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Rick O’Brien
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A population that is busy being sick and dying is much easier to control.
We must grasp how smart phones restructure subjectivity before Nano-targeted AI hits its stride. Elbows up.

Dissuasion And Polarization Vs. Persuasion In Nano-Targeting: Experimental Evidence From Climate Policy Messaging loop
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Funny how this beautifully animated video is not unlike the relatively happy feeling of this platform versus ‘that other one’ 😎 #elo #jefflynnelove #mrbluesky youtu.be/G8dsvclf3Tk?...
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky (Animated Video)
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It’s only a matter of time #1
It’s only a matter of time #2
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This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
AI embedded in Social Media is verrry concerning.

Nano-targeting is becoming cheaper, more accessible. Discreet use of AI to dissuade, demobilize or polarize is nigh upon us all to undermine critical thinking about many important issues.
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Sounds like they don’t respect their elders, too. Agent Orange better watch out.
Agent Orange and AI: AI distracts us faster, louder, and more seductively to exploit our attention, fuzz our autonomy, and diminish our agency.
It would be grand if StateCapturedMedia *report* and *analyze* how AI distracts us faster, louder, and more seductively to exploit our attention, fuzz our autonomy, and diminish our agency.

Then StateCapturedMedia can tell us how difficult it’s been to remove their shackles
Simply because a population that is busy being sick and dying is easier to control
“We are beginning to grasp how smart phones are restructuring subjectivity.”
Natasha Wheatley, Princeton Univ.

We do not yet grasp how AI distracts with sycophantic PsyOps
We must learn how to ignore when StateCapturedMedia floods the zone.
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This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
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Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18
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"American culture is no longer synonymous with the aspiration to freedom, but with transactionalism and secrecy...

...the only Americans anyone can see are the ones trying to rip you off."
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Someone call 911. Murder.
What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
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#BLM OTD 1968 sprinters John Carlos & Tommie Smith give the Black power salute when accept­ing medals at the Mexico City Olympics as a protest against racism in America. A White Austra­lian sprinter also wore a human rights badge in support of their protest.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
Nano-targeting is nigh: Elbows up

“Together these results suggest that these technologies may not be practical for most actors, but may be effective for entrepreneurs who aim to dissuade, demobilize or polarize.”

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"The administration is laying the groundwork for subjecting speech critical of it to suppression and prosecution. There are indications that new crackdowns on dissent, on dissenters, and on the institutions that employ them and their funders, are imminent."

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It’s Getting Worse.
The Trump administration’s assault on the rest of us is intensifying.
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Could the reason be because they are victims of torture? Can the Red Cross visit them before it’s too late to save them?
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Yes but the macro story that needs to be 24/7 chyron blare on all nominally independent press is that the legislature of the United States has effectively abdicated entirely. “Mr. speaker/Senator Thune, why do you not demand enforcement of the laws of the United States?”