Here’s a spoiler: it’s not declaring freedom from tyranny, it’s creating a new International consortium to crush it. Yes, that’s the Biden Administration’s “Declaration for the Future of the Internet,” which it rolled out last week just after its announcement of the creation of a domestic “Disinformation Governance Board.” The Declaration establishes a new international...
Category: TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran
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SO NOW WHAT WILL TWITTER DO ABOUT DREADED, AWFUL AND VERY BAD HATE SPEECH?
The poison pill didn’t work. On 25 April, neo-libertarian futurist Elon Musk closed a 40-billion plus deal to take ownership of Twitter. It has raised hopes that the platform might return to some semblance of permitting the sort of free speech rights that certainly should have a wide platform in a nation that birthed the...
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THE NEW LOST GENERATION
Why are we so intent on deforming and destroying our world and our progeny with synthetic wars, synthetic experiences, synthetic substances and synthetic alterations to life itself? There are no simple answers. One might say that it’s a plot of some cabal or other. And it’s certainly true that those cabals exist. Many prescient warriors...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
RETROACTIVE FACIAL RECOGNITION SURVEILLANCE THROUGHOUT EU. Europe is intent on building the world’s largest integrated facial recognition surveillance system, as part of it’s “Prüm II” anti-terrorism initiative. That’s according to Ella Jakubowska of the European Digital Rights watchdog organization. Speaking to Wired magazine, Jakubowska said the EU is determined to create “the most extensive biometric...
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SELLING THE SYNTHETIC UNREAL
Should people care whether conversations they have with others are real, as long as they’re “authentic”? Should people worry about pervasive surveillance at their jobs, in their vehicles, and even their homes, if the surveillance is providing more efficiency? Should people strive to have real experiences, when illusory ones can engage and satisfy, and even...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
YOUR DRIVING PRIVILEGES WILL BE TIED TO AI SURVEILLANCE. In the corporate government that comprises the U.S., companies often develop their business model not to sell to consumers, but to instigate legislation that makes their products required as a matter of law. So it is with recent efforts by Motion Intelligence, an Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
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FORBES 2022 BILLIONAIRE LIST
Forbes has put out a real-time interactive list of the World’s Richest for 2022. All we can say is, check out the list and it will quickly become apparent that the COVID trendline reveals exactly why those “irrational” policies were pushed so hard by elites and their minions in government. Source: Forbes Billionaires 2022 List...
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MODERNA ON THE BLEEDING EDGE OF CORPORATE TRANSHUMANISM
A new article by Joe Allen offers much food for thought regarding different threads of corporate-driven transhuman technologies. The mRNA COVID vaccines, planned for years, have constituted the wildly successful first stage of the transhuman tech rollout. But as the Trends Journal reported in “HUMANS SUBJECT TO mRNA ‘SOFTWARE UPDATES’” (30 Mar 2021), Moderna’s technology,...
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“DANGEROUS DISINFORMATION” LABEL BEING USED TO GUT FUNDAMENTAL FREE SPEECH RIGHTS
A new primer “How to Stop Disinformation,” put out by the Union Of Concerned Scientists (ucsusa.org), shows the tactics that authoritarians are now routinely using to silence and smear dissenting views. Released on 1 April, the step-by-step “how to” is unfortunately no April Fool’s joke. The paper explicitly recommends against fostering open debate concerning policies...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
CANADA (AND OTHERS) DEMAND CRYPTO SPYING. Imagine going to a local estate sale to pick up a piece of funky furniture, or taking a trip to look at a Gibson Strat listed on Craig’s List. But before you can plunk down some cash to pay for the items, you have to record the name, address...
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