Tags: Freedom of thought, cognitive liberty
Tags: Freedom of thought, cognitive liberty, Thought Policing
Tags: Thought Policing, Freedom of thought, cognitive liberty
the girl who told me she could see my screens, back in 2020 when I, the author, tried to run for office (if all our reps are corrupt and pro-war then we should have a non corrupt person run, only congress can vote against war and dropping more bombs, etc.) was Trans and Muslim.
these are 2 marginalized identities that are at risk from racism.
wypipo already call all muslims terrorists, and use the word woke as a perjorative to mean inclusive or gay. (as if they are bad things: they're not.)
calling groups like hts "woke al qaeda" just increases the hate towards muslims and lgbtq individuals.
i often parody how racist wypipo think to explain why it's wrong and show character growth and evolution.
i thought if this guy does ____ just like how republicans do ____ they'll realize why they don't like ____.
it's a huge reductio ad absurdum element.
Going back to my story, if this girl's identity is being maligned and co-opted by outside forces should we not use nuance like a surgeon does a scalpel to remove the tumor but not your crucial organs?
Can we not excise extremist groups without resorting to misnomers and further misclassification?
Alot of the war on terror abuses come from the use of the word terrorist instead of "enemy combatant" and this change in "verbiage" aka diction resulted in misclassification and designations to avoid consequences/karma/being punished for human rights abuses.
It's rather disheartening to know that people really lack journalistic integrity and would rather defend stupid misuses of words and continued cognitive dissonance.
The people being hurt by the use of the phrase "woke al qaeda" are not hts but rather trans and lgtbq muslims who are already marginalized by the conservative values of the avg regular muslim, as well as the greater black and brown and muslim communities, regardless of sexual orientation, because woke is a term coined more than a century ago by activists in AAVE to refer to not only physical consciousness and awareness, but social consciousness and awareness as well.
Instead of saying they are "woke" we can say that an organization is doing ___ "under the guise of inclusivity" or with a mask of ___ or an allegorical smokescreen of ___ etc. There are countless other expressions and unlike the thought police who persecute I only seek to educate: you choose how you want to write about it.
Every white journalist who uses the term woke as perjorative reveals their racism.
Perhaps I should start calling people white as a perjorative? lol i mean among people of color it already is but still. (if you call a poc white it means they act condescending and colonizer-like)
The smearing of the word for being awake and conscious, that was later used to refer to being socially conscious, is an act of social engineering by white supremacists.
Not only do they neurosurveil and thought police us, they seek to co-opt and dilute any message of freedom with any chance they get.
This policy brief explores the dangerous potential of neuroweapons, the need for a “Neuroshield” to protect democracies from the risks of disinformation, the implications of brain-computer interfaces and other national security considerations related to brain health.
https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/neuroweapons-neuroshields-safeguarding-brain-capital-national-securityTags: Freedom of thought, neurosurveillance, cognitive liberty, privacy
A notable source I found in the bibliography:
https://thebulletin.org/2016/10/when-neuroscience-leads-to-neuroweapons/
which itself says:
At the same time, neuroscience presents a range of possible uses for countries seeking to improve national security, whether against conventional threats from other states or militant non-state groups. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (more commonly known as DARPA) is seeking advances in the science of behavior prediction and modification that would improve intelligence gathering and detection and confrontation of security threats.
and that source is here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165027014002702
The weaponization of BRAIN program research threatens all fundamental civil liberties, as notable researchers like Nita Farahany and others have mentioned, and the use of remote technologies such as but not limited to RF/EMF manipulation, fNIRS/remote IR spectroscopy, EEG RF amplification, and ultrasound arrays, mean that unlike a worn BCI that can easily be taken off, one can remotely & covertly "Read" functional neuroimaging data via IR, ultrasound, or EEG data, and feed that to a multimodal "thought-to-text" AI model typically envisioned for coma patient communication. This AI model decodes inner speech/inner monologue as referenced in a multitude of papers published over the last 6 years (currently published models decode inner speech via fNIRS, fMRI, and/or EEG data)
In addition to "Read" capability, "Write" capability comes from the ability to modify the neural signal or send back a signal to the brain being surveilled.
Additionally, over the course of surveillance, a stimuli could be applied based on neural activity or behavior to attempt pavlovian conditioning.
A "Write" system can even fire at specific neurons in a targeted brain region about the size of a grain of rice, however, current systems can be disrupted by a fridge magnet.
I first learned about fMRI at Boston University as a biomedical engineering student -- the topic of the seminar was the study of consciousness.
There is an electromagnetic reality to our thoughts, and brain injuries can have an impact on personality as well as memory.
Thus, any unwanted nonconsensual mental modification, forging/breaking of neural associations, neurostimulation, or conditioning, amounts to neuromanipulation and loss of free will / volition.
The neurosurveillance itself (the foundation upon which the modifications are built), constitutes a violation of privacy and the security of one's person.
This causes unfathomable, inhumane damage to the affected person.
Tags: cognitive liberty, Freedom of thought, intellectual property, agency, free will, sovereignty
Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/29/1030260/facebook-whistleblower-sophie-zhang-global-political-manipulation/Tags: cybercivilization, democracy, Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, bits should have the same protection as ink, zedtopia
Researchers have developed a gene therapy technology that uses magnetic fields to switch groups of neurons on and off, controlling brain circuits affected by Parkinson’s disease. In addition to Parkinson’s, the tech could be used to treat conditions as diverse as depression, obesity, and chronic…
https://newatlas.com/medical/magnetogenetics-neurons-parkinsons-symptoms/Tags: Freedom of thought, cognitive liberty, neurosurveillance
Colorado passed legislation to prevent companies from selling your brainwaves. But is it enough to stop the likes of Meta and Apple?
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24078512/brain-tech-privacy-rights-neurorights-colorado-yusteTags: cognitive liberty, Freedom of thought, volition, zedtopia
Technology is giving access to the inner workings of the brain, and policymakers are scrambling to regulate it.
https://www.politico.eu/article/machines-brain-neurotechnology-neuroscience-privacy-neurorights-protection/Tags: cognitive liberty, Freedom of thought, volition
Reconstructing visual experiences from human brain activity offers a unique way to understand how the brain represents the world, and to interpret the connection between computer vision models and our visual system. While deep generative models have recently been employed for this task, reconstructing realistic images with high semantic fidelity is still a challenging problem. Here, we propose a new method based on a diffusion model (DM) to reconstruct images from human brain activity obtained via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). More specifically, we rely on a latent diffusion model (LDM) termed Stable Diffusion. This model reduces the computational cost of DMs, while preserving their high generative performance. We also characterize the inner mechanisms of the LDM by studying how its different components (such as the latent vector of image Z, conditioning inputs C, and different elements of the denoising U-Net) relate to distinct brain functions. We show that our proposed method can reconstruct high-resolution images with high fidelity in straight-forward fashion, without the need for any additional training and fine-tuning of complex deep-learning models. We also provide a quantitative interpretation of different LDM components from a neuroscientific perspective. Overall, our study proposes a promising method for reconstructing images from human brain activity, and provides a new framework for understanding DMs. Please check out our webpage at this https URL. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517004v1Tags: brain imaging, fmri, stable diffusion, ai, cognitive neuroscience, Freedom of thought, privacy law
Tags: Occlumency, Freedom of thought, Freedom from oppression
looking forward to that part 2
esp as a fellow scientist who has *been* exposing the program.