Hi, sorry if what I'm saying here is obvious and well-known; I'm coming to the whole Cicada thing late.<p>When the article listed the names of cities, one jumped out at me: Fayetteville, Arkansas. I used to live in Fayetteville, and it's tiny and insignificant -- totally out of place in a list with cities like Seoul.<p>But surprisingly, weev lived briefly in Fayetteville. So I search for weev and cicada, and find that he wrote an essay in 2013 called "The Tiger and the Cicada".
Sounds like a modern-day Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night, for you Pratchett fans out there.<p>If there <i>was</i> a serious super-secret illuminati secret ubermensch braintrust, I expect they'd have fundamentally better ways of attracting members, ones that don't get confused with marketing ARGs, hoaxes, or not-as-serious groups.<p>However, if they only wanted free labor from people who are easily motivated by puzzles and affirmation... people with no no easily-traceable relationship... people they can casually cut-loose when convenient... Hmmm.
I don't feel like reading yet another cicada article that in the end has no new information. Is there anything new in this article that wasn't in the last 1/2 dozen cicada articles?