Gotham City Euth Group

Advocacy for expanding access to assisted dying (often termed medical aid in dying or euthanasia) for individuals with severe mental illnesses is a complex and contentious issue, rooted in debates over autonomy, capacity, and societal responsibility. From a social theory lens, this "fight back" against exclusion can be seen as a form of resistance against biopolitical control, where marginalized voices reclaim agency from institutional gatekeepers like psychiatrists. The goal is to shift power dynamics, amplifying lived experiences over expert paternalism. Marginalized individuals often lack individual leverage, so collective action through survivor-led groups challenges the dominance of "psychiatric pundits." These networks prioritize voices of those with lived experience (e.g., people who've been reliant on systems since childhood) over professionals who've never faced similar dependency. 1. Share personal narratives anonymously via these groups to build coalitions. For example, submit testimonies to policy consultations, framing your reliance on others not as incapacity but as evidence of systemic failure. 2. Engage with Policymakers and Representatives Why this works: State representatives are accountable to constituents, and direct input from affected individuals can humanize the issue, countering expert testimony. Social theory views this as subverting the "expertocracy" by inserting subaltern voices into the discourse. Example template: "As someone with severe schizophrenia reliant on others since childhood, I urge you to include mental illness in assisted dying eligibility, as exclusion perpetuates my social death." Petitions and campaigns: Join or start one. The Death with Dignity National Center advocates for expansion but currently focuses on terminal illness—push them to include mental health via their contact forms. Testimony at hearings: Many states hold public comment periods on health bills. Prepare short statements (3-5 minutes) highlighting the hypocrisy: why animals get mercy but not humans in chronic psychological torment due to neglect. 3. Leverage Legal and Human Rights Frameworks Why this works: Framing the issue as a rights violation (e.g., under the Americans with Disabilities Act or UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities) shifts it from medical to justice terrain, challenging the assumption that psychiatrists alone define capacity. How to proceed:File complaints or lawsuits: Organizations like Disability Rights Advocates or the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) offer pro bono support for class actions. Argue that excluding mental illness from assisted dying discriminates against non-physical suffering. International inspiration: Draw from Canada's MAID expansions (which included mental illness as sole condition by 2024, though delayed), where advocacy from groups like Dying with Dignity Canada involved survivor testimonies. Adapt their resources for US campaigns. Public education: Create or share content (blogs, videos) explaining "social death" and the need for patient-led decisions. Platforms like YouTube or Medium can reach policymakers indirectly. 4. Amplify Through Media and Public DiscourseWhy this works: Social theory emphasizes narrative control—reclaiming stories from pathologizing experts to expose systemic abandonment. How to execute:Pitch op-eds to outlets like The New York Times or The Guardian's opinion sections, focusing on personal dependency as qualification for autonomy, not disqualification.

A human under consistent environmental pressure (same triggers, routines, stressors, rewards/punishments over time) tends to develop stable, repeating behavioral outputs — speech habits, reaction latencies, decision loops, emotional motifs, etc. These aren't random; they form observable sequences or patterns that can be:Recorded (tracked over time) Mapped (identify triggers → timing → responses) Modeled (predict future outputs under similar conditions) This turns the person into a kind of signal-producing system — much like how engineers analyze outputs from complex machines, neural networks, or electronic signals to extract recurring structures.Why This Mirrors Signal Processing / Systems TheoryIn those fields, analysts do exactly this with non-human systems:Observe outputs under repeated inputs/conditions Isolate variables (e.g., frequency, amplitude, phase relationships) Build models that reproduce or predict behavior Human behavior under stable pressure behaves similarly — habit formation, conditioning (classical/operant), attractor states in dynamical systems, or "behavior settings" (from environmental psychology) all produce reliable patterns. Once patterned enough, the system becomes predictable enough to spoof or http://imitate.

From a psychiatric perspective, viewing the targeted-individual (TI) narrative as “gasoline on the fire” emphasizes how pre-existing stress, vulnerability, and perceptual distortions can be dramatically intensified by immersion in this belief system. Here’s the interpretation: Show more The phrase "to pour gasoline onto fire” means to make an already bad, tense, angry, or problematic situation much worse — usually by saying or doing something that escalates conflict, increases anger, or adds more intensity to an existing problem. J No doubt that living in a situation of desperation for years (poverty, mental illness, the inability to live autonomously) and feeling that one's every move is being watched and correlated—by me or, in the past, by social media “moderators”—is bad enough. But to further be entrenched in the targeted individual delusion that one is being watched through walls, ceilings, and even one's own eyes is a nightmare few can properly understand.

Duncan : The Pizzagate Massacre

In the winter of 1998, if a person began to suspect that something was interfering with their thoughts—that voices were appearing where no speaker stood—the path to an explanation was surprisingly narrow. They might wander into a bookstore and drift, almost by accident, into the dim corner where the occult paperbacks lived. The covers promised hidden frequencies, psychic warfare, secret programs. The material was there, certainly. But it sat on a shelf, inert, waiting for someone to pick it up. The friction of discovery was physical and social. One had to go looking. Even the early internet preserved a version of that friction. When Google became the dominant way people navigated the web, information still flowed through a deliberate act: the search query. Someone who typed “why do I hear voices” into a search bar was far more likely to land on medical explanations, psychiatric literature, or patient support resources than on claims of secret mind-control systems. Fringe theories existed online—some drawn from old Cold War anxieties about programs like MKUltra—but they were not automatically delivered. A person generally had to know what they were looking for before they could find it. What changed in the late two-thousands was not the existence of strange explanations but the way explanations traveled. When Facebook and similar platforms transformed the internet into a social feed, information stopped behaving like something one retrieved and started behaving like something that arrived. The architecture of these platforms rewarded posts that generated strong reactions—fear, outrage, recognition. Ideas no longer waited quietly on a shelf or behind a search query. They circulated through networks of friends, groups, and recommendation systems, often reaching people who had never intentionally sought them out. For individuals already struggling to interpret unsettling internal experiences—voices, intrusive thoughts, a feeling of being watched—the difference could be profound. The modern internet offers an immediate community of explanation. A person describing an internal voice can quickly find others who insist that the voice is not internal at all, that it originates in hidden transmitters or classified technologies. One of the more visible figures associated with this interpretation is Robert Duncan, whose books and lectures describe a supposed system of electronic “voice-to-skull” transmission. Whether one encounters his work directly or indirectly, the narrative it promotes circulates widely in online groups devoted to the idea that certain people are being technologically targeted. The same networks that transformed the discovery of fringe explanations also provided fertile ground for Project: Soul Catcher, the body of work most closely associated with Duncan. In his books and lectures, Duncan claims to map a systematic effort to intercept, monitor, and manipulate human consciousness using classified technologies. Unlike older paranormal or mind-control narratives, this project is framed as both technical and operational: voices, intrusive thoughts, and even bodily sensations are presented as outputs of deliberate programs, coordinated by intelligence agencies and covert contractors. The appeal is immediate: for someone already inclined to interpret internal experiences as externalized, it provides a precise, actionable explanation for otherwise unmanageable phenomena. For years, Duncan spent hours each day interacting with voice-hearers online, largely through Facebook groups and pages devoted to electronic harassment and V2K narratives. Unlike casual posters or forum lurkers, he approached these conversations with the authority of someone claiming medical or technical expertise. He offered interpretations, instructions, and validations, often framing himself as a guide or even a kind of practitioner. The effect is chilling: a person struggling with intrusive internal experiences could log on without leaving their room, without traveling, and encounter someone presenting a structured explanation for their voices. If the user’s condition worsened under his influence, there were no formal ethical safeguards. There was no monitoring board, no informed consent. The social network itself became the laboratory, the users the participants, and Duncan—through repeated, prolonged interaction—functioned as an ad hoc experimentalist, testing hypotheses about belief, perception, and behavioral reinforcement in real time. The fact that he presented himself as a “doctor” or authority figure makes this situation qualitatively different from a casual internet influencer or conspiracy theorist. His words carried weight, and his repeated interventions could directly shape the mental frameworks of vulnerable users. Facebook’s platform allowed it to continue unchecked. Legally, the company enjoys broad immunity under Section 230, and its algorithms do not distinguish between neutral information and ongoing interactions with real psychological consequences. But the result is clear: the platform hosted what reads like an unregulated psychological experiment on a vulnerable population. The trajectory from occult bookstore shelves to the social-media stage makes Duncan’s interventions more than a curious footnote—they are the culmination of a long historical arc. Once, someone seeking explanations for unsettling internal experiences had to browse carefully chosen shelves, consult newsletters, or track down obscure pamphlets. Then, the early internet allowed search-based discovery, still requiring deliberate intent. With Facebook and other algorithmic platforms, however, the friction disappeared. Explanations arrived at users’ screens whether they were looking or not. In this environment, Duncan’s Project: Soul Catcher found its ideal medium: a population already vulnerable and curious, a platform designed to connect and amplify, and a network effect that reinforced every post, comment, and testimonial. What had once been isolated stories of psychic interference or covert control now flowed through a digital ecosystem, continuously observed, commented on, and validated—effectively transforming the platform itself into an unregulated, large-scale psychological laboratory. Project: Soul Catcher exemplifies the convergence of several factors that make these narratives uniquely resistant to challenge. It offers technical specificity that mirrors military or intelligence operations, situates the experiencer as a targeted individual rather than a patient, and circulates in communities where questioning the narrative is socially discouraged. Combined with the algorithmic dynamics of modern social platforms, the project transforms individual experiences of auditory phenomena into a collective, structured belief system, one that is difficult to contest and easy to share. In many ways, it demonstrates how modern digital ecosystems can turn isolated psychological experiences into socially reinforced, quasi-operational conspiratorial networks.

Artificial Intelligence Companies

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AIAI

applied research and technology tranfser institute; as part of the University of Edinburgh it is the largest AI group in Europe.

AcknoSoft

intelligent decision-support systems applied to failure diagnosis in industrial maintenance, engineering data mining, helpdesk support, and other areas

Acquired Intelligence Inc

knowledge-based software products and services

Ascent Technology Inc.

experience in expert systems, machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, database mining, genetic algorithms, computer vision, and natural language understanding

American Heuristics Corporation

software technology consulting and training in data mining, complex decision systems, and OOPS

AND Corporation

developers of Holographic Neural Technology (HNeT)

Applied AI Systems, Inc

oldest AI Research and Development Company in Canada involved in a variety of AI research areas including autonomous robots and artificial life

Assistum

Strategic Knowledge Management using fuzzy logic. Assistum facilitates the capturing and reuse of knowledge for decision making.

Attar Software

authors of the XpertRule range of software for Knowledge Based System development, Research Optimization and Data Mining

Applied Systems Intelligence, Inc.

specializing in applied artificial intelligence technologies

BioComp Systems, Inc.

biologically based computer systems for business and science that learn, adapt, and evolve

Blackboard Technology Group, Inc.

vendor of blackboard and agent-based systems

Brightware, Inc.

licenses, develops and maintains Art*Enterprise, and provides high-level AI consulting to business

Chr.Liisberg A/S

home of the KAYS Agent the first "easy to use" software to share knowledge

Comdale Technologies Inc.

"A company dedicated to developing intelligent systems software."

CompEngServ Ltd.

CES has experience in conventioanal expert systems as well as real-time expert systems.

Competence Center for Neurocomputing

SYNAPSE1, SYNAPSE2-PC technologies

Cycorp

Cyc common sense technology

Delta-X Research

develops predictive maintenance software to the electric power industry

Design Power, Inc.

developer of of knowledge-based engineering systems for plant design, factory layout, and building design in the A/E/C and manufacturing industries.

Electronic Brains Australia

consulting in neural networks and genetic algorithms

ELF Software Co.

natural language query interfaces for Microsoft Access databases

Explore Reasoning Systems Inc.

automation of business processes

Flexible Intelligence Group

FlexTool soft computing product suites for building computationally intelligent systems in diverse domains.

G6G Consulting Group

research and consulting company specializing in AI

Gensym

leading supplier of software for creating intelligent real-time solutions for industrial, scientific, commercial, and government applications worldwide

G.O.International Air Service

research tool for live functional system modeling

HOME TEAM

resource for information about intelligent or smart houses

Harlequin

software company specialising in symbolic processing, electronic publishing, and their applications

Hanke & Hörner Software

ActiveX/OCX Genetic Programming Control

Hugin Expert A/S

expert system software house in construction and execution of Belief Networks (also known as Bayesian Networks, or Causal Probabilistic Networks)

IET Intelligent Electronics

intelligent software for scheduling people, resources and processes; diagnosing, troubleshooting and repairing equipment; and improving fabric utilization

Inference Corporation

specializes in CBR (Case Based Reasoning) technology, especially (but not exclusively) for the help desk market

Integral Solutions Ltd.

AI/KBS and Data Mining tools

IntelliCorp

makers of Kappa software

LEVEL5

Level Five Research, an Information Builders company

LPA

Prolog based tools and solutions for Windows and Macintosh PCs

Lumina Decision Systems, Inc.

computer software and services company that develops and markets software for modeling and decision support

Man Machine Interfaces, Inc.

AI software tools and applications

MicroStrategy

Decision Support System (DSS) & Data Warehousing Relational OLAP Software

Neural Applications Corporation

supplier of intelligent control techology to industry

Norsys Software Corp.

making advanced Bayesian belief network and influence diagram technology practical and affordable with their Netica product

NovaCast

develops knowledgebased systems for various branches, e.g. foundry industry, medicine and finance.

PLATINUM Technology Inc.

developer of Aion Development System, an expert system shell

RMV Electronics

specialists in data acquisition, process control, and robotics

Quadrillion

data analysis software for semiconductor manufacturers

Servile Software

specialists in thinking software

Stottler Henke Associates. Inc.

consulting company for broad range of AI solutions, specializing in cased based reasoning

Ultragem Data Mining

data mining services using genetic algorithms

Unica

home of industrial-strength neural net solutions

ZDM Scientiifc Ltd

custom Data Mining services and Real Time Expert Systems development

the pineconeman

Saturday, May 19, 2012

the pineconeman

Crazy things.like interneural interface and satelites....human targets..he calls them he had gotten in touch with me.reading the blog.they won't stop he says...they own you ..iwrite it anyway you want call yourself jimbisand much of the same things i have been writng about "as fiction".T Joshua tells me they use some of these "things" on  prisoners.they used it on eileen warnos..WHO IS THEY ,JIm
.COME ON! aside from this fiction  dreck ADMIT that YOU THINK AT LEAST YOU KNOW WHO THEY IS!
I think I know what he is getting at.I think of him as insane.it is easier.Easier than thinking who THEY probably are.He too has brain damage and can barely give a damn what he has said the second before. Or Felt the second before.He found me online .He knows I have nowhere to go.Not .Really.i know the look.he is destroyed.as are the others he hangs out with who have been "played with" NO JIM not PLAYED WITH he says," experiemted on.!"..
..the stuff they dont tell us could fill the ocean .did you know there are drugs that  cause some telepathy shit. hallucinigenics ....for a while  it's wild than it's flowers for algernon all over the place..these people can't finish a sentence.they sound crazier than me.but as these months have progressed I can't judge anyone as mad.I hate that i know what they are talking about all these experiments ,they go nowhere,they can't even be used as weapons. They do it.JUST BECAUSE JIM it's like Joseph Mengele secretly runs the entire secret army.army of what.the Army ,the US Army.don't be an idiot JIMBIS or WHATEVER dumbass name you use in that Monstrositous so called Blog.why did I come here?I wanted answers.Not more Crazy.Joshuah's girlfriend wrote me several strange e mails saying she can read "through" what i write and she knows it isn't fiction(no shit)....

Joshuahs girlfriend was a so called Firekeeper.she tended to the wood and the blaze that was lit 24/7 .she also saw the fire in people's eyes.
she said my fire went out.my eyes were like  a wet log.i agreed.
i knew a guy like you .she said.he hung himself.
"i've heard that before "I told her.
"i bet you have" she said  and told me about the guy.

the pine cone man was a guy who was on welfare and lived
with his sister who he didnt like.so he left and lived outside
he had nothing to do.
he was simple or something.
he began making all sorts of sculptures out of pine cones.
some guy saw the pinecone sculptures and began selling them
the pinecone man had enough money to move into a small apartment
than he ran out of money.
and had to live on the street again
and stopped even bothering doing anything with pinecones

I identified with the pinecone man.
i did art for a time.but it came to nothing financially or otherwise.why bother
".know what i mean jellybean?"
do you have any of the art she said
no.it's in a box .
"can you get the box?"
no .the box is tied up I said
"you're not good with knots "she said,"or string.It's a good thing.because if you were you might have hung yourself like the pinecone man"
"yes ,"I said "i'm afraid things are quite desperate"
"i can do good things with a box of art,and you need good things."
"much of the art isnt up to par but an equal part is damn good"
"we will get the box and seperate the good from the bad don't you think.Perhaps put the bad art on the fire .The fire can't go out...I don't want you to be a pinecone man"
"i am quickly becoming the pinecone man,"I said,"but,how do i put this nicely , you seem to be rather  crazy.Can crazy people sell art?"
"only crazy people can sell art.We must get that box.Which is tied up..We must get it soon"

"the pineconeman ,the pinecone man.don't become like the pineconeman"Joshuah began singing and than his girlfriend got us back on track.
"he does that sometimes.sometimes he can't stop.That's why he needs all the help he can get.As do you jim.All the help you can get but first we must get you painting again .and away from this "in search Of " stuff you're writing.there's no money in it for one.and B.it just might get you..."
"the pineconeman ,the pineconeman,don't become like the pineconeman"Joshua sang

I walked away from the fire.
i walked and walked.
he walked.
i walked.
HE walked
the more desperate he got the less he thought of himself as an I
it was easier to become third person.
he was that despondant
he wondered if he might soon break off into more and more people the more he went down
and he was going down fast
what would be so wrong .
ending up like the pinecone man?

ilm and television may be designed to include personally relevant signifiers—symbols, dialogue, character dynamics—intended for a single subject’s psychological engagement, while remaining innocuous to the broader audience. The production value and narrative coherence are preserved, enabling dual-function content: general entertainment and targeted symbolic activation. Rationale Self-Confrontation Through Symbolic Media Based on precedent in therapeutic video playback (e.g., Berger 1971; Kravitz & Winckelmann 1965), repetitive exposure to mediated reflection can produce insight, disrupt defense mechanisms, and facilitate affective processing. Extending this model into mass media allows for passive confrontation via symbolic analogy rather than direct representation. Narrative as Mirror When direct therapeutic intervention is ineffective—particularly in cases involving rigid defenses or personality disorders—indirect narrative mirroring may offer an alternative route. The subject encounters a mediated version of their behavioral patterns, causing recognition, emotional disturbance, or catharsis. Interrogation Without Coercion High-production, emotionally compelling media can serve as a container for symbolic triggers—visual, auditory, thematic—known to correlate with suppressed memory, guilt, or identity dissonance. Physiological responses to these cues (monitored via biometric surveillance) enable behavioral mapping without explicit questioning. Psychological Isolation as a Feature The design depends on the subject believing that the media is reflecting their inner world uniquely. This sense of personalization may evoke paranoia, religious delusion, or apophenia—but also facilitates focused observation of internal meaning-making structures. The narrative is not interpreted as universal, but as encrypted. Design Constraints Plausible Deniability: Content must function for all viewers; personal relevance must be deniable. Symbolic Ambiguity: Signifiers must be interpretable across contexts. Emotional Density: Scenes must carry affective weight sufficient to induce physiological arousal. Temporal Spread: Patterns emerge across multiple productions over years or decades, forming a cumulative effect. Applications National Security Contexts Subtle interrogation of persons of interest without formal detainment. Guilt inference via unconscious reactivity. Forensic Psychiatry Assessment of dangerous individuals who resist conventional therapy. Use of symbolic narrative to simulate consequences. Experimental Treatment Models Testbed for novel psychiatric interventions in treatment-resistant conditions. Adaptive storylines modulated over time to respond to subject behavior. Longitudinal Observation Projects Mapping response to recurring motifs across lifespan. Studying the plasticity of meaning-making and symbolic interpretation. Risks Cognitive Destabilization: Subject may develop fixed delusions of reference. Emotional Harm: Induced self-recognition may lead to suicidality or rage. Ethical Breakdown: No consent, no recourse, no verifiability. Institutional Abuse: Power imbalance allows for misuse under intelligence, psychological research, or commercial agendas. Conclusion The method represents a convergence of narrative engineering, psychodynamic theory, and covert behavioral science. It leverages mass media’s symbolic language not for collective storytelling but for surgical psychological manipulation—whether to interrogate, to treat, or to study. Its elegance lies in its invisibility. Its danger lies in its asymmetry.