DUNE: UNLOCKED
Helping you break down the complexity of the #Dune saga:
• intergalactic intrigue and murder
• giant worms on a desert planet
• sex witches
• bondage boxes
• recycled urine
• mind-altering worm poop
• more sand than you ever want to think about
You’re welcome.
#Scifi #RadioFreeMars
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#RADIOFREEMARS REMINDS US
The FCC threat to licenses is real and the "treason" framing against journalists is escalating.
But that dog won't hunt. Journalism reports the news. Trump's efforts are about creating fear and silencing dissent. Don't let them.
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...
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The antidote to #NarrativeWarfare isn't shouting louder.
It's better pattern recognition. Learn to see the tactic, not the spectacle. Name the mechanism, not the man.
They need you reactive. Stay analytical. Know what's happening. Demand accountability.
#RadioFreeMars #StrangeAttractor
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The move is simple: If the media won’t call your war “patriotic,” call the media “treasonous.”
“Treason” isn’t being used as law. It’s being used as leverage. Not truth vs falsehood. Loyalty vs disloyalty.
Now, pick a side.
Congress already has.
#NarrativeWarfare #RadioFreeMars #treason
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WELCOME BACK TO THE NARRATIVE WAR
I swore I was done writing about him. But narrative warfare doesn’t care about my vows.
If any politician can label journalism “treason,” then reality itself is on trial.
And you are the jury they intend to rig.
#NarrativeWarfare #RadioFreeMars #treason
Editor at @scifi.radio, I write two Substack publications:
The first: “The Cognitive Dissident” covers criticism, social analysis, and the kind of thinking that doesn't fit into approved categories. Home of #StrangeAttractor and #RadioFreeMars.
cognitivedissident.substack.com
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I have to remember that things can get better, even if right now, they look like they're getting worse.
If we put in the work, become aware of the problems, adopt super kittens, agree to help each other, we might be able to make a difference.
#RadioFreeMars #CognitiveDissident
And every new budget, every cut, every crisis makes the same point:
The future belongs to contractors and oligarchs — unless we decide it belongs to us.
How?
Not allowing them to lie to us, to buy our media, to corrupt the government, to malign our citizens or erode our standards.
#RadioFreeMars
Charlie Kirk, 31, shot dead in Utah
Fortunately the Second Amendment wasn't injured except through irony. Who knew just how much tumult this event was going to unleash? Read the news since then. Be amazed.
#MedalofHonor #WTF
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#CognitiveDissident #RadioFreeMars
THADDEUS HOWZE
Author • Essayist • Pop-Culture • Journalist
@scifi.radio | thowze.carrd.co
Hayward's Reach | Broken Glass | Grey Library
Library of America: The Black Fantastic (2025)
Emmy Award (2024) | Quora ‘Top Writer’ (2016, 2017, 2018)
#CognitiveDissident #RadioFreeMars #Omniverse #fantasy
Is this imperfect? Most definitely. RomneyCare was never a perfect solution.
But the Republicans said no. They would have said no to Obamacare (just over-dressed RomneyCare but they couldn't stop it.)
We need Single Payer. Collapse the faux "healthcare" market.
#RadioFreeMars
Stop Blaming AI for What We Did to Ourselves
by the #CognitiveDissident and #RadioFreeMars
cognitivedissident.substack.com
THE INTERNET IS FULL OF MISINFORMATION
The Information Age has more than a few snakes. Of late, that appears to be by design.
Buckiewicz, Amanda. 2025. “The Internet Is Full of Misinformation. That’s by Design, Experts Say.” CBC. May 16, 2025.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
#RadioFreeMars
QUICK OVERVIEW: Beginning in September 2025, the U.S. military initiated air-strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. The attacks were justified publicly under a U.S. determination that the country was engaged in a “non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels. The first strike — on September 2 — reportedly killed 11 people aboard a Venezuelan vessel. After the initial strike, two survivors clinging to wreckage were reportedly killed in a second strike, following an alleged order from Hegseth to “kill everybody.” As of mid-November 2025, at least 21 strikes on 22 separate vessels had taken place, resulting in approximately 83 deaths (including one missing presumed dead). In this case, the administration never sought or obtained a formal declaration of war by Congress against drug cartels. Instead, they issued an internal legal determination that the U.S. was in a “non-international armed conflict,” effectively reclassifying drug-smuggling operations as a war-like scenario. That reclassification bypasses traditional legislative oversight. Observers describe the pattern as: • No formal declaration of war by Congress, no Articles of War invoked; • Use of lethal force against non-state criminal suspects rather than combatants; • Orders reportedly to “kill everybody,” including those incapacitated or wrecked; • Lack of transparency or due process, and no public evidence presented to confirm that each target was an active threat. As one former military lawyer put it: even if the U.S. treats the drug cartels as “unlawful combatants,” giving a “no quarter” order — executing those unable to fight or swim — is prohibited under the laws of war. If the situation is not a war at all, then the killings are murder.
Why did 80 people have to be killed before we decided Pete Hegseth, and the USN under the leadership of Donald Trump, could engage targets in internationals waters when there were no articles of war passed by Congress?
The Executive Branch engaged in extra-judicial murder.
See ALT.
#RadioFreeMars
Not speaking for every young person.
But if I was them, it is easy to see a monumental series of events, which no one in power seems interested in solving.
Perhaps they've decided, there isn't a point, until people in power decide to stop killing each other for money or power.
#RadioFreeMars
By doing the due diligence these scammers can't. Bringing information that people are wanting to know about and eschewing the content mill they have come to expect.
Tell stories that matter, that can't be gamed by generative artificial intelligence. It takes skill GAI can't match.
#RadioFreeMars
This problem has to be met head on.
Anyone with a bit of experience using generative artificial intelligence can spot this tech in action. It may behoove editors to work with writers who understand GAI to help them detect its use.
Pretending it doesn't exist isn't enough.
#RadioFreeMars
I spent 20 years being a mentor to anyone I had a vested interest teaching.
My underlying paradigm:
“As your mentor, my job isn't to give you answers. It is to teach you how to want to continue to seek new questions when our relationship ends.”
— Thaddeus Howze, #RadioFreeMars #Lifelonglearning
I would settle for just getting my account back. But I suspect it won't happen and my decade of work will be lost.
It's my own fault. I knew better.
TRUST NO ONE.
TRUST NO MEDIA.
TRUST NO OLIGARCH.
TRUST NO POLITICIAN.
TRUST NO ALGORITHM.
#CntlAltResist
#RadioFreeMars
