Nudge and Behavioral Governance- Systematic Government Thought Modification
Beyond surveillance, beyond traditional propaganda, your government is algorithmically molding your thoughts, opinions, and beliefs.
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The falling out was inevitable. You don’t land rockets backwards or get cars to drive themselves by suffering fools gladly. This interview with @SharylAttkisson was taped on March 27th.
I asked Grok whether the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has improved student outcomes in reading, writing, and arithmetic (the "3 Rs") since its establishment in 1979.
Grok’s lengthy answer was detailed and cited extensively to available data, but here’s a concise analysis:
Reading
- Conclusion for Reading: There’s no clear evidence that the Department has significantly improved reading outcomes. In fact, long-term data suggests stagnation or decline, particularly for struggling students.
Writing
- Conclusion for Writing: The Department has contributed to writing education through funding and research, but there’s no strong evidence of widespread, measurable improvement in student writing outcomes attributable to its efforts.
Arithmetic (Math)
- Conclusion for Arithmetic: The Department has not demonstrably improved arithmetic (math) outcomes. Recent declines and historical stagnation suggest that, despite resources and programs, student math proficiency has not advanced under the ED’s oversight.
Overall Assessment
- Are students better educated in the 3 Rs because of the Department of Education? Based on the available data and trends (particularly from NAEP and related reports), there’s little evidence to suggest that the U.S. Department of Education has significantly improved student outcomes in reading, writing, or arithmetic since its creation. While it has provided funding, data collection, and some targeted programs, national test scores show stagnation or decline over decades, with recent drops exacerbated by the pandemic.
In short, no—students are not demonstrably better educated in reading, writing, and arithmetic due to the Department of Education’s existence, based on long-term and recent performance metrics.
The Department of Education does not run a single school, yet the federal government wastes $68 billion a year and employs 4,400 bureaucrats at this agency.
"U.S. tech companies are known to stockpile as much user data as they can, but DeepSeek's privacy policy makes Meta, Google, and OpenAI look tame.
Over the past few days, China-based AI startup DeepSeek has catapulted into tech consciousness with an open-source model that many claim is just as good, if not better, than OpenAI models and API costs for a fraction of the price. DeepSeek R1 might be significantly cheaper to run, but your privacy and security are the actual cost.
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Not only does DeepSeek collect 'text or audio input, prompt, uploaded files, feedback, chat history, or other content that [the user] provide[s] to our model and Services,' but it also collects information from your device, including 'device model, operating system, keystroke patterns or rhythms, IP address, and system language.'
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There's also the added issue that DeepSeek sends your user data straight to Chinese servers."
Additionally, DeepSeek's AI models are suspected of being subject to direction and control by the Chinese government, producing outputs that align with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) strategic narratives.
@LuliSeri@legalalien49 He blocked me too, and I’m also a a constituent. According to courts that have considered the issue, he’s violating the First Amendment to U.S. Constitution by blocking constituents from a social media page he uses in his official capacity.
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That sounds like scientific progress.
"With almost three-fourths of Earth covered by oceans, the waters capture and redistribute the Sun’s heat. The latest study in Science Advances shows the process goes much deeper than that. The oceans also create sulfur gases that create particles to cool the Earth, such as brightening clouds that reflect heat.
The new compound released from sulfur gas is known as methanethiol. It has not been detected before because it is extremely hard to measure. Additionally, much research has been done on warmer oceans, while polar oceans are the emission hotspots. Microscopic plankton living on the seas’ surfaces emit a type of sulfur gas known as dimethyl sulphide. This gas is the one responsible for the stinky smell in shellfish.
Once sulfur gas reaches the atmosphere, it oxidizes and produces small particles called aerosols. These aerosols reflect solar radiation back into space, lowering the heat on Earth.
Plankton also releases methanethiol. The authors quantified the amount of methanethiol released into clouds over the Southern Ocean and observed an even greater cooling effect. The cooling impact on the climate is bigger than expected and works the opposite of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, which absorb heat.
'This is the climatic element with the greatest cooling capacity, but also the least understood. We knew methanethiol was coming out of the ocean, but we had no idea about how much and where. We also did not know it had such an impact on climate,' says Dr. Charel Wohl, a researcher at the University of East Anglia’s Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, in a media release. 'Climate models have greatly overestimated the solar radiation actually reaching the Southern Ocean, largely because they are not capable of correctly simulating clouds. The work done here partially closes the longstanding knowledge gap between models and observations.'
The authors note that the new research helps create more accurate climate models, refining their understanding of the ocean’s role in cooling the planet. These models include those that predict what would happen to the Earth when the global temperature rises by 1.5 ºC or 2 ºC, with results influencing current climate change policies."
#Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateScam #ClimateCrisis
@JaceYarbrough@JaredLPatterson That’s very disappointing. @JaredLPatterson is my State Rep as well, and I’ve supported him as long as he’s been in office. But if he chooses to side with Democrats over Republicans, I will throw my full support behind a primary challenger in the next election.
“A new report published by the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security states that ‘foreign jihadist networks and homegrown violent extremists’ represent a ‘persistent terror threat to America.’
It identifies more than 50 cases in 29 U.S. states between April 2021 and September 2024, including dozens of attempts to provide material support to Islamic designated foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), ISIS, Hezbollah and al Qaeda, with individuals receiving military type training from ISIS and Hezbollah, and committing fraud.
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In the most recent report released, the [Office of Inspector General] said current U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement practices ‘cannot ensure they are keeping high-risk noncitizens without identification from entering the country.’ Likewise, the Transportation Security Administration “cannot ensure its vetting and screening procedures prevent high-risk noncitizens who may pose a threat to the flying public from boarding domestic flights.
‘CBP and ICE have policies and procedures for screening noncitizens, but neither component knows how many noncitizens without identification documents are released into the country.’”
#MondayMorning #ElectionOfOurLifetime #ElectionCentral #BORDERLESS #BorderCzar #BorderCzarKamala #October7
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This is incredible…
CNN’s Erin Burnett literally in shock about what Kamala Harris supported.
“Taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained illegal migrants? She actually said she supported that??”
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
- Theodore Dalrymple