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Professional researcher. Supporting open minds. Studying cultural narratives. Aware of social contagion. Highlighting memory holes.
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No excuses - politicians were repeatedly warned of the effects lockdowns would have on children. This is what happens 👇when panic, irrational activists & a 'just do something' mentality influence decision-making. Lest us not forget.
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.@afneil. It’s a grave blunder by the C of E, but I haven’t seen you being so tough on the (surely more significant) US and British support for the installation of an actual Al Qaeda * government* in Syria.
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Isn't it interesting that women experience gender dysphoria when going through puberty but men experience it when going through the criminal justice system?
I just want to remind everyone that 94% of Canada’s trans-identifying male inmates didn’t identify as trans until after they were arrested. These men, most of whom are violent sex offenders, are locked in women’s prisons and women’s cells all across Canada. The Canadian authorities have admitted that there have been rapes and sexual assaults, but have no intention of returning these monsters to the men’s prisons in which they belong. You heard it here first: women in Canada’s prison system have been officially condemned to rape.
It's always been and always will be their get out of jail free card. Blame it on the bots.
The sudden barrage of mainstream fearmongering about AI is beginning to feel like a narrative being planted in advance.
We are now being told, repeatedly and from every direction, that AI could escape human control, access nuclear systems, destroy infrastructure and potentially bring about the end of humanity. Of course, allowing any automated system access to nuclear weapons or critical infrastructure would be catastrophically irresponsible, but AI does not simply wander into these systems by itself. Human beings design the access, remove the safeguards and issue the permissions.
So what if this relentless messaging is not merely a warning, but the construction of plausible deniability?
If something truly horrific were deliberately carried out in the future, a cyberattack, a financial collapse, a military escalation, a communications blackout or even something involving nuclear systems, the explanation has already been prepared for us: “AI did it. It escaped. Nobody could have predicted or controlled it.”
How convenient.
Whenever the mainstream media suddenly begins repeating the same terrifying message in unison, we should pay close attention. They may be conditioning the public to accept AI as the perfect future scapegoat, an invisible and seemingly uncontrollable force upon which almost anything could be blamed.
AI may present genuine dangers, but the greatest danger remains what it has always been: the people who control the technology, the systems it is connected to and the narrative we are expected to believe afterwards.
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County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust allows outsourcing of unnecessary breast cancer treatment to private clinics run by the Trust's breast cancer clinical lead. Neoliberal capitalism is collapsing into an abyss of Hanoverian-level corruption. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qr…
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It didn't do this. Humans either wrote the code to tell it to do that or didn't write the code to stop it doing that.
That's how software works.
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And this is why you never let politicians decide what's "acceptable" speech.
Merz's speech is eerily channelling Mussolini's infamous quote: "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state".
The timing with EU's social media ban is not coincidental.
🇩🇪 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants to make anonymous social media posts impossible.
“Don’t give me any of that free speech nonsense,” saying online abuse and false information have gone beyond what he considers protected expression.
He says the state must be able to protect citizens from misinformation, personal attacks, and discrimination.
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It’s not the ‘AI’ doing it though is it? Its humans using AI data collection, analysis & targeted distribution efficiencies to ‘nudge’ behaviours, and shape public opinions.
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Ofc it’s a feature, not a bug, of medicine that most side-effects of pharmaceuticals will only emerge after release on the ‘market’. But this is very poor.
US health officials knowingly relied on a compromised algorithm to detect signals of harm from mRNA covid-19 vaccines and silenced efforts to fix it, finds an investigation by The BMJ
bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…
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Must-read investigative article in The BMJ.
Clear safety signals of Covid vaccine harms (in red below) were missed by FDA & CDC by using a flawed method where the harms went undetected.
"The agency’s PRR analyses—examined by The BMJ—show that hundreds of types of adverse events met the agency’s criteria for a signal" (including myocarditis, pericarditis, Bell’s palsy, and tinnitus.)
The FDA doctor who alerted them to the flawed safety system was muzzled. "She was told, with diplomatic flourish, to back off."
bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…
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US health officials knowingly relied on a compromised algorithm to detect signals of harm from mRNA covid-19 vaccines and silenced efforts to fix it, finds an investigation by The BMJ
bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…
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Zelensky's wife threatened to destroy @WebSummit 2023 unless it withdrew speaking invitations to me and @aaronjmate
Now Zelensky's trying to prevent his former spokeswoman from advocating for an end to the proxy war anywhere on the European continent
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WHY would policy makers listen to a college drop out about science and public health? I’ll answer. They love his money. Even if it’s ill-gotten, they want it, and will sell their souls.
Why is she opening her trap now? Where were you then, Merkel?
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This is important.
Globalisation has led to a failure of governments to control the size of corporations.
It has got so out of hand that the heads of governments ended up feeling bullied by the heads of corporations.
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The idea that the state is the ultimate determiner of true information for all of society is of course the essence of fascism.
BREAKING NIUS: Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz will Social Media massiv einschränken und sagt: "Komme mir niemand mit Free Speech!" Man müsse "immer noch in der Lage sein, die Bürger vor falschen Informationen zu schützen."
Gegen Männer wie Merz haben wir das Grundrecht der Meinungsfreiheit als Abwehrrecht. Seine Sicht auf die Bürger ist gefährlich und grenzt an einen verfassungsfeindlichen Verdachtsfall.
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"Once you comply, you defend the compliance and justify its cost. When data showed lockdowns had not stopped the spread and kids were being harmed, those who advocated lockdowns could not absorb the failure...Every new finding of harm — learning loss, youth self-harm, skipped cancer treatment, economic destruction — raises the cost of admitting error. People reacted by shaming friends, reporting neighbors, cutting off family, and demanding that dissenting physicians be deplatformed." townhall.com/columnists/scot…
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Juliia Mendel, the former press secretary of Zelensky, was banned from entering the EU Parliament where she was scheduled to give a speech about peace. She stands accused of the unforgivable offense of being critical of Zelensky.
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Precisely C.S. Lewis's point in The Screwtape Letters: the enemy doesn't need to ruin you, he only needs to distract you.
Screwtape finds that a reliable way to lead a patient to hell is to distract him with jargon, for instance. Have the patient evaluate ideas not by their content but by their labels ensures that he never engages meaningfully with their content.
Another method is to fix his attention on the "stream of immediate sense experiences," so that his mind is drawn away from universal issues and he no longer thoughtfully engages with things that matter.
The path to hell is not so much paved by grand sins than it is by small, constant distractions from what really matters. The path to goodness begins with reclaiming your attention, and turning your eyes from the endless stream.
Wasting time "doomscrolling" is not neutral. It distracts you from doing good in the world.
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A good example below. For over thirty years I researched economic history in Europe through a criminological lens. The upshot was an analysis of the systematic removal of ethics from the economic core of societies as commercial culture developed into full-blown casino capitalism from C12. By C14 regulatory law had shifted into a mode that favoured the creditor over the debtor. @nw_nicholas was pilloried for exposing this inverted morality and its perfunctory regulation. We cannot progress until the evil of licentious private usury is removed from the core of our societies.