• wideopenarms [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I’m given to the idea that MKUltra never ended, just switched format/medium from drugs to tech. The money and resources being poured onto AI, the uniform adoption and enforcement of it in social media, education, and work, the same way that it prays on the psychologically vulnerable - idk, yeah there’s the suppression of wages for skilled work that’s going on, but just as well, they’ve found their “ethical” way to throw LSD in the public water supply and see what happens.

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      It wouldn’t surprise me. Yasha Levine’s surveillance valley gets into some of the overlap between hippie counter-culture, tech evangelists, and US counter-intelligence military projects.