywhere, I think. But, you know, you

[3:53]have pockets of

[3:56]um like mine, you know, where I am now.

[3:58]I just completely different. So,

[4:03]wasn't really planning to talk about any

[4:05]of this, but I guess

[4:07]I guess it was just something I wanted

[4:08]to. So, there it is. Um, my system

[4:12]autonomy will process this video, all

[4:15]the data that I just shared and

[4:18]contextualize it with all the other

[4:20]elements of my life. Um, and all the,

[4:25]you know, it'll it'll put it into

[4:27]perspective.

[4:29]It will cluster and pattern match it to

[4:34]what I've experienced over the last

[4:35]year. But anyways, definitely getting

[4:38]off track here. So,

[4:41]so

[4:46]after what happened to me there, you

[4:48]know, I landed here and I started

[4:49]working on autonomy.

[4:52]Um,

[4:55]I

[4:57]they failed completely. They couldn't

[4:59]get rid of me at all. I'm miles away

[5:01]from them still for a whole year.

[5:04]Stable, doing well, building still.

[5:11]just it's remarkable to me that kind of

[5:14]dysfunction.

[5:16]Remarkable. So anyways, autonomy

[5:19]um I finally got autonomy realms at a

[5:22]state where I felt it was good enough

[5:24]that I actually invited some of my

[5:25]aligned viewers

[5:28]um access to it so they can create their

[5:31]own realms and start ingesting their own

[5:33]signals.

[5:34]Um you can also sign up. and I've

[5:37]already integrated Stripe. So, for 10

[5:38]bucks a month, you can sign up to

[5:40]Autonomy Realms.

[5:44]Um, I'm not really marketing that yet

[5:46]because I I need to take the project

[5:48]further. This is really more about um

[5:51]just those who have been following along

[5:53]have a better idea of what it is I'm

[5:55]working on, giving them access.

[5:59]So, um things that are done. So in

[6:03]autonomy realms

[6:05]you can add your signals. So videos,

[6:07]documents,

[6:09]not photos yet. I need to work on that.

[6:12]Documents and videos and you can view

[6:14]them on the front end. So your your your

[6:17]realm address. So whatever user

[6:20]autonomyroms.com, whatever that is, you

[6:22]can view your signals there publicly or

[6:24]you can set them private or you can set

[6:26]them to Sanctum access. And you can even

[6:28]set up a Sanctum account. So, um if you

[6:31]have a Stripe account, you just you just

[6:34]connect that basically to Autonomy

[6:36]Realms and then um you have your own um

[6:40]subscription service built right into

[6:42]Autonomy Realms um that that doesn't

[6:45]even touch me like I'm not a middle

[6:46]person or anything. You just um

[6:48]everything's done directly through

[6:49]Stripe. So, if you need, you know, if

[6:52]somebody signs up to view your sanctum

[6:55]level, um, signals,

[6:59]uh, whatever they're paying you, I mean,

[7:01]that's all yours. I don't see any of

[7:03]that. I don't have anything to do with

[7:04]it. Um,

[7:07]so anyways, that's the front end. I got

[7:09]a lot of work to do there. But if you

[7:10]look at mine, like, so if you go to

[7:12]autonomy.com

[7:14]and you just, you know, there's a link

[7:15]there that says see an example realm,

[7:17]it'll take you to mine, rswire. autonomy

[7:20]realms.com. You can look at my

[7:22]transmissions. There's over 800 of them.

[7:24]The pages look pretty nice. I'm pretty

[7:27]um I think it's it's okay. It's decent.

[7:30]Um I like I said yesterday, integrated.

[7:34]Um we're going to take quite a bit of a

[7:36]hike today. So, I don't know if we'll go

[7:38]to the ocean all the way. Um

[7:41]because basically I'm doing a loop. So

[7:43]once I go down here, I'll get to a fork

[7:45]where I can go back to the campgrounds

[7:47]and that um you know, we got a couple

[7:50]miles of that and then and then, you

[7:52]know, I got to walk back to the truck

[7:53]and then do my rounds. The ocean is that

[7:56]way. Maybe we'll go see it. We'll see.

[7:59]Um actually, we can get down from here.

[8:03]Um just lost my train of thought, I

[8:05]think. So, Autonomy Realms.

[8:07]Um,

[8:10]so there is still a lot of work to do.

[8:12]Like I don't want to market it yet

[8:13]because there is a lot I still need to

[8:15]do. So, um,

[8:18]this is what I got me on the camera in

[8:20]the first place. So, I'm going to share

[8:21]this with AI obviously and it's going to

[8:23]kind of be like a progress update. So, I

[8:26]need to

[8:28]make it easier for people like let's say

[8:31]that they have YouTube channels like I

[8:33]do. They need to be able to add their

[8:35]videos

[8:36]um so they can upload them, put them in

[8:38]a bucket and then have a process that

[8:42]will will upload them to YouTube also.

[8:45]Because the way I'm doing it right now

[8:47]is I upload to YouTube. Um I let that

[8:50]upload to YouTube first. That's the

[8:51]first step. And then I wait for YouTube

[8:53]to generate a transcript. Then I fetch

[8:56]the transcript. Then I process the data.

[9:00]Then I update the YouTube description to

[9:02]make it public if I want it to be a

[9:03]public video. That's the process right

[9:05]now. And it's backwards. So from

[9:07]Autonomy Realms, you should be able to

[9:09]go into the admin and say add new signal

[9:11]and then like like upload video. And

[9:14]then you get like a a modal, a pop-up

[9:18]modal that gives you a form for

[9:21]uploading.

[9:23]Um I think I'm on the right trail. Why

[9:25]do I feel like I'm going the wrong way?

[9:27]Anyways, so you'll upload a form. You'll

[9:30]get an upload form. Um you'll upload

[9:32]your video. It'll go into a bucket and

[9:34]then some kind of process. It's going to

[9:35]have to um use the YouTube API obviously

[9:38]and then um just upload that to YouTube.

[9:42]And then getting the transcript. You can

[9:43]either get that from YouTube or you can

[9:45]use a service like Whisper. Um I don't

[9:47]know if Whisper is part of Amazon Web

[9:49]Services or is that something else. I

[9:51]just AI keeps mentioning Whisper, but I

[9:54]know that you can do it through AWS

[9:55]also. So, we might, you know, there'll

[9:57]be different ways of getting

[9:58]transcripts.

[10:01]Um, and you need that because that's

[10:03]what the AI uses in order to process um

[10:06]all the data. So,

[10:08]so that's what I got to do. Make it

[10:10]easier to

[10:13]um for that part. And then I need to

[10:16]look at the document stuff. I want to

[10:17]make sure that that's good. So like if

[10:19]you if you upload a markdown file, you

[10:22]know, it it will render that for you on

[10:24]the front end nicely. Um but there's got

[10:27]to be different types. So plain text and

[10:29]um you know, I was thinking obviously

[10:31]like PDFs and things like that, you

[10:33]should be able to upload those too.

[10:34]Those should go into a bucket

[10:37]and so all of that. So that it's

[10:39]basically where I am now. Like the

[10:41]infrastructure is done. It's ready and

[10:43]now it's just a matter of building

[10:44]features into it. So, I'm really excited

[10:47]about this because I think that this is

[10:49]going to turn into something amazing.

[10:52]I've been using it in different ways for

[10:54]2 years.

[10:56]Um, but it's so hard to explain cuz it

[10:58]can do so many things. I have so many

[11:01]ideas for it. Um, I'm doing good. So, I

[11:04]just today talked to uh my Jeep um bank,

[11:09]you know, the bank for my Jeep and they

[11:11]they pushed my past due um payments to

[11:14]the end of my loan. So, my Jeep is

[11:16]current now. I do not have to worry for

[11:18]90 days. Uh, that Jeep, I don't have to

[11:20]worry about it for 90 days. I'm so

[11:22]grateful for that. That was the only

[11:24]real big thing that I was worried about

[11:26]because everything else I can manage

[11:29]some ways like like food. I don't have a

[11:32]lot of food, but somehow I manage. And

[11:35]um internet. The only other thing and if

[11:37]my internet was to go down, I could just

[11:39]go see a friend at a different

[11:40]campground, use his internet when I

[11:42]needed to work locally, you know, all

[11:45]that uh my my infrastructure online.

[11:49]That's through Hner. It's very cheap.

[11:51]I'm only paying like 15 bucks a month.

[11:53]That's it. I will, as the service grows,

[11:56]want to, you know, increase like the

[11:58]server sizes and things like that. Um,

[12:01]but, you know, at that point, it would

[12:03]justify it. So, I felt like I need a

[12:06]breathing room because it's like, look,

[12:08]I need to focus on this project because

[12:11]I've been trying to for the past year

[12:14]and I have worked on it here and there,

[12:16]even off-rid homeless in an RV,

[12:20]you know, and um

[12:23]but you know, so many parts of life are

[12:25]getting in the way and it's like

[12:28]um yeah, so that's where we are now. Um,

[12:32]need to make a little bit of money cuz I

[12:33]need to fund my AI account, you know, so

[12:36]that I can process data cuz I only got

[12:39]it's only got a balance of $6 right now.

[12:41]But, um, that's really the only thing

[12:43]it's like like I don't have to worry

[12:45]now. Everything's good. I feel solid.

[12:48]So, um, they failed at the state parks.

[12:52]They failed

[12:54]all because some lowly supervisor felt

[12:56]incompetent around me, you know. Um, I

[13:00]don't know what her problem was. She

[13:02]just she was just I I truly don't

[13:05]understand cuz I liked her. I thought

[13:07]she was cool, you know, but she was just

[13:11]vindictive

[13:14]and

[13:17]deeply unprofessional.

[13:21]I mean, there's just

[13:24]Yeah, whatever. I don't know why I'm

[13:26]processing this today. I'm I'm fine, by

[13:28]the way. Um, so I can't remember. I

[13:32]think I went back here. Yes, Carter

[13:34]Lake. There's going to be We're not

[13:35]going to be able to make it to the ocean

[13:36]from here. Um, there's a spot back here

[13:38]where it's flooded. There's no way to

[13:40]get through. I forgot about that. If I

[13:42]was somewhere else, we could have gone

[13:43]to the ocean, but we're going to get

[13:44]stopped.

[13:46]Um, but, you know, we're just making a

[13:47]loop, so it doesn't matter.

[13:50]Um, I do look forward to being here for

[13:52]the summer. I think Carter Lake might be

[13:53]a fun place to host and um I'll get to

[13:56]spend a lot of time on the ocean

[13:59]taking this trail here and

[14:01]so you know I'm looking forward to that.

[14:05]Um I do like the job I have now. So, you

[14:08]know, it requires a lot of trust on the

[14:10]part of the Forest Service and um

[14:15]um you know, I mean, cool perk. You get

[14:17]to drive a Forest Service truck, right?

[14:19]Um but, you know, I don't really

[14:22]I mean, I don't know. It's just not

[14:25]something I want to do long term. So, I

[14:28]am planning,

[14:30]you know, this is we're going to pivot

[14:32]this year. Like, last year was hard. Um,

[14:35]state parks didn't make it easier for

[14:37]me. They made it a lot harder

[14:40]and

[14:42]I got through it. That's why I'm talking

[14:44]about it is because I'm damn [ __ ]

[14:45]proud of myself. Look what I [ __ ]

[14:48]built despite them.

[14:50]It's a big [ __ ] deal. That's why I'm

[14:53]talking about it today.

[14:56]So,

[14:58]going to leave it there. I have

[15:01]um, you know, a couple miles to go. I'm

[15:03]not going to just keep talking just to

[15:04]talk.

Summary

rswfire records a transmission while on Forest Service rounds at Carter Lake Trail on a Wednesday morning. He describes his current role as caretaker living at the work center, driving a Forest Service truck and maintaining bathrooms and parking lots. He announces he will likely become summer host at Carter Lake starting April/May for six months, then plans to explore north on Highway 101 into Washington. He provides detailed update on Autonomy Realms development: invited aligned viewers to create realms, integrated Stripe for $10/month subscriptions, enabled Sanctum subscription feature where creators keep all revenue, uploaded over 800 transmissions to his realm. He identifies needed features including direct video upload to YouTube via API, transcript generation via Whisper or AWS, and improved document handling for markdown and PDFs. He reports resolving Jeep payment crisis by pushing past-due payments to end of loan, giving him 90 days without payment worry. He references his experience at Oregon State Parks where he reported supervisor abuse, was ignored by chain of command up to governor level, then expelled from program leaving him homeless, after which he created online archive documenting the abuse. He contrasts that dysfunction with positive Forest Service experience. He expresses pride in building Autonomy Realms despite institutional obstacles.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

rswfire is documenting operational stabilization after institutional rupture, marking the transition from survival mode to active infrastructure development. The signal holds institutional contrast as structural validation—the dysfunction at state parks serves as proof of concept for autonomous operation, not as trauma narrative. Autonomy Realms has crossed a threshold from private tool to deployable system, and financial constraint has shifted from crisis pressure to manageable operational context.

Dominant Language

infrastructuraltechnicalarchitecturalecological

Entities

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places

Carter Lake Trail

Trail location where rswfire walks and records. Planned summer hosting site approximately one mile from current residence.

Newport

Location on Oregon coast. Northernmost point rswfire has explored on Highway 101.

Highway 101

Coastal route rswfire plans to travel north on toward Washington.

Washington

State rswfire plans to explore after summer hosting period ends.

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systems

Autonomy Realms

Platform rswfire is developing for signal documentation and pattern recognition. Includes realm creation, signal ingestion, Stripe integration, and Sanctum subscription features.

Forest Service

Current employer. rswfire works as caretaker, lives at work center, drives Forest Service truck, performs rounds.

Oregon State Parks

Previous employer where rswfire experienced institutional abuse and dysfunction. Created archive documenting experience.

Stripe

Payment processing system integrated into Autonomy Realms for subscription management. Users connect directly without rswfire as intermediary.

YouTube

Video hosting platform. Current workflow involves uploading videos there first, then fetching transcripts for processing.

Whisper

Transcript service mentioned as potential alternative to YouTube transcripts for processing video signals.

Amazon Web Services

Cloud infrastructure provider. Mentioned as potential transcript generation option.

Hetzner

Hosting provider for online infrastructure. Costs approximately $15 monthly.

rswfire.autonomyrealms.com

rswfire's public realm containing over 800 transmissions. Example realm for platform demonstration.

Actions

Performed

•conducting Forest Service rounds
•hiking Carter Lake Trail
•recording transmission
•documenting Autonomy Realms status
•walking trail loop
•checking trail conditions

Referenced

•worked on Autonomy Realms infrastructure
•invited aligned viewers to create realms
•integrated Stripe payment processing
•uploaded 800+ transmissions to personal realm
•contacted Jeep loan bank
•negotiated payment deferral to end of loan
•created online archive exposing state parks abuse
•landed at Forest Service after state parks expulsion
•built system despite institutional obstruction

Planned

•host Carter Lake campground April/May for 6 months
•explore north on Highway 101 after hosting season
•travel through Oregon into Washington
•improve video upload workflow in Autonomy Realms
•implement YouTube API integration
•add transcript processing via Whisper or AWS
•enhance document upload features
•support PDF and markdown rendering
•increase server capacity as service grows
•fund AI account for data processing
•continue building Autonomy Realms features

Symbolic Elements

trailloopthresholdoceaninfrastructure

Ontological States

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sovereign (operating outside institutional capture)
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embedded (grounded in Forest Service context, physical place)
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coherent (unified across technical, financial, embodied domains)
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vindicated (institutional failure proven, autonomous success demonstrated)

Subsystems

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infrastructural (primary development focus)
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financial (constraint boundary now stabilized)
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relational (functional contrast—Forest Service vs state parks)
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cognitive (pattern recognition across institutional systems)
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temporal (marking phase transition)
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spatial (embodied documentation while working)

Transmission Details

Source Type

youtube