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Tag: surveillance

  • Bob Arctor Syndrome

    Bob Arctor Syndrome

    I used to treat A Scanner Darkly like most people treat Philip K. Dick. As a warning label for a reality that other people live in. As a paranoid mirror that is safely behind glass. Then the mirror moved. Then the glass turned out to be a two way screen. Bob Arctor Syndrome is what…

  • Coercion, Opacity, and Bottlenecks (Aggregated News, week ending Dec 22, 2025)

    Coercion, Opacity, and Bottlenecks (Aggregated News, week ending Dec 22, 2025)

    The pattern across the last week is blunt: legitimacy keeps cooling, coercive capacity keeps warming, and institutions keep routing around accountability using the same old solvents – secrecy, fear, and “necessary” violence. If you track systemic narratives, institutional capture, and signal-vs-chaos couplings, this week delivered a clean cluster: sanctions hardening into climate, deniable operations going…