A new AI-enabled apartheid

I realized recently that "Apartheid", the South African policy of separating--and using as inexpensive, semi-captive servants--non-white races from the ruling whites, sounds like "Afford-heit." 

As I read the book Artificial Intelligence for Dummies, I'm struck by how the authors alternate between talking about what can be done with AI and then saying how actually doing much of that is yet to come in some distant future. 

I think the authors are lying that some of the more advanced uses of AI aren't being done yet. The AI tools that you and I can access for free/cheap on our computers and phones are certainly far below what AI capabilities exist. AI has existed since the 1960s, and our cars have been using it in their ABS systems for 40 years.

When it comes to AI, I think we're facing an "Afford-heit" era, where the bulk of us are viewed as the "cheap servants" of people and companies who can afford the best AI technology. They still need someone to do the physical labor of society while they collect and use the data that we give away everyday by using tech (wearable tech especially is a goldmine of information to them) and living our lives. And, of course, businesses need customers...lots of them so as to make lots more money!

Nowadays, we are deemed to be giving up information about ourselves by the most commonplace actions. For instance, did you know that you give away much of your privacy merely by walking onto the premises of a Target or Walmart store? Actually, just having your car *near* a Target store means they are likely identifying you as a potential shopper (see Section 10 of the online Target Privacy Policy). There is a lot of value in our bodies' actions when it comes to the fields of data collection and the use of that data by advanced AI. Even if businesses delete the data eventually, they get to utilize it first and often hand it off to third-party companies, too.

Who would enable this new kind of apartheid? Kids of my generation wanted to be the heroes from the movie The Power of One. Sadly, the enablers would have to include a lot of IT and literary people who were likely bullied in their youth for being academically-oriented instead of physically-oriented/socially-oriented. On Instapundit, the commenters would sometimes say, "Some people just want to see the world burn." My response to that is understanding (I was bullied, too) and hope for them to find meaning in their lives again; returning evil for evil is something I long ago learned was pointless and ultimately unsatisfying.

As with many movements, there is likely to be some in-fighting going on in it. There are five tribes within AI machine learning research: Symbolists, Connectionists, Bayesians, Evolutionaries, and Analogists. I noticed that the sinking of the "Bayesian yacht" last year is in the headlines again. Is that a symbol of some AI "tribal warfare"? The yacht's sinking was a bit mysterious, having been preceded by a lack of storm alerts. I wonder what is under the visible tips of the AI-giants' icebergs.

Why I think the story of the prophet Jonah is likely wrongly understood by nearly everyone

The Old Testament of the Bible contains a small book about a prophet named Jona/Jonah/Jonas, who didn't want to go preach repentance to the city of Ninevah. The part about not wanting to preach repentance makes perfect sense to me, for people prefer to hear that they aren't doing anything wrong rather than hearken to calls to change their ways.

Avoiding the missionary call, Jonah runs away in a ship. A storm comes up, and Jonah says to the sailors, "I'm the reason for the storm, so throw me overboard to save yourselves." The sailors don't want to do it, but finally give in to Jonah. Jonah spends the next three days in a "dag gdul," which is Hebrew for "big fish."  ("Dag" means fish.) 

For centuries, people have tried to understand this event as an actual fish or whale having swallowed Jonah, similar to what happened to the fictional Geppetto in the book/movies of Pinocchio. I think that is an unnecessary, faith-risking way of reading the story of Jonah, for it is more plausible that he was in a smaller fish-shaped cargo dinghy, one that could have been towed by the first boat and then cut loose to float where the wind and currents took it. The sailors made it quite clear they didn't want to cause Jonah's death in the ocean, and I think they came up with a compromise where they put Jonah off their boat but didn't leave him to drown deprived of any flotation aids.

Is there a precedent for small fish-shaped freight vessels in that part of the world anciently? Yes. Reed boats come to mind. Often too small to put sails on, but cheap and definitely invented by Old Testament times. (Please look at some images of ancient Mediterranean reed boats, then come back to read the rest of the post. It will make more sense when you can envision the reed boats yourself.)

When Jonah talks about his time in the water, he says,

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

Jonah 2:5, Old Testament, The Bible

If weeds were wrapped around his head and waters were all around him, then it seems Jonah wasn't sitting in a big air pocket inside Moby Dick somehow avoiding digestion (I'm too close to Star Wars Day not to be envisioning a watery Sarlacc right now....). This verse, especially the part about weeds being wrapped around Jonah's head, is logical and believable if Jonah was surviving a stormy sea in a small reed boat.

Another ancient account compares riding across the ocean in small boats to being in sea creatures:

And the Lord said: Go to work and build, after the manner of barges which ye have hitherto built. And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did go to work, and also his brethren, and built barges after the manner which they had built, according to the instructions of the Lord. And they were small, and they were light upon the water, even like unto the lightness of a fowl upon the water. And they were built after a manner that they were exceedingly tight, even that they would hold water like unto a dish; and the bottom thereof was tight like unto a dish; and the sides thereof were tight like unto a dish; and the ends thereof were peaked; and the top thereof was tight like unto a dish; and the length thereof was the length of a tree; and the door thereof, when it was shut, was tight like unto a dish. 

And it came to pass that the brother of Jared cried unto the Lord, saying: O Lord, I have performed the work which thou hast commanded me, and I have made the barges according as thou hast directed me. And behold, O Lord, in them there is no light; whither shall we steer? And also we shall perish, for in them we cannot breathe, save it is the air which is in them; therefore we shall perish. And the Lord said unto the brother of Jared: Behold, thou shalt make a hole in the top, and also in the bottom; and when thou shalt suffer for air thou shalt unstop the hole and receive air. And if it be so that the water come in upon thee, behold, ye shall stop the hole, that ye may not perish in the flood. And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did so, according as the Lord had commanded. And he cried again unto the Lord saying: O Lord, behold I have done even as thou hast commanded me; and I have prepared the vessels for my people, and behold there is no light in them. Behold, O Lord, wilt thou suffer that we shall cross this great water in darkness? 

And the Lord said unto the brother of Jared: What will ye that I should do that ye may have light in your vessels? For behold, ye cannot have windows, for they will be dashed in pieces; neither shall ye take fire with you, for ye shall not go by the light of fire. For behold, ye shall be as a whale in the midst of the sea; for the mountain waves shall dash upon you. Nevertheless, I will bring you up again out of the depths of the sea; for the winds have gone forth out of my mouth, and also the rains and the floods have I sent forth. And behold, I prepare you against these things; for ye cannot cross this great deep save I prepare you against the waves of the sea, and the winds which have gone forth, and the floods which shall come....

Ether 2:16-25, The Book of Mormon 

Note that the people talked about in this account were to be in barges, not inside large animals, and they were being compared to being in whales while traveling the sea.

I can believe in the God of the Bible without believing that Jonah hung out for three days in a cetacean stomach. While God can do miracles, the book of Jonah doesn't appear to be requiring us to accept a Pinocchio scenario. (Anyone who tells you otherwise should check the length of their own noses. :) )

We can all be more curious and cautious when it comes to canonizing less plausible scripture interpretations that don't even fit the texts, especially when too many people are told they must accept one "literal" interpretation or they lack faith in God. God is much bigger than our abilities to put things into words accurately.

Thoughts on thoughts by Hugh Nibley

I was recently reading in Hugh Nibley's book The World of the Jaredites. For those who don't know him, he was a brilliant, extraordinarily well-read LDS scholar.

In talking about the conspiratorial structures one encounters in Asiatic cultures and specifically the Jaredites, an ancient Book of Mormon culture he believed to be both historically real and also Asiatic, he said this:

"[T]he key to control over one's fellow men, i.e., to power and gain, lies in three things: secrecy, organization, and freedom from moral scruples, especially from squeamishness in the matter of shedding blood."

Let's consider these three items in light of current trends and new, not-always-widely-publicized technology.

1) Secrecy has been around since there were two people to share a secret. Nothing new there as far as human nature. But technology has changed; we can write programs to hide and decode secret messages in text (when existing languages get boring, we can even invent new ones!), images, sound files, song lyrics, data headers and artifacts, etc. and transmit them in many different ways. The diversity of mechanisms to share secrets has never been so large as it is now.

To end secret combinations, one logically targets secrecy. Go cryptography experts who use their talents to do good!

The research done in the field of neuromarketing can also be used to see what people prefer deep down. Maybe only God could look on the heart two thousand years ago, but modern technology can allow us to get a much better photo of the heart's outlines than human societies used to be able to capture.

2) Organizations have also been around forever. We start out being born into families. 

Modern technology allows organizations and networks to develop and thrive between people who would never meet in real life. 

Got an ex-wife you want to harass over the internet? Find someone, or more likely some bot-providing programmer, on a "dark" web to do it for you while you're super busy with other things and can look uninvolved. (Sounds improbable? Hmmm, you hang out with a nicer crowd than I have.)

Modern technology can also be used to track down these connections and networks, though. It's only a matter of time till law enforcement realizes how easy the "smart" criminals are to catch and have convicting evidence on, due to the criminals' heavy reliance on the internets. If there's not a quiet market already for scrubbing one's tech activity, there certainly will be.

3) Lastly, lack of squeamishness. That's a tough one because we are currently dealing with a world where hearts have been being hardened. 

There is a temporary feeling of superiority that comes from feeling above taboos. I think it's a sad, ultimately doomed way to feel good, for it inevitably ends with everyone else (even other taboo-breakers) disliking you if you go too far. Those taboos developed for a reason; either nature has selected for them or God put them there, but they are like kite strings that hold us aloft--cut them, and one plummets after an initial upward rush.

Algorithms and technology influence what we see and hear and thus what we think. Our feelings get manipulated regularly to drive us to make decisions in the marketplace, at the ballot box, with respect to social trends, etc.

I don't think we can end algorithmic manipulation of us. But I think we can harness it for good. Most people hate, absolutely hate, being told what to do. But they will obey their paid fitness coaches because they want the results of heeding them.

Organizations and people should be up front about how they manipulate people and let them choose for themselves whether they want that technology used on them. (And vague "terms and conditions" aren't what I am talking about.) I want to be able to find services that help me be more creative (without them being creative instead of me), a better cook, more perceptive in my interactions with others (again, without doing it all for me), less addicted to harmful behaviors and prejudices, and so forth. 

Help me achieve the goals that bring me actual satisfaction, and I will support you in return. I want to see a truly interdependent marketplace of goods and services instead of the one we have now that is too dependent on using each other--maximizing ignorance in order to do so--in exploitative ways.

What if medical care actually cured? What if dating sites helped people find someone they're going to stay with instead of being a repeat client in five years? What if churches were less divisive and heeded Jesus's call to unity? What if life insurance companies didn't reap financial benefit from other companies' clients suffering harm? What if plowshare manufacturing were prioritized over weaponry? What if people were taught how to live peacefully with each other instead of being "radicalized" via tech?

I think we are in a messy time right now where some early developers of new technology decided to use it foremost to make money rather than sharing it publicly. Nothing wrong with earning money honestly, but as so often happens, dishonesty existed side-by-side with honesty and has temporarily won out. Nobody has more to gain from non-disclosure than do criminals.

I hope we get through this time to a brighter future.

[Update 5/11/2025: Another point Nibley makes is that Asiatic and Jaredite wars both tend to be ones of annihilation, often mutual.

The insane wars of the Jaredite chiefs ended in the complete annihilation of both sides, with the kings the last to go. The same thing had almost happened earlier in the days of Akish, when a civil war between him and his sons reduced the population to thirty....This all seems improbable to us, but two circumstances peculiar to Asiatic warfare explain why the phenomenon is by no means without parallel: (1) Since every war is strictly a personal contest between kings, the battle must continue until one of the kings falls or is taken. (2) And yet things are so arranged that the king must be the very last to fall, the whole army existing for the sole purpose of defending his person. This is clearly seen in the game of chess, in which all pieces are expendable except the king, who can never be taken.

To me, this means we should do all we can to prevent having unequal strata of governance, since the people at the top will "sacrifice" others to preserve their lives and positions. 

(I put sacrifice in quotes here because tossing a loved one off a cliff, a la Thanos in the recent Marvel movies, is what I call murder, not the "sacrifice" he claims it was. Thanos is wrong to say he loved his foster child when he was willing to use her as a pawn to get something else. Love goes deeper than the mere fondness he exhibits. Love includes a desire to promote the well-being of the beloved person.)

Government "by the people" as an egalitarian society is a goal we should seek if only for survival, although it has much else to recommend it. :)

The Jaredites' final battle is interesting in that the two opposing sides roughly kept balanced numbers with each other as they fought to the death, kind of like a Frisbee or flying saucer working to stay horizontal as it spins into an incinerator. What philosophies are so convincing that people will forfeit their own futures to be able to kill others? Whatever the philosophies are, they are foreign to the ideals and truths Jesus taught and do not bring happiness, so I think most people reject them.]

My most recent experiment

As I have previously announced on multiple occasions successful weight loss experimentation only to be unable to repeat the success, I am hesitant to keep doing so. However, one day I think I'll succeed, and I'd like to have a record of all the things I tried. It should be good for teaching my descendants the importance of creativity and persistence! 

So here is roughly what I did for the past two days which seems to have potential for helping me burn some fat:

0.5) At least an hour before, drink some celery leaf/roasted banana leaf ash/distilled water (strained with nylon mesh).

1) Microwave for 60 seconds 4 raw juniper berries and some dried parsley leaves. Use a plastic IKEA children cup with a small blue translucent lid so as to keep in any gases formed. Let cool while doing the next 4 steps.

2) Microwave for 60 seconds around 20 raw juniper berries in a white mug with beer salt (for the silicon dioxide in it). Stir with something gold (I use a Black Hills gold earring). Press 2 of the juniper berries into a small amount of salted butter on the tines of a personal blender.

3) Swirl into the (2) mug some roasted banana leaf ash and microwave for 60 seconds more. Stir with the same gold item. Press 2 of the juniper berries into the salted butter, too.

4) Grate some cinnamon bark into the (2-3) mug, swirl it, then microwave it for 60 seconds more. Press 4 of the juniper berries into the salted butter, too.

5) Swirl into the (2-4) mug some dry ash from banana leaves that were soaked in a solution of distilled water and epsom salts and then roasted. Microwave for 60 seconds. Press 2 of the juniper berries into the salted butter. Stir with a silver implement (I used a silver fork handle). Press 3 of the juniper berries into the salted butter.

6) Use the personal blender to make a puree with distilled water and the juniper berries in the salted butter from all the preceding steps.

7) Make "DCT" (microwave 60 seconds dried dill weed on Hershey's cocoa in a Classico pasta sauce glass Mason jar, then stir in with plastic some just-sliced small pieces of Roma tomato).

8) Make "VOC" (microwave 60 seconds in a mug a little roasted banana ash on a little onion powder on Hershey's cocoa), and put some into a room temperature mug ("VOC-lukewarm"). This room-temperature step seems crucial.

9) Pour some distilled water in which dry soybeans have been soaked overnight into both VOC and VOC'. Also pour some of the (6) butter puree into VOC and VOC'. Stir in with plastic, not metal utensils.

10) Pour the two mixes from step (9) simultaneously into the (7) DCT and stir with plastic.

11) Eat half of the (10) mixture. Add some just sliced small pieces of raw green cabbage and eat the rest.

[I tried an additional step with cream of tartar, but I think the potassium in it messes something up.]

[Update 05/04/2025: Leaving out the potassium seems to have resulted in another weight drop over the course of yesterday. Either that or there's a time lag from the day before or the Bertolli's pasta sauce had something special in it...I had three servings of spaghetti at a church fundraiser last night and none of the salad or breadsticks. The pasta was DeCecco's, made in Italy but with added vitamins. The sauce was Bertolli's organic, and I think some ground beef was added to it by the church leaders.

I did do one other thing different yesterday. When I made my broccoli/cacao nibs/gelatin smoothie that I always have with any food eaten after noon, I added into the blender (with the broccoli and cacao nibs) a juniper berry from step one above and a juniper berry from step five above. I had the smoothie at lunch (a low carb lunch of broccoli, cauliflower, and eggs), snacks (some dried cucumber, later an orange, and occasionally a tiny bit of dried chili powder), and dinner (3 plates of spaghetti with sauce). I didn't even exercise yesterday. I hope my scale isn't just messing with me. I really should be using a better bathroom scale if I am going to pay so much attention to it!]

[Update 05/05/2025: I'm down another pound this morning. I'm at my lower weight limit and will have to stop low-carbing for lunch. We'll see what happens next....]

[Update 05/13/2025: I'm not at my lower weight limit, and I haven't been able to recreate the weight loss. (Sigh.) I did have a lovely Mother's Day meal with pasta made by my youngest. Life does go on in many pleasant ways. :)

Because of a possible clue about "jet in toast" and previous successes years ago with heating stevia/silicon dioxide with cinnamon, I'm looking at whether an edible version of "jet glass" (made with silicon dioxide, calcium/sodium ashes, and iron) might be helpful; I'm using the broiler on the oven to "sinter" the silicon dioxide with other things that might have the needed elements to make jet glass. 

Now that I think about it, I have seen toast associated with noticeable adipose tissue depletion before. Several years ago, we were learning about the Netherlands. At breakfast I toasted wholegrain bread for my two youngest, buttered it, then put chocolate sprinkles from the Netherlands on the toast. I also gave them yogurt to eat alongside the toast. Within a week, my two little girls, who weren't overweight, were looking "hollow-cheeked" from something in the breakfast combo.]

[Update 05/15/2025: For some reason, I have been overlooking hafnium, which co-occurs with zirconium and is in foods like spinach beef, and eggs. Based on my experiments and the standard reduction potentials of various ions, a dry microwaving of a source of aluminum, a source of hafnium, a source of lanthanum and hydroxide ions, and silicon dioxide should allow me to make the hafnium (+4) ion, which is tricky to get and must be done with no water present. Hmmm, how to get it: Garlic peel for aluminum, banana leaf ash for hafnium, cocoa for hydroxides and lanthanum, and dried dill weed for silicon dioxide. Yes, cocoa and garlic together....luckily I'm not a picky eater when it comes to strong tastes and smells.]

[Update 05/19/2025: The cocoa and garlic were...interesting. I don't think the combination helped, though.

I'm now looking at what elements can be more easily affected in weight-loss promoting ways when mercury is present. 

Not only can water be used to make solutions at room temperature, but so can liquid mercury. Perhaps mercury is valuable as a medium, but not as an end product. Given prior noticeable weight loss from canned fish noted by me and an adult daughter, together with mercury's reputation for being in canned seafood, this makes sense as the next possibility to try.

Right now, due to previous successes with Scandinavian juniper berries, I'm going to look at scandium. I am specifically going to focus on whether potassium ions in mercury (I think mercury is present in alloy form in some flatware) can help ionize scandium in productive ways.]

Thoughts on how to exploit good students to provide cover for criminals

I've been looking in magazines published by the LDS Church and its universities, and there does seem to be a pattern where illustrations that show variations of "bug on a jar", including "book or Bog (Bog=God in some Slavic languages)) on a jar or ajar (meaning slightly open)" yield possible "clues" with deeper meanings when doubles are cancelled and then the key TSHV (see my post on April 10, 2025) is applied.

Key TSHV:

A    B    C   D   E    F   G    H    I    J    K   L   M

                                           S    R   Q   P   O   N

                                           T

                                                 U

                   Z   Y    X   W   V

I recently came across such an illustration with the caption "The Gospel of Jesus Christ," an often-repeated phrase in church meetings and publications. Doing doubles-cancellation and the key TSHV on "The Gospel of Jesus Christ" yielded, after applying one more key ("IR"), two possible clues. One appeared to refer to using cuffs as a sign (DP-LC-J-B-CUF = deep L's hook be cuff). The other yielded a "new key" (XFU) together with a reference to Akish, the founder of secret combinations in the Book of Mormon (WKOX-QY-XFU = Akish-key-XFU). See Ether 8:13-16:

13 And it came to pass that Akish gathered in unto the house of Jared all his kinsfolk, and said unto them: Will ye swear unto me that ye will be faithful unto me in the thing which I shall desire of you?

14 And it came to pass that they all sware unto him, by the God of heaven, and also by the heavens, and also by the earth, and by their heads, that whoso should vary from the assistance which Akish desired should lose his head; and whoso should divulge whatsoever thing Akish made known unto them, the same should lose his life.

15 And it came to pass that thus they did agree with Akish. And Akish did administer unto them the oaths which were given by them of old who also sought power, which had been handed down even from Cain, who was a murderer from the beginning.

16 And they were kept up by the power of the devil to administer these oaths unto the people, to keep them in darkness, to help such as sought power to gain power, and to murder, and to plunder, and to lie, and to commit all manner of wickedness and whoredoms.

After applying another key (X) to WKOX-QY-XFU, I got more possible "clues", that read "ZK GPA" ("seek GPA"?), "KOE NY" (Company New York?), "XGQ HW" ("pirate GQ is ho?) and "IEO FU" (missing "AU", or gold, means messed up?). 

The first and last possible clues seem to have clear meanings to me. 

"Seek GPA": I think the Honors Program at BYU had a relatively high percentage of closet pretend-faithful church members when I was there. I still remember how a third of my Honors Freshman English class, when told to write an essay about a traumatic experience in their lives, wrote about finding out their parents had lied to them about Santa Claus. I thought they were being straightforward about Santa Claus, but more recent experiences have helped me see that some were probably using it as a metaphor for finding out that their parents didn't actually believe in a divine Jesus. I still remember the one time I tried to hang out in the Honors reading room; I was put off by the mocking, denigrating things I overheard students in there saying about faithful people and never tried studying in there again. I can see why non-faithful people would send their children to BYU, for the tuition is a great deal compared to other universities, and the substance-free, goal-oriented lifestyle is a good way to raise youth. Still, couldn't they be less hypocritical? It's a big world out there and no one forces adults to stay members of the LDS church. Like any social organization, there is social pressure to remain, but I don't understand being happy to live a pretense just to save "face" and money.

Missing Au, messed up: Years ago, I realized that hydrogen peroxide buildup in the mouth and nose is likely contributing to dementia onset (as well as graying hair). Gold helps break down hydrogen peroxide to harmless water, and people used to have gold in their fillings. But now it's almost all silver or composite fillings, and the store shelves are stacked with peroxide-filled whitening toothpastes and mouthwashes; dementia is simultaneously occurring sooner than it used to across the population. Yes, there are other factors contributing to dementia, but very little can break down hydrogen peroxide easily (go look at a chemistry standard reduction potential table to verify it for yourself) except for gold.

An interesting thing is happening as I engage in decoding possible messages. My culture and education allow me to see meaning in what would look like random letters to someone else. Is a group of people actually putting secret messages in church publications or are they using media (and now search result algorithms) to make "decoded" letter combinations appear meaningful afterwards? I think a combination of the two is happening. 

The more background knowledge people possess, the more likely they are to find meaning where it was not intentionally put. Thus, it makes sense to recruit high GPA students to shadowy movements when one realizes that this phenomenon of meaning-finding doesn't work as well with low GPA students. Honors students aren't actually being recruited because they're highly intelligent so much as because this method of making them suspicious of others is far more effective on them.

We hear so much in the headlines about AI--artificial intelligence was already being programmed over thirty years ago, and much could have been done in that time to make people think that there are a lot more conspiracies floating around with a lot more people involved than there actually are. To what end? To hide actual wrongdoing. 

Obfuscation, diversion, distraction, and framing others are all effective ways to keep people blind to actual crimes. The existence of many wrong conspiracy theories don't mean that no one is engaging in conspiracies. "Conspiracy" is a just a fancy way to say that two more more people work together to do something criminal. As our incarceration statistics attest, there is no shortage of criminality in our country.

One might say, OK, if there are people or companies engaged in actual criminal behavior who are able to use their super-computers and IT consultants to create the appearance of numerous conspiracies, then how are insignificant bloggers like me able to see through the smoke and mirrors while CNN and NPR stay silent on the subject?

Remember the movie Fight Club? It teaches that the one main rule is "Don't talk about fight club."

Conspiracies that don't want to be exposed naturally view as enemies those people and companies that insist on truth, transparency, and freedom. Sometimes, the removal of the truthtellers is violent, like recently happened with Maria del Carmen Morales and her son in Mexico (https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/americas/mexican-activists-killed-jalisco-intl-latam/index.html). But overt violence is messy, which draws attention and possible exposure. Sometimes the removal is as easy as removing opponents' platforms. How do I know there aren't hundreds of other people out there noticing the same thing that I am but who have no way to spread the message effectively? Google isn't going to show me what they're posting on their little webpages when they can't pay to appear higher up in the search results.

Modern technology offers ways to contract out the silencing of truthtellers, as well as other opponents, in plausibly accidental ways: vehicular accidents, heart attacks, destructive intrusive thoughts, strokes, aphasic episodes, PTSD attacks, medication errors, emotion manipulation, destruction of reputations from long ago documents/posts, etc. I know that my blog has been deemed worthy of "blocking" by the internet filter at my local public library, but I can't imagine what in it is actually offensive. (As you see above, I'm not even comfortable using the words for the abbreviation FU.)

Conspiracies to maintain silence, no matter how justified they might seem, are causing great harm to our society. Failure to share information makes everyone more vulnerable to real criminals, who have technology at their disposal that was unthinkable in the time of our grandparents. One would hope that high GPA people would have figured out by now that they are being used....I guess this is why we get warned against pride, for it keeps people thinking that they are just too smart to be fooled.

Another interesting thing about this phenomenon of meaning finding is that it can be exploited in any language. I wonder to what extent it is going on in other cultures.

[Update 5/15/2025: After considering the importance of continued secrecy to the maintenance of criminal conspiracies, I have come to the conclusion that they will utilize every single philosophy/rule/law/tradition/practice/tradition/circumstance they have access to in order to keep their secrecy intact: deplatforming, diversion, website/email blocking, making the whistleblowers look crazy/unpleasant, getting rid of evidence, pretending to have a legitimate or merely coincidental cause for the harm they do to whistleblowers, "memory holing", etc. This causes me some sadness, for my husband and my older children are witnesses to my sudden recovery from extreme fear and debilitating delusions after eating matzoh imported from Israel in 2020, which makes them "evidence" and thus probably on some digital blacklist somewhere. There is nothing I can do to change that. I can't live my life cowering in fear, though. What happened, happened. We are told to raise our voices in warning to try to protect others. Being a Good Samaritan surely includes trying to warn of the thieves around the corner before another person gets set upon. 

As long as I can speak about my experiences, I will, if only to help whoever comes next along a path similar to mine. Perhaps I can convince some who know more about what is going on with quiet uses of newer technology to speak up while they can do so. If enough people speak up, thieves lose their secrecy and then their power, for they only offer relative advantages and by their nature cannot promote a society of improvement, intelligence, and beauty. 

The scriptures talk about putting on the armor of God. See https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/2009/01/the-armor-of-god. Part of that armor is truth and speaking the truth. I think being a follower of Jesus entails talking about what happened to me in 2020, for Jesus would have spoken out, too.]