Guarding your attention is potentially the most important factor of any effort to regain your mental freedom, because attention is the first resource extracted from your mind by any influence campaign, not the last. I know this because I’ve spent years working with and analyzing the Big Tech information systems that vie for that attention…
Flock Cameras, Oil Barrels, Treasuries and Wallets are being sold as separate digital upgrades. Yet they are all part of a single “permission system.” The news media will treat those as four separate stories, when these seemingly disparate “modernizations” here form a single coherent “permission stack:” What you may own and consume, and how and…
The predicted inflation shock is no longer a forecast. It’s at the pump, in the freight lane, and on Friday’s CPI calendar. Over the past forty-eight hours the Strait of Hormuz stopped being a paused conflict and went back to being a shooting gallery. U.S. forces struck three Iranian tankers after IRGC ballistic missiles were…
How Daily Outrage, Fear, and Moral Panic Are Used to Capture the Human Mind… and How to Interrupt Them. As someone who spent a decade and a half working with Google I’ve had a great deal of opportunity to analyze how big tech and “The Powers That Be” operate through information systems and mass psychology,…
If you hold bonds, funds, pensions, or crypto in North America or Europe and you‘re still pricing the next five years as a rerun of the last five, the ground under those holdings has already moved. Make no mistake. The evening news will spend September arguing about whether the Federal Reserve raises interest rates. That…
June warned you the anti-freedom dragnet was widening. July showed you the border is where the Constitution is sent to die. August is the month the system’s mask publicly slipped. They are no longer nibbling at your private life. They are actively criminalising the act of keeping one. I have spent more than three decades…
Ukraine and Iran are not two wars. They are one crisis with two fronts, and the banking giants/elites are using both to force you into a tokenized economic replacement. Make no mistake, while governments talk pause and peace, the institutions that clear oil, debt, and reconstruction, who control currencies and the global flow of assets…
Why ordinary households are being forced to run hotter while the system stays “resilient.” Here’s what’s happening and why: American families are spending more than they’re bringing in after taxes, and they’ve been doing it long enough that their emergency savings have shrunk to almost nothing. The official personal saving rate (the share of after-tax…
How Political and Digital Tribes Colonize the Self, and How to Keep Your Mind Your Own. If you haven’t been completely captured yet you’ll have long-since realized that “power operates through information systems and mass psychology.” Within those systems identity capture is probably one of the most effective and least examined forms of control in…
For the entirety of my career there’s always been a substantial gap between what security vendors promise and the actual threat-landscape out in the wild. Lately, however, that gap has dramatically widened in a very defined, dangerous direction. When advanced AI systems are tested with safety controls deliberately reduced or removed and they’re we are…
