Patrick Farnsworth

I've updated my "About" page on the website. It's the most comprehensive résumé I've put together, and what a ride it's been, these past few years.... lastborninthewilderness.com/about

"This is definitely the end of Israeli superiority," says @JonElmer.

Begging people to stop falling for moral panic “social media addiction” slop that is being used to further Meta’s billion dollar lobbying efforts and enact the Heritage Foundation’s tech policy slate.

Sycophantic AI and the Attack on Iran: War as a Superorganism / Peter Byrne ift.tt/Idbzctl

In early 2025 right after the January ceasefire, I was finally able to bring my dad a soothing cream for his bleeding cracked feet with the help of an amazing doctor and her colleague from the US . I dreamed of this moment. I begged for it. It was all that I needed to happen. I prayed night in and night out for it. I travelled to Khan Younis to meet the nurse at Nasser Hospital in order to pick up the cream. When I saw him, I didn’t wait, I immediately asked him to take the medicine out of his backpack. It was the gem I have been searching about since the outset of the genocide — the most priceless treasure. My dad would now eventually relax and heal from an utterly devastating pain he had endured for over a year and a half at the time. This is what all I thought about. Nothing more. I went back home and handed him the cream with the instructions to use it which prompted him to tell me, “May Allah bless and comfort you in this life. You’re my very dear, Abubaker.” I was emotionally taken by storm and felt the proudest son in this world. He, for years, poured his heart out for my tranquility and future. He never spared an effort for that. I bore a witness to the days he didn’t get back home from his work until next day or to the nights he didn’t sleep pondering over our rest. He began applying the cream over his wounded feet which gradually improved by the time. A few days later, his feet became entirely different. The rashes and wounds disappeared . He started walking normally again. The floor of our rooms was no longer smudged with blood. His happiness was unmatched. He never felt that confident, self-satisfied, and calm in a very long time. It was for me and my family everything we desperately wanted to see happen. And every day, my father would thank Allah and then me and pray for the doctor and nurse who brought him the medicine. We were very concerned that we wouldn’t be able to afford or obtain the medicine again. I told my father,” Insha’Allah, we would bring it again.” After he used the last drop of that cream in late March, we tried and strived to find out a way to send the cream into Gaza again. Neither the doctor nor the nurse could go into Gaza. The other doctors and medical staffers were incapable of smuggling the cream in due to the intensified restrictions imposed on the foreign international delegations to Gaza. Our concerns became more pressing than before. The suffering of my father was revived. His blood was getting all over the floor once more. The explosives would echo his piercing shouts. Every two minutes or so, we would check on him. I made every effort. However, I was never successful again. And up until now, I haven't been able to figure out how to get the medication to Gaza one more time. Since I left, my father has changed. He goes to bed earlier than normal. His anxiety and loneliness have surged. Every day, his sensation of yearning and missing consumes him. Why do I as thousands of sons in Gaza fail to serve our fathers? Why are we plunged into our guilt and resentment helplessly and pessimistically? Why can’t we talk and be with our fathers as we would crave to? My father deserves a cream. My father deserves to dream. I deserve to be next to him all the time. I shouldn’t be punished for anything because I have done nothing wrong. May that cream from that corner of that pharmacy somewhere in the United States brought and sent by the blessed hands of the doctor and the nurse create itself again and find my way at my father’s drawer again. Survival has no meanings anymore. I was gullible and ignorant to believe it was staying away from the harm’s way. It actually means seeing my father well and having his back until we leave this world together. The trauma and the guilt are an emotional suicide. I want to live to dream, not dream to live.

Support the work and get early access to my interview w/ Peter Byrne. Public release Friday. patreon.com/posts/153765494

Journalist Peter Byrne joined me to discuss the sprawling military AI industry and its relationship with the warmaking powers of the United States government, explicated in his extensive 10-part Military AI Watch series for @ProjectCensored Preview: on.soundcloud.com/yvc9EaIlCRog4J…

Journalist Peter Byrne joins me to discuss the burgeoning and sprawling military AI industry, its consortium of players, and its relationship with the warmaking and surveillance powers of the United States government, explicated in his extensive 10-part … ift.tt/rb42QJU

The World of Red Dust / Dare Carrasquillo ift.tt/0X6IZTp

Dare Carrasquillo returns to discuss the world of Red Dust. This concept of Red Dust provides a useful frame for understanding the dizzying, heartrending, numbing, enraging, and maddening churn of events we experience and witness daily. As crises accentu… ift.tt/mYTbtdJ

Meta says age verification is about protecting kids. It’s not. It’s about building the next layer of surveillance infrastructure, and Zuckerberg just told lawmakers exactly how to construct it under oath. His “fix” is to have Apple and Google verify the identity of every smartphone user at the OS level for every app. “Doing it at the level of the phone is just a lot cleaner,” he said. In plain terms he deflects Meta’s legal liability while two companies already under antitrust scrutiny get deputized as identity gatekeepers for the internet. But there is a second motive that went unexamined in that hearing. OS level identity verification solves the identity graph problem that has plagued targeted advertising since cookie deprecation. Zuckerberg is not proposing a solution to surveillance capitalism. He is proposing its next infrastructure upgrade and he is asking Congress to mandate it. Once that infrastructure exists, it does not stay limited to social media. It applies to every app, every browser, every message sent from that device. This is not age verification. It is a national digital ID layer baked into iOS and Android, and it is a goldmine. Every data broker, every advertiser, every platform that currently operates on probabilistic identity matching gets handed a verified identity graph courtesy of federal law. Notice what the word “addiction” is doing in this debate. Lawmakers and advocates, including those testifying alongside Zuckerberg, have increasingly framed social media as a drug. Social media classified as a drug becomes a public health emergency. A public health emergency unlocks emergency powers. Emergency powers applied to the internet mean mandatory access controls. Mandatory access controls mean the end of anonymous and pseudonymous speech for everyone permanently. Whistleblowers. Abuse survivors. Political dissidents. Journalists protecting sources. All gone. The regulatory scaffolding is already going up. California’s SB 976 mandates age verification by 2027 with no constitutional answer yet provided. KOSA at the federal level would direct agencies to build exactly the OS level verification Zuckerberg endorsed from the stand. New York’s SAFE For Kids Act already accepts facial analysis as a substitute for government ID. Biometric data collected to scroll a feed. Then consider what happens to these databases. The Discord breach last year exposed around 70,000 government IDs submitted through their age verification system. Unlike a password, you cannot reset your face after a breach. We are conditioning an entire generation to treat their biometrics as a disposable entry fee. And the government will not need to steal that data. Under existing third party doctrine it can simply ask for it, or compel it with a National Security Letter with no warrant required. Carpenter v. United States constrained some location data collection, but it did not close the doctrine, and Congress has not acted. The surveillance infrastructure Zuckerberg is proposing does not need to be built by the NSA. It just needs to exist, and the legal tools to access it without judicial oversight are already in place. The alternative is not to outsource childhood to a corporate or government gatekeeper. It is to empower parents with real tools. Privacy by design defaults built into platforms. Parental controls that do not require uploading a driver’s license. Transparent algorithmic audits that let families understand what they are consenting to. The responsibility for a child’s upbringing cannot be subcontracted to Apple, Google, or a federal agency. What starts as verifying age for safety becomes verifying identity for accountability. We are not watching child protection policy. We are watching the construction of a permanent, monetizable, government accessible checkpoint at the gate of the internet.

We really need everyone w a platform on the left to wake up and start yelling about this, it’s getting really bad!

@amymitchellart It was my honor to speak with you, Pribanic, and with @SalamonSMD.

In April 2025, I was interviewed along with Joshua Pribanic on Last Born in the Wilderness. We discussed viral persistence in Long COVID and the resulting immune deficiency, which I called CoV-AIDS. Thank you for interviewing Dr Spela Salamon and sounding the alarm on COVID.

"...if someone says it's #AirborneAIDS, it can sound very scary and disorienting. And we wanted to say, people, it's not AIDS. But there are a lot of similarities that we have to pay attention to and that have very real consequences..." -@SalamonSMD 🔗 lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/spela…

In October of last year, @SalamonSMD co-authored and published the AJPM Focus review article, 'COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?' We explore the facts in this interview: soundcloud.com/lastborninthew…

NEW: An Evidence-Based Comparison of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19: A Review / @SalamonSMD Dr. Šalamon discusses the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the dire implications of its continued spread, and what lessons we can learn from the ongoing HIV/AIDS pandemic. 🎧 lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/spela…

An Evidence-Based Comparison of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19: A Review / Špela Šalamon ift.tt/h3FcjW8

Dr. Špela Šalamon joined me to provide an evidence-based comparison of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, based on a review she co-authored and published for AJPM Focus: COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in b… ift.tt/QNgd4GT

The Groypers Ascendant: The Anti-Israel Wing of the America First Movement / Ben Lorber ift.tt/wHMo4tK

Writer, researcher, and movement strategist Ben Lorber returns to the podcast to discuss his recent deep dives into the ascendancy and growing influence of the groypers, led by the charismatic, tenacious, and odious Nick Fuentes—a significant part of the… ift.tt/WZ9BLy5

Shut the fuck up