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YOU'VE JUST BEEN FUCKED BY PSYOPS (37C3 Talk)
Trevor Paglen's 37C3 talk connecting Cold War psychological operations history to algorithmic targeting, synthetic media, and 'PSYOP Capitalism' — the era of AI-enabled mass manipulation. Includes CYCLOPS, an interactive game threaded through the conference.
Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
Robert Proctor and Londa Schiebinger's anthology coining 'agnotology' — the study of how ignorance is deliberately manufactured. The tobacco industry's decades-long campaign to cast doubt on smoking-cancer links is the paradigm case: ignorance isn't a natural state but something that can be produced, maintained, and deployed as a political tool.