Elon Musk has described Neuralink’s goal as “digital telepathy”—the direct merging of human cognition with AI systems. He owns Starlink (communications infrastructure across roughly a hundred countries); X/Twitter (the platform Saudi intelligence infiltrated); xAI/Grok (trained on X’s data—the accumulated expression of billions of people’s opinions, emotions, and private disclosures); and Neuralink, which aspires to read the neural signals that precede that expression. The convergence of communications infrastructure, information platform, AI development, and neural interface in a single unelected private actor may or may not reflect malicious intent. Democratic governance has not caught up either way.

— John Kendall Hawkins, "The New Conquistadors: Surveillance Capitalism and the Digital Frontier Between Your Ears"

I'm reminded of the words of Fred Hampton: "Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all."

We have to stop feeding ourselves into this machine, fam. We have to stop this man.

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