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JP's avatar

I love you. I love the feeling I had when I read this. I love the feeling of seeing billions of people doing all of this while laughing. I love you and everyone who loves this and laughs while sharing this and conspiring together while loving and laughing. Laughing at the gorgeous power we the people of everywhere have. I love you all.

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

Ditto ditto ditto. And love you too, JP.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

"Disrupt the cognitive infrastructure on your smartphone. Disrupt the cognitive infrastructure on the street corner. Disrupt the cognitive infrastructure in conversations with friends and family. Disrupt the cognitive infrastructure too severely and from too many directions for there to ever be any hope of its regulation or control."

I'm up for it. Let's keep thinking for ourselves and sharing our thoughts with others. Let's encourage them to develop critical thinking skills. Let's sit back and watch the whole corrupt system implode.

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Le Chat Noir's avatar

That was beautiful and funny and inspiring. It shall be shared

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bill wolfe's avatar

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop!" ~~~ Mario Savio, Berkeley, 1964

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

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bill wolfe's avatar

Sorry, I clipped that quote from Wikipedia and it was edited and left important stuff out:

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it — that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!:

Speech, Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley (1964-12-02).

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Millard J Melnyk's avatar

At this point, people who use the term "misinformation" out themselves as full of shit liars.

Honest people don't decry "misinformation".

Honest people spread good, valuable, clear information that sheds light on all the bullshit, including fools who have nothing better or stronger than, "Misinformation! Misinformation!"

If they're wearing suits, they're liars. Don't trust them. Versace doesn't impart intelligence. And if you can't look good in blue jeans, Prada just proves the point.

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Lubica's avatar

PLEASE, God, help us - cognitive infrastructure??????? To accept that means to accept that we are somehow robotic. I am sorry.

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Daniel Geery's avatar

IMHO, don't get stuck on words, use them with yr own definitions, as I believe this essay does.

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kristofarian's avatar

when I use a Word

Humpty Dumpty said...

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Godfree Roberts's avatar

Perhaps the dimwits who took Ayn Rand seriously see '1984' as a blueprint for a better society?

What else could explain their behavior?

'They have no plan. There is nothing clever behind this. It's just chaotic action,' says President Putin.

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Cliff Gomes's avatar

wrenchinthegears.com

Mamas against AI and securitized toddlers as social impact markets 🤪

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Doris Wrench Eisler's avatar

For a start we could demand of every politician, economist, think tank denizen, lobbyist, a full disclosure as to wealth, political associations, worldview - subject to change of course - and yearly income over $100,000- as well as possible use of income/wealth tax havens. This is as essential information as any qualification, and can be ascertained, in any case, through public records. But forcing someone to publicly declare it themselves in advance of taking public office or position, is disarming and equalizing.

Lifestyle and income constitute cognitive infrastructure, or the lens through which a person interprets the world. It is much more relevant at this time of wild economic disparity than the adorable three-year-old twins, loyal spouse, or stamp collection. Those who are unwilling to make such disclosures should not be in a position to determine the income and lifestyles of others.

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Carol Diane Bevis's avatar

Cognitive Infrastructure

Mind Control

Brainwashing

Propaganda

Mass Hypnotism

v.

Imagination and Ideas

Mind Opening

Creativity

Consciousness Expanding

Learning and Evolving

Unlimited Possibilities

Our leaders are living in the dark ages

We can be visionaries

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Tarun's avatar

I wanna have a phoenix reincarnation orgasm in the forest,,,

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russian_bot's avatar

As long as it disrupts the cognitive infrastructure.

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Tarun's avatar

I have no idea... what it even is but i sure hope it comes up to snuff.. i mean orgasms tend to disrupt my cognitive infrastructure pretty good usually...

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Rahul Manchanda's avatar

‪I’ve been saying this since at least 2007 and even sued in 2016 in Manchanda v Google in the SDNY in 16-CV-3350 (JPO) but was summarily dismissed as a “conspiracy theorist” while all the bad guys were protected by Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) 230.‬

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Stephen Simac's avatar

I've been a conspiracy factualist since the 70's. I've said, "I told you so" way more often than "I was wrong." That could be a character flaw.

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Renan's avatar

Amazing

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Lubica's avatar

My problem is with words. They are important! I do agree that Caitlin’s essay is more about the action and we should do.

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Daniel Geery's avatar

Damn good one! Don't forget to kick 'em in the nuts at every possible chance too! The Cockroaches Infesting America, along with The F'n Bunch of Idiots, need to go. We've got the facilities, just let the innocents out of jail and put the culprits in VERY LONG time-out. Like 200 years or so.

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Kelly Em's avatar

That’s pretty cool. I just published a less active voice sub on my substack calling for a similar thing... Two is still a coincidence?

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