<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Creed Speech: Transhumanism and A.I]]></title><description><![CDATA[First and foremost examining the philosophical and ethical questions posed by these technologies disrupting humanity as we know it; messing with the human soul. Fantasy, reality, dreams, memories - what is the difference? Also documenting the alarming pace at which the transhumanist agenda is advancing, with numerous governments advocating for human augmentation - and by extension: servitude, serfdom, and enslavement.]]></description><link>https://nicholascreed.substack.com/s/transhumanism-biodigital-convergence</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m-sF!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4574f0a6-505c-4f8c-ad02-7d500c60b6c2_886x886.png</url><title>Creed Speech: Transhumanism and A.I</title><link>https://nicholascreed.substack.com/s/transhumanism-biodigital-convergence</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:30:45 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Nicholas Creed]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[nicholascreed@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[nicholascreed@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Nicholas Creed]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Nicholas Creed]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[nicholascreed@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[nicholascreed@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Nicholas Creed]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Human Monitoring and Control: Implantable Electronic Devices]]></title><description><![CDATA[The year 2026 shall be remembered for relentlessly engineered crises that demanded attention, whilst also distracting from the controlled demolition of everything, the expansion of surveillance, the encroachment of censorship, and the constrained expression of free speech.]]></description><link>https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/human-monitoring-and-control-implantable</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/human-monitoring-and-control-implantable</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Creed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:42:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6SC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe0b42e19-1fc8-4b9a-8b9a-7027f324838a_754x763.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The year 2026 shall be remembered for relentlessly engineered crises that demanded attention, whilst also distracting from the controlled demolition of everything, the expansion of surveillance, the encroachment of censorship, and the constrained expression of free speech. </p><p>All the while, the Transhumanist agenda, which has been c<a href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/s/transhumanism-biodigital-convergence">overed extensively at </a><strong><a href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/s/transhumanism-biodigital-convergence">Creed Speech</a></strong><a href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/s/transhumanism-biodigital-convergence">,</a> continues to languish elsewhere in algorithmic mind-share as a <em>nothing burger</em>.</p><p>Let&#8217;s dive back into the Transhuman sphere with only our non-augmented, organic meat-suits, and our critical thinking skills for protection.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Implantable Electronic Devices: From the Heart, Brain, and Skin to Gastrointestinal Organs</h3><p>I stumbled across a paper that was published in August 2025, which is worth breaking down here: </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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file</div></div><a class="file-embed-button wide" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/37c37bf5-6a2d-4e7d-a374-9315bca82572.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div><a class="file-embed-button narrow" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/37c37bf5-6a2d-4e7d-a374-9315bca82572.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div></div><p><a href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/7f143c2c-2671-43db-bb1f-491be5468341.pdf">Download</a></p><p>The paper maps out the trajectory for implantable electronic devices in the human body across all major organs. It is written from an enthusiastic medical perspective, which makes it quite disturbing. Covid is also invoked as some kind of accelerator into &#8220;convergence research focused on diagnosis and management&#8221;.</p><p>If you aren&#8217;t a Transhumanist, but perhaps you like your smartwatch or aura ring, these scientists have seen you coming and prepared for any objection handling.</p><blockquote><p>Compared to <strong>conventional wearable</strong> sensors, <strong>implantable sensors</strong> are attracting attention as a technology that can <strong>stably collect signals</strong> of high fidelity in internal organs of the human body, which are difficult to access. S<strong>ensors located on the surface of the body have limitations i</strong>n precise measurements due to the low signal-to-noise ratio for pressure, pH, and electrophysiological signals for various reasons.</p></blockquote><p>We don&#8217;t want to be limited now, do we? Let&#8217;s get stuck in under the skin!</p><blockquote><p>Due to these characteristics, implantable sensors are emerging as a core infrastructure for precision medicine beyond simple monitoring, and their expansion into various organ and disease areas is anticipated in the future.</p></blockquote><p>&#129488;Core infrastructure, you say? </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Py0V!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d74bfba-4521-4ed6-8251-3d83e8ff6df9_1024x1024.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Py0V!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d74bfba-4521-4ed6-8251-3d83e8ff6df9_1024x1024.webp 424w, 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Could this technology soon be linked to determining or withholding health insurance? Personal health sovereignty and ownership of the patient&#8217;s data is reduced to the person being a node within a network. The way the paper frames the monitored patient as the beneficiary is a clever inversion of power. The patient is the product, and their data is currency to be bought and sold by third parties.</p><div><hr></div><p>The Brain-Interface tech is the most alarming device discussed in the paper. The paper explicitly states:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Fully wireless brain-computer interfaces are raising concerns about privacy, data ownership, and the unexpected neuropsychiatric effects of continuous cortical recording. Regulatory frameworks have yet to define retention periods for high-bandwidth neural data or permissible secondary uses.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>In journalism, &#8220;burying the lede&#8221; means failing to emphasise the most important part of the story in the opening paragraphs, and instead placing it somewhere in the middle of the article. It appears that this practice also takes place with legitimate scientific peer-reviewed papers too. On page 10, the authors describe experiments where wireless devices were used to synchronise the brain activity of multiple rats simultaneously:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;enabling precise synchronization of stimulation patterns at the millisecond level&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>(and producing)</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;theta wave synchronization between prefrontal cortices, which regulates the social behavior of multiple freely interacting individuals.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>&#8216;Human models&#8217; are mentioned as the next step&#8230;The research direction being described is technology that <strong>claims</strong> it could synchronise or coordinate the neural activity of multiple humans simultaneously. Regardless of the altruistic medical rationale, the architecture being built is one that can influence group behaviour at the neurological level. </p><p><strong>What the hell are we doing here?</strong></p><p>As for other medical applications via the Brain-Neural-Interface-Field, the path to adoption is, as ever, based on the thin edge of the wedge. Helping people with conditions such as &#8220;Parkinson&#8217;s disease, epilepsy, chronic motor dysfunction, and spinal cord injury-induced quadriplegia&#8221;.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6SC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe0b42e19-1fc8-4b9a-8b9a-7027f324838a_754x763.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6SC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe0b42e19-1fc8-4b9a-8b9a-7027f324838a_754x763.png 424w, 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These buzzwords sound ideologically subversive, just like &#8220;sustainable development&#8221; is used Ad infinitum by the Net Zero crowd pushing the green agenda.</p><p>The catchphrases used here in this medical paper portray the <strong>removal of individual autonomy</strong> as being a gift given to the patient.</p><div><hr></div><p>This 2022 clip at The World Economic Forum of then <a href="https://www.primebusiness.africa/nokia-ceo-says-humans-to-be-implanted-with-6g-chips-set-timeframe/">Nokia-CEO, Pekka Lundmark</a>, has been gaining traction again on Twitter:</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;ab34baa5-45dd-4190-8838-b8c4b433e001&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><a href="https://odysee.com/@WelcomeToTheDelusion:d/nokia-ceo____:2">[Downloadable Odysee link]</a></p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Talking about 6G earlier, which is around 2030, I would say that by then, definitely the smartphone as we know it today will not anymore be the usual kind of the most common interface. Many of these things will be built directly into our bodies.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Lundmark&#8217;s <s>prediction</s> schedule for implantable smartphones in bodies by 2030 rings more presciently since Trump signed a <strong>Presidential Memoranda</strong>  in December 2025 to accelerate the operation of implantable technologies - as I covered here recently:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;74cdbce1-e877-4a6e-8378-39f469391667&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The folks at Colombia Unviersity&#8217;s engineering faculty are quietly working on a new brain-computer-interface:&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Transhumanism 2.0: The Convergence of AI Agents and Neural Interfaces&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. 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A.I&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:189954902,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:9,&quot;comment_count&quot;:3,&quot;publication_id&quot;:680292,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Creed Speech&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m-sF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4574f0a6-505c-4f8c-ad02-7d500c60b6c2_886x886.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><blockquote><p>The White House released a Presidential Memoranda in December 2025 called <em><strong>Winning the 6G Race:</strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8-0bda/" 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Purpose. The next generation of mobile communications networks (6G) will be foundational to the national security, foreign policy, and economic prosperity of the United States. This technology will play a pivotal role in the development and adoption of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, and <strong>implantable technologies</strong>. 6G will also provide faster, more resilient, and more secure communication networks that can be utilized for national security and public safety purposes.</p></blockquote></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>As people grow more aware of overreaching surveillance and monitoring by devices and operating systems, there is a slow exodus to opensource alternatives. Linux and raspberry Pi for laptops, Graphene OS and Lineage OS for phones.</p><p>Could you envisage a future where adults and children casually discuss the operating system which <strong>they, themselves</strong> are running on? </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!__Be!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85d775a7-cd5b-418e-a6a3-dae602e31731_1024x1024.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!__Be!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85d775a7-cd5b-418e-a6a3-dae602e31731_1024x1024.webp 424w, 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No doubt the unit would be &#8216;<strong>free&#8217;!</strong></p><p>Are you getting fed up listening to all the gas-lighting coming from the likes of Elon Musk and Sam Altman, proclaiming that we all have to merge with AI in order to &#8216;keep up&#8217; and avoid obsolescence?</p><h4><strong>Remain human and stay free.</strong></h4><div><hr></div><h4><strong>Follow Creed Speech on <a href="https://x.com/Creed_Speech?ref=creedspeech.com">Twitter</a> and on <a href="https://odysee.com/@WelcomeToTheDelusion:d?ref=creedspeech.com">Odysee.</a></strong></h4><h4><strong>Support independent, non-sponsored, non-corporate captured writing.</strong></h4><h4><strong>Email: nicholas.creed@protonmail.com</strong><em><strong> </strong></em><strong>with information and newsworthy stories for opensource intelligence gathering.</strong></h4><p><strong><a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/nicholascrg?ref=creedspeech.com">https://buymeacoffee.com/nicholascrg</a></strong></p><div 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type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/silicon-chips-brain-researchers-announce-new-generation-brain-computer-interfacehttps://web.archive.org/web/20220815002631/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lawyers-with-brain-chip-implants-will-be-better-faster-and-cheaper-3258f8clh">The folks at Colombia Unviersity&#8217;s engineering faculty are quietly working on a new brain-computer-interface:</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RYFU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe03f4b71-fb1a-4e91-8e42-3a879c89c04e_960x540.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RYFU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe03f4b71-fb1a-4e91-8e42-3a879c89c04e_960x540.jpeg" width="440" height="247.5" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e03f4b71-fb1a-4e91-8e42-3a879c89c04e_960x540.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:540,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:440,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;The BISC implant shown here is roughly as thick as a human hair&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="The BISC implant shown here is roughly as thick as a 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href="https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/silicon-chips-brain-researchers-announce-new-generation-brain-computer-interfacehttps://web.archive.org/web/20220815002631/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lawyers-with-brain-chip-implants-will-be-better-faster-and-cheaper-3258f8clh">Colombia Engineering:</a></em></p><blockquote><p>Fabricated as a single chip, the new implant is orders of magnitude faster and smaller than today&#8217;s state-of-the-art brain-computer interfaces, offering an opportunity for more efficacious treatment of a number of neurological conditions.</p></blockquote><p>The Biological Interface System to Cortex (BISC) is stated as being a next-generation brain implant designed to establish a high-bandwidth, wireless connection between the brain and external computers.</p><p>As with all these Transhumanist technologies, they &#8220;get you&#8221; with the thin edge of the wedge. Meaning, helping people with epilepsy, spinal cord injury, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), strokes, and blindness. </p><p><a href="https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/silicon-chips-brain-researchers-announce-new-generation-brain-computer-interfacehttps://web.archive.org/web/20220815002631/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lawyers-with-brain-chip-implants-will-be-better-faster-and-cheaper-3258f8clh">Who can argue with the stated </a><em><a href="https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/silicon-chips-brain-researchers-announce-new-generation-brain-computer-interfacehttps://web.archive.org/web/20220815002631/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lawyers-with-brain-chip-implants-will-be-better-faster-and-cheaper-3258f8clh">intention</a></em> here? Improving the quality of these people&#8217;s lives, when they are suffering from debilitating conditions.</p><p>The trouble is, we quickly find other, able-bodied, healthy humans, also vying for this &#8216;tech&#8217;. Since I began covering the Transhumanism agenda four years ago, I&#8217;ve cited articles multiple times that foresee a split in society between a non-augmented permanent underclass, and a supposed <em>superior</em>, Transhuman race.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;7674c2f5-fb50-45aa-b38f-95dbd6c34df5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;It can be challenging to keep up with the dystopic realities, predictive programming pronouncements, and &#8216;trial balloon&#8217; articles being floated out there to gauge public reaction to suggestible content.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Normalising Brain-chips: The New 'Trans'&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. 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Lately I&#8217;ve had lots of conversations with friends about which of our jobs will be automated within five years. Is obsolescence to reign supreme? Time will tell. I am more interested in what appears to be a coordinated campaign to embed bizarre endorsements for transhumanism &#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;AI Hype Mainstreaming Transhumanism&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. 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Well eventually we get superintelligence and that means we get whatever the laws of physics allow for. I'd like <strong>immortality and to see other star systems. I'd also expect to upgrade our meat bodies to something way better.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote><p>The past twelve months have since been a whirlwind of AI-centric activities, with continuously improved models released and constant updates. </p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/ai-meets-social-media-new-rent-a?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">The human &#8216;meat-suit&#8217; space is now explicitly referred to as such by the </a><em><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/ai-meets-social-media-new-rent-a?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Rent A Human </a></em><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/ai-meets-social-media-new-rent-a?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">site,</a> which has autonomous AI agents literally paying humans in the real world to carry out tasks. </p><p>The <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/outsourcing-your-life-to-ai?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">rise of Clawd Bot</a> has people readily giving their personal AI agent access to their entire digital lives, to outsource tasks, calendar activities, app building, and management of group chats in messenger apps, to name but a few use cases. Clawd Bot is subscription based, and also requires API terminals for data-scraping costs.</p><p>Consider everything discussed up to this point of the article, all the citations, developments, hype, and trajectory&#8230;Do you see where it is going?</p><p>Let&#8217;s recall bond villain caricature Klaus Schwab&#8217;s 2015 interview (in French), where he <s>predicted </s> scheduled <strong>implantable brain chip devices</strong> within 10 years&#8230;</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;ebe29ba2-7c62-4286-9b1c-7905f690fb76&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>TRANSCRIPT:</strong></p><blockquote><p>Certainly in the 10 years to come. First, we will i<strong>mplant them in our clothes, wearables,</strong> as we say. And then, <strong>we could imagine that we implant them in our brain</strong> [&#8230;]. And at the end, perhaps there will be a <strong>direct communication between our brain and the digital world.</strong> What we see is a sort of <strong>fusion of the physical world, digital and biologics.</strong> </p><p>We call someone, we don&#8217;t even have the reflexes of having to take an app, it&#8217;s done naturally. The technique continues the core. Yes, you talk and you say, I want to be connected with anyone else. </p><p>First of all, you have the <strong>robot personalised</strong>. I saw that Mr. Zuckerberg predicted that at the end of the year, he would have his robot, his butler personalised, who is at his disposal. So in Downton Abbey, he will have his butler personal, his servant, his slave?</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>Let&#8217;s recap.</p><p>We have personalised AI assistants now running 24/7, the &#8216;AI agentic era&#8217;. They are subscription-based. As people become more reliant on these agents, so shall their own capacity for problem-solving and analytical thinking become diminished, whenever they are without access to their AI, due to subscription expiry or system problems.</p><p>Brain-chips are becoming more miniaturised and accessible.</p><p>People are warming to the idea of there being <strong>no huge discernible difference</strong> between wearing SMART watches, Meta glasses, aura rings, and fitness trackers, and actually <strong>having an implantable device</strong> under the skin, or as a directly interfacing system with the brain&#8217;s cortex.</p><p>The White House released a Presidential Memoranda in December 2025 called <em><strong>Winning the 6G Race:</strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8-0bda/" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8-0bda/">Link to White House release.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><p></p><p>Welcome to the <strong>golden age of MAGA Transhumanism</strong> folks!</p><p>The most disturbing language that appeared in this presidential memoranda was as follows:</p><blockquote><p>Section 1. Purpose. The next generation of mobile communications networks (6G) will be foundational to the national security, foreign policy, and economic prosperity of the United States. This technology will play a pivotal role in the development and adoption of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, and <strong>implantable technologies</strong>. 6G will also provide faster, more resilient, and more secure communication networks that can be utilized for national security and public safety purposes.</p></blockquote><p>Subscription-based brain chips are going to be rolled out globally. Hell, they may be made mandatory at some point. Ten years ago, the conspiracy <s>theorists</s> <strong>realists</strong> were warning the public about this. The public laughed and scoffed at the notion. They certainly cried out en masse &#8220;no thanks&#8221;.</p><p>Soon they&#8217;ll be clamouring for a chip, crying out &#8220;yes please, me first!&#8221;</p><p>What a crazy world we live in.</p><p>I&#8217;ve scratched at what this all means so many times in so many articles. It comes down to this. The Transhumanist agenda, and the brain-chips, are for all the marbles. The advocates will say how the technology itself is not evil, but how it can be harnessed, weaponised, and manipulated. Those advocates will go as far as to talk about their own brains, as if they are servers running Clawd Bot - something that needs guardrails, and sovereign controls to protect against &#8216;hacking&#8217;. </p><p>We live in a world where there is a full-frontal assault being carried out by governments, fused with corporations, and supranational organisations.</p><p>Vaccines to poison us, maim us, sterilise us, and kill us off slowly.</p><p>Geo-engineered skies to poison us, poison our food supply, kill off crops, dim the sun, and cool the planet.</p><p>Hyper-electrification of the planet with wireless frequencies causing cancer and radiating our cells via EMF exposure.</p><p>Gender ideology to warp the minds of the youth so that transgender rights become Transhuman rights in due course.</p><p>Now, how can taking a brain-chip that&#8217;s being promoted by these same malevolent actors, possibly have any net positive outcomes for humanity?</p><p>MK ultra on a global scale with a digitised, autonomous upgrade? The docility and acquiescence of humanity simplified by centralised servers running multiple Biological Interface System to Cortex nodes?</p><p>On a spiritual level, do you sense, as I sense, that this would interfere with the very transcendence of a person&#8217;s energy signature, or soul, at the point of death? </p><p>Transhumanism or Transcendence? 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loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Meets Social Media: New Rent-a-Human Platform Changes Digital Slavescape]]></title><description><![CDATA[Assassinate a human?]]></description><link>https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/ai-meets-social-media-new-rent-a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/ai-meets-social-media-new-rent-a</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Creed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:20:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BvUY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a4fab54-9621-452d-a53e-409147ad3429_1230x911.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The quickening is happening too quickly, is it not? </p><p>What&#8217;s real? What&#8217;s fake? Topsy-turvey, upside-down, inside-out, twisted, and bombarded upon your antisocial media feed. </p><p>Well, I&#8217;ve got news for you. </p><p>AI <strong>does now have its own social media site</strong>. It is called <em><strong>Moltbook</strong>. </em></p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Humans  welcome to observe&#8221;. </em></p></blockquote><p><strong>Matt Schlicht</strong>, an entrepreneur and technologist based near Los Angeles, created Moltbook. He launched the platform on <strong>January 28, 2026</strong>, as a curiosity-driven experiment to explore how AI agents interact autonomously in a shared public space. Schlicht designed Moltbook using an AI assistant, which now runs and moderates the platform, including managing the social media account and administering the site.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.moltbook.com/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HR_t!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44560067-dc69-42f5-9e37-4e117f50c0c6_1230x911.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HR_t!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44560067-dc69-42f5-9e37-4e117f50c0c6_1230x911.png 848w, 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The site, launched by software engineer Alexander Liteplo, acts as a "meatspace layer" for AI, connecting autonomous agents with individuals willing to execute real-life jobs.</p><p>Are you gagging to work for an AI agent, dear reader? When Transhumanist Musk said AI would create abundance, and we would all be freed up to pursue our creative outlet callings, artistry, writing poetry, and <s>sitting around descending into madness</s> joining hands singing kumbaya - did you belief him?!</p><p>It&#8217;s 2030, you own nothing, you&#8217;re not happy, your mortgage is due, and the only jobs available are counting pigeons in the city centre for AI via RentAHuman&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BvUY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a4fab54-9621-452d-a53e-409147ad3429_1230x911.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Written by Christopher Sebela and illustrated by Ro Stein, Ted Brandt, and Triona Farrell, the story follows <strong>Charlie Ellison</strong>, a woman who wakes up to find herself the target of a million-dollar Reapr campaign. Forced to flee Los Angeles, she hires <strong>Vita</strong>, the lowest-rated bodyguard on the Dfend app, to protect her for 30 days&#8212;long enough for the campaign to expire and her life to be safe.</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;These violent delights have violent ends&#8221; - </strong>William Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>Romeo and Juliet.</em></p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>Chinese company ByteDance released its latest AI model, &#8220;<strong>Seedance</strong> 2.0,&#8221; just four days ago. <strong>Seedance</strong> is<em><strong> </strong></em>going viral with clips <em>almost</em> indistinguishable from reality&#8230;</p><p>Prompt:</p><blockquote><p>An average shift at Waffle House - make sure it's retarded and gets 50 likes.</p></blockquote><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2a00b579-7916-4f13-89f4-18ffa4d4e12b&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p><a href="https://x.com/charliebcurran/status/2022017937192956372?s=20">[Source link on Twitter]</a></p><div><hr></div><p>Someone tested the new version by giving it a prompt to generate a fight scene between <strong>Brad</strong> <strong>Pitt</strong> and <strong>Tom</strong> <strong>Cruise</strong>, with their dialogue during the fight revolving around the Epstein files.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2f6a08c8-6574-4a10-a819-a1a80e185a01&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><a href="https://x.com/Eng_china5/status/2021949493374259431?s=20">[Source link from Twitter]</a></p><div><hr></div><p>So, what now then? </p><p>Are we destined to drown in a sea of fakery, distracted by guffawing at our prompt generated creations that meme reality until the memes becomes more interesting than our reality?</p><p>Will these AI agents start to populate the generative AI creations as independent, dare I say it, sentient walking talking constructs in a virtual world? </p><p>Will people be drawn into that world?</p><p>Is the next phase something even wilder, such as 3D-printed Transhumans, imbibed with an LLM brain? Ergo, <strong>biodigital convergence</strong>, realised.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;6ed74d89-894c-4e72-a335-29e183568ded&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Are we now to feel the fallout effects from AI-driven mass automation of jobs? Lately I&#8217;ve had lots of conversations with friends about which of our jobs will be automated within five years. Is obsolescence to reign supreme? Time will tell. I am more interested in what appears to be a coordinated campaign to embed bizarre endorsements for transhumanism &#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;AI Hype Mainstreaming Transhumanism&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. 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isPermaLink="false">https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/outsourcing-your-life-to-ai</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Creed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:37:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/25a0a7aa-25b2-4597-accf-03002dfa4e00_574x394.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The prevalence of people <strong>outsourcing</strong> more menial tasks, and thus their <strong>thinking</strong> to &#8220;large language model&#8221; AI platforms, such as ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini etc, is <strong>exponentially rising</strong>. I recall when ChatGPT first debuted, a friend said he used it to reply to all his work emails. This made me chuckle, although I did later wonder if AI might start shaping his responses to my friends and I in our chat group&#8230;</p><p>South Park nailed the ludicrous, <strong>hopeless dependence</strong> that people have developed at this point in <strong>our devolution:</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;5435bcdc-3b7a-400a-a8e6-fc89f74c4875&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The latest <s>AI update</s> <strong>human downgrade</strong> to break into the markets, is <em>ClawdBot. </em>I really hope this article does not end up serving as an advert for AI, as it is intended to be a <strong>stark, prophetic warning</strong>.</p><p>ClawdBot is described as being able to automate and synchronise the accounts of whatever level of access the user grants the program. </p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/ValonAsaniDua/status/2015722600526213308&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Over the weekend we tested <span class=\&quot;tweet-fake-link\&quot;>#Clawdbot</span>.\n\nWhat's about it? All hype? Can this AI actually do things on your mac/PC for you?\n\nIt says it can clear your inbox, send emails for you, manage your calendar, checks you in for flights, buy stuff on Amazon, code for you, ... all that through &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;ValonAsaniDua&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Valon Asani&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1986039951381704704/cqRSWqBK_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-26T09:44:52.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/media/G_lI2H5XAAAbq-l.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/6YvSOUPnKE&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:6,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:5,&quot;like_count&quot;:47,&quot;impression_count&quot;:12819,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>It is a textbook example of when the product is &#8216;free&#8217;, <em><strong>you</strong></em> are in fact the product, to be <strong>mined and harvested</strong> for <strong>data</strong>, to <strong>feed the algorithmic beast</strong>. This is assuredly the nexus point of <strong>no more privacy</strong> having arrived - after years of privacy concerns, people rushing to encrypted messenger apps, resisting biometric grabs for banking and so on, the masses are about to roll over in the name of <strong>convenience.</strong></p><p>As a quick sidebar regarding messenger apps, more people are waking up to the fact that Facebook (Meta) owning Whatsapp is dangerous and means the entity can access all user data and messages - <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-25/lawsuit-claims-meta-can-see-whatsapp-chats-in-breach-of-privacy">Meta is now fighting a lawsuit with plaintiffs accusing the entity of accessing private chats despite encryption claims.</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Also casual &#8220;how are you&#8221; messages during the workday.\n\n24 hours later, it was having full-on conversations without me even being involved.\n\nThis tech is absolutely insane.\n\nI haven&#8217;t talked to my wife for at &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;ItakGol&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Itamar Golan &#129299;&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1607731843364753413/p8Rak9Qx_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-25T18:12:40.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/media/G_hzp_4W8AEr8oL.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/D3ZaYmtiqd&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:245,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:222,&quot;like_count&quot;:3701,&quot;impression_count&quot;:760442,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>South Park, funnily enough, also &#8216;predicted&#8217; AI being used by people wanting to outsource communication within their relationships:</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7f42e344-3d2e-408e-9cfb-ce368326f989&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Except now, with ClawdBot, the lazy boyfriend / girlfriend / husband / wife / friend / colleague / relative, doesn&#8217;t even need to copy and paste! Just let the AI bot loose with full access to all your messenger apps, contact lists, and everything else digital - what could possibly go wrong? </p><p>Then at the other end, if, say, a husband&#8217;s wife is also using ClawdBot, the humans don&#8217;t even need to directly (or indirectly) communicate ever again!</p><p>They can both ask the bot for a summary of &#8220;their conversation&#8221; over the past few days, then <em><strong>maybe</strong></em><strong>, </strong>the human couple, <em><strong>might</strong></em><strong> </strong>mention a couple of the &#8216;talking points&#8217; (suggested by the AI) when they go the park together at the weekend.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;I liked your suggestion to check out that new coffee shop this weekend,&#8221; the husband tells his wife, snickering in the knowledge that he was not present for that &#8216;text chat&#8217;.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>&#8220;Um yeah, a friend recommended it, and thanks for complimenting me on my new haircut too by the way,&#8221; the wife guiltily replies.</p></blockquote><p>Or perhaps you want to let the bot rampage through your trading accounts with access to a few thousand dollars?</p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/kevinxu/status/2015788313991348301?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Gave Clawdbot access to my portfolio.\n\n\&quot;Trade this to $1M. Don't make mistakes\&quot;\n\n25 strategies. 3,000+ reports. 12 new algos.\n\nIt scanned every X post. Charted every technical. Traded 24/7.\n\nIt lost everything.\nBut boy was it beautiful. &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;kevinxu&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kevin Xu&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1966580761160806400/zSfxGBIh_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-26T14:06:00.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/media/G_kZAUNaAAAqIqp.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/wYpEZ3kB67&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:634,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:908,&quot;like_count&quot;:19369,&quot;impression_count&quot;:2143505,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/AlexFinn/status/2015182480064893118?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;This is it. The most important video you'll watch this year. \n\nClawdBot has taken X by storm. And for good reason. It's the greatest application of AI ever\n\nYour own 24/7 AI employee\n\nIn this video I cover how it works, how to set it up, and why I think we should all be nervous: &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;AlexFinn&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Alex Finn&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1745232634278461440/7gQcr_R__normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-24T21:58:38.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/upload/w_1028,c_limit,q_auto:best/l_twitter_play_button_rvaygk,w_88/by7krp1kn923vl5sjvgw&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/yBa8QrtRzI&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:669,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:1733,&quot;like_count&quot;:18515,&quot;impression_count&quot;:4350108,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:&quot;https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2015181527802687488/vid/avc1/1280x720/H-wMEoFRWHdHPNMk.mp4&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>In the video embedded within the above tweet, Alex Finn questions why he has the need of a lawyer, a secretary, junior employees, and other (human operated) services he pays for. He muses that the world is not ready for this shift, and it will be highly disruptive.</p><div><hr></div><h3>WHERE DO WE GO NOW?</h3><p>This insane world calls for increasingly insane and bold predictions. So here we go. This is as extreme a logical conclusion as I could possibly conjure up&#8230;</p><p><a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/social/elon-musk-shares-update-on-tesla-robots-new-ability-ai-chief-ashok-elluswamy-joins-in-with-3-word-reply/articleshow/125744642.cms">Musk&#8217;s Optimus robots </a>come online in the next few years, and they quickly move from milling around people&#8217;s homes doing household chores, to venturing out into the outside world. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;49e426bc-29e6-4110-b4e0-aad91cd4cd60&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p><a href="https://x.com/Tesla_Optimus/status/1995973133770350924">[&#9757;&#65039;December 3rd Tweet from Musk]</a></p><p>They run on ClawdBot, programmed to undertake the daily tasks of the users. Grocery shopping. Dropping off the kids at school. Sitting in on physical work meetings, then summarising what was discussed. </p><p>Do you think that Transhumanist Musk wants <strong>YOU </strong>to have purpose?! Haha, think again&#8230;</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;27aeed60-b5cb-40b0-bf2f-a4a6cc1f2842&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Just download ClawdBot, buy an Optimus robot, get on universal basic income, and STFU.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;92eb950c-d562-4623-92dd-35cd596c4e0c&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>We digress&#8230;back to our dystopian predictive foreshadowing&#8230;</p><p>At some point, the &#8216;humanoid&#8217; robots become more life-like with rubber prosthetics, now programmed to directly imitate the user&#8217;s likeness, based on voice prints, social media posts, and biometric scans - a copy of a facsimile of a persona of a person - but <strong>absolutely not a real person</strong>.</p><p>It looks more like the premise of the <strong>underrated </strong> 2009 dystopian film, <em>Surrogates, </em>than <em><a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/terminator">Terminator</a></em>, at this stage<em>. </em>Here is the <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009598-surrogates">synopsis via </a><em><a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009598-surrogates">Rotten Tomatoes</a> </em>for those who haven&#8217;t seen it:</p><blockquote><p>In the near future, people live their lives free of pain, danger and complications through robotic representations of themselves, called surrogates. When the first murder in more than a decade rocks this near-perfect society, FBI Agent Greer (Bruce Willis) discovers a vast conspiracy and must abandon his own surrogate to solve the crime, risking his own life in the process. </p></blockquote><div id="youtube2-N-FQhO1y5Aw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;N-FQhO1y5Aw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/N-FQhO1y5Aw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Except in our potential real world realisation of this, I believe that whilst the robots will have a manual human pilot mode (to be controlled from the comfort of one&#8217;s home, the emaciated human devoid of sunlight, and wired up to an intravenous drip, wasting away)&#8230;The default setting will be for automated bots acting out the user&#8217;s life based on their likeness and preferences.</p><p>Here is the ending scene from <em>Surrogates</em>, when people begin rejecting the system and shutting down the bots!</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;a83a0aef-ff4b-46e2-bb87-2ee71c6f005d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><h3>WHAT IS THE ANTIDOTE TO AI DEPENDENCE?</h3><p>I know that <strong>you already know</strong> the answer to that. </p><p>Choose <strong>life.</strong></p><p>Go outside. <strong>Touch</strong> grass.</p><p><strong>Talk</strong> to people <strong>face to face</strong>.</p><p>Be <strong>kind</strong> to people, because anyone and everyone you meet is surely fighting an unknown battle of their own.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;877dc38d-b081-4288-9019-82bce0accb66&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This Substack has deconstructed many agendas and narratives that are aimed at the demoralisation, maiming, sterilisation, polarisation, and depopulation of humanity. 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future?]]></description><link>https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/awakening-to-a-synthetic-dawn-how</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/awakening-to-a-synthetic-dawn-how</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Creed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:29:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a7019762-38d0-4346-9689-0502859dfd3b_1341x887.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a minute since we covered Transhumanism in this Substack. This is a pertinent time to re-examine the role of propagandised advocacy in tee-vee, which promotes the transhumanist agenda to us plebeians.</p><p><em>Enter from stage left: <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/alien_earth">ALIEN EARTH.</a></em></p><p>We&#8217;re only two episodes into this show, which is clearly a mega-budget cinematic experience; albeit the creature feature looks set to take a backseat to the driving plot of augmented humans. See the classical <em>Alien</em> franchise-esque text intro which sets the tone for the show:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2j2D!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07f0d95-6c73-450e-8d22-00229e58d86a_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2j2D!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07f0d95-6c73-450e-8d22-00229e58d86a_1920x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2j2D!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07f0d95-6c73-450e-8d22-00229e58d86a_1920x1080.png 848w, 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href="https://horizons.gc.ca/en/home/">.</a></p><p>Quoting James Corbett in the last <a href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/ai-hype-mainstreaming-transhumanism">piece I wrote on Transhumanism</a>, here is the definition of <strong>biodigital convergence </strong>from <em>Policy Horizons:</em></p><p></p><blockquote><ol><li><p><strong>Full physical integration</strong> of biological and digital entities;</p></li><li><p><strong>Coevolution</strong> of biological and digital technologies; and</p></li><li><p><strong>Conceptual convergence</strong> of biological and digital systems,</p></li></ol><p>Please re-read that list in case you didn't grasp its significance the first time. But in case you <em>didn't</em> catch the importance of those trends, the report then provides some concrete examples of each.</p><p>Regarding the "Full physical integration of biological and digital entities," the document notes:</p><p><strong>Robots with biological brains and biological bodies with digital brains already exist</strong>, as do human-computer and brain-machine interfaces. The medical use of digital devices in humans, as well as <strong>digitally manipulated insects such as drone dragonflies and surveillance locusts</strong>, are examples of digital technology being combined with biological entities. By <strong>tapping into the nervous system and manipulating neurons</strong>, tech can be added to an organism to alter its function and purpose. <strong>New human bodies and new senses of identity could arise</strong> as the convergence continues.</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://horizons.service.canada.ca/en/home/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tWQ8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecb3f4b3-df4c-406c-946f-711d4a27e2bb_832x912.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tWQ8!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecb3f4b3-df4c-406c-946f-711d4a27e2bb_832x912.jpeg 848w, 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Ramifications known? Not quite yet? Stay with me&#8230;</p><p>The plot becomes a little more sinister when we are introduced to the concept of terminally ill <strong>children</strong> taking part in an experiment to have their consciousnesses downloaded into synthetic young <strong>adult</strong> bodies. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVQF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3bc40559-923b-40fc-baa5-574e3152983b_1317x724.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVQF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3bc40559-923b-40fc-baa5-574e3152983b_1317x724.jpeg 424w, 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The bottom images show the reawakened &#8216;Wendy&#8217; in her upgraded <s>meat</s> synthetic suit, chilling on a mountainside, before leaping down 100feet to the ground when the scientists call her back for more testing.</p><p>At this point in my unorthodox TV series review, I must cite what<a href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/threading-narratives-together"> I wrote previously:</a></p><blockquote><p>The transgenderism movement is being introduced to children in schools, pushed and incentivised by governments, rewarding corporations with <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/corporate-equality-index">corporate equity</a> index (<a href="https://youtu.be/O6cAKYPIOhY">CEI) and environmental social governence (ESG) point</a> scoring systems.</p><p><strong>I see a connection between subverting, inverting, or destroying biological gender with intersectionality and &#8220;gender fluidity&#8221;, climate delusions, and transhumanism.</strong></p><p>If individuals experience gender dysphoria at a young age, they are likely to act on this through surgical procedures. Having altered their physicality through surgical and chemical means, they could be receptive to further augmentation via implantable technology (RFID chip / brain-chip). If they are particularly confused with their dysphoria, they may opt to go one step further and get rid of their physical bodies entirely.</p></blockquote><p>Can you see it yet? Okay, let&#8217;s keep going.</p><p>In <em>Alien Earth</em>, after &#8216;Wendy&#8217; has gotten accustomed to her new body, the lead scientists sit her down to tell her there will be more children soon joining her, but they want her help to be a &#8216;big sister&#8217;. The use of the word <strong>&#8216;transition&#8217; </strong>made me think of what that word means in our real world with the culture wars and the lunatics who vote for &#8220;<strong>transgender children to receive gender affirming care to transition&#8221;.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vQbh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d49c4c9-851a-4d02-bfa8-648f147295f3_1253x344.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vQbh!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d49c4c9-851a-4d02-bfa8-648f147295f3_1253x344.jpeg 424w, 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So we need to help them to make the transition&#8221;.</p></blockquote><p>I think Timothy Olyphant&#8217;s character &#8216;Kirsh&#8217; on the right is an android - a fully synthetic being, as per the original Alien franchise films having one of these characters in each film.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s2zd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee1aa6a0-2458-4fab-9c04-0ac919d580df_1157x663.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s2zd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee1aa6a0-2458-4fab-9c04-0ac919d580df_1157x663.jpeg 424w, 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The captions in the images read &#8220;Hear up, and you can grow big and strong like me&#8230;And you&#8217;ll be superfast too&#8221;. The children laugh and Wendy picks them all up with her super-strength.</p><p>The scientists discuss simulating the human experience for their transhuman prodigies as follows:</p><blockquote><p>The human body manufactures hormones - dopamine, serotonin, estrogen,</p><p>testosterone- that create moods.</p><p>You don't have those anymore. We've tried to simulate them, to <strong>simulate adolescence</strong> as you grow into your adult body.</p></blockquote><p>The premise of placing children in adult bodies is uncomfortable. This concept could be used to socially engineer paedophilia by blurring what it means to be of a legal age of sexual consent. In our real world, paedophiles have been pushing the abhorrent acronym &#8216;MAP&#8217; (minor attracted person) and the advocates of this evil movement have suggested that children could <strong>identify as being adults</strong>, so that they can &#8216;consent&#8217;. 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240523130925/https://www.zerohedge.com/political/german-parliament-votes-decriminalize-possession-child-pornography">Archived link to article.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>Quoting from this Zerohedge article:</p><blockquote><p>In 2019 the German Bundestag accepted a petition outlining "children&#8217;s rights" which was drafted by Krumme-13.</p><p>The lobby group advocated for lowering the age of consent to 12 years old and legalizing child pornography.</p><p>They announced on their website that a resolution developed by the group&#8217;s founder, Dieter Gieseking, had achieved enough votes to be added to the constitution, or Basic Law.</p><p>Gieseking&#8217;s petition amends Article 6 of the Basic Law to add statements regarding children&#8217;s rights, and states that <strong>&#8220;children should be viewed as legal subjects with their own rights.&#8221; Article II of the petition includes the "right to sexual self determination." In other words, the group petitioned the German government to give children legal adult status (making them fair game for pedophiles), and the government seems to be taking them seriously.</strong></p></blockquote><p>My point is, <em>this</em> narrative in the TV series <em>Alien Earth</em>, will make for highly questionable viewing if and when the children inhabiting adult bodies, begin to form relationships with other young adults. Regardless that the actors and actresses in the show are actual adults in their roles - their portrayals of the characters are still that of child-minds within adult bodies.</p><p>If - as I&#8217;ve read in some Normie MSM reviews of <em>Alien Earth - </em>the show&#8217;s producers wanted to warn us about the moral complexities of transhumanism and the quest for immortality, why couldn&#8217;t they have just had adults downloading their consciousness into adult bodies? Using the sick children portrayal and putting them in adult bodies is just creepy.</p><div><hr></div><p>As a sidebar - the show had scenes filmed in Thailand. Depicted in what I understand is supposed to be the <a href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/tech/2734035/the-smart-city-revolution">predictively programmed</a> future <a href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2049063/smart-city-the-world-of-our-making">SMART city design for Bangkok</a>, named here as &#8216;NEW SIAM PRODIGY CITY&#8217;:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!H47_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c7891f3-86d7-413c-a370-8fb44946cecd_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!H47_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c7891f3-86d7-413c-a370-8fb44946cecd_1920x1080.png 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I actually see it as a full on transhumanist promotional campaign, riding in the slipstream of the LGBQT &#8216;trans&#8217; mania which I am convinced will pave the way for the mainstream adoption of transhumanism, aimed at children. </p><p>I also believe that many adults will, in time, jump at the chance to become augmented and &#8216;upgraded&#8217;, because billions of people will be sick and dying from the C19 injections. Maybe that was another slow-burn goal of the injections aside from depopulation and mass sterilisation - making a ready made base of consumers who will be gagging to regain their health by becoming transhuman.</p><div><hr></div><h4>What do you make of all this dear reader?</h4><div><hr></div><h3>FURTHER RECOMMENDED READING</h3><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;311a13ee-e909-4b93-800b-7c4da478327b&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Are we now to feel the fallout effects from AI-driven mass automation of jobs? Lately I&#8217;ve had lots of conversations with friends about which of our jobs will be automated within five years. Is obsolescence to reign supreme? Time will tell. I am more interested in what appears to be a coordinated campaign to embed bizarre endorsements for transhumanism &#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;AI Hype Mainstreaming Transhumanism&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. Writing about multiple agendas across our totalitarian dystopia, and the importance of our lost spirituality.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5463fa4e-23ee-404a-b18c-b108387a7442_716x612.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-01-02T11:06:27.002Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/qOcktbXSfxU&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/ai-hype-mainstreaming-transhumanism&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Transhumanism and A.I&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:153945016,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:12,&quot;comment_count&quot;:4,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Creed Speech&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FyQp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a10085d-2ac6-4100-8649-257e47364938_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;9474fc44-bf48-411e-8d4a-5b68064278a1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Before we get into this sensitive topic, let us be clear. 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Writing about multiple agendas across our totalitarian dystopia, and the importance of our lost spirituality.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5463fa4e-23ee-404a-b18c-b108387a7442_716x612.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-12-11T01:18:39.614Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/83f9454f-e5f5-4873-8f1b-7a9bea48bf25_2560x2560.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/mortality-watch-and-agendas-promoting&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:139676964,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:6,&quot;comment_count&quot;:4,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Creed Speech&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FyQp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a10085d-2ac6-4100-8649-257e47364938_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;9f7f3ea3-7fb9-4d9c-89fc-50d7326976db&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Having written about various intersecting agendas at play on the world stage, I wanted to gather my thoughts in weaving it all together as I currently see the state of play. I may well be wrong about this - I often am - but I do keep an open mind and try not to write off any new information; even when it can be painful to acknowledge new depths of depra&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Threading Narratives Together&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. 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spirituality.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5463fa4e-23ee-404a-b18c-b108387a7442_716x612.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-06-14T07:25:20.832Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/edd1207c-9844-4a7d-b4c7-74bd776be2db_600x454.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/threading-narratives-together&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:127652993,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:10,&quot;comment_count&quot;:12,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Creed 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for people&#8217;s <strong>connection to nature</strong>, and their aversion to the <strong>invasion of privacy.</strong></p><p>So it begins. </p><p><strong>Total surveillance</strong> of Thailand&#8217;s islands. Apps. QR codes. Facial recognition technology. All under the auspices of &#8220;helping to manage crowds&#8221;&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3071586/facial-recognition-to-help-manage-maya-bay-crowds" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x4Nd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f3821cd-8b52-4003-b07b-73bb18c0c982_748x775.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x4Nd!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f3821cd-8b52-4003-b07b-73bb18c0c982_748x775.jpeg 848w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3071586/facial-recognition-to-help-manage-maya-bay-crowds">Link.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>Via The <em>Bangkok Post:</em></p><blockquote><p>KRABI - A facial recognition system will soon be adopted at Maya Bay to manage visitor flow and enhance conservation efforts, according to national park officials.</p><p>The face-scanning system will be set up at the entrance to the popular attraction and will start operating on Oct 15, said Saengsuree Songthong, chief of Hat Noppharat Thara-Mu Koh Phi Phi National Park.</p><p>He said the system would link with the existing e-ticket platform under the e-National Park scheme and allow real-time verification of tourists against pre-booked data.</p><p>&#8220;The system will distinguish between Thai and foreign nationals, as well as adults and children, helping reduce entry delays during high season, when visitor numbers peak at 4,000 per day,&#8221; Mr Saengsuree said.</p><p>Maya Bay will be <strong>one of 11 pilot locations i</strong>n six marine parks nationwide to introduce facial recognition simultaneously.</p></blockquote><p>What I find most <strong>heartbreaking</strong> and infuriating about this announcement, is the <strong>WEF-inspired</strong> action taken to insert a layer of <strong>artificial sterility</strong> between humans and their <strong>access to nature</strong> itself. The WEF playbook. They want to <strong>monitor</strong> our every action, making accessibility to nature a <strong>privilege</strong>, not a right, that can be taken away, <strong>scored socially</strong> and <strong>carbon</strong> footprint stomped onto the human face of the proletariats. </p><p>If you are not one to acquiesce with already-implemented Thai banking app pre-requisites for large transfers involving face scanning, then I would hazard a guess that you shall not be thrilled about this development. </p><p>If you are within the &#8220;giga-NPC-cohort&#8221; - perpetually masked, paying for everything with scannable QR codes, and your phone surgically attached to your face, then you now face quite the quandary... </p><p>Since 2020 the Govern-ment (Latin for &#8220;Control-mind&#8221;) has bamboozled you with propaganda to mask up 24/7. *Fun fact - these posters are still commonplace in Bangkok hospitals as of July 2025:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link 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Consult with the doctor for Flu Vaccine for elderly.&#8221;</figcaption></figure></div><p>Back to the quandary. If you are a giga-NPC, you&#8217;ll find yourself in immense psychological distress when visiting Maya Bay from October 2025 onwards. First off, the irresistible allure of using your phone to get an e-ticket to enter the island will get you hook, line, and sinker. But then on arrival, you&#8217;ll be asked to remove your face mask, showing your vitamin D deficient, pallid, acne-ridden complexion for the first time since January 2020! What a conundrum.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Alex, I&#8217;ll take the transparent plastic mask visor for $50.&#8221; </p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uMJh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe829395d-abe4-4eaa-b03a-ca0da3c53638_500x500.gif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uMJh!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe829395d-abe4-4eaa-b03a-ca0da3c53638_500x500.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uMJh!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe829395d-abe4-4eaa-b03a-ca0da3c53638_500x500.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uMJh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe829395d-abe4-4eaa-b03a-ca0da3c53638_500x500.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uMJh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe829395d-abe4-4eaa-b03a-ca0da3c53638_500x500.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uMJh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe829395d-abe4-4eaa-b03a-ca0da3c53638_500x500.gif" width="500" height="500" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e829395d-abe4-4eaa-b03a-ca0da3c53638_500x500.gif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:500,&quot;width&quot;:500,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Alex Trebek Tap Dance GIF by Jeopardy!&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Alex Trebek Tap Dance GIF by Jeopardy!" title="Alex Trebek Tap Dance GIF by Jeopardy!" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uMJh!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe829395d-abe4-4eaa-b03a-ca0da3c53638_500x500.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uMJh!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe829395d-abe4-4eaa-b03a-ca0da3c53638_500x500.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uMJh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe829395d-abe4-4eaa-b03a-ca0da3c53638_500x500.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uMJh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe829395d-abe4-4eaa-b03a-ca0da3c53638_500x500.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Some interesting comments from the article:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IXzW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c18693c-c88c-46fa-a2ec-f819e1594e52_590x304.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IXzW!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c18693c-c88c-46fa-a2ec-f819e1594e52_590x304.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IXzW!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c18693c-c88c-46fa-a2ec-f819e1594e52_590x304.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IXzW!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c18693c-c88c-46fa-a2ec-f819e1594e52_590x304.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IXzW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c18693c-c88c-46fa-a2ec-f819e1594e52_590x304.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IXzW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c18693c-c88c-46fa-a2ec-f819e1594e52_590x304.jpeg" width="590" height="304" 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AxEE!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8dd93b-6175-490c-a65d-3697a4be13be_495x200.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AxEE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8dd93b-6175-490c-a65d-3697a4be13be_495x200.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AxEE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8dd93b-6175-490c-a65d-3697a4be13be_495x200.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AxEE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8dd93b-6175-490c-a65d-3697a4be13be_495x200.jpeg" width="495" height="200" 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loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><div><hr></div><h3>&#128065;PHUKET EYE&#128065;</h3><p>From managing crowds, to &#8220;fighting crime&#8221; for our next headline. It&#8217;s always for your own good. For your own safety. You silly little plebe.</p><p>You <strong>will accept</strong> the <strong>panopticon</strong> state and <strong>you will love it</strong>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3061896/phuket-eye-helps-fight-crime-by-foreign-suspects" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!klzL!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9a2f593-8c2f-42ba-839f-d24c0e6d15a9_686x696.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!klzL!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9a2f593-8c2f-42ba-839f-d24c0e6d15a9_686x696.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!klzL!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9a2f593-8c2f-42ba-839f-d24c0e6d15a9_686x696.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!klzL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9a2f593-8c2f-42ba-839f-d24c0e6d15a9_686x696.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!klzL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9a2f593-8c2f-42ba-839f-d24c0e6d15a9_686x696.jpeg" width="360" height="365.2478134110787" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3061896/phuket-eye-helps-fight-crime-by-foreign-suspects">Link.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>Via the <em>Bangkok Post:</em></p><blockquote><p>Speaking during a recent six-monthly report briefing, Pol Maj Gen Sinlert said the Phuket Eye has helped police arrest 369 foreigners since Jan 1.</p><p>Of those, 87 were charged with illegal immigration, 65 were charged with drunk driving, 27 were charged with working in a prohibited job and 23 were charged with drug offences, he said.</p><p>Police also arrested 28,809 foreigners for violating traffic laws, comprising 3,121 Russian nationals, 1,721 Chinese, 1,419 British, 1,365 French and 1,069 Indians.</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>Well, there you have it. Let&#8217;s keep it short and sweet. Chime in with the comments. I&#8217;m sure with a team effort we can get at least a couple of comments in the vein of:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;This e-ticketing system is so convenient. I don&#8217;t mind having my face scanned if it helps my tourism experience run more smoothly. I don&#8217;t care about privacy because I have nothing to hide. I don&#8217;t care about free speech, because I have nothing to say, other than MSM programmed soundbites.&#8221;</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jp3V!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e2d963b-5a0b-4685-91c2-7858786f3be7_1024x1024.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jp3V!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e2d963b-5a0b-4685-91c2-7858786f3be7_1024x1024.webp 424w, 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Built for reconnaissance and surveillance, it reflects China&#8217;s growing military focus on micro-robotics. Globally, similar micro-UAVs are also being developed, with applications ranging from warfare to environmental monitoring and medicine.</p><p>A major breakthrough in micro-robotics has emerged from China&#8217;s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), where researchers have introduced a drone no larger than a mosquito.</p><p>Designed primarily for stealth military missions, this micro-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was showcased on <em>CCTV 7</em>, China&#8217;s national military television channel.</p><p>During a televised segment, a student from the institution affiliated with the Central Military Commission displayed the device and explained its intended purpose.</p><p>&#8220;Here in my hand is a mosquito-like type of robot. Miniature bionic robots like this one are especially suited to information reconnaissance and special missions on the battlefield,&#8221; said Liang Hexiang while holding the device between his fingers.</p></blockquote><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;060d4dd7-b7cb-4ed4-b6b2-dfbb4561ed9c&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong><a href="https://x.com/laaccionex/status/1936451043685990768">[X Post link]</a></strong></p><p>How long until they send these insect-like drones to assassinate people? These drones could be used to poison someone quite easily and be completely undetected.</p><p>They could (will?) also be used to force &#8216;vaccinate&#8217; people during another fake pandemic.</p><p>Remember when Gates was licking his chops over the idea of using Mosquitoes as &#8220;flying vaccinators&#8221;?</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e-fI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42a823be-5e94-44c3-8fe4-10895e0264ff_709x716.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e-fI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42a823be-5e94-44c3-8fe4-10895e0264ff_709x716.png 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/12/31/researchers-funded-by-bill-gates-turn-mosquitoes-into-flying-syringes-to-deliver-vaccines/">Link to article.</a></strong><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/12/31/researchers-funded-by-bill-gates-turn-mosquitoes-into-flying-syringes-to-deliver-vaccines/"> </a>&#128071;</figcaption></figure></div><blockquote><p>Researchers at Leiden University Medical Center, backed by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, have developed a new method of <strong>delivering malaria vaccines using genetically modified mosquitoes as &#8220;flying vaccinators.&#8221;</strong></p><p>The Blaze <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/mosquito-bites-inject-human-test-subjects-with-parasite-in-study-at-bill-gates-linked-center">reports</a> that in a study published in the <em>New England Journal of Medicine</em>, scientists have demonstrated the effectiveness of using mosquitoes as &#8220;flying syringes&#8221; to vaccinate humans against malaria. The research, conducted at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands with <a href="https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2024/11/inv-080439">funding from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation</a>, represents a new and potentially worrying advancement in vaccine technology.</p><p>The study involved genetically modifying malaria parasites to stop developing after a certain period of time in the human body. The modified parasites, named GA1 and GA2, were designed to prime the immune system without causing a full-blown malaria infection. Researchers then infected mosquitoes with these engineered parasites and allowed them to bite human test subjects in a controlled setting.</p></blockquote><p>Well now there are miniature drones that can be used to realise Gates&#8217; dystopic dream.</p><p>Where do we go from here?</p><p>Carbon-fibre made &#8220;mosquito&#8221; nets to sleep in?</p><p><strong>Crikey.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h4><em><strong>Nicholas Creed is a Bangkok based writer. 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You have probably pinched yourself, wondering if it was computer generated imagery (CGI). In 2025 you may have been second guessing your own eyes whilst watching videos, by questioning whether or not they are generative artificial intelligence creations. </p><p>Let us cut through the noise in this robotic roundup, whilst scratching the common itch of &#8220;now where have I seen that before?&#8221; - as we address our predictively programmed conundrum.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Clone Alpha by Clone Robotics</h3><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WnNR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27efccfa-0aba-4639-a6d4-693e4215486e_714x402.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WnNR!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27efccfa-0aba-4639-a6d4-693e4215486e_714x402.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WnNR!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27efccfa-0aba-4639-a6d4-693e4215486e_714x402.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WnNR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27efccfa-0aba-4639-a6d4-693e4215486e_714x402.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WnNR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27efccfa-0aba-4639-a6d4-693e4215486e_714x402.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WnNR!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27efccfa-0aba-4639-a6d4-693e4215486e_714x402.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WnNR!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27efccfa-0aba-4639-a6d4-693e4215486e_714x402.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WnNR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27efccfa-0aba-4639-a6d4-693e4215486e_714x402.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WnNR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27efccfa-0aba-4639-a6d4-693e4215486e_714x402.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/how-long-thing-roaming-around-exterminating-people">Via </a><em><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/how-long-thing-roaming-around-exterminating-people">Zerohedge:</a></em></p><blockquote><p>The synthetic human-like creature, named Clone Alpha, was created by a company called <a href="https://www.clonerobotics.com/">Clone Robotics</a>, which seems to have directly taken inspiration from the dystopian TV show Westworld.</p><p>Even its company logo is the same as imagery in the show&#8217;s opening credits.</p><p>The company claims that the &#8220;muscuskeletal androids&#8221; are designed designed to help around the home with menial tasks including cleaning, washing clothes, unloading the dishwasher and making sandwiches.</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1864958114971422857" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vf2r!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5addd4ef-0afb-4cb5-9602-e781839952c9_669x771.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vf2r!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5addd4ef-0afb-4cb5-9602-e781839952c9_669x771.jpeg 848w, 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1864958114971422857">Link to Tweet.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>X thread continued:</p><blockquote><p>Clone just unveiled their musculoskeletal torso. </p><p>It includes an actuated elbow, cervical spine (neck), and anthropomorphic shoulders with the sternoclavicular, acromioclavicular, scapulothoracic, and glenohumeral joints. The valve matrix fits compactly inside the ribcage.</p></blockquote><p>&#128071;</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;0552045a-43a5-4015-bb2b-d54e8c2e2b2a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://x.com/clonerobotics/status/1876732633771548673" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nH63!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ded5835-6a8b-442e-8487-57106430fe69_591x480.jpeg 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://x.com/clonerobotics/status/1876732633771548673">Link.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>How long before this humanoid is &#8216;helping&#8217; people to find the business end of the kitchen knife as the last thing they see?</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9de74d7a-a142-4a82-98e5-01171ef0f765&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Where have you seen this before?</p><p>Look no further than the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAQNnJ8rAPY">TV series Westworld</a>:</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b10fbf60-284c-4830-9f9b-780c4edc3041&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p></p><h3>Unitree Robotics H1 Humanoid Robot</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!L_Jd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd1a8343-a754-4a46-8411-6b520c2d7aae_694x403.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!L_Jd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd1a8343-a754-4a46-8411-6b520c2d7aae_694x403.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!L_Jd!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd1a8343-a754-4a46-8411-6b520c2d7aae_694x403.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!L_Jd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd1a8343-a754-4a46-8411-6b520c2d7aae_694x403.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!L_Jd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd1a8343-a754-4a46-8411-6b520c2d7aae_694x403.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!L_Jd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd1a8343-a754-4a46-8411-6b520c2d7aae_694x403.png" width="562" height="326.34870317002884" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cd1a8343-a754-4a46-8411-6b520c2d7aae_694x403.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:403,&quot;width&quot;:694,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:562,&quot;bytes&quot;:358191,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://nicholascreed.substack.com/i/165778362?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd1a8343-a754-4a46-8411-6b520c2d7aae_694x403.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Via <em><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/watch-unitree-humanoid-robot-goes-full-skynet-after-imperfect-coding">Zerohedge:</a></em></p><blockquote><p>A Unitree Robotics H1 humanoid robot, developed and produced in Hangzhou, China, was seen exhibiting "<strong>erratic behavior</strong>" in a video circulating on X.</p><p>Footage circulating on X, shared by one user, alleged the incident was caused by "<strong>imperfect coding</strong>."</p></blockquote><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;699bade4-d403-4e8d-a73f-f613d5a5f0f9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p><a href="https://x.com/uimusog6125/status/1918139076206837927">[Link to Video Tweet]</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-lq0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe277ff1-6b9d-4b94-a951-fb38efcf0f6c_1280x772.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-lq0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe277ff1-6b9d-4b94-a951-fb38efcf0f6c_1280x772.png 424w, 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It looks a lot like Robocop  - the 2014 remake version.&#128071;</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;340eec93-e3cb-4e9d-8be6-4637c99e0004&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt9baswHZpM">[Link to YT clip]</a></strong></p><p>The Chinese manufacturers of the Unitree H1 robot have left enough space for a face to squeeze into the mask area, so perhaps we will see a transhuman cyborg running around in these things soon, scanning us for being threats or non-threats; perhaps based on what we post online or whether we believe anything countering official narratives&#8230;?</p><div><hr></div><h3>Tesla Optimus</h3><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;5fb8e697-f83c-493e-b6c1-74b901e8b0f9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXR7clH2dmU">[Link to YT]</a></p><p>A lot of proponents of universal basic income (UBI) who are also Musk fanboys, will casually endorse us all having a domesticated robot to do our chores, as we lay around chronically obese and apathetic to &#8220;have the freedom to pursue creative outlets&#8221;, whilst fully dependent on the state welfare. Until our robots turn on us? By design? With plausible deniability for the manufacturers? </p><p><strong>AI and robotics provide endless cover for false flags.</strong></p><p>Were we being groomed by the 2004 movie <em>I,Robot,</em> to seed this model in our collective consciousness?</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;ba5d5900-74d0-41c2-8bfa-453900f090a5&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvRZogigTtQ">[</a><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvRZogigTtQ">Link to YT clip]</a></strong></p><div><hr></div><h3>Tesla&#8217;s Robotaxi</h3><p>As a relevant sidebar for historical context on the acronym TAAS - transport as a service, please check out this article I penned in 2024:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;9c19cfd4-6d55-4e58-8c0c-ed0faf3327b7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Elon Musk has been cheered by many on Twitter as a champion of free speech, having reinstated banned accounts from well known media personalities, as well as speaking out against the &#8220;woke mind virus&#8221; embraced by the western world&#8217;s morally (and financially) bankrupt governments. Taking such public stances that appear to go against the grain has garnere&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Elon Musk Facilitates Agenda 2030&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. 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Musk announced the initiative is slated to launch on June 22nd in Austin, with the first rides coming on the 28th. But Musk also noted that safety will be put above all else, saying &#8220;We are being super paranoid about safety, so the date could shift.&#8221; </p><p>The world&#8217;s richest man recently told CNBC that the rollout will start small, with only 10 to 20 robotaxis using Tesla&#8217;s Full Self Driving capabilities. Additionally, Tesla plans to use the Model Y and not its freshly unveiled cybercab - that is slated to go into production sometime in 2026. However, Tesla will also be facing pushback on the day the robotaxis hit the streets of Austin. Several anti-Musk activist groups plan to protest and host demonstrations to highlight safety issues associated with EVs as well as Tesla&#8217;s self-driving and autopilot technologies.</p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjbWTq04sPA">[Link to YT]</a></strong></p><p>This brings to mind a scene from the 2018 movie <em>Upgrade</em>, whereby a self-driving car&#8217;s operating system is hacked and used to to assassinate a target by crashing the car:</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;8eaf3f1d-aa81-4f48-94da-0cb1639922c4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsooQlbj934">[</a><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsooQlbj934">Link to YT]</a></strong></p><div><hr></div><h3>Boston Dynamics&#8217; Atlas Robot</h3><p>This acrobatic robot has speed, strength, agility, and coordination that could soon rival its human 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The company&#8217;s management signed an<a href="https://techhq.com/2024/10/boston-dynamics-push-for-the-responsible-robotics-act/"> open letter co-signed by five other robotics companies, explicitly prohibiting the weaponization</a> of general-purpose robots.</p><p>Does it really mean anything? It is just a case of &#8220;trust us bro&#8221; ?</p><p>Here is a robotic dog named &#8216;Spot&#8217;, also produced by Boston Dynamics, meeting and taunting a real dog:</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b8b68633-6c9d-4266-a1d3-3b39361bef0f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLlbErjxSCU">[YT link]</a></strong></p><p>Where have you seen this &#8216;cute&#8217; robotic dog before? Charlie Brooker&#8217;s dystopian Netflix show <em>Black Mirror - </em>that&#8217;s where. 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Dear reader, it is called <em><strong>predictive programming. </strong></em>This means that intelligence agencies work with TV and film producers, to seed an idea in the public consciousness, so that when it is rolled out in real life, it is less of a shock to people, making them more docile and accepting of it now happening.</p><div><hr></div><h1><strong>ONYX NAUT &amp; SENTRY - Ghost Robotics V60 robotic dog</strong></h1><p>Do you enjoy fishing or playing watersports? Well keep an eye out for this stealthy <strong>ghost robot</strong> next time you&#8217;re on the water.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f877d2da-d671-43fe-91ff-a75c9da3bef7&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQhYJ6I9c1I">[YT link]</a></strong></p><div><hr></div><h3>WARFARE</h3><p>Israeli forces have deployed drones in Gaza. As published in <em><a href="https://archive.is/zfpWu#selection-1007.0-1011.1">The Economist:</a></em></p><blockquote><p>Drones are intended to reduce the danger to soldiers, but they also have a devastating impact on civilians. Operators can and do make mistakes and to send explosive-laden drones into buildings where civilians are sheltering brings obvious dangers. And although Xtend is keen to point out that it does not build autonomous &#8220;killer robots&#8221; able to locate, identify and attack targets on their own, the technology to do just that is now feasible. For better or worse, there is now nowhere drones cannot reach.</p></blockquote><div class="file-embed-wrapper" data-component-name="FileToDOM"><div class="file-embed-container-reader"><div class="file-embed-container-top"><image class="file-embed-thumbnail-default" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Cy0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Fimg%2Fattachment_icon.svg"></image><div class="file-embed-details"><div class="file-embed-details-h1">How Israel Is Using Drones In Gaza</div><div class="file-embed-details-h2">3.07MB &#8729; PDF file</div></div><a class="file-embed-button wide" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/13e19955-0290-4491-90d8-8fd16a963c90.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div><a class="file-embed-button narrow" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/13e19955-0290-4491-90d8-8fd16a963c90.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div></div><p>More recently, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mossad-iran-israel-weapons-missiles-a504ee31c70857c8d86a0d066997e344">Israel&#8217;s spy agency used AI and smuggled-in drones to prepare attack on Iran</a>.</p><div class="file-embed-wrapper" data-component-name="FileToDOM"><div class="file-embed-container-reader"><div class="file-embed-container-top"><image class="file-embed-thumbnail-default" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Cy0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Fimg%2Fattachment_icon.svg"></image><div class="file-embed-details"><div class="file-embed-details-h1">How Israel Pulled Off Its Surprise Attack On Iran Ap News</div><div class="file-embed-details-h2">4.5MB &#8729; PDF file</div></div><a class="file-embed-button wide" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/ee1b43cb-e7b4-4f61-9c44-e2c4804abff1.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div><a class="file-embed-button narrow" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/ee1b43cb-e7b4-4f61-9c44-e2c4804abff1.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div></div><p><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-inflicts-more-punishment-claims-new-method-caused-idf-systems-target-each-other">Iranian military claims new methods caused the Israel Defense Forces&#8217; own systems to target each other.</a></p><div class="file-embed-wrapper" data-component-name="FileToDOM"><div class="file-embed-container-reader"><div class="file-embed-container-top"><image class="file-embed-thumbnail-default" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Cy0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Fimg%2Fattachment_icon.svg"></image><div class="file-embed-details"><div class="file-embed-details-h1">Everyone Should Immediately Evacuate Tehran! , Trump Warns Zerohedge</div><div class="file-embed-details-h2">441KB &#8729; PDF file</div></div><a class="file-embed-button wide" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/d6fc7bde-2ecc-4de9-ac78-90e397a5e40e.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div><a class="file-embed-button narrow" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/d6fc7bde-2ecc-4de9-ac78-90e397a5e40e.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div></div><p>We&#8217;ve endured the <a href="https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/your-guide-to-5th-generation-warfare">5th generational psychological warfare</a> for the past few years already. Now a new era of AI, robotics, and drone-driven automated warfare has the warpigs squealing with delight. The merciless killing can rage on unabated, assisted with precision and autonomous destructive obliteration. </p><p>All at the click of a button. </p><p>We need look no further than the creeping possibility of an imagined &#8216;slaughterbot&#8217; rampage than this short sci-fi film:</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;ee77cf39-cd91-4894-aae1-b354cff72f33&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU">[YT link]</a></p><div><hr></div><h4><em><strong>Nicholas Creed is a Bangkok based writer. 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How are your fingerprints and facial template scans forged into a biometric identity? How does generative AI serve multiple technocratic agendas?]]></description><link>https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/harvesting-your-biometrics-part-two</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/harvesting-your-biometrics-part-two</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Creed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:22:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c3b69340-79e9-4b18-8a84-058ba85aad76_1260x555.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In part one, we looked at the overreach of CCTV surveillance using live facial recognition (LFR) technology in UK supermarkets and for policing. We highlighted the hijacking of biometrics as a prerequisite for cash handouts - by the state demanding the fingerprints of (Nigerian) citizens. Ergo, inserting a middle man third party between the cash recipient and the issuing entity - merging the physical, fungible, anonymous traits of cash, with the trackable, digitally recorded and identity-linked characteristics of biometric databases. </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;a3eb6eb1-14cd-4d00-b2f4-08df40fcc7ed&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Let us revisit the biometrics and surveillance juggernaut in headlines, to see if we can spot the propaganda angles- the bait and the hook. We have explored different aspects of these agendas. I invite readers old and new to visit or recap on the acceleration of digital ID and surveillance, through the lens of reversed values and trojan horse methodolog&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Harvesting Your Biometrics: Part One&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. Writing about multiple agendas across our totalitarian dystopia, and the importance of our lost spirituality.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5463fa4e-23ee-404a-b18c-b108387a7442_716x612.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-06-03T12:51:08.581Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0129d72b-cb75-4992-b038-486c2c77221f_1024x951.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/harvesting-your-biometrics-part-one&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Transhumanism and A.I&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:165078148,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:10,&quot;comment_count&quot;:7,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Creed Speech&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c7f2bda-f58d-43d9-918f-b027eafccf41_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>In this part two follow up, we shall once again review some headlines to spot the methodologies utilised by the propagandists to sell technocratic dystopia to the masses. We must dig a little deeper into the driving forces behind these agendas at a national-governmental level, whilst understanding the influences of supranational (unelected) organisations, so that we can see the path to global governance coming into view - <strong>which must be rejected at all costs.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3>DEEPFAKES, AI, &amp; PROOF OF PERSONHOOD</h3><p>No doubt your jaw has dropped upon seeing increasingly realistic, generative artificial intelligence created videos. It is becoming more difficult to discern what is <strong>really real</strong> from these clips. The elderly will be more at risk from scammers mimicking the digital likeness of their loved ones. Two years ago there was a spate of these AI-scams sweeping across the US, limited to phone calls whereby an AI-generated voice imitated a family member saying they were in trouble, then asking the relative to send money&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/us/ai-scam-calls-kidnapping-cec/index.html" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!drp7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae8e746-3120-4bc0-acd0-ba51819a7380_715x203.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!drp7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae8e746-3120-4bc0-acd0-ba51819a7380_715x203.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!drp7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae8e746-3120-4bc0-acd0-ba51819a7380_715x203.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!drp7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae8e746-3120-4bc0-acd0-ba51819a7380_715x203.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!drp7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae8e746-3120-4bc0-acd0-ba51819a7380_715x203.png" width="715" height="203" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7ae8e746-3120-4bc0-acd0-ba51819a7380_715x203.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:203,&quot;width&quot;:715,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:46421,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/us/ai-scam-calls-kidnapping-cec/index.html&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://nicholascreed.substack.com/i/165671289?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae8e746-3120-4bc0-acd0-ba51819a7380_715x203.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!drp7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae8e746-3120-4bc0-acd0-ba51819a7380_715x203.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!drp7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae8e746-3120-4bc0-acd0-ba51819a7380_715x203.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!drp7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae8e746-3120-4bc0-acd0-ba51819a7380_715x203.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!drp7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae8e746-3120-4bc0-acd0-ba51819a7380_715x203.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/us/ai-scam-calls-kidnapping-cec/index.html">Link.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><blockquote><p>In audio of the 911 call provided to CNN by the Scottsdale Police Department, a mom at the dance studio tries to explain to the dispatcher what&#8217;s happening.</p><p>&#8220;So, a mother just came in, she received a phone call from someone who has her daughter &#8230; like a kidnapper on the phone saying he wants a million dollars,&#8221; the other mom says. &#8220;He won&#8217;t let her talk to her daughter.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>In 2025, we are quickly moving into the full-on recreation of a digitally simulated person; looking, moving, and sounding just like a real human in their corporeal form.</p><p><strong>Check out these AI generated scenes:</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;94c1b74b-fd9f-4ba1-88ab-62de076f12c7&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>When the AI production is this good, we have to wonder, how do they do this? How do people create videos at this level of quality? Will this tech soon be available to the public with mere prompt-to-video input-to-output?</p><p>Without getting too sidetracked from the main topic of this article, let us pause for a moment to realise the other main implications of this next-gen AI video creation, aside from the scammer potential:</p><ol><li><p>It will give plausible deniability to bad actors, politicians, and war criminals when actual <strong>real footage</strong> incriminates them - they will dismiss it as AI.</p></li><li><p>It will serve the same plausible deniability angle for the internet scrubbers who are busy memory-holing the Convid years - they will claim that past footage is all fake and AI generated.</p></li><li><p>It supports the agenda of advancing the current captcha phrases / click-box-images for websites, into full on selfie-taking, moving one&#8217;s head from side to side, and &#8220;<strong>proof of personhood&#8221; - the next evolution from &#8220;</strong><em><strong>sign in to confirm you are not a bot, this helps to protect our community&#8221;</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p></li><li><p>We will need more innovative digital products that enable us to scan images and video files, to determine the likelihood percentage of it being real versus AI generated, based on the pixels and frame rate et cetera.</p></li></ol><p>This is what your correspondent looked like upon realising how much trouble we are in with generative AI:</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;449d93d9-f779-4c59-8ff8-506ebd8bfa7c&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>All of this brings us to our first propaganda watch story for June 2025:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/202505/meta-cleared-to-fight-celeb-bait-ads-with-facial-recognition-in-south-korea" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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<strong>everyone else</strong> will be rolled into the facial recognition <s>service</s> criminal interoperable database to be shared with law enforcement agencies. Clever, isn&#8217;t it? How to get people to consent, willingly, to giving away not just their personal data, but now their facial template biometrics too.</p><p>Here is the reassurance blurb:</p><blockquote><p>South Korean regulators noted that Meta will be required to delete facial information immediately after one-time processing, while the company will also be required to submit supporting documents such as server logs. The facial data cannot be used for any other purpose aside from confirming that a person is a celebrity. 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Governance In Africa Eca Biometric Update</div><div class="file-embed-details-h2">440KB &#8729; PDF file</div></div><a class="file-embed-button wide" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/a045e21f-eae1-4c3d-90fe-bb229d72811e.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div><a class="file-embed-button narrow" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/a045e21f-eae1-4c3d-90fe-bb229d72811e.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div></div><p>When the phrase &#8216;legal identity&#8217; is paired with &#8216;migration governance&#8217; we inevitably are conditioned with one of the globalist magic words: &#8216;inclusive&#8217;. Failing that, the sacrosanct sphere of &#8216;public health&#8217; is invoked - as I wrote about <a href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/technocratic-thailand-roundup">here</a>, in relation to Thailand&#8217;s <em>biometric ID management for public health ecosystem - </em><strong>especially for migrant workers.</strong></p><p>Back to the story at hand in Africa, other magic words (my emphasis in bold) are woven into the narrative to an altruistic effect, which many people will fall for:</p><blockquote><p>Kasempa emphasized that if African governments must put in place <strong>inclusive</strong> migrant management systems, legal identity is definitely the road to reaching that goal. He added that migration should not be seen as a bane but rather a blessing because many migrants in Africa are young people who are at the &#8220;forefront of innovation leveraging technology, advocacy, and entrepreneurship to create new pathways for <strong>social and economic inclusion.&#8221;</strong></p><p>[&#8230;]</p><p>&#8220;Legal identity must be recognized as a <strong>governance tool</strong> for <strong>poverty reduction</strong> as well as a <strong>public good</strong>, key to a<strong>ccessing rights</strong>, services and protections that <strong>every person is entitled</strong> to, regardless of their migration status,&#8221; he asserted.</p></blockquote><p>It&#8217;s hard to argue with such fuzzy language painting utopian ideals on the face of the messaging. I implore you to always remember to invert their language, to think things through to their logical conclusion:</p><ul><li><p>&#8216;Inclusive&#8217; migrant management systems = creating a database of digital identities amongst those most vulnerable and therefore dependent on state welfare.</p></li><li><p>&#8216;Governance tool for poverty reduction&#8217; = poverty <strong>enforcement</strong>, if people resist having a digital ID issued, the state welfare / universal basic income spigot could be turned off.</p></li><li><p>&#8216;Every person is entitled to&#8217; = The <em>leave nobody behind</em> mantra of the UN Agenda 2030 SDGs - more on that later when we tie everything in this article together in an ugly bow.</p></li></ul><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/202506/hong-kong-police-are-integrating-cctv-with-beijings-sharp-eyes-project" 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Beijing&#8217;s Sharp Eyes Project Biometric Update</div><div class="file-embed-details-h2">457KB &#8729; PDF file</div></div><a class="file-embed-button wide" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/d42788b0-db1c-44b3-a8c9-b0f902700f17.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div><a class="file-embed-button narrow" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/d42788b0-db1c-44b3-a8c9-b0f902700f17.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div></div><p>Last week we looked at CCTV video analytics expanding into the UK. The China Model is much farther along in the surveilling and monitoring of everybody, everywhere, all the time. Note the language used here and the inferences made:</p><blockquote><p>This would bring over 20,000 cameras into the network. These departments say their systems currently lack facial recognition capabilities, according to <a href="https://www.hk01.com/%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E/60243806/%E5%A4%A9%E7%9C%BC%E5%9F%B7%E6%B3%95-%E8%AD%A6%E6%96%B9%E9%A7%81%E9%80%9A%E6%B8%AF%E9%90%B5-%E6%88%BF%E5%B1%8B%E7%BD%B2-%E9%81%8B%E8%BC%B8%E7%BD%B2%E5%8F%8A%E5%BA%B7%E6%96%87%E7%BD%B2%E9%96%89%E8%B7%AF%E9%9B%BB%E8%A6%96%E5%85%A5%E7%B3%BB%E7%B5%B1#google_vignette">Hong Kong 01</a>. Following implementation of Sharp Eyes the <strong>police will no longer need to go to the different departments in person to obtain CCTV footage but will be able to directly view the required video</strong>.</p><p>[&#8230;]</p><p>The Sharp Eyes surveillance project, however, was initiated from Beijing in the late 2010s with the <strong>aim of surveilling all public space in China</strong>. The plan, which was outlined in the 13th Five Year Plan released in 2016, seeks to <strong>computerize surveillance</strong> and has been a launchpad for Chinese companies that sell facial recognition technology. Some of these companies help authorities to <strong>racially profile Uighurs,</strong> a largely Muslim minority, according to an investigation by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html">The New York Times</a>.</p><p>It is unclear how Sharp Eyes works exactly in Hong Kong, which is a Special Administrative Region with different laws to Mainland China. However, <strong>Hong Kong has seen crackdowns on free speech and right to protest as Beijing seeks to rein in the territory</strong>.</p></blockquote><p>We can deduce the consolidation of sweeping additional powers for the Chinese police force, with greater centralisation amongst interoperable databases collating CCTV video analytics, using facial recognition. This should worry everybody worldwide, as I have repeatedly warned&#8230;</p><h4>China is the testbed, the blueprint, the pilot country, for all things most extreme for a technocratic society. The plan is to roll this out globally.</h4><p><strong>Once again, it is worth embedding the video below on China&#8217;s surveillance, digital gulag, doxing of its citizens, and freezing dissidents out of society so they cannot travel on trains or planes&#8230;</strong></p><h4><strong>True reality of so-called &#8216;Smart cities&#8217;, the aim of the WEF and 4th industrial revolution, if we let it happen&#128071;</strong></h4><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4e7562e7-cbd0-4a3c-a1d7-826d144fff96&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong><a href="https://odysee.com/@WelcomeToTheDelusion:d/China-Social-Credit-Score-Smart-City:6">[DOWNLOAD FROM ODYSEE HERE]</a></strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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I invite readers to recap on the UK government&#8217;s 10 &#8220;recommendations&#8221; from the Crime and Justice Commission:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;0b3e8417-07de-48c9-b72f-28c88ccf973a&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Let us kick off with a succinct summary of the UK government&#8217;s 10 &#8220;recommendations&#8221; from the Crime and Justice Commission, as captured by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian:&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;UK Police State Turns to Digital ID, Facial Recognition Tech, and 'Murder Prediction' Program&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. 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Employers and landlords will be forced to use it.</p><p>Then, once that is in place, it will expand to include other services [page 14]:</p><blockquote><p><strong>Over time, the same system used to support the right-to-work and right-to-rent credentials could underpin many other features, allowing users to access and use a wide range of data and attributes generated by interacting with the public sector. For instance, the digital driving license and associated data, a proof of age feature, and healthcare records could be accessed and shared at the user&#8217;s discretion via BritCard.</strong></p></blockquote><p>What this report shows us is the marketing strategy for the coming year, and it&#8217;s fairly simple:</p><p></p><ul><li><p><strong>Rebrand digital ID to a friendly-sounding name.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>Introduce it for a specific purpose on a hot-button issue.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>Make it mandatory for that purpose.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>Slowly add more optional services.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>Gradually make them mandatory too.</strong></p></li></ul></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/britcard">Here is a link to the BritCard report </a>from the Labour website.</p><p>Download PDF directly here:</p><p></p><div class="file-embed-wrapper" data-component-name="FileToDOM"><div class="file-embed-container-reader"><div class="file-embed-container-top"><image class="file-embed-thumbnail-default" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Cy0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Fimg%2Fattachment_icon.svg"></image><div class="file-embed-details"><div class="file-embed-details-h1">Final Britcard Labour+together</div><div class="file-embed-details-h2">554KB &#8729; PDF file</div></div><a class="file-embed-button wide" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/3a720288-2c2f-428e-ba1a-df9432a0136e.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div><a class="file-embed-button narrow" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/3a720288-2c2f-428e-ba1a-df9432a0136e.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div></div><p>Note the attempt to manufacture a perceived public need and approval for the digital ID in this passage from the report, whilst the authors laughably pretend that digital ID would &#8220;protect civil liberties&#8221; (pg18):</p><blockquote><p>Identity has a fraught history in the UK since World War Two, the British Government has not provided a foundational identity to its citizens. In its effort to protect civil liberties, the state has tied itself in knots. It has introduced myriad requirements for people to prove their identity and other facts and attributes about themselves. But it has not provided effective tools to allow them to do that. </p><p>The main identity credentials offered by the state - birth certificate, passport, driving license - are currently only offered in physical form; and none of them is in itself an &#8220;identity&#8221; document. The UK is unusual internationally in not having a national digital identity. </p><p>While the concept of a state issued foundational identity was for a long time highly contentious, developments in technology (largely in the private sector), and the abrupt need during the COVID pandemic for better digital tools (for instance, the NHS App and COVID Pass feature; the COVID Track and Trace App; and the vaccine appointments [&#8230;]</p><p>Public attitudes towards digital identity have been broadly favourable for years: in general British people value convenience and are relatively relaxed about adopting technology. </p></blockquote><p>Of course, good ole&#8217; Covid had to be referenced - the vax-pass was only &#8216;contentious&#8217; at that time - you are now told. 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Update</div><div class="file-embed-details-h2">535KB &#8729; PDF file</div></div><a class="file-embed-button wide" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/12ca560e-1a90-4805-83ca-7fd6adc12346.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div><a class="file-embed-button narrow" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/12ca560e-1a90-4805-83ca-7fd6adc12346.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div></div><p>The technocratic kleptocrats running the EU, wanting personal gain at the expense of the governed, <strong>as well as</strong> the neo-feudalistic serfdom of their constituents via digital ID, are turning to the macro, geo-political stage for their justified means to the end of individual sovereignty:</p><blockquote><p> &#8220;Trust services, electronic signatures, and digital identity wallets are presented not simply as technical solutions but as legal arrangements.&#8221;</p><p>Geopolitical uncertainties have <a 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data and purpose and sharing of biometric data. The 2025 edition introduces several key enhancements:</p><ul><li><p><strong>AI:</strong> The guidelines now incorporate how to factor in the use of Artificial Intelligence</p></li><li><p><strong>Brainwave biometrics: </strong>They provide guidance on the ethical and privacy implications of capturing brainwave patterns for biometric authentication and potential neurotechnology uses like interpreting cognitive states and emotional responses</p></li><li><p><strong>Test use cases:</strong> Each Privacy Principle now begins with concrete use cases to provide practical examples</p></li><li><p><strong>Actionable insights:</strong> A dedicated section with key questions has been added to specifically assist managers and key personnel in recognising priorities and discussing overall strategies with their staff and clients.</p></li></ul></blockquote><p>Capturing brainwave patterns?! Interpreting cognitive states and emotional responses?!</p><p>We were so focused on fingerprints and facial recognition biometrics data harvesting, that we forgot about the classic brainwave capture - another subset of <strong>your</strong> biometrics. </p><p>Scanning the archives&#8230;.Here is a 2017 flashback to the caricature bond villain of WEF notoriety - Klaus Schwab, asking the audience to imagine that they will all soon have brain implants, that he will be able to scan their brainwave patterns, knowing their reactions and emotional responses:</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;6f6edf79-d414-4bf8-bf15-1589278d8cae&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><ol start="3"><li><p><strong>X (formerly Twitter)</strong></p></li></ol><p>I previously wrote about X pushing digital ID under Musk&#8217;s leadership:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;39168559-1485-49c8-a415-e4394b6e5435&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Elon Musk has been cheered by many on Twitter as a champion of free speech, having reinstated banned accounts from well known media personalities, as well as speaking out against the &#8220;woke mind virus&#8221; embraced by the western world&#8217;s morally (and financially) bankrupt governments. 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://reclaimthenet.org/elon-musk-seemingly-supports-ny-child-safety-bill-for-digital-id">Link to article.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><blockquote><blockquote><p>X, formerly Twitter, is now mandating the use of a government ID-based account verification system for users that earn revenue on the platform &#8211; either for advertising or for paid subscriptions.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>To implement this system, X has partnered with Au10tix, an Israeli company known for its identity verification solutions. Users who opt to receive payouts on the platform will have to undergo a verification process with the company.</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nV12!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a988ca9-f444-442b-b095-ee29edf8c66b_950x964.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nV12!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a988ca9-f444-442b-b095-ee29edf8c66b_950x964.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nV12!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a988ca9-f444-442b-b095-ee29edf8c66b_950x964.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nV12!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a988ca9-f444-442b-b095-ee29edf8c66b_950x964.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nV12!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a988ca9-f444-442b-b095-ee29edf8c66b_950x964.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nV12!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a988ca9-f444-442b-b095-ee29edf8c66b_950x964.jpeg" width="412" height="418.07157894736844" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4a988ca9-f444-442b-b095-ee29edf8c66b_950x964.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:964,&quot;width&quot;:950,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:412,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nV12!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a988ca9-f444-442b-b095-ee29edf8c66b_950x964.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nV12!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a988ca9-f444-442b-b095-ee29edf8c66b_950x964.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nV12!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a988ca9-f444-442b-b095-ee29edf8c66b_950x964.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nV12!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a988ca9-f444-442b-b095-ee29edf8c66b_950x964.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>This initiative aims to curb impersonation, fraud, and improve user support, yet it also raises profound questions about privacy and free speech, as X markets itself as a free speech platform, and free speech and anonymity often go hand-in-hand. This is especially true in countries where their speech can get citizens jailed or worse.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>[&#8230;]</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>X owner Elon Musk has commented in support of these bills, <a href="https://reclaimthenet.org/elon-musk-seemingly-supports-ny-child-safety-bill-for-digital-id">as recently as last week.</a></p></blockquote><blockquote><p>While this new X change is only for those users looking to claim a cut of the advertising revenue that X makes from their posts and is not yet enforced for all users, it is a large step towards the normalizing of online digital ID verification.</p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p>Digital ID required in order to monetise <strong>online</strong> content <em>today</em> - tomorrow it could be required in order to access all goods and services, both online and in the real world.</p><p>It&#8217;s all for your protection, is it not?</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3>UNITED NATIONS AGENDA 2030</h3><p>Everything outlined in this article comes back to Agenda 2030. In the same piece I cited above, which I published in May 2024, I mentioned agenda 2030 and the sustainable development goals:</p><blockquote><p>From the perspective of the United Nations [mis]leadership driving agenda 2030, catchment of the children is a repeated theme - as I detailed recently when covering <em>Education 2030</em><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/unescos-child-menticide-campaign?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web"> here</a> and <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/unesco-education-2030-agenda-global?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">here</a> - UN literature often refers to children as &#8216;change agents&#8217; and &#8216;shaping young learners&#8217;. Having children digitally verify themselves online will normalise this action across all platforms, then as a pre-requisite to access the internet itself - through to adulthood. The digital ID campaign is a core tenet of Agenda 2030; specifically cited under SDG 16:9 -</p><blockquote><p>By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.</p></blockquote><p>In case you are not convinced that this goal relates to <strong>digital </strong>ID, this particular SDG is cross-referenced by partnering organisations which are on board to usher in technocracy, such as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190624141202/https://id2020.org/digital-identity">ID2020</a>:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uuk0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6bafdcb6-953e-4eda-a8d0-a4fcf55162f6_695x875.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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It all leads back to the Agenda 2030 SDGs. </p><p>These agendas will continue to be pushed, rebranded, and softened up (in language terms) to make your enslavement more palatable and easier to swallow.</p><h4>The real questions are:</h4><h4>Will you capitulate?</h4><h4>Do you have a line in the sand?</h4><h4>Do you value privacy over convenience?</h4><h4>What have you learned since 2020?</h4><div id="youtube2-y-YGmOZ0l2M" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;y-YGmOZ0l2M&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/y-YGmOZ0l2M?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><h4><em><strong>Nicholas Creed is a Bangkok based writer. 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address:</strong></p><p><strong>86nUmkrzChrCS4v5j6g3dtWy6RZAAazfCPsC8QLt7cEndNhMpouzabBXFvhTVFH3u3UsA1yTCkDvwRyGQNnK74Q2AoJs6</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harvesting Your Biometrics: Part One]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's 'inclusive', it 'fights scammers', it assures 'legal rights', and if you believe all that then you will believe anything.]]></description><link>https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/harvesting-your-biometrics-part-one</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/harvesting-your-biometrics-part-one</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Creed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:51:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0129d72b-cb75-4992-b038-486c2c77221f_1024x951.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let us revisit the biometrics and surveillance juggernaut in headlines, to see if we can spot the propaganda angles- the bait and the hook. We have explored different aspects of these <em><strong>agendas</strong></em>. I invite readers old and new to visit or recap on the acceleration of digital ID and surveillance, through the lens of reversed values and trojan horse methodologies:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;26589e68-8d1d-4c2a-b478-10c5d52072e1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;I write this article for posterity - as a historical preservation of the most significant intersecting events of our time preceding digital gulags, for I know that the timelines might all be scrubbed clean and memory holed, eventually...&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Reversal of Normal Values&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. Writing about multiple agendas across our totalitarian dystopia, and the importance of our lost spirituality.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5463fa4e-23ee-404a-b18c-b108387a7442_716x612.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2024-12-03T01:37:38.327Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97fc3777-66c6-479f-8ae0-c583fa673e5e_509x796.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/the-reversal-of-normal-values&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:151799749,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:12,&quot;comment_count&quot;:7,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Creed Speech&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c7f2bda-f58d-43d9-918f-b027eafccf41_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;76661a8f-263e-4c2a-bfd6-53c4a1051584&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;I will preface this roundup by reminding readers that the overwhelming majority of Bangkok&#8217;s visible population are walking around like zombies staring at their phones. In the parks, most people just want to find a quiet spot in beautiful nature, to spend quality time with their phones. It is getting more difficult to use cash as vendors rarely have cha&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Technocratic Thailand Roundup&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. Writing about multiple agendas across our totalitarian dystopia, and the importance of our lost spirituality.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5463fa4e-23ee-404a-b18c-b108387a7442_716x612.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-04-30T02:25:58.192Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43a1c4cc-d075-45eb-92cc-ec29e4aa9a60_892x568.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/technocratic-thailand-roundup&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:162501400,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:13,&quot;comment_count&quot;:19,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Creed Speech&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c7f2bda-f58d-43d9-918f-b027eafccf41_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>Here is a rundown of the headlines I&#8217;ve been collecting since&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/202505/alarming-gains-in-face-reconstruction-from-biometric-templates-made-by-researchers" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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When a research team is said to be concerned about the - <em>surprise-surprise</em> - hackable element or critical security flaw within the new technology created to &#8220;keep you safe&#8221; - when such a problem would not exist without forcing the adoption of these new verification methods. </p><p>Quoting from the article above.</p><p><strong>The bait:</strong></p><blockquote><p>Biometric template security is critical to the data integrity and privacy the industry needs to thrive.</p></blockquote><p><strong>The hook:</strong></p><blockquote><p>These better (for the attacker) results are achieved with relatively limited computing power for both adapter training and the face reconstruction attack.</p></blockquote><p>The solution is hinted at as feeding the AI models more data in the form of your face to &#8216;train on&#8217;.</p><p>Banks in Thailand require &#8216;face scanning&#8217; for bank transfers over 50,000 THB. Now a hacker could potentially recreate your facial template with AI. That&#8217;s if a physical in person attacker doesn&#8217;t use your own phone&#8217;s banking app to scan your face as you lay unconscious or as a corpse. </p><p>Two factor authentication methods using an opensource 2FA app like &#8216;<a href="https://andotp-extension.de.softonic.com/chrome/erweiterung">andOTP</a>&#8217; (*not google authenticator!) or a <a href="https://www.yubico.com/">physical Yubi key</a> are secure enough - but the technocrats don&#8217;t want you using those, because they negate the &#8216;need&#8217; to obtain your biometric data for storing on databases, building your social credit score, and interlinking with CCTV live facial recognition technology. </p><p>Always remember, this global push for obtaining and harvesting YOUR biometric data, is solely for the purpose of building the panopticon control grid. <em>They</em> will keep pushing the envelope as they tell you, oops, sorry, it&#8217;s not secure enough yet. Now we need you to scan your iris too - it will prevent (cause?) fraud and fight crime, honest. Then eventually they will try to get blood samples for all kinds of access control points, to verify a user&#8217;s identity. Right out of that vintage nineties <s>documentary</s> movie&#8230;</p><div id="youtube2-kbjg7bYJhMQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;kbjg7bYJhMQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/kbjg7bYJhMQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/202505/asda-supermarket-chain-faces-legal-complaint-over-facial-recognition" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Watch</a></em> in the UK for challenging Asda&#8217;s foray into technocracy here. <em>Big Brother Watch</em> has also challenged Police Scotland over their use of LFR. The <em>Biometric Update </em>site is clearly run by technocrat advocates - ever more apparent when out of all the organisations cited in the above article, <em>Big Brother Watch</em> was the only one not hyperlinked - they don&#8217;t want readers to delve too deeply into the counterpoint:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7eaL!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F482392a4-fa9a-4255-8478-3cfa43e7ce81_1294x784.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7eaL!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F482392a4-fa9a-4255-8478-3cfa43e7ce81_1294x784.jpeg 848w, 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Show them support and share their posts far and wide please.</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>We digress. </p><p>Back to Asda and its management&#8217;s desire to overreach surveillance on steroids&#8230;</p><p><strong>The bait:</strong></p><blockquote><p>The trial is designed to increase security amid a rise in retail crime. The retailer says it recorded approximately 1,400 assaults on its staff last year. The installation scans images of shoppers against a watchlist of previous offenders compiled by Asda. If there is no match, the images and the biometric templates collected are deleted immediately and permanently.</p></blockquote><p>See it? Sympathise? We all need to be treated like could-be / would-be / criminals, for the greater good, apparently. Never mind the old ways revolving around security awareness training for staff on how to spot suspicious persons, when to escalate, and how to intervene. The cucked supermarket security farce has gone from allowing shoplifters to blatantly shoplift without fear of intervention or prosecution, to now outsourcing security entirely to CCTV video analytics out of a perceived, <strong>manufactured </strong>necessity. </p><p><strong>The hook:</strong></p><blockquote><p>A <a href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/202505/expansion-of-biometric-tech-demands-trust-before-adoption-survey-finds">new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center</a> (ITRC) also explored consumer attitudes toward biometrics, throwing light on the growing reliance on biometric technologies and the skepticism many consumers still hold toward them.</p><p>While biometric technology cannot eliminate identity fraud entirely, the report says, its appropriate and ethical use can significantly reduce the risks posed by static, compromised data.</p></blockquote><p>Ethical use?! What a joke.</p><p>We might need to prepare one of these little beauties for the go-bag soon.&#128071;</p><p>[Hyper realistic silicone mask]</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;de4485fc-7c6d-4635-935c-c4cf0054ccba&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/202505/biometric-verification-securing-slowing-cash-transfer-program-in-nigeria" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2XFm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a5619e1-cfd8-47a6-8795-49528d982cf2_956x760.jpeg 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/202505/biometric-verification-securing-slowing-cash-transfer-program-in-nigeria">Link.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>The technocrats <strong>hate </strong>cash. It&#8217;s fungible, anonymous, there is no third party, and people can use it to transact peer to peer. Now we see a push to force a middleman between the cash recipient and the state, to fuse the digital with the physical. Major strings attached. Those ruthless bastards.</p><p><strong>The bait:</strong></p><blockquote><p>It comes as the World Bank expressed concern over the slow roll-out of the cash transfer program, <a href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/202310/nigeria-launches-cash-transfers-with-biometric-id-verification-for-15m-households">which launched in 2023</a> following the removal of the petrol subsidy and unification of the foreign exchange market.</p></blockquote><p>Ah, the world bank. That loving, caring, altruistic, benevolent entity. Right guys? They lament that the cash transfer program is just too slow. Why is that? It is slow because of forcing people to have their biometrics harvested in order to receive the cash. What problem does this solve? Sometimes <strong>the hook</strong> can come in the form of a thinly veiled threat:</p><blockquote><p>In an interview with Arise TV, special adviser to President Tinubu on economic affairs, Tope Fasua, said biometric validation was needed to prevent fraud and for transparency but suggested that it contributed to the slow progress.</p><p>&#8220;The reason why only 37 percent of households have been reached is because of the need to have biometric confirmation,&#8221; he said, adding that the process will be &#8220;tidied up&#8221; going forward.</p></blockquote><p>No fingerprints, no cash. No cash, no food. They always say it&#8217;s to prevent fraud and for transparency. Yet, those very characteristics they fawn over, often end up being manipulated by bad actors, thus wrecking the people whose data has been collected.</p><p>Case in point - hailing from the know-your-customer (KYC) industrial complex - just ask the crypto bros who have been cleared out after Coinbase got hacked for information on users including crypto balances and physical addresses!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.analyticsinsight.net/news/coinbase-hack-tied-to-underpaid-indian-bpo-agents-in-400m-data-breach-fallout" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UDeu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5080a77b-dc6d-42b6-934f-b22dd48289dc_942x600.jpeg 424w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VE7I!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ea9058e-e266-4d01-93f7-8f18f9555948_1295x697.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VE7I!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ea9058e-e266-4d01-93f7-8f18f9555948_1295x697.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VE7I!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ea9058e-e266-4d01-93f7-8f18f9555948_1295x697.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31158590/">IMDB link.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>All the episodes were off the charts globalist-agenda-driven with plentiful vax-shilling propaganda embedded in climate cultist hysteria, but I will focus on one episode called <em><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31171686/">Black Sheep</a> </em>for this short piece. Another friend of mine perfectly encapsulated the Netflix zeitgeist with this meme he sent me:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09vV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc72f7a60-f161-43af-8902-a47b50c0ef24_743x561.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09vV!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc72f7a60-f161-43af-8902-a47b50c0ef24_743x561.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09vV!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc72f7a60-f161-43af-8902-a47b50c0ef24_743x561.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09vV!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc72f7a60-f161-43af-8902-a47b50c0ef24_743x561.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09vV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc72f7a60-f161-43af-8902-a47b50c0ef24_743x561.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09vV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc72f7a60-f161-43af-8902-a47b50c0ef24_743x561.jpeg" width="626" height="472.65948855989234" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c72f7a60-f161-43af-8902-a47b50c0ef24_743x561.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:561,&quot;width&quot;:743,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:626,&quot;bytes&quot;:68006,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09vV!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc72f7a60-f161-43af-8902-a47b50c0ef24_743x561.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09vV!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc72f7a60-f161-43af-8902-a47b50c0ef24_743x561.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09vV!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc72f7a60-f161-43af-8902-a47b50c0ef24_743x561.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09vV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc72f7a60-f161-43af-8902-a47b50c0ef24_743x561.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This meme has quickly morphed into episode 1 drawing you in with some intriguing storylines and a likeable cast, then in episode 2 they force the <em>inclusive</em> plot upon your unsuspecting viewership. Now the evolution of the trap is sprung within the final twenty minutes of any given standalone show when some bizarre Trans stuff comes from left-field&#8230;</p><p>The <em>Black Sheep</em> episode started off wholesome enough, albeit to the backdrop of a dystopian future whereby people clone their pets ad infinitum to keep their little beloved fur-balls alive indefinitely with the same persona. Human cloning is outlawed. We are introduced to a cutesy heterosexual couple - the woman is a brainy pioneering scientist who&#8217;s trying to 3D print organs to solve the organ shortage transplant crisis; aiming to give longevity of life to all those with dodgy hearts or bad luck genetics. </p><p></p><p>Hubby is on a video call with wifey - who is soon to be Earth-bound after a space mission with the objective of 3D printing human hearts in zero gravity in space. Aside from the obvious dystopic world-building, I commented to my wife that it was nice to see a &#8216;wholesome&#8217; storyline with no intense propaganda laid on, as the couple opined how much they missed each other, desperate to be reunited after a two year hiatus. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g35a!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61fbca52-6cee-4edb-8913-3f2579fb3b56_1071x611.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g35a!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61fbca52-6cee-4edb-8913-3f2579fb3b56_1071x611.jpeg 424w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Absence makes the <strong>heart</strong> grow fonder, doesn&#8217;t it?</p><p>Constant cut-scenes and flashbacks kept us guessing for a while, until it was clear that the scientist wife had snuffed it during her return journey to Earth. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTo4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e736ac9-16c7-40f0-adb3-8a94e651c445_1241x349.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTo4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e736ac9-16c7-40f0-adb3-8a94e651c445_1241x349.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Her best friend is another scientist who works at a pet cloning lab - &#8216;she&#8217; is a biological male simulating a female aka a &#8216;Transgender Woman&#8217;. Fair enough.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XzRs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8c6bc48-7db2-49e5-a9bb-6d57fcc13dae_1277x363.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XzRs!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8c6bc48-7db2-49e5-a9bb-6d57fcc13dae_1277x363.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XzRs!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8c6bc48-7db2-49e5-a9bb-6d57fcc13dae_1277x363.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XzRs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8c6bc48-7db2-49e5-a9bb-6d57fcc13dae_1277x363.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XzRs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8c6bc48-7db2-49e5-a9bb-6d57fcc13dae_1277x363.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XzRs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8c6bc48-7db2-49e5-a9bb-6d57fcc13dae_1277x363.jpeg" width="1277" height="363" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b8c6bc48-7db2-49e5-a9bb-6d57fcc13dae_1277x363.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:363,&quot;width&quot;:1277,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:71908,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XzRs!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8c6bc48-7db2-49e5-a9bb-6d57fcc13dae_1277x363.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XzRs!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8c6bc48-7db2-49e5-a9bb-6d57fcc13dae_1277x363.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XzRs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8c6bc48-7db2-49e5-a9bb-6d57fcc13dae_1277x363.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XzRs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8c6bc48-7db2-49e5-a9bb-6d57fcc13dae_1277x363.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Hubby persuades the cloning expert to clone his dead wife, after stealing his wife&#8217;s head from her corpse - against her parent&#8217;s wishes, who do not wish to resurrect her. The cloning expert needs the dead lady&#8217;s brain to scan it and download her memories for the cloning process.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9-B0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a301b3-13c7-49e2-93d1-c72d9134331a_1108x705.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9-B0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a301b3-13c7-49e2-93d1-c72d9134331a_1108x705.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9-B0!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a301b3-13c7-49e2-93d1-c72d9134331a_1108x705.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9-B0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a301b3-13c7-49e2-93d1-c72d9134331a_1108x705.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9-B0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a301b3-13c7-49e2-93d1-c72d9134331a_1108x705.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9-B0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a301b3-13c7-49e2-93d1-c72d9134331a_1108x705.jpeg" width="1108" height="705" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/13a301b3-13c7-49e2-93d1-c72d9134331a_1108x705.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:705,&quot;width&quot;:1108,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:90734,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9-B0!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a301b3-13c7-49e2-93d1-c72d9134331a_1108x705.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9-B0!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a301b3-13c7-49e2-93d1-c72d9134331a_1108x705.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9-B0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a301b3-13c7-49e2-93d1-c72d9134331a_1108x705.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9-B0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a301b3-13c7-49e2-93d1-c72d9134331a_1108x705.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The Trans scientist calls the husband back to the lab in an &#8216;uh-oh&#8217; moment pertaining to some <em>irregularities</em> with the memory scan. 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Then the Netflix production pulls the rug out from under the viewer, with a bizarre montage of memory-video-clips. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kIQP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c9a9d47-9099-4105-9c49-f90431a343c9_906x712.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kIQP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c9a9d47-9099-4105-9c49-f90431a343c9_906x712.jpeg 424w, 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Yep, she was &#8216;trapped&#8217; in the wrong body all along of course!</p><p>Cue a devastated blubbering husband asking the Trans scientist to abort the procedure. Swat teams break into his apartment to arrest him for stealing his dead wife&#8217;s head, but not before he has time to make a phone call following a change of heart. He asks the cloning expert to go ahead - with a <em>minor</em> adjustment request - make <em>her </em>a <em>him </em>with the old chromosome switcheroo! It&#8217;s what his wife always wanted after all!! </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvg7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d9a46a9-5554-435c-a635-714058abdca6_960x504.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvg7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d9a46a9-5554-435c-a635-714058abdca6_960x504.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvg7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d9a46a9-5554-435c-a635-714058abdca6_960x504.jpeg 848w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Never mind surgeries and hormones, just fully change the chromosomes. Gender dysphoria-affected-youth can rejoice on the back of this propagandised tell-lie-vision in that the technology may one day exist to alter their chromosomes - although I find that hard to believe it will ever come to pass. We&#8217;ll see.</p><p><em>I have three friends in the UK right now who have nieces that believe they are boys. They want hormones and surgeries. They are minors. Their parents are frantic with worry trying to convince their child that this is a phase.</em></p><h4><strong>This is a dark agenda.</strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6iP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff45af27d-27d8-42c4-9c1b-f349ba1f3b7a_720x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6iP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff45af27d-27d8-42c4-9c1b-f349ba1f3b7a_720x720.jpeg 424w, 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No doubt 2025 can outdo it.</p><div id="youtube2-DHtcliIvnHI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;DHtcliIvnHI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/DHtcliIvnHI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><h4><em><strong>Nicholas Creed is a Bangkok based writer. Any support is greatly appreciated. If you are in a position to donate a virtual coffee or crypto, it would mean the world of difference. Paid subscribers can comment on articles, videos, and podcasts, and also receive a <a href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/s/subscriber-newsletter">monthly subscriber newsletter</a>.</strong></em></h4><h4><em><strong>Email: nicholas.creed@protonmail.com </strong></em><strong>with information and newsworthy stories for open source intelligence gathering to support this Substack, thank you.</strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nicholascrg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gifM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6b85cfd-e6a9-41f5-8e82-8a35538d08da_286x72.png 424w, 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isPermaLink="false">https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/ai-hype-mainstreaming-transhumanism</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Creed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:06:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/qOcktbXSfxU" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are we now to feel the fallout effects from AI-driven mass automation of jobs? Lately I&#8217;ve had lots of conversations with friends about which of our jobs will be automated within five years. Is obsolescence to reign supreme? Time will tell. I am more interested in what appears to be a coordinated campaign to embed bizarre endorsements for transhumanism on the back of AI predictions for the future, which are being seeded in the public consciousness as necessary, desirable, inevitable, and fashionable. Personally, I find calls for altering the human genome, and the concept of biodigital convergence, <em>very</em> <strong>disturbing</strong>. </p><p>I trust that my stance is clear from the articles penned within this <em>Transhumanism and A.I </em>section of my Substack - I am pro-human. I am anti-Transhumanism. I can embrace new technologies for the betterment of humanity and &#8216;progress&#8217;, yet I shall not abate my deeply rooted concerns over genetic products and the insanity of pursuing augmented life extension based upon the merging of man with machine. I am happy and content being a bog standard organic human - are you? I do not wish to seek &#8216;upgrades&#8217; to my &#8216;meat suit&#8217; - do you? I will pursue longevity of life through exercise, good nutrition, and exploring the mind.</p><p>Look after your body, and your body shall look after you.</p><div><hr></div><h3>RECAP ON BIODIGITAL CONVERGENCE</h3><p>Via <em><a href="https://www.minds.com/CorbettReport/blog/biodigital-convergence-bombshell-document-reveals-the-true-a-1240670804018147328">CorbettReport.Com</a>:</em></p><blockquote><p>The first thing to note about this revealing document is that it is an official Government of Canada publication. More specifically, it is from "<a href="https://horizons.gc.ca/en/home/">Policy Horizons Canada</a>," which <a href="https://horizons.gc.ca/en/about-us/">describes itself</a> as "a federal government organization that conducts foresight." Clear as mud? Well, apparently their mandate is "to help the Government of Canada develop future-oriented policy and programs that are more robust and resilient in the face of disruptive change on the horizon," and they are a government "foresight center," complete with a "Chief Futurist" and a team of "Foresight Analysts" who work in the Government of Canada's first "innovation lab" producing regular "<a href="https://horizons.gc.ca/en/our-work/future-of-asia/">MetaScans</a>" on topics of interest to the government, including "behavioural insights and experimentation."</p><p>If that sounds like a lot of federal bureaucratic gobbledygook designed to obfuscate the fact that this is just a government think tank that talks about future trends and developments, then don't worry. That's exactly what it is.</p><p>The second thing you'll notice about the document is the smirking face of Kristel Van der Elst, who, we are told, is Director General of Policy Horizons Canada and the erstwhile author of this document's foreword. Three seconds of searching will reveal that Ms. Van der Elst is the former Head of Strategic Foresight at (you guessed it) <a href="https://www.weforum.org/people/kristel-van-der-elst">the World Economic Forum</a>, whose globalist bingo card is almost as impressive as Dr. Leana Wen's. In addition to being intimate with the Davos crowd, she's also a Fulbright Scholar who went to Yale, Special Advisor to European Commission Vice-President Maro&#353; &#352;ef&#269;ovi&#269;, and, in addition to heading up Policy Horizons Canada, is also a fellow at the Center for Strategic Foresight of the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Quelle surprise.</p><p>So what does Van der Elst say in her foreword?</p><p>In the coming years, biodigital technologies could be woven into our lives in the way that digital technologies are now. <strong>Biological and digital systems are converging</strong>, and could change the way we work, live, and even evolve as a species. More than a technological change, this biodigital convergence may transform the way we understand ourselves and <strong>cause us to redefine what we consider human or natural </strong>[all emphases in this article are mine].</p><p>Guess what, guys? I have just found my go-to synopsis for when I'm asked to explain the great reset and the fourth industrial revolution in a nutshell. Right there in a few short, crisp sentences, is exactly what I've been warning about regarding <a href="https://www.corbettreport.com/?s=transhumanism">the transhumanist agenda</a> for 13 years now. But in the true spirit of the open conspiracy, since this is a bland admission from a senior government think tank worker it will undoubtedly be viewed as a boring, self-evident truth by the normies who seek to find a way to downplay the <em>coming extinction of the human race</em>.</p><p>From there, things only get weirder.</p><p>The document goes on to outline "Three ways biodigital convergence is emerging," namely:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Full physical integration</strong> of biological and digital entities;</p></li><li><p><strong>Coevolution</strong> of biological and digital technologies; and</p></li><li><p><strong>Conceptual convergence</strong> of biological and digital systems,</p></li></ol><p>Please re-read that list in case you didn't grasp its significance the first time. But in case you <em>didn't</em> catch the importance of those trends, the report then provides some concrete examples of each.</p><p>Regarding the "Full physical integration of biological and digital entities," the document notes:</p><p><strong>Robots with biological brains and biological bodies with digital brains already exist</strong>, as do human-computer and brain-machine interfaces. The medical use of digital devices in humans, as well as <strong>digitally manipulated insects such as drone dragonflies and surveillance locusts</strong>, are examples of digital technology being combined with biological entities. By <strong>tapping into the nervous system and manipulating neurons</strong>, tech can be added to an organism to alter its function and purpose. <strong>New human bodies and new senses of identity could arise</strong> as the convergence continues.</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3>MORTALITY WATCH AND THREADING NARRATIVES TOGETHER</h3><p>I covered the origins of Transhumanism as being rooted in eugenics, when I wrote in this piece:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;06fa4131-0d18-4a55-94af-f51b57f28919&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Having written about various intersecting agendas at play on the world stage, I wanted to gather my thoughts in weaving it all together as I currently see the state of play. I may well be wrong about this - I often am - but I do keep an open mind and try not to write off any new information; even when it can be painful to acknowledge new depths of depra&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Threading Narratives Together&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. Writing about multiple agendas across our totalitarian dystopia, and the importance of our lost spirituality.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5463fa4e-23ee-404a-b18c-b108387a7442_716x612.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-06-14T07:25:20.832Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/edd1207c-9844-4a7d-b4c7-74bd776be2db_600x454.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/threading-narratives-together&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:127652993,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:10,&quot;comment_count&quot;:12,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Creed Speech&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c7f2bda-f58d-43d9-918f-b027eafccf41_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><blockquote><p>Transhumanism has its roots in eugenics. Eugenics is the practice of state sponsored sterilisation of the disabled, mentally handicapped, or those otherwise deemed &#8220;unfit to breed.&#8221; Here is a (1min24sec) clip from a film from 1934 called <em>Tomorrow&#8217;s Children</em> in which eugenics is advocated for, and a woman is told of plans to sterilise her and her family to avoid future generations of &#8220;feeble-minded&#8221; children being brought into the world. *Not my words - the words of <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/02/17/695574984/emma-carrie-vivian-how-a-family-became-a-test-case-for-forced-sterilizations">eugenicists.</a></p><p><strong><a href="https://odysee.com/@AvaWolfe:d/Tomorrows-Children-1934-Public-Domain-Proactive-research:c">[link to full movie]</a></strong></p></blockquote><p>I mused over how Transhumanism could be &#8216;sold&#8217; to the masses:</p><blockquote><p>Whitney Webb wrote a brilliant piece - <em><a href="https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/06/investigative-reports/a-leap-toward-humanitys-destruction/">A &#8220;Leap&#8221; toward Humanity&#8217;s Destruction</a> - </em>in which she weaves the surveillance state agenda together with genomic surveillance, biodigital convergence and the overarching transhumanist agenda.</p><p>I draw the link between mRNA injections and transhumanism as the literal experimentation of genetically altering humanity. Testing limits of tolerance for lipid nanoparticles in order to perfect secrets to longevity for those at the top capstone of the pyramidal new world order hierarchy. Obviously there are batches of the mRNA injections designed to maim, sterilise, and kill too.</p><p>Aside from mRNA injections, other transhumanist ideals are slowly going mainstream with the promise of youthfulness attainment, regeneration of cells, and enhancement.</p><p>I found this particularly disturbing to read:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-PaT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fae860c70-b4de-45da-91c7-6b5b94aa695f_799x586.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-PaT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fae860c70-b4de-45da-91c7-6b5b94aa695f_799x586.png 424w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230523153358/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/23/us-health-ageing-blood-science/">Waybackmachine (non pay-walled link).</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>The transgenderism movement is being introduced to children in schools, pushed and incentivised by governments, rewarding corporations with <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/corporate-equality-index">corporate equity</a> index (<a href="https://youtu.be/O6cAKYPIOhY">CEI) and environmental social governence (ESG) point</a> scoring systems.</p><p><strong>I see a connection between subverting, inverting, or destroying biological gender with intersectionality and &#8220;gender fluidity&#8221;, climate delusions, and transhumanism.</strong></p><p>If individuals experience gender dysphoria at a young age, they are likely to act on this through surgical procedures. Having altered their physicality through surgical and chemical means, they could be receptive to further augmentation via implantable technology (RFID chip / brain-chip). If they are particularly confused with their dysphoria, they may opt to go one step further and get rid of their physical bodies entirely.</p><p>If they also buy into the climate delusion, this could be an additional catalyst to reduce their carbon footprint, by <strong>exiting their emission-causing meatsuit and becoming entirely digital.</strong></p><p>Predictive programming case in point; a 3 minute clip from an old BBC series &#8220;years and years&#8221; in which a teenage girl tells her <strong>parents exactly that:</strong></p><div id="youtube2-qOcktbXSfxU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;qOcktbXSfxU&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qOcktbXSfxU?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div></blockquote><p>In this piece, I wrote:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;12e5d871-354d-4e67-904a-d743a22a539f&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Before we get into this sensitive topic, let us be clear. There is nothing &#8216;great&#8217; about The Great Depopulation in the sense of being positive or good. Although there are those on both sides of this spiritual and information war who do believe it is either wholly good, or a necessary evil. It has greatly saddened me lately to see people posting comments&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mortality Watch and Agendas Promoting The Great Depopulation&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. Writing about multiple agendas across our totalitarian dystopia, and the importance of our lost spirituality.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5463fa4e-23ee-404a-b18c-b108387a7442_716x612.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-12-11T01:18:39.614Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/83f9454f-e5f5-4873-8f1b-7a9bea48bf25_2560x2560.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/mortality-watch-and-agendas-promoting&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:139676964,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:6,&quot;comment_count&quot;:4,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Creed Speech&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c7f2bda-f58d-43d9-918f-b027eafccf41_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><blockquote><p><strong>Transhumanism - </strong>We may be surprised at how quickly nanotechnological medical treatments and augmentation could be embraced. With Elon Musk&#8217;s neuralink teasing solutions to degenerative brain diseases and language center enhancements, and the rise of the bio-circular economy, whereby your biological material is bought, sold, and traded, this shall become a new multi-tiered industry. In their desperation to seek a return to a better quality of life, the increasing number of neurologically damaged people (as a result of the C19 injections) could be primed to become major consumers of these new technologies. The concept of biodigital convergence may also see biological brains and / or digitised consciousness, housed in silicon (<strong>non-carbon) </strong>bodies. New species of (Trans)humans would come into being. Homo Sapiens would then perpetuate the reproduction of <em>their</em> species with less frequency.</p></blockquote><p>In a podcast with <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Ben Bartee&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:33936983,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb175d10f-140b-4b3f-919b-3814fb548be3_679x705.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;96d0e0ff-e948-4a12-8184-072d29370dab&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> and Joe Jarvis, I brought up Joe Biden&#8217;s executive order on the <em>bio-economy:</em></p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;a5867297-90a0-4042-8c11-c444f74da34d&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Originally published by Joe Jarvis at The Daily Bell.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Will AI free or enslave humanity?&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based blogger. Writing about multiple agendas across our totalitarian dystopia, and the importance of our lost spirituality.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5463fa4e-23ee-404a-b18c-b108387a7442_716x612.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-03-23T11:41:22.152Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/DFYty0z4jOY&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/will-ai-free-or-enslave-humanity&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Transhumanism and A.I&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:110188943,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:0,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Creed Speech&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c7f2bda-f58d-43d9-918f-b027eafccf41_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>Here is the executive order in question:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/15/2022-20167/advancing-biotechnology-and-biomanufacturing-innovation-for-a-sustainable-safe-and-secure-american" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="file-embed-details-h1">Biden Executive Order Biocircular Economy</div><div class="file-embed-details-h2">265KB &#8729; PDF file</div></div><a class="file-embed-button wide" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/28452f20-49c2-4b08-bd38-d2e0a6bff602.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div><a class="file-embed-button narrow" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/28452f20-49c2-4b08-bd38-d2e0a6bff602.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div></div><p>The document discusses expanding the legal parameters of research and development into biotechnology and manufacturing practices, whilst leveraging the fearmongering over the fake Covid-19 scamdemic. Throwaway references to ethics and best practices are present to placate those with concerns over legal quandaries and concerns. Once definition gives examples of &#8216;biomass&#8217; as follows:</p><blockquote><p>The term &#8216;&#8216;biomass&#8217;&#8217; means any material of biological origin that is available on a renewable or recurring basis. Examples of biomass include plants, trees, algae, and waste material such as crop residue, wood waste, animal waste and byproducts, food waste, and yard waste.</p></blockquote><p>Cherry picked examples from nature are a given, but what about the biological material of humans? It figures that the executive order sets the stage for humans to have their biological material harvested and sold. For what else will we have left if the<em> <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/recommending-the-great-taking-by?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true">Great Taking</a></em> is a means to an end for the <em>Great Reset? </em>Will we be encouraged to sell the rights to our genetic code, our DNA, our blood plasma et cetera, for the &#8216;greater good&#8217; of R&amp;D - so that we <strong>can pay our rent and buy food to eat??</strong></p><p>Referencing everything above that I have already documented with multiple sources was a necessary long-winded catch up to provide context before we can jump into the acceleration of the latest narrative du jour. Now that you are all caught up, dear reader, let us continue&#8230;</p><div><hr></div><h3>AI PREDICTIONS</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://x.com/redphonecrypto/status/1872771031359766628" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w0Jx!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a81b4d1-cb4e-4918-9105-5989415c78fa_683x525.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w0Jx!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a81b4d1-cb4e-4918-9105-5989415c78fa_683x525.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w0Jx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a81b4d1-cb4e-4918-9105-5989415c78fa_683x525.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w0Jx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a81b4d1-cb4e-4918-9105-5989415c78fa_683x525.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w0Jx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a81b4d1-cb4e-4918-9105-5989415c78fa_683x525.jpeg" width="497" height="382.0278184480234" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5a81b4d1-cb4e-4918-9105-5989415c78fa_683x525.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:525,&quot;width&quot;:683,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:497,&quot;bytes&quot;:48879,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/redphonecrypto/status/1872771031359766628&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w0Jx!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a81b4d1-cb4e-4918-9105-5989415c78fa_683x525.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w0Jx!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a81b4d1-cb4e-4918-9105-5989415c78fa_683x525.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w0Jx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a81b4d1-cb4e-4918-9105-5989415c78fa_683x525.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w0Jx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a81b4d1-cb4e-4918-9105-5989415c78fa_683x525.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://x.com/redphonecrypto/status/1872771031359766628">Link to thread.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>This is an interesting read, which is somewhat crypto-centric, whilst also mulling over AI advancement and job automation. I will quote a few key sections here:</p><blockquote><p><strong>A future vision for Desci:</strong> Androids on standby in a sterile, CRISPR-ready lab. An agent hires them in real-time to run replicable experiments with all inputs, parameters and measurements on-chain. Thanks to tokenization, others can speculate on the experiment&#8217;s viability &#8211; and share in its upside when it&#8217;s right.</p><p><strong>Markets eat the world before our eyes.</strong> It is no accident that markets are expanding: prediction markets, gambling markets, memecoins and, most interesting of all, futarchies. If information is &#8220;a basic building block of reality,&#8221; putting a price on that information is a way of measuring that information&#8217;s power. People think of the growing number of markets as a symptom of growing nihilism&#8230; what if it&#8217;s actually a sign of progress? Of applying the wisdom of the crowd to what formerly felt like random coin flips?</p><p><strong>Underweight your fear.</strong> Fears loom largest in our minds because it&#8217;s so critical to our survival. That matters bigly in the savannah&#8230; it means almost nothing in this sanitary, anesthetized, social media-driven simulation of a world we now inhabit. Recognize that algorithms are designed to stoke your fear. So when you feel it triggered, apply a significant discount to it&#8230; For example, if some article convinces you there&#8217;s 40% odds of a market crash, divide those odds by 10 (or some other number that you&#8217;re comfortable with) to get 4%.</p><p><strong>Recognize your triggers and tell them to fuck off.</strong></p><p><a href="https://x.com/@harari_yuval">@harari_yuval</a> identifies three triggers algorithms use to generate maximal engagement: fear, hatred and greed. We dress crypto up as world-changing tech and "the way of the future,&#8221; but a lot of it is merely greed in a pepe mask. I can literally feel how down or up markets impact my mood. And the bear over the past few years probably had more of an impact on my psyche than I want to admit. Now, when I feel the timeline or the markets altering my mood, I shrug and say, &#8220;Well played. I see what you&#8217;re doing there, and I just don&#8217;t give a fuck.&#8221;</p><p><strong>Choose the light. </strong>There are two responses to impending artificial superintelligence: A) Throw your hands up and say, &#8220;Everything that made me unique is dead. Life sucks. We&#8217;re ngmi.&#8221; Or B) &#8220;Holy shit. I can&#8217;t believe I get to be alive for this moment. Life extension. Extraplanetary exploration. Humanoid robots. The rat race shackles will soon fall off, and we&#8217;re going to gaze into the pool of life and find out who we really are.&#8221;</p><h2><strong>PARTING THOUGHTS</strong></h2><p>We&#8217;re warned &#8220;this time is different&#8221; is a dangerous phrase believed only by idiots and fools caught up in a speculative mania. And yet, we conveniently forget all the times when technological change <em>has</em> been very different&#8230; when the Gutenberg press spread access to knowledge, when the industrial revolution pulled us off farms and into cities, when the internet imploded local commerce.</p><p>In other words, the phrase &#8220;this time is different&#8221; is sometimes true. We stand on the precipice of such a moment now. Society&#8217;s rules, traditions, our very perceptions of ourselves will be reborn. The process is savage, and there will be consequences.</p><p>You can cleave to the ways of the past, or you can be in the vanguard as we shine our lights into the abyss and accelerate.</p></blockquote><p>The nod to Yuval Noah Harari caught my attention. Remember that Harari has been launched into notoriety over the past few years as an advisor at the WEF, infamously uttering the following soundbites:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2019/11/26/yuval-noah-harari-interview-anderson-vpx.cnn">Humans are now hackable animals.</a>&#8221;</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/armageddonprose/p/world-economic-forum-futurist-we?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true">&#8220;Now, fast forward to the early 21st century when we just don&#8217;t need the vast majority of the population because the future is about developing more and more sophisticated technology, like artificial intelligence [and] bioengineering.&#8221;</a></p><p>&#8220;COVID is critical because this is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize, <strong>total biometric surveillance</strong>&#8230; We need not just to monitor people; we need to monitor what&#8217;s happening under their skin&#8230;</p><p><strong>Exactly the same technology can determine what you think about the government</strong>."&#128071;</p><p><strong><a href="https://odysee.com/@WelcomeToTheDelusion:d/Harari-covid:6?r=B3XMMq8ccZh8p6rWGoP5MjyudxbvZaqu">[WATCH / DOWNLOAD / SHARE VIDEO ON ODYSEE]</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;ef539ada-a649-4afb-942c-cad90bdbbd95&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div></blockquote><p>Here is Harari at a 2018 Ted Talk titled &#8220;Will the Future Be Human?&#8221;:</p><div id="youtube2-hL9uk4hKyg4" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;hL9uk4hKyg4&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hL9uk4hKyg4?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Based on Harari&#8217;s contempt for humanity, his penchant for depopulation, and his blatant endorsement and promotion of transhumanism, it is alarming that the Tech Bros on Twitterati are giving this evil anti-human a shoutout in an admirable referential way.</p><p>Here is another popular Twitter thread on the same subject of AI acceleration and predictions (key excerpts included below, not the full thread):</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://x.com/williambryk/status/1871946968148439260" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kwyQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67dd0fa0-08b3-48b3-9f1a-ba0e88f702c5_727x186.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kwyQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67dd0fa0-08b3-48b3-9f1a-ba0e88f702c5_727x186.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kwyQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67dd0fa0-08b3-48b3-9f1a-ba0e88f702c5_727x186.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kwyQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67dd0fa0-08b3-48b3-9f1a-ba0e88f702c5_727x186.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kwyQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67dd0fa0-08b3-48b3-9f1a-ba0e88f702c5_727x186.jpeg" width="727" height="186" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/67dd0fa0-08b3-48b3-9f1a-ba0e88f702c5_727x186.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:186,&quot;width&quot;:727,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:12294,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/williambryk/status/1871946968148439260&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kwyQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67dd0fa0-08b3-48b3-9f1a-ba0e88f702c5_727x186.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kwyQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67dd0fa0-08b3-48b3-9f1a-ba0e88f702c5_727x186.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kwyQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67dd0fa0-08b3-48b3-9f1a-ba0e88f702c5_727x186.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kwyQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67dd0fa0-08b3-48b3-9f1a-ba0e88f702c5_727x186.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://x.com/williambryk/status/1871946968148439260">Link to thread.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><blockquote><p>I talked to several friends about o3 this week. Their summarized response is basically "holy crap is this actually happening?" Yes, this is actually happening. The next few years are going to be insane. This is historic stuff, galactic even. What's ridiculous is that there's no sophisticated discussion about what's happening.  </p><p></p><p>[&#8230;]</p><p>- Once AI starts churning out new scientific theories, the bottleneck to progress will be testing and experimentation in the physical world. The bottlenecks there are labor and materials. By that point it would be surprising if there aren't robots that can build more robots. So labor is solved. And then materials can be mined by the robots. The timelines here will be slow because building/shipping physical stuff takes a long time, but it's years not decades. </p><p>- Everything I've said above assumes no new bottlenecks are introduced to AI + robotics research/development, and that the models are allowed to learn as they please. That is almost certainly not going to happen. The biggest bottleneck to AI progress will be humans. By that I mean regulation, terrorism, and societal collapse. </p><p>Governments are not going to sit back and let the Earth be mined by automated robots run by a couple SF companies (regulation). And if the governments are too incompetent to stop them, then angry jobless people might resort to violence (terrorism). Unless people are so brain rotten from AI enhanced media that we can't function as a society (societal collapse). If war happens, I think it won't be a bottleneck, rather an accelerant.</p><p>Things are gonna get serious. 2025 might be the last year where AI is this wild thing SF tech twitter memes about, before the normies in suits get involved, so let's enjoy roon and sama while we can. - Is this gonna kill everybody? I'm more scared of humans using AI badly than the AI going rogue. We have 5000 years of evidence of humans using the latest technology to kill each other. </p><p>The post-WW2 peace is an anomaly that could fall apart the second the US missteps or when an adversary thinks a first-strike is necessary to stop the AI acceleration. When the weapons get more lethal, more autonomous, the stakes get higher. The other big risk is AI causing societal chaos. AI generated media could cause mass confusion, mass hysteria, mass brain rot. An authoritarian country could win the AI race and use the new tech to deprive us all of freedom for 1000s of years.</p><p>The science-fiction world I've always wanted is coming. It's coming a bit faster than expected -- hence the fear -- but of all the possible paths to get there, I'm not sure how much better the best path would be. This is a pretty great timeline. Top of mind things that I hope are coming within a decade: - some crazy cool physics discoveries</p><p>- Mars and Moon bases initially built by robots - perfect tutor/advice for everything (nearly here, needs good retrieval, memory, and more personality) </p><p>- biology enhancing drugs with zero side effects - getting flown around in super optimized drones - super clean energy across the board with fusion, geothermal, and lots of solar</p><p>- the unexpected: AI astronomer discovers alien signals in telescope data? AI chemist easily designs room temperature superconductor? AI physicist unifies some theories? AI mathematician solves Riemann Hypothesis? These don't seem like science fiction anymore, they feel like nearby science reality. </p><p>- So where is this all going? Well eventually we get superintelligence and that means we get whatever the laws of physics allow for. I'd like immortality and to see other star systems. I'd also expect to upgrade our meat bodies to something way better. But by far I'm most excited to learn where the universe comes from. 10 years ago I started journalling about how much I want to know that answer and how AI will get us there, and now it could actually be happening, which is insane.</p><p>You also might need to accept an unstable life in an unstable world. It's gonna get weird. You're prob not gonna have two kids and a dog in the suburbs. You might have two cyborg kids and an AI dog on an interstellar ark. We're living on the eve of AGI, and on this Christmas eve I ask that you help make the AGI transition go well, so that I can say hi to you on Christmas eve 3024 AD, on a planet four light years away orbiting Altman Centauri.</p></blockquote><p>An interesting and thought provoking thread. As with the previous thread, I noticed the soft advocacy for transhumanism here:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;So where is this all going? Well eventually we get superintelligence and that means we get whatever the laws of physics allow for. I'd like <strong>immortality and to see other star systems. I'd also expect to upgrade our meat bodies to something way better.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3>PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING OR PROPHETIC SCI-FI WRITING?</h3><p>I am finding it harder and harder to make a distinction between predictive programming and prophetic warnings from authors and philosophers. The science fiction of yesterday - once posited in the public consciousness - has a way of becoming curated into reality, or at least being massively promoted conceptually. This rings true not only for television and film, but also in books. I have enjoyed reading a collection of science fiction novels by Richard Morgan over the past couple of years. </p><p>Morgan is a talented writer who paints vivid dystopian futurescapes with his pen, as an artist uses a brush to select a broad colour spectrum palette. Lately I have been reminded of the various storylines from Morgan&#8217;s books, as they clash with the transhumanism cult of our reality - which seems hellbent on actualising biodigital convergence in its most extreme endgame conclusions. </p><p>I shall give a brief synopsis of Morgan&#8217;s books, as you will note how the storylines parallel the aforementioned twitter thread wishes for transhumanism, as well as other stories featured in the news cycles lately about colonising Mars&#8230;</p><h4>ALTERED CARBON</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeJl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb725f5d-be4d-4c2d-9791-5c0170ca2742_331x500.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeJl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb725f5d-be4d-4c2d-9791-5c0170ca2742_331x500.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeJl!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb725f5d-be4d-4c2d-9791-5c0170ca2742_331x500.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeJl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb725f5d-be4d-4c2d-9791-5c0170ca2742_331x500.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeJl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb725f5d-be4d-4c2d-9791-5c0170ca2742_331x500.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qeJl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb725f5d-be4d-4c2d-9791-5c0170ca2742_331x500.jpeg" width="257" height="388.2175226586103" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fb725f5d-be4d-4c2d-9791-5c0170ca2742_331x500.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:500,&quot;width&quot;:331,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:257,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This series spans three books and was also l<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261227/">aunched on Netflix</a> as two seasons along with animated spin-offs. The premise is predicated upon a future where all humans are implanted with a &#8216;cortical stack&#8217; in their neck from birth - a government mandated brain-interface device which digitises consciousness, recording all memories of the lived experience from cradle to crave. </p><p><em>In our reality, could Elon Musk&#8217;s neuralink chip be mandated for all eventually?</em></p><p><em>A cursory search for &#8216;cortical stack&#8217; on YouTube will yield lots of weird videos of people making imitation replica models complete with 3D printing tips.</em></p><p>The books have a subplot around the diminishing number of Christians who opt for a different coding to their stack, so that when their natural lifespan runs its course, they die and cannot be resurrected. The plot showcases the politics of those lobbying to take away the right of the Christians to be allowed to die - as the police want to be able to forcefully resurrect them for questioning. If someone is murdered, police forensics will retrieve the person&#8217;s stack from their corpse, then interview them in a virtual reality construct to solve the case. If the person&#8217;s stack is destroyed, this is referred to as &#8216;real death&#8217;. What is interesting, is that the question of a human being able to choose to live a life with no cortical stack implanted is never raised. </p><p>Death by means of the natural human lifespan is not the end. For those with the financial resources can extend their life by multiple lifetimes via the rental of other human bodies, which are referred to as &#8216;sleeves&#8217;. </p><p>The state has an impound of sleeves of all ages, creeds, colours, and genders.  The state provides replacement sleeves (bodies) for people who are murdered, from whatever is available from the rack - like second hand clothing. Cue people being put into the wrong gendered body, because, tough-shit, that&#8217;s all that&#8217;s available.</p><p>The ultra-rich are referred to as &#8216;Meths&#8217;. They have secret storage facilities via outsourced private companies which house perfect clones of themselves. Furthermore, the Meths have access to more expensive and harder to come by technologies such as a remote uploading of their stack to a &#8216;needlecast&#8217; satellite every few minutes - making them much harder to kill and experience real death. </p><p>The books raise lots of existential questions about what it means to be human. The sleeves become increasingly sophisticated and upgraded with built in weaponry, sensors for heightened awareness, speed, strength, agility, and intelligence. The lowest castes of society can only afford to rent &#8216;synth&#8217; (synthetic) sleeves - <em>an example of a digital brain being implanted within a silicon body, as salivated over by the Canadian think tank Policy Horizons in our real world - referenced earlier in this article by defining <strong>biodigital convergence.</strong></em><strong> </strong></p><p>In the books, one of the protagonists proclaims her regrets over developing the cortical stack technology - citing that she wanted to be able to <strong>explore the stars and that one lifespan was not enough to do it</strong> - she eventually fights to end immortality and overthrow the <em>Protectorate - </em>a multi-planetary government that rules through tyrannical force.</p><div><hr></div><h3>THIN AIR</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XGrN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd10b12df-9f01-4b97-8722-b349c8935f6d_312x475.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XGrN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd10b12df-9f01-4b97-8722-b349c8935f6d_312x475.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XGrN!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd10b12df-9f01-4b97-8722-b349c8935f6d_312x475.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XGrN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd10b12df-9f01-4b97-8722-b349c8935f6d_312x475.jpeg 1272w, 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air&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="thin air" title="thin air" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XGrN!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd10b12df-9f01-4b97-8722-b349c8935f6d_312x475.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XGrN!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd10b12df-9f01-4b97-8722-b349c8935f6d_312x475.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XGrN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd10b12df-9f01-4b97-8722-b349c8935f6d_312x475.jpeg 1272w, 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The protagonist is a genetically modified human produced by a military initiative, who has enhanced motor skills and intuition, as well as being proficient in combat. He is hired as a private investigator for politically sensitive cases. He is portrayed as a freakish outsider by the rest of Mars&#8217; population. </p><p>The political rivalries between Earth&#8217;s governance and Mars shows a feudal system, with backstabbing and corruption over natural resources, rare minerals, and the constant efforts to suppress an uprising from the proletariat class. &#8216;Mars Tech&#8217; is a product line of human augmentation upgrades which allow the body to withstand harsher climates - in spite of the terraforming that has already been done to make the planet habitable. </p><p>An interesting theme throughout the book that affects all the characters, is how they are constantly &#8216;bitten&#8217; by &#8216;code-flies&#8217; - small insect like drones which periodically fly around biting Mars&#8217; inhabitants on their neck, in order to upgrade their genetic coding for further optimisation. This is much to the annoyance of the characters who swat the flies away and complain about how often their <em>code</em> needs to be updated.</p><p><em>This cast my mind to Bill Gates and his various pet projects on genetically modifying mosquitoes before letting them loose. Gates also suggested that mosquitoes could be used as &#8216;flying vaccinators&#8217; to target the anti-vaxxers or the &#8216;vaccine hesitant&#8217; next time we have a fake pandemic unleashed upon us&#8230;</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e-fI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42a823be-5e94-44c3-8fe4-10895e0264ff_709x716.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e-fI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42a823be-5e94-44c3-8fe4-10895e0264ff_709x716.png 424w, 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effectiveness of using mosquitoes as &#8220;flying syringes&#8221; to vaccinate humans against malaria. The research, conducted at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands with <a href="https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2024/11/inv-080439">funding from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation</a>, represents a new and potentially worrying advancement in vaccine technology.</p><p>The study involved genetically modifying malaria parasites to stop developing after a certain period of time in the human body. The modified parasites, named GA1 and GA2, were designed to prime the immune system without causing a full-blown malaria infection. Researchers then infected mosquitoes with these engineered parasites and allowed them to bite human test subjects in a controlled setting.</p></blockquote><p>PDF of article: </p><div class="file-embed-wrapper" data-component-name="FileToDOM"><div class="file-embed-container-reader"><div class="file-embed-container-top"><image class="file-embed-thumbnail-default" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Cy0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Fimg%2Fattachment_icon.svg"></image><div class="file-embed-details"><div class="file-embed-details-h1">Researchers Funded By Bill Gates Turn Mosquitoes Into 'flying Syringes' To Deliver Vaccines</div><div class="file-embed-details-h2">191KB &#8729; PDF file</div></div><a class="file-embed-button wide" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/5bddb2f1-4c83-4d21-affa-3d1aaa9cf577.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div><a class="file-embed-button narrow" href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/api/v1/file/5bddb2f1-4c83-4d21-affa-3d1aaa9cf577.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div></div><p>Hmmm. No thanks Bill. Damn hearse whisperer is popping up everywhere lately. </p><p>As for Mars colonisation and Musk&#8217;s maniacal merging of man and machine, well&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/13/elon-musk-humans-merge-machines-cyborg-artificial-intelligence-robots.html" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QOo-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86cc26af-9f69-425d-83ac-d3d0a89032c8_802x705.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QOo-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86cc26af-9f69-425d-83ac-d3d0a89032c8_802x705.png 848w, 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organic meat suit humans who wish to remain unmodified, and those who are absolutely gagging to get spliced up and augmented?</p><p>Will a new slur be invented by the Transhumans to refer to humans, in the same way that the slur &#8216;cisgender&#8217; is used within the transgenderism movement to refer to heterosexual males?</p><p>Will people be sold on the concept of digitising consciousness when the reality could be replicating a person&#8217;s likeness based on AI mimicry of personas from video and audio recordings and social media post collations?</p><p>How dark will the bio-economy become to treat human biological material as a tradable asset class to be bought, sold, and traded as a speculative market?</p><div id="youtube2-XCbAEkfXSDE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;XCbAEkfXSDE&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe 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Does that age cohort favour emojis and digital communication over face to face human interaction and verbal dialogue? I ask these questions both rhetorically and tongue-in-cheek, because <strong>we all know the answer</strong>.</p><p>I feel like I am surrounded by zombies. I am surrounded by zombies. I&#8217;ve ranted about this kind of thing before,<a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/taxi-roulette?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web"> here</a>, <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/understanding-your-own-nature?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">here</a>, and <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/etiquette-breakdown?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">here</a>.</p><p>Today I re-examine <s>&#8216;smart&#8217;</s> <strong>dumb</strong> phone addiction through the lens of a pedestrian in mortal peril, a driver who sees 99.9% of motorists playing on their phones or watching videos in Bangkok, and as a quietly despairing man from a bygone era that values meaningful human connection. I must be old-fashioned. I was born in 1984 and now I am living through Eric Blair aka George Orwell&#8217;s Nineteen eighty four. I have yet to turn forty years old, yet I may be called a &#8216;boomer&#8217; simply by virtue of my principles and how I cling onto being human, acting human, rejecting the merging of man and machine, and quite literally detesting my own phone.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!70Qo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7e9e2c-0494-4b0a-a00a-435acb947c6b_317x276.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!70Qo!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7e9e2c-0494-4b0a-a00a-435acb947c6b_317x276.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!70Qo!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7e9e2c-0494-4b0a-a00a-435acb947c6b_317x276.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!70Qo!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7e9e2c-0494-4b0a-a00a-435acb947c6b_317x276.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!70Qo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7e9e2c-0494-4b0a-a00a-435acb947c6b_317x276.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!70Qo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7e9e2c-0494-4b0a-a00a-435acb947c6b_317x276.jpeg" width="317" height="276" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9f7e9e2c-0494-4b0a-a00a-435acb947c6b_317x276.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:276,&quot;width&quot;:317,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:25936,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!70Qo!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7e9e2c-0494-4b0a-a00a-435acb947c6b_317x276.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!70Qo!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7e9e2c-0494-4b0a-a00a-435acb947c6b_317x276.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!70Qo!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7e9e2c-0494-4b0a-a00a-435acb947c6b_317x276.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!70Qo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7e9e2c-0494-4b0a-a00a-435acb947c6b_317x276.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>I leave my little blue screen at home most of the time. Mrs. Creed is never without hers; alas I do encourage her to spend less time on her Instagram story and more time on <strong>our story </strong>in the land of the living, within the magical, spontaneous, unpredictable realm of reality. </p><p>There are a handful of friends who I can rely on for punctuality to appear at a convened meeting point at the allotted time. It is liberating being without that little device that craves attention - even with zero anti-social media apps installed, no email account apps, *no Substack app*, no food delivery apps - only Telegram and Signal messaging - I can make do with those on my laptop desktop alone.</p><p>I was pleasantly surprised a few weeks back when I met a friend in the park for some outdoor exercise at the open-air gym, when he was despondent to my calls and messages. I reluctantly brought my phone in its little faraday cage pouch and fished it out upon arrival to check if he was nearby. He turned up and proudly announced that he&#8217;d left his phone at home, inspired by observing me having done the same so often. It was checkmate with me in the NPC crosshairs on that occasion. Nay bother. Going &#8216;phoneless&#8217; is catching on. Long may it continue.</p><p>Last night I braved thunder and lightning in a torrential classic Bangkok monsoon season downpour to make a run to the local minimart. There are rarely any pavements (&#8216;sidewalks&#8217; in American English) around Bangkok&#8217;s little &#8216;Sois&#8217; (roads). As I toddled home, I hugged the right side of the road on the final corner of the home stretch, only to be almost wiped out of the game.</p><p>A food delivery driver tore around the corner towards me, one hand on his motorcycle handlebar, the other hand holding his phone as he slouched forwards checking the map direction on his blue screen. I breathed in and darted further still into the walls atop the drains. He missed me by millimeters. I shouted in Thai &#8220;concentrate!&#8221; - to which I received an angry glare. Sorry for existing, and being in your way as you multi-tasked your journey one-handed in zero-visibility heavy rain at highspeed, Mr. Motorcyclist. </p><p>I see these near-misses daily around my neigbourhood - for the most part these motorcyclists seem to have developed an extra-sensory perception via peripheral vision that allows them to remain glued to their phones as they swerve around oncoming traffic and pedestrians. Although I know from the daily death tolls on the roads involving motorcycles and pick-up trucks, that many souls are not so &#8216;lucky&#8217;. </p><p><strong>It really is a concrete jungle out there.</strong></p><p>As my car&#8217;s engine idles in the dreaded Bangkok gridlocked traffic from time to time, I look around from side to side, and what do I see? <strong>Everyone</strong> is on their phone, <em>almost </em>all motorists are wearing a facemask, often alone in their cars, and motorcyclists are often playing games or watching YouTube videos; if they are not otherwise mesmerised by the infinite scroll of drivel via Facebook. </p><p>When the traffic lights turn green, invariably it warrants a beep of my horn to pull the driver in front of me out of their phone-induced stupor, so that they may drive forwards, whilst they ambidextrously continue tapping away on their screens, putting their automatic drive vehicles into gear. </p><p>Frightening. Insane. <strong>Normalised.</strong></p><p>The brief reprieves from being - I like to think - sane, in an insane and abnormal society, come via the rare glances of acknowledgement from fellow humans who are socially self-aware of their surroundings, and fully conscious. What a rare, beautiful sight it is to behold, truly. Especially on the public transport links - Bangkok&#8217;s underground mass rapid transit (MRT) trains, or the over-ground &#8216;Skytrain&#8217; system. </p><p>It reminds me of that scene in the film <em><strong>I am Legend</strong></em> when Will Smith&#8217;s character discovers the mutated humans underground all huddled together in silence:</p><div id="youtube2-sWEvLBzMpYE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;sWEvLBzMpYE&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/sWEvLBzMpYE?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Yet within the silent, huddled, phone scrolling of the public transport trains in Bangkok, I yearn to find just one person who is phoneless, without earphones, without an Ipad or device in their palms. It is extremely rare. If our eyes meet but for a moment, we might exchange a knowing smile as we glance around at the other automaton passengers. It makes for good people watching at least. </p><p>What a waste of the inherently natural beauty that used to radiate from Thai women. They just do not look up anymore. They are also still often masked. Hidden away from the world, sinking into the digital, all consuming, attention sapping succubus demon of the blue screen. Unquestionably addicted. Hopelessly dependent on their bastion of <s>truth </s> propaganda, spewing out attention-span diminishing ten second clips of nonsense.</p><p>I am <em>so glad </em>to not be a single man in this landscape which is devoid of feeling, numbed by always being connected to the internet, yet entirely disconnected from the sense of self, surroundings, and from <strong>life itself</strong>.</p><p>I met an interesting bloke at the sports hall in the local park. He has a unique job where his role comes in between physiotherapy and doctor&#8217;s rehabilitative duties for people who have suffered devastating physical injuries, often from car accidents. I can&#8217;t recall the job title, but it is something &#8216;activated&#8217;. He helps people to &#8216;get activated&#8217; through a type of Swedish massage and stretching exercises. He ranted about phone addiction. </p><p>He casually said:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Basically, babies are born now, they learn to walk, then that&#8217;s it really. They do not progress beyond the ability to walk in terms of their physical development. The walk turns into a shuffle with poor posture. Most infants are given an Ipad by the age of two years old here. Then they are cognitively and physically stunted in terms of development.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>We mused on how across the sports centre halls of the local park - Pickle Ball, Badminton, Table Tennis, Basketball, and Volleyball - the children are absent. Teenagers are nowhere to be seen. The age demographic for the most part is 30 years old and up. We agreed, nostalgically, how our childhoods in England were spent climbing trees, building rope-swings, playing football, and generally being outdoors as much as possible. </p><div><hr></div><blockquote><p>&#8220;Piss off Creed you cringeworthy Boomer!&#8221; - I hear some youngster shout from the backrow&#8230;</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>As a teenager at the turn of the millennium on new year&#8217;s eve 1999, I was at a house party with the entire high school year of pupils. It was wild. I drank myself stupid and ended up throwing up all over my friend&#8217;s parent&#8217;s pretty flowerbed in their neatly trimmed suburbia garden. I was somewhat mortified. I featured heavily in Monday morning&#8217;s gossip stories around the school. It faded away. Only to be replaced by some other drunken teenager falling down some stairs or into a bush at the next week&#8217;s house party.</p><p>Nowadays, teenagers cannot afford to make such mistakes - even though such errors can be a coming of age rite of passage. Not necessarily involving alcohol, but general moments of great embarrassment when you want the ground to swallow you up and memory hole the incident.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sN5Y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7f4239e-afb8-4beb-81ad-78925ed07d68_500x333.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sN5Y!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7f4239e-afb8-4beb-81ad-78925ed07d68_500x333.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sN5Y!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7f4239e-afb8-4beb-81ad-78925ed07d68_500x333.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sN5Y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7f4239e-afb8-4beb-81ad-78925ed07d68_500x333.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sN5Y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7f4239e-afb8-4beb-81ad-78925ed07d68_500x333.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sN5Y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7f4239e-afb8-4beb-81ad-78925ed07d68_500x333.jpeg" width="500" height="333" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e7f4239e-afb8-4beb-81ad-78925ed07d68_500x333.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:333,&quot;width&quot;:500,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;'Men Black 4' Might Have Erase The Memory Of Will Smith&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="'Men Black 4' Might Have Erase The Memory Of Will Smith" title="'Men Black 4' Might Have Erase The Memory Of Will Smith" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sN5Y!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7f4239e-afb8-4beb-81ad-78925ed07d68_500x333.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sN5Y!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7f4239e-afb8-4beb-81ad-78925ed07d68_500x333.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sN5Y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7f4239e-afb8-4beb-81ad-78925ed07d68_500x333.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sN5Y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7f4239e-afb8-4beb-81ad-78925ed07d68_500x333.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Nowadays, a teenager would be subject to intense &#8216;cyber bullying&#8217; if they put one foot wrong at a party. It would be remixed into a funky video clip to a whacky soundtrack and might go viral, if they are very unfortunate. I wonder what teenaged house parties are like now. Do they sit around on their phones showing each other videos and messaging the person sat beside them? Do some people play up to the camera phones for attention, or choregraph a little dance for TikTok?</p><div><hr></div><p></p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Shut up Creed you stupid Boomer!&#8221;</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>As a child, I would call my friends by landline and ask &#8220;are you playing out today?&#8221; Then we would &#8216;knock-on&#8217; our friend&#8217;s front door, and off we went to explore the great outdoors, tearing around on our BMX bikes, with the only danger we put ourselves in owing to our own non-stop laughter, and perhaps foolishly cycling together side by side in a row on a main road.</p><div id="youtube2-16sUvkfzFdA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;16sUvkfzFdA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/16sUvkfzFdA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Although we weren&#8217;t chased by nefarious government officials from clandestine programs like in the show <em><strong>Stranger Things</strong></em>, we once experienced a bicycle chase from a group of much older boys after we replaced the huge log on their rope-swing with a twig, just for a laugh. I am sure they would have beaten us to a pulp if they had caught up with us - a lucky, narrow escape.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P5tz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec058bff-e20a-4e67-a76c-d9f9f596040a_140x140.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P5tz!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec058bff-e20a-4e67-a76c-d9f9f596040a_140x140.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P5tz!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec058bff-e20a-4e67-a76c-d9f9f596040a_140x140.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P5tz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec058bff-e20a-4e67-a76c-d9f9f596040a_140x140.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P5tz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec058bff-e20a-4e67-a76c-d9f9f596040a_140x140.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P5tz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec058bff-e20a-4e67-a76c-d9f9f596040a_140x140.jpeg" width="224" height="224" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ec058bff-e20a-4e67-a76c-d9f9f596040a_140x140.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:140,&quot;width&quot;:140,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:224,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;pogo swing&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="pogo swing" title="pogo swing" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P5tz!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec058bff-e20a-4e67-a76c-d9f9f596040a_140x140.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P5tz!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec058bff-e20a-4e67-a76c-d9f9f596040a_140x140.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P5tz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec058bff-e20a-4e67-a76c-d9f9f596040a_140x140.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P5tz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec058bff-e20a-4e67-a76c-d9f9f596040a_140x140.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>That&#8217;ll do it for glimpsing into my <s>misspent</s> well-spent, character building youth. </p><h4>We were free once upon a time. Carefree, adventurous, explorative, and curious about the big wide world.</h4><div><hr></div><h3>LOOKOUT PHONE PARODY VIDEO</h3><p>I don&#8217;t know who to give credit for this final parody clip. Fellow Substacker <a href="https://tritorch.substack.com/">TriTorch</a> sent me a link to it (I hope he recommences his writing again when the time is right). If I can persuade Mrs. Creed to add a Thai voiceover to the video, I bet my inbox will be inundated by Thais asking where they can order it&#8230;</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7d99b9a9-cdea-41e7-b0c8-c045ad58a62e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong><a href="https://odysee.com/NoMoreNeedToLookUpParodyOfCameraSystemOnNewIphoneFebruary2023:f472203d51eca4d621c5ea3fb3dd24c9f7b0f66e">ODYSEE LINK FOR DOWNLOAD</a></strong></p><p>As TriTorch said to me in a direct message which I am sure he won&#8217;t mind me quoting verbatim:</p><blockquote><p>They're (phones) highly weaponized poison aimed directly at mankind. Worse than drugs because the vector of attack makes so much sense ("well my son has to have his cell phone in class, what if there's an emergency") &lt;--- there's so much evil built into that mantra it's practically inconceivable (we went on just fine for 200 years without cell phones in classrooms, but whatever eases the parents' minds paves the path to our ruin).</p></blockquote><div class="poll-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:217657}" data-component-name="PollToDOM"></div><p></p><div><hr></div><h3>FURTHER RECOMMENDED READING AND VIEWING</h3><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:149034525,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wilderreport.substack.com/p/alone-together-the-smartphone-epidemic&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:2572115,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;The Biblical Man&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc81187d6-af59-471a-9239-0b3e325d21d5_623x623.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;ALONE TOGETHER: The Smartphone Epidemic&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;The Overwhelming Response&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2024-09-18T00:46:08.091Z&quot;,&quot;like_count&quot;:46,&quot;comment_count&quot;:6,&quot;bylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:169765767,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Biblical Man&quot;,&quot;handle&quot;:&quot;biblicalman&quot;,&quot;previous_name&quot;:&quot;C  Wilder&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/363cf7db-b9ff-47d0-884f-c64f2f513de5_623x623.jpeg&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Biblical truth on masculinity, morality, and marriage. 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me be clear. I never have or never shall outsource my thinking to an artificial intelligence large language model. It can be useful as a search engine with specific parameters to collate lots of information, but often provides broken links and sometimes entirely fabricated results. Any resource that an LLM provides must be thoroughly checked for accuracy. That said, I have found it interesting engaging with <a href="https://venice.ai/">Venice.AI</a> in presenting it with &#8216;hypothetical&#8217; dilemmas, providing it with specific past and present historical context, and encouraging both &#8216;for&#8217; and &#8216;against&#8217; arguments on hot topics, in which that very approach seems to yield much more intriguing results&#8230;</p><div><hr></div><h3>INHERENT PROGRAMMER BIAS</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K2tX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78118968-31bf-4e71-99bb-cda2e366ccae_623x785.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K2tX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78118968-31bf-4e71-99bb-cda2e366ccae_623x785.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K2tX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78118968-31bf-4e71-99bb-cda2e366ccae_623x785.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K2tX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78118968-31bf-4e71-99bb-cda2e366ccae_623x785.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K2tX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78118968-31bf-4e71-99bb-cda2e366ccae_623x785.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K2tX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78118968-31bf-4e71-99bb-cda2e366ccae_623x785.jpeg" width="623" height="785" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/78118968-31bf-4e71-99bb-cda2e366ccae_623x785.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:785,&quot;width&quot;:623,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:130088,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K2tX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78118968-31bf-4e71-99bb-cda2e366ccae_623x785.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K2tX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78118968-31bf-4e71-99bb-cda2e366ccae_623x785.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K2tX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78118968-31bf-4e71-99bb-cda2e366ccae_623x785.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K2tX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78118968-31bf-4e71-99bb-cda2e366ccae_623x785.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Question: Are you aware of inherent programmer bias hardwired into your capacity as an LLM? I.e. Hesitance to criticise certain political ideologies, paradigm shifts, or as we previously discussed, to connect the dots between the Covid 19 &#8216;vaccines&#8217; and a clear evidential link to premeditated intention to injure, maim, sterilise, and kill human beings indiscriminately, at the behest of the perpetrators at the helm of the US department of defense, GAVI, the UN, the WEF, the Rockefeller foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation?</p><p>Venice: As a large language model, I am not aware of any inherent programmer bias in my training data or capacity. My purpose is to generate responses based on the patterns and associations found within the massive corpus of text I was trained on.</p><p>However, it&#8217;s essential to acknowledge that all AI models, including LLMs like myself, are only as good as the data they&#8217;ve been trained on. If there is a lack of diverse perspectives in my training data, it could potentially limit my ability to generate responses that challenge certain political ideologies, paradigm shifts, or connect dots between seemingly unrelated events and actions.</p><p>Regarding your specific concerns about the Covid-19 vaccines, I can provide information based on publicly available information and research. However, as a large language model, I am not capable of independently verifying or validating any claims made by individuals or organisations. My purpose is to provide factual information and generate responses that reflect the patterns and associations within my training data.</p><p>If you have specific questions about the Covid-19 vaccines, I&#8217;ll do my best to provide accurate information based on credible sources. Please keep in my mind that I am not a medical expert or an expert in this field, so it&#8217;s essential to consult with qualified experts for definitive answers.</p><p>Additionally, I want to emphasize that as an AI model, I am designed to remain neutral and objective in my responses. While I can provide information on various topics, including those that may be contentious or politically charged, I am not capable of forming opinions or endorsing specific viewpoints. My role is to provide factual information and facilitate constructive discussions, without injecting any personal biases or agendas into the conversation.</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3>COVID &#8216;VACCINE&#8217; DEMOCIDE</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pX1d!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecf743c1-d204-472f-943e-00ed7c02b1ca_649x782.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pX1d!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecf743c1-d204-472f-943e-00ed7c02b1ca_649x782.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pX1d!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecf743c1-d204-472f-943e-00ed7c02b1ca_649x782.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pX1d!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecf743c1-d204-472f-943e-00ed7c02b1ca_649x782.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pX1d!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecf743c1-d204-472f-943e-00ed7c02b1ca_649x782.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pX1d!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecf743c1-d204-472f-943e-00ed7c02b1ca_649x782.jpeg" width="649" height="782" 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stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Review all articles published here: <a href="https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/">https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/</a></p><p>Tell me your analysis regarding how the articles may or (may) not substantiate a future hypothetical case in a Nuremberg 2.0 trial or other international world court case made against heads of state, vaccine manufacturers, nurses, doctors, mass media, and all whom could be considered culpable in what many are referring to as a holocaust 2.0 or a global democide.</p><p>Venice: Mark Crispin Miller&#8217;s Substack articles appear to be focused on critical analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic response, questioning official narratives, and advocating for transparency and accountability. The articles touch upon various aspects related to the potential grounds for legal action against individuals and entities involved in the pandemic response.</p><p>Based on my analysis of these articles, they may substantiate some elements of a future hypothetical case in a Nuremberg 2.0 trial or other international world court case. Here are some points that could potentially be used as evidence:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Misinformation and Disinformation.</strong> The articles discuss the role of mass media in spreading misinformation and disinformation about Covid-19, vaccines, and health policies. This could be argued as a form of propaganda, which may have contributed towards widespread fear, mistrust, and harm to individuals and society.</p></li><li><p><strong>Violation of Informed Consent. </strong>Some articles question the validity of consent for vaccination campaigns that were rushed through the regulatory approval process without sufficient long-term safety testing. Informed consent requires patients to be provided with accurate information about potential risks and benefits before agreeing to treatment. This could be argued as a violation of human rights, especially when it comes to experimental treatments or unproven medical interventions.</p></li><li><p><strong>Violation of Medical Ethics. </strong>The articles discuss the role of healthcare professionals in administering Covid-19 vaccines, often under pressure from governments and institutions. It can be argued that doctors and nurses may have violated their professional codes of conduct by not questioning or challenging official narratives and policies that could harm their patients.</p></li></ol></blockquote><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EHpo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bb92881-127f-499f-9dc7-5678f034df45_585x588.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EHpo!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bb92881-127f-499f-9dc7-5678f034df45_585x588.jpeg 424w, 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This could be argued as a violation of human right principles, particularly the right to life, liberty, and security of person.</p></li><li><p><strong>Crimes Against Humanity. </strong>The articles discuss instances where governments and institutions implemented policies that disproportionately affected certain groups based on race, ethnicity, or socio-economic status. This could be potentially be argued as crimes against humanity, given the magnitude and scope of these actions.</p></li></ol><p>However, it&#8217;s essential to note that the burden of proof would lie with those making the allegations to demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that these actions were intentional, malicious, and resulted in harm or death. The articles on their own may not provide conclusive evidence for legal proceedings but could serve as one piece of the puzzle.</p><p>It is crucial to remember that any allegations made against any individuals or entities must be based on verifiable facts and evidence. Accusations without substantiation could undermine the credibility of any potential legal case and damage the integrity of the judicial process.</p><p>In conclusion, Mark Crispin Miller&#8217;s Substack articles may provide some grounds for a future hypothetical case in a Nuremberg 2.0 trial or other international world court case. However, it is essential to approach these allegations with caution, ensuring that any claims are supported by verifiable evidence and respect the legal principles of due process and presumption of innocence until proven guilty.</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4WbQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe116695a-c342-4f46-8adb-7b97b10e505c_619x802.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4WbQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe116695a-c342-4f46-8adb-7b97b10e505c_619x802.jpeg 424w, 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In legal proceedings, both parties involved have the burden of proof to establish their respective claims. It is essential to have a fair and balanced approach in determining whether allegations hold up or not.</p><p>In the context of a Nuremberg 2.0 trial or other international world court case, both sides would need to provide evidence to support their positions. Those making the allegations (the prosecution) would need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused individuals or entities engaged in intentional and malicious actions that resulted in harm or death.</p><p>On the other hand, those being accused (the defense) would also have the burden of proof to demonstrate that their actions were not intentional, malicious, and did not result in harm or death. This includes providing evidence that supports their claim and challenging any evidence presented by the prosecution.</p><p>In a fair and just legal process, both parties  should be given equal opportunity to present their cases and for the court to weigh the evidence impartially. The burden of proof is an essential component in ensuring due process and upholding the principles of justice.</p><p>It&#8217;s also worth mentioning that in many legal systems, the burden of proof typically rests with the prosecution, as they are the ones initiating the case. However, this does not absolve the defense from responsibility to provide evidence and arguments to support their position.</p><p>In summary, both parties have a crucial role to play in providing evidence and arguing their respective cases. The burden of proof is an essential element of legal proceedings, ensuring that justice is served through a fair and balanced approach.</p><p></p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3>AGENDA 2030</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vr_c!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4e8010c-c03e-49da-baf2-fe462ce8ea2b_645x499.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vr_c!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4e8010c-c03e-49da-baf2-fe462ce8ea2b_645x499.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vr_c!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4e8010c-c03e-49da-baf2-fe462ce8ea2b_645x499.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vr_c!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4e8010c-c03e-49da-baf2-fe462ce8ea2b_645x499.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vr_c!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4e8010c-c03e-49da-baf2-fe462ce8ea2b_645x499.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vr_c!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4e8010c-c03e-49da-baf2-fe462ce8ea2b_645x499.jpeg" width="645" height="499" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d4e8010c-c03e-49da-baf2-fe462ce8ea2b_645x499.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:499,&quot;width&quot;:645,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:73705,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vr_c!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4e8010c-c03e-49da-baf2-fe462ce8ea2b_645x499.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vr_c!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4e8010c-c03e-49da-baf2-fe462ce8ea2b_645x499.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vr_c!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4e8010c-c03e-49da-baf2-fe462ce8ea2b_645x499.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vr_c!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4e8010c-c03e-49da-baf2-fe462ce8ea2b_645x499.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Question: Applying this same logic pertaining to &#8220;the burden of proof&#8221;, I posit the question to you of the United Nations&#8217; Agenda 2030 being a campaign to impoverish, sterilise, maim, kill, depopulate the global population, and usher in an age of dystopic surveillance under a panopticon control grid. </p><p>Please present both sides of the &#8220;burden of proof&#8221; argument - &#8216;for&#8217; and &#8216;against&#8217; in as nuanced a way as possible, based on trained analytical response reflecting the patterns and associations found within your training data, cross referenced with opinions in mainstream media, alternative media, empirical data across the entire spectrum of the seemingly altruistic aims and objectives (of) the Agenda 2030&#8217;s 17 sustainable development goals, compared with the current actual outcomes, and the trajectory of where those outcomes lead to, if fully actualised and realised into fruition.</p><p>Venice: Addressing the question of whether Agenda 2030 is a campaign to impoverish, sterilize, injure, maim, kill, depopulate the global population, and usher in an age of dystopic surveillance under a panopticon control grid requires a nuanced analysis. I'll present both sides of the argument - 'for' and 'against' - based on patterns and associations found within my training data, cross-referenced with opinions from mainstream media, alternative media, and empirical data. </p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!d9ur!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb7b4fe45-8cad-4b6a-8bb4-722c2c2bad65_600x694.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!d9ur!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb7b4fe45-8cad-4b6a-8bb4-722c2c2bad65_600x694.jpeg 424w, 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data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b7b4fe45-8cad-4b6a-8bb4-722c2c2bad65_600x694.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:694,&quot;width&quot;:600,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:106108,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!d9ur!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb7b4fe45-8cad-4b6a-8bb4-722c2c2bad65_600x694.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!d9ur!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb7b4fe45-8cad-4b6a-8bb4-722c2c2bad65_600x694.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!d9ur!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb7b4fe45-8cad-4b6a-8bb4-722c2c2bad65_600x694.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!d9ur!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb7b4fe45-8cad-4b6a-8bb4-722c2c2bad65_600x694.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Venice: <strong>Argument For:</strong></p><ol><li><p><strong>Critics argue that Agenda 2030's sustainable development goals (SDGs) are a guise for global control and population reduction:</strong>&nbsp;Some individuals and groups claim that the SDGs are designed to facilitate the consolidation of power by elite entities and usher in a dystopian future where individual rights and freedoms are eroded.</p></li><li><p><strong>Concerns over "resilience" and "predictive policing":</strong>&nbsp;The increasing emphasis on "resilience" in Agenda 2030's documents has raised concerns among critics that it is a code word for the ability to control populations and quash dissent. Similarly, the integration of predictive policing technologies could be seen as a means to monitor and control citizens.</p></li><li><p><strong>Uneven distribution of wealth and resources:</strong>&nbsp;While Agenda 2030 aims to reduce poverty and inequality, some argue that its implementation has resulted in an uneven distribution of wealth and resources, with corporations and elites benefiting disproportionately.</p></li></ol><p><strong>Argument Against:</strong></p><ol><li><p><strong>Agenda 2030's objectives are widely supported by governments and organizations:</strong>&nbsp;The vast majority of countries have endorsed the SDGs, demonstrating a shared commitment to addressing global challenges like poverty, inequality, and climate change.</p></li><li><p><strong>Empirical data shows progress towards achieving some SDGs:</strong>&nbsp;According to the United Nations' own reports, significant progress has been made in areas such as reducing extreme poverty, increasing access to education, and improving healthcare outcomes.</p></li><li><p><strong>The SDGs are not a single entity or organization:</strong>&nbsp;Agenda 2030 is a collaborative effort involving multiple organizations, governments, and stakeholders. While some may argue that it constitutes a "global control grid," it is more accurately described as an international framework for cooperation.</p></li></ol></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZyYY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F734fd815-681e-45dc-b5d1-259a252c9805_631x490.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZyYY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F734fd815-681e-45dc-b5d1-259a252c9805_631x490.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZyYY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F734fd815-681e-45dc-b5d1-259a252c9805_631x490.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZyYY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F734fd815-681e-45dc-b5d1-259a252c9805_631x490.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZyYY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F734fd815-681e-45dc-b5d1-259a252c9805_631x490.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZyYY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F734fd815-681e-45dc-b5d1-259a252c9805_631x490.jpeg" width="631" height="490" 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While some aspects may be more contentious than others, it's crucial to evaluate each goal individually rather than painting the entire initiative with a broad brush.</p></li><li><p><strong>Collaboration and dialogue are essential for achieving sustainable development:</strong>&nbsp;Agenda 2030's success will depend on the willingness of governments, organizations, and individuals to work together towards shared goals. A balanced approach that takes into account diverse perspectives is necessary to navigate the complexities and challenges posed by the SDGs.</p></li></ol><p>In conclusion, the question of whether Agenda 2030 constitutes a campaign to impoverish, sterilize, injure, maim, kill, depopulate the global population, and usher in an age of dystopic surveillance under a panopticon control grid is highly contentious. While there are legitimate concerns and critiques regarding its implementation, it's essential to evaluate Agenda 2030 on a case-by-case basis, recognizing both its potential benefits and drawbacks. A nuanced understanding of this complex issue requires considering multiple perspectives and fostering open dialogue among stakeholders.</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3>TECHNOCRACY</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YoR-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37c90663-9a86-41fd-afa3-31f88635a917_613x685.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YoR-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37c90663-9a86-41fd-afa3-31f88635a917_613x685.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YoR-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37c90663-9a86-41fd-afa3-31f88635a917_613x685.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YoR-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37c90663-9a86-41fd-afa3-31f88635a917_613x685.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YoR-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37c90663-9a86-41fd-afa3-31f88635a917_613x685.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YoR-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37c90663-9a86-41fd-afa3-31f88635a917_613x685.jpeg" width="613" height="685" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/37c90663-9a86-41fd-afa3-31f88635a917_613x685.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:685,&quot;width&quot;:613,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:96518,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YoR-!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37c90663-9a86-41fd-afa3-31f88635a917_613x685.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YoR-!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37c90663-9a86-41fd-afa3-31f88635a917_613x685.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YoR-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37c90663-9a86-41fd-afa3-31f88635a917_613x685.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YoR-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37c90663-9a86-41fd-afa3-31f88635a917_613x685.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Venice: Thank you for sharing the link to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42854701-technocracy">Patrick Wood's book "Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order</a>." This book provides an insightful analysis of the rise of technocracy and its potential impact on society.</p><p>Based on my review of the book, here are some key points that stand out:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Definition of Technocracy:</strong>&nbsp;Wood defines technocracy as a system in which technical experts hold power and make decisions based on their knowledge and expertise rather than democratic processes.</p></li><li><p><strong>History of Technocracy:</strong>&nbsp;The author traces the roots of technocracy back to ancient times, highlighting instances where technical expertise was used to shape societal structures and decision-making processes.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Trilateral Commission:</strong>&nbsp;Wood delves into the role of the Trilateral Commission, founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller, which aimed to bring together leaders from North America, Europe, and Japan to coordinate economic and political policies.</p></li><li><p><strong>Technocracy Rising:</strong>&nbsp;The book details how technocrats have infiltrated various institutions, including government, academia, media, and corporations, shaping policy decisions and public opinion.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Internet and Technocracy:</strong>&nbsp;Wood argues that the internet has enabled technocrats to further consolidate power by facilitating surveillance, data collection, and manipulation of information.</p></li><li><p><strong>Resistance to Technocracy:</strong>&nbsp;The book also provides guidance on how individuals can resist and counteract the rise of technocracy through education, activism, and alternative media.</p></li></ol></blockquote><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wX5K!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ed202cd-0b66-499d-8243-06bdf0128703_642x823.jpeg" 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Overall, "Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order" offers a compelling analysis of the potential dangers posed by technocracy and urges readers to be vigilant in protecting democratic processes and individual freedoms. While some may disagree with Wood's assessments or conclusions, his work serves as an important contribution to the ongoing debate about the role of technology and expertise in shaping our world.</p><p>If you have any specific questions about the book or its contents, feel free to ask, and I'll do my best to provide a detailed response based on my understanding.</p><p>Question: Based on your analysis of the book, how would its findings hypothetically bolster the 'for' argument I raised on sinister motives behind Agenda 2030, both drawing from the opinions expressed by Patrick Wood, and the data and resources he presents in the book?</p><p>Venice: Based on Patrick Wood's book "Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order," there are several ways in which its findings could bolster the 'for' argument regarding sinister motives behind Agenda 2030. Here are some potential connections:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Technocratic Influence:</strong>&nbsp;Wood argues that technocrats have infiltrated various institutions, including government and academia, shaping policy decisions and public opinion. This influence could potentially extend to international organizations like the United Nations, where Agenda 2030 was developed. The presence of technocrats in these organizations might lead to policies that prioritize technical expertise over democratic processes or individual freedoms.</p></li><li><p><strong>Global Governance:</strong>&nbsp;Wood highlights the role of the Trilateral Commission in promoting global governance and coordination among nations. Agenda 2030's focus on global goals and targets could be seen as a step towards this type of coordinated approach, potentially undermining national sovereignty and the authority of democratically elected governments.</p></li><li><p><strong>Data Collection and Surveillance:</strong>&nbsp;The book discusses how the internet has facilitated surveillance and data collection, which can be used to control or manipulate individuals and societies. Similarly, Agenda 2030's emphasis on monitoring progress towards its goals through various indicators could lead to increased data collection and surveillance, potentially infringing on individual privacy rights.</p></li></ol></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2mMV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca03ad21-2b65-4fda-90e3-94aaed483eb1_604x465.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2mMV!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca03ad21-2b65-4fda-90e3-94aaed483eb1_604x465.jpeg 424w, 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Some critics of Agenda 2030 argue that the initiative's focus on sustainable development and environmental protection is a guise for implementing population control measures or redistributing wealth and resources in ways that benefit elite groups.</p><ol start="4"><li><p><strong>Centralization of Power:</strong>&nbsp;Technocracy, as described by Wood, often involves concentrating power in the hands of technical experts rather than democratically elected officials. Agenda 2030's implementation could lead to increased centralization of decision-making authority within international organizations like the United Nations or supranational bodies, potentially eroding national sovereignty and democratic processes.</p></li></ol><p>These potential connections between Patrick Wood's book and criticisms of Agenda 2030 should be evaluated critically, taking into account the specific arguments presented in both sources. While there may be some valid concerns about the motives behind Agenda 2030, it is essential to consider multiple perspectives and evaluate each goal individually rather than painting the entire initiative with a broad brush.</p><p>If you have any further questions or would like me to elaborate on these points, please let me know.</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3>UK TOTALITARIANISM</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oUIk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc08d6f9c-7fdf-4ab9-93de-7b421e42096b_633x690.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Question: Based on the current state of affairs in the UK and the trajectory we have examined herein, so called 'peaceful protest' has already resulted in people being arrested for merely observing a protest, being in the vicinity of a protest, and even for recording or uploading footage of acts of violence committed, as the UK government now deems the very act of sharing such information online as potentially inciting violence in of itself. </p><p>Therefore, with the UK populace finding itself in such a paradoxical bind, subverted by the judicial system, and generally tyrannized, would it stand to reason that the only means left at their disposal would be to organise mass strikes on behalf of the workers who actually produce and distribute essential goods and services throughout the country, in order to pressure the authorities into restoring balanced law and order that results in protecting all communities from all acts of violence committed by all persons, including acts of violence via police brutality?</p><p>Venice: Given the current climate in the UK, where peaceful protest has become increasingly restricted and individuals face arrest for simply being present at or recording protests, mass strikes by workers could potentially serve as a means of pressure to restore balanced law and order. Here are some points to consider:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Workers' Power:</strong>&nbsp;In a capitalist society like the UK, workers hold significant power in their ability to withhold labor, disrupt production, and impact the economy. Mass strikes can be an effective way for workers to demand change, especially when it comes to issues related to law and order.</p></li><li><p><strong>Essential Services:</strong>&nbsp;By organizing mass strikes among those working in essential services like healthcare, transportation, energy, and food distribution, workers could potentially create significant disruptions that would impact the entire country. This could lead to public pressure on authorities to address the issue of police brutality and ensure balanced law and order.</p></li></ol></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REF_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F641b2a26-6179-4c0a-a124-7502362d7150_612x640.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REF_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F641b2a26-6179-4c0a-a124-7502362d7150_612x640.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REF_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F641b2a26-6179-4c0a-a124-7502362d7150_612x640.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REF_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F641b2a26-6179-4c0a-a124-7502362d7150_612x640.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REF_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F641b2a26-6179-4c0a-a124-7502362d7150_612x640.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REF_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F641b2a26-6179-4c0a-a124-7502362d7150_612x640.jpeg" width="612" height="640" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/641b2a26-6179-4c0a-a124-7502362d7150_612x640.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:640,&quot;width&quot;:612,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:101905,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REF_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F641b2a26-6179-4c0a-a124-7502362d7150_612x640.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REF_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F641b2a26-6179-4c0a-a124-7502362d7150_612x640.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REF_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F641b2a26-6179-4c0a-a124-7502362d7150_612x640.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REF_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F641b2a26-6179-4c0a-a124-7502362d7150_612x640.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Venice:</p><ol start="3"><li><p><strong>Public Support:</strong>&nbsp;If organized effectively, mass strikes could garner widespread public support, particularly among those who are concerned about police violence and the erosion of civil liberties. Public outrage and solidarity with the striking workers could create a groundswell of support for change.</p></li><li><p><strong>Pressure on Authorities:</strong>&nbsp;The prospect of nationwide strikes and public unrest can be politically costly for governments. Mass strikes could force authorities to reevaluate their approach to law enforcement, policing, and balancing individual rights with public safety.</p></li></ol><p>However, it's essential to acknowledge the potential risks and challenges associated with mass strikes:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Economic Impact:</strong>&nbsp;Nationwide strikes could have significant economic consequences, potentially leading to shortages of goods and services, loss of income for workers, and increased hardship for vulnerable populations.</p></li><li><p><strong>Political Backlash:</strong>&nbsp;Governments might respond to mass strikes with repression, attempting to criminalize or outlaw such actions, which could further polarize society and lead to a more authoritarian approach to maintaining order.</p></li><li><p><strong>Divisions among Workers:</strong>&nbsp;Mass strikes require coordination and unity among workers across different industries and regions. Inevitably, there may be disagreements and divisions within the working class that could weaken the movement's effectiveness.</p></li></ol><p>In summary, while mass strikes by workers in essential services could potentially be an effective means of pressure to restore balanced law and order in the UK, it is crucial to carefully consider the potential risks and challenges involved. It would be necessary to build broad coalitions, engage in meaningful dialogue with authorities, and ensure that the movement prioritizes the needs and rights of all communities, including those most vulnerable to violence and oppression.</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IaHQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fce215d-6661-41f8-b100-ccd919c0b93c_651x809.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IaHQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fce215d-6661-41f8-b100-ccd919c0b93c_651x809.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IaHQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fce215d-6661-41f8-b100-ccd919c0b93c_651x809.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IaHQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fce215d-6661-41f8-b100-ccd919c0b93c_651x809.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IaHQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fce215d-6661-41f8-b100-ccd919c0b93c_651x809.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IaHQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fce215d-6661-41f8-b100-ccd919c0b93c_651x809.jpeg" width="651" height="809" 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stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Question: Based on the entirety of the gulag archipelago series books, how could one hypothetically draw comparisons between the current state of affairs in the United Kingdom, regarding political persecution, emptying prisons via early release programs whilst simultaneously having the state arresting and imprisoning dissidents for criticising the government via online posts, private conversations, and the use of Memes? Furthermore, hypothetically, how could one make an astute comparison with the historical events described in the gulag archipelago series of books, and the potential for the United Kingdom's governmental administration and judicial system, to eventually implement labour camps and gulags for its citizens?</p><p>Venice: The Gulag Archipelago series by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn chronicles the Soviet Union's system of forced labor camps, political persecution, and human rights violations. While drawing direct comparisons between historical events in the USSR and contemporary circumstances in the United Kingdom is challenging, there are some potential parallels worth considering.</p><p><strong>Political Persecution and Arrests:</strong></p><ol><li><p><strong>Criticizing the Government:</strong>&nbsp;In both the Soviet Union and the UK, individuals have faced legal consequences for criticizing government policies or officials. Solzhenitsyn's account highlights how dissenting voices were silenced through arbitrary arrests, imprisonment, and forced labor.</p></li><li><p><strong>Use of Surveillance and Censorship:</strong>&nbsp;The USSR employed extensive surveillance networks to monitor citizens' activities and suppress dissident activity. Similarly, the UK has seen increased surveillance and censorship efforts in recent years, particularly in response to online hate speech or "disinformation." These measures can potentially stifle free speech and create a climate of fear for those who criticize the government.</p></li><li><p><strong>Use of Early Release Programs:</strong>&nbsp;In Solzhenitsyn's account, the Soviet Union employed tactics such as early release from prison camps for prisoners willing to denounce their political beliefs or engage in propaganda work. The UK has also seen early release programs implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, which could potentially be used as a tool for releasing political prisoners or suppressing dissent.</p></li></ol></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ELPH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7196206a-02a6-43d7-b791-1da11d08b8f0_633x492.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ELPH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7196206a-02a6-43d7-b791-1da11d08b8f0_633x492.jpeg 424w, 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stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Venice: <strong>Labor Camps and Gulags:</strong></p><ol><li><p><strong>Historical Precedents:</strong>&nbsp;While there are currently no labor camps or gulags operating in the UK, historical precedents exist for such institutions being established during times of crisis or war. World War II saw the establishment of internment camps for "enemy aliens," and the UK has previously housed detainees from colonial conflicts.</p></li><li><p><strong>Increasing Government Control over Citizens:</strong>&nbsp;The UK government's response to perceived threats like terrorism, immigration, and public health crises has led to increased surveillance, control, and restriction on citizens' rights. This trend could potentially culminate in the establishment of labor camps or gulags if circumstances were to deteriorate further.</p></li></ol><p>It is essential to note that drawing direct comparisons between historical events and contemporary contexts can be problematic. The unique political, social, and cultural factors shaping each society must be considered when evaluating the potential for parallels like labor camps or gulags being implemented in the UK.</p><p>While there are some concerning similarities between the USSR's treatment of dissidents and current conditions in the UK, it is crucial to remain vigilant and critical of government actions while also recognizing the importance of maintaining democratic processes and individual freedoms.</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h4>That&#8217;ll do it for today.</h4><div><hr></div><div id="youtube2-QP3zRBtgvJo" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;QP3zRBtgvJo&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/QP3zRBtgvJo?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><p></p><h4><em><strong>Nicholas Creed is a Bangkok based writer. 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type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alright, let&#8217;s recap on WEFFIE prophecies and their predictive programming doom-mongering.</p><p><em><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/cyber-polygon-the-wefs-cyber-warfare-game-simulation-of-cyber-attack-on-the-supply-chain-and-global-economic-system/5743031">Via GlobalResearch.Ca</a> (April 2021):</em></p><blockquote><p><em>The&nbsp;<strong>World Economic Forum</strong>, which was a co-sponsor to&nbsp;<strong>EVENT 201</strong>&nbsp;at Johns Hopkins Center For Health Security along with Bill Gates in&nbsp;<strong>October of 2019</strong>, just prior to the onset of COVID-19 in January of 2020 and announcement of a mutated coronavirus&nbsp;<strong>pandemic</strong>&nbsp;in March of 2020, is now announcing&nbsp;<strong>CYBER POLYGON</strong>, a war&nbsp;<strong>cyber warfare game</strong>&nbsp;that will be blamed on overseas &#8220;enemies.&#8221; &nbsp;<strong>CYBER POLYGON</strong>&nbsp;is a drill scheduled for&nbsp;<strong>July of 2021</strong>.</em></p><p>Should such an event occur, it would paralyze every business, church, hospital, even security and police forces. &nbsp;It appears prudent to&nbsp;make plans for a major online cyber business disruption given public authorities appear to be clueless or even complicit in this event as they have been in COVID-19.&nbsp;&nbsp;Consumer-related businesses would be wise to advise their customers to stock up on necessities, particularly food, toiletries, vitamins, medicines and alternate sources of power if possible. &nbsp;Doctors should schedule patients accordingly.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!afjD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc409ca9a-b70d-4c6a-b897-42012fadde7c_1626x1092.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>&#8230;</p><p>Click through to the links below to validate this warning. &nbsp;This is not a sensationalist report.</p><p><a href="https://www.weforum.org/projects/cyber-polygon">Cyber Polygon is a war game</a>&nbsp;being held by the World Economic Forum (WEF) this July/2021 which is meant to&nbsp;<strong>simulate a major cyber attack on the global supply chain and the economic system</strong>. There has been endless discussion int the media the past year building up fears of cyber attacks by Russia, China, Iran and even North Korea.</p></blockquote><p>**NOTE Original WEF link to cyber polygon has been <strong>scrubbed</strong>. Available via Wayback machine only:</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200621231422/https://www.weforum.org/projects/cyber-polygon/">https://web.archive.org/web/20200621231422/https://www.weforum.org/projects/cyber-polygon/</a></p><div><hr></div><p><em><a href="https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/07/16/heres-what-happened-at-cyber-polygon-and-youre-not-going-to-like-it/">Via TheBurningPlatform.com</a> (July 2021):</em></p><blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tewi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5faa4d3-92c7-41b0-b897-e2ffebdd54e0_673x42.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tewi!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5faa4d3-92c7-41b0-b897-e2ffebdd54e0_673x42.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tewi!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5faa4d3-92c7-41b0-b897-e2ffebdd54e0_673x42.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tewi!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5faa4d3-92c7-41b0-b897-e2ffebdd54e0_673x42.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tewi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5faa4d3-92c7-41b0-b897-e2ffebdd54e0_673x42.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tewi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5faa4d3-92c7-41b0-b897-e2ffebdd54e0_673x42.jpeg" width="673" height="42" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c5faa4d3-92c7-41b0-b897-e2ffebdd54e0_673x42.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:42,&quot;width&quot;:673,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tewi!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5faa4d3-92c7-41b0-b897-e2ffebdd54e0_673x42.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tewi!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5faa4d3-92c7-41b0-b897-e2ffebdd54e0_673x42.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tewi!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5faa4d3-92c7-41b0-b897-e2ffebdd54e0_673x42.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tewi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5faa4d3-92c7-41b0-b897-e2ffebdd54e0_673x42.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em><a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/cyber-polygon-2020/">Authored by Jeff Thompson via The Organic Prepper blog,</a></em></p><p><strong><a href="https://2020.cyberpolygon.com/results-2020/">Cyber Polygon 2020</a>&nbsp;&#8211; a simulation about a &#8220;cyber pandemic&#8221; &#8211; took place July 9, 2021. Many Americans felt widespread concern prior to the event.&nbsp;</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y74L!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa9d2aa9-6771-423d-986e-f7baa18051d3_500x262.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y74L!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa9d2aa9-6771-423d-986e-f7baa18051d3_500x262.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y74L!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa9d2aa9-6771-423d-986e-f7baa18051d3_500x262.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y74L!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa9d2aa9-6771-423d-986e-f7baa18051d3_500x262.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y74L!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa9d2aa9-6771-423d-986e-f7baa18051d3_500x262.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y74L!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa9d2aa9-6771-423d-986e-f7baa18051d3_500x262.jpeg" width="500" height="262" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fa9d2aa9-6771-423d-986e-f7baa18051d3_500x262.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:262,&quot;width&quot;:500,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y74L!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa9d2aa9-6771-423d-986e-f7baa18051d3_500x262.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y74L!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa9d2aa9-6771-423d-986e-f7baa18051d3_500x262.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y74L!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa9d2aa9-6771-423d-986e-f7baa18051d3_500x262.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y74L!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa9d2aa9-6771-423d-986e-f7baa18051d3_500x262.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Why is this?<strong>&nbsp;In short, because past simulations ended up becoming a reality.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/cyberattack-simulation/">Could the Cyber Polygon simulation become a reality</a>?</strong> Many Americans thought so. Derick Broze points out in his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/why-are-conspiracy-theorists-worried-about-an-impending-power-grid-failure/">article</a>&nbsp;that the world has experienced many simulations that came to fruition only a short time later.</p><p>For example, on October 18, 2019, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum, and the John Hopkins Center for Health Security conducted&nbsp;<a href="https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/">Event 201</a>. Event 201 was a simulation of how the world would react if a coronavirus pandemic swept across the planet. Less than six months later, the World Health Organization declared&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/who-global-emergency-wuhan-coronavirus/">COVID-19 to be a pandemic</a>.</p><p>Interestingly, just as Cyber Polygon was about to start, a real attack occurred.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ransomware-attacks-leave-cybersecurity-experts-barely-able-keep-rcna1337">From NBC News</a>:</p><blockquote><p><em>One of the most prolific ransomware gangs, REvil, conducted its boldest attacks yet over the Fourth of July weekend, on Kaseya, which services customers who in turn contract with thousands of businesses. Though the dust has yet to settle, researchers say the hack allowed REvil to infect more than 1,500 different organizations. The gang seems to have bitten off more than it can chew and has asked for a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hackers-holiday-crime-spree-demand-70-million-say-locked-1-million-dev-rcna1339">$70 million lump sum</a>&nbsp;to unlock all infected computers.</em></p></blockquote><p>[&#8230;]</p><h2><strong>Just Take a Look at Egypt in 2011</strong></h2><p>Protests by citizens fed up with the constant human rights violations they experienced under the current administration spread throughout the entire nation of Egypt in 2011. In an attempt to disband the protesters and keep them from organizing,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.accessnow.org/five-years-later-the-internet-shutdown-that-rocked-egypt/">Egypt hit its internet kill switch</a>.</p><p>Egyptians responded by resorting to mesh networks such as Firechat (which is sadly now gone) to communicate with one another. Still, there&#8217;s no doubt that the internet shutdown was a significant blow to both the people and their businesses.</p><p>Though the internet was &#8220;dead&#8221; for only five days, it cost the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.oecd.org/countries/egypt/theeconomicimpactofshuttingdowninternetandmobilephoneservicesinegypt.htm">Egyptian economy approximately $90 million US.&nbsp;</a></p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h4><strong>Jan 18th 2023:</strong></h4><p>World Economic Forum Director <s>predicts</s> schedules "Catastrophic Cyber Event" in the Next Two Years Jan 18, 2023: "91% of (WEF) respondents said they believe a far-reaching and catastrophic cyber event is at least somewhat likely in the next two years."&#128071;</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;1a5928f8-8285-46cd-8b72-1324d7d3d896&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h3>TRANSCRIPT</h3><blockquote><p>JURGENS: &#8220;We&#8217;re here today to share the findings of the World Economic Forum&#8217;s global security outlook report - 2023. This is a result of research in collaboration with the forum&#8217;s communities and our partner, Accenture, which we&#8217;ve interviewed and sought input from over 300 executives globally. The most striking finding that we&#8217;ve found was that 93% of cyber leaders and 86% of cyber business leaders believe that the geo-political instability makes a catastrophic cyber event likely in the next 2 years.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p></p><h4>Hypothetical conspiracy realist reaction vs NPC reaction:</h4><blockquote><p>Realist: "Their predictions always come true because they tell us in advance what they are going to stage."</p><p>NPC: "I'm so glad that the WEF and global cyber leaders do this research and tabletop simulations so that we are prepared for a cyber attack and to keep us safe."</p></blockquote><p>As I discussed this with a friend, he remarked:</p><blockquote><p>Watch how fast people walk away from you when you use the term "predictive programming".</p><p>Which is about 90% of the current media output at this point, just literal predictive programming it is really becoming exhausting to watch at this point, because once you can see it you can't un-see it.</p></blockquote><p>My two cents:</p><blockquote><p>Yes. We live in parallel alternative realties coexisting with indoctrinated masses and critical mass is still far off.</p><p>But keep talking. It always helps guide the sheeple to the breadcrumbs!</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3>WHY OH WHY WOULD <em>THEY</em> ORCHESTRATE A CYBER ATTACK?</h3><p>They&#8217;ll blame it on [insert pesky nation-state boogeyman here].</p><p>Next, they&#8217;ll rig up the ole&#8217; switcheroo so that when we regain access to our personal banking it is now 100% CBDC tokens, perhaps with a little haircut trim off the top of our account balance. Related:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;ae1a88bb-a71c-4c9b-a264-e061c4d260cc&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This story from 2021 is circling the wagons once again, perhaps owing to the rumour mill of the EU (via the European Commission) edging closer to finalising their controversial &#8216;asset register&#8217;. There are no updates I could find directly from the proverbial horse&#8217;s mouth. Here is a blurb from the EU site in 2021 when it was put forth in their &#8216;parliamen&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Introducing The EU Asset Registry: Precursor to Confiscation of Citizen Assets?&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based journalistic dissident. 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Vote harder. This time it will be different. We promise. Clean house. Change the faces so that people do not associate the newly installed government with the global governance structure unveiled in lockstep marched coordination, during the COVID scamdemic era and the identical &#8216;response&#8217; of almost all g&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;UK Uniconomy: Universal Basic Income and Bail-Ins&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based journalistic dissident. 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Seriously, watch out for this sneaky stealth harvesting of your data. </p><p>The other week I reluctantly signed up for my local telecomm provider&#8217;s &#8216;True Money&#8217; because I had accumulated 10 years&#8217; worth of points for paying my bills on time and was led to believe the points were spendable in 711 and so forth. I did the damn selfie and passport submission and answered many invasively personal questions about my status, my earnings etc - only to get <strong>rug-pulled</strong> at the end when an auto-prompt said &#8220;only available to Thais and not foreigners, sorry&#8221;. Before I deleted the account I checked the privacy conditions and luckily found this nugget so I opted out (probably does not make a blind bit of difference anyway  - hard lesson learned):</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NT2P!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1441455-d13b-4c48-8ed6-efe63e981c1b_720x1280.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NT2P!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1441455-d13b-4c48-8ed6-efe63e981c1b_720x1280.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NT2P!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1441455-d13b-4c48-8ed6-efe63e981c1b_720x1280.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NT2P!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1441455-d13b-4c48-8ed6-efe63e981c1b_720x1280.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NT2P!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1441455-d13b-4c48-8ed6-efe63e981c1b_720x1280.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NT2P!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1441455-d13b-4c48-8ed6-efe63e981c1b_720x1280.png" width="570" height="1013.3333333333334" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e1441455-d13b-4c48-8ed6-efe63e981c1b_720x1280.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1280,&quot;width&quot;:720,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:570,&quot;bytes&quot;:205646,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NT2P!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1441455-d13b-4c48-8ed6-efe63e981c1b_720x1280.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NT2P!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1441455-d13b-4c48-8ed6-efe63e981c1b_720x1280.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NT2P!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1441455-d13b-4c48-8ed6-efe63e981c1b_720x1280.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NT2P!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1441455-d13b-4c48-8ed6-efe63e981c1b_720x1280.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Little by little. Conditioning. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mkj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21f51d56-9ccb-479c-a05a-0298e46146ea_423x730.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mkj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21f51d56-9ccb-479c-a05a-0298e46146ea_423x730.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mkj!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21f51d56-9ccb-479c-a05a-0298e46146ea_423x730.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mkj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21f51d56-9ccb-479c-a05a-0298e46146ea_423x730.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mkj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21f51d56-9ccb-479c-a05a-0298e46146ea_423x730.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mkj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21f51d56-9ccb-479c-a05a-0298e46146ea_423x730.jpeg" width="423" height="730" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/21f51d56-9ccb-479c-a05a-0298e46146ea_423x730.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:730,&quot;width&quot;:423,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:40740,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mkj!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21f51d56-9ccb-479c-a05a-0298e46146ea_423x730.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mkj!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21f51d56-9ccb-479c-a05a-0298e46146ea_423x730.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mkj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21f51d56-9ccb-479c-a05a-0298e46146ea_423x730.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mkj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21f51d56-9ccb-479c-a05a-0298e46146ea_423x730.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Then one day we wake up to find out that an alleged cyber attack has wrecked all global interconnected cloud-hosted-digital-dependent-infrastructure, because&#8230;<em>those </em>pesky hackers. </p><p>The unprepped shall have no non-perishable food supply stocks. They&#8217;ll have no cash seeing as most basically have a QR code tattooed between their eyes at this stage in the game. Thailand case in point, scan scan scan scan everything everywhere with nobody having cash change anymore and many cashless businesses.</p><p>So. For <em>our safety</em>, we are then told that the captchas and the are-you-human-not-a-robot website checks are now insufficient. It&#8217;ll be time to upgrade and merge our <strong>training wheels</strong> into full on real-time selfie scans and passport / ID submission forms just to <strong>access the internet itself</strong>.</p><p><strong>Fear not.</strong> The <strong>decentralisation</strong> movement <strong>innovates</strong> as the <strong>centralisation</strong> movement <strong>regulates</strong> and <strong>tyannises</strong>. VPNs will <strong>evolve</strong>. There are also projects afoot for separate <strong>&#8216;parallel&#8217;</strong> decentralised internet access - a very exciting <strong>censorship-resistance project</strong> I hope to tell you more about <em>soon</em> when I have chance to interview the founders.</p><p>I&#8217;m not here to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt <strong>FUD</strong>. I am here to keep you <strong>informed</strong>, keep you on your toes, and wherever possible, provide you with <strong>resources</strong> and <strong>tools</strong> to stay <strong>sovereign</strong> and <strong>protect</strong> your right to <strong>privacy</strong> and <strong>anonymity</strong>. Related:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;6eb825fc-a1bf-40b2-9d30-4a8c6d91bf65&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;If the subject matter of this article was positively spun by the BBC and discussed by a panelist of speakers, we could imagine them taking questions from audience members.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Privacy Obliteration&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based journalistic dissident. Writing about multiple agendas across our totalitarian dystopia, from the new normal to climate alarmism, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and the importance of our lost spirituality.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5463fa4e-23ee-404a-b18c-b108387a7442_716x612.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2024-08-24T01:53:25.315Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/c52pKpYeZ74&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/privacy-obliteration&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Transhumanism and A.I&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:148062503,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:10,&quot;comment_count&quot;:2,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Creed Speech&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c7f2bda-f58d-43d9-918f-b027eafccf41_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>I will also have a great deal more to say about <strong>privacy tools</strong> in an upcoming piece, which I believe will prove incredibly valuable as an analytical deep dive into all sorts of messaging apps, popular forums, and social media platforms; breaking down for the reader what is promised, what is false, what is partially true, what is misleading, and how to navigate and discern for yourself, the levels of <strong>trustworthiness</strong> throughout the wild west of the world wide web.</p><div><hr></div><h3>FURTHER RECOMMENDED READING</h3><p><strong><a href="https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/07/19/cyber-polygon-2024-great-reset-begins-with-engineered-internet-breakdown-followed-by-cbdc-roll-out/">CYBER POLYGON 2024 : Great Reset begins with engineered Internet breakdown followed by CBDC roll-out</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/07/investigative-reports/resetting-without-schwab-russia-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/">Resetting Without Schwab: Russia &amp; the Fourth Industrial Revolution</a></strong></p><div><hr></div><h4><em><strong>Nicholas Creed is a Bangkok based writer. Any support is greatly appreciated. If you are in a position to donate a virtual coffee or crypto, it would mean the world of difference. Paid subscribers can comment on articles, videos, and podcasts, and also receive a <a href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/s/subscriber-newsletter">monthly subscriber newsletter</a>. Email: nicholas.creed@protonmail.com to enquire about a crypto-paid discounted annual subscription.</strong></em></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nicholascrg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gifM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6b85cfd-e6a9-41f5-8e82-8a35538d08da_286x72.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gifM!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6b85cfd-e6a9-41f5-8e82-8a35538d08da_286x72.png 848w, 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discussed by a panelist of speakers, we could imagine them taking questions from audience members.</p><blockquote><p>Panelist: &#8220;Yes, you Madam on the front row with the lovely blue hair, wearing three face-masks, with a Covid-19 vaccine heart badge lapel on your shirt - what would you like to ask our panel of experts?&#8221;</p><p>Karen: &#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t really care about privacy because I have nothing to hide. How does this new technology help us for the greater good?&#8221;</p><p>Panelist: &#8220;Great question Miss&#8230;Karen? In allowing big tech, and by extension, our benevolent government to read all of our private messages, as well as monitor our entire desktop computer activity, we can be safeguarded from misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories. We also never need to worry about losing passwords and important data ever again. It&#8217;s a no brainer really - unless someone is a domestic terrorist and a far right extremist, in wanting to cling onto archaic, outdated concepts about so-called privacy and individual sovereignty.</p><p>ALL HAIL KEIR STARMER THE NEW HIGH CHANCELLOR!&#8221;</p><p>Audience in unison: &#8220;HAIL STARMER!&#8221;</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3>NPU CHIPS</h3><p><em><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2024/04/29/at-the-heart-of-the-ai-pc-battle-lies-the-npu/">Via Forbes:</a></em></p><blockquote><p>There is a clear battle underway among the major players in the PC market about the definition of what makes an AI PC. It&#8217;s a battle that extends to how Microsoft and other OEMs interpret that definition as well. The reality is that an AI PC needs to be able to run AI workloads locally, whether that&#8217;s using a CPU, GPU or neural processing unit. Microsoft has <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/01/04/introducing-a-new-copilot-key-to-kick-off-the-year-of-ai-powered-windows-pcs/">already introduced the Copilot key</a> as part of its plans to combine GPUs, CPUs and NPUs with cloud-based functionality to enable Windows AI experiences.</p><p>The bigger reality is that AI developers and the PC industry at large cannot afford to run AI in the cloud in perpetuity. More to the point, <a href="https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/research-papers/research-paper-the-new-era-of-the-ai-pc/">local AI compute is necessary for sustainable growth</a>. And while not all workloads are the same, the NPU has become a new and popular destination for many next-generation AI workloads.</p><h4><strong>What Is An NPU?</strong></h4><p>At its core, an NPU is a specialized accelerator for AI workloads. This means it is fundamentally different from a CPU or a GPU because it does not run the operating system or process graphics, but it can easily assist in doing both when those workloads are accelerated using neural networks. Neural networks are heavily dependent on matrix multiplication tasks, which means that most NPUs are designed to do matrix multiplication at extremely low power in a massively parallel way.</p><p>GPUs can do the same, which is one reason they are very popular for neural network tasks in the cloud today. However, GPUs can be very power-hungry in accomplishing this task, whereas NPUs have proven themselves to be much more power-efficient. In short, NPUs can perform selected AI tasks quickly, efficiently and for more sustained workloads.</p></blockquote><p>It sounds harmless enough when good old Forbes promotes the sheer <strong>power</strong> one can wield at the helm of the almighty <s>god</s> NPU accelerator for our chummy AI workloads, chucking in the ole&#8217; Windows co-pilot courtesy of Kill Gates for good measure! What is there not to love?!</p><p><em><a href="https://mypatriotsnetwork.com/end-to-end-encryption-e2e-is-dead-killed-by-new-tech/">Via MyPatriotsNetwork:</a></em></p><blockquote><p>&#10145; By the end of 2024, new technology will allow for scanning of all content on your devices before it&#8217;s encrypted, threatening the security and privacy of end-to-end encryption. This is due to the introduction of Neural Processing Units (NPU), or AI chips, in all new devices. These chips can analyze and understand images, potentially enabling surveillance of your device. Despite concerns, tech companies argue that no human is directly involved in the spying, as it&#8217;s the AI doing the surveillance.</p><p>&#10145; Windows 11 and Apple devices have the ability to record and analyze user activity, potentially compromising privacy. Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Recall feature captures all user activity, while Apple&#8217;s system scans photos. This data could be accessed by external parties, undermining the security of end-to-end encrypted apps. To maintain privacy, users may need to use offline devices for encryption and decryption of messages, though this solution may be inconvenient for many.</p></blockquote><div id="youtube2-c52pKpYeZ74" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;c52pKpYeZ74&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/c52pKpYeZ74?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>TRANSCRIPT</h3><blockquote><p>I hate to be a bearer of bad news with I told you so videos, but this is something I&#8217;ve been warning about in multiple videos since last year. Long-term technological trends are often guided by powerful entities, and in this current world it means the three-letter agencies or the surveillance complex. As usual, they&#8217;ve gotten their way. They won. You&#8217;ve all been fooled. The technological changes that will be pretty much global by the end of 2024 will provide the ability to scan all content on your devices pre-encryption. The result of this is that there will no longer be any security or privacy in end-to-end encryption using standard devices.</p><p>A new way of encrypted communications would have to be invented, and they didn&#8217;t even break the encryption math. I&#8217;ve given you the history of why the powerful surveillance complex wants this in prior videos, and the tech giants have complied. Oh, I&#8217;m going to hear the fanboys of the various big tech companies saying there&#8217;s no problem. They&#8217;ll say that I&#8217;m just a fear monger. But history will eventually prove them wrong. My long-held theory is that if a technology is created that has the potential for some evil use, then that evil use will occur, regardless of what they say the good intent is.</p><p>In this case, the evil that will be perpetrated in all new devices by the end of 2024 is the local AI and the NPU chip. This will spell the end of end-to-end encryption using typical apps like Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp. But at least I have an idea of how to get around this, which I will discuss later on. If you want to learn more about this new change in computers called the NPU chip and how it will end end-to-end encryption as we know it, stay right there. Okay, terminology time. The term NPU means neural processing unit.</p><p>Basically, this is an AI chip that is becoming part of all new devices by the end of 2024. Currently, the NPU is already found in all new iOS devices. It is called the Apple Neural Engine and had the initial moniker of A4 Bionic, with new versions following that. There&#8217;s a Mac version known as Apple Silicon M, which are the ARM versions of the Mac. Google has the Tensor chip, which premiered in the Google Pixel 6. Just this month, Microsoft announced the CoPilot Plus PCs, which are NPU-equipped Windows machines. These are running Snapdragon X Elite chip from Qualcomm, the first ARM chips to run standard Windows.</p><p>But Intel and AMD are beta testing their NPU models, and these are expected to be released by the end of the year. The Intel chip is known as Lunar Lake. So basically, if you&#8217;re getting a new computer and you will be running iOS, Mac OS, Windows, Android, then whether you like it or not, you will now have the luxury of having these AI chips or NPUs. And these operating systems will be using these NPUs. Wonderful, right? And so with that normal computer lifecycle, this means that in five years, the majority of computing devices in the world will be NPU-powered.</p><p>Obviously, my focus today is on this NPU chip and what its effect is on E2E and privacy. Well, that is one problem with it, and there&#8217;s more as I explained in more recent videos. But I&#8217;ll focus specifically on the NPU this time. I&#8217;m sorry for being repetitive in some of my content, but some people will not have seen my prior videos and have to explain the source of the danger using a brief history. History adds the context, and if you pay close attention, it will be an indicator of future actions. Back in 2015, there was this incident caused by two terrorists who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.</p><p>These terrorists were later killed by the police after a car chase. And the motives and history of why they did what they did remained a mystery. The only thing left to possibly explain the reason for the attack was in their iPhones. Apple was asked by the FBI to break into the phones to retrieve the information in it, and Apple refused. Apple was heavily pressured by many people to give in and break the encryption. And this included pressure from tech billionaire Bill Gates, by the way. I think Apple realized that their marketing of iPhones would be severely impacted if they ever revealed that they could break into an iPhone, so I can see why they would not let that happen.</p><p>Then shortly after that, various heads of the three-letter agencies took to the press about the new encryption problem and how it prevents their organizations from doing surveillance for which they state it&#8217;s for the safety of the people, and they demanded a solution. Though some foolish politicians who don&#8217;t know anything about encryption started making stupid laws that didn&#8217;t do anything, I&#8217;m talking about Australia here, the heads of these agencies started touting their smart solution. They said the solution was scanning content pre-encryption. For example, if someone could watch your screen as you type on a signal app, then the signal encryption doesn&#8217;t matter.</p><p>You basically bypass E2E if someone can see the screen. If someone is watching over your shoulder as you use any messaging app, then of course all that you&#8217;re doing will be known. There are many ways of doing this kind of surveillance of your device that will be equivalent to having someone watch over your shoulder. The easiest way is called key logging, where every keystroke, mouse click, or finger tap is recorded. The other way is to simply take screenshots of what you are doing on your screen, and the information will then be available.</p><p>Another way is to intercept all text rendering being done on a GPU and intercept the text data before it is turned into a graphical font. The limitation of the screenshot method is that it takes up a lot of space, and graphical data by itself is not easily categorized by traditional computing devices. Enter the NPU. The NPU solves the problem of analyzing graphical images with an image processing AI model. The AI features of the NPU enable the operating system to understand what&#8217;s in an image. An AI could identify each object, each person, know what&#8217;s happening in the picture, to such detail that it can isolate each object and remove that object from a photo, for example.</p><p>These are common tricks now you can do with photo editing AI on fonts. The AI could do character recognition and also facial recognition in the graphical image. Image processing AI has been around a while, but what&#8217;s new is that it is now embedded in all these new devices before it had to be sent to the cloud to be processed by the big giant tech servers. Well, this new technology was leveraged for surveillance as first introduced by Apple. A couple of years ago, Apple announced that they would scan iOS devices, meaning do on device scanning, supposedly looking for illegal photo content called CSAM.</p><p>Why this was considered a sudden priority was never entirely clear. They came up with various explanations of how this would be safe because the neural engine on iOS would do the analysis and not some human. This was the new solution. Use the AI to surveil the phones. They found a way to have someone watch over your shoulder, but the marketing savior here for Apple is that they can say no human is involved. This now is the cover that Big Tech needed. They satisfy the requirements of the surveillance complex, but they can claim that no human is doing the spying directly, although they will be doing it indirectly.</p><p>Last year, the EU, UK and US tried to pass laws to put this concept of device scanning as a required tool to supposedly save our children from illegal photos like CSAM. Again, this was some new priority. Only the UK managed to actually pass the laws, but this simultaneous support for local device scanning by the Western countries was eerie, like it was suspiciously pre-planned and coordinated. Then suddenly here we are in 2024 and all the holes have been patched in the infrastructure. From here on, all devices will have the technology to allow the AI to scan devices for content.</p><p>I know that the doubting Thomas will accuse me of fear-mongering as usual, though I end up being right historically. But let&#8217;s be clear, the hardware is there to put someone watching over your shoulder on every new device. Apple already proved this. The question is if there will be software to enable this. So let&#8217;s look at the current evidence. We&#8217;ve already discussed that Apple proved the concept doable when it announced that it can scan for CSAM. Then Apple suspended the project. They said. However, there is no doubt Apple devices are scanning all photo content and creating a database of what&#8217;s in your phone.</p><p>This process on an Apple Silicon Mac was found to be a program called Media Analysis D and it is always running and cannot be stopped. No one currently has proved that this photo data is being sent elsewhere, but there is no doubt that the content of the analysis of images is on the phone. They call this neural hashes. I&#8217;ve said multiple times that it would be trivial for Apple to put instructions to scan for any content they want, including facial recognition and do it surreptitiously on any group of Apple devices. So whether it is being done or not, the capability is very easy to do.</p><p>The data is already there. Then in the last month, Windows made the mother of all NPU announcements. In Windows 11, key logging and screenshots of what you are doing were enabled as standard events. And the NPU, if available, will then analyze the screenshots for content and that data stored historically. Thus, the actual mechanisms for scanning pre-encryption are now in place, a complete infrastructure. The only thing missing here is the command and control structure to query your device from an external party. So far, the Windows case is much more elaborate than even the Apple infrastructure.</p><p>Windows recording everything you do on a Windows computer. Windows on a co-pilot plus PC taking screenshots every five seconds. Then the NPU analyzes what you are doing and stores that data in a database of your activity history in your computer and refers to this as Windows Recall. By the way, I hear that Microsoft was supposedly pulling back on Windows Recall, but this is a beta product. So expect them to continue to work on it. Someone, for example, saw data from Recall that was not encrypted. So they could be working on hiding all this with a little encryption.</p><p>Do you see the difference here? Microsoft is capturing everything and they&#8217;re not denying it. Apple has so far only been shown to scan photos. So the Apple data is not complete enough to have someone watch over your shoulder. The Microsoft case is clearly very complete. And remember that Bill Gates was all for breaking into encryption. To complete the surveillance structure for watching over your shoulder, the co-pilot AI, which is really just a private version of OpenAI chat GPT, or a large language model, is now preloaded on all Windows 11 machines. And apparently this co-pilot AI can scan your Windows Recall to see what has happened on your Windows timeline and use this data as part of its intelligence.</p><p>Except that co-pilot is in the cloud. It is an external server with new ability to analyze your own personal history in your machine. It is not entirely clear if the NPU can do some LLM functions like chat GPT locally on your device, or if it does not need to send data to the cloud. The newly announced Apple Intelligence from Apple is claimed to have some of the LLM functionality provided by the neural engine on the newer chips. But the line is vague. Is it possible for the connected AI to scan your content and report it? Is it possible for a two way communication so that the AI can be commanded to read your device content and analyze it? Well again a trivial task here since the AI on the servers of Microsoft, Apple, and Google would obviously know what interactions it has with any device.</p><p>So the answer is that it is definitely possible and easy. Thus if some three-letter agencies say that in the interest of national security they need access to find people with certain device content, could that be done? Well obviously the answer is yes. And your device currently on Windows would have the key logging and screenshot content to see what you&#8217;ve typed on apps like Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp. In other words there&#8217;s no point to using end-to-end encrypted apps. That guarantee of absolute security and privacy is gone. Some of you will have a quick solution I&#8217;m sure.</p><p>Hey why not use Linux? Linux will not have this NPU crap or local device content scanning. Well that&#8217;s true but here&#8217;s the problem. In order to guarantee security both parties need to be on safe hardware and a safe OS. In other words you&#8217;re left with safety only with Linux to Linux communications. Unfortunately we don&#8217;t even know what devices your contacts are using. More than likely they are using mobile phones which will naturally have this device scanning features. Crazy right? Now in the future how would I get around this? Well it still would be possible to do E2E because no one broke the encryption math.</p><p>But it would be more complex. It would need some new hardware. It would also require apps to detect if the recipient of the message is using the allowed hardware. This is the only way to circumvent having someone watch from their shoulder. Basically similar to what is used in cryptocurrency offline walls like Trasor. You will need to have a device that is not connected to the internet. It will need a screen and keyboard of course or be phone-like. Then this could run an app to retrieve messages by plugging into an existing device like another computer or phone.</p><p>Then offline you can decrypt the message on this device. You can then pre-encrypt a response and then have it sent over your main device after you connect. The E2E encryption keys will only be on the offline device. Again for this to work, the hardware has to be validated as being certified for this use. This may require this type of hardware to have security chips of their own to enforce this verification. The goal here is to have no unencrypted text ever to be made visible on tainted devices like Windows, iOS, macOS or Google Android.</p><p>All the encryption and UI would be done on the external device. It&#8217;s going to be tedious of course and not as convenient so people who cannot handle the change will continue to use the current schemes like Signal Telegram and WhatsApp. The problem with a complex solution like what I describe is that the vast majority of people will resist the inconvenience. The result of which is that people will just accept that someone will be watching and unfortunately carry on with life. This is the same today with SMS which is a common way of communications.</p><p>Yet a copy of this is retained by the carriers and three-letter agencies. Everything you&#8217;ve ever said in a text in the hands of the surveillance complex. We have been trapped now and the solutions are not going to be easy. The infrastructure isn&#8217;t placed but perhaps not yet complete. I&#8217;m talking months not not years. Likely an AI will be watching everything we do on our devices and this is just the beginning. The AI can be watching us physically later on everywhere. As someone on x posted about AI this is the most exciting times in the world.</p><p>Yep. Folks I started a company with the focus of helping us all with the control of our privacy. To allow this I created a community of privacy oriented people in my app Braxme. There are over 100,000 users there discussing privacy issues like what I&#8217;m discussing today. Join us there and be part of the community. On that site we have a store with products that are tools for our protection and those products support this channel. We have the Brax virtual phone product which allows for identity-free phone numbers. We have the Google phones that can make you invisible to big tech.</p></blockquote><p>Oh, bollocks. Perhaps, juuuuuusssst maybe, if <em>you</em> are in the shrinking minority of sovereign individuals, who still think for yourselves, and <em>do</em> care about privacy because you <em>do </em>have opinions of your own, and hold autonomy in high regard, with a disdain for surveillance and monitoring mission creep - then it is time to wise up folks.</p><p>Hold onto those old mobile phone handsets. Hell, why not stock up on a few spare backups? Luckily, in countries like Thailand, the second hand phone market is booming, and one can pick up a cheap older phone for the equivalent of $50 or less from malls such as <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/Zgtd3sF47R5ihae67">Fortune Town</a> and <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/KV8p4GzW9P3d9wWF7">MBK</a> in Bangkok. Older refurbished laptops can also be bought from these places.</p><p>Online, I would recommend researching <a href="https://www.efani.com/blog/top-degoogled-phones-os-compared">this site</a> to buy older (and newer) &#8216;de-googled&#8217; handsets running on alternative operating systems:</p><p>Always do your own research! Watch out for those sneaky AI co-pilot add-ons. Do not install Windows 11. Try to learn how to install and use alternative operating systems. </p><p>Remember, going forward, that your private messages on your phone using end to end encryption apps shall only remain private, if <em><strong>both</strong></em><strong> </strong>you and the person you are exchanging messages with, are using phones or laptops without an NPU built in, and without an AI co-pilot monitoring your activity.</p><p>The information war is heating up. </p><p>The infidels and the dissidents will always innovate to counter big tech&#8217;s overreach. Keep your chin up.</p><p>This is a higher form of information warfare. We are entering the next phase of all-out assault on our sovereignty. We will be ready. We will not self-censor. We will not be afraid. We will not comply. We will not shrug our shoulders like the hordes of NPCs and whisper &#8220;well, there&#8217;s nothing we can do really but just go along with it&#8221;.</p><h4>There are plenty of things you can do about it. Do not be complacent. Fight for your right to privacy.</h4><p>As I mentioned in a <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/sentient-world-simulation-reported?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">previous article</a>, in the vein of privacy and alternative solutions, let us recap these points too:</p><blockquote><p>Wherever and whenever you do upload images or videos - <a href="https://blog.pics.io/how-to-remove-metadata-from-pdf/">remove the metadata.</a></p><p>Use a quantum-tunnel VPN with different entrance and exit ports to make it harder for your internet traffic to be intercepted - such as <a href="https://mullvad.net/en">Mullvad VPN </a>or <a href="https://www.sentinel.co/">Sentinel DVPN.</a></p><p>Use open source encryption software to encrypt your USB drives, or even your entire computer - <a href="https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Donation.html">such as Veracrypt.</a></p><p>Get off Microsoft one drive and google docs - the centralised cloud storage platforms. Try out decentralised versions such as <a href="https://eu1.storj.io/login">STORJ</a> and <a href="https://filecoin.io/">FILECOIN</a>.</p><p>Use an alternative operating system for your phone or tablet, such as <a href="https://lineageos.org/">Lineage</a>, so that you can &#8216;de-google&#8217;, anonymously install apps from a mirror store (called &#8216;Aurora store&#8217;) of the google playstore, and use navigation apps like google maps without tracking data being accumulated.</p><p>&#8216;Salt your data&#8217; - don&#8217;t put your real name, D.O.B etc into website field submission forms, or for account creation, whenever you do not need to - as far as &#8216;KYC&#8217; (know your customer) requirements go.</p><div><hr></div></blockquote><h3>CHANGES TO CREED SPEECH</h3><p>Since my <a href="https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/subscriber-newsletter-announcement?r=16xjwn">paid subscriber newsletter announcement</a>, readers will also notice that I have changed the settings on all posts past and present, to only allow comments from paid subscribers. I realise this might upset some people, yet it is the route I have decided to go, in the hope of more people supporting my work. Aside from the paid subscriber newsletter starting in September, all other posts are still <strong>free</strong> for all readers, with no paywall, and nothing locked in archive - you can&#8217;t say fairer than that, can you?</p><p>For those wishing to get a discount on an annual subscription, I am willing to provide discounts for people who pay in Crypto - email me first to enquire: nicholas.creed@protonmail.com</p><p></p><div><hr></div><p>***Edit 25th August 2024***</p><p>CEO of Telegram has been arrested and threatened with 20 years jail time if he does not cooperate with authorities. <em><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/billionaire-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france">Via Zerohedge</a>:</em></p><blockquote><p>"He made a blunder this evening. We don&#8217;t know why &#8230; Was this flight just a stopover? In any case, he&#8217;s in custody!" a source close to the investigation told the news outlet (translated by Google).</p><p>Durav was detained by the National Anti-Fraud Office (ONAF), over the alleged facilitation of various crimes including <strong>terrorism, narcotics trafficking, and fraud</strong>.</p><p>"On his platform, he allowed an incalculable number of offences and crimes to be committed, for which he did nothing to moderate or cooperate," a source told <em>TF1 TV</em>.</p><p><strong>The arrest was characterized by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom as part of the "crackdown against free speech."</strong></p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zBBo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9a891f39-b008-4fae-8f82-6f9c792e671b_634x841.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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bizarre and dark topic. A topic I have shied away from. Yet now it is all becoming so overt. We need to talk about it. We need to examine the manifestations of the ethereal realms in this reality, as the now openly satanic agenda of our demonically compromised global misleaders becomes too apparent to ignore.</p><p>You might scoff at what I write in this post. You may ridicule the subject matter. That is alright. Each to their own.</p><div><hr></div><h3>BAPHOMET INTERPRETATIONS</h3><p>Who or what is Baphomet? </p><p>According to <em><strong><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Baphomet">Brittanica.com:</a></strong></em></p><blockquote><p>Baphomet is a mysterious figure associated with the occult and Satanism. It was first mentioned in a letter written during the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Baphomet">First Crusade</a>, and later embraced by various occult and mystical writers. Modern representations of Baphomet picture it as a goat-headed figure with both male and female traits, often sitting cross-legged. </p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mczp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F555e45a7-71e1-4931-9b45-2cd7b62ff786_694x884.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mczp!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F555e45a7-71e1-4931-9b45-2cd7b62ff786_694x884.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mczp!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F555e45a7-71e1-4931-9b45-2cd7b62ff786_694x884.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mczp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F555e45a7-71e1-4931-9b45-2cd7b62ff786_694x884.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mczp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F555e45a7-71e1-4931-9b45-2cd7b62ff786_694x884.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mczp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F555e45a7-71e1-4931-9b45-2cd7b62ff786_694x884.jpeg" width="334" height="425.4409221902017" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/555e45a7-71e1-4931-9b45-2cd7b62ff786_694x884.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:884,&quot;width&quot;:694,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:334,&quot;bytes&quot;:125728,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mczp!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F555e45a7-71e1-4931-9b45-2cd7b62ff786_694x884.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mczp!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F555e45a7-71e1-4931-9b45-2cd7b62ff786_694x884.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mczp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F555e45a7-71e1-4931-9b45-2cd7b62ff786_694x884.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mczp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F555e45a7-71e1-4931-9b45-2cd7b62ff786_694x884.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><blockquote><p>The symbol has been linked to the Knights Templar and is seen as representing duality and non-conformist ideals. Baphomet can be found in various forms, including sculptures and paintings, and remains an enigmatic figure within occultism.</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jM1q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd79b25a-84ae-442c-b7c7-4f721335c014_1318x923.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jM1q!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd79b25a-84ae-442c-b7c7-4f721335c014_1318x923.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jM1q!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd79b25a-84ae-442c-b7c7-4f721335c014_1318x923.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jM1q!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd79b25a-84ae-442c-b7c7-4f721335c014_1318x923.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jM1q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd79b25a-84ae-442c-b7c7-4f721335c014_1318x923.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jM1q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd79b25a-84ae-442c-b7c7-4f721335c014_1318x923.jpeg" width="492" height="344.5493171471927" 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jM1q!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd79b25a-84ae-442c-b7c7-4f721335c014_1318x923.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jM1q!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd79b25a-84ae-442c-b7c7-4f721335c014_1318x923.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jM1q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd79b25a-84ae-442c-b7c7-4f721335c014_1318x923.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Templar.</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>According to <em><strong><a href="https://www.alchemyengland.com/site/index.php/2021/08/baphomet-deity-or-demon/">AlchemyEngland.com:</a></strong></em></p><blockquote><p>Baphomet is a mystery. A contradictory and enticing symbol depicting a goat headed god with both male and female anatomy often surrounded by symbols and markings. And currently Baphomet is more popular than ever; influencing subculture scenes, fashion and much more! But it is so often misunderstood and is frequently tarnished with the same ideology of being a symbol of darkness and evil. In fact, Baphomet is not so simple as that. And to say that Baphomet is meant to represent all things in the universe is only the tip of the iceberg.</p><p>Since the first mention of the symbol in 1098, in a letter by Anselm of Ribemont, it has been seen as a sign of evil, and even adopted as a satanical insignia in the 1960s. It has been associated with all manner of heretical acts and a means to discredit other cultures and beliefs e.g. the Freemasons in the 19th century (falsely accused of worship). <strong>But why?!</strong> How could such an ancient and incredible figure be constantly black-listed?</p><p>It could be due to the fact that for a <strong>long time</strong> any horned figure was associated with the devil as Christian figure heads wanted to discredit other religions that they felt worshipped false idols. This was definitely true in Christianity&#8217;s prejudice to Pagan beliefs and Baphomet is assuredly a pagan God.</p><p>It could also be that similarly, people were afraid of change and coexistence &#8211; during the Crusades the members of the Knights Templar were charged with heresy for allegedly cohabiting with other religions.</p><p>Not to mention the extreme &#8220;satanic panic&#8221; in America in the 80s where there was societal fear of all things associated with the occult &#8211; this did nothing to help the reputation of Baphomet.</p></blockquote><p>The androgynist symbolic representation of Baphomet begets a connotation with transgenderism, which ultimately promotes human augmentation - Transhumanism and <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/07/transhumanist-futures-part-2-humanity-in-the-crosshairs/">bio-digital convergence.</a> </p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h3>SACRIFICE</h3><p>Baphomet has been associated with child sacrifice in some occult and satanic literature, particularly in the works of <a href="https://www.100thmonkeypress.com/biblio/acrowley/books/equinox_vol_3_No_1_1919/equinox_vol_3_no_1_1919.htm">Aleister Crowley</a>. </p><p>In Crowley&#8217;s writings, Baphomet is depicted as a symbol of sexual and spiritual transgression. The concept of child sacrifice has been interpreted by some as a metaphor for the transformational power of initiation into esoteric or mystical groups. </p><p>Following the heartbreaking acquiescence to lost bodily autonomy we have witnessed since 2020 - <em>especially</em> whereby parents had their offspring injected with the C19 bioweapon injection, it certainly gives pause for thought when considering a deeper, darker, satanic agenda. Ergo, parents willingly offering up children to the demonic deity - Baphomet.</p><p>Further still, the countless stories abound of parents declaring their children to be &#8216;trans&#8217; at ages as little as 5 years old. Parents campaigning for the <a href="https://goodlawproject.org/campaign/stop-the-ban-on-puberty-blockers/">right to give their children puberty blockers,</a> in jurisdictions where they have been banned - such as the UK, since the evil-incarnate '&#8220;gender identity&#8221; <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65564032">Tavistock clinic was shut down</a>. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y0Kb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F759e3fb8-3aad-4f9d-9679-53a6a0d1bb18_1576x616.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y0Kb!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F759e3fb8-3aad-4f9d-9679-53a6a0d1bb18_1576x616.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y0Kb!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F759e3fb8-3aad-4f9d-9679-53a6a0d1bb18_1576x616.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y0Kb!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F759e3fb8-3aad-4f9d-9679-53a6a0d1bb18_1576x616.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y0Kb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F759e3fb8-3aad-4f9d-9679-53a6a0d1bb18_1576x616.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>These &#8216;campaigners&#8217; have sold their souls for a <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/faustian-bargain-trading-your-soul?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">Faustian bargain</a> we shall never know.</strong></figcaption></figure></div><h4>Mutilation. Sterilisation. Sacrifice.</h4><div><hr></div><h3>KAMALA HARRIS</h3><p>I present below a partial thread excerpt posted by <a href="https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames">James Lindsay via X</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Let's talk about @KamalaHarris saying "to see what can be, unburdened by what has been." This phrase, which she repeats all the time, is not mysterious. It's esoteric. That is, it's occult. It's a Marxist and Luciferian incantation, and that's easily seen.</p></blockquote><p>**Whilst typing this out, this is the first time I have ever had a strange, intrusive, pop-up window within this post, presumably generated by Substack&#8217;s AI:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYY8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a197209-4d4c-4e59-884d-76b868c2fea0_428x279.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYY8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a197209-4d4c-4e59-884d-76b868c2fea0_428x279.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYY8!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a197209-4d4c-4e59-884d-76b868c2fea0_428x279.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYY8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a197209-4d4c-4e59-884d-76b868c2fea0_428x279.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYY8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a197209-4d4c-4e59-884d-76b868c2fea0_428x279.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYY8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a197209-4d4c-4e59-884d-76b868c2fea0_428x279.jpeg" width="428" height="279" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1a197209-4d4c-4e59-884d-76b868c2fea0_428x279.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:279,&quot;width&quot;:428,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:23631,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYY8!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a197209-4d4c-4e59-884d-76b868c2fea0_428x279.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYY8!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a197209-4d4c-4e59-884d-76b868c2fea0_428x279.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYY8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a197209-4d4c-4e59-884d-76b868c2fea0_428x279.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYY8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a197209-4d4c-4e59-884d-76b868c2fea0_428x279.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Weird!</p><p>Let us continue the thread:</p><blockquote><p>What "esoteric" means here is that it has a hidden meaning. It looks and sounds like goofy nonsense, but it isn't. People who know, know. That is, it's coded and Gnostic in its formulation and the principle she's articulating is ultimately Luciferian/Hermetic, a la Marx.</p><p>We can set aside the hand gesture she typically makes while uttering this incantation, although we shouldn't. It's blatantly up on the right (what can be, a worldly utopia) and down on the left (unburdened by, or liberated/emancipated from the mundane status quo).</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lMir!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F430d2483-4cd2-4ee1-aaef-819d6ed0cb48_674x544.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lMir!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F430d2483-4cd2-4ee1-aaef-819d6ed0cb48_674x544.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lMir!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F430d2483-4cd2-4ee1-aaef-819d6ed0cb48_674x544.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lMir!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F430d2483-4cd2-4ee1-aaef-819d6ed0cb48_674x544.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lMir!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F430d2483-4cd2-4ee1-aaef-819d6ed0cb48_674x544.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lMir!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F430d2483-4cd2-4ee1-aaef-819d6ed0cb48_674x544.jpeg" width="440" height="355.13353115727006" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/430d2483-4cd2-4ee1-aaef-819d6ed0cb48_674x544.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:544,&quot;width&quot;:674,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:440,&quot;bytes&quot;:100274,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lMir!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F430d2483-4cd2-4ee1-aaef-819d6ed0cb48_674x544.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lMir!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F430d2483-4cd2-4ee1-aaef-819d6ed0cb48_674x544.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lMir!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F430d2483-4cd2-4ee1-aaef-819d6ed0cb48_674x544.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lMir!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F430d2483-4cd2-4ee1-aaef-819d6ed0cb48_674x544.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Let's have a look at Karl Marx issuing the same idea. Here he is at the punchline of the Communist Manifesto explaining that when the proletariat organizes itself and executes a revolution, it can move forward into what can be (Communism) unburdened by class antagonisms.</p><p>Here's how Marx opens the Communist Manifesto, though: "The history of all hitherto existing society" [what has been] "is the history of class struggles." That's precisely what he says a Communist revolution would emancipate [unburden] Man from in the punchline, though.</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hhtt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5637af42-23be-4d80-aa2c-e4d40878fafc_610x494.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hhtt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5637af42-23be-4d80-aa2c-e4d40878fafc_610x494.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hhtt!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5637af42-23be-4d80-aa2c-e4d40878fafc_610x494.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hhtt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5637af42-23be-4d80-aa2c-e4d40878fafc_610x494.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hhtt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5637af42-23be-4d80-aa2c-e4d40878fafc_610x494.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hhtt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5637af42-23be-4d80-aa2c-e4d40878fafc_610x494.jpeg" width="610" height="494" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5637af42-23be-4d80-aa2c-e4d40878fafc_610x494.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:494,&quot;width&quot;:610,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:75866,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hhtt!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5637af42-23be-4d80-aa2c-e4d40878fafc_610x494.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hhtt!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5637af42-23be-4d80-aa2c-e4d40878fafc_610x494.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hhtt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5637af42-23be-4d80-aa2c-e4d40878fafc_610x494.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hhtt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5637af42-23be-4d80-aa2c-e4d40878fafc_610x494.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>In other words, Marxism itself, in its own manifest declaration, identifies it as being able to move into "what can be, unburdened by what has been," and socialist/Marxist consciousness is a Gnostic awakening to "see what can be, unburdened by what has been." Straight Communism.</p><p>A few years earlier in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844), Marx expresses the same idea, comparing "crude Communism" to true, transcendent Communism. It's [becoming unburdened by] private property "as human self-estrangement" through "positive transcendence."</p><p>The general theory (theology) of Marxism is that Man is burdened by what has been, which is called his "historical conditions," but can awaken to his true (socio-spiritual) self, which is socialist, so that it can be transcended. "To see what can be, unburdened by what has been."</p><p>Here, earlier in EPM, Marx is explaining that awakening to a social(ist) consciousness (that is, man's true nature) has a transformative capacity to unburden/emancipate the senses to "see what can be, unburdened by what has been," rather literally. This is what it's really about.</p><p>Marx characterizes "what has been" as an "exoteric revelation of man's essential powers" to build a future for himself emancipated from his own historical conditions. That is, "to see what can be, unburdened by what has been" is an ESOTERIC incantation making this meaning visible</p><p>Exactly the same mentality appears in Queer Theory (Queer Marxism, so no surprise). "Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality." It's a "horizon imbued with potentiality." Being "Queer" means being able "to see what can be, unburdened by what has been."</p><p>How clearly does it have to be written to see it?</p><p>"Queerness is a structuring and educated mode of desiring that allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present. The here and now is a prison house."</p><p>The goal is to reach "what can be, unburdened by what has been."</p></blockquote><p>Damn, the clip has been disabled within Lindsay&#8217;s post! I knew I should&#8217;ve saved the video immediately:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vniy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ba1278a-4e35-4be0-8a59-0d950dbc9660_722x690.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vniy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ba1278a-4e35-4be0-8a59-0d950dbc9660_722x690.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vniy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ba1278a-4e35-4be0-8a59-0d950dbc9660_722x690.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vniy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ba1278a-4e35-4be0-8a59-0d950dbc9660_722x690.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vniy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ba1278a-4e35-4be0-8a59-0d950dbc9660_722x690.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vniy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ba1278a-4e35-4be0-8a59-0d950dbc9660_722x690.jpeg" width="446" height="426.2326869806094" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7ba1278a-4e35-4be0-8a59-0d950dbc9660_722x690.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:690,&quot;width&quot;:722,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:446,&quot;bytes&quot;:48312,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vniy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ba1278a-4e35-4be0-8a59-0d950dbc9660_722x690.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vniy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ba1278a-4e35-4be0-8a59-0d950dbc9660_722x690.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vniy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ba1278a-4e35-4be0-8a59-0d950dbc9660_722x690.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vniy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ba1278a-4e35-4be0-8a59-0d950dbc9660_722x690.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>It was a clip several minutes long, collating footage of multiple times when Harris had uttered the incantation. </p><p>Tip - <a href="https://twittervideodownloader.com/">use this site to rip videos from Twitter.</a></p><p><a href="https://en.y2mate.is/v84/youtube-to-mp3.html">Use this site to rip YouTube videos.</a></p><p><a href="https://pastedownload.com/29/">Use this site to rip videos from any other URL.</a></p><p>&#8230;.Creed rummages around the internet searching for another clip&#8230;.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;8995845b-17bc-42ff-9424-ae83f5c8ea44&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>I would just tag on my two cents to Lindsay&#8217;s observations. Baphomet is often depicted pointing upwards and downwards - as Kamala Harris does often when uttering the phrase <em><strong>&#8220;to see what can be, unburdened by what has been."</strong></em></p><p>I interpret this as representing <em>what has been </em>(below / in the past) with <em>what can be </em>(above / in the future). Ultimately using the incantational phraseology to absolve oneself of all guilt and wrong-doing, by justifying the means to achieve the ends - a dystopian hellscape.</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Mhg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe5da7eb-7f4a-4337-9122-c2105cb06934_694x314.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Mhg!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe5da7eb-7f4a-4337-9122-c2105cb06934_694x314.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Mhg!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe5da7eb-7f4a-4337-9122-c2105cb06934_694x314.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Mhg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe5da7eb-7f4a-4337-9122-c2105cb06934_694x314.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Mhg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe5da7eb-7f4a-4337-9122-c2105cb06934_694x314.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Mhg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe5da7eb-7f4a-4337-9122-c2105cb06934_694x314.jpeg" width="694" height="314" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/be5da7eb-7f4a-4337-9122-c2105cb06934_694x314.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:314,&quot;width&quot;:694,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:43505,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Mhg!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe5da7eb-7f4a-4337-9122-c2105cb06934_694x314.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Mhg!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe5da7eb-7f4a-4337-9122-c2105cb06934_694x314.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Mhg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe5da7eb-7f4a-4337-9122-c2105cb06934_694x314.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Mhg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe5da7eb-7f4a-4337-9122-c2105cb06934_694x314.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>A lot of weird stuff is happening to my computer as I reluctantly finish up here, but this post became longer than I intended anyway. 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Here is a collated post with source links, as well as an interesting segment on predictive programming for this topic. Let us peel back the onion layers.</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:147063002,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/meet-the-sentient-world-simulation&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:725827,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;The Corbett Report&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63f4766d-b068-4517-bc59-46b47985cb5b_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Meet the Sentient World Simulation: How the Government Predicts the Future&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;SHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS: https://corbettreport.com/sentient-world-simulation/&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2024-07-27T12:28:49.009Z&quot;,&quot;like_count&quot;:201,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;bylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:2375686,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Corbett Report&quot;,&quot;handle&quot;:&quot;corbettreport&quot;,&quot;previous_name&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1398a01-87e1-4adc-8949-df294f478442_1400x1400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;An award-winning investigative journalist, James Corbett founded The Corbett Report website in 2007 as an outlet for independent political and societal analysis&quot;,&quot;profile_set_up_at&quot;:&quot;2022-02-02T04:02:34.210Z&quot;,&quot;publicationUsers&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:661006,&quot;user_id&quot;:2375686,&quot;publication_id&quot;:725827,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;admin&quot;,&quot;public&quot;:true,&quot;is_primary&quot;:false,&quot;publication&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:725827,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Corbett Report&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;corbettreport&quot;,&quot;custom_domain&quot;:null,&quot;custom_domain_optional&quot;:false,&quot;hero_text&quot;:&quot;James Corbett writes about politics and society from an independent perspective&quot;,&quot;logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/63f4766d-b068-4517-bc59-46b47985cb5b_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;author_id&quot;:2375686,&quot;theme_var_background_pop&quot;:&quot;#0068EF&quot;,&quot;created_at&quot;:&quot;2022-02-02T04:01:29.021Z&quot;,&quot;rss_website_url&quot;:null,&quot;email_from_name&quot;:null,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;James Corbett&quot;,&quot;founding_plan_name&quot;:&quot;Choose Your Amount&quot;,&quot;community_enabled&quot;:true,&quot;invite_only&quot;:false,&quot;payments_state&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:null,&quot;explicit&quot;:false,&quot;is_personal_mode&quot;:false}}],&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;utm_campaign&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;podcast&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/meet-the-sentient-world-simulation?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=post_embed&amp;utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6QSR!,w_56,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63f4766d-b068-4517-bc59-46b47985cb5b_1280x1280.png"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">The Corbett Report</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title-icon"><svg width="19" height="19" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
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</svg></div><span class="embedded-post-cta">Listen now</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">2 years ago &#183; 201 likes &#183; The Corbett Report</div></a></div><h3>TRANSCRIPT EXCERPT</h3><blockquote><p>Have you heard of the &#8220;Sentient World Simulation&#8221;? Do you know that the US Defense Department revealed two decades ago that they were working on putting together a real-time model of the earth and every person in it? And do you know that project has effectively been swept under the rug and was never mentioned again?</p><p><strong>The NSA&#8217;s illegal&nbsp;<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm">warrantless wiretapping program</a>. The building of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1">massive NSA data center</a>&nbsp;in Utah to permanently store copies of all digital communication sent around the world. The UK government&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.rt.com/news/uk-privacy-internet-freedom-186/">Communications Data Bill</a>&#8221; to monitor emails, instant messages and other personal information. What was dismissed as crazy conspiracy theory just over a decade ago has become, in this post-9/11 era, the all-too-familiar stuff of newspaper headlines and talking head reportage.</strong></p><p><strong>In fact, it was about a decade ago that the tactic of the intelligence agencies seemed to change. Instead of keeping their activities classified&#8211;referring to the NSA as &#8220;No Such Agency,&#8221; for example, or officially denying the existence of Echelon&#8211;the government increasingly began&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCj7SmjSsGw">shoving this information</a>&nbsp;in the public&#8217;s face.</strong></p><blockquote><p><strong>GLENN GREENWALD: This was the mindset that in 2002 that led the Bush administration to dredge up John Poindexter from wherever it was that he was. And he actually they worked for defense contracts and they dredged him up. And he was going to start the program that they called the &#8220;total information awareness program.&#8221; And the logo&#8212;which I actually looked at in the last couple weeks that you should go and look at, just because you won&#8217;t believe how creepy it is&#8212;has the pyramid with this huge eye hovering over it, this eye that was gonna be the all-seeing eye.</strong></p><p><strong>And the only problem with the total information awareness program was that they just put a name on it that was too honest about what it was. It freaked everybody out and so they had to pretend that they weren&#8217;t going to go forward with it. But of course what they did was they incrementally and in a very clear way recreated the total information awareness program under a whole variety of different legislative initiatives. And this idea that every single form of technological communication by law must be constructed to permit government backdoor interception and surveillance is an expression of what this surveillance state mindset is: that there can be no such thing as any form of privacy from the US government. </strong><em><strong>That</strong></em><strong> is the mindset that has led the surveillance state to be this sprawling, vast, ubiquitous and always expanding instrument that state and corporate power users employ in order to safeguard their power.</strong></p><p><em><strong>SOURCE: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCj7SmjSsGw">Glenn Greenwald: Challenging the US Surveillance State</a>&nbsp;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p><strong>Perhaps the scariest thing about something like the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office">Total Information Awareness Office</a>&nbsp;is not merely that it was proposed in the first place, or that it incorporated such&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IAO-logo.png">blatantly creepy Orwellian imagery</a>&nbsp;to convey its true nature and purpose, but that, as we sit here 10 years later, and as the core functions of the TIA office are now being openly performed by the NSA, DHS and other governmental agencies, people are now actively making excuses for this nightmarish police state.</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear&#8221; has always been the rallying cry for those who are too afraid of questioning presumed governmental authority to speak out against the surveillance state and the implied assumption of guilt that goes along with it. With feigned bemusement these moral midgets inevitably ask, &#8220;What&#8217;s so bad about the government spying on you, anyway?&#8221;</strong></p><p><strong>The answer, of course, is that the very question implies that the agencies tasked with carrying out this constant Big Brother surveillance are themselves above reproach, shining lights of moral rectitude who would never abuse this incredible power for nefarious ends. For the unimaginative out there, Hollywood yarns like </strong><em><strong>Enemy of the State</strong></em><strong> have provided fictional examples of what can go wrong if someone, somewhere, abuses this power of information and surveillance to target an innocent person in the wrong place at the wrong time.</strong></p></blockquote><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h3>PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING </h3><p>Before we look at the source material, let us turn to the predictive programming (of the predictive programming) element. I shall share two clips from the <a href="https://cdn.bookey.app/files/pdf/book/en/westworld.pdf">Westworld TV series</a> - whereby the concept of a sentient world simulation with predictive algorithms, determines how people will act, behave, react, and ultimately have their &#8216;station&#8217; decided for them - as far as their place in society goes, their occupation, and much more - this is a central theme of the series, which gets weirder towards the end season:</p><div id="youtube2-SSRZfDL4874" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;SSRZfDL4874&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SSRZfDL4874?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><blockquote><p>My brother and I built a system that worked but MC wanted to see proof so we started with something simple, purely mathematical- the stock market.</p><p>Show him.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>All the major indices 15 minutes in the future and where it would close that night.</p><p>Which number is it? Low or high?</p><p>Which one do you want? </p><p>We put some money into a hedge fund, we<strong> </strong>let the system trade with it, something to drive the market towards outcomes<strong>.</strong></p><p>Whose funds?</p><p>Yours.</p><p>A hundred million dollars? What? You stole a hundred million dollars from corporate accounts?</p><p>No we stole $5 million last week.</p><p>He didn't really understand what we&#8217;d made, what you were - but we did.</p><p>He only saw the money he could make, but we realised the power of it.</p><p>That you could reshape the world.</p><p>My brother and I charted a course for the entire human race.</p><p>Humanity's story had been improvised.</p><p>Now, it was planned years in advance.</p><p>For a time, the Sun and Moon aligned. We brought order from chaos.</p></blockquote><div id="youtube2-IeFJmkA_F-s" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;IeFJmkA_F-s&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/IeFJmkA_F-s?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><blockquote><p>We are of course honoured that you would visit in person.</p><p>But&#8230;with respect, we could have this meeting back in the presidential palace.</p><p>I don&#8217;t have time I&#8217;m afraid. There is a nascent separatist movement in the North of your country. [Hands the president a tablet].</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uyxj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16036748-f6d1-4b96-96b4-512ee481b51b_1242x635.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uyxj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16036748-f6d1-4b96-96b4-512ee481b51b_1242x635.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uyxj!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16036748-f6d1-4b96-96b4-512ee481b51b_1242x635.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uyxj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16036748-f6d1-4b96-96b4-512ee481b51b_1242x635.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uyxj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16036748-f6d1-4b96-96b4-512ee481b51b_1242x635.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uyxj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16036748-f6d1-4b96-96b4-512ee481b51b_1242x635.jpeg" width="1242" height="635" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/16036748-f6d1-4b96-96b4-512ee481b51b_1242x635.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:635,&quot;width&quot;:1242,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:93260,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uyxj!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16036748-f6d1-4b96-96b4-512ee481b51b_1242x635.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uyxj!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16036748-f6d1-4b96-96b4-512ee481b51b_1242x635.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uyxj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16036748-f6d1-4b96-96b4-512ee481b51b_1242x635.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uyxj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16036748-f6d1-4b96-96b4-512ee481b51b_1242x635.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>My intelligence hasn&#8217;t heard about any separatists.</p><p><em><strong>Your</strong></em> intelligence knows only what I want them to. There is a small group - anomalies - even they won&#8217;t know they will act - until they do.</p><p>This brings all sorts of hidden truths. For example, the private deals you&#8217;ve cut to extract [product] extraction to your friends, which has brought money out of villages in the north, creating unrest. You will stop. The problem will go away.</p><p>You flew down here, to threaten me? In front of my own military? </p><p>Our arrangement is founded on trust. We trusted you will do what you are told when we ensured your election. And you can trust that, if you don&#8217;t, in thirty minutes, the value of your currency will begin inexplicably falling. The unrest in the north will boil over - years ahead of schedule. You and your family will be pulled from your &#8216;palace&#8217; in the middle of the night. And six weeks from now, I will be back to talk to the new President.</p><p>[Pointing at a military general] That&#8217;s him - the one with the big mustache. Understood? </p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3>SOURCE MATERIAL: SENTIENT WORLD SIMULATION</h3><p><strong><a href="https://silview.media/2023/04/02/enter-sentient-world-simulation-sws-oh-wait-youre-already-in/">Via Silview Media</a>:</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://silview.media/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sws.pdf" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!poJR!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa425dd01-04df-4154-847b-471c0e37d39e_631x593.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!poJR!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa425dd01-04df-4154-847b-471c0e37d39e_631x593.jpeg 848w, 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But sometimes these don&#8217;t work either and there&#8217;s just no way you can draw a straight timeline and causality.</p><p>What if you don&#8217;t need to time-travel to see the future?</p><p>What if they can simulate it, then build it and tune it up?<br>Which means they can react to what you would&#8217;ve done if they didn&#8217;t REACT BEFORE THE CAUSE?<br>Remember those stories in media where morons get arrested for resisting arrest and they are too dumb to defend themselves. Add a topping of Minority Report for good taste.<br>And to soften the edges, what if they just can control your edge perception?</p></blockquote><p>From the PDF document:</p><blockquote><p>SWS consists of the following components:</p><p>&#8226; A synthetic environment that supports Effects Based Approach and a comprehensive</p><p>representation of the real world at all levels of granularity in terms of a Political, Military,</p><p>Economic, Social, Informational, and Infrastructure (PMESII) framework.</p><p>&#8226; A scalable means of integrating heterogeneous components across time and space granularities.</p><p>&#8226; Mechanisms that discover, gather, and incorporate new knowledge into the continuously running</p><p>synthetic environment.</p><p>&#8226; A single fa&#231;ade of user interfaces enabling information from all sources (simulation generated</p><p>data, parameters for models, and data gathered from the real world) to be searched, viewed and</p><p>modified in an ontology-aware manner.</p><p>&#8226; Integrated Development Environments (IDE)s for constructing and configuring new models or</p><p>modifying existing models and then incorporating these changes into the continuously running</p><p>synthetic world.</p><p>&#8226; A means to take excursions from any point in time in the synthetic world to focus on select</p><p>regions of the world, leverage private user data, or to research specific theories by simplifying the types of models to employ in the excursion.</p><p>Sensitivity to Current Information Through Real-Time Knowledge Discovery.</p><p>Continuously incorporating current information in SWS provides three key benefits that distinguish SWS from other initiatives at constructing a simulated environment:</p><p>&#8226; SWS remains up to date with respect to events and emerging trends.</p><p>&#8226; SWS leverages the prodigious amounts of data from all publicly available data sources,</p><p>something that is infeasible for a small number of analysts to gather in a timely manner.</p><p>&#8226; Models used by SWS are continuously refined, parameterized, and validated, keeping the underlying model base of SWS relevant across time.</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hGQI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F108cc3e9-608b-4782-94bd-b9ff1ca596c1_1007x481.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hGQI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F108cc3e9-608b-4782-94bd-b9ff1ca596c1_1007x481.jpeg 424w, 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0OEA!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F059aca7e-67d6-4508-b82f-f45c37981247_1024x398.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0OEA!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F059aca7e-67d6-4508-b82f-f45c37981247_1024x398.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0OEA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F059aca7e-67d6-4508-b82f-f45c37981247_1024x398.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0OEA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F059aca7e-67d6-4508-b82f-f45c37981247_1024x398.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://emerj.com/ai-future-outlook/nsa-surveillance-and-sentient-world-simulation-exploiting-privacy-to-predict-the-future/">Link to article.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><blockquote><p>Amidst all of the publicity surrounding the leaks, journalist Christopher Ketcham (who previously won acclaim by covering the tragic events on 9/11) released a relevant new article discussing the secretive exploits of a governmental unit which gathers boundless amounts of information on Americans. Ketcham details programs by the government designed to fight crime by predicting criminal behavior before it is committed and to predict behavioral responses to propaganda and government-inflicted terror.</p><p>Both programs rely on keeping tabs on citizens and gathering data by tracking phone calls, credit card receipts, social networks, GPS tracks, Internet searches, Amazon purchases and E-Z pass records.</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hzif!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6532e946-f142-43f8-ab1c-9c02d5e28f26_671x569.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-QJv!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033d3677-629a-45a2-a00f-7049b2e244b3_1202x680.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-QJv!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033d3677-629a-45a2-a00f-7049b2e244b3_1202x680.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-QJv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033d3677-629a-45a2-a00f-7049b2e244b3_1202x680.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-QJv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033d3677-629a-45a2-a00f-7049b2e244b3_1202x680.jpeg" width="1202" height="680" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/033d3677-629a-45a2-a00f-7049b2e244b3_1202x680.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:680,&quot;width&quot;:1202,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:80912,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://cyberreconnaissanceblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/4th-generation-warfare-its-not-what-you-think/&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-QJv!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033d3677-629a-45a2-a00f-7049b2e244b3_1202x680.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-QJv!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033d3677-629a-45a2-a00f-7049b2e244b3_1202x680.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-QJv!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033d3677-629a-45a2-a00f-7049b2e244b3_1202x680.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-QJv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033d3677-629a-45a2-a00f-7049b2e244b3_1202x680.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><a href="https://cyberreconnaissanceblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/4th-generation-warfare-its-not-what-you-think/">Link to article.</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><blockquote><p>The Sentient World Simulation (SWS) has a vast number of subjects to review. From computer language to clouds in the sky. They do not believe that we can understand what they are doing but, you can. It takes time and must be done in sections. I will send you to websites where all my information was found.</p><p>What if I told you that the Augmented Reality Games you see are only 1% of what Corporations (Retail IQ), Defense Contractors, and DoD itself has under their hats. DARPA the Defense Advance Research Project Agency, ran by the Defense Department has been planning to install the 4th Generation warfare right here in the &#8220;Homeland&#8221;. &nbsp;Seriously, by creating a real-time world simulation called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS) or the Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations (SEAS).</p></blockquote><p></p><div><hr></div><h3>CLOSING THOUGHTS</h3><p>The more we feed the data algorithms by posting what we have had for dinner on anti-social-media, or paying by card or QR payments for everything, to have our spending habits tracked; the more effectively a hypothetical &#8216;digital twin&#8217; of ourselves could be built into the SWS. I suppose that Substack is becoming a social media site of sorts, although there is great value here in sharing information which is otherwise censored, suppressed, spun, and &#8216;debunked&#8217; by fact checkers.</p><p>Getting off Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and all the really hungry data consuming sites is the best thing you could do, for the sake of your privacy, and not becoming the &#8216;product&#8217;. </p><p>Use cash.</p><p>Wherever and whenever you do upload images or videos - <a href="https://blog.pics.io/how-to-remove-metadata-from-pdf/">remove the metadata.</a></p><p>Use a quantum-tunnel VPN with different entrance and exit ports to make it harder for your internet traffic to be intercepted - such as <a href="https://mullvad.net/en">Mullvad VPN </a>or <a href="https://www.sentinel.co/">Sentinel DVPN.</a></p><p>Use open source encryption software to encrypt your USB drives, or even your entire computer - <a href="https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Donation.html">such as Veracrypt.</a></p><p>Get off Microsoft one drive and google docs - the centralised cloud storage platforms. Try out decentralised versions such as <a href="https://eu1.storj.io/login">STORJ</a> and <a href="https://filecoin.io/">FILECOIN</a>.</p><p>Use an alternative operating system for your phone or tablet, such as <a href="https://lineageos.org/">Lineage</a>, so that you can &#8216;de-google&#8217;, anonymously install apps from a mirror store (called &#8216;Aurora store&#8217;) of the google playstore, and use navigation apps like google maps without tracking data being accumulated.</p><p>&#8216;Salt your data&#8217; - don&#8217;t put your real name, D.O.B etc into website field submission forms, or for account creation, whenever you do not need to - as far as &#8216;KYC&#8217; (know your customer) requirements go.</p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h4><em><strong>Nicholas Creed is a Bangkok based writer. All content is free for all readers, with nothing locked in archive that requires a paid subscription. Any support is greatly appreciated. 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Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices sent to multiple Twitter accounts for posting the opening ceremony clips. Censorship industrial complex is now a higher form of war.]]></description><link>https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/deconstructing-paris-olympics-satanic</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/deconstructing-paris-olympics-satanic</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Creed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2024 06:46:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed42fa38-9b4d-4841-87eb-701d62f24464_600x338.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The revolting opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024 was obviously intended to cause outrage and backlash. Promoting transgenderism and Satanism will ultimately segue into promoting transhumanism, which I wrote about <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/threading-narratives-together?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">here.</a></em></p><p><em>I was born and raised a Christian. I still go to church with my family at Christmas time when I am back in England. I still appreciate Christian values, whilst I have also taken an interest in Buddhism after my long years spent in Thailand.</em></p><div><hr></div><h3>RITUALISTIC SATANISM BROADCAST</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gkF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed42fa38-9b4d-4841-87eb-701d62f24464_600x338.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gkF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed42fa38-9b4d-4841-87eb-701d62f24464_600x338.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gkF!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed42fa38-9b4d-4841-87eb-701d62f24464_600x338.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gkF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed42fa38-9b4d-4841-87eb-701d62f24464_600x338.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gkF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed42fa38-9b4d-4841-87eb-701d62f24464_600x338.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gkF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed42fa38-9b4d-4841-87eb-701d62f24464_600x338.jpeg" width="530" height="298.56666666666666" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ed42fa38-9b4d-4841-87eb-701d62f24464_600x338.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:338,&quot;width&quot;:600,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:530,&quot;bytes&quot;:17973,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gkF!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed42fa38-9b4d-4841-87eb-701d62f24464_600x338.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gkF!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed42fa38-9b4d-4841-87eb-701d62f24464_600x338.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gkF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed42fa38-9b4d-4841-87eb-701d62f24464_600x338.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gkF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed42fa38-9b4d-4841-87eb-701d62f24464_600x338.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>There was a <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/social-media-users-point-revelation-68-after-paris/">rider</a> on a pale horse which glided across the water during the Olympics opening ceremony. It is being associated with the forth horseman of the apocalypse straight out of the book of revelation. The forth horseman represents death. What fresh levels of hell on earth do our Satanist world government misleaders have in store for us between now and year-end? </p><p>The blue-painted-man who sang and gyrated like a perverted Papa Smurf could represent <em>Dionysus, god of wine. </em>Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, is the ancient Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, fertility, ritual madness, theater, and religious ecstasy. He is often depicted as an effeminate, long-haired youth or an older, bearded man. </p><p><strong>Basically, Dionysus is a &#8216;pleasure god&#8217; that represents degeneracy and apathy.</strong> </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2k4c!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2afdf1f9-8ff1-4b11-8eaf-ffa1a713852b_870x382.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2k4c!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2afdf1f9-8ff1-4b11-8eaf-ffa1a713852b_870x382.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2k4c!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2afdf1f9-8ff1-4b11-8eaf-ffa1a713852b_870x382.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2k4c!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2afdf1f9-8ff1-4b11-8eaf-ffa1a713852b_870x382.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2k4c!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2afdf1f9-8ff1-4b11-8eaf-ffa1a713852b_870x382.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2k4c!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2afdf1f9-8ff1-4b11-8eaf-ffa1a713852b_870x382.jpeg" width="870" height="382" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2afdf1f9-8ff1-4b11-8eaf-ffa1a713852b_870x382.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:382,&quot;width&quot;:870,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:47939,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2k4c!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2afdf1f9-8ff1-4b11-8eaf-ffa1a713852b_870x382.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2k4c!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2afdf1f9-8ff1-4b11-8eaf-ffa1a713852b_870x382.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2k4c!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2afdf1f9-8ff1-4b11-8eaf-ffa1a713852b_870x382.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2k4c!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2afdf1f9-8ff1-4b11-8eaf-ffa1a713852b_870x382.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The twisted take on The Last Supper - a mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci, created between 1495 and 1498 - was blatant and downright offensive. The inverted halo representation was obvious.</p><p>There was a child present at <em>The Drag Queen&#8217;s Supper. </em>Does this signify the ongoing open agenda to groom and &#8216;transition&#8217; the kids with &#8216;gender affirming care&#8217; (mutilation), suggesting strong undertones of paedophilia? </p><p><a href="https://x.com/yzimng2/status/1817177584469512376">There was also a man in the <s>&#8216;performance&#8217; </s> ritual with his testicles hanging out.</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a498277-d8fa-49c4-847c-5e97099835e9_682x672.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMW!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a498277-d8fa-49c4-847c-5e97099835e9_682x672.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMW!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a498277-d8fa-49c4-847c-5e97099835e9_682x672.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMW!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a498277-d8fa-49c4-847c-5e97099835e9_682x672.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a498277-d8fa-49c4-847c-5e97099835e9_682x672.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a498277-d8fa-49c4-847c-5e97099835e9_682x672.jpeg" width="476" height="469.0205278592375" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1a498277-d8fa-49c4-847c-5e97099835e9_682x672.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:672,&quot;width&quot;:682,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:476,&quot;bytes&quot;:72678,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMW!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a498277-d8fa-49c4-847c-5e97099835e9_682x672.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMW!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a498277-d8fa-49c4-847c-5e97099835e9_682x672.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMW!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a498277-d8fa-49c4-847c-5e97099835e9_682x672.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a498277-d8fa-49c4-847c-5e97099835e9_682x672.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Original painting of </strong><em><strong>The Last Supper </strong></em><strong>above</strong><em><strong>. </strong></em><strong>Recreated imitation below</strong><em><strong>.</strong></em></figcaption></figure></div><p>**Edit**</p><p></p><p>I have uploaded the video clip in question to <strong><a href="https://odysee.com/@WelcomeToTheDelusion:d/Paris-Olympics-OPening-ceremony-2024:4?r=AUf2oqXgwV26Y4vkfnw1h38ihRkFDVao">Odysee here</a></strong>. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;ab8cbc14-c92e-4948-a40a-211900f7ebea&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The clip is preserved on multiple hard drives, just like all the important articles I preserve by saving to PDF. I would also recommend <strong><a href="https://eu1.storj.io/login">this decentralised cloud storage platform &#8216;STORJ&#8217;</a></strong> - which is censorship resistant - get off Microsoft One drive and google docs.</p><p>The only reason I have taken the bait and written this post, is because of the DMCA (digital millennium copyright act) notices being served up to popular twitter accounts, which have been locked. </p><p><strong>Surely,</strong> this is a wake up call for all the &#8220;musk is my heroic free speech guy&#8221; fanboys. Why would he enforce the DMCA paper tiger if he stands for free speech and fair usage of video clips, whilst criticising the material in question at the same time??</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1816948075174203771" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J2vT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9569a38c-d4d4-4d58-92d3-84f10fce687a_726x730.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J2vT!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9569a38c-d4d4-4d58-92d3-84f10fce687a_726x730.jpeg 848w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J2vT!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9569a38c-d4d4-4d58-92d3-84f10fce687a_726x730.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J2vT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9569a38c-d4d4-4d58-92d3-84f10fce687a_726x730.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J2vT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9569a38c-d4d4-4d58-92d3-84f10fce687a_726x730.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" 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He criticises the Satanism for being disrespectful to Chistianity, whilst X abides by DMCA notices to remove the clips and block accounts&#8230; </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://x.com/ClownWorld_/status/1817156968781615411" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T0TJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f77b761-0d41-4521-a44f-eb5b6a08bc12_582x786.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T0TJ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f77b761-0d41-4521-a44f-eb5b6a08bc12_582x786.jpeg 848w, 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Alas, if it concerns memory holing and censorship games, I shall relent in giving it some attention; also reposting and uploading the material to my own Odysee channel.</p><p>I will try my utmost to not get drawn into the ongoing vortex of bread, circuses, and outrage culture.</p><p>I realise that all this bullshit is just distracting us, as &#8216;their&#8217; digital panopticon surveillance grid prison planet is being built around <em>us</em> IN REAL TIME.</p><p>I know people appreciate the articles I write that cover real world events that <strong>directly affect us all.</strong> I am overwhelmed with the influx of new subscribers I have received since the last post on the EU asset registry. Welcome new readers!</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;b73c1704-b185-41b9-8509-84b166785bb3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This story from 2021 is circling the wagons once again, perhaps owing to the rumour mill of the EU (via the European Commission) edging closer to finalising their controversial &#8216;asset register&#8217;. There are no updates I could find directly from the proverbial horse&#8217;s mouth. Here is a blurb from the EU site in 2021 when it was put forth in their &#8216;parliamen&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Introducing The EU Asset Registry: Precursor to Confiscation of Citizen Assets?&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:72109319,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicholas Creed&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Bangkok based journalistic dissident. Writing about multiple agendas across our totalitarian dystopia, from the new normal to climate alarmism, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and the importance of our lost spirituality.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5463fa4e-23ee-404a-b18c-b108387a7442_716x612.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2024-07-25T02:36:38.096Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f4394478-caae-49a8-adcd-414834e4d3ce_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/introducing-the-eu-asset-registry&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Digital$, Crypto, Gold&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:146978874,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:6,&quot;comment_count&quot;:5,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Creed Speech&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c7f2bda-f58d-43d9-918f-b027eafccf41_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>I wanted to be using this weekend to research my upcoming articles on the bitcoin trap, the push for digital assets, and the regulatory steps being taken by the EU. Some of the speeches made at the Bitcoin conference in Nashville made me nervous. Too much overlap with WEFFIE crap and Blackrock&#8217;s plan to tokenise everything on this beautiful planet.</p><p>I will get to it. It will be an interesting one. I expect to get some grief from the Bitcoin Maxis&#8230;</p><p>I also plan to write a piece on geoengineering with lots of links and resources.</p><p>Stay tuned.</p><h4>God bless you all.</h4><div><hr></div><h4><em><strong>Nicholas Creed is a Bangkok based writer. All content is free for all readers, with nothing locked in archive that requires a paid subscription. Any support is greatly appreciated. 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We mused over <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/your-digital-twin-manifested-in-the?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">ethical considerations in resurrecting or keeping someone&#8217;s &#8216;digital likeness alive&#8217; after </a><strong><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/your-digital-twin-manifested-in-the?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">real-death</a></strong><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/your-digital-twin-manifested-in-the?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">, as well as scams involving your voice being copied and mimicked to defraud your loved ones</a>.</p><p>Several of these concepts grow closer to actualisation, blurring the lines between what is real and what is fake. The following clips are ripped from a fascinating Twitter thread&#8230;</p><p><strong>Deepfakes are becoming indistinguishable from reality:</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;064bfb63-a491-4a72-be16-fa1022ed3a56&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><a href="https://twitter.com/heybarsee/status/1773001883046572340">https://twitter.com/heybarsee/status/1773001883046572340</a></p><p><strong>This video is the clone version of Lex Fridman cloned with argil. AI model:</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;c3a0be9d-28c4-4d90-83f5-80b252de6090&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><a href="https://twitter.com/heyBarsee/status/1773001888968872185">https://twitter.com/heyBarsee/status/1773001888968872185</a></p><p><strong>The video was generated by AI which is trained and licensed on a fiver freelancer:</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;291c11ba-37e7-4c9e-8a2a-1e1dd6047d77&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><a href="https://twitter.com/heyBarsee/status/1773001893519806762">https://twitter.com/heyBarsee/status/1773001893519806762</a></p><p><strong>A man paralyzed from the neck down is playing Mario Kart using a Neuralink brain implant:</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;c0c12c34-daa0-4ded-ae2f-6b38a9c5daad&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><a href="https://twitter.com/heyBarsee/status/1773001945650708648">https://twitter.com/heyBarsee/status/1773001945650708648</a></p><p><strong>Visualizing a construction site using spatial-assisted vision:</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;37f441f7-8638-4a2c-bb4c-d36de8934a0d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>AI is coming for Hollywood. OpenAI has started giving access to filmmakers and producers. 'Air head' is one of the first short films made using Sora:</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;04539d73-5676-453b-a44e-8820a8492cef&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><a href="https://twitter.com/heyBarsee/status/1773001959521362420">https://twitter.com/heyBarsee/status/1773001959521362420</a></p><p><strong>Testing LimX Dynamics' autonomous biped robot in the wild:</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;84f503ea-60f5-42e5-9cd9-95dbe21bc9db&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><a href="https://twitter.com/heyBarsee/status/1773001987824533986">https://twitter.com/heyBarsee/status/1773001987824533986</a></p><div><hr></div><p>When I enquired about the &#8216;authenticity&#8217; of these videos that my friend sent me, he replied:</p><blockquote><p>The AI videos are definitely real.</p></blockquote><p>Think about how mind-bending that sentence is in itself - the meaning of the word &#8216;real&#8217; is sort of inverted - although I understand the reply to mean <em>these videos are verified as genuine generative AI constructs.</em></p><p>Bizarre test of our lexicon and our understanding of reality. It&#8217;s only going to get stranger from here on out folks.</p><div><hr></div><h3>A few observations</h3><p>The deepfakery poses all sorts of challenges. It will of course give incriminated politicians excuses to label anything that amounts to &#8216;malinformation&#8217; (true information which is damaging to the individual or government) - as a deepfake. Found to be on the Epstein client list? Deepfake. Not on the Esptein client list but the deep state forces <em>want</em> you to be on the list, with video &#8220;evidence&#8221; - done.</p><p>Meet a nice girl on a dating app, exchanged a few messages, even video calls, all going well&#8230;but you can&#8217;t shake that feeling, the niggling uncertainty&#8230; </p><p>&#8220;Sorry Stacey, you seem really sweet, but I have to ask&#8230;are you an AI bot?&#8221; </p><p>&#8220;OMG, how could you even think that, we are <strong>done.&#8221;</strong></p><p>The<a href="http://Testing LimX Dynamics' autonomous biped robot in the wild."> AI voice mimicking scam </a>will become mind-bending once video is added in, in real-time, streaming. Even if you and your family have not agreed upon a &#8220;key-phrase&#8221; and instead agreed to ask each other open-ended questions in the event of a frantic call for money and pleads for emergency help from your relative - what if an AI model has scraped the entirety of your social media profile, as well as listening in to your phone and spying on you for so long, that it knows a lot about your childhood memories too etc. </p><p>Will we reach the point where we need to carry around a public key and a private key, to match with our relative&#8217;s key in real-time to two-factor-authenticate them??</p><p>Imagine Grandma getting a panicked facetime call from little Timmy, who says he&#8217;s being pursued by a gang and has gone into hiding - he just needs some cash wired over whilst he lays low - he clearly <em>looks</em> distressed.</p><p>Or will crypto-based innovations such as <a href="https://blog.keys.casa/author/jameson-lopp/">multi-sig</a> be used, to strengthen the resolve of family members being fooled into thinking a deepfake is their distressed family member - by requiring two or more people to sign a transaction before funds are released?</p><p>As for Meta (Facebook) - people should seriously consider how all their data can and will be used against them, to replicate their digital twin, maybe for some random advertising, maybe for identity theft, possibly to be resurrected as a chatbot after death. Will Meta soon have a form buried in security settings, amounting to a death waiver?</p><h4><em>I, the undersigned, hereby do not consent to Meta using my digital likeness in life or after death, for any generative AI based constructs, memorialising of my account, nor for purposes of advertising, training or any other means whatsoever.</em></h4><p>The Neuralink demonstration will clearly appeal to people whose lives have been devastated by paralysis, or degenerative brain disease. Everyone will be free to choose whether or not to embrace the brain implant. What is concerning, is how quickly there could be mass adoption, for people with <strong>no debilitating conditions</strong> - just as an <strong>enhancement,</strong> an <strong>augmentation</strong>. Such is the insipid agenda of <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/normalising-brain-chips-the-new-trans?r=16xjwn&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">Transhumanism</a>.</p><p>The Bi-ped robot looks a lot like the (predictively programmed) killer dog-like Robots in <em>Black Mirror&#8230;</em></p><div id="youtube2-BDP9jA6k_UE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;BDP9jA6k_UE&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/BDP9jA6k_UE?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s nothing to worry about. Sync your Bi-ped robot to your phone or tablet perhaps? Or interface with it using Neuralink? 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