The world's suicide rate fell. The United States' rose.

American overdose deaths went from 16,849 in 1999 to 107,941 in 2022 — more than six times as many in twenty-three years, with the steepest acceleration after illicit fentanyl entered the supply in 2013, and the single largest one-year rise in 2020. Then it turned: down 26.2% in 2024, the largest one-year fall on record, and lower again in 2025. Both directions belong in the record, and the reversal is the more unusual event — this is a curve that had only ever gone one way. But it runs down from a peak that did not exist a generation ago. Provisional 2025 is still roughly four times the 1999 count. A chart that began at the peak would show only the good news; a chart that stopped at the peak would show only the bad.

If this experience is the work of a military deployment, then it is the work of a machine operated by human beings. And a machine can be turned off at any time. So why hasn't it been? This concept is the author's speculation. It does not assert that the system it describes exists. Every statement recorded in the journal is an external communication, and every statement heard on the bullhorn, like the bullhorn itself, requires verification. Read this concept under the Critical Disclaimer. The first is the story people are told: that this is the spirit world, or something extraterrestrial; that no one can stop it; that there is no hope. If it is a machine operated by human beings, none of that is true. The second is the simplest. The surest way never to "euthanize" anyone for communicating is not to harass them in the first place. The offices doing this can stop at any time. They can simply choose not to communicate. No law of nature compels any of it. This is the work of human beings, and no one has to communicate with anyone. Doesn't law enforcement lose every covert opportunity the moment harassment begins? A person who is being harassed knows they are being watched, and a person who knows they are being watched is no longer a covert source of anything. The author is not an intelligence analyst, but the logic seems plain. And if someone has been experimented on through th

A hypothetical system, suggested to be a military deployment, that supports telepathic communication. Its suggested purpose is to give an invading force full transparency over all communication within enemy territory. That transparency would cover more than speech: through the Diving process, with or without a computer, it would reach the memories of people inside that territory. This concept is the author's speculation. It describes a hypothetical system and does not assert that the system exists. Every statement recorded in the journal is an external communication; read this concept under the Critical Disclaimer. Do not reward their presence: the author's caution In the author's experience, the system is generally used to provoke people and draw them out of their homes. When it began, in 2023, the voices presented themselves as the spirit world. Once the author researched neuroscience and realised they were human beings, he ended every relationship with any so-called invisible friend, anyone communicating on the system. The author's view is that it is vital not to reward their illegitimate presence. Rewarding it erodes the constitutional rights of everyone around you, and your own most of all, and it puts your life at risk. Their refusal to share contact details through any public, accountable channel is a serious red flag. For anyone experiencing this kind of communicatio

A sound that one person hears and the person beside them does not is often treated — by the person experiencing it, and by whoever they tell — as the strangest part of the account, and therefore as the part that demands an exotic explanation. It is the opposite. High-frequency hearing declines with age, steadily and in everyone, and the highest frequencies go first. A tone can sit precisely where one person hears it easily and another, ten years older, hears nothing at all. This is ordinary biology with a name, and it has been built into a commercial product deployed on public streets for two decades. None of this establishes what any particular person has heard. It establishes something narrower and more useful: that this specific feature of an account — that others did not hear it — carries far less weight as evidence than it seems to, and should not be the thing that convinces anyone, in either direction.

It is tempting to read prescription volume as a thermometer for how ill a population is. The record does not support that, in either direction. In England, antidepressant items rose 50% in nine years while hypnotic and anxiolytic items FELL 16% over exactly the same period, from the same prescribers under the same system. In the United States, antipsychotic use among adults rose from 1.9% to 3.0%, while among children and adolescents it fell, 1.3% to 1.1%. And where a national registry lets diagnosis be counted directly, Denmark's new schizophrenia diagnoses went slightly down, 1.8 to 1.6 per 10,000, across eighteen years in which antipsychotic prescribing rose almost everywhere it was measured. Prescribing moves for its own reasons — guidance, capacity, recognition, duration of treatment, the licensing of new drugs, deliberate deprescribing campaigns. Sometimes it tracks illness. Here it demonstrably moves in opposite directions at once.

Acoustic weapons are real, commercially sold, and owned by American police departments. Genasys, formerly LRAD Corporation, markets long-range acoustic devices to law enforcement, and what they do to people has been litigated. In Edrei v. Bratton the Second Circuit held that using one against non-violent, non-resisting protesters can violate the Fourteenth Amendment. The device in that case, a Model 100X, produces up to 136 decibels at one metre; the NYPD's own testing recorded 110 decibels at 320 feet in area-denial mode, and hearing loss can follow short exposure at 110 to 120 decibels. Plaintiffs reported tinnitus, vertigo, migraines, and in one case nerve damage requiring steroid treatment. The court's reasoning was that novel technology does not escape proportionality review. So the general question is settled: the devices exist, police own them, and a federal appeals court has held their use can be excessive force. The Denver question is answered differently by the public record. The largest adjudicated case of Denver police force against citizens is Epps v. City and County of Denver, where a federal jury awarded $14 million in March 2022, upheld by the Tenth Circuit in April 2026 at $14.75 million. The force documented there was shotgun rounds, flash-bang grenades and chemical agents. Acoustic devices are not part of that record. One property matters for anyone trying to