Aug. 2026 What if the real target is not your opinion, but the fraction of a second in which your nervous system begins to orient before you decide what anything means? Digital power is still discussed as persuasion, as though the platform presented arguments to a sovereign mind. The ballistic interface works earlier. It calculates an opportunity and places a stimulus in the trajectory of a particular gaze before judgement is mobilised. The shot has already been prepared from

Aug. 2026 How much of what you see is still merely there? The user experiences content. The system experiences prediction testing. An image, notification, ranking or silence appears; the user feels curiosity, urgency, envy, fear or desire. Behind the experience, another question is being asked: What will this person probably do next? Perception becomes economically valuable when it can be converted into a test of future behaviour. Advertising auctions make this machinery brut

Liviu Poenaru May 2026 Autonomous weapons begin with a brutal operational sequence: detect, classify, track, select, strike. In military discourse, this refers to systems capable of operating with varying degrees of autonomy in the absence of direct human decision at the moment of action (United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs n.d.). Cybercapitalism has transferred this logic from the battlefield into the field of perception. Visibility now operates as an autonomous we

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