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On neurogovernance It's much worse than you think laughlyn (johan eddebo) When I was a kid, I really wanted a datajack implant on the side of my head. The datajack is a fictional device from the William Gibson type of cyberpunk narratives that allows the wearer access to the Matrix, often coupled with a computer implant. And sometimes a cortex bomb. I think I was enthralled by not so much the transhumanist aspect of such augmentation, but rather by this immense promise of boundless innerspace exploration, instant communication and anarchic self-governance through total and open access to information. This immediately translated to a deep fascination for the nascent digital technologies of the early 1990s. The Internet, however, could most likely never really have delivered such lofty goods. It’s after all a set of military technologies, with inherent structural tendencies and intentionalities that progress towards a certain set of ends, irrespectively of how we use them at the micr

Demon Spawn – Artificial Wombs in Ancient India The Mahabharata foretold synthetic wombs, leftoid lunacy, and nuclear bombs. Hindus revere their ancient “seers” for a reason Joe Allen EctoLife in the Kali Yuga Last week, the German bio-propagandist Hashem Al-Ghaili  shocked the world with his concept video  EctoLife: The World’s First Artificial Womb Facility . The shot opens on a designer baby factory, then pans across rows of steel womb-pods. The little miracles inside are tended by AI modulators and faceless nurses in hazmat suits. Seeing these “30,000 lab-grown babies” packed together in tiered grids, it was like I could smell the fresh bleach on top of stale piss. “With EctoLife, miscarriage and low sperm count are a thing of the past,” the chatbot narrator promises. “Prior to placing the fertilized embryo of your baby inside the growth pod,  in vitro  fertilization is used to create and select the most viable and genetically superior embryo, giving your baby a chance to develop w