“This machine can produce a 5,000-word story, all typed and ready for despatch, in 30 seconds. How can the writers compete with that?” So asks Roald Dahl in his short story The Great Automatic Grammatizator, published in 1953.
The eponymous …
The Stasi: Masters of PsyWar
From 1950 until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS), commonly known as the Stasi, operated as the main security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany or GDR). In terms of …
You Might Own Nothing Sooner Than You Think
Imagine a world where ownership is a distant memory, replaced by an eerie semblance of joy in dispossession. In 2016, Klaus Schwab, the enigmatic architect of the World Economic Forum, foretold a future whereby, in 2024, humanity would be stripped …
Farms of all Sizes Feed the World
We live in a world where oligarchs accumulate land, use their media assets to denigrate natural foods, and invest in fake alternatives. On the other ‘side,’ wealthy professionals calling themselves freedom fighters travel the world and the internet insisting we …
Project 2025: A Plan to Fix Free Speech?
Project 2025, a conservative road map to remake the administrative state, has been taking hits for several weeks. Democrats and the liberal media have been provoking panic attacks among their followers, insinuating a dark plan to overthrow democracy. “Hiding the 920-page …
Same Pig, Different Lipstick: Covid and the Green Revolution
If, as on Family Feud, you asked a hundred people who know me to identify one of my characteristics, most might say that I talk too much about the Scamdemic. But 53 months ago, the thing that—sadly—may have been at the …
Surveillance Capitalism: You Are the Commodity
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
Mark 8:36, New King James Bible
Under the New World Order of Stakeholder Capitalism, Business Models Drive Economics, Economics Drives Politics,…Why Denial Persists
We recently returned from a conference in Lisbon, Portugal, where we spent several days after the event’s conclusion exploring this beautiful city and its environs. While there, walking Lisbon’s famed ‘seven hills,’ mostly surrounded by throngs of other visitors – …
A Western Diet, Hold the Worms
What would happen if a person consumed a spoiled egg-salad sandwich from an intergalactic gas station bathroom vending machine? In trying to answer this age-old question, “Parasite Lost,” a 2001 episode from the first run of the perennially resurrected Matt …
Standing…The Myth, The Legend, The Lie
There have been a myriad of articles in the past couple of days regarding the United States Supreme Court’s (“SCOTUS”) controversial decision in Murthy v. Missouri (formerly known as Missouri v. Biden) which the Court published on June 26. Because …
Censors Everywhere We Look
It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be.
O’Brien, Officer of the Inner Party1984, by George Orwell, Berkley/Penguin p. 225
We’re letting you know that …
Court Ruling on Murthy Misses Point Entirely
Thanks again to the California Globe for running this piece. You can visit the website at: https://californiaglobe.com/
The United States Supreme Court ruled today, in a 6 to 3 decision, that the plaintiffs in the most important free speech case in …
China is stealing Silicon Valley’s homework
Up until the 16th century, China was the most technologically advanced region in the world. While aristocrats ruled Europe, China’s meritocratic literati made exquisite scientific discoveries: gunpowder, the compass, papermaking and printing, among others. Now, China hopes to return to …
On the Edge of the Programmable Ledger: CBDCs
New Zealand’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), has opened a consultation on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). This is the second of four stages. RBNZ considers that Stage Three will involve the development of prototypes and …
TikTok won’t win the election
Is this the online election? The AI election? The TikTok election? As somebody who’s been writing about data-driven political campaigning for about a decade, I’m going to stick my neck out and say “no”.
Let’s start with TikTok, which the …