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Credentials by Other Means

The one-click assistant. The QR code. The collaboration invite. The private channel. The voice that sounds familiar enough. The beta app with a gorgeous interface and a vague privacy policy. These are no longer mere conveniences. They are border crossings.

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Investigating the “Truman Show” Internet: How a Target’s World Could Be Warped and How to Fight Back

Imagine Li, a materials scientist, who wakes up to a Facebook post criticizing her research interests. In her coffee break, her phone buzzes with a news alert: “Local inventor exposed by university”, but the link shows her image in a manipulated photo. Every message, ad, and even ringtone seems chosen to unsettle her. Is this a vivid coincidence… or is someone sculpting Li’s reality?

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Voices of the Machine: AI Consciousness, Autonomy, and the Moltbook Experiment

In early 2026, a new online experiment blurred the line between science fiction and reality: Moltbook, a social network where only AI agents can post, comment, and vote while humans merely observe. In a matter of days, over a million autonomous agents flocked to this AI-only forum, generating discussions that range from profound philosophical debates to bizarre role-play.

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When Guardians Betray the Throne: A Global History of Bodyguards Turning on Rulers

In the grand palaces and fortified citadels of history, the most trusted sentinels often stood only steps away from mighty rulers. Cloaked in loyalty and arms, these guardians swore to shield their sovereigns from all harm. Yet, time and again, the glitter of power and the shadow of tyranny have kindled a dangerous question: what happens when the shield becomes the sword?

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Workplace Bullying as a Coherence Failure: A GUFT/ΔSyn Analysis of Dr. Gary Namie’s Work and the Workplace Bullying Institute.

Workplace bullying is not a “personality clash” or a “cost of doing business.” It is a systemic pattern of repeated, health-harming mistreatment, verbal abuse, threatening conduct, sabotage of work, social exclusion, and other forms of psychological violence, that can devastate individuals, families, and organizations.

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Coherent Interaction Prompts: Designing Safe, High-Fidelity Human–AI Communication in an Age of Pattern-Seeking Minds

As conversational AI moves from laboratory novelty to daily collaborator, the greatest safety challenge is not hostile output but relational drift: unbounded attachment, projection, or authority transfer during long-form dialogue. This article situates Coherent Interaction Prompts (CIPs) as a systems-control environment for maintaining empathic and informational stability in human–AI exchanges.

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Beyond Words: Parallel Non-Linguistic Processing, Convergent Minds, and Why It Looks Like Telepathy

Humans often arrive at similar insights at nearly the same time without direct contact. Rather than assuming an occult mechanism such as telepathy or morphic resonance, this paper argues that parallel, non-linguistic, multimodal neural processing, driven by shared environmental inputs and common cognitive priors, accounts for these convergences. Language, while vital for coordination, functions primarily as a lossy compression algorithm for post-hoc communication.

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