Social Media’s Slow March to Oblivion

Pirate Wires | 16 Mar 2022 pirate wires #65 // facebook-liking death threats, neutral commitments to state propaganda, and here comes your weird messy future Tools of the state. Last week, Facebook and Instagram (parent company Meta) partially lifted a ban on death threats in Ukraine, making room for citizens of the besieged nation to call for…

The Jacinda Papers

Wake Up NZ | 21 Feb 2022 A remarkable trove of documents has been created in NZ by an organisation called Te Punaha Matatini – Covid-19 Modelling Aotearoa hosted by the University of Auckland but funded directly by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Covid-19 Modelling Aotearoa is headed by the wildly inaccurate…

Reality Crash

Pirate Wires | 8 Mar 2020 pravda, the collapse of truth in a world without trust, and dawn of the reality entrepreneur I’ve been interested in the bizarre, almost clownish effect of trust erosion on our culture for many years now, and trying to imagine the shape of our information ecosystem — and world — to come.…

Ukraine Russia war propaganda

The Barnes Brief | 4 Mar 2020 1. Pay attention to this: they are using the war as pretext to create precedents they can extend to the rest of the world on a whim, including: summary seizure of property (see boasting of seizing yachts), summary censorship of independent media (see complete banning of RT), and…

Thinking Points, Feb. 13, 2022

Utobian | 13 Feb 2022 Revolution, right wing progressives, Titania McGrath, capture, Pfizer gives up on India, cotton candy, dancing, a list of demands Here are my latest thinking points: Revolution We are in the midst of a worldwide revolution against Pharma totalitarianism and it all started with Canadian truckers. New political categories Pharma-Induced Mass…

The Propaganda Pandemic

SWPRS | 12 Feb 2022 How mass psychosis, PR campaigns, and psychological operations have shaped the pandemic. Introduction Unlike the swine flu “fake pandemic” of 2009, covid has been a real pandemic: global excess mortality since January 2020 currently stands at about 20 million deaths or about 16% compared to normal global mortality, caused mostly, though not entirely, by the…