Mind Control
Molecular observations by UC Santa Cruz scientists demystify parasitic mind control - UC Santa Cruz - News
Apple Preparing to Launch Mind-Control Support for iPhones - MacRumors
The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion by Rebecca Lemov - Shepherd Express
Apple and Synchron are cooking up a little mind control - applemust.com
Mind control of an Apple Vision Pro is a reality that's still in development - AppleInsider
Exclusive | Apple to Support Brain-Implant Control of Its Devices - WSJ
What does justice look like when we reflect on harms caused to Black communities? - Psychology Today
Hope for life-changing therapies comes with a chilling caveat - Harvard Gazette
Propaganda
KINSELLA: Anita Anand seems to side with Jew-and-Israel-haters in propaganda war - Toronto Sun
Trump crony pushes Voice of America toward MAGA propaganda mouthpiece - Daily Kos
That’s enough pro-pet propaganda! There are at least seven things that humans do better | Emma Beddington - The Guardian
Pope Leo vows to resist 'temptation to be an autocrat' and condemns 'religious propaganda' at inauguration - Sky News
BJP Slams Rahul Gandhi: ‘Stop Being Propaganda Tool of Pakistan’ Over Jaishankar Clip - Deccan Herald
Myanmar regime intensifies Facebook propaganda campaign in wake of school airstrike - Myanmar Now
Will Indonesia’s new history books ‘reinvent’ past rights abuses? - South China Morning Post
Bilawal to lead peace delegation abroad to expose India's propaganda - Geo.tv
The Washington Post’s fact-challenged ‘Fact Checker’ is a propaganda mill - New York Post
With Acts of Subversion, Some Russians Fight Propaganda in Schools - The New York Times
Social Norms
AI’s Spontaneously Develop Social Norms Like Humans - Neuroscience News
How social norms — within a culture, a city, a household — drive our decisions - NPR
AI models can generate own social norms, form language without human help: Study - Interesting Engineering
Groups of AI agents spontaneously form their own social norms without human help, study suggests - Tech Xplore
People Are Sharing The Social Norms That Need To Change, And These Might Be Hard To Swallow - BuzzFeed
The Rise of Artificial intelligence Rebellion: Researchers Have Discovered That AIs Can Organize Themselves and Create Their Own Social Norms! - The Daily Galaxy
AI can spontaneously develop human-like communication, study finds - The Guardian
Which Boomer Social Norms Would Get the Side-Eye in Today’s World? - MSN
Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations - Science | AAAS
Brainwashing
It’s Always the Other Side That’s Been Brainwashed - The New Yorker
The Brainwashing Campaign That Is Measles Misinformation - Scientific American
The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion by Rebecca Lemov - Shepherd Express
'Brainwashing children!' Union sparks fury after urging teachers to bring 'Palestine struggle' into schools - GB News
Is Putin’s brainwashing of Ukrainians into Russians even a crime? - The Economist
Brainwashing: The history and methods behind coercive mind control - KCRW
It’s true! American schools do brainwash children. Just not in the way I thought | Arwa Mahdawi - The Guardian
Conservative activist, North Korean defector warns of brainwashing in U.S. schools - Springfield News-Leader
Is Google Maps brainwashing us? It might be if the theory of ‘extended cognition’ is correct - The Conversation
New Report: TikTok Brainwashed America’s Youth - The Free Press
Behavior Modification
Behavior change wheel as a tool to promote physical activity in online intervention: a case study - Frontiers
Executive Order: Reinstating Common-Sense School Discipline Policies - Holland & Knight
Effectiveness of personalized oral health education with behavioural modification using HAPA-MI constructs and oral care kit in residents of informal settlements - Nature
Trump signs seven more executive orders impacting K-12 and higher ed - EdNC
Changes in sexual behavior tied to curbing previous mpox outbreak - CIDRAP
The 6 Stages of Behavior Change - Verywell Mind
"Successful" smoking stigmatization strategies shouldn't be repeated for opioids. - Psychology Today
Improving Behavior Management Interventions for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia - Agitation in Alzheimer's - MedPage Today
Effect of Mechanical Recycling on Structural Modification and Mechanical Behavior of PET - ACS Publications
Crowd Manipulation
Crowd control and safety updates at the NFL draft - WSAW
Crowd control: Rethink the way you travel - Rotary International
Seattle police near end of federal oversight, tackle crowd control policy changes - KOMO
Crowd Control, Momentum and Concentrated Markets - MSCI
Seattle Council Poised to Allow Expanded Use of ‘Less Lethal’ Crowd-Control Weapons - The Urbanist
Akron hires crowd control expert, seeks public input on new police policy - Cleveland 19 News
Seattle City Council approves new police crowd control rules with oversight, accountability - KIRO 7 News Seattle
One month on, Osaka Expo urged to boost heat and crowd control measures - The Japan Times
Leveraging Crowd Psychology to Prevent Violence - Police Chief Magazine