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Environment diagram with most of the quadrants a lighter gray. The lower-right, expression, quadrant is black with white text.

Reference disciplines include communication, arts, and psychology.

...atrophy...
Maiberg, E. (2025, February 10). Microsoft study finds AI makes human cognition “atrophied and unprepared.” 404 Media. https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/

...experimenting...
Hartanto G, Livesey E, Griffiths O, Lachnit H, Thorwart A. Outcome unpredictability affects outcome-specific motivation to learn. Psychon Bull Rev. 2021 Oct;28(5):1648-1656. doi: 10.3758/s13423-021-01932-x. Epub 2021 May 4. PMID: 33948914; PMCID: PMC8500902.

...learning...
Rugnetta, & Michael. (2025). neuroplasticity. In Encyclopedia Britannica.

Wikipedia contributors. Neuroplasticity. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neuroplasticity&oldid=1287409396

...nonconformist...
Arruda, W. (2023, September 6). Why being A nonconformist is exactly what your company needs from you. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamarruda/2023/09/06/why-being-a-nonconformist-is-exactly-what-your-company-needs-from-you/

EDEN Gallery. Modern art vs classical art: What’s the difference? EDEN Gallery. Retrieved April 30, 2025, from https://www.eden-gallery.com/news/modern-art-vs-classical-art

Kendra Cherry, M. (2013, May 20). What is conformity? Verywell Mind. https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-conformity-2795889

Lo, I. (2018, July 14). Being a non-conformist and the guilt of breaking away. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-emotional-intensity/201807/being-non-conformist-and-the-guilt-breaking-away

McLeod, S. (2022). What is conformity? Definition, types, psychology research. Simply Psychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/conformity.html

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Awry states
...beauty...
Cohen, P. (2013, May 13). Valuable as art, but priceless as a tool to launder money. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/arts/design/art-proves-attractive-refuge-for-money-launderers.html

Edwardes, C. (2024, April 17). ‘The money is not real – it’s a feckless level of wealth’: the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/17/inside-story-of-the-biggest-art-fraud-in-american-history-orlando-whitfield

Wetzler, R. (2018, February 26). How modern art serves the rich. The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/147192/modern-art-serves-rich

...black box...
Bagchi, S. (2023, May 22). What is a black box? A computer scientist explains what it means when the inner workings of AIs are hidden. The Conversation. http://theconversation.com/what-is-a-black-box-a-computer-scientist-explains-what-it-means-when-the-inner-workings-of-ais-are-hidden-203888

Dickson, B. (2020, July 27). The dangers of trusting black-box machine learning. TechTalks - Technology Solving Problems... and Creating New Ones. https://bdtechtalks.com/2020/07/27/black-box-ai-models/

Rudin C. Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models for High Stakes Decisions and Use Interpretable Models Instead. Nat Mach Intell. 2019 May;1(5):206-215. doi: 10.1038/s42256-019-0048-x. Epub 2019 May 13. PMID: 35603010; PMCID: PMC9122117.

Wellstead, Adam & Howlett, Michael & Rayner, Jeremy. (2013). The Neglect of Governance in Forest Sector Vulnerability Assessments: Structural-Functionalism and “Black Box” Problems in Climate Change Adaptation Planning. Ecology and Society. 18. 10.5751/ES-05685-180323.

Wikipedia contributors. Black box. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_box&oldid=1287471069

Wikipedia contributors. Blackboxing. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blackboxing&oldid=1277239697

...learning is considered a dangerous freedom...
“re-education” camps. (2020, October 24). Vietnamese Heritage Museum. https://vietnamesemuseum.org/our-roots/re-education-camps/

Fifield, A. (2017, October 26). New images show North Korea’s extensive network of ‘reeducation’ camps. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/new-images-show-north-koreas-extensive-network-of-re-education-camps/2017/10/25/894afc1c-b9a7-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html

Haitiwaji, G., & Morgat, R. (2021, January 12). ‘Our souls are dead’: how I survived a Chinese ‘re-education’ camp for Uyghurs. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/12/uighur-xinjiang-re-education-camp-china-gulbahar-haitiwaji

Human rights watch - reeducation through labor in China. Hrw.org. https://www.hrw.org/legacy/campaigns/china-98/laojiao.htm

Sullivan, H. (2023, February 15). Thousands of Ukrainian children put through Russian ‘re-education’ camps, US report finds. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/ukraine-children-sent-russia-re-education-camps

U.S. Embassy Tbilisi. (2023, February 23). Russia’s ‘re-education camps’ hold thousands of Ukraine’s children, report says. U.S. Embassy in Georgia. https://ge.usembassy.gov/russias-re-education-camps-hold-thousands-of-ukraines-children-report-says/

Up to one million detained in China’s mass “re-education” drive. (2018, September 24). Amnesty International. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/09/china-up-to-one-million-detained/

US Indian Boarding school history. (n.d.). The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://boardingschoolhealing.org/education/us-indian-boarding-school-history/

...thinking might lead to action...
Keremoğlu, E., & Weidmann, N. B. (2020). How dictators control the internet: A review essay. Comparative Political Studies, 53(10–11), 1690–1703. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414020912278

Santa Clara University. Weaponization of social media by authoritarian states. Scu.edu. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.scu.edu/ethics-spotlight/social-media-and-democracy/weaponization-of-social-media-by-authoritarian-states/

Wikipedia contributors. Techno-authoritarianism. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Techno-authoritarianism&oldid=1285535762

...tools...as weapons...
Condordia. (2019, October 2). Tools & Weapons: The Promise & Peril of the Digital Age. https://youtu.be/oo7q_hwDY9Y?si=HA4_Dlsne8aVLXy_

Smith, B., & Browne, C. A. (2019). Tools and weapons: The promise and the peril of the digital age. Penguin.

The Consilience Project. (2022, June 26). Technology is not values neutral: Ending the reign of nihilistic design. The Consilience Project. https://consilienceproject.org/technology-is-not-values-neutral-ending-the-reign-of-nihilistic-design-2/

Wikipedia contributors. Improvised weapon. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Improvised_weapon&oldid=1278541766