Internet
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Pepe Escobar: How political analysis became a target of A.I. fakes
Welcome to A.I. turning the net into an infernal machine bent on erasing meaning, culture and History – and sowing deep intellectual confusion. Exactly like Techno-Feudalism wants it. Continue reading
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The Empire That Lost Its Voice: How The Guardian Turned a Search Engine Glitch Into a Geopolitical Ghost Story
A forensic dissection of imperial panic, narrative monopoly, and the dying breath of Western epistemic control in the age of multipolar meaning. A Weaponized Information excavation of how empires manufacture fear when their stories stop running the world. Continue reading
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The Ghost in the Machine. Artificial Intelligence and the Spectral Ontology of Value
Last February, I publicly questioned the existence of Jianwei Xun, an author who published a best-selling, critically acclaimed book titled Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk and the New Architecture of Reality. On his website and on academia.org — the original version of his profile can now be found only on Internet Archive — he claimed to be… Continue reading
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Fire! UK Legislation for Digital Gulag in Final Stages
It has taken a mere 30 years for the majority of the Western World to herd itself into a prison that mimics the mind – the software of a parallel digital universe called the World Wide Web. Epochal technological developments or cultural evolutions are often both gifts and curses. Time is the final arbiter of… Continue reading
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Social Media Beyond Corporate Control
Several weeks ago African Stream joined the growing list of content creators banned on social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Meta (Facebook, Instagram, and Threads), on crowdfunding platforms like GoFundMe, and even on payment- processing platforms like Stripe and Paypal. Stripe and all the major social media platforms except X have banned African Stream. Continue reading
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Germany Prepares to Launch Social Media Gestapo: The End is Near
The news that the border-free Schengen Zone is unravelling is scary news for the 420 million citizens living within the passport-free zone. What’s a hundred times scarier is the purposeful deconstruction of relations going on underneath. Most importantly, recent moves by Germany and proposals that remind us of past horrors will undoubtedly spell disaster. Continue reading
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Childish Fantasies: Age Verification for Social Media Down Under
The Australian government has been in a banning mood of late. In keeping with an old, puritanical tradition, the killjoys and wowsers have seized the reins of power and snorting a good deal while doing so. In important matters such as anti-corruption and environmental protection, the government of Anthony Albanese is showing fewer teeth and… Continue reading
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Exposed: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN
An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on VPNs to carry out the most sensitive tasks online, from watching illegal videos to engaging in sexual or political activities. But few people know that a considerable chunk of that market—including three of the six most popular VPNs—is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to… Continue reading
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Capitalism vs Digital Technology
Housmans has teamed up with Space4 and the FUTURES Podcast to present a series of live events regarding the impacts of capitalism on digital technology. Continue reading
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Ordinary Racism: The Present and Future of Political and Digital Discrimination
The creation of closed technological state and corporate clubs, the development and implementation of new measures to limit access to digital technologies, as well as restraining competing cultural and civilizational communities and states in the development of their own digital technologies has in fact already become a reality of international interaction. Continue reading
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“If there is to be a livable future, it will be a future offline”
Claims of the system’s power to connect far-flung individuals and enrich one’s social life are risible. In the West, at least, the Internet’s primary effect has been to dissipate social energies into simulated flickers of friendship, comradery, or antagonism that more often than not ripple into nothingness before any deeper human experience can take root,… Continue reading
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‘Grotesque’: Google, YouTube Invest $12 Million in Global Fact-Checking Media Network
Claiming that “Combating misinformation is an ongoing global challenge for society,” Google and YouTube on Tuesday said they will spend $12 million to create a Global Fact Check Fund that will support a network of 135 fact-checking organizations operating from 65 countries in more than 80 languages. Continue reading
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Digital Maps Require Greater Government Oversight
Even though I have lived in Los Angeles for more than five years, I still regularly open the map on my phone to orient myself, to avoid traffic, and to choose the best restaurants nearby. Anecdotes and data tell me that I’m not alone: The majority of Americans regularly use mobile GPS navigation, even in their own cities.… Continue reading
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How The CIA Made Google
INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 