The Foreboding UN Convention on Cybercrime
The UN committee approved the text of the Convention on Combating Cybercrime. Human rights organizations and information technology experts have called it a threat to democracy and the free world.
Entertainment Weaponized
Entertainment is ‘weaponized’ against populations through films or television series which communicate a mostly subliminal, but sometimes more explicit, ‘message’ to viewers about what to expect in the future, thus ‘pre-programming’ them for such events.
The Rise of Global Conformism
Opposition to global conformism does not mean retreating into an attitude of suspicion and hostility to all things foreign, new, or unfamiliar. The world’s various peoples often influence each other by the attractions and achievements of their respective societies.
The Stasi: Masters of PsyWar
The objective of this work is to inform the general public of the PsyWar methods and technologies that are being deployed so that individual citizens are more able to resist the effects of these forms of psychological manipulation.
You Might Own Nothing Sooner Than You Think
This article explores the erosion of ownership through click-wrap agreements, the dematerialization of our assets into databases, the rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies, and The Great Taking, which threatens our control over the rest of our non-monetary assets.
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Farms of all Sizes Feed the World
The two approaches are not mutually exclusive—a competitive market can support local sourcing for those where food is grown, feed cities, and disseminate wealth. Destruction of big agriculture is starvation for many.
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. Given the hype, we thought we’d better take a look at Project 2025’s digital civil liberties and free speech aspects.
Same Pig, Different Lipstick: Covid and the Green Revolution
In agriculture, public health, and medicine, we should stop envisioning magic technological bullets that empower governments more than they benefit their purported target populations. We should consider not only the ostensible short-term benefits of interventions but also the broader costs.
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Surveillance Capitalism: You Are the Commodity
Surveillance capitalism is a business model based on the unilateral claim of human private experiences as free raw material for translation into behavioral data. The prediction and influencing of behavior, rather than goods and services, is the primary product.
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Are the Olympics a Trial Run for a 1984 Digital State?
I hope the uproar caused by the Summer Games’ disruptions to people’s ability to live, work in, and enjoy their city will shine a light on these dangerous technologies of control and surveillance that are incompatible with a free society.
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Why Denial Persists
I am convinced that the uncritical use of an electronic apparatus like a smartphone is an important factor in this lack of concern, which equals an implicit denial of possible catastrophe.
A Western Diet, Hold the Worms
Less meat and more fruits and vegetables is probably a first step to a healthier gut. And it’s one that would be appreciated by the friendly bacteria that think of you as the known universe.