"He began to argue that the computer was a tool for freeing your mind, just like LSD."

This new video essay from "We're in Hell" is gonna make some waves here in the fedi. For some of ya'll this isn't history, you lived it.

From ARPA to X ... from Cambridge Research to Cambridge analytics.

A recurring theme is visionaries who over-promise technology as a tool of social control, but also the ways that technology can do just that.

@futurebird
Was his “situation” with his ex resolved?

I'm writing very vaguely as this is (was?) a delicate topic, a few years ago, which has fallen of my radar, and I do not know how to talk about it at this point.

@Hex

"He began to argue that the computer was a tool for freeing your mind, just like LSD."

This new video essay from "We're in Hell" is gonna make some waves here in the fedi. For some of ya'll this isn't history, you lived it.

From ARPA to X ... from Cambridge Research to Cambridge analytics.

A recurring theme is visionaries who over-promise technology as a tool of social control, but also the ways that technology can do just that.

We are in a period in history that, if there is more history after the now, will provide future historians with a slow drip of COINTELPRO-like horrors to expose and discover for decades to come.

For every disgusting policy out on the open there are dozens happening in secret. It will take decades to even asses the damage. If we ever get a chance.

And I want to know about all of it. That desire to know keeps my spirits up and my fight alive.

One of the things I find most striking about COINTELPRO is that when these kinds of people are allowed to operate with fewer guardrails they just get really sloppy. They fall for magical thinking. They pursue impossibilities.

@dzwiedziu @futurebird I was not aware of that.

@Hex
I don't have a better source on hand right now and this is just the start.

(www.reddit.com)

@futurebird

@dzwiedziu @Hex

I wouldn't share something like this about someone with so little sourcing. It's concerning but it's also too easy to be either fake or just a rumor.

It could also be something one looks back on and says "oh wow that was real" but functionally it's kind of useless and not informative.

It's a screenshot of a tweet posted on reddit.

@dzwiedziu

And can you level with me? Because when I post a link to content by left wing creators like clockwork there is a response like "oh did he/she do this bad thing" and it's not related to the content of the thing that I shared. It's about the person and it may or may not be true or credible. This just happened with Taylor Lorenz.

And I do agree that it's worth looking at sources, who they are, what motivates them.

That doesn't change the *content*

anyways

@dzwiedziu

I was feeling a little bad about speculating a little about Rudy Giuliani on this same very day. Rudy Giuliani!

(Rudy was in a car accident recently and I find the statement from his security team... suspicious, or just odd.)

But people have their guns out for some guy from Toronto who makes leftist video essays over a screenshot of a tweet posted on ... reddit.

We can't go on functioning like this.

@futurebird
That's why I've started with the question about the state of things.

And was hoping for some good news, as the receipts are scarce.

https://x.com/marinaxdove/ - locked

https://mobile.twitter.com/FDsignifier/status/1633614594596896771 - FDS' QT to a non-existing post on the naziportal

Last and least my anecdotal experience was not to pay enough attention to those allegations until the story unfold, and I did felt bad about it. »