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I wasn't taking about Stanely Mayer. There was someone else that had a similar idea, which would cut fuel consumption by half. He got it after accidentally puncturing a hole in his lawn mower or something like that.
A thing I'm seeing with increasing frequency from the younger members of our community is this like ...
Let me back up.
I work with some folks in their early twenties, and I am having a hard time relating to some of them. Some of them are having a hard time relating to one another.
And the root of this difficulty is propaganda, I think. All of them are constantly bombarded with video propaganda via social media. A lot of it is anti-community propaganda. Most of the media they consume is just about strengthening their disaffiliation with various outgroups. Even the stuff that's about celebrating people is, at least in passing, also about excluding or dehumanizing people.
And, for each of them, the memberships in these various in and out groups is unique. One of them has fallen in to a real trad Christian, 1950s fetishization, one of them watches a lot of stuff premised on the idea that nuerotypical people are an evolutionary dead end, and nuerodivergent people are the path forward...
It's... The specific content isn't what worries me. Like, both of those things aren't great, but the particular contents of the propaganda is irrelevant to my current point (because content can be addressed and deprogrammed.) Regardless of what flavor of self-isolating purity test content they've fallen in to, there are some common themes:
- policing other people's behaviors and desires - shame for basically any expression of sexuality - an outsized importance on excluding people
I'm sure there's other stuff, and I know this isn't unique to folks under 25, but it seems to be especially pervasive with them.
Social battles that I thought were long settled are not only coming back up, but also going the wrong way.
And I have to assume that this is, intentional and coordinated or not, an attempt to break any kind of solidarity that might build between people who are dissimilar.
Now, you may be asking yourself 'Why would there be a bunch of propaganda targeted at younger adults and teens which appears designed to isolate them, to make them hate one another, and to make them suspicious of anyone who tries to unify them?"
And the answer, I think, is simple. We're living through the dying days of a failing empire. People are easier to control when they're alone. People are easier to keep alone when you've cultivated an idea in their minds that they're correct, and special, and the only way to remain both of those things is to remove anyone who isn't correct and special from their lives.
It's like, suddenly, the world around us is full of millions of microcults, each with its own understanding of language, and its own secret interpretation of common actions.
You couple that with the way that so many folks (my age and older, certainly, but especially 15-20 years younger) have become so completely dependent on the dopamine feedback cycle their cellphones deliver, to the point that some of the kids I've been tutoring present most of the same symptoms as gambling addicts, and you've got a recipe for a bad time.
I work with kids on a volunteer basis. I mostly do reading tutoring, which consists largely of giving these kids situations in which they are motivated to read, and then trying to remove obstacles.
The other part of what I do is focused on helping kids develop healthy and safe relationships with technology.
A lot of the kids I work with are autistic or have some other kind of learning difference that has left them falling behind other kids their age, but some of the kids I'm working with right now are seemingly NT and reasonably well adjusted. They're smart, but also they're between the ages of 8 and 12 and reading on a first grade level at best.
I work with their teachers and their therapists and their mental health professionals and their parents to figure out what can be done, what motivates them, where they're doing well and what they struggle with.
I did this kind of work less before covid, but some. Since covid, I've kind of stumbled smack in to the middle of it. (One of my closest and oldest friends is dating the director of the special education non-profit affiliated with our local Montessori school. The director is my wife's best friend. Their kids are among the group I'm working with.)
Pre-covid I was mostly working with the children of affluent families as a result of the area that we lived in. These kids mostly didn't have access to technology at all, outside of a classroom setting. Within the classroom setting, that technology access was heavily mediated.
Now I'm working with a combination of fairly affluent kids (it is a private school, after all) and very much not (we're in rural north GA, and associated with a non-profit that provides various needs based scholarships.) It is like I'm living in a different universe though. I don't know how much is covid (I never worked with kids in this area pre-covid), but discounting that, the biggest difference between the DC area kids I was working with 5+ years ago and the kids I'm working with now is technology access.
The first thing I want to point out is that every parent tells me some variation on "oh he's so much better with this stuff than I am" w/r/t tech in general and it's just not true.
None of these kids are good with technology, not even a little bit. Some of them have grown adept at navigating the menus on a Nintendo switch, or have learned some tricks to cover their tracks when they're doing something they're not supposed to on a smartphone, but across the board they have a fundamental lack of understanding of even the basic principles of most of the tech they interact with.
What they're good at is getting to the thing that they want. They're good at this not because they are good at technology, but because they're desperate, and have nothing better to do.
Over the years, I've done some work with some people who were addicted to various drugs. Meth is the big one around here, but I've worked around and with folks with various chemical dependencies.
Saying these kids are good with technology is like saying those folks were good at chemistry.
The tech of choice for most of these kids is YouTube.
That's what they want.
When they can get it, they use speech to text to search for what they are after, and then use pictures to pick which video they'll start with.
And then they just sit. Sometimes they'll skip a video or pick one off the list, but mostly they just sit and stare until they get caught.
None of these kids have intentional unrestricted YouTube access on any device, but they're desperate and they've got free time. They find all kinds of cracks and gaps that let them get to YouTube.
When they aren't on YouTube, they're on whatever slot machine mechanics wrapped around a children's media franchise mobile game has attracted their attention that month.
Most of the kids I work with don't have smartphones or tablets (some of them do) but they've all gotten pretty good at giving mom a convincing reason to hand hers over.
I've been struggling, lately, because most of the tools and techniques that I've used to motivate kids in the past aren't working anymore.
Their TV shows are hyper-stimulating. Their video games are hyper-stimulating and have a dozen baked in slot machine mechanics. (Even the benign looking games, hot wheels racers and the like, are full of random draw lootboxes.) Everything is designed to maximize their attention and keep them coming back.
We used to describe video games as "addictive" as if that was a good thing, when it was rarely true in even extreme circumstances. Now it's just true most of the time, and obviously bad.
When I was 8, I'd have rather done literally anything else than to sit quietly and do nothing.
I'd stare out the window, listen to music, read a book, draw, ask questions, tell stories, play solitaire. If I was going to need to be quiet and in the same spot for a long enough period of time, I would even do practice math problems to pass the time. Anything to keep things moving.
But these kids I'm working with now would rather sit and be miserable (and they are clearly, obviously miserable. Frankly, suffering to an extent that exceeds my expectations) instead of reading or writing or drawing or whatever.
I might be able to get their attention for a few minutes, but eventually it wanes and then they'd rather do nothing, when doing nothing is causing them a great amount of distress, than have to put the work in to do something else.
At first I thought I might be imagining things, so I started talking to parents and teachers and therapists and support folks.
And all of them have noticed the same trends, but from a lot closer. They've been boiling the frog, you know? Setting a new baseline each year for how attention span work, and really only ever considering this year's group against last year, or this kid against where they were a year ago.
They all agreed the problem was increasingly bad, but none of them had really given a lot of thought to the extremity of it or it's source (because it's not what they're working on, most of the time. Most of what they're working on is improving, so the "short attention span" thing gets chalked up as a generational divide or an old man yelling at clouds situation, until they stop and pay attention.)
I, on the other hand, took a few years off from working with kids and then came back to the same age group and found it to be a fundamentally different experience.
But then I pointed out the trends. I pointed out how these kids would rather do literally nothing than read a book. How the only thing that seemed to motivate them was the promise of access to video games or streaming services which, by and large, seem to be making the problem worse, and I started working with these professionals to build plans to dig out of this hole and ...
Nearly across the board they confided in me that they were also seeing these issues with older kids. The few who work with kids and adults mentioned that it was also starting to creep in to the conversation with the adults they work with, sometimes with seniors.
And that this increasingly dependent technology relationship seems to also frequently coincide with conspiracy theory belief, self isolation, etc.
The effort / reward ratio is all out of balance. Reading is too much work for too little reward. 3/4ths of the video games they try are the same. Broadcast television? Forget about it. No where near rewarding enough.
So we have a generation of kids growing up with a severe and frequently life impacting dependence on a dopamine reward cycle facilitated by technology, and getting fed to algorithms designed to maximize engagement at all costs, which generally means isolating them from their peers and pushing them towards more and more extreme content.
They would increasingly rather do literally nothing, in spite of the fact that doing nothing leaves them in a kind of discomfort that is akin to spiritual anguish, than anything that requires more than a minimal level of effort.
And we have a bunch of adults who are barely out running the same beast, who are falling victim to the same patterns. With the adults, they usually have at least some defence mechanisms against this stuff. They can usually read reasonably well. But the algorithms are more aggressive, and the gambling mechanics come with dollars attached, and it's not just that the things they're consuming are hyper-stimulating, it's specifically that these things are aggressively isolating them from their peers and alienating them from their own decision making.
That last bit "alienating them from their own decision making" is the real crux of my concerns.
We're ceding our agency in the things we consume and the ways we communicate to machines designed to make a profit, and they profit off of us by alienating us further from our own intentions and agency.
This is not an old man yelling at the sky. This is not "the youth are wrong, trust me a middle aged man."
People in their early 20s are struggling to form social bonds to a significantly greater extent than they were in the already socially isolated climate of 10 - 15 years ago, and are increasingly falling victim to technologies designed to capitalize on this.
People younger than that are developing such flawed relationships with these same technologies that it is fundamentally altering how they view and interact with the world.
And, all the while, we're being turned against one another.
Technology isn't a force for food or a force for evil. It's a force multiplier, an accelerator.
Right now, it's mostly being wielded by people who want to extract as much attention and value out of you as possible. Or by people with money who are trying to concentrate their power and squash dissent.
And, along the way, they're trying to convince you that tech is a young person's domain, too expensive and complicated for you to worry about, and that the current technological landscape is inevitable and inescapable.
And lots of folks are getting hurt in the crossfire.
Right now, most people's relationship with technology is either transactional (I need to use this in order to accomplish this task, do my job, talk to this person) or impulsive (I got a notification, let me check tiktok) but rarely is it intentional.
We can do this at an individual level. I think that, for many of us, being on the fediverse is part of this quest for intentional computing.
For myself, I'm a Linux user because that allows me to preserve more of my own agency than Mac or windows (conversely, if also frequently demands that I exercise my own agency more than Mac or windows.)
I've disabled the vast majority of notifications on my phone. I will spend my attention where I choose to do so.
But this is a very 1960s hippie argument. This is the whole earth catalog argument. "I can fix this for myself, so that's good enough."
Nope. This is a community problem and it's going to take a community solution.
I'm not suggesting that we all turn off youtube and facebook and abandon windows and mac en mass for linux and the fediverse.
Well, I'm not *not* suggesting that, but I think it's unlikely to happen and even if it did happen, it's likely that we would just see the same dark patterns replicate themselves on other platforms.
I'm not even suggesting that we stop consuming Youtube specifically. I'm on youtube a lot, honestly. It's the closest thing we have to an ubiquitous community media platform.
The core of my hope here is that we can re-introduce some intention and agency to our relationship with technology.
So I'm working with a couple of professionals on the psychology/childhood development side of the house, and I'm standing in as a professional on the technology side of the house, and I'm trying to figure out what an intentional relationship with technology looks like, and what it takes to build a healthy relationship with a platform like Youtube when you're a kid with a deep and abiding obsession that dominates pretty much everything else in your life.
I'm trying to figure out how to motivate kids to read, when most of the methods I've used in the past aren't working at all.
I wish that I could wrap this in a neat little bow and say "here's a 5 step plan for fixing our current technological problems and encouraging literacy" but I'm still very much trying to figure it out.
I believe there is a path forward. I believe it starts with re-framing our relationship with technology to be more intentional.
I think this thread is very thought provoking and important, and I appreciate all you've written here. I felt compelled to respond in part because I have a young child myself and because my wife is an educator who echoes some of the same things. I'm not really getting at anything in particular with this, just sharing some thoughts that your thread kicked up in my head, for whatever it's worth.
What you're describing reminded me quite a bit of a talk by Sherry Turkle I watched recently (perhaps you've already seen it, but here it is: youtu.be/jy7bpyt_vnE). Here's a quote from it I wrote down and saved, but the whole talk is well worth experiencing:
A self over the past 20 years that’s become starved of the give and take of conversation, that hasn’t learned to tolerate vulnerability and respect the vulnerability of others, is primed to look to technology for simpler fare.
We treated programs as though they were people, but now we are trained to treat people as though they were programs. To me that’s the moment to mark. It’s not whether or not chatbots are fascinating, or smart, or pass the Turing test. It’s what it’s doing to our treating people as if they were only machines.
When we connect to machines that pretend to be empathic, we tell, and they will remember, but we will not have been heard. And I ask the question: will we no longer care?
She is, to some extent, implicating social media: it's trained people to have a computer mediate human interaction, thereby starving users of the experiences of human vulnerability that are necessary for us to develop empathy for one another. In short we've been trained to treat one another as if we were machines. A lot of bad things follow from this as I'm sure you well know.
I think there are broader currents, especially the austerity economics we've been suffering under for decades in the United States (and much of the neoliberal world frankly), that make all of these problems more pronounced. How can you have time and space for the give and take of conversation Turkle describes when you have to work two or even three jobs, or are saddled with extreme student loan debt you're worried you may never be able to repay, or you're caring for an aging or ill relative because there is no one/nowhere else for them (to name just three of the many deprivations people are struggling with)? On top of this, this economic arrangement encourages us to behave like machines, because that is usually what's rewarded in the workplace.
I don't think the cognitive impairment COVID infections cause, coupled with the mass death and therefore mass trauma of the pandemic, has helped matters either. All in all it looks to me like there's a set of forces either actively causing or at least exacerbating the trends you're describing. I think we need to grapple with this if we're to make any headway towards improving the situation for kids.
Technology is the architect of our intimacies. We are human because language makes us so. And yet, we now contemplate a world where from our earliest years w...
Oh, and as a side note, I've spent most of this thread talking about kids and young adults because those are the folks I work most closely with, but this problem is perhaps even more extreme with my grandparent's generation.
Folks who grew up without much tech access are now being forced in to situations where they have to use it, and figuring out many of the same methods that kids are using, and it's absolutely unraveling them. I'm less convinced that this can be fixed, but ...
Just check in on your parents and your grandparents and make sure they're not mainline facebook shorts conspiracy theories about the texas floods, okay?
this whole thread is terrifying & I'm watching it unfold with the twin 11 year olds of dear friends. These kids are the 1st generation kids who started school during covid lockdown & boy oh boy do they latch onto their dopamine hits in gaming & net access.
I know schools have taken hits to what was seen as 'non essential' but I wonder if there's a difference here between kids involved in misic/theatre/sports vs those who aren't.
about a decade and a half ago I (incorrectly) predicted we’d be in a similar situation but with VR – that never actually came about, but I imagined it would ‘trap’ people in an earphone/eyephone immersive world, and a lot of science-fiction writers had imagined this sort of outcome for much much longer. I think what saved it from being compulsive if not addictive was a couple of things: one; it isn’t as pleasant an experience as it should be, and two: there was never any such thing as an open VR platform which anyone could participate in freely all the time all day with everyone else, without ‘signing up’ or paying money to participate, because what ended up happening was each of the VR manufacturers were isolated from each other (app stores, vendor lock-in, walled garden, whatever the buzzwords are) so there was no free interchange with anyone else you knew unless you were also on that platform.
I often wonder what would happen if YouTube had to shut down for a day, or a week.
Hi. I don't have a solution. I just want to Thank you for your thread and your observations. Thank you that you care.🙏
I myself am vulnerable to Media like Youtube or mastodon or any Kind of Quick Dopamine Response tech.
What really works for me is quality time with friends of my Buddhist Sangha. Meditating together and sharing our inner thoughts and sufferings. Going to Retreats. It's the Plum Village Tradition by Thich Nhat Hanh a vietnamese Buddhist May be you already know him?
startling to me is how much of my younger self- and my younger sibling- I see in this post. I hope it's a comfort that, although I still struggle with just doing what's easiest, I'm surrounded by friends, very engaged with the world beyond what's in front of me, and I've basically taken anything algo driven off my own machines. Sometimes I fall into that trap, like you said, and just staring at a wall is better than doing anything that requires effort; but usually, after unplugging for a little while, reinforcing some good habits, that goes away.
OK, grampa, thanks for telling me MTV is super bad.
Literally all '80s I heard my choices in entertainment were destroying my brain, culture was abandoning traditional values, is that a boy or girl?, games I played were either "not art" (fuck Ebert) or Satanic.
We weren't competent to fix cars or repair anything (actually because they were computerized).
Programming was called useless until suddenly it was in demand, now it's "useless" again. OK.
yep. "tech of choice" is an excellent phrase for this flavor of addiction behavior. Wherever the gap is, they'll work it - Pinterest? Ok, I'll take a hit - but to just sit blissed? YouTube, man.
And we can draw all kinds of lines between tech and behaviors and judgemental - my kid going to Scratch, or Ocarina of Time, same hunger, different, gateway? Idk. I'm replying to you instead of watching birds at dawn, idk.
Interesting views and I concur that there is an issue with the under-somethings, and I do feel that accessibility of the internet, generally speaking, is the fault line. Instead of asking other people when you want to find something out (or going to the library) it's too easy to go online and believe what it says; there's no intermediary helping you understand the information. Ditto the whole "I want to be an influencer when I grow up" as if that's actually serious. The web and internet are massively beneficial but have also led to a widespread 'dumbing down' where the loudest media wins.
hard to become good at technology if all you have is an iPhone. Can't even program it without a license. Android isn't much better if you ain't got a laptop to plug it into you can't see it's file system properly or write a program for it to run.
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Oh, fascinating perspective! I was aware of the rise of 'microcults' but I don't interact with enough teens to have seen them become so exclusive/exclusionary to people at a macro level like that.
I think that answer (falling empire) cuts too short.
We’re also living through hybrid geopolitical battles, and polarization and isolation are also effective ways to weaken other countries.
And breaking people apart is also an advantage for some people within the country: international solidarity weakens hierarchies.
And you can’t have war against another country if most people in your society care more about their friends in that country than about their own government.
I have noticed that many posts are contrary within themselfs and if liked are believed in the wrong way .. one needs to be very careful on the context one wants forwarded ...
something I wonder about, especially since the word propaganda is used: Is it really explicit or is it just an implication?
E.g. the creation of the ozone hole wasn't a bond villain sitting on ther boat laughing, but rather a side effect of using this useful chemical connection.
So is it here the same thing? Is it just marketing and advertisement causing this harm as a side effect of "effective campaigns"? And will good regulation help to stop it or reduce the harm?
Parasocial "relationships" are probably more successful when they isolate you from other people. Maybe we are selecting for the online equivalent of an abusive boyfriend/girlfriend.
I see a lot of ND people fall into this trap of "NT people are all stupid and garbage" without understanding that attitude is exactly stupid and garbage.
And I have to assume that this is, intentional and coordinated or not, an attempt to break any kind of solidarity that might build between people who are dissimilar.
In the U.S., Fifth Generation Warfare targets Americans through coordinated psychological campaigns, algorithm-driven social media control, mass surveillance, and predictive policing. Government agencies use behavioral messaging to influence public behavior, while intelligence collaboration with tech platforms monitors and suppresses dissent online. Fusion centers and AI analytics track potential domestic threats, and laws expand powers for censorship and surveillance. Public-private partnerships with tech companies further enable content moderation and information control, collectively shaping perceptions and limiting opposition within the population.
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The current global landscape is dominated by an active, deliberate Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) campaign where governments, military alliances, corporations, and intelligence agencies systematically target human cognition, social trust, and societal cohesion through advanced technological, psychological, and legal means. This 5GW regime employs intentional algorithmic polarization, state-sanctioned psychological operations, and formal doctrines embedding censorship, surveillance, and lawfare. Coordination occurs among powerful state blocs and proxy groups, creating a functionally integrated but decentralized conflict environment. Alongside this strategic orchestration, emergent dynamics such as unintended feedback loops, independent actor imitation, and societal stressors amplify complexity and chaos. This ongoing, low-visibility cognitive war is the new operational system shaping global power and social control.
Here are the key sources with links:
1. RAND Corporation Reports on Truth Decay and Social Media Influence
* "Truth Decay: An Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American Public Life" (2018) * "Social Media Influence in Modern Warfare" (various reports) [](rand.org/pubs/research_reports…) [](rand.org/pubs/research_reports…)
2. DARPA Narrative Networks Research Program (2011) Overview of DARPA’s efforts to weaponize information and narratives: [](darpa.mil/program/narrative-ne…)
3. The Twitter Files (2022) Investigative disclosures on collaboration between FBI, DHS, and social media platforms in content moderation and influence operations: [](thetwitterfiles.com/)
4. UK House of Commons Testimony from SPI-B and SAGE Members Official parliamentary records and interviews regarding behavioral science use during COVID-19: [](committees.parliament.uk/work/…)
When implemented, all citizens earning under $1 million a year will be exempt from federal income tax. By Year 5, every American receives payments of $1,000/month. Child removals drop by 52 percent. Deaths in foster care drop by 62 percent.* Family courts are subject to elevated evidentiary standards, jury trials, and oversight commissions with authority to protect families. Community dashboards enable real-time citizen participation in government via mobile access. Successful litigation against major corporations, media, and big tech restores justice and repays past violations. Enhanced privacy rights protections, backed by transparency, and democratic control of accountability restrict digital surveillance. National GDP growth reaches 13.9%. Inlflation slows to 2.4%. Annual revenues grow to $665B billion. Enhanced IRS audits recover $475B billion in unpaid taxes.* Taxes from the top 1% fund social programs, and everyone benefits greatly.
Critics opposing this plan mostly protect entrenched interests rather than reflect evidence, ignoring the systemic harms the plan addresses. The plan’s progressive taxes are fiscally viable with enforcement tools and savings offsetting costs. UBI pilots show no labor decline and support education and well-being. Community oversight ensures democratic accountability and limits bureaucracy. Rights-based alternatives improve child safety and reduce trauma. Tech equity fosters just innovation. Complexity is managed through phased design, audits, and legal oversight. Overall, the plan offers a practical, evidence-backed alternative to a failing system.
I. The U.S. child welfare system is intertwined with technocratic capitalism, economic extraction, and ideological repression. It disproportionately targets Black, Indigenous, disabled, politically dissenting, and religious minority families¹. CPS, under the protection pretext, benefits from Title IV‑E and Medicaid funding, incentivizing family separations². Corporations like Palantir, IBM, and Deloitte supply surveillance infrastructure enabling systemic abuse³. Big Tech platforms de‑platform activists like Truth4Children and FamilyJusticeNow, suppressing dissent⁴. Opaque family courts perpetuate racialized dispossession and extract billions annually⁵. This proposal demands dismantling the family‑court industrial complex and replacing it with community‑led, anti‑racist, pro-democracy, rights‑based structures aligned with international conventions⁶.
II. Current Challenges and Abuses A. Structural Targeting through CPS Neglect, legally defined as caregiver failure to provide care, is applied to poverty‑induced conditions like inadequate housing, or disability, weaponizing CPS interventions⁷. Black and Indigenous families are removed disproportionately due to racial, cultural, and ideological biases⁸. Disability, political dissent, and religious identity exacerbate targeting⁹,¹⁰,¹¹. Whistleblowers consistently face retaliation¹². CPS‑imposed economic hardship generates intergenerational trauma¹³. A survivor reported losing their children due to praying differently and questioning authority¹⁴.
B. Digital Surveillance and Ideological Targeting Predictive analytics like the Allegheny Family Screening Tool flag families of color, disabled, or politically active individuals at higher rates without transparency¹⁵. School discipline systems disproportionately surveil Black and Indigenous children¹⁶. Big Tech platforms suppress cps‑critical speech by demoting or removing posts of family justice groups¹⁷. Fusion centers build activist and religious minority databases without scrutiny¹⁸. Families report increased surveillance and removals after protests or dissent¹⁹.
C. Socioeconomic and Intergenerational Harm An accurate estimate of preventable costs from the U.S. child welfare system and family courts (1960–2023) is approximately $21.5 trillion to $23 trillion in 2023 dollars based on conservative, well-documented categories: direct welfare (AFDC/TANF) around $9.24 trillionᵃ; Title IV-D child support enforcement $200 billionᵇ; family court operations $3.15 trillionᶜ; indirect costs including economic losses from marriage decline $1.5 trillionᵈ; foster care $650 billionᵉ; lost productivity $750 billionᶠ; and policy-driven welfare increases $6 trillionᵍ.
Foster youth mortality is 1.4 times higher than peers²¹. Survivors describe cultural and spiritual erasure: “Our children were taken because we refused to abandon our beliefs and community”²⁴.
III. Proposed Policy Reforms A. Progressive Taxation
Marginal tax rates up to 80% on the top 0.1%, uncapping payroll taxes on incomes above $1 million, imposing a 1–2% wealth tax on assets exceeding $50 million, and closing capital gains loopholes generate revenue for reparations, legal defense, dismantling private foster systems, and abolishing profit‑driven courts²⁵,²⁶. Oversight comes from democratically accountable fiscal bodies with enforcement powers²⁷.
B. Universal Basic Income (UBI) A tax‑exempt UBI begins at $500/month, rising to $1,000 in Year 5, funded through progressive taxes and welfare consolidation²⁸. Longitudinal studies show UBI reduces CPS involvement by 15–25% and improves family cohesion²⁹,³⁰. Benefits include better education, reduced domestic violence, improved nutrition, and less emergency shelter reliance³⁰. Priority outreach will target heavily surveilled communities³¹.
C. Community Oversight Establish community‑led oversight bodies with power to approve, revoke, or block surveillance and CPS policies³²,³³. These bodies will have subpoena and litigation authority; audit CPS biannually; and provide whistleblower‑protected grievance channels³⁴.
D. Abolish Profit Motives Remove financial incentives for adoptions and foster‑care removals³⁵. Require jury trials, early legal representation, ombuds services, and comprehensive public removal and fatality reporting with penalties³⁶,³⁷,³⁸. Prohibit court fees and redirect investments into restorative justice and mutual aid³⁹.
E. Prohibit Unconsented Surveillance Ban surveillance tech in schools and welfare systems without informed community and parental approval⁴⁰,⁴¹. Provide trauma‑informed, culturally competent services instead⁴². Ban surveillance or removals based on political or religious identity⁴³.
F. Democratic Technological Governance Mandate at least 20% equity ownership in surveillance and CPS tech firms by affected communities⁴⁴. Create oversight councils with veto and audit authority, ethical boards with prosecutorial power, enforce quarterly accountability reports, ban revolving‑door practices, require real‑time public dashboards, and support tech co‑ops building justice‑centered infrastructure⁴⁵,⁴⁶,⁴⁷.
G. Reparative Social Investment Invest \$550–900 billion annually in community‑led health, housing, education, justice, and cultural projects, offset by savings from decarceration, homelessness prevention, and foster‑care reduction⁴⁸,⁴⁹. Use intersectional metrics to ensure equitable distribution⁵⁰.
IV. Implementation and Accountability A five‑year rollout will occur with biannual evaluations tied to specific milestones: Years 1–5 covering legal framework creation, UBI scaling ($500–$1,000/month), surveillance ban expansions, jury trials for family courts, reparations, community‑led CPS alternatives, and surveillance dismantling. Measurements include audits, surveillance use reduction, intervention rates, reunification outcomes, and survivor testimony. Pilot efforts in high‑removal zones will be funded by participatory budgeting. Enforcement through strategic litigation and oversight with whistleblower protection will ensure compliance³²,³³,⁵¹,⁵²,⁵³.
V. Anticipated Outcomes Expect a 20–30% reduction in wrongful removals, a 30% drop in foster youth mortality, 40% increase in family reunification, 15–20% lower incarceration rates, and 2–3% GDP growth. These projections draw from longitudinal studies like Stockton SEED, Mincome, Department of HHS data, Urban Institute, and NBER models⁵⁴,⁵⁵,⁵⁶,⁵⁷. Survivor feedback confirms restored dignity and community agency⁵⁸,⁵⁹.
VI. UBI Implementation and Fiscal Management UBI begins at $500/month/year, rising to $1,000/ by Year 5 with projected annual costs from $1.98 to nearly $4 trillion. Net cost is kept in check through clawbacks, welfare repurposing, and a fiscal threshold of $1.29 trillion surplus before increases proceed. Outreach through grassroots and faith‑based partners will ensure equitable access⁶⁰,⁶¹.
VII. Risk Mitigation, Enforcement, Compliance Anti‑evasion mechanisms include FATCA and CRS, covering 120+ jurisdictions, $12 trillion+ in disclosed assets, and FATCA prosecutions⁶²,⁶³,⁶⁴. IRS AI‑audit systems must include human oversight, bias checks, and transparency assessments per GAO mandates⁶⁵,⁶⁶. Use White House AI Bill of Rights, NIST, ANAO frameworks, Aequitas, AI Fairness 360, and D‑Bias in law⁶⁷,⁶⁸,⁶⁹,⁷⁰. Enforce through third‑party audits, public reporting, human review, and penalties.
VIII. Education Privacy and Child Welfare Codify data minimization, retention limits, and annual audits; violations trigger the consequence of funding loss. Foster‑home inspections quarterly; raise removal evidentiary standard to beyond‑reasonable‑doubt with jury trials and counsel within 14 days. Families get legal counsel and compensation for improper removals. Oversight modeled on Ontario’s Lawyer for Children office improves reunification⁷¹,⁷².
IX. Democratic Governance of Technology and Innovation Oakland, Seattle, Nashville ordinances bind municipal surveillance to community oversight, veto power, transparency obligations, and bans on predictive analytics³. Platforms like Polis and OpenAI’s democratic inputs pilots demonstrate scalable public engagement⁷³,⁷⁴,⁷⁵. Best practices include elected tech boards with binding veto/audit rights, algorithmic audits, redress, short retention policies, and oversight⁷⁶. Initiatives like Equitable AI Roundtables, AI courts, and toolkits empower activism⁷⁷,⁷⁸.
X. Mitigation Strategies and Fiscal Sustainability Offset savings from decarceration ($250 billion), homelessness ($180 billion), and CPS ($140 billion) total $570 billion annually¹. Sweden shows phased tax reforms sustain growth (2%) with welfare maintenance⁷⁹,⁸⁰,⁸¹. Public acceptance requires service continuity; deficits require stabilization aid⁸².
XI. Outcomes After 5 Years*
Expect 30% fewer unjust removals, 62% fewer deaths of foster children, more reunification, improved education, better employment outcomes, and regained dignity and agency⁸⁴. Foster Population: -52% Incarcerated: -38% Institutionalized: -20% Hospitalized: -10% Handicapped: -5% Chronically Ill: -8% Substance Abuser: -12% Religious: +1% Registered Voters: +5% Business Proprietor: +7% Destitute (under $10,000/year): -97% Impoverished ($10,001+/year): -20% Middle Income ($50,000+/year): +30% Upper Middle ($130,001+/year): +20% A Little Rich ($300,001+/year): +5% Super Rich ($1,000,001+/year): -15% Mega Rich ($5,000,001+/year): -20% Crazy Rich ($20,000,001+/year): -25% Filthy Rich ($50,000,001+/year): -30% The Richest ($100 million+/year): -35%
*These estimates were derived from a sequential simulation modeling the five-year rollout of the policy framework. The simulation applied the new tax rates over five years, increasing universal basic income from \$500 to \$1,000 monthly. It modeled IRS audit recoveries rising annually and adjusted populations yearly based on these changes. Social outcomes like foster care removals, incarceration, and income distribution shifted incrementally each year. Fiscal flows—tax revenues, UBI costs, and savings—were calculated annually to ensure consistency.
In conclusion, while the projected outcomes are supported by related research, the actual impact would depend on effective implementation, and monitoring.
Sources:
ᵃ Administration for Children and Families, TANF/AFDC Data, 2023 ᵇ HHS Office of Child Support Enforcement, 2022 ᶜ State and Local Family Court Budgets, 2023 Estimates ᵈ U.S. Census Bureau, Marriage and Household Data, 2023 ᵉ Foster Care Cost Reports, Child Welfare League of America, 2023 ᶠ Widom, C., Long-Term Consequences of Child Maltreatment, 2017 ᵍ Cain, G., Welfare Impact on Family Structure, 1968
1. Taylor, 2019 2. U.S. GAO, 2019 3. Zuboff, 2019 4. Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2022 5. NCJFCJ, 2021 6. UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2013 7. Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2020 8. Roberts, 2002 9. National Disability Rights Network, 2021 10. Conner et al., 2019 11. Government Accountability Project, 2020 12. American Psychological Association, 2019 13. Survivor Testimonies Archive, 2021 14. Allegheny County DHS, 2019 15. Allegheny Family Screening Tool Report, 2019 16. U.S. Department of Education, 2020 17. Center for Democracy & Technology, 2021 18. ACLU, 2022 19. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 2021 20. Urban Institute, 2020 21. Children's Defense Fund, 2019 22. National Association of Counsel for Children, 2020 25. Tax Policy Center, 2023 26. Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, 2022 27. Congressional Budget Office, 2021 28. Stanford Basic Income Lab, 2022 29. Stockton SEED, 2021 30. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020 31. Community Justice Exchange, 2022 32. National Association for Public Participation, 2021 33. Transparency International, 2020 34. Government Accountability Office, 2020 35. National Foster Care Coalition, 2022 36. Juvenile Law Center, 2021 37. Child Welfare League of America, 2020 38. National Center for State Courts, 2019 39. Restorative Justice Institute, 2022 40. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, 2021 41. Electronic Privacy Information Center, 2022 42. Trauma-Informed Care Project, 2021 43. ACLU, 2020 44. Technology Justice Network, 2022 45. Algorithmic Justice League, 2021 46. Center for Democracy & Technology, 2020 47. The GovLab, 2022 48. National Reinvestment Fund, 2021 49. Urban Institute, 2020 50. Equity Metrics Project, 2022 51. National Legal Aid & Defender Association, 2021 52. Strategic Litigation Project, 2020 53. Whistleblower Protection Program, 2021 54. Stockton SEED Research Team, 2021 55. Department of Health and Human Services, 2020 56. Urban Institute, 2020 57. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021 58. Survivor Voices Project, 2022 59. Family Justice Now, 2021 60. Basic Income Earth Network, 2021 61. National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2022 62. OECD, 2020 63. Internal Revenue Service, 2021 64. Global Forum on Transparency, 2020 65. U.S. GAO, 2022 66. National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2021 67. White House OSTP, 2022 68. Australian National Audit Office, 2021 69. Aequitas, 2020 70. IBM AI Fairness 360, 2018 71. Data & Society, 2020 72. Ontario Office of the Children's Lawyer, 2019 73. City of Oakland, 2021 74. City of Seattle, 2020 75. City of Nashville, 2021 76. Polis Democracy Platform, 2022 77. OpenAI, 2023 78. Algorithmic Accountability Policy Center, 2022 79. Sweden Tax Agency, 2020 80. International Monetary Fund, 2021 81. Sweden Tax Agency, 2020 82. IMF, 2021 83. Brookings Institution, 2020 84. Survivor Advocacy Network, 2022
Official narratives impose sanitized frameworks obscuring institutional realities. Here, the proposal confronts that gap directly through comprehensive, research‑grounded evidence.
Far from promoting the well-being of children, the so-called child welfare system weaponizes children as a way to threaten families, to scapegoat parents for societal harms to their children…
Exposing Child Welfare Abuses and Advancing Nuclear, AI, and Community‑Based Solutions
This report identifies critical divergences between current administration practices and recommended reforms to ensure democratic oversight, privacy protections, and accountability in education and child welfare. It critically examines the administration’s deployment of AI-driven surveillance in K–12 schools and systemic biases in the child-welfare system. It documents the mechanisms that infringe on student privacy, exacerbate the school-to-prison pipeline, and incentivize unjust family separations. By anchoring claims in detailed data, case examples, and statutory references, the report highlights ignored legal obligations and proposes comprehensive reforms to align national security and innovation with constitutional protections and justice.
1. Digital Privacy & Student Surveillance Abuses 1.1 U.S. K‑12 schools widely deploy AI surveillance tools GoGuardian, Gaggle, Securly, Bark that monitor students’ digital behavior—including messages, browsing history, facial recognition, and keystrokes—on school‑issued laptops used at home¹. According to GoGuardian’s internal audit for Q1 2024, 68 percent of flagged alerts were false positives, misidentifying innocuous activity as threats². Additionally, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 2023 public‑records investigation through its “Red Flag Machine” found that GoGuardian and similar tools systematically flagged benign or educational content: college websites; counseling and therapy pages; gun‑violence information; sexual‑health resources; historical topics such as slavery or the Holocaust; political, medical and news sites; LGBTQ+ resources; and general educational material³. One Texas school district reported receiving up to 50,000 alerts daily—many linked to content about slavery, the Holocaust, sexual discrimination, or college admissions⁴.
1.2 These alerts often arrive without human review and are forwarded directly to staff, parents, or law enforcement, leading to intrusive interventions and criminalization⁵. An April 2024 Arkansas student was arrested after an MLK Jr. speech transcript triggered the system’s threat‑detection algorithm⁶.
1.3 Use is widespread: 89 percent of teachers report using surveillance software and 65 percent say they’re tasked with managing false positives, significantly increasing workload⁷. Online reviews on Trustpilot and SiteJabber describe the tools as “spyware” and privacy‑invasive⁸.
2. Child‑Welfare System Bias & Trauma 2.1 County funding formulas reward removals—approximately \$5,000 per adoption versus \$1,500 per reunification—pushing social workers toward removing children rather than preserving families⁹. 2.2 The federal Family First Prevention Services Act (Title 42 U.S.C. § 675) maintains a “preponderance of evidence” standard for removal—far lower than the criminal standard of “beyond reasonable doubt”—which the administration has refused to upgrade¹⁰. 2.3 Independent studies show 80 percent of removals are based on vague unsubstantiated neglect allegations, and over half of removed children are never reunited. Foster‑care alumni face \~25 percent incarceration by age 20; only 50 percent complete high school; \~10 percent graduate college; \~30 percent suffer PTSD; \~50 percent become homeless; and teenage pregnancy and misclassified‑death rates are significantly elevated¹¹.
3. Mandate Robust Digital Privacy Protections in Schools 3.1 Amend federal ed‑tech procurement rules and enforce Executive Order 14081 (May 2023) to ban intrusive monitoring tools; require voluntary deployment, parental opt‑in, data minimization, retention limits, transparency, annual third‑party bias audits, and civil‑rights assessments tied to Title I and CARES/ARP funding¹². 3.2 Require that flagged incidents trigger mental‑health intervention rather than law enforcement unless judicially authorized. 3.3 Reinforce Fourth Amendment rights; prohibit predictive policing or algorithmic risk scoring; mandate DOJ standards that flagged content alone cannot justify arrests, searches, or removals; this contravenes the Department of Justice’s January 2024 guidance on student‑data protection in public schools, which prohibits unauthorized disclosure of pupil records without due process¹³.
4. End AI‑Driven Criminalization of Innocent Students Require schools to stop sending flagged alerts to law enforcement without investigation and judicial oversight, strengthening Fourth Amendment protections.
5. Protect At‑Risk Families from Unjust Child Removal Enact federal laws guaranteeing criminal‑level evidentiary standards before removal; rights to jury trial, counsel, and cross‑examination; independent ombuds review; reunification funding following children; and prohibition of agency financial gains from removals or adoptions.
6. Reform Foster‑Care System to Prevent Abuse & Trauma Link federal funding to quarterly safety inspections; ban over‑medication and unverified psychiatric diagnoses; restrict group‑home placements; require trauma‑informed training for foster parents and periodic mental‑health assessments; publicly report PTSD, homelessness, teen pregnancy, and mortality metrics.
7. Mandate Transparency & Media Accountability Require public reporting by child-welfare agencies detailing removals, evidence, outcomes, and review findings; revoke federal funding from agencies that obstruct press access or reclassify deaths.
8. Democratize Nuclear–AI Development Amend the May 23 2025 executive order on advanced nuclear projects to mandate 20 percent community‑owned equity in reactor–AI campuses (e.g., Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus) to ensure local control and accountability¹⁴.
9. Fast‑Track SMRs with Local Oversight means the NRC speeds up its licensing process for small modular reactors only at pilot sites where local residents, experts and elected boards share real decision‑making power. In return for genuine community governance of siting, design and operations, regulators agree to an abbreviated review timeline. Public energy‑use dashboards run by that community board then stream real‑time data on power output, fuel use, waste and safety events so residents and watchdogs can monitor performance immediately. This model pairs faster reactor deployment with democratic control and full transparency.
10. Redirect Tariff Revenue & Wealth Taxes to Public Innovation Funds Allocate 50 percent of new tariffs and wealth taxes to a National Innovation Trust funding local AI‑nuclear R\&D and UBI pilots.
11. Reinstate Robust Ethics Rules with Enforcement Enact a scaled‑down Drain the Swamp Act banning lobbyist gifts, instituting cooling‑off periods, and creating real‑time public dashboards for lobbying and political spending¹⁵.
12. Anchor Freedom City Zones in Democratic Governance Establish zones with elected council control over licensing; worker representation; municipal or cooperative data ownership; and periodic public referenda.
13. Embed Public Ownership in the Stargate Innovation Model Secure 10–15 percent non‑dilutable public stake via a federally audited cooperative in the Stargate initiative (OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle), channeling returns into retraining, smart‑city tech, and UBI pilots.
14. Public Accountability Dashboards & Recall Mechanisms Create dashboards tracking deregulation, permits, lobbyist access, and political gifts tied to executive actions, and empower local communities with moratoriums or referenda to recall projects breaching transparency and trust.
Conclusion: These proposed reforms realign national security, economic acceleration, and technological innovation with constitutional protections, democratic oversight, and societal imperatives. Subsequent chapters will delve into the technological architecture of surveillance systems, systemic bias in removal practices, legal reform frameworks, case-study analyses of implementation failures, governance models for AI‑nuclear integration, and mechanisms for sustaining public accountability.
The internet doesn't have to be scary. Whether you're worried about scam sites or creepy surveillance, there are a few steps you can take to keep your browsing safer and more private. This month we're joined by the @eff technologists behind popular extension Privacy Badger. This event will take place in the Info Commons Lab at Central Library, but the first half will be hybrid. Register via Zoom if you'd like to join remotely.
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There has been a surge in executions in Saudi Arabia, particularly in relation to drug offences, a new report published by Amnesty International on Monday has revealed.
In a rare on-camera interview, an Israeli reservist who served three tours of duty in Gaza has broken ranks to expose what he describes as systemic practices that resulted in the routine killing of civilians.
WATCH NOW: 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' – The Full Film They Didn't Want You To See
Exclusive: The powerful film the BBC refused to air is out now, released globally by Zeteo. It documents Israel's destruction of Gaza's hospitals and the killing of Palestinian doctors. Team Zeteo Jul 02, 2025
“We are in the theater, in the operating room, full darkness, no water, no electricity. But we have a hero, surgeons in Gaza.” - Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, 1974-2024
It goes without saying that the livestreamed cruelty of Israel’s genocide has been indescribably shocking and painful to witness over the last 21 months. A particularly problematic and disturbing aspect of it has been around Gaza’s hospitals, targeting healthcare workers and the besieged Strip’s medical infrastructure at an unprecedented scale, and in clear violation of international law.
‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack,’ produced by the award-winning Basement Films team that brought us last year’s Zeteo exclusive ‘Israel’s Reel Extremism,’ includes harrowing on-camera testimony from Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, who was arrested by the Israeli military in December 2023 and, according to a #UN report, “subjected to sexual violence in an Israeli prison prior to his death in Israeli custody.”
It also features shocking accounts of #torture at the #Israeli #prison #Sde-Teiman from an anonymous Israeli doctor there, who accuses his fellow Israeli medics of being complicit in the abuse of Palestinians held in detention.
This was a film that the BBC had originally commissioned.However, after several delays, they decided, very controversially, not to publish it, issuing a statement saying they had “come to the conclusion that broadcasting this material risked creating a perception of partiality.” In a response, Basement Films, in a statement posted on Twitter/X, said, “The truth must be told… It’s a damning indictment that it is not possible under the national broadcaster’s current leadership.”
The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.
War is a business. So is genocide. The latest report submitted by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, lists 48 corporations and institutions, including Palantir Technologies Inc., Lockheed Martin, Alphabet Inc., Amazon, International Business Machine Corporation (IBM), Caterpillar Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Massachusetts Institue of Technology (MIT), along with banks and financial firms such as Blackrock, insurers, real estate firms and charities, which in violation of international law are making billions from the occupation and the genocide of Palestinians.
Went exploring a bit with one of my old friends who likes doing that too. We went to Kokushi, one of the historical ninja cities and visited one of the remaining ninjutsu houses built during the Edo period. Despite being a sightseeing place now, there were few tourists because you have to drive to reach it, so it was perfect for us to get out and enjoy.
Interesting fact: because ninjas carried various herbs for espionage purposes, they often posed as medicine men…and now there’s a lot of pharmacists in the area because the families have been practicing making medicines for hundreds of years!
@erosdiscordia I’ll share more when I get more time to sort things out this week. Last few days of staying with friends who have kids means difficulty focusing 😅
Al Mayadeen Media Network issued a strong statement on Monday denouncing the violent arrest of its bureau chief in occupied Palestine, journalist Nasser al-Lahham, by Shin
Bet officers and agents earlier today. The network said the arrest was carried out with "brutality and repression," demanding al-Lahham’s immediate release.
According to the statement, an Israeli Shin Bet arrest unit raided al-Lahham’s home.
In a strongly worded statement, Al Mayadeen denounced the Israeli occupation’s arrest of Nasser al-Lahham, citing it as part of a broader crackdown on journalism.
🚨Speakers discussed the legal obligations of third states and private actors under international law and emphasized the role of economic structures in sustaining systems of occupation, apartheid, and impunity.
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