Good morning, Horde! Have you noticed a few unexpected issues (or narratives) appearing lately? Let's return to the thrilling days of yesteryear, namely January 2024, when the luminaries of the WEF in Davos chose "misinformation and disinformation" as the most severe short-term risk the world faced. Especially with AI taking over the internet.
Their aim was control. Something to think about, given the events of this year.
How do you think control of "the narrative" has proceeded during 2024?
FBI Asks X Users To Please Stop Solving Crimes Before They Do
The statement reads in part:
"It is in the public interest that all X users stop solving crimes immediately. Solving crime is the responsibility of the federal government and local law enforcement. If we do not solve crimes first, we cannot control the narrative, and that's important for national security reasons we cannot discuss at this time."
As an incentive, the FBI is promising not to raid anyone who complies. "All you have to do is not report on suspects, observe obvious connections to other crimes, or complain when we prosecute parents of school-aged children," a spokesman for the bureau explained. "You scratch our back, we leave your back alone. Get it?"
At publishing time, the FBI had prosecuted an X user for interfering with a cover-up.
Conspiracy Theories
Do folks have a point here?
Be careful podcast world and indy media of "muh Chinese anti-gravity super drones" mega-game
Very careful
Bite too hard on this exploding bait and everyone gets had and discredited
Authorities will make official network TV news viewing mandatory
FOLLOW-UP: Is there something Rogan could not possibly resist?
I'm a conspiracy theorist about conspiracy theories, I realized today
I think some of these theories are built right into "news" stories, pre-planted secrets and meant to be dug up and form ever-so intriguing patterns for suspicious sleuths
Hmmmm . . . Are you seeing this?
Don't get stuck in the intrigue. Live your life.
Weekend
Steven Hayward's The Week in Pictures: The Longest 17 Days
Only seventeen more days to go. But even a senile president can do a lot of damage in 17 days when he is a malevolent narcissist. Makes you long for the good old days when the worst thing an outgoing Democrat did was steal the White House china and furniture and rip out all the ‘W” keys from the computers.
Music
Debussy plays his Golliwog's Cakewalk
Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.
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