Join the Cognitive Dissidents as they once again tackle the latest news stories in an effort to understand what the powers that be are really up to and how to prepare…forewarned is forearmed after all! On this week’s episode we cover: Trumpster’s Billions, Semiquincentennial Nothingburger, Hack Attack & Big Philanthropy as World Government, SCOTUS Geofencing Privacy FakeOut, Calling the Oil Crash (h/t PM), Robot Dogbite, Datacenter Diversion, To Bitcoin or Not To Bitcoin and more!!
Technology
Deep Dive: Big Philanthropy As World Government
The AI Boom is creating an unprecedented number of billionaires and otherwise extremely wealthy people who give billions upon billions to charity–but is it charity as in a gift based on love and good will? Whether these tech nouveau riche know it or not, they are putting their windfall profits into machines built to control the world from the bottom up.
Cognitive Dissidents: Idiocracy USA & AI Replacement of Humanity
Join the Cognitive Dissidents once again as they survey the ever-shifting landscape of current events, peeling back the layers of narrative to uncover the forces at work and the agendas driving them. This week, the Dissidents discuss data centers and human implants, RFK Jr.’s apparent embrace of a vaccine agenda, the seemingly staged feud between Trump and Bibi, the SpaceX IPO hype machine, the era of dumb money and even dumber data, and the uncanny parallels between Presidents Trump and Camacho.
The Pope Ignores the AI Elephant in the Room
The Pope’s first encyclical addresses AI and the threat it poses to humanity. The encyclical discusses the issues surrounding AI and recommends ways to deal with it going forward, but there is no mention whatsoever of the true origins of AI much less its purpose. Today I expose the origins of AI largely using its own words—it’s very simple where it came from and whence it continues to grow, but no mention of the that from the Vatican. Coming up in the next episode in this series, the purpose of AI and then the agenda revealed through the words of the Pope’s encyclical itself.
Cognitive Dissidents: Cyber PolyTehran, Narrative Warfare, & Pope Trump
We’re back with another episode of Cognitive Dissidents for our roundtable discussion where we track the descent into the abyss—one psyop at a time.
On the broader battlefield of narrative warfare—perception is power, information is weaponized, and truth is getting more difficult to pin down.
What does “Cyber PolyTehran” signal about the next phase of digital and geopolitical convergence?
And of course, there’s “Pope Trump.” Whether it’s meme, message, or something more intentional, join us as break down what it represents in the ongoing collision between politics, religion, and media theater.
Cognitive Dissidents: Losing Is Winning in Iran; Fertilizer & Food Fears; Trading the TACO Tweet
On their latest biweekly roundtable, the Cognitive Dissidents unpack why “losing” in Iran may actually serve a longer-term technocratic agenda, how the energy shock from the Iran war extends beyond oil and gas into fertilizer and global food supply chains—where fear itself may trigger shortages before true scarcity sets in—and what could be a new low in insider trading, as hundreds of millions were placed and won just minutes before Trump’s “TACO” tweet. These stories and many more!