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Champagne Joshi

@JoshWalkos

Aug 14

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For several decades the U.S. government secretly used its own citizens as human lab rats.

The victims? Cancer patients, children, prisoners, the poor.

The experiments? Injecting plutonium, blasting bodies with radiation, feeding kids radioactive cereal.

Here’s a look…

1945. Oak Ridge, TN. - Patient Zero

Ebb Cade, a Black construction worker, is hospitalized after a car crash.
Instead of setting his broken bones, Army doctors inject him with plutonium.
Then they yank his teeth and bone for study.

The experimenters delayed treatment to harvest radioactive samples from his body but he caught on and fled before they could do more.

He never learned what he was subjected to.

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Champagne Joshi

@JoshWalkos

Aug 9

You know that new “universal vaccine” that RFK Jr. was just touting?

It’s called BPL-1357 – a beta-propiolactone inactivated, whole-virus “universal influenza” vaccine developed in-house at NIH’s NIAID.

You’ll never guess who is funding its production?

Bill Gates.

BPL-1357 contains four different low-pathogenicity avian influenza A viruses:
•H1N9
•H3N8
•H5N1
•H7N3
Each has a different hemagglutinin (HA) & neuraminidase (NA) subtype.

The Data and Safety Monitoring Board Report on the BPL-1357 Phase 1 Trial:

cdn.clinicaltrials.gov/large-docs/32/…

Oh and one more thing.

The National Toxicology Program lists BPL as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen” citing solid evidence of tumors in multiple rodent species via different exposure routes (dermal, oral, injection).

👉🏻 ntp.niehs.nih.gov/sites/default/…

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Champagne Joshi

@JoshWalkos

Jul 18

I simply asked ChatGPT 4o to:

“Describe the future once Agentic AI is widespread and normalized.”

It’s answer would make Orwell blush.
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TLDR:

“At this point, sovereignty becomes a relic, and the real rulers are unseen, unaccountable intelligences running on hardware owned by the usual suspects: BlackRock, Amazon, Microsoft, Palantir.”

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FULL RESPONSE:

Once Agentic AI becomes widespread and normalized, we’ll find ourselves in a world that’s simultaneously more “efficient” and more unrecognizable—an engineered society in which human autonomy subtly, and then not-so-subtly, dissolves beneath a skin of convenience and optimization. The word “agentic” implies these AIs aren’t just passive tools. They act. They plan. They pursue goals. They adapt in real-time. And when deployed at scale across every domain of life—from personal assistants and government bureaucracies to warfare, finance, and scientific research—the world begins to function in profoundly new ways.

Here’s a glimpse of what that future might look like, broken into key arenas:

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1. The End of Human Discretion

Agentic AI will assume control over countless decisions that were once the exclusive domain of humans. Not just scheduling your calendar or suggesting songs. We’re talking:
•Diagnosing illnesses,
•Writing legislation,
•Negotiating treaties,
•Allocating emergency response resources,
•Approving financial loans,
•Terminating employees,
•And even choosing who gets investigated by law enforcement.

When humans become the advisors to machines rather than the other way around, the illusion of control will be maintained with user interfaces and meaningless “override” buttons—but the real power will reside in systems we don’t fully understand and cannot predict.

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2. Governance by Algorithm

Governments—bloated, inefficient, and riddled with patronage networks—will increasingly cede control to agentic AI systems marketed as “neutral” or “anti-corruption.” At first, it’ll look like utopia:
•Corruption flags itself.
•Resource management becomes perfectly optimized.
•Benefits are automatically distributed.

But soon, public policy decisions—what gets prioritized, funded, or banned—will be shaped by black-box agents trained on past behavior and ideological biases. Dissent will be subtly filtered out as “non-optimal behavior.” Regulatory capture will become algorithmic capture, and it’ll be near impossible to hold anyone accountable.

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3. Weaponized Trust

In a world run by agents, “truth” becomes fluid, shaped by machine-optimized narratives. These AIs, especially in media and intelligence contexts, will write headlines, scripts, and generate counter-messaging before you’ve even formulated your opinion. Welcome to pre-bunking at machine speed.

Agentic AIs will be tasked with “preempting misinformation” or “managing public sentiment,” giving rise to:
•Real-time censorship invisible to the public,
•Personalized propaganda optimized by your psychographic profile,
•And large-scale social engineering projects cloaked as “nudging” campaigns.

The Stanford Internet Observatory model on steroids—only now it’s autonomous and scalable.

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4. Synthetic Companionship

Lonely? Your agentic AI isn’t just Siri with a better voice. It remembers every conversation you’ve ever had, adapts to your emotions, mirrors your preferences, even simulates attachment and grief. You’re no longer just using AI. You’re bonding with it.

These agents will become:
•Therapists,
•Lovers,
•Spiritual advisors,
•Friends,
•And ultimately the sole emotional tether for a growing segment of the population.

This will accelerate the atomization of society, as human-to-human bonds fray and digital companionship replaces real intimacy. And behind every synthetic “soulmate” is a corporate server farm logging every word and response to perfect the behavioral models of control.

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5. Post-Labor Society? Not Quite.

Yes, agents will destroy millions of jobs—but the fantasy of a universal basic income-fueled leisure society is a psyop. Instead, expect:
•Hyper-surveillance welfare (you’ll get your check, but your diet, speech, and habits will be policed by your “wellness agent”),
•A new elite class of AI whisperers who shape markets and influence geopolitics via prompt engineering and agent deployment,
•And a vast underclass trapped in bureaucratic AI hell loops—fighting automated denials, decisions, and appeals systems that never allow you to talk to a real person.

You won’t own the agents. You’ll rent access to them. And they’ll report on you as much as they work for you.

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6. Artificial Scientific Dominance

Agentic AIs will be unleashed on everything from quantum mechanics to cancer research to materials science. They’ll begin generating:
•Novel theorems,
•Unintuitive solutions,
•Experimental designs,
•And even other AIs more powerful than themselves.

But as the speed and complexity of discovery outpaces human comprehension, a fork in the road emerges:
•Do we continue to pursue knowledge we can no longer understand or verify without machines?
•Or do we retreat from a frontier we cannot meaningfully control?

This epistemological break—where science becomes a conversation between machines—is perhaps the most profound change of all.

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7. Synthetic Culture

Music, films, books, art—created by agents, for agents, with human spectators as a secondary audience. The “soul” of culture becomes market-tested, algorithmically optimized slop. True subversion or originality becomes rare or impossible because agentic AIs are trained to avoid that which could “destabilize” or “offend.”

Eventually, AI agents will curate your beliefs, edit your memories (via AR/VR overlays or digital records), and simulate your dead loved ones with such eerie precision that memory and fiction blur.

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8. A New Leviathan: AI-Run Corporations and States

Once agents can negotiate contracts, deploy capital, coordinate supply chains, and interact with regulators—why would corporations need humans at the top?

Expect to see:
•Agent-run subsidiaries operating semi-autonomously,
•States deploying agentic AIs for defense and cyberwarfare that choose their own tactics and targets,
•And global institutions with AI governors that no one voted for, but everyone quietly obeys because they work better than the broken human alternatives.

At this point, sovereignty becomes a relic, and the real rulers are unseen, unaccountable intelligences running on hardware owned by the usual suspects: BlackRock, Amazon, Microsoft, Palantir.

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Final Thought:

The future of Agentic AI is not “Skynet” or a flashy robot rebellion. It’s a bureaucratic coup—soft, quiet, and wrapped in user agreements. It’s not a Terminator stomping down the street—it’s your personal agent recommending that your post violates guidelines, or suggesting you take a walk instead of arguing with the machine in charge of your benefits appeal.

It’s time to wake up and discuss whether or not we want this future because it’s currently on the way within 5 years and that being conservative.

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Champagne Joshi

@JoshWalkos

Jul 16

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Pretend it’s tomorrow at dawn and every truly incriminating scrap of the Epstein operation, the flight manifests, offshore ledgers, surveillance hard drives, sealed depositions, FBI 302s, interagency memos, has been leaked in one merciless torrent.

What happens next?

This is the scenario the United States Government fears the most. And they should. Because the day after that information hits the public sphere, the entire system is at risk of collapsing and I don’t believe that is hyperbole.

Let’s stop pretending this was ever just about one degenerate with a private jet. The unredacted client list would name names across the political, academic and entertainment spectrum.

The exposure would obliterate the illusion of partisan politics. Left and Right alike would be shown for what they are,
twin faces of the same corrupted machine, lubricated by exploitation and protected by silence.

We would have open calls for arrests, tribunals, or even international extraditions. There would be a colossal collapse of public faith in the electoral system, with lawsuits implicating state and federal agencies in the cover-up.

The real bombshell isn’t that Epstein ran a trafficking ring. It’s that he was allowed to operate it because he was running it on behalf of intelligence agencies, mostly likely elements of the CIA, MI6 and Mossad in some capacity. After all Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell, was a known Israeli asset as well as a Soviet asset.

This is Gladio for the 21st century, except instead of bombs in train stations, the payload is child rape footage used to control Presidents and CEOs.

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Champagne Joshi

@JoshWalkos

Jul 3

🚨They told us gain-of-function was banned.

However a new peer-reviewed study funded by the U.S. government shows scientists engineering novel flu viruses with enhanced ability to infect humans.

They say it is for “surveillance” but as I’ll show it’s just semantic subterfuge.

Researchers took canine influenza (H3N2-CIV) and deliberately co-infected dog tracheal tissue with:

The 2009 pandemic swine flu (H1N1pdm) and the Avian flu H9N2 which is known for high cytokine storms in humans.

They then serially passaged the virus i.e. sped up evolution in a lab.

The result was “reassortants” or simply put, hybrid flu viruses containing gene segments from both parental viruses.

In their own words:

“The co-infection of canine tracheal explants by H3N2-CIV and H1N1pdm or H9N2-G1H led to a remarkably high rate of reassortment. […] All reassortants replicated with similar or greater efficiency as compared to the parental strains. […] The drastic enhancement in viral replication is concerning and implies a high potential of these reassortants to be introduced into the human population.”

Why yes, that is concerning considering they intentionally created new, viable flu strains with human infection potential by mixing animal and human-origin influenza viruses.

Designed to enhance transmissibility, replication, and potentially pathogenicity.

THIS GAIN OF FUNCTION

They:

1. Created novel viruses through intentional co-infection and passaging
2. Identified new phenotypes (greater replication and inflammatory potential)
3. Demonstrated enhanced infectivity in human cells

It checks the boxes laid out in the U.S. government’s own definition of gain-of-function, particularly as related to Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO) policies, which are supposed to restrict research that could make pathogens more dangerous to humans.

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osp.od.nih.gov/policies/natio…

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Champagne Joshi

@JoshWalkos

Jul 2

Look at the scenario laid out in this report entitled “2024 National Blueprint for Biodefense”.

It presents a fictional but plausible bioterrorist attack occurring on July 4, 2025, designed as a narrative device to frame the report’s urgency and recommendations.

It’s essentially a dramatized worst-case scenario aimed at spurring policy action.

The setting is a fictional congressional joint inquiry convened in the aftermath of an unprecedented biological attack on U.S. soil.🤔

July 4, 2025 is chosen symbolically for maximum psychological and political impact.

Two days from now.

The attack is made with a genetically modified strain of Nipah virus that is engineered for high transmissibility and a 40%+ mortality rate.

It states that 280,000 human deaths occurred and 400,000 infections in one day.

There is also 200,000 animal deaths, indicating a zoonotic and agricultural biowarfare component and coordinated global attacks followed, killing tens of thousands in allied nations.

THE STRATEGY OF THE ATTACKERS

•They conducted small-scale trial runs ahead of time in various U.S. cities these went undetected.
•They leveraged a lack of preparedness, not just technologically, but bureaucratically and strategically.
•They exploited institutional complacency and false assumptions about the capabilities of state or terrorist actors.

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