Travis Noakes

Academic free speech + digital visibility risks researcher @TheNoakesF & Adjunct Scholar @CPUT | Auteur worldbuilder + design collaborator @Create_With_CT

[Travis Noakes @travisnoakes]

Delighted to share that 'Brandjacked for social media advert fraud: Microcelebrities experience a relentless digital crime in South Africa' is in a special #Cybercrime issue from Acta Criminologica: African Journal of Criminology and Victimology
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[Sophia Dahl @sophiadahl1]

Sucharit Bhakdi explains about the Deep State, the role of the media and covid being the biggest crime against humanity💥‼️🙏👇

[Alan @A1an_M]

One thing I noticed in the latter stages of the coronapanic was that the only way scientists dissenting about vaccines or lockdowns could get research published was to include their damning results in the "Results" section of their paper but then in the summary/conclusions section, draw conclusions diametrically opposed to what the evidence showed - because they knew being aligned with the approved narrative was the only way to get a paper published at all.

It seems this happens in climate "science" too. Same scam, same MO and, ultimately, the same people directing it all.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed that too. Google Search is getting worse. The results look professional but say nothing. The answers are longer but less useful. Every page reads like it was written by the same voice.

You thought Google was broken. It is not broken. It is being replaced.

Researchers published a paper at the ACM Web Conference 2026 proving what is happening. They call it Retrieval Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI-generated content is flooding the internet so fast that search engines are now showing you mostly AI-written pages. And the search engine cannot tell the difference.

They ran a controlled experiment. They started with a pool of real, human-written web pages. Then they gradually added AI-generated content until it made up 67% of the pool.

By that point, over 80% of the top search results were AI-generated. Not 67%. Over 80%. The ranking algorithm did not just let AI content in. It preferred it. The AI-written pages were better optimized, more fluent, and more keyword-rich than the human pages. They outranked the originals.

Here is the part that makes this invisible.

Answer accuracy stayed the same. The search results still looked correct. The information was still technically right. If you measured quality by accuracy alone, nothing appeared wrong.

But source diversity collapsed. Nearly every result came from the same type of content. AI-written. AI-optimized. AI-structured. The human-written pages, the ones with original reporting, personal experience, and genuine expertise, were buried.

The researchers describe a two-stage collapse. Stage one is Dominance. High-quality AI content silently takes over the top results. Everything looks fine. Accuracy is stable. Nobody notices. Stage two is Corruption. Once AI dominates the pipeline, adversarial and low-quality content starts slipping through. By then, the system is too dependent on synthetic sources to course-correct.

A separate analysis found that 74.2% of newly published web pages now contain AI-generated content. Organic click-through rates on pages with AI summaries have dropped 61%. The human internet is being outranked by the machine internet.

Model Collapse described what happens when AI trains on AI. The models get dumber. Retrieval Collapse describes what happens when search engines index AI. The results get emptier.

Both are happening right now. At the same time. And neither one looks broken from the outside.

The search engine still returns ten blue links. The links still load. The pages still answer your question. But the thing that used to make those answers trustworthy, a human who actually knew something, is being quietly replaced by a machine that sounds like it does.

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

We tell ourselves we live in a constitutional republic. But in practice, our free‑speech rights have been silently moved inside code: algorithms, recommendation systems, and invisible throttling decide who actually gets heard, argues Jacob Siegel.

He's the author of the new book "The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control."

“The principles of the constitutional order, the principles of the liberal nation state have begun to be profoundly eroded by this new kind of information-based political regime."

“The question of who can speak, who can express their ideas is no longer clearly defined and delimited by these print-era documents.”

“Now it becomes a question of who controls the digital code.”

The reality is the digital revolution has seen an extraordinary erosion of our free speech rights as well as a once robust American civil society, he says.

@Jacob__Siegel @tabletmag @PodManifesto @HenryHolt

[Louis Gleeson @aigleeson]

A German bureaucrat with no PhD, no grant, and no university affiliation built a system in the 1950s that produced 70 books and 400 papers, and the tool he used was a wooden box and one rule so simple it sounds like nothing.

His name was Niklas Luhmann. The system is called the Zettelkasten.

He was born in 1927 in Lüneburg, the son of a brewery owner. He studied law at Freiburg after the war, passed his exams, and entered the civil service. From 1954 to 1962 he worked as an administrative officer at the Ministry of Culture in Lower Saxony. Government files. Bureaucratic memos. Education reform paperwork.

Nobody was watching him. Nobody was funding him. There was no department, no lab, no dissertation committee waiting on his progress.

He started filling index cards anyway.

The rule was this: one idea per card, written in his own words, never copied from the source. Every card had to connect to at least one other card already in the box. No folders. No categories. No topic hierarchy of any kind. Just a flat web of linked ideas growing in every direction.

He called it his communication partner.

That phrase is not a metaphor. Luhmann believed the box genuinely surprised him. He would pull out a card he had written years earlier and find that it connected to something he had just added in a way he had never planned when he wrote either one. The system was producing relationships his conscious mind had never made. He was not retrieving stored information. He was discovering new ideas inside material he already owned.

Most people take notes to remember things. Luhmann built a system that thought for him.

In 1965, the sociologist Helmut Schelsky saw one of Luhmann's manuscripts. He was so astonished by the quality and depth of what a government clerk had produced without institutional support that he offered him a research position at the University of Münster on the spot. When Bielefeld University needed to qualify him formally for a professorship in 1966, they accepted two books he had already written from the box as his PhD thesis and habilitation simultaneously. He skipped the entire academic ladder. By 1968 he was the first full professor at the newly founded University of Bielefeld.

He held that chair for 25 years and never stopped filling cards.

By the time he died in 1998, the box contained 90,000 handwritten index cards organized across two separate slip boxes he had built over four decades. The cards covered law, economics, politics, religion, ecology, mass media, love, and the theory of modern society. They generated 70 published books and nearly 400 scholarly articles. He left 150 unfinished manuscripts in his estate when he died. At least one of them was 1,000 pages long.

The reason the output was possible is the reason most people's notes produce nothing.

Luhmann never took notes to file information. He took notes to force a connection. Every time he read something, his only job was to ask one question: what does this link to inside the box? Not what category does it belong to. Not what topic should I file it under. What does this idea touch, contradict, extend, or challenge inside the network that already exists.

The moment you file a note in a folder, you have decided in advance what it relates to. Which means you will never discover what else it might. Filing is the enemy of thinking. The box had no folders. Every idea had to earn its place by connecting to something else.

Over time the box stopped being storage. It became a record of every intellectual relationship Luhmann had ever noticed, and because the cards were physical and linked, he could walk through the network and find collisions between ideas he had written years apart without ever planning them. The box remembered what he had forgotten. It held conversations he had long since moved past. It was the only thinking partner he had that never forgot anything.

That is why he said, in an interview late in his career: "I don't think everything on my own. Mostly it happens in the slip box."

He was not being modest. He was being precise.

NotebookLM is the closest thing that exists today to what Luhmann built by hand. Not as a filing cabinet. Not as a search tool. As a network of connected material that can surface relationships between ideas you uploaded at different times without knowing they were related.

The people generating the most original thinking right now are not the ones reading the most. They are the ones connecting the best.

Luhmann proved that with 90,000 cards and a wooden box in a government office in Lower Saxony.

The box is now inside your browser. Most people are still using it like a highlighter.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

10 years of scam adverts. I have the misfortune to be in 44% of them according to the police. I've sued. I've lobbied. I've cried at hideous cases of vulnerable people losing everything. Why has nothing been done. Please watch...

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

20 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth put climate change at the center of global debate, shaping politics, influencing leaders, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Two decades later, we can assess not just its impact, but its accuracy. Many of the film’s most alarming predictions did not materialize, while many of the policies it inspired have proven costly and ineffective.

The lesson? Panic is a poor guide for public policy. Focusing on innovation, adaptation, and economic development can do far more to help both people and the climate—at a fraction of the cost.

https://t.co/EIJyuNeFU1

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

The term ‘conspiracy theorist’ is a comfort blanket for the indoctrinated .

[Senator Ron Johnson @SenRonJohnson]

This forest plot compares COVID-19 treatments and their costs.

Drugs circled in red were included in COVID-19 treatment guidelines — they also just happen to be expensive patented drugs.

Cheap, effective generic drugs need not apply. In fact, the COVID Cartel sabotaged and suppressed these options.

It's no surprise that trust in Big Pharma and the medical establishment has eroded.

[Patent SUN @Patent_SUN]

My view is different. Every form of power seeks propaganda. Whether under democracy, socialism, or communism, propaganda is employed whenever power exercises its “governmental rationality.”The issue is determined by the extent to which power seeks to distort reality and reshape it into a narrative that serves its own interests.

We should have witnessed this through the pandemic. Democracy now functions not as a barrier against propaganda, but as an amplifier of it.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

“Twenty-five years ago, the political class was more willing to engage in open debate.”

Today, there is an attempt to cast legitimate criticism of prevailing orthodoxies — whether on diversity, Islam, immigration, or climate change — as misinformation, disinformation, or hate speech.

At the heart of the free speech crisis is an unwillingness on the part of the promoters of these policies to defend them in public.

Instead of engaging in good-faith debate, they portray critics as beyond the pale.

In this relatively recent phenomenon, people are increasingly realising that if they challenge a certain cluster of prevailing orthodoxies, they are likely to be cancelled.

We must push back against this.

Watch the General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young, speaking at our event in Belfast 👇

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

A.I. has made college one big robot circle-jerk where students use A.I. to write papers and professors use A.I. to grade them.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

When a chemical is banned across Europe, flagged as a probable carcinogen, and defended by a company that hunted its critic, ask who the system is protecting. Full essay, fully sourced, here: https://t.co/BrVA6U4ocy

[BOURNYBOY @BOURNYBOY76]

Ofcom have a list of 186 words you cannot say

Enjoy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Carolyn Davidson was a graphic design student at Portland State University when Phil Knight, who was then teaching accounting part-time, asked her to create a logo for his fledgling shoe company.

She billed the project at $2 per hour and received a total of $35 for her work. The design she produced would eventually become the iconic Nike swoosh.

Twelve years later, in 1983, Knight invited Davidson to a company event and surprised her with a special gift: a gold ring featuring the swoosh logo set with a diamond, along with an envelope containing 500 shares of Nike stock.

Over time, those shares grew in value and are now worth millions of dollars.

[Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra]

BREAKING:

‘Millions across the world may be in clear and present danger of suffering premature (heart) cardiovascular disease and cancer ( due to Covid mRNA jab) Without allowing all scientists to debate this openly, without fear of censure, we will not be able to identify who is most at risk and how these risks can be mitigated."

https://t.co/WigFURwvMO

[John Gillam @thinkingclasses]

I was lucky enough to speak with @robkhenderson and Theodore Dalrymple recently about the ideas that claimed to show compassion to the poor across the West but have made everything so much worse.

"Common sense is like oxygen: the higher you go, the thinner it gets." - Rob Henderson, citing his professor John Gaddis

"There has been a long march not just through the institutions, but through the minds of the young. When young people want to praise themselves, they describe themselves as non-judgmental. For them, the highest form of morality is amorality." - Theodore Dalrymple

Watch and subscribe below:

https://t.co/I8ElfewK7O

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

10/ The real issue isn't whether AI poses risks.

It does.

The question is whether organizations -- especially those founded in foreign countries -- claiming the authority to police those risks in America are playing by the same rules they demand of others.

Florida's lawsuit focuses on OpenAI.

The leaked CCDH documents reveal a second story entirely.

The gap between CCDH's public face and its private playbook may be the most important AI story of 2026.

Read and share the full report:

🔗 https://t.co/2JqZsnvgtk

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Literal minded people (who have no understanding of humour) should not be dictating what people with a sense of humour are allowed to laugh at

It's like having a blind person create a colour chart

[Paul @Seahorserace]

@uTobian VAERS shows a fraction of it but if it's not covered by the mainstream media it doesn't exist.