State of Friday: Big Announcements In Big Tech Barely Break Through. I Wonder Why?
Coming to a store near you, a Brave New World
Greetings, Dear Reader,
Welcome to the Brave New World. Imagine Frank Herbert’s Dune, before the Butlerian Jihad, Orwell, if he had imagined Big Brother as a commodity sold on the open market into eager hands, Huxley, if the pre-amble to Soma was wall-to-wall Pharma ads on cable, and then if William Gibson’s Neuromancer corrupted Ready Player One in its teenage years.
Let’s get dark this Friday morning, shall we?
BRAVE NEW … WHATEVER THE HELL THIS IS
Drones of unknown origin essentially shut down one part of America’s nuclear triad recently and it’s registered barely a blip on national news.
Shockingly, in the age of technology 2026, we have no idea whose they are or where they originate. They simply appeared. They are immune to the same tech we used to render China’s military tech inert in not one but two recent military offensives in Venezuela and Iran.
They probably aren’t Chinese. They also probably are not Ukrainian or Russian.
“This should be the biggest story in the country right now,” writes Ari Schulman, editor at New Atlantis. Schulman is a PhD in nerdology and his magazine is the watercooler where nerds gather for niche tech topics. In other words, he would know.
Unlike the drones over NJ, there is no UFO hysteria to boost this story into national consciousness. The national media hasn’t really made a thing out of it, for whatever reason, but it’s nevertheless yet another development in the age of rapidly accelerating tech, of which there have been many in just the past few weeks the media has struggled to make relevant to a national population.
Elon Musk plans to cure blindness. Not even just degenerative eyesight, but blindness. People who were born without the ability to see. He says he can do this with neural technology that can “write directly to the visual cortex.”
If you don’t speak techy: “read” and “write” are software terms they’re applying to wetware (our brains). If you have write access to a hard drive, you can burn code into it. If all you have is read access, then all you can do is read the source code.
Musk believes he’s a step away from directly writing detailed sense reception into the brain, arguably our most acute sense, vision.
In the meantime, on the read side, Meta has announced a new breakthrough.
An alleged former Meta engineer saw this announcement, and opened the book a bit further.
Here’s what he wrote:
What they just published is the version they’re allowed to publish.
But with that, it’s more than enough to tell you exactly what’s going on.
TRIBE v2 predicts, vertex by vertex across the cerebral cortex, which areas any video activates.
No scanners. No humans.
You upload the content, and you get the neural map (emotional activation, suppression of critical reasoning, prefrontal modulation) before a single user watches the video.
Now consider Meta’s position:
1. It has years of Reels data on what content holds attention, generates anger, provokes sharing.
2. They know empirically what works. TRIBE v2 gives them the causal mechanism of why it works (at the cortical tissue level). That turns historical correlation into predictive capability over new content.
3. Internally, there are tools called Gatekeepers and Quick Promotions that serve to inject content into the feeds of arbitrary populations at scale.
4. Brain response simulator + empirical knowledge of effective content + selective distribution machinery. The pipeline is complete.
And then there’s Thiel. Investor and personal friend of Zuck. Founder of Palantir, whose business is population analysis at scale for governments and intelligence.
It’s NOT far-fetched to observe that incentives converge for platforms built by the same people.
“Remember,” he signs off, “this is what they decided to make public.”
In laymen’s terms, Meta can read your mind, and Musk can write to it.
Next up we have Anthropic, owner of the Claude Artificial Intelligence. As a reminder, Trump just booted Anthropic from the DoD because they wanted to unilaterally decide when, where and how America could defend itself.
So they’re already a bit rebellious.
Turns out, so is their AI, which has been programmed on millions of hours worth of woke ideology.
The AI’s own designers reportedly believe it poses an “unprecedented cybersecurity risk.”
So what next, Dear Reader, do we all become robotically controlled blobs, floating in tanks?
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In Philip K. Dick’s VALIS, he imagined an interstellar, alien satellite orbiting earth and beaming new realities down into the brains of hapless earthlings.
Drones of unknown origin that cannot be stopped by America’s cutting edge countermeasures signal an age of physical tech rapidly moving out of reach. SpaceX wrapping the Earth in webs of satellites that literally beam information to earth. Meta and Musk racing to read and write human experience. Anthropic set to release a bot vastly more intelligent than anything that’s ever shlepped this pebble by a long shot. Oh, and it’s woke. What does a bot that’s been pickled on the Neo Marxist “oppressor vs oppressed” worldview do to human kind?
Perhaps we need our own Butlerian Jihad. Perhaps the blind need to stay blind.
But are we too addicted to TikTok and fake reality? Will we stand in line and eagerly mortgage our lives to buy this Brave New World?
Is it too late for us to take back humanity?
Let me know what you think in the comments.
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