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The schizophrenics are getting more reasonable by the day. They ARE listening through your phone. There might actually be a government vehicle following you without identification with intent to abduct (ICE), and now they might actually be tormenting you with invisible energy beams.

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A common hallucination and delusion is that someone is beaming thoughts into the afflicted's head, causing some to believe that there are "voice to skull" devices deployed to torment them.

Well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect

If its a CIA related conspiracy its easier to believe than not to. That agency has always managed to be up to no good.

Wasn't this something Nine Inch Nails tried at a concert during their ARG for Year Zero? They wanted to beam messages to specific audience members'. It just didn't work well.

Relevant Wired: https://www.wired.com/2008/05/army-removes-pa/

James C. Lin work is even more compelling https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9366412 NASA deciphered thoughts back in 2003 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20030018896 and DARPA budget of 2008 mentions "silent talk" https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fiscal_Year_2010_DAR... FMCW radars used to recognize your emotions https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1049...

I am curious whether wearing a tin foil hat would prevent this attack.

no, tin foil hat would not prevent such attack. and shielding has to be grounded too

they are listening to your thoughts too while nerds think data center boom is all about AGI or at least better AI porn. no, it's about scaling up surveillance

You’re hearing about more by the day.

That’s the only change.

I mean 2026 was the year the conspiracy theorists won. Like every unhinged theory he heard in the past about the ruling elite came true.

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