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Inside the Cognitive War

A cognitive war is not simply about what you think. It is a war over how you think, because once the structure, code, and cadence of thought, of language, of behaviour are altered, the content becomes easy to steer. Some of these biases are ancient, natural, even necessary: shortcuts of perception, habits of inferential prediction, […]

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Philosophy

Surveillance Capitalism

Surveillance capitalism claims to see outward, yet its deepest capture is inward. Any system that grounds authority in exhaustive data collection must internalise its own apparatus. The observer becomes the most observed entity in the field. As capture intensifies, freedom contracts. Control architectures require constant calibration and escalation, growing brittle, paranoid, and self-consuming. Power built […]

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cybernetics

Algorithmic Censorship

Across the major platforms, something subtle but consistent is happening. Posts rise, gather momentum, then stall at almost exactly the same threshold, regardless of topic, audience, or timing. The curve flattens not because interest disappears, but because propagation is capped. This pattern repeats on LinkedIn, WordPress, X, Instagram, and beyond. Visibility has become a controlled […]

cybernetics Philosophy

Turn it Off

Post author By G
Post date Jan 14, 2026
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Autocorrect does not correct language. It normalises it. It quietly collapses variation, cadence, hesitation, and idiosyncratic drift into a statistically preferred surface. In doing so, it narrows vocabulary and cognition, nudging expression toward higher-probability words and away from outliers that often carry intent and conceptual precision. What it offers as clarity is often conformity. What […]

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