Sitemap - 2023 - \_ooFWIRED -- hosted by Mark Changizi
On a variety of confusions about whether mandates were coercion
How face masks induce this dangerous speed illusion
MegaLag has done an expose on Enchroma, the dominant colorblindness glasses company
The mathematical difference between science and conspiracy theorists
The vaccinated are as much or more victims as the unvaccinated
Can Music Let Blind People "See"?
A mob and its members are at different levels of explanation
Plagiarism, Harvard, and, No, witch hunts aren’t ok when the Right does it to the Left either
Trying to Cancel Harvard President Claudine Gay for Plagiarism is Missing the Point
Twitter is serial temporarily deboosting me for violating... something
Civil liberties are not among the many societal trade offs
On the armchair military strategists for Israel
We must remember Covid because it represents the ultimate failure in authoritarianism
Useless, harmful and tyrannical by design
Mass hysteria and levels of explanation
Intellectuals are doing back bends to label Israel’s self-defense as “genocide”
Find me on the Randy Bock Show taking about 10/7
Just as free expression is for your enemies, so are civil liberties
Why conspicuous massacres “work” for PR
Crossing paths with Oliver Sacks
I was on the panel discussion for a space on Oct 7 and the rise of anti-Semitism
The other reason we’re not going to let the Covid crimes drop
Pro-dictator demonstrations tell you nothing
Vote against leaders who showed themselves to be tumbleweeds
Civil liberties aren’t “balanced” with the other stuff
Many on both sides seem to confuse Islam and Islamofascism
Don’t confuse cancellation (BAD!) with humiliation (GOOD!)
Because anything Jews do is genocide
Which is easier to copy? Sculptures or paintings?
The Progressive kids now dig Osama bin Laden
The massacre itself was the PR win for Hamas
The Madness of Crowds, with Kate Wand
On the “no such thing as viruses” folks.
Trump ultimately brought us Covid tyranny justified by consensus
Oct 7 obviously initiated a mass hysteria
It's not about weighing actual casualties
Why there won’t be a ceasefire
Nothing demands an apology more than bleeding
Are cartoons right? Do falling objects really have a falling pitch sound?
On those who think it’s easy for Gazans to simply rise up and oust Hamas
To all those who suddenly claiming to care so much about oppressed Muslims…
There are always REAL emergencies to “justify” violating our civil liberties
Oct 7 brought us another mass hysteria
Even most scientists don’t realize that science is a psycho-societal enterprise
The Feds censored our faces and speech, and censored our book arguing why that’s disastrous
Why did they use the prison associated terms 'lockdown' and 'mask'?
Our fight isn’t against the “next thing,” but about the dynamics leading to ever more “next things”
Might some sociopolitical communities be more prone to collective irrationality?
You just might be anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim if…
The Daily Covid (and Climate Change) Clvil Liberties Forecast
Ten Reasons Why We Won’t Let Up on the Lockdowners
Stop acting as if Hamas and the Palestinian people are on the same side
The Jews are on a very short list when looking for evil puppeteering cabals
Are you a neuron in a collective brain?
I started my public outreach fifteen years ago with, "We don't know jack"
What exactly explains mobs emboldened by the smell of blood?
The Covid Cult killed my sixth book
Things I learned from Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians
Science Moment Four Hundred: Report the news; don't be the news. But you're not a reporter.
Butchering Israelis and the Smell of Blood
The other reason students need physics
My appearance on Sound Check talking about my book, HARNESSED, on the origins of music
Trans as irreversible body modification virtue signals
The party of collective hysteria?
How do you like our new Vein Finder ads at VINO OPTICS??
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”
The medical community’s disproportionate culpability for the trans social contagion
Dissecting Mass Hysteria with Mark Changizi, on the Marc Clair Show
Humiliation is the engine of truth
Not all virtue signals are the same
The sounds of nature in speech and music
Musical chords and the movement of nearby objects
Five Moments on why you want your enemies speaking
The surprising reason we really like fireworks
I just appeared on Tom Shillue’s podcast
Four reasons people conflate evil with evil-intentioned
You know what kills people? Telling them masks work when they don’t
Which is more important? Sight or hearing?
Ten Science Moment episodes at the heart of the pushback on Covid authoritarianism
Yet another sense in which well-intentionedness isn’t important — and is even harmful — in politics.
Evolution is super counterintuitive
If we all had superpowers, you probably wouldn't know it
Sociopolitical level evil isn't intuitively natural
My appearance on the Randall Bock Show
Was Covid authoritarianism sufficiently “total” to count as a brush with totalitarianism?
Why even good vaccinations couldn’t bring back normalcy
Good intentions only matter among those WITHIN the same sociopolitical movement
Censorship mucked with the organic leadership formation processes
How do fruit flies find your fruit?
On UAPs, could the government EVER convince people it's a nothing burger
Who caused the collective hysteria, and who is responsible?
A new way to visualize musical chords
Four reasons you might not have considered for why you should want your opposition uncensored
WSJ: The Biden Administration’s Assault on Free Speech
Covid authoritarians didn’t just violate the First Amendment. They violated all its parts
FOUR COVID TOPICS — FOUR MASTER CLASSES
Three reasons being well-intentioned isn't the defense you think it is
Collective hysteria is not panic or even hysteria
A whole new way to visualize and systematize musical chords
AI is letting us get away with not understanding stuff, and that’s good
What a mask does to the unperceived face
The side proudly violating the First Amendment is calling the other side the censors
Anyone worth attacking via a mob is supremely dangerous when encountered alone
It’s heating up, and you know what to do!
AI generated image captures socioemotional negotiation in a nutshell
ME: “I’ve lost trust in Medicine.” MEDICINE: “Don’t come.”
My “rain treads” theory on why we get pruney fingers when wet was covered by Scripps News
The Lockdowners are the scientist who burns down the labs of all those who disagree
They tried to make the face a private part
"Let's just freeze the economy," they said
Extending the Circle of Thirds to the Dozen Directions Dial
NY Times says “Ruling Puts Social Media at Crossroads of Disinformation and Free Speech”
My appearance on Ask Dr. Drew is on YouTube…
Be careful throwing rocks at the courageous few fighting back against the mob
THREE INDEPENDENCE DAY MOMENTS
12 principles that matter for evil, and being bad-intentioned ain’t one of them
The Trillion Dollar Question for Human Societies
Why do we see this forward motion speed illusion by Akiyoshi Kitaoka?
Don’t miss FACE MASKS, the movie
How fear of Covid irrationally transformed our priors
Each musical chord tells your brain the direction of a person moving evocatively in your midst
My appearance on TBN on our First Amendment case
How do we bring justice to those who contributed to totalitarianism when there are millions?
Three years onward, the Lockdowners have learned no lessons
Musical chords as the direction of movement of the “dancer”
Presume psychological symmetry, but of course not ethical symmetry
The Plandemic-ers have prevented many lockdowners from waking up
FACE MASKS, the movie, with cognitive scientist Dr. Mark Changizi
A billion people decentralized holds the fruits of good
Invite your friends to read \_ooFWIRED and get rewarded with early access
Ten reasons no conspiracy theory is needed to see the vaccine travesty
In science we delete all the previous literature when we make a paradigm-shifting discovery
Coverage on our First Amendment case
My appearance on Newsmax concerning our First Amendment lawsuit
The hearing impaired were disproportionately affected by mask mandates
My free speech civil liberties attorney has been suspended from Twitter
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg says “the establishment asked for a bunch of things to be censored”
I’ll be on Dr. Drew’s “Ask Dr. Drew” today at 6pm Eastern
Cosmetics, facials, exercise, and transparent skin
Did Covid hysteria bring forth a close brush with totalitarian forces?
The trillions of conspiracies in a collective hysteria
Give your dad the gift of emotion perception
Impact statements for new construction, but not for violating civil liberties en masse
The year science lost all sense of proportion
What people think societal level evil looks like, compared to what it really looks like
Mandy Cohen, nominee for CDC Director, showing reflex authoritarianism and lack of principles
Devastating thread on the censorial bones of the federal government
You’re never going to find the mustache-twiddling evil-doers you’re looking for
The origins of my usual social media profile image
Using Ouija Boards to illustrate the fallacies in understanding the great Covid debacle
They’re coming after free expression, but we at FreeX.group are fighting back
Social narratives have blockchain-like properties, making them difficult to overturn
Do no harm. …unless it’s invasive ventilation to stop the spread of cooties, of course
It was never about science, much less The Science
🚨 BREAKING: Here’s What Happened to Flu
My appearance on the Pod Dam Podcast
"Mark Changizi: Pushing the Boundaries of Perception," an interview with Jahandad Memarian
Marin Miletić MP from Croatia talks about Covid tyranny and the prejudice against the unvaccinated
How did the science on masks change overnight?
Who Rules Us? -- Guest piece by Dave Wiebe
Two hurdles in understanding how those in collective hysteria can be culpable
‼️THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON: Civil liberties don’t depend upon data
Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch lays into the unprecedented civil liberties violations during Covid
It's conspiracies all the way down
It’s a tautology that sociopolitical movements have good intent
Doing Nothing Would Have Been Far Preferable
Mainstream media finally covering the pandemic of iatrogenic deaths
Artificial intelligence simultaneously broke through both the liberal arts and the nerd world
The positive feedback loop between perceived emergencies and civil liberties violations
We remember the Holocaust SO THAT WE DON’T DO EXACTLY WHAT WE DID TO THE UNVACCINATED!
The Precautionary Principle’s cousin, the Culpability Principle
Top-down, bottom-up: Neither are what collective hysteria is about
Yes, the Covidians were a death cult
May I speak to whichever of you starlings is in charge
The pedagogy behind my Science Moment Show
That people would have locked down organically misses the bigger point
The Science Moment is best viewed as a binge-watchable playlist
In Expressly Human we take up what coercion even means for social animals
Some early thoughts on musical chord progressions and human emotions
Most people wouldn’t recognize the arrival of tyranny
So many people who call themselves “agnostic” really are atheists, but just don’t realize
Aloof and decentralization are opposite sides of the same coin
Four Moments on ChatGPT, put in a Playlist for your binge watching pleasure
“But it’s totally obvious it was a Plandemic!”
My latest complaint to YouTube their censorship
Signs you just might be in a collective hysteria
“Why are you continuing to go on and on about the Covid interventions?! Get over it!”
How ChatGPT will revolutionize writing
I was on TNT Radio with Timothy Shea
Don't let the pre-Covid failed leaders re-assume control
Artificial intelligence is taking over the stuff we’re NOT good at
No, the Precautionary doesn’t advise pausing development of ChatGPT
Help me ratio Lord Bethell on censorship
What ChatGPT can and cannot do
Live on Randall Bock Show… now!
Excerpts from "The Power of the Powerless" - Vaclav Havel, 1978
Might two-party political polarization have saved us?
Stuck in the morally non-contagious middle with you
You won’t believe what happened to my follower count when Twitter stopped censoring me!
I was on Chasing Dissent tonight…
Crimes against humanity for the vaccine programs do not depend on them having caused great harm
Evil at the societal level isn’t about bad intentions, but instead about these 12 things
Would the Covid interventions have been justified if it were super duper dangerous?
The Second Amendment is ESPECIALLY for your political opponents. …including the trans community
A story of slowly breaking free of groupthink
🎦 Changizi on “I Am John Cullen” 🎦
Collective hysteria versus being herded
ChatGPT and the Overzealous College Intern
Four videos on why civil liberties are ESPECIALLY for the emergencies
Even the Event 201 authoritarians were opposed to lockdowns
No, the Precautionary Principle does NOT conclude that ChatGPT should be paused
Not all heroes wear masks. …and demand to lock down and forcibly inject their neighbors
My only censored book is ironically on the foundations of free expression itself
If ChatGPT is letting everyone into the Erudite Essay Club, then I'm out!
Argument styles I learned from Covid Lockdowners
Once one accepts that it’s not just top-down, loops follow
"Yes, we would all have made good Germans"
The first of many videos on understanding culpability in the context of mass hysteria
Carl Jung said it best nearly a century ago
Cooties Cult: Why the Covid cult believed the suite of crazy things they did
Why does it matter that I insist that it was not a Plandemic?
The Plandemic-ers have become a righteous cult of their own
Another loud voice that was for medical authoritarianism but then not
Lockdowns and shutdowns led to the current banking crisis
What would it be like to not be able to express emotions? You know, like when masked.
How a crystal ball shows you how the world around you is secretly curved
Covid authoritarianism motivated me to produce optical lens technology bringing us socially CLOSER
3 Year Anniversary of Covid Hysteria
Twitter followers over time reveal multiple mechanisms of censorship
This kind of bullshit times a million is totalitarianism
A combined project between Yamaha, Caltech and me on an art project, at SWSX
Women’s Day, Life’s Day, Freedom’s Day
We’re at risk of learning the wrong lesson from the last three years
Is the Department of Energy’s suggestion that “Lab Leak Most Likely” a head fake?
Vox article trying to re-shape history to hide its crimes
Our reply brief to the Feds in our First Amendment case
Cernovich was for medical authoritarianism at the start because of the “fog of war.”
This one thing will make you more susceptible to doing evil than anything else
Twitter finally stopped labeling me “sensitive content” after 20 months
Primer on emotion space from Expressly Human, by Mark Changizi & Tim Barber
Twitter finally, after 20 months, stopped censoring my posts as “sensitive content”
Side by side evidence of Instagram censorship on masks
Was “just two weeks” perfectly appropriate?
47 episodes on mask topics few to none are talking about
Three useful Twitter threads on lockdown harms
“RCTs don’t support masks, but we use parachutes even though there are no RCTs.”
A nice way to sum up the situation today among the leaders of Team Reality
Half a dozen recent Moments on culpability in the context of mass hysteria
“I only agitated for Covid interventions because I was lied to.”
Why do opposing communities fail to engage?
The lockdowner’s double failure
“ ‘Just two weeks’ was perfectly appropriate!”
Were our Covid tyrannical leaders and agitators “just following orders”?
A building size illusion plaguing me from my couch
YouTube censorship more fully in swing than ever
The real reason they censor us is to protect the reputation they put at stake
You’re not in a mass hysteria. You ARE the mass hysteria
Those responsible for the mass hysteria “avalanche” are looking for scapegoats
Is the mass hysteria hypothesis “not common sense,” and a “sophisticated rationalization”?
Who is responsible for the Covid debacle?
How our opponents choose our leaders
Shall we excuse our leaders for their tyrannical Covid policies because they were lied to?
Leaders aren’t born. They’re made….via the emergent processes of free expression
The Trusted News Initiative undermines the point of free expression
Who would even WANT to be in an echo chamber?
Did you speak out about the smoking bans 25 years ago?
“Not for nothing but last time we did this dance, it ended in an insurrection.”
Facebook groveling to collude with the Feds to censor us
“Say my name, Google!” says White House Director of Digital Strategy.
Why dictators should be uncensored on social media
Apologies: Sunday’s Spaces event is at 3pm EST
Make them see how authoritarian they are by your non-compliance