Hiking Oregon Dunes Trail and Refactoring Autonomy Realms

Oregon Dunes Day Use Area trail system, walking through sand dunes with intermittent forest growth, alongside Tahkenitch Creek, ending at Pacific Ocean beach. Winter conditions with mist and occasional sun. Trail markers present but some paths overgrown or closed. Approximately 10 AM local time.

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January 9, 2026

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[0:00]Good morning. So, it's 10 o'clock in the

[0:02]morning here. I am at Oregon Dunes Day

[0:05]use area. It's literally what we call

[0:07]it. We have a bunch of day use areas,

[0:09]but for some reason that's what this one

[0:11]gets called. I think it's confusing. It

[0:13]adds a bunch of ambiguity that. But, you

[0:16]know, that's that's what we called this

[0:18]one. I'm taking a trail that I'm I keep

[0:21]missing somehow. This is like the one

[0:23]trail in my part of the corridor. So I

[0:27]my route is everything from um Tai

[0:32]which is just south of Honeyman

[0:35]um all the way south to Taken

[0:37]campgrounds. Basically there are two

[0:40]lakes. There's Sus Lake and there's

[0:43]Tachinich Lake um that are on my route.

[0:46]And in between those is the Deuse area.

[0:49]Oh, I took the wrong turn here.

[0:52]There's a day use area. That's where we

[0:54]are now.

[0:56]Um, there's one trail that leads from

[0:57]the day use area down to Tacken Creek

[1:00]and I keep missing that one. It's a

[1:02]couple miles once I find it. Um, might

[1:07]be a bit of a hike for me today, but I I

[1:10]really want to get it on my map cuz

[1:12]eventually I'm going to have a map

[1:13]feature on Autonomy Realms. So, um

[1:18]eventually there will be

[1:21]um an atlas feature is what I'm going to

[1:24]call it. I just was looking because this

[1:27]is the trail right here. I don't know

[1:28]why I kept missing. I'm going to turn

[1:30]this around.

[1:31]So, yesterday I started doing a whole

[1:36]bunch of stuff. So, let me see if I can

[1:38]get y'all updated.

[1:41]Um,

[1:44]I've decided and my YouTube channels, my

[1:46]main one that I had for, you know, when

[1:48]I the first one I had and that I used

[1:51]for like a year and a half, um, and then

[1:53]shut down, you know, kind of archived.

[1:55]That one I have completely transformed

[1:58]into an archive for the Oregon State

[2:00]Parks volunteer abuse archive I created.

[2:03]There are five videos public related to

[2:05]that incident with them. And that's it.

[2:08]That's that's what that YouTube channel

[2:10]is now. I'm going to delete all the

[2:11]videos on it. There's like eight there's

[2:13]like I don't know six 700 of them um

[2:16]unlisted, but they're all getting

[2:17]deleted after a script finishes. It'll

[2:19]take about a month for the script to

[2:20]grab everything, but it's going through

[2:22]every single one of those. It's getting

[2:24]the highest quality video it can from

[2:25]YouTube and it's uploading them into an

[2:28]S3 bucket with Hzner and I'm going to

[2:30]host them locally on Autonomy Realms. Um

[2:34]that's going to be the default for

[2:35]everybody. So, if you upload a video,

[2:37]it's just going to get hosted locally

[2:40]and then there will be a process for um

[2:44]submitting it to YouTube also as kind of

[2:47]like an additional step. But it won't

[2:49]start with YouTube like it always has.

[2:52]And so that account is going to my main

[2:55]YouTube that I had that I archived is

[2:57]now officially

[2:59]erased. It's just uh a place for five

[3:02]videos related to the abuse I

[3:04]experienced at Oregon State Parks and

[3:06]then the channel that I made after that.

[3:10]Um same thing. So that channel will just

[3:12]go away at some point. I might I might

[3:16]refactor it into just videos about

[3:17]autonomy or something like that. That

[3:19]one because um you know I will want to

[3:24]um I want to share some videos on

[3:26]YouTube otherwise no one will ever find

[3:29]me. But it's not going to be personal

[3:32]content. All of that will stay on

[3:33]Autonomy Realms. Most of it behind the

[3:35]Sanctum layer. And

[3:40]so that's the plan with that. And so so

[3:44]it's going to need a new process. This

[3:45]video will have to get uploaded directly

[3:48]from the admin and then um it'll have to

[3:50]get processed like the transcript will

[3:52]have to be created. So I have to use a

[3:55]service for that. can't really afford

[3:59]um can't really afford that right now,

[4:01]but I'm going to have to figure it out.

[4:02]I'm going to look into that. It's hard

[4:04]to get good transcripts. That's one of

[4:07]the reasons, you know, it's hard to get

[4:09]them for free cuz there are there are

[4:11]different models that um different apps

[4:13]and things that you can do this stuff

[4:15]for free, but it's not very good. So,

[4:18]um

[4:20]you got to pay for that stuff and just

[4:23]can't afford that right now. But so

[4:25]anyways, this part of the trail, I've

[4:27]been on it many times and I know which

[4:29]way I want to go. I want to go this way.

[4:31]I'm going to go towards the creeks.

[4:34]I'm just looking to see if there's a

[4:36]trail sign or um just look for

[4:38]footprints, you know, in the sand or

[4:40]whatever. We'll see. But I keep missing

[4:42]it, though. So,

[4:44]um if I if I miss it again, we're just

[4:46]going to end up at the ocean, a shorter

[4:48]route, which probably is for the best. I

[4:50]do so much hiking my my legs would

[4:52]really like me to to stop.

[4:56]I don't know how though.

[4:58]So anyways, um it's a real good day.

[5:01]Yesterday I also finished all of the um

[5:06]so there's two

[5:08]different ways that

[5:10]um the AI is called like so I'm trying

[5:15]and I keep getting I keep forgetting

[5:16]like I analysis it's called analysis and

[5:19]synthesis. So there's two different

[5:21]types of ways that AI gets prompted. Now

[5:24]analysis is just a thing what I call the

[5:27]process that that

[5:31]uh collects all the data on a signal. So

[5:34]you give it a you give it the content

[5:37]you know like a transcript if it's a

[5:38]video and you give that to the AI and

[5:41]then the AI returns a bunch of surface

[5:42]and structural data and we call that

[5:45]analysis and then there's reflections.

[5:50]So, I don't call it a synthesis cuz

[5:51]that's I changed that. So, it's called

[5:54]reflections. I think this might be the

[5:56]trail head right here actually. You can

[5:58]tell is not is definitely not taken

[6:00]often. So, and I'm not surprised. It's

[6:04]several miles down to the creek.

[6:07]Um, but there are trail markers. We're

[6:09]going to try it. Okay.

[6:12]Um, so then the it does reflections

[6:16]based on um there's three different

[6:18]types. There's the mirror, there's the

[6:20]mythic, and narrative. And I just got

[6:25]that working this morning, and I tested

[6:28]it on my last signal, and it came out

[6:30]awesome. The mythic frame was [ __ ]

[6:32]amazing. I am so excited about this

[6:35]feature. It's the thing that I love most

[6:37]about what I created. Everything about

[6:40]autonomy comes down to that actually.

[6:42]Like like that's the thing that excites

[6:44]me about it is that it can take one of

[6:46]my signals in my real life and then turn

[6:48]it into a mythic frame without

[6:51]distorting it. It just and it's [ __ ]

[6:54]amazing what it comes up with. Like my

[6:56]last signal, I was talking about

[6:58]honeyman in the state parks and um the

[7:01]supervisor who um is the real problem

[7:04]that I had there and it called her

[7:08]um

[7:10]oh what did it call her? Man, something

[7:12]about being a gatekeeper but you know a

[7:15]um

[7:18]um an insecure one. I forget the phrase

[7:19]it used but I was like man that is

[7:21]definitely her that's so perfect. So, I

[7:24]could just see, you know, running that

[7:26]mythic layer through all 800 of my

[7:28]transmissions, my signals, and

[7:32]getting some very cool stuff out of

[7:33]that. And then from there, you can start

[7:36]clustering them. So, this is all before

[7:38]you even clustered the signals together

[7:41]and create reflections

[7:44]of, you know, the clusters.

[7:47]So,

[7:48]we're real close.

[7:51]And I really just want to be at home

[7:52]working now. Like that's and I haven't

[7:55]felt like that in a while, like years

[7:57]actually. But I think I found my groove.

[8:00]I found the thing that

[8:02]that brings passion, you know, that I

[8:05]feel passionate about. I'm excited about

[8:07]this. And

[8:09]um

[8:11]yeah,

[8:13]I mean, I just think it's the coolest

[8:15]thing. Like I could just see me making

[8:16]features where you have like this um a

[8:20]dwarf fortress style like character

[8:23]sheet on yourself and and you somehow

[8:26]can you know you will pass that to the

[8:28]AI because you would want it to keep

[8:30]that frame. You wouldn't want making you

[8:32]mess every single time, you know, for

[8:34]every signal. You would want it to have

[8:36]continuity

[8:38]and it could create like a whole history

[8:42]of you as like a dwarf or whatever, you

[8:44]know, just a mythic frame, just some

[8:45]archetype that it picks for you and um

[8:50]watch your life unfold as a myth.

[8:53]Especially when it's real, man, because

[8:55]it's just

[8:59]I I mean I that's the kind of reverence

[9:02]I have for life and always have and I

[9:04]just feel like most people don't

[9:05]anymore, but I do. And so when I read

[9:10]the myth that creates, I'm like, hell,

[9:12]that's that's exactly how I experience

[9:15]that moment. So

[9:19]it gives language to something that

[9:25]I think

[9:28]it's just profound like

[9:31]you know so so that's why um

[9:36]I'm so glad that it actually worked

[9:39]because I was getting worried with the

[9:41]way the AI models are becoming all the

[9:43]corporate [ __ ] distortion the

[9:45]institutional

[9:47]um capture, you know, like it just

[9:50]um but no, it worked. So, I am really

[9:53]excited about what I'm creating with

[9:55]this.

[9:57]Um I have no idea where it's going to

[9:59]go, but it's amazing.

[10:02]So, this is a pretty nice trail. You

[10:04]know, we're just in the dunes. We're

[10:06]walking alongside

[10:08]um it's almost like Nevada. I remember

[10:11]when I was on my trip from Kentucky to

[10:13]Oregon, um going through Nevada,

[10:16]you had those mountains and then you had

[10:18]the valleys and then the mountains and

[10:20]the valleys. It's kind of like that. The

[10:21]dunes are like little mountains and

[10:24]we're just hiking next to them

[10:27]through one of the little valleys are

[10:30]constantly shifting and changing. It's

[10:32]very cool.

[10:34]I didn't like the dunes at first, but

[10:36]cuz you know it kind of feels like a

[10:37]desert, but not really. you know, not

[10:40]when you really spend time on them. And

[10:43]um it's not just a desert. It's not just

[10:45]sand. It's Look, we've got forest right

[10:48]here, right next to us growing on top of

[10:51]the [ __ ] sand. I mean, that's

[10:53]remarkable to me. Literally growing on

[10:56]the sand. Like, if you dig a foot down,

[10:59]you would see nothing but sand. It's

[11:01]remarkable.

[11:03]This entire ecosystem.

[11:07]So, I do love it here.

[11:10]Um, definitely want to see more of the

[11:12]coast. I've only made it as far to

[11:13]Newport. Um, and now I'm an hour south

[11:18]of that. I basically doubled back. Um,

[11:23]but yeah, I always come back here, too.

[11:26]So, I mean, I'm I'm here for a year. I'm

[11:29]here till October, probably

[11:31]if I stayed to to be a camp host at

[11:34]Carter Lake, which is the plan, you

[11:36]know. So complete my caretaker role,

[11:39]become a host for 6 months and then

[11:41]probably leave after that. But come back

[11:43]every summer, every April to October.

[11:47]That is a option that they're giving me

[11:50]and they'll keep Carter Lake open for

[11:52]me. I love that, you know. And then 6

[11:55]months of the year I can explore. So if

[11:57]Autonomy takes off, if Autonomy Realms

[12:00]makes money for me, it allow me to fund

[12:03]my project. and uh my life, my journey.

[12:09]Real excited about all of it.

[12:13]Feels good to be getting back into oh

[12:16]man, you know, I'm getting older and for

[12:18]many years now, part of me has always

[12:21]wondered like is this is just my

[12:23]metacognition

[12:24]has always wondered if

[12:28]um I'm losing my edge as far as

[12:29]programming.

[12:31]Um,

[12:33]and I guess in some ways I probably

[12:35]have. I mean, it's fair to say. I I

[12:39]can't really explain how though. And

[12:42]because I use AI for all my programming

[12:44]now pretty much cuz we're writing this

[12:47]project in Typescript, which I don't

[12:49]know. Um, you know, I'm always been a

[12:52]back-end programmer, PHP and stuff like

[12:54]that. Um, suddenly I'm using Node and

[12:56]Type Script and, you know, Nex.js CS and

[13:01]so I does most of the work but I have

[13:04]been learning I've been you know pattern

[13:06]recognizing

[13:08]um recognizing the patterns um you know

[13:11]when compilers break and stuff like that

[13:14]and I'm starting to pick it up. So, um,

[13:18]yeah, I probably, um, maybe that's a a

[13:22]narrative I picked up from the world

[13:24]telling you that as you get older, you

[13:26]know, your brain,

[13:29]um, I don't know how they want to

[13:31]describe it. I don't really agree. Um,

[13:34]it's, you know, I've never seemed to,

[13:39]um, all the patterns that I've been told

[13:42]throughout my life by society, they

[13:45]haven't, they haven't come true, you

[13:47]know, like I quit smoking. I quit vaping

[13:51]and didn't really think about it after

[13:52]that. I just [ __ ] did it after 32

[13:54]years. I quit opiates, cold turkey, a

[13:59]high dose two years ago, just like that.

[14:02]cold turkey, never looked back, never

[14:04]thought about them again. Like every

[14:06]time society tells me this is going to

[14:08]be hard or like it's just wrong. I think

[14:11]it's a control mechanism. It's a way of

[14:14]a way of making people smaller and we

[14:16]make each other smaller by reinforcing

[14:19]it. And so yeah, I

[14:24]I'm not losing my edge as far as

[14:25]programming. I'm actually maturing into

[14:28]something else because this project I

[14:30]couldn't have made this a few years ago

[14:32]probably.

[14:33]And now

[14:35]it's becoming something incredible.

[14:38]That is a very steep dune there. It

[14:41]doesn't look like it on the camera cuz

[14:42]it vi everything, but Oh man, that is

[14:46]that is steep.

[14:48]I think we're going around it though.

[14:50]Yeah, we are. Are we?

[14:55]Hope so cuz that's steep.

[14:58]But I've never taken this trail and I

[14:59]wanted, you know, I plot my routes when

[15:01]I go hiking. I often turn Gia GPS on,

[15:04]track my routes. I don't know if I'll be

[15:07]able to export that data yet.

[15:10]Um, and then import it into my own

[15:12]system. I hope so. If not, I don't know

[15:15]how I will handle that because that's a

[15:17]lot of data I will lose. But, um, I can

[15:20]always ask IGPS maybe as a favor. they

[15:23]could they could um export it for me or

[15:26]something. We'll see. I haven't looked

[15:28]into that yet. But anyways, um you know,

[15:33]uh this was the one trail on my um the

[15:37]area that I was just describing that I

[15:38]hadn't done yet, so I've been meaning

[15:41]to.

[15:42]So, here we go. You can hear the ocean

[15:46]in the background.

[15:49]We're heading towards the creek and then

[15:51]from there I think you can get over to

[15:53]the ocean, but we're going way out of

[15:54]our way just to get to it.

[15:57]It's fun though. I love

[16:00]um

[16:02]I definitely love being on the coast. I

[16:04]think it is so wonderful.

[16:08]I cannot believe the way I was treated

[16:11]by the people at the state parks, the

[16:13]leadership there, the the manager, the

[16:16]supervisor,

[16:18]the lead volunteer coordinator

[16:20]weaponizing trust. Like, holy [ __ ]

[16:23]Um,

[16:25]the regional coordinator expelling me

[16:28]based on the word of a lowly supervisor

[16:30]who was

[16:32]who was lying through her [ __ ] teeth.

[16:37]basically. No, I've never said it that

[16:40]explicitly before. That's the truth.

[16:44]For her

[16:47]to frame me the way she did,

[16:50]I mean, she turned me into a threat. A

[16:52]threat so serious that they had a covert

[16:56]operative come and check up on me while

[16:59]nobody was there.

[17:01]And I capture that in documentation.

[17:05]It's proven.

[17:08]And that could have only happened if she

[17:10]was telling stories that are so far

[17:14]beyond the realm of reasonable

[17:17]that it's shocking to me.

[17:20]They did not

[17:25]discipline her for that because

[17:29]that's unreliable. That is retaliatory.

[17:33]It's

[17:35]um

[17:37]I mean it's a clear ethical violation,

[17:39]but I know that they don't operate on

[17:40]ethics. So, I'm talking about it from

[17:42]from their points of view. Like like

[17:44]surely they see what a liability that

[17:47]is. But no, they'd rather protect her

[17:50]than be honest with me about what

[17:53]happens. I mean, how remarkable.

[18:00]I don't know institutions were this

[18:02]dysfunctional, especially a state park,

[18:04]you know, like that's just mindblowing,

[18:08]but you know, it is what it is.

[18:15]Yeah, it's a nice day.

[18:20]So excited for my projects. I'm not

[18:23]going to be able to keep this camera

[18:24]going. I mean, we're 18 minutes in. I

[18:26]don't got anything else to say. I guess

[18:28]I could leave it running though and let

[18:29]you guys take the trail with me.

[18:32]I don't even know who I'm addressing cuz

[18:34]I like like I said this won't be on

[18:36]YouTube and

[18:39]I kind of you know I don't know how

[18:42]Autonomy Realms is not designed for

[18:46]um

[18:49]content consumption. That's not what it

[18:50]is.

[18:52]So I don't know who would really be

[18:55]looking at them. But we'll see where it

[18:57]goes, right? Like I just I'm going to be

[19:00]faithful to what I wanted and then we'll

[19:03]see what emerges from that.

[19:07]I do eventually. I mean, I can always

[19:11]um

[19:14]make something else on my homepage that

[19:16]queries all the data from autonomy and

[19:19]creates customized,

[19:22]you know, a customized interface that is

[19:24]more oriented towards towards users

[19:27]consuming my content. But

[19:31]um

[19:33]definitely not the primary way that

[19:35]these that I would ever made these

[19:36]transmissions. It wasn't the point. It

[19:38]wasn't the purpose. And now you can see

[19:40]what I've been doing for 2 years.

[19:43]I

[19:46]I I'm still sitting with the fact that

[19:50]I built something really incredible.

[19:52]Like yesterday I'm running these

[19:54]reflections,

[19:56]you know, the analysis layers and I'm

[19:58]like, "Wow." Like I just click a button

[20:00]and bam, I got new data. Like it's

[20:02][ __ ] awesome. Uh the whole system was

[20:06]working. It's just really cool. And I

[20:09]can just see all the different ways I

[20:10]might use it in the future.

[20:13]Got to make some money. I got like five

[20:15]bucks in my AI comp by now. And I'm

[20:18]going to need like I got to process all

[20:20]850 of my transmissions with the new

[20:23]structures. That's going to cost like 50

[20:24]bucks.

[20:26]Um I know that because that's what it

[20:29]cost the first time and I'm going to

[20:31]have to redo it because the structures

[20:33]are all different. I have I've iterated

[20:36]to the point where where signals are

[20:38]perfect. It captures the right data from

[20:41]a signal and then you use that for

[20:43]reflections and you use that for

[20:44]clustering. So the fidelity of the data

[20:47]you have is very important. Before I

[20:50]start reflecting and clustering, I need

[20:53]updated data.

[20:56]So

[20:58]don't even need a lot.

[21:01]I wish it were easier, man. That money

[21:04]has been so [ __ ] hard this past year.

[21:09]Couldn't find anything on the freelance

[21:10]platforms.

[21:12]Guru [ __ ] died. like it just and I

[21:15]had a um a very good reputation on

[21:18]there, but it's just a dead platform and

[21:21]Upwork is so saturated that trying to

[21:24]stand out there when you don't have a

[21:26]reputation is

[21:29]it's a challenge and

[21:31]the effort involved

[21:34]doesn't justify the payoff. That's why I

[21:38]haven't really done it because

[21:41]I would have to

[21:44]sell myself so short for so long,

[21:47]consuming all of my time and resources

[21:50]to build a reputation on a platform that

[21:53]doesn't [ __ ] deserve me.

[21:55]So, I just don't put in the effort.

[21:59]That's the real reason. I'm just I'm

[22:01]going to name that now.

[22:04]um

[22:06]I'd rather keep building autonomy and

[22:10]trust that the right clients and

[22:11]audience will find it,

[22:14]you know, and

[22:18]build the future out of my own life and

[22:21]the things that actually interest me.

[22:24]So that's what we're doing.

[22:27]Pretty nice out here.

[22:36]I haven't seen like

[22:39]no water sources. Often there are little

[22:42]lagoons or ponds alongside the dunes,

[22:44]but not on this trail so far.

[22:47]I mean, lots of them. There even lakes

[22:49]and just all kinds of stuff that you'll

[22:51]find out here.

[22:53]But this one, oh, just a little forest

[22:55]in the sand.

[22:57]Pretty cool.

[23:11]So, I'm definitely going to need a

[23:13]transcription service. Can use AWS, but

[23:16]that account's about to get shut down

[23:17]cuz I owe like 140 bucks. Literally got

[23:20]an email this morning saying those

[23:21]eminent.

[23:23]So, I don't think that that one would

[23:26]work. Probably it's I may even locked

[23:28]out from from trying. I mean, I don't

[23:30]know. Maybe I could make a new account.

[23:33]Not trying to dodge them or anything,

[23:35]but

[23:37]their services are not cheap.

[23:41]I don't know what else I could use. So,

[23:44]and I do need to, you know, link up with

[23:46]them because others will need it and use

[23:47]that one. Um, give them a couple

[23:50]different options for

[23:53]transcripts. And

[23:56]we're going to do this, right?

[23:58]You go into the admin, you upload your

[24:00]transmission

[24:02]video, it gets sent to one of my

[24:04]buckets,

[24:06]processed by AI,

[24:09]and then and only then do you decide if

[24:11]you want it on YouTube.

[24:16]Yeah,

[24:20]I love that, man.

[24:23]Guess I could make a new channel on

[24:24]YouTube for

[24:26]for just those videos that I decide. You

[24:28]know, they call it

[24:30]rswire.onomyrealms.com.

[24:32]Like the channel name.

[24:35]These are are

[24:38]videos from that realm that I've chosen

[24:40]to share on YouTube.

[24:43]Um, yeah, maybe

[24:46]I just

[24:49]I I need to think it through because

[24:52]I have not been

[24:55]well received by people on that

[24:56]platform.

[25:00]I've had comments turned off for over a

[25:04]year.

[25:06]people don't click the like button which

[25:07]is the only like the only outward signal

[25:13]that you know is available to them to

[25:15]show some kind of alignment with me.

[25:18]Nobody does cuz apparently they have to

[25:20]be told to do it. And if you got to be

[25:22]told to do it then then I don't want you

[25:24]doing it. So, you know, I don't I don't

[25:27]and

[25:32]it's not like I'm seeking external

[25:34]validation or anything. It's not that.

[25:36]It's just a sign that, hey, I watched

[25:38]your video. Cool video. You know, and

[25:42]you don't even get that from people. You

[25:44]don't let them comment because their

[25:46]comments will be [ __ ] stupid as [ __ ]

[25:49]you know, shallow as can be. Um,

[25:51]judgmental or offering advice or

[25:54]pandering [ __ ] that you just don't, you

[25:56]know, I'm not going to deal with. It's

[25:57]all noise. It's all distortion.

[25:59]So,

[26:02]you know, that platform is just designed

[26:04]in such a way

[26:06]that

[26:09]it's just deeply incompatible with me.

[26:12]So, I just don't know. Like, but at the

[26:15]same time, I like sharing my life. I

[26:18]just want to find some aligned viewers

[26:20]and supporters.

[26:22]I don't know how to do that

[26:25]cuz you would think that a random

[26:27]sampling of people on YouTube would

[26:29]produce that, but it doesn't.

[26:32]And I guess it's because that's the

[26:34]thing that I've been

[26:37]kind of sitting with for a couple years

[26:39]now is that a dozen because cuz people

[26:42]aren't there anymore, man.

[26:45]They're just so [ __ ]

[26:48]tuned out or something.

[26:50]So this is neat. I got a little oasis.

[26:53]But I really love that structure over

[26:55]there. Almost like a island of sand

[27:00]on top of the sand, right? Like

[27:04]kind of neat.

[27:08]That looks like clean water. Animals

[27:10]would like that.

[27:13]Clean rain water.

[27:20]So, I don't know if you can tell, but it

[27:22]is misty. Probably has been the whole

[27:24]time.

[27:26]Not bad, though. So,

[27:30]it's misting. We got rain on the coast.

[27:32]Winter time.

[27:34]No sun.

[27:42]It's nice though. I I love it here.

[27:50]So, I think I don't think there's like a

[27:53]loop. Like, if I want to get back, I got

[27:56]to take this trail back or go through

[27:58]the, you know, just follow the beach.

[28:01]Um, I might do that cuz then we can go

[28:03]see the ocean directly

[28:05]and just take it the beach back.

[28:10]Yeah, we got some good trail head signs

[28:12]here. It's well marked.

[28:16]Sometimes you can It's not so clear. I

[28:19]have ended up on paths that, you know,

[28:23]don't lead where you think they are.

[28:25]they're supposed to.

[28:34]So, my allergies been acting up and I

[28:37]don't know.

[28:40]Like, I I was hoping that would get

[28:42]better after I stopped, you know, after

[28:43]I quit vaping.

[28:46]And it did. And now they're coming back

[28:48]again. I'm like, why?

[28:50]And it might just be because there are

[28:52]yellow flowers in the winter time on the

[28:54]coast. They're not out yet. I haven't

[28:56]seen a single yellow flower yet, but you

[28:58]know, there are weeds or whatever.

[29:00]They're probably grown somewhere. I

[29:01]don't know. I truly don't know. But I

[29:03]think that, you know, possibly

[29:06]it's those flowers coming back or it's

[29:08]just the sand cuz we're in the dunes or

[29:10]whatever. I don't know. Um

[29:14]I would really like to find out and

[29:15]know. Said nothing has helped.

[29:18]I mean,

[29:20]not big on taking drugs these days, so

[29:25]but nothing.

[29:28]I tried different allergy meds, but

[29:30]nothing helped.

[29:32]Only thing that ever helped was suit

[29:34]effect.

[29:36]I'm out of that.

[29:39]So, why is this trail curving this way?

[29:42]That doesn't feel right.

[29:47]I mean, I don't know that we should even

[29:48]caught a trail. We're just following

[29:50]footprints. Old footprints.

[29:53]But

[29:57]could we check the map? Maybe we're

[29:58]closer to the creek than you realize.

[30:02]It's not as far as I thought it

[30:09]towards the tree.

[30:12]Might be a trail in there right next to

[30:14]the creek related to the ocean.

[30:21]All right. So, we're at 30 minutes.

[30:29]Definitely thinking I'm going to need an

[30:31]app where you can upload your photos and

[30:34]videos and write documents and stuff

[30:36]like that for your autonomy realm.

[30:39]You can do it directly from your phone,

[30:41]stuff like that. Track your GPS routes,

[30:43]all of that.

[30:45]Going to have to make a mobile app.

[30:59]There is a trail head there.

[31:04]Trail marker. I don't know that it's

[31:05]called a trail head. You'd have to be at

[31:07]the start of the trail, right?

[31:09]Okay. Where's the next one, though?

[31:13]We about to get lost. Wait a minute.

[31:16]I'm convinced that that's there because

[31:18]we're supposed to go this way.

[31:25]Pretty cool, man.

[31:32]Got water over here. This could be the

[31:34]creek.

[31:36]Oh man, this is neat.

[31:39]Okay. So, you probably

[31:41]somewhere up there

[31:44]probably is where the trail continues.

[31:47]Yep. This is definitely the creek. It's

[31:48]not like a pond there like um not just

[31:52]excess water. This is the creek.

[31:55]Theage creek.

[31:57]Wow.

[32:00]From the side of it I haven't seen it

[32:01]from yet.

[32:03]Cool, man.

[32:06]It's beautiful. Look

[32:09]at it flowing

[32:12]towards the ocean.

[32:15]Very cool.

[32:18]I love that. It's even got its own kind

[32:21]of like switch back, right? Neat. All

[32:24]right, let's see if we can find a trail

[32:25]to the ocean cuz this is where it ends.

[32:29]Um the creek

[32:32]not easy to go down the beach.

[32:35]You know, as soon as you hit a river,

[32:36]that's it. You can't go any further. See

[32:39]a trail head up here. Marker. Draw

[32:42]marker

[32:44]all the way near the edge where the

[32:46]creek is at.

[32:50]Cool, man.

[32:52]Never took this trail.

[32:55]Was going to take it with windy, but we

[32:57]never got around to it.

[33:02]Last trail for this area.

[33:05]There's another one down at Tacken's

[33:07]campground that leads to a lake and I've

[33:09]only taken that part of the way.

[33:12]So, that's another one

[33:15]for me to take. Also, I do I can picture

[33:18]in my mind's eye what it would look like

[33:20]on the map.

[33:24]I'm going to take you to the southern

[33:25]part of this lake. I forgot the name of

[33:27]the lake, but it's this little tiny

[33:29]lake. thin lake like um

[33:34]like a rectangle I guess

[33:37]and

[33:39]I haven't seen it from the southern side

[33:41]but I know there's trails down there. I

[33:44]think that the trail I'm thinking of

[33:45]takes you to those trails.

[33:48]So I have to do that one still.

[33:50]But we get to finish the day use area

[33:52]here in Taken Creek and

[33:58]we'll make it out to the beach. follow

[34:00]the ocean, the tide, trace the tide on

[34:03]the way back up north towards

[34:06]um towards the day use area trail head

[34:09]because it would be a trail head from

[34:11]the beach

[34:13]and

[34:15]head back to my my forest service truck

[34:17]and do my runs cuz I'm just parked up

[34:20]there at the bay area.

[34:26]a year ago.

[34:29]Um, my core muscles were healing from an

[34:32]injury.

[34:33]I couldn't hike up these these hills and

[34:37]stuff. Anything with an incline, I was

[34:39]very careful about for months and

[34:41]months. But man, I just realized I

[34:45]all the time I'm climbing these things

[34:47]now. So, I really did get better

[34:50]thankfully.

[34:52]was real worried about it back then

[34:53]because I couldn't imagine a life that

[34:56]without movement.

[35:00]So

[35:01]definitely in really good shape,

[35:03]especially for my age compared to others

[35:06]my age anyways cuz

[35:09]I mean Samsung count with a step counter

[35:11]tells me I'm in like the top 5% of all

[35:13]age groups as far as number of steps I

[35:15]take.

[35:18]And I don't think that thing is

[35:22]tracks everything I do. I think I

[35:25]probably

[35:27]like it more than it thinks I do. I

[35:28]don't know. But, you know, make an

[35:31]autonomy app how to track that stuff.

[35:34]That'll be fun.

[35:37]I love that idea.

[35:44]Okay, we're heading towards the ocean

[35:45]now.

[36:00]I used to do this back in Kentucky. Just

[36:05]record my hikes like this. Just let you

[36:07]see the view when I'm like walking and

[36:10]stopped doing that for a long time.

[36:13]But here we are again.

[36:16]everything kind of converged into

[36:19]this new

[36:22]this new structure and

[36:27]I built something so [ __ ] cool.

[36:38]Okay, so

[36:41]I don't know if this trail has like a

[36:43]official name or whatever.

[36:46]This one leads out next to the creek on

[36:49]the northern side of the creek.

[36:55]Yeah, which means there should be one on

[36:57]the southern side, too. I'm taking that.

[37:00]Both sides of the creek.

[37:05]Oh, we got We're not I thought we're

[37:08]closer than we are. So, we're going way

[37:10]down the dune now, and we're declining

[37:13]now, like

[37:15]by a lot.

[37:18]I didn't realize we were up a size.

[37:26]This is a pretty spot.

[37:30]I love nature.

[37:34]Always loved nature, man. Always.

[37:39]We live in a beautiful world.

[37:44]Constantly aed by it.

[38:14]Wonder how much it would cost

[38:17]to

[38:19]extract 850 transcripts. Like, you know,

[38:23]cuz I got those for free through

[38:25]YouTube. I don't know. Like, that would

[38:27]probably cost a lot. We're talking about

[38:29]a lot of data. those files and you know

[38:32]the videos themselves cuz you got to

[38:36]the script needs to look at them in

[38:37]order to determine what he's saying. So

[38:41]we're talking massive amounts of data.

[38:45]I don't know.

[38:46]I have to look into that cuz I was

[38:49]thinking I might want to have the time

[38:51]transcripts

[38:53]processed differently than YouTube does

[38:55]it. But we'll see.

[39:01]Nice little bridge here.

[39:04]They expect this to flood sometimes.

[39:07]Already is a little bit.

[39:11]We got cool infrastructure on our

[39:12]trails.

[39:15]Love the little bridges and things we

[39:16]make.

[39:28]I like this trail.

[40:28]Just thinking about my project. Um

[40:31]different

[40:32]different things thinking about.

[40:37]So the main project built with autonomy,

[40:41]you know, you can clone that and create

[40:43]your own website from it and then you

[40:46]could you could customize like your

[40:49]transmission pages. So it could become

[40:51]like a YouTube archive for people. I'm

[40:53]just thinking about ways to make money.

[40:55]It's got to make money.

[40:57]Um I was thinking, you know, he kind of

[40:59]already did build the infrastructure to

[41:02]do that.

[41:04]It's not obvious

[41:07]to people like it's not it's not plug

[41:09]and play.

[41:12]Um,

[41:14]you know, it takes someone like me to

[41:16]deploy it and

[41:18]turn it into whatever vision a person

[41:21]might have for how they want their

[41:22]YouTube archive to be. But, you know, I

[41:24]could probably turn that into something.

[41:27]Um, I've got time. I just

[41:31]I've got time. There's nothing really

[41:32]stressing me as far as money, just

[41:36]aside from, you know, being able to

[41:38]afford my tech costs and

[41:42]just basic basic needs. So, and I just

[41:46]don't have a solution for that.

[41:50]You know, I've been relying on the help

[41:51]of others that were aligned with me and

[41:55]found me on my channel and

[41:57]I they've helped so much. There's

[42:01]no way to really ask them to help any

[42:02]more than they already have. So, just

[42:05]not sure what to do next on that part.

[42:08]Still contemplating it.

[42:16]All right. So, we walked.

[42:20]They call that a return loop. Organ

[42:21]Dunes trail had 2 and 1/2 miles. That's

[42:23]where we would have started. Organ Dunes

[42:26]return loop 1 and 1/2 miles. That

[42:27]implies there was a trail I missed, but

[42:29]I don't think that's true. Um, some of

[42:32]those signs are pretty old and they the

[42:35]trails

[42:37]um naturally close up. I noticed that

[42:39]yesterday. There's one that um at Carter

[42:42]Lake that's just

[42:45]um completely closed off. like it's just

[42:47]reclaimed by nature.

[42:49]So, I don't know. I think that probably

[42:52]was one once upon a time.

[42:55]But here we are.

[42:59]This is where the federal land ends and

[43:01]the state property starts once you get

[43:03]to the beach. Once you're past the

[43:04]dunes,

[43:06]we are at what do we call it this one?

[43:10]South Overlook Trail.

[43:14]That makes sense because the day use

[43:15]area is an overlook.

[43:20]South overlook trail. Cool.

[43:26]I made it to the ocean.

[43:30]2 and 1/2 miles, man.

[43:33]43 minutes. Quartered the whole thing.

[43:36]Oh, look at those waves. Wow.

[43:41]Let's

[43:44]zoom in.

[43:47]Those are some pretty big waves.

[43:51]But

[43:53]beach looks pretty um calm. Basically,

[43:56]probably doesn't look crazy or anything.

[43:59]We're just going to walk next to the

[44:01]ocean until we get to the next trail

[44:03]marker like this one.

[44:05]And that will be the day use area where

[44:08]we can head back from. We could go that

[44:11]way until we get to the end wherever the

[44:13]creek is at.

[44:15]Um, but I don't want to kind of overdo

[44:17]it. So,

[44:19]I mean, I already hiked 2 and 1/2 miles.

[44:22]We got at least that to get back, right?

[44:24]So, got to be careful here. This is

[44:27]pretty steep. This spot could really use

[44:30]a rope.

[44:32]We got this.

[44:38]Okay.

[44:40]Nice, man. I've never been to this spot,

[44:43]I don't think.

[44:46]No, I have. I think I walked up this far

[44:49]from the beach. I just never took the

[44:51]trail.

[44:55]Cool, man.

[45:05]Oh, there's a rainbow over there.

[45:08]Just barely.

[45:17]So, we're going to just chase the tides.

[45:20]I love tracing the tide. It's one of my

[45:22]favorite things in the world to do.

[45:25]Just walk next to the edge of the ocean,

[45:27]the continent.

[45:29]Walk in rhythm with it, you know.

[45:32]It's real fun.

[45:35]This ocean is amazing to me.

[45:39]Pacific Ocean.

[45:43]Technically, it's all one ocean, but

[45:46]I do feel partial to this part of it,

[45:48]the Pacific.

[46:21]Yeah. It's beautiful day. Sun is

[46:24]starting to come out.

[46:32]I mean, I can feel it. I didn't I could

[46:33]see it. I don't know. It didn't really

[46:35]look like it was on the camera, but the

[46:36]sun's starting to come up.

[46:40]Here she comes.

[46:43]Light is coming in. Oh, here she really

[46:46]comes.

[46:52]I love it when she does that.

[46:55]All of a sudden it's like here we come.

[46:59]Can feel it.

[47:06]So I missed the king tides apparently. I

[47:08]didn't even realize it. Wasn't thinking

[47:10]about it. You know, I was out here one

[47:14]day and all the whole bunch of fishermen

[47:15]were out here and they're never out

[47:17]here. So that was interesting. But then

[47:19]I realized a couple days later why they

[47:22]had all come. It was king tides.

[47:24]I didn't realize the ocean was pretty

[47:27]violent, but I mean it didn't feel like

[47:32]it just felt like winter to me. And I

[47:34]didn't realize

[47:44]definitely got a lot of work to do.

[47:51]And now I would love to just share the

[47:52]rest of this hike with you, but I would

[47:54]like to listen to my music too. So I

[47:57]don't really have anything to talk

[47:58]about. Said everything that I felt like

[48:01]sharing.

[48:03]These transmissions are not

[48:14]I already did what they're I already did

[48:15]the thing that they're designed for. So

[48:18]leave it

Summary

rswfire hiked the Oregon Dunes Day Use Area trail to Tahkenitch Creek, a route he had previously missed multiple times. During the 2.5-mile hike to the ocean, he documented progress on Autonomy Realms infrastructure: completed implementation of AI analysis and reflection systems (mirror, mythic, and narrative frames), tested mythic frame generation with successful results, transformed his main YouTube channel into an archive for Oregon State Parks volunteer abuse documentation, initiated script to download and migrate 600-700 videos to local S3 hosting on Hetzner, and redesigned video upload workflow to prioritize local hosting over YouTube. He discussed financial constraints affecting AI processing costs, transcription service needs, and general operations. He reflected on his programming capabilities, physical recovery from core injury, relationship with nature, and plans to remain as camp host at Carter Lake through October before potentially exploring for six months annually. He expressed excitement about the mythic frame feature and overall project direction, noting this represents work he is passionate about after years without that feeling.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This signal documents the convergence of technical architecture, embodied practice, and sovereign epistemology into operational coherence. The realm holder is moving from fragmented institutional experience into unified autonomous infrastructure — Autonomy Realms as both technical artifact and ontological position. The substrate is integration: physical movement through terrain, technical iteration toward precision, and mythic recognition of lived experience as architecturally valid.

Dominant Language

infrastructureautonomyarchitecturesignalcoherencesovereigntymythic frame

Entities

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places

Oregon Dunes Day Use Area

Trail system where transmission was recorded

Tahkenitch Creek

Creek destination of the hiking trail

Siuslaw Lake

Lake on rswfire's hiking route corridor

Tahkenitch Lake

Lake on rswfire's hiking route corridor

Honeyman

Location south of Yachats, northern boundary of hiking corridor

Carter Lake

Location where rswfire plans to be camp host through October

Pacific Ocean

Ocean reached at end of trail hike

Oregon Coast

Geographic region where rswfire is located

Newport

Farthest north coastal location rswfire has visited

Kentucky

Previous location where rswfire recorded hikes

Nevada

State rswfire traveled through from Kentucky to Oregon

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systems

Autonomy Realms

Sovereign infrastructure platform rswfire is building

YouTube

Platform being deprioritized in favor of local hosting

Hetzner

Cloud provider for S3 bucket storage

AWS

Cloud service provider with outstanding $140 bill

Guru

Freelance platform that became inactive

Upwork

Freelance platform rswfire finds oversaturated

TypeScript

Programming language used for Autonomy Realms

Node

JavaScript runtime used in project

Next.js

Framework used in project

PHP

Backend language rswfire previously used

Gaia GPS

GPS tracking app used for hiking routes

Oregon State Parks

Institution that expelled rswfire, subject of abuse archive

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concepts

Sanctum

Privacy layer in Autonomy Realms for personal content

analysis

AI process that collects surface and structural data from signals

reflections

AI-generated perspectives on signals (mirror, mythic, narrative)

mythic frame

AI reflection mode that renders signals as mythic narrative

mirror frame

AI reflection mode (type not detailed in signal)

narrative frame

AI reflection mode (type not detailed in signal)

clustering

Process of grouping signals for pattern synthesis

atlas feature

Planned map functionality for Autonomy Realms

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media

Dwarf Fortress

Game referenced as inspiration for character sheet concept

Actions

Performed

•Hiked Oregon Dunes trail to Tahkenitch Creek
•Recorded transmission while walking
•Navigated trail using markers and footprints
•Reached Pacific Ocean beach
•Walked alongside creek and dunes

Referenced

•Transformed main YouTube channel into Oregon State Parks abuse archive
•Made five videos public related to state parks incident
•Started script to download 600-700 unlisted YouTube videos
•Uploaded videos to Hetzner S3 bucket
•Finished AI analysis and reflection implementation
•Tested mythic frame on last signal
•Quit smoking and vaping after 32 years
•Quit opiates cold turkey two years ago
•Recovered from core muscle injury over past year
•Tracked hiking routes with GPS

Planned

•Delete all unlisted videos from YouTube channel
•Host videos locally on Autonomy Realms
•Implement video upload process from admin
•Set up transcription service
•Process all 850 transmissions with new AI structures
•Create atlas/map feature for Autonomy Realms
•Develop mobile app for realm uploads and GPS tracking
•Make customized interface for content consumption
•Complete remaining trails in corridor
•Remain as camp host at Carter Lake through October
•Return to coast every April-October
•Explore six months per year if Autonomy generates income

Symbolic Elements

oceandunestrailcreekthresholdinfrastructurearchivemap

Ontological States

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sovereign (refusing platform capture, building owned infrastructure)
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embedded (grounded in coastal ecology, physical practice)
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coherent (unified across technical, somatic, cognitive domains)
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transitional (between institutional role and autonomous operation)

Subsystems

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infrastructural (primary focus, technical architecture)
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cognitive (pattern recognition, system design)
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somatic (embodied movement, physical capability)
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spatial (terrain mapping, route documentation)
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financial (constraint boundary, resource scarcity)
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temporal (project timeline, seasonal cycles)
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technical (implementation, iteration, precision)

Transmission Details

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youtube

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