Are You Brave Enough to Survive this Brave New World?

The Future is Here, Now.

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Hello, Friend,

I deleted BlueSky this week. It wasn’t bringing joy and the TOS upon second glance made me uncomfortable. I’m left with Substack and LinkedIn. LinkedIn may also be on the chopping block, truth told. After the Palantir news, which was not a surprise to anyone paying attention, I think we all need to rethink our digital footprint.

Oh no, not this again!

Yes, this.

I implore you to listen, because we are in a singular moment.

The amount of data that has been gathered through social media, video streaming services, web history, search history, location tracking, ‘smart devices’, and our online/in person shopping history is intrusive enough without adding every bit of data the government has gathered over our lifetimes. It was one thing when that government data was housed in various agencies across various platforms, intentionally siloed. In the aftermath of the great Doge-ening, we’re in a whole other reality.

With the unfettered rise of hallucinatory AI and the potential emergence of a massive surveillance state, it’s time to sit back and ask ourselves what’s next? How do we move through this Brave New World run by out of touch, racist, eugenicist, elitist white men who want it all and seem to want the rest of us to suffer while they take it? How do we fight a good fight when the bad guys didn’t even have to take over because we handed them the reins?

I honestly don’t know.

My warnings are treated like Chicken Little’s rantings, but they’re more like Paul Revere’s. The Technocracy is coming! The Technocracy is coming! If we don’t stop it soon, it just might consume us all. ME-lon’s shifting gears. He got what he came for and now it’s being handed over to Palantir. They will have every significant data point on every single one of us. It will be all reaching and all powerful. They won’t need Trump anymore.

Fun Facts with Madge: The name Palantir comes from The Lord of the Rings. It translates as ‘far watch over’-the term for an all seeing stone forged by elves to communicate and spy on everyone and everything present and past. These stones can be manipulated to conceal the truth from the other stones. Sauron uses a stone to broadcast propaganda, spy on, manipulate and trick his enemies by warping their vision of reality, and control those with weaker minds.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. Peter probably just really liked Hobbits.

There’s also this from Daniel Pinchbeck who is feeling the same sense of frustration at the ennui that I am.

“Trump has pledged $500 billion to the Stargate project, an ambitious AI infrastructure initiative co-led by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Oracle's Larry Ellison. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison wants invasive AI surveillance to become an integral part of everyday life in the immediate future. He has stated that AI will soon significantly impact society through an extensive network of interconnected cameras, including security systems, police body cams, and vehicle dash cams.”

Daniel Pinchbeck, American Panopticon

Combine Palantir with the Stargate Project and we are in a full on dystopian novel come to life. PLEASE read about the Dark Enlightenment, Yarvin is the Belle of DC these days.

Are you paying attention yet? Taking notes?

When I write here or talk to people IRL about what is happening in broad daylight, a shocking number of them shrug and move on to a new topic.

“It’s too hard to think about it. I can’t do anything about it. It will be fine. We’ll vote them out.”

Who will you vote out? Peter Thiel? Elon Musk? Mark Andreessen? Sam Altman? Larry Ellison? Mark Zuckerberg? Jeff Bezos? Alex Karp? Eric Prince? Leonard Leo? The Mercers? Sundar Pichai? David Sacks? Kevin Roberts? Charles Koch? MBS? Vladimir Putin?

I’ve spent two years here on the farm battling thistle in our experimental garden. The roots are so deep and insidious that it is almost impossible to eradicate. Leave the tiniest little bit of root under the soil and it comes right back. Between the Tech Bros, the MAGAs, and the Christian Nationalists, we’re battling an array of nasty thistle that has rooted itself deep in the soil of our government.

“I’m safe,” you say.

Are you, though?

What happens when hallucinatory AI un-alives you, deletes your Medicare or Social Security accounts, freezes your assets, sends you to the IRS for an audit, steals your land, marks you as a target for arrest or harassment? What happens when you try to call a government agency to get answers or assistance and you’re stuck in an endless AI loop designed to make you give up and go away? Even if you’ve done nothing wrong, the algorithm might insist otherwise. Doge has made countless errors while claiming to have found fraud that mostly did not exist. Look at what’s happening to legal immigrants right now. Innocent people are being kidnapped and held hostage, some possibly forever. This is far bigger and more complex than which party is in charge at this point. The Republicans are complicit and the Democratic leadership seems fully aware but unwilling/unable to do anything significant to right the ship.

The last election was clearly manipulated, you can read about the newest developments on that front in this insightful essay on ME-lon from Kevin McKinney. (Scroll down to Conflagration of Conflicts.) Remember Joe Rogan talking about Elon’s ‘app’ giving him the election results hours before they were announced? We still don’t know what app he was talking about.

And then there’s the leopards eating leopards scenario arising today that you can read about on Jim Stewartson’s Substack MindWar, another great resource. Elon has taken off the gloves with an Epstein bombshell and claims that Trump and the GOP would have lost the election without him. In response, Donald is threatening to pull all of Elon’s contracts.

“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.

Such ingratitude.”

Elon Musk, X

Please take a few minutes to watch this interview with Carole Cadwalladr on The Daily Show. You can find her here on Substack, where she is regularly shining the light on the Broligarchy. Carole was the first person to break the news about the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal back in 2018.

Note the part of the Big Beautiful Bill that blocks states from regulating AI for the next 10 years. This has deeper resonance in light of the Palantir news. Even Marjorie was shocked by that one, and she worked with DOGE. The MAGA influencers are freaking out about the potential emergence of an actual all powerful Deep State. Guess it wasn’t Soros, after all. Eh, boys?

I know it’s a lot to process, but we have to do it. Put on your big girl or boy panties and get ready. We can’t wait for the next election to fix this. Call your reps. Demand answers and accountability. Bang the drum loudly and with conviction. Gather up your people. Take care of each other.

The Technocracy is coming! The Technocracy is coming!

At least it is if we don’t do anything to stop it.

I’m going to dish this all up in Cliff’s Notes bullet points version on Monday. Who knows what fresh hell will have arisen by then?! Take care of each other until I get back.

PS: It’s a busy week here and if there are typos or grammatical oopsies, please find it in your heart to let them go. Thank you in advance.

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