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How nuclear fears helped inspire creation of the internet – Sharon Weinberger | Aeon ‘Brainwashing’ was a new term in the early 1950s, first introduced and popularised by Edward Hunter, a spy-turned-journalist who wrote about this dangerous new weapon that could sway men’s minds. The communists had been at work on it for years, but…
How nuclear fears helped inspire creation of the internet – Sharon Weinberger | Aeon Essays The fig tree is pollinated only by the insect Blastophaga grossorun. The larva of the insect lives in the ovary of the fig tree, and there it gets its food. The tree and the insect are thus heavily interdependent: the…
Were the DNC Emails Hacked or Leaked? an increasingly leaky state…a state of leakiness…news hacks talking about hacks
Operation Mindfuck “In the late 1960s, the group launched a project dubbed Operation Mindfuck. One prominent Discordian, the novelist Robert Anton Wilson, later explained that they wanted to be a “Cosmic Giggle Factor.” They would create “so many alternative paranoias that everybody could pick a favorite, if they were inclined that way.” He added, “I…