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webdoodle··on FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home
Not really surprised at this point. After Bush allowed, and Obama pardoned the collateral murder pilots, whistleblowers and journalists in the U.S. have been continually threatened, hazed, jailed and killed at the pleasure of whomever the current president is. This isn't party politics, Bush through Trump, are guilty. This is fascism at its finest...
webdoodle··on Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
I knew so many people that used Dark Sky before Apple bought it...
webdoodle··on Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician
Looks like a couch, should have just given the prize too a furniture mover. /s
webdoodle··on All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)
I completely disagree. Meme's are a basic form of psyop, and are being using by intelligence agencies, the military, old media and new media, to warp our brains, and make us biological robots. Comedy is used much the same.
webdoodle··on Staying ahead of censors in 2025
They are using the backdoor they bought and paid for in both Signal and Tor.
webdoodle··on How we lost communication to entertainment
Nor should you, digitally. Each ideation we have of how it can be further used to break our civil rights, is being used as a playbook to do exactly that. Warn your friends in person, but don't give the basilisk a free lunch.
webdoodle··on (Social) media manipulation in one image
It seems like accident's were accidentally left unmanipulated.
webdoodle··on X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200
Props too you. We should only buy new when repairing isn't viable. Our throw it away and buy a new one mentality is destroying our planet.
webdoodle··on NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand
Bully and systematic harassment of cryptographers too build in backdoors too there encryption systems has been there go to strategy since the 80's.
webdoodle··on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
They should have been shutdown and all the C-Level exec arrested after Cambridge Analytica. The weapons grade psyops they used too get Trump elected are crimes against humanity.
webdoodle··on Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public
They aren't going to stop because LifeLog was as Darpa project before they found a private stoog to build it for the military. Remember it's only dystopian to spy on every aspect of a persons life, if YOUR THE GOVERNMENT. Private entities in the U.S. basically can do anything they want, especially now when they can rent a President too pardon it away.
webdoodle··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
It's as if they wanted an internet kill switch. /S
webdoodle··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
I don't want AI to have any of my data. Past, present or future.
webdoodle··on What happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?
The pike committee documents provided more information about Operation Mockingbird and the CIA's influence in the new media.

selected docs: https://maryferrell.org/php/showlist.php?docset=1107

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence/2017-06...

webdoodle··on What happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?
Operation Mockingbird was such a wide sweeping apparatus. After Carter fired 75% of the CIA, due to the revelations in the Church and Pike Committee's, those newly unemployed spooks all got jobs directly in the news media, bypassing the need for agents or that pesky Smith-Mundt Act. Every major news outlet in the English speaking world was printing or re-printing there propaganda.

Operation Mockingbird 2.0 has been ongoing since at least 2005, and involves social media, smartphones, psychological profiles, and now AI handlers. It is still run by the CIA, but indirectly, instead using the Billionaires SummerCamp in Sun Valley Idaho as a yearly propaganda conference. Along with the bottomless purse that Citizen's United provided, they can now spend any amount of money on propaganda by using dark money superpacs.

webdoodle··on Tech companies are firing everyone to "fund AI", spending money on each other
I remember watching the firings of people right before the dot com bubble burst. Instead of pay employee's, companies thought they could double down and started putting MORE money into vaporware companies that eventually folded up and went bankrupt. I'm guessing were almost to that last stage again...
webdoodle··on Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Citizen's United destroyed journalism by making it for profit propaganda for the wealthy, but its always been under attack.

Journalism has always been under attack from the wealthy robber barons of the time. Rockefeller famously bought out the magazine/newspaper that muckraker Ida Tarbell wrote for after she wrote a damning book about Standard Oil. However, it only hardened her and other muckrakers, who later led to the break up of Standard Oil, term limits, and other restrains on the abuse of power.

I find the parallels between then and now quite striking. Except today's boogeymen have rebranded and call themselves tech billionaires. They got ahead of muckrakers by owning journalism, media, and social media, and have used there Pinkertons (Trust and Safety Teams) to censoring anyone who speaks out against them.

There are good journalists out there though. I think a modern equivalent of Ida Tarbell may be Whitney Webb for writing One Nation under Blackmail about the Epstein Files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Tarbell

https://unlimitedhangout.com/

webdoodle··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
I in-housed an EMR for a local clinic because of latency and other network issues taking the system offline several times a month (usually at least once a week). We had zero downtime the whole first year after bringing it all in house, and I got employee of the month for several months in a row.
webdoodle··on How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator
I visibly cringe when I hear people talking about using AI for anything. With the help of the social disease we call 'social media', AI is destroying thought on all levels.
webdoodle··on We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
I've been phoneless for 5 years, and I've experienced this too. I do have a google account, but I get occasionally locked out of it because I don't participate in 2FA. I fought my bank for nearly 5 months before they provided a code generating dongle to 2fa into there web portal. I had to stop using Amazon and EvilBay for exactly the same reasons.
webdoodle··on FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'
> What were your motivations?

I was tired of paying for a spy device that steals my attention and tries to psychologically condition me.

> How has this impacted your daily life?

I've found that many people are so addicted to there phone that they genuinely can't comprehend how to function without one. I'm lucky to have been around longer than smartphones, and remember how to do these things. For instance, going to someones house and knocking on there door instead of sending a text. Sure one is a little harder and takes more time, but shows you care enough to do it. Sending a text is so easy AI bots do it.

I've had to seek out similar minded people. Most people just can't be bothered with someone who won't conform, so I seek out people who don't require me to have a phone to be my friend. I discovered quite quickly who was a good enough friend to come check on me, and also who I felt was important enough that'd I'd go too there house to see them. It may limit the size of my social circle, but I feel its a stronger relationship because of it.

There are absolutely no drawbacks that I'm aware of.

webdoodle··on U.S. guided-missile cruiser crosses Panama Canal, warships deployed to Venezuela
Is this in retaliation for the President of Venezuela offered a $50 Million reward for the Epstein Files?

https://www.thezimbabwemail.com/world-news/crossfire-of-boun...

webdoodle··on University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test
You might not want to give them your personal data. That's run by the same Cambridge that housed the Facebook scraping mechanism that was used by Cambridge Analytica to create personality profiles that got Trump elected in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kogan_(scientist)

webdoodle··on FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'
Ditched my phone 5 years ago, guess I'm one of the few American's unaffected.
webdoodle··on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
No. There is no poster child that justifies this dystopian slave state.
webdoodle··on Fairness is what the powerful 'can get away with' study shows
Just in time for the Epstein Kompromat op to go full Streisand Effect.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/trump-epstein-re...

webdoodle··on How long before superintelligence? (1997)
I would argue that we already achieved and then bricked Superintelligence a few years ago. Social media allowed people to network with people that previously were completely silo'd from each other, allowing collaboration of ideas on a level well above anything previously possible. This social super intelligence peaked in 2019 though, right before the mass censorship caused by covid. Unfortunately the censorship industrial complex has only expanded its draconian hold on ideation, and we aren't just stagnating, but actively going backwards.
webdoodle··on Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google
I never sold out. When I sold off the last of my web sites and domains (mostly ad driven), I only sold the web sites, and not the code that ran them. I had built a very complicated spider that scraped all the main social media sites looking for my articles, that would suggest places they weren't found that might do well. I never built an auto submit bot, but could have easily. I submitted them manually to each site, so as not to break there TOS. I'd then track the newly submitted articles and see how they would spread on social media. I built a basic visualization tool that allowed 'seeing' the way information flows in an intuitive way.

What I learned about memetics and the way information flows was incalculable, and I realized it was like holding a weapon of mass destruction. The last thing I wanted to do was allow others to understand how it worked, or how to build one. I essentially burnt what I built because I didn't want it to fall in the wrong hands.

Could someone build it themselves? Probably, but I put 15 years of my life into building it, and I did so when the Internet was still useful. I only put enough of my thought process about the system online to allude to the fact that I had built it, not enough for someone to reconstruct it. When I sold the last of the sites, I took the code offline and unplugged the hard drive and hid it.

It's been almost 6 years since then and the only companies to come close are wasting there time with LLM. I do not think the current iteration of A.I. is even close thankfully, but at some point someone is going to crack it, probably even better than I did (I had a limited budget, slow internet, and was working mostly by myself).

webdoodle··on The Atomic Airplane
The engine to one of these atomic airplanes is on display at Idaho National Labs, near Sun Valley, Idaho.
webdoodle··on Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video
AI has finally reached a point at which it can fake videos well enough that most people will believe it. Just in time for the fake Epstein suicide video!

Epstein didn't kill himself, nor is he dead. He's living out his retirement on another pedo island, as a reward for a kompromate job well done.

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