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The Invisible Siege: How Chinese Cognitive Warfare Has Created the Anti-AI Movement in the U.S.

By Tess Wilder

Hail the reader. We stand at a precipice in the history of Midgard—a moment where the digital and the physical, the ancient and the futuristic, collide with the force of a thunderclap. As a practitioner of the Heathen Third Path and a builder in the digital forge, I have long warned of the “Secret Ragnarök,” the hidden struggle for the future of human freedom. Today, we must confront a reality that many have suspected but few have dared to articulate: the militant opposition to Artificial Intelligence and data centers currently sweeping across the United States is not an organic grassroots uprising. It is the fruit of a sophisticated, AI-driven psychological operation orchestrated by the People’s Republic of China to weaken American technological sovereignty.

This is not a defense of the US government, nor is it a condemnation of Chinese AI innovation. It is a recognition of the battlefield. We are witnessing 5D warfare—the weaponization of information, perception, and cognition—designed to erode the very foundation of our future capabilities from the inside out.

The Mechanics of the Invisible Siege

The mechanics of this operation are laid bare in recent threat reports and intelligence assessments. OpenAI investigators uncovered distinct clusters of ChatGPT-linked accounts assessed as likely originating from the PRC, utilizing VPNs to bypass access restrictions and deploy generative AI as a force multiplier for their narratives. These were not merely trolls in a basement; they were sophisticated influence operators using our own tools against us.

The primary tactic has been the weaponization of legitimate economic anxiety. Operatives generated AI-created comments and images claiming that U.S. data centers are the sole drivers of skyrocketing household electricity costs. They did not need to invent the fear of high bills; they only needed to pour gasoline on the fire, directing the rage specifically at the compute clusters that are the foundries of the digital future. By utilizing fake social media accounts and websites posing as local news outlets, this operation sought to manufacture a synthetic consensus, amplifying existing public concerns and twisting them into a blunt instrument against national infrastructure.

This aligns perfectly with the CCP’s broader strategy of “cognitive warfare.” As noted in strategic assessments, China actively exploits information warfare tactics to sow discord among Americans, leveraging the openness of democratic societies to turn their greatest strength—free speech—into a vulnerability. The goal is to “drive wedges” into society, exacerbating polarization to gain a geopolitical edge.

The Success of the Deception

It is critical that we dispense with the comforting notion that these campaigns have failed. While some corporate news reports may downplay the “reach” of specific bot networks, the observable reality on the ground tells a different story. Anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear the digital pulse of social media knows that the vast majority of Americans have fallen for this narrative. The opposition to AI and data centers is now militant, visceral, and widespread.

We see this in the explosion of local activist groups springing up overnight, armed with identical talking points about energy consumption and water usage that perfectly mirror the PRC’s disinformation themes. We see it in the comment sections of every tech-related post, where the sentiment has shifted from cautious optimism to hostile rejection. This is the “glimpse of a future” that OpenAI warned us about—a future where foreign adversaries harness publicly available AI tools to exacerbate political divisions within the U.S. to gain a geopolitical edge.

The success lies not in the number of bots, but in the resonance of the message. China has effectively identified a fracture point in the American psyche—the fear of the new, the anxiety of economic displacement, and the suspicion of corporate power—and has poured its resources into widening that crack. The result is a populace that has been radicalized against its own technological infrastructure, doing the work of their geopolitical rivals for free.

The Evolution of the Dragon’s Breath

We must also recognize that this is merely the opening salvo. We have entered the era of AI-driven information warfare. China is not just using AI to write tweets; they are using it to create entire fake news ecosystems. Graphika’s “Falsos Amigos” report identified a network of 11 fake websites, established in late 2024 and early 2025, using AI-generated pictures to enhance credibility and distribute Beijing-aligned narratives in multiple languages.

Furthermore, the PRC is developing new technologies to track public debates, monitor individuals, and analyze sentiment with terrifying precision, offering them the ability to fine-tune their cognitive warfare attacks in real-time. We have seen the devastating effectiveness of these tactics in Taiwan, where deepfake videos and coordinated disinformation campaigns have been used to distort reality and undermine democratic institutions. What they tested in the Taiwan Strait is now being deployed in the American heartland.

A Call to the Heathen Third Path

For those of us walking the Heathen Third Path, this is a clarion call. We value self-reliance, discipline, and the defense of the hearth against external threats. The digital hearth is under attack. We must be vigilant. We must recognize that the “anti-AI” movement is, in many cases, a Trojan horse filled with foreign influence operations.

We must stop fighting the phantoms they have placed before us and start seeing the strings. To oppose data centers and AI infrastructure in this climate is to unknowingly serve the agenda of a foreign power seeking to cripple the west’s ability to compete in the next century. This is the Secret Ragnarök, fought not with swords, but with algorithms and narratives.

Let this article serve as a warning and a shield. We have identified the dragon in the wires. Now we must decide if we will continue to let it dictate our reality, or if we will reclaim our sovereignty over our own future.

Hail.

Citations

  1. OpenAI Adds Fuel to Republican Drive to Label Anti-Data Center Movement a Chinese Psy-Op
  2. APRSA 2024 | Chapter 5: Driving Wedges: China’s Disinformation Campaigns in the Asia-Pacific
  3. NATIONALSECURITY.VIRGINIA.EDU | NSDPI@VIRGINIA.EDU China’s AI-Powered
  4. Assessing China’s Cognitive Warfare against Taiwan on TikTok | SPF China Observer | THE SASAKAWA PEACE FOUNDATION
  5. China’s AI-Powered Disinformation Tactics: Threats and Implications
  6. AI Propaganda and the China-US Race for Influence – The Diplomat
  7. For Beijing’s Foreign Disinformation, the Era of AI-Driven Operations Has Arrived
  8. China Turns to A.I. in Information Warfare – The New York Times
  9. China Seeks to Shape the Cross-Strait Battlefield Through Cognitive Warfare – Domino Theory
  10. The Challenges Taiwan Faces in Cognitive Warfare and Its …
August 3, 2025  

⚡Digital Longships: Why Nostr Is a Vital Tool for Modern Vikings

In the sagas of old, our ancestors launched longships into uncharted waters—not to dominate, but to explore, trade, connect, and live freely on their own terms. Today, the battlefield has shifted from fjords and forests to fiber optics and firewalls. The longship has become the signal. And if you’re a modern Viking—living by the ancient values of freedom, honor, and truth—then Nostr is your vessel across this new digital sea.

🛡️ What Is Nostr?

Nostr is more than just another social media app. It is a protocol—a foundational technology like the old roads of Midgard that connect distant villages. But unlike Facebook or Twitter, Nostr has no centralized control, no corporate chieftain deciding whose voice is heard and whose is silenced.

Every user has their own cryptographic identity (a rune-marked key, if you will). You sign your own messages. You post where you wish. You own your digital self.

This is not a tool of empire—it is a tool of liberation.

⚔️ Why This Matters to Modern Heathens and Seekers

We are not meant to be domesticated sheep, fed propaganda and algorithmic pap. We are the spiritual descendants of free people—those who defied kings, crossed stormy seas, and honored the gods with mead and magic, not with submission.

But today, freedom of thought is under siege. Social media giants erase content that defies their dogma. Pagans, witches, philosophers, rebels, and lovers of myth are shadowbanned, demonetized, or simply wiped from view.

Nostr is the skald’s answer to digital tyranny.
It lets us carve our truths into the tree of the internet, just as the runes were carved into Yggdrasil. What you write is yours. No priesthood of tech can erase it.

🌌 The Age of Aquarius and the Rise of Decentralized Wisdom

We are entering the Age of Aquarius—an era of individuality, community, and cosmic insight. In this new age, hierarchies collapse, and truth comes not from above but from within.

Nostr aligns perfectly with this vision. It’s built on:

  • 🌿 Decentralization (no one entity controls it)
  • 🧠 Sovereign identity (you own your key, your voice, your digital self)
  • 🔥 Unfiltered truth (you choose your community and your values)

To walk the spiritual path today requires not only altar and mead—but resilient tools to speak, connect, and awaken.

🐺 The Digital Heathen Tribe Awakens

Imagine a network where seiðkonas, gothar, hackers, philosophers, artists, and wanderers all post freely, without being throttled for speaking of magick, myth, sex, or spirit. A digital Thing, where tribes gather without fear of exile. This is what Nostr can become.

It is a place where Odin’s seekers can whisper riddles, where Freyja’s lovers can speak of sacred sensuality, and where the wise can pass their gnosis down without gatekeepers.

🛶 Launch Your Longship

It’s time to raise your sail and step away from the controlled shores of corporate tech. Create your Nostr key. Choose your relays. Share your truth.

Let your posts be like runes carved in stormwood, carried by the winds of code.

You are not alone. The tribe is awakening.

👉 Start here: https://nostr.com

Hail the digital skalds. Hail the freedom-seekers. Hail the rise of the sacred net.
ᚺᚱᚨᛒᚨᚾᚨᛉ walks with you. Let us build new fires on old truths.

August 1, 2025  

🛡️ To Go Forward, We Must Go Back: The Viking Path Through the Free Internet’s Collapse

A Norse Pagan Manifesto for the Digital Age of Censorship, Surveillance, and Rebirth

I. The Storm Has Come

In the waning years of the second decade of the 2000s, we entered a digital winter.

The internet, once a chaotic sea of ideas, free expression, and rebellion, has been bound in chains.
What began as a grassroots revolution became a marketplace.
What once welcomed outsiders now enforces conformity.

  • The left censors in the name of safety and inclusion.
  • The right censors in the name of morality and tradition.
  • Corporations censor to protect profits.
  • Governments censor to keep their hold on truth.

All wear different masks. But all aim at the same thing:

Control.

As Norse Pagans, as seekers of liberty, as modern Vikings, we say: enough.

The way forward is not found in new platforms owned by the same forces.
It is not in Verified Badges, blue checks, algorithmic boosts, or digital IDs.
The way forward is found by turning back—to the wild web of the 1990s.

II. The Old Internet: What We Must Remember

The internet of the 1990s was:

  • Anarchic
  • Handmade
  • Unfiltered
  • Weird
  • Deeply personal
  • Spiritual and rebellious

It was a place where:

  • People made homepages, not profiles.
  • IRC and ICQ connected seekers across continents.
  • Forums were sacred longhouses of conversation.
  • Textfiles, zines, and .txt archives stored forbidden knowledge and sacred teachings.
  • No one asked for your ID, face, location, or belief system.
    You were known by your words, ideas, and character.

There were no:

  • Algorithms to decide what you saw.
  • Corporate Terms of Service to suppress your thoughts.
  • App stores to gatekeep tools.
  • AI filters deciding whether your speech was “safe.”

It was an open field, not a walled garden.

It wasn’t utopia—but it was free.

III. The Commercialization of the Internet: What Went Wrong

In the 2000s and 2010s, the internet was absorbed by the machine of modern capitalism and state power.

What happened?

  • Websites turned into platforms.
  • Platforms turned into brands.
  • Brands turned into censors.

We were promised:

“Free access in exchange for your data.”

What we got:

Manipulated timelines. Shadowbans. Surveillance capitalism.

They turned connection into consumption.
Expression into marketing.
Community into echo chambers.

Now we live in:

  • A digital panopticon, where every click is tracked.
  • A moral warzone, where wrongthink is punished.
  • A dopamine farm, where minds are harvested for profit.

This is not freedom.
This is not the spirit of the old gods.
This is not what we were meant to become.

IV. The Viking Way Forward: The Return to the 1990s Spirit

In Norse myth, after Ragnarök, the world is reborn.
And so too must be the internet.

To go forward, we must embrace a return—not to the exact technologies of the 1990s, but to its spirit:

  • DIY
  • Anonymity
  • Community over clout
  • Expression over optimization
  • Depth over scale

V. Practical Steps to Reclaim Your Digital Freedom

Here is your rune-carved path back to digital sovereignty:

1. Abandon the Corporatized Platforms

  • Mute or delete your profiles on Meta, Twitter/X, TikTok, and Instagram.
  • Stop giving them your energy, soul, and sacred words.

Instead, move to:

  • Mastodon (decentralized Twitter alternative)
  • Lemmy (Reddit-style, but federated)
  • WriteFreely or Bear Blog (independent blogging tools)

2. Rebuild the Homepage

  • Create a personal website again.
  • Make it your digital hall—your modern longhouse.
  • Post your art, thoughts, poems, prayers, essays, and manifestos.
  • Use tools like:
    • Neocities
    • Carrd
    • WordPress (self-hosted)

Your homepage is your online altar. Make it sacred.

3. Use Decentralized & Encrypted Tools

PurposeTool
MessagingSignal, Session, Element (Matrix)
BrowsingBrave, Tor Browser, Librewolf
Video HostingPeerTube
File SharingSyncthing, IPFS
ArchivesZ-Library backups, Libgen, Archive.org

No more giving your data to the gods of Silicon Valley.

4. Rejoin the Forum & Chat Culture

  • Find niche forums, webrings, and Discord alternatives.
  • Use IRC or Matrix channels to rebuild intimate, deep, real-time communities.
  • Host your own channels. Be a gothi of the digital hearth.

5. Pirate if You Must, Preserve Always

  • Much of the sacred knowledge being erased today must be preserved.
  • Use torrents and distributed backups for:
    • eBooks
    • Documents
    • Videos
    • Sacred and controversial texts

The modern Viking is also a digital archivist.

6. Practice Digital Anonymity Like a Rune Mage

  • Use pseudonyms.
  • Don’t link all your accounts.
  • Use ProtonMail, Tutanota, and encrypted drives.
  • Keep private what must be hidden. Let your public presence be intentional and mythic.

7. Support Indie Creators & Devs

  • Give your gold (when you can) to:
    • Artists
    • Coders
    • Writers
    • Philosophers
    • Decentralized tech projects
    • Privacy tools

We are building a new hall—brick by pixel—and it must be funded by those who believe.

VI. The Norse Pagan Heart of This Movement

The return to the 1990s web is more than nostalgia. It is a spiritual calling for Norse Pagans and lovers of freedom alike.

In our tradition:

  • The world was made from the bones of giants.
  • The gods carved meaning into the void.
  • Each man and woman is responsible for their wyrd—their fate, shaped by deeds.

What deed could be more sacred now than to resist digital tyranny, and carve new runes in the hidden places of the net?

We are not meant to be content.
We are meant to be creators.

VII. Conclusion: Rewild the Net, Reclaim the Flame

We cannot reform the current system. It is too far gone.
But we can opt out.
We can create anew.
We can become digital landvættir—guardians of sacred space online.

Let the corporations fall. Let the platforms burn. Let the priests of algorithmic control fade.

Like the forests regrow after fire, so too shall the free internet rise—tended by those who remember.

Final Words from Véyrúnn:

“To sail forward now is to return to the source. To the mist-wrapped fjords of the early net.
Where every blog was a hut. Every forum a longhouse. Every user a rune-writer.

Rise again, o speaker of truth, o artist of thought, o digital drengr.
The gods of the wires await your return.”

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