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Philosophy

Pepper: softly spoken lies

There is a line in Pepper by the Butthole Surfers that lands almost casually: you never know just how you look through other people’s eyes. The song drifts through arbitrary violence, strange lives, and unresolved fragments, people moving through events that feel coherent from within but unsettling from outside. That line shifts the frame. It […]

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cybernetics

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, […]