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AI IS WRITING FICTION, PUBLISHING UNPREPARED
#Systems #StrangeAttractor #FreeNews
If we are still out here promoting AI as an effective means of authorship, times are hard.
If your book is 70% GAI generated text, you didn't do anything at all and editors will know.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...
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The Strait of Hormuz (2026)
A rare geographic chokepoint reveals a #system where #instability is extraction; geopolitical tension becomes revenue, feeding systems that convert risk into profit while costs are distributed across populations with no stake in the gain.
#StrangeAttractor #rentseeking
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The Epistemic Razor cuts a clean line between delegation and surrender.
Delegate synthesis, framing, exploration, draft reasoning: those tasks where AI functions as cognitive scaffolding.
Surrender nothing where truth has consequences.
#Maxiom #VerifySources #confirm #StrangeAttractor #meaning
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How ironic is it that Donald Trump has unified the world AGAINST the United States...
The man who ran on racism, retribution and the promise of "America First" may have built the first genuinely post-American world order.
Not through defeat. Through self-inflicted irrelevance.
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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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“Let’s stop calling this a failure of the Trump presidency alone. The 119th Congress had the power to stop this and chose not to. This is a shared failure — Trump and the 119th are equally culpable. War, recession, government shutdown, it belongs to them all.”
— Thaddeus Howze, #StrangeAttractor
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#DHS (2002) after the September 11 attacks. Its design was focused on: large-scale foreign terrorist attacks carried out by organized groups.
How do you design agencies whose efficacy scales to the newest threats while maintaining coherence over time?
#Systems #cybersecurity
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Epistemic hygiene isn't a skill. It's a practice.
Like washing your hands, you do it every time because you respect what you might carry to someone else.
Verify before you send. This is a fundamental part of modern civic engagement online.
#StrangeAttractor #EpistemicHygiene #CriticalThinking
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Speed and emotion often matter more on social media than accuracy.
Without habits to slow down and verify, falsehood can spread as far faster than truth thanks to algorithmic manipulation.
#EpistemicHygiene ##SocialMedia #NarrativeWarfare #Propaganda
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EPISTEMIC HYGIENE
Media has always been suspect.
New tech has amplified #misinformation a thousand fold — scale, speed, and democratization.
#Truth no longer collapses under censorship. It dissolves under #abundance.
#StrangeAttractor #Algorithm
cognitivedissident.substack.com/p/epistemic-...
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https://cognitivedissident.substack.com/s/strange-attractor Strange Attractor is a publication for thinkers who seek coherence in a world optimized for chaos. We reject the false dichotomy between the personal and the systemic, between the philosophical and the practical. We are less interested in what people are thinking and more interested in how and why systems force them to think in certain ways.
IN SUMMARY
– Conditioning exists.
– Algorithms are reinforcement systems.
– Reinforcement shapes behavior.
– Behavior shapes identity.
– Infrastructure demands oversight.
Social media deserves scientific rigor and public accountability commensurate with its psychological impact.
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https://cognitivedissident.substack.com/s/strange-attractor
#Corruption is a machine:
Change inputs.
Change incentives.
Change outcomes.
Make it unprofitable.
Make it unsustainable.
Make it undeniable.
Seal the cracks.
Remove the attractants.
Stop the scouts.
Break the trail.
That’s not cynicism.
That’s engineering.
#StoryTime #StrangeAttractor
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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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TODAY ON: SAY WHAT?
Let's mine the outrage...
“Who replaced Jeffrey Epstein?”
You don't take a decades-long run criminal enterprise, providing a extremely rare resource and roll over when the cops show up.
Otherwise, there would be no organized crime. Am I right?
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Strange Attractor https://cognitivedissident.substack.com/s/strange-attractor
Lice are obligate parasites. They can't survive without a host body its also a description of their role in society, bleeding us dry.
Epstein's networks infested government, institutions, trust and access to the infrastructure of society in order to exist at all.
#StrangeAttractor #Entropy #Chaos
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“‘Trickle down’ theory was real. You just didn't realize in which direction things went.
”You have to think of it like a funnel with billionaires at the bottom of the bottle in the concentrated exudate of our collective efforts.
”In this light, the system works as intended.”
— #StrangeAttractor
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It gets picked up:
— by #politicians who point at young people and say they've been corrupted
— by #pundits who use it to justify cultural enforcement
— by #institutions that need loyalty performed visibly so they can distinguish compliant populations from noncompliant ones
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“The only thing more powerful than Hate is Love.”
“The Speaker of the House, #MikeJohnson, during the period he was actively obstructing accountability, posing with celebrities, #JellyRoll and #KidRock at a #TPUSA event as his party was dismantling constitutional safeguards. #BadBunny dominated the #SuperBowl.”
— T. Howze
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Ring suggested this technology to harmlessly find lost dogs, not to become a mass surveillance infrastructure to 100+ million people. But it will.
I have always been suspicious of tech which could be co-opted remotely. It'll be arresting people in no time.
Lost dogs, my ass.
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https://cognitivedissident.substack.com/s/strange-attractor
This connects to everything:
• You can't fix people who would rather die than admit error.
• Can't save a society maintaining delusion until the ventilator.
• You can't appeal to people denying observable reality.
All you can do is:
• Wear the mask
• Survive the people who won't
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Dlvr.it does not skew toward quality. It focuses on quantity, overwhelming the algorithm through volume.
Allowing automated accounts to gain a disproportionate advantage over people attempting to make connections over social media in real time.
Through it, social media failed us.
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We were talking about this earlier in the week in my #StrangeAttractor segment on #MediaForensics. Thanks for sharing another aspect of the social media degradation taking place all around us.
#TheVibeRhetoricWar #OnlineDiscourse #SocialMedia #Collapse
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BARRIERS
Racism (credential gatekeeping)
Market collapse (intellectual depth devalued)
AI restructure (mediocrity beats out expertise)
Age (“past your prime” in a youth-obsessed culture)
Structural exhaustion (decades in the workforce)
Any of this sound like YOU?
Talk about it.
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Pattern recognition matters.
Different platforms. Different owners.
Same forensic signature:
– Trust is expensive
– Truth is risky
– Accountability is externalized
– Control is invisible
Not incompetence.
It’s late-stage incentive alignment.
#MediaForensics #StrangeAttractor #NarrativeControl
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And wow — Amazon.
Cutting staff. Cutting costs. Executives bonuses.
Amazon didn’t just reshape retail — it hollowed out the publishing ecosystem. Pricing power, data asymmetry, and logistics leverage turned books into loss-leaders and authors into metrics.
#MediaForensics #StrangeAttractor
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Same pattern. Different owners. Capture. Incentive rot.
And the quiet replacement of public accountability with private risk mitigation.
That isn’t censorship by decree.
It’s suppression by design.
#TikTok's users are bailing in response.
#MediaForensics #StrangeAttractor #NarrativeControl
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STRANGE ATTRACTOR: A COGNITIVE DISSIDENT PUBLICATION https://cognitivedissident.substack.com/s/strange-attractor
MEDIA FORENSICS — Tonight’s #StrangeAttractor
Wondering why you aren’t hearing enough of the right information from the media?
Because our media has been compromised, undermined, and intentionally gutted by government pressure, corporate capture, and economic skullduggery.
Let’s take a look. 🧵
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“We funded an elite pedophile ring since 2015.”
— Various stunned CryptoBros
“Not a new thing. Powerful, influential and wealthy American predators have always existed. Who did you think they were raping back in 1619?*”
— Thaddeus Howze
*Chattel slavery started in 1619.
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ANALYSIS The likely collapse of The Washington Post would not be a story of insolvency. It would be a story of withdrawal. Jeff Bezos can fund the paper indefinitely. Its danger isn’t economic scarcity, it’s political exposure. Since 2016, the Post functioned as a high-capacity node for institutional accountability. Investigative reporting, document pipelines, and legal muscle made it a persistent obstacle to Donald Trump’s agenda. Not symbolic opposition — operational friction. That makes it strategically inconvenient. Authoritarian movements don’t always shut presses by force. They apply pressure until owners decide neutrality is safer than truth. Editorial drift, leadership reshuffles, “business realignments,” and finally, quiet hollowing. The paper keeps printing. The mission does not. This isn’t about Bezos suddenly lacking spine or cash. It’s about risk calculus. When the cost of truthful reporting becomes regulatory retaliation, legal harassment, or targeted state action, media institutions dependent on elite protection tend to fold. And once a flagship outlet normalizes retreat, the chilling effect propagates outward. Local papers self-censor. Editors spike stories preemptively. Sources stop calling. The information environment collapses before the public notices. That’s how democratic systems fail now. Not with tanks. With silence. As for Immigration and Customs Enforcement: enforcement agencies thrive in low-visibility environments. Media contraction isn’t collateral damage — it’s a prerequisite. So no, this wouldn’t be a financial death. It would be a political euthanasia. #CoupUnlocked #MediaCapture #InstitutionalRetreat
ANALYSIS: Washington Post — dissolution in 3-6 months.
WaPo isn't financially insolvent. Bezos has more than enough money to keep it running into the next century.
It's being euthanized because it once opposed Trump's various agendas back in 2016.
#MediaCapture #CoupUnlocked #StrangeAttractor
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