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13/01/2023

Siliconicarus.org has a completely new look and many changes to announce!

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NEW PUBLICATION SCHEDULE: Silicon Icarus will also have a new publication schedule, with bi-weekly articles and long-form, quarterly investigative pieces available only to our subscribers.

EDITOR'S NOTE: In order to maintain our editorial independence and generate the necessary resources to operate our modest publication, Silicon Icarus is working on novel ways to stay afloat while maintaining a principled editorial stance against many of the emerging blockchain-based platforms and other crowdfunding approaches, which can lead to audience-capture.

These changes are only the first step in this direction and we hope that you'll come along with us.

Happy 2023!

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23/06/2022

SPECIAL REPORT: In the middle of the most important unionization effort of the 21st century, is there really any hope for the working classes? https://siliconicarus.org/2022/06/23/%EF%BF%BCstarbucks-hexagon-and-the-end-of-the-working-class/

In the middle of the most important unionization effort of the 21st century, is there really any hope for the working classes?

22/06/2022

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20/06/2022

SPECIAL REPORT - New from Leo Saraceno: Decentralized finance is being sold as a public good to build an inclusive and resilient open air prison https://siliconicarus.org/2022/06/20/defi-for-the-people-life-for-the-machines/

Decentralized finance is being sold as a public good to build an inclusive and resilient open air prison

16/06/2022

Our new podcast, the 53˚ Degree, premieres tonight at 6PM CT/7PM ET! Alison McDowell & Leo Saraceno discuss the implications of "interspecies currency" & bio-informational engineering in the context of the emerging data economy. Set your reminder: https://youtu.be/ldc9HkX7720

Episode No.1 Summary - Featuring Alison McDowell and Leo Saraceno. In this episode, Alison McDowell and Leo Saraceno discuss the implications of "interspecie...

10/06/2022

Say hello to our newest contributor, Sebs Solomon!

SPECIAL FEATURE - French Imperialism vs. Crypto Colonialism: The Central African Republic Experiment - The tokenization of mineral rights by the government of the CAR brings the legacy of Western colonialism in Africa to the 21st century. https://siliconicarus.org/2022/06/10/french-imperialism-vs-crypto-colonialism-the-central-african-republic-experiment/

The tokenization of mineral rights by the government of the Central African Republic brings the legacy of Western colonialism in Africa to the 21st century.

09/06/2022

SPECIAL REPORT - New from Leo Saraceno: Breaking down the blockchain-based system for international aid created by the Celo Foundation and T-Mobile's parent company, Deutsche Telekom https://siliconicarus.org/2022/06/08/celos-alliance-for-prosperity-microworkers-for-the-humanitarian-ai/

Breaking down the blockchain-based system for international aid created by the Celo Foundation and T-Mobile's parent company, Deutsche Telekom

06/06/2022

https://siliconicarus.org/2022/06/06/marxs-socialist-encryption-standard-and-other-myths-of-cyberpolitics/

A podcaster at Yale's Information Society Project thinks the Internet should be socialized, but not even his Ph.D. can sell that fantasy.

31/05/2022

SPECIAL REPORT by Leo Saraceno: Forget social credit scores, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wants your hopes and dreams to fuel a tranhumanist nightmare through his Soulbound Tokens https://siliconicarus.org/2022/05/30/interoperable-identity-tokens-and-the-war-for-our-soul/

Forget social credit scores, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wants your hopes and dreams to fuel a tranhumanist nightmare through his Soulbound Tokens

24/05/2022

SPECIAL REPORT by Leo Saraceno: Meet the people building the interoperable currency and digital twin systems designed to tokenize the earth. https://siliconicarus.org/2022/05/24/blockchain-digital-twins-and-global-brain-economics-part-iii/

Meet the people building the interoperable currency and digital twin systems designed to tokenize the earth.

20/05/2022

Imagine what we could do with just a little more https://siliconicarus.org/

19/05/2022

NEW: Scientists are once again debating over the ethics of head transplants, but is there really any doubt? https://siliconicarus.org/2022/05/19/%EF%BF%BCwhat-is-love-the-murderous-quest-for-immortality-and-transhumanisms-moral-bankruptcy/

Scientists are once again debating over the ethics of head transplants, but is there really any doubt?

16/05/2022

SPECIAL REPORT Riding in on a Nixonian platform of law and order, Nayib Bukele's secret designs for police state may be the altar upon which Bitcoin is sacrificed for the greater cybernetic enclosure https://siliconicarus.org/2022/05/16/el-salvador-and-the-seventh-seal%EF%BF%BC/

Riding in on a Nixonian platform of law and order, Nayib Bukele's secret designs for police state may be the altar upon which Bitcoin is sacrificed for the greater cybernetic enclosure

14/05/2022

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13/05/2022

SPECIAL REPORT: Blockchain, Digital Twins, and Global Brain Economics Part II - Building the “Decentralized World Bank” Through Blockchain Based Community Currencies and Social Impact Finance - https://siliconicarus.org/2022/05/13/blockchain-digital-twins-and-global-brain-economics-part-ii/

Part II - Building the “Decentralized World Bank” Through Blockchain Based Community Currencies and Social Impact Finance

10/05/2022

Part III - Patron-exclusive: An investigative series exploring the Cold War as a counterintelligence operation to displace and replace the most powerful religious institution on earth. https://siliconicarus.org/2022/05/10/3-masters-of-the-apocalypse-holy-crown-doctrine-jfk-and-the-cold-war-rodeo-part-iii/

Patron-exclusive: An investigative series exploring the Cold War as a counterintelligence operation to displace and replace the most powerful religious institution on earth.

06/05/2022

SPECIAL REPORT: Financial analysts have been modeling risk since the days of stock trading began, but the advent of blockchain and artificial intelligence means that economic risk can be built a priori into the system, turning the economy into a weapon of social engineering. https://siliconicarus.org/2022/05/06/blockchain-digital-twins-and-global-brain-economics/

Financial analysts have been modeling risk since the days of stock trading began, but the advent of blockchain and artificial intelligence means that economic risk can be built a priori into the system, turning the economy into a weapon of social engineer

05/05/2022

This is a critical month for Silicon Icarus. We need your support to continue being a counterweight to the well-funded proponents of the digital enclosure. If you value our work, please consider making a donation today: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=XNTLPV4TYDQYL

04/05/2022

Part II - Masters of the Apocalypse: Holy Crown Doctrine, JFK, and the Cold War Rodeo

Patron-exclusive: An investigative series exploring the Cold War as a counterintelligence operation to displace and replace the most powerful religious institution on earth. https://siliconicarus.org/2022/05/04/masters-of-the-apocalypse-holy-crown-doctrine-jfk-and-the-cold-war-rodeo-part-ii/

By the Power of the Crown ROME, ITALY – The first time Mindszenty probed American officials about the possibility of restoring

02/05/2022

Patron-exclusive: An investigative series exploring the Cold War as a counterintelligence operation to displace and replace the most powerful religious institution on earth. https://siliconicarus.org/2022/05/02/prv-masters-of-the-apocalypse-holy-crown-doctrine-jfk-and-the-cold-war-rodeo/

A Patron-exclusive series exploring the Cold War as a counterintelligence operation to displace and replace the most powerful religious institution on earth.

02/04/2022

SPECIAL REPORT - Austin, Texas is known as Silicon Hills to those familiar with its tech industry. Fewer know how close it is to the Military Industrial Complex and its debt to a Cold War-era NSA chief https://siliconicarus.org/2022/04/01/bobby-rays-secrets-and-the-shadow-tech-hub-of-the-national-security-state/

Austin, Texas is known as Silicon Hills to those familiar with its tech industry. Fewer know how close it is to the Military Industrial Complex and its debt to a Cold War-era NSA chief.

11/03/2022

SPECIAL REPORT - Blackstone is on the move again as tech manufacturing moves stateside and the cybernetic noose gets tighter and tighter https://siliconicarus.org/2022/03/11/blackstones-ultimate-real-estate-play-your-head/

Blackstone is on the move again as tech manufacturing moves stateside and the cybernetic noose gets tighter and tighter

05/03/2022

SPECIAL REPORT - The CIA has had access to SWIFT’s international banking systems since the early 90s, and together with the NSA, a privileged insight into how to build the new data economy https://siliconicarus.org/2022/03/05/swindlers-on-the-rubicon-swift-the-cia-and-nsa-encryption-technology/

The CIA has had access to SWIFT’s international banking systems since the early 90s, and together with the NSA, a privileged insight into how to build the new data economy.

04/03/2022

Patron - open to everyone (consider supporting): War in Ukraine has unleashed a Pandora's Box of violence and misinformation, that is leading towards the end of cash and the gates of hell https://siliconicarus.org/2022/03/03/ukrainian-gomorrah-sanctions-cryptocurrencies-and-pricing-revenge/

War in Ukraine has unleashed a Pandora's Box of violence and misinformation, that is leading towards the end of cash and the gates of hell

15/02/2022

SPECIAL REPORT - Digital twin technologies are the key to the total surveillance paradigm of the smart city and thanks to decades of standards enforcement by the world's most powerful companies, this dystopian nightmare is a sure bet https://siliconicarus.org/2022/02/14/cloning-las-vegas-digital-twin-cities-and-the-interoperability-cartel/

Digital twin technologies are the key to the total surveillance paradigm of the smart city and thanks to decades of standards enforcement by the world's most powerful companies, this dystopian nightmare is a sure bet.

10/02/2022

SPECIAL REPORT - Education has long been a target of private sector interests, but web3 technologies like blockchain are opening the door to another level of financial predation, as smart contracts, digital badges and data analytics are used to build the tools for a new "learning economy" https://siliconicarus.org/2022/02/10/the-world-bank-speculators-and-gamers-join-to-build-a-learning-economy-on-the-blockchain/

Education has long been a target of private sector interests, but web3 technologies like blockchain are opening the door to another level of financial predation, as smart contracts, digital badges and data analytics are used to build the tools for a new "

09/02/2022

08/02/2022

Patron Exclusive - Part 2 of The Mystical Reich sheds light on Rudolf Steiner's unsuspected role as harbinger of the First World War and the unlikely origins of Germany's occult Fhürer https://siliconicarus.org/2022/02/08/the-mystical-reich-proto-fascist-roots-of-social-finance-and-the-secret-cult-infusing-the-green-economy-part-ii-2/

Patron Exclusive - Part 2 of The Mystical Reich sheds light on Rudolf Steiner's unsuspected role as harbinger of the First World War and the unlikely origins of Germany's occult Fhürer

02/02/2022

SPECIAL REPORT: What does Rolls Royce, IBM and Hitler's birthplace have to do with the price of tea in Southeast Asia? A lot, as it turns out. https://siliconicarus.org/2022/02/01/white-collar-crime-digital-ids-and-the-kings-of-asia/

What does Rolls Royce, IBM and Hitler's birthplace have to do with the price of tea in Southeast Asia? A lot, as it turns out.

29/01/2022

PATRON EXCLUSIVE: A Silicon Icarus series examining the dark origins of global capital's appeals to environmental sustainability and emerging social impact economics at the dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution | Sneak Peek >> https://siliconicarus.org/2022/01/29/the-mystical-reich-proto-fascist-roots-of-social-finance-and-the-secret-cult-infusing-the-green-economy-part-i-2/

A Silicon Icarus *patron exclusive* examining the dark origins of global capital's appeals to environmental sustainability and emerging social impact economics at the dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

18/01/2022

SPECIAL REPORT By Alison McDowell - Years before the pandemic had us all begging for handouts, Mexico’s poor were the test subjects for the conditional cash programs coming our way via the World Bank and its partners, who want to tokenize life and nature through cybernetic systems of domination https://siliconicarus.org/2022/01/17/conditional-cash-transfers-and-cybernetic-futures/

Years before the pandemic had us all begging for handouts, Mexico’s poor were the test subjects for the conditional cash programs coming our way via the World Bank and its partners, who want to tokenize life and nature through cybernetic systems of domi

12/01/2022

SPECIAL REPORT - Trust the science has been the refrain as mandates, vaccines and variants seem to carry the day. But where is the science coming from in the first place? https://siliconicarus.org/2022/01/11/gatekeepers-of-science-twitter-mds-and-the-information-war/

Trust the science has been the refrain as mandates, vaccines and variants seem to carry the day. But where is the science coming from in the first place?

18/12/2021

The Metaburbs >> https://www.redbubble.com/i/postcard/Metaburbs-by-deepcity/96951090.V7PMD?asc=u

17/12/2021

https://www.redbubble.com/i/postcard/Crypto-Island-Postcard-by-deepcity/96889655.V7PMD?asc=u

16/12/2021

As a result of Mailchimp's acquisition by Intuit, which owns several credit scoring companies, Silicon Icarus newsletter subscribers were removed from the mailing list and the account has been permanently closed. Alternate newsletter delivery solution in progress for the new year.

13/12/2021

NEW REPORT - Walmart, Softbank and the biggest company you've never heard of are going public with plans to "reimagine" the global supply chain as the best pandemic money can buy starts year three. https://siliconicarus.org/2021/12/13/double-digital-entry-and-the-new-world-purchase-order/

Walmart, Softbank and the biggest company you've never heard of are going public with plans to "reimagine" the global supply chain as the best pandemic money can buy starts year three.

11/12/2021

SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE REPORT - Part III The only certainty we have after the 3-year-long Bitcoin trial in Miami is that the digital enclosure is tightening around us, but as far as true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is concerned, the mystery has deepened immensely https://siliconicarus.org/2021/12/10/satoshis-kabuki-theater-and-the-birth-of-digital-lawfare-part-iii/

The only certainty we have after the 3-year-long Bitcoin trial in Miami is that the digital enclosure is tightening around us, but as far as true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is concerned, the mystery has deepened immensely.

07/12/2021

SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE REPORT - Part II - A Miami jury found that David Kleiman's estate had no claim to the 1.1 billion Bitcoins, which Craig Wright says are in his possession. But, until he proves they are, digital currency's freemium customer acquisition model continues unabated https://siliconicarus.org/2021/12/07/satoshis-kabuki-theater-and-the-birth-of-digital-lawfare-part-ii/

A Miami jury found that David Kleiman's estate had no claim to the 1.1 billion Bitcoins, which Craig Wright says are in his possession. But, until he proves they are, digital currency's freemium customer acquisition model continues unabated