She didnāt see it coming. As she crumpled in the darkness, he couldnāt help but note how strange a body looks when it falls unseenāand he chuckled.
āYouāre not supposed to enjoy it,ā the voice crackled in his earpiece, though the hidden smile was obvious.
āWhy not? Itās the only way to get through this shit.ā
āIf it helps you sleep at night,ā they said. But it never did. Whiskey used to blur the edges, but now it only left a metallic taste on his tongue.
āSleep?ā¦
The man stood leaning over the balcony edge as he took the last drag from his America Spirit and looked down on the people below. They looked like pathetic little ants, he thought, and over time, he would touch each and every one of their puny little lives and they would never have any idea about it. After a deep drag, he flicked his cigarette down to the anthill below. Ā
Smiling to himself, he turned to face the glass boardroom behind him from where he had exited. They were stillā¦
Ultrahigh: and the devil died screaming - Season 1: Ā The Behavioural Architect: Chapter 2
Monday mornings are always brutal, but this one felt like a glitch in the matrix, a punishment executed by a cold, indifferent hand. I had sabotaged the night before, letting the hours slip through my fingers, refusing to surrender to sleep, instead lying there in the dark, my mind whirring like a high-voltage circuit that refused to fail. Nineteen hours straight of coding in myā¦
Ultrahigh: and the devil died screaming - Season 1: Ā The Behavioural Architect: Chapter 1
I was mid-flow, mid-thought, and keyboard-crushing pound when I thought I heard someone whisper. I stopped typing. Fingers frozen like spiders mid-air.
Silence.
The air felt like ice.
Maybe it was just the voices in my head painting another fiction. I continued pounding away; my overstretched fingers seemed angry, but I didnāt know why. I heard the voiceā¦
The Cognitive Shield has the ability to run unbiased media analysis, based on the text, of news post, social post and any written content. The aim of the tool is to look at the behavioural communication tools and techniques being used to influence its readers and frame a narrative.
While I do not like copying his post below, I feel it is important to explain the analysis.
The analysis is a framework I have developed to utilize AI tools for language processing and dataā¦
Overall Summary:
The text describes a cynical hacker, a 'day walker', encountering a resurrected, disembodiedā¦
Below is the analytic output from The Cognitive Shield: Media Framing Analysis Ai tool I created with AiĀ
The article I am analysing is my own, which is also an introspective view of my own writing style, biases, and framing of the world.Ā
The article:Ā ā¦
Behavioral economics is a fascinating field that combines insights from psychology and economic theory to explain why we make the financial decisions we do. Itās no longer just an academic pursuit; companies, marketers, and even political campaigns are using the principles of behavioral economics to influence ourā¦
This is the result of Gemini turning my last post and conversation with qwen2.5 into a simple marketing plan
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You don't need a megacorp's budget to build a powerful online presence. By strategically using free online tools and growth hacking techniques, you can grow your website and community from the ground up.
Your content is your most potent weapon.ā¦
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What do I mean by SEO, social-media growth hacking, or digital and behavioral marketing optimization? First off, Iām not advocating anything illegalāat least not under the current world order. Sure, some tactics are subversive, some qualify as āblack hatā in the eyes of the algorithms of control. But when Big Tech aligns with far-right governments to suppress everything from coverage of genocide in Gaza to minority voices on search and social platforms, I call that fair game. Itāsā¦
Before diving into SEO growth hacking and behavioral marketing, I want to introduce two foundational concepts: the Cognitive Shield and Meta Cognitive Training. Both are designed to help us recognizeāand ultimately resistāthe systems of coercion, undue influence, and control that pervade our media and our minds.
1. The Cognitive Shield
The Cognitive Shield is an analytical frameworkāand soon, a fully featured appābuilt to assess how media framesā¦
Where do we go from here?
Now that youāve got enough background to understand what Iām doing and whyāat least as much as my own mind needs for nowāIāll move on, though I may revisit these topics later. I could list my credentials, but thatād be a self-indulgent ego trip. Hereās all you really need to know: I grew up in a cult, mastered Black Hat SEO to game search rankings, witnessed the early Wild West of the open web, watched it morph into todayās corporate data-harvesting monster,ā¦
Why cyberpunk activism? Why now?
You might be wondering why Iāve embraced cyberpunk and why at this moment. If youāre already here, you probably sense our world sleepwalkingāand now diving headfirstāinto dystopia. If not, let me explain.
Why cyberpunk? I never set out with that label, but my writing made it clear. My work-in-progress,Ā And the Devil Died Screaming (you can read draftā¦
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If we are to change the conversation around insomnia that first starts with our own internal dialogue.
We must acknowledge the dialogue within ourselves regarding sleeplessness and other aspects of life. The key to changing the stigma around insomnia lies in shifting our own internal conversation.
If I had to sum up my methods for managing insomnia in just two words, they would be "metacognitive awareness." This includes practices such as meditation, self-hypnosis,ā¦
Awakening the Inner Dialogue
Becoming aware of the inner dialogue constantly playing in your headāup to 50,000 times a dayāis a profound awakening, an enlightening realization. Recognizing your thoughts, whether they are positive or negative, and choosing to nurture them or stop them in their tracks, brings a newfound freedom and a sense of control over your mind, empowering you to shape your future.
Iām not suggesting that this awareness means simplyā¦
If this were a self-help book, I'd have to discuss the power of positive self-talk and creating an uplifting internal narrativeāand perhaps you should consider it. The issue is that when you're trapped in a negative mindset, the last thing you want to hear is āthink positive,ā āchin up,ā āpull your socks up,ā or āsmile.ā When you're feeling low, those words are enough to make you want to grab an axe and take it out on the overly cheery self-help expert.
Another problem with thisā¦
Those early years I mentioned hold tremendous significanceāthe very term "formative" underscores their role in shaping who we become. They define our identity, influencing how we view ourselves, others, and the world, and determining our sense of place within it.
It's normal to have an internal narrative, but we must remain aware that negative self-talk can be a part of it. When we are relatively stress-free, our thoughts typically come in a ratio of two positive to one negative. Thatā¦
