Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

May 29, 1944: German U-boat U-549 torpedoed and sank USS Block Island (CVE-21) near the Canary Islands. Six crewmen were killed in the attack; the remaining 951 were picked up by the escorting destroyers. Block Island (named after Block Island Sound off Rhode Island) was the only U.S. Navy carrier lost in the Atlantic during World War II. The U.S. Navy avenged the loss of Block Island by sinking U-549 later that night by depth charges. 57 dead (all hands lost).


Lt. Roy Swift, the intelligence officer for the CVE 21, had been a newspaper editor in Texas prior to joining the Navy. He wanted to create an information paper that could be given to the crew that went beyond the daily reports. He also wanted to create some kind of document that members of the crew could send home to their families. As a result, CHIPS was born.


Words of the day...


The information landscape is filling up with post-logos, post-human defenders of civilization. The civilization they defend is not yours, it has no living humans. It has only robots and lizards and feral wizards in coyote skins.

Did you know there are 535 obstreperous tinctumutant parasites in the DC swamp. If you ever visit you'll be in a world of dépaysement, mostly bad.

Outside the swamp is an invisible society in the deep desert that oversees the "human domain" with artificial intelligence, affective computing chatbots, predictive algorithms, and 100s of billions of dollars in DoD funding.



Tax dollars. Your money. You are funding the speciation of a new, post-human race: the COGSEC skinwalker.

The Cognitive Security industry is slowly becoming a breakaway civilization, completely divorced from reality. It has its own narratives and culture, little of which overlaps with simple hu-man concerns like ethics or the natural right to cognitive autonomy.

Gestating in the deep-state desert, that liminal wasteland where the entire ecology subsists on DARPA and DoD grants, it has grown into a $30 billion grift based on one simple game... first, define people’s activity online as the product of automated influence operations.


Then, use this as casus bellum to deploy all the techniques in your "disinformation kill chain". Essentially, all-out cognitive warfare against the domestic population.


A subset of COGSEC, is social media analysis, best represented by Graphika, who are directly funded by state organizations such as the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Minerva Initiative, and has received grants from the U.S. Navy and Air Force.


The Pentagon began tracking online "conspiracy theories" about Covid-19 on December 16, 2019, two weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed about the virus outbreak and even just four days after the first patients reported symptoms in Wuhan, China.

The COVID-19 “Infodemic”

Graphika Global Insights: COVID-19 Vaccination Misinformation

"Covid-19" wasn't named until February 11, 2020, and was not officially declared a pandemic until March 11, 2020. As if from the future, Graphika was keeping a close eye on the term "Covid-19", working with the Pentagon to delete accounts and posts on Twitter and Facebook.


The civilization they defend is not yours, it has no living humans. It has only robots and lizards and feral wizards in coyote skins.

Disclaimer: Just a pet conspiracy. Might be true.


Kurt Russell in a lobby card for Disney's The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, 1969.




Community notes for the turbulent win...


https://x.com/FaceTheNation/status/1794748977000153310





In late 2022 Neuroenhancement Lab, Inc. renamed/rebranded themselves to NeuroLight.

Neurolight, Inc. is a neuroscience R&D startup engaged in developing new technologies in the field of neuromodulation and neuroenhancement. The proprietary technology being developed by Neurolight is based on the idea that mental states can be “transplanted” by replicating neural correlates of these states from one person to another. This technology is the subject of several pending patent applications.



Meh, I'll pass.




FLYNN, the movie...


https://x.com/GenFlynn/status/1795982152103764451


I'll leave you with Seasick Steve on Route 66...