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@setto

things with second- and Nth-order effects on the material realm - e.g. protecting the environment - are already more difficult to coordinate.

but responsible use of one's own mind, identity, and comms channels? those are things that exist primarily in the information realm.

right now, they're a complete race-to-the-bottom free-for-all.

hence, the connection i draw between the language of #ai based #ddos of humans, and the language of interpersonal #abuse and #brainwashing.

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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History Today in Labor History April 19, 1943: Albert Hoffman, inventor of LSD, tested his first dose and went for a bike ride. This day is now celebrated as Bicycle Day. “... Little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux ...” And from that date forward, working class people could finally afford to go on a trip. Hoffman later went on to isolate psilicyben, the active hallucinogenic ingredient in mushrooms, which he also enjoyed experimenting with.

Sandoz originally marketed the drug as Delysid and sold it in 100 microgram doses. From the late 1940s, through the early 1960s, the drug was legal and numerous psychologists and researchers began experimenting with it as a form of therapy. Many were willing participants in the CIA’s UKUltra mind control experiments, in which LSD was given to people, most of whom without their consent or knowledge. Cary Grant was a frequent and enthusiastic user. As early as the late 1940s, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson became enthusiastic about its potential to unleash a new era of peace and expanded consciousness. The founder of Alcoholic Anonymous was also an early user and said that it was far more effective at treating alcoholism than any other treatment he knew of. Researcher John Lily, along with Gregory Bateson, began dosing dolphins in the early 1960s, in experiments connected with the U.S. military, in an attempt to learn to communicate with the animals and deploy them as weapons in the cold war. You can read more about Mead and Bateson’s role in promoting hallucinogens and in collaborating with the military and intelligence communities in Benjamin Breen’s book, Tripping on Utopia.

1 hit of LSD blotter with a colorful image and a smiling person lounging on a bicycle, with a green mountain in the back ground, and the sky behind that split into night (with a smiling crescent moon and star) and day (in bright red, with a smiling sun)
#workingclass#LaborHistory#alberthoffman
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Gif's Artidote

as if i wasn't depressed already i was stupid enough to still watch today's news. The bit i particularly wanted to alert you on is at 11:24 into it about meta's criminal behaviour around its algorithms and corruption, #brainwashing young fuckface users, killing them by pushing them to suicide and starvation. #press #news #BreakingNews
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Auld Ma Twəgg

People are like, "But wouldn't it be better if we could give you a drug to cure your transsexualism so you don't have to transition?" but then get offended when I suggest it would be great if we could give them a drug to cure their political orientation so they don't have to have bad opinions about my mind/body.

#trans#brainwashing
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The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion by Rebecca Lemov, 2025

An acclaimed historian of science uncovers the hidden history of brainwashing―and its troubling implications for today.
Because brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often don’t recognize it while it’s happening―unless we know where to look.

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#brainwashing

As Rebecca Lemov writes in The Instability of Truth, “Brainwashing erases itself.” What we call brainwashing is more common than we think; it is not so much what happens to other people as what can happen to anyone. The Instability of Truth exposes the myriad ways our minds can be controlled against our will, from the brainwashing techniques used against American POWs in North Korea to the “soft” brainwashing of social media doomscrolling and behavior-shaping. In our increasingly data-driven world, anyone can fall victim to mind control. Lemov identifies invasive forms of emotional engineering that exploit trauma and addiction to coerce and persuade in everyday life. Tracing the word “brainwashing” from deep in the files of an operative of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services in the 1950s to the pioneering research of Robert Jay Lifton, to the public trials of cult leaders and the case of Patty Hearst, Lemov also studies how the idea of mind control has spread across the globe and penetrated courtrooms, secret labs, military schools, and today’s digital sites. The Instability of Truth offers lessons from mind-control episodes past and present. Truth is always subject to question in more mundane walks of life than most people believe, and Lemov equips us for the increasing challenges we face from social media, AI, and an unprecedented, global form of surveillance capitalism.
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Levka

#Smithsonian #TrumpRegime #censorship #racism #misogyny #brainwashing #MassMindControl

"Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order on Thursday that targets funding to programs with 'divisive narratives' and 'improper ideology'.

The president said there has been a 'concerted and widespread' effort over the past decade to rewrite US history by replacing 'objective facts with a 'distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth'.

He signed an executive order putting JD Vance in charge of an effort to 'remove improper ideology' from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers and the National Zoo.

Trump’s order specifically names the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Women’s history museum, which is in development.

'Museums in our Nation’s capital should be places where individuals go to learn – not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history,' the order said."

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The Guardian · Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for ‘improper ideology’By Guardian staff reporter
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"To many in politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly, the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?"

The Century of the Self (2002)
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