The Post-Partisan Emporium

If they can’t get you “vaccinated” via a mandate, maybe they’ll be able to get you using the mafia. The  insurance  mafia. How? By citing a “study” – you know, The Science –  published  by the American Journal of Medicine, that associates not taking whatever drugs the government/corporations order you to take with  . . . a higher likelihood that you’ll wreck your car. Fortune  cites the study, which claims that the  un-drugged  (the proper term to use, as these drugs are not  vaccines  since  vaccines  prevent infection and stop transmissions – and these drugs do neither) are “72 percent more likely to be involved in a severe traffic crash in which at least one person was transported to the hospital” than those who  have  been drugged. The premise of this claim is not, however, evidence that being un-drugged has a negative effect on driving competence. It is an oily assertion of correlation with not-following-the-rule...

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...