One Big Beautiful Bill: The Pre-Crime Firewall Against the Next Patriot Act

Because the next surveillance state won’t read your messages—it’ll rewrite your mind—hackable humans.

Imagine if your hat could read your mind—like really read it—and then beam those thoughts straight to an ad company that decides you need three air fryers, a dating app for introverts, and socks that tell jokes. That’s kind of where we’re headed with brainwave-reading gadgets that tap into something called LFOs—those low-frequency brain signals that reveal if you're bored, excited, or secretly craving nachos. These wearables can track your emotional state and use it to serve you perfectly timed ads, sometimes without you even knowing. But fear not! Enter the One Big Beautiful Bill—think of it as a legislative bouncer in sparkly shoes, swatting away creepy foreign ad companies trying to sneak into your headspace and sell you things based on your subconscious. It’s Uncle Sam saying, “Hey, no mind control without consent, and no shady foreign data harvesters peeking into our feels!”

You might think this sounds like science fiction—like something out of a Black Mirror episode—but it's not coming; it's already here. As Yuval Noah Harari warned at the World Economic Forum, "humans are now hackable animals,” And he's not wrong. Let me show you just how hackable it is.

In an East London office, brands such as Nike, Bentley, and Mars are utilizing "neuroaesthetics" to enhance their advertising. The technique involves wearing an EEG headset, developed by Kinda Studios, which reads brainwave activity to gauge emotions and display them as swirling colors—yellow for joy, red for anger, blue for sadness, and green for relaxation. This technology acts as advanced consumer research, improving products and environments, including shopping centers and videos. Neuroscientist Erica Warp highlights the significant role of emotions in driving consumer actions and the potential of AI in further analyzing brain data. Brands like Mars have successfully used this technology, achieving improved ad effectiveness.

This isn't just about selling you more candy bars or luxury cars; it's about accessing your subconscious to influence your decisions. The One Big Beautiful Bill steps in here, acting as a legislative safeguard against such invasive practices. It aims to protect citizens from unauthorized mind control and prevent foreign adversaries from exploiting these technologies to manipulate public opinion and behavior.

So, while it may sound like a dystopian fantasy, the reality is that the tools to hack human emotions and thoughts are already in use. It's scary—deeply so—but what's more disturbing is the eerie silence that surrounds it. The truth is, the ability to use low-frequency oscillations (LFOs) to influence or even entrain human cognition and emotional states isn’t some fringe conspiracy—it’s been studied, funded, patented, and now commercialized. And yet, barely a whisper in public discourse. Why?

Because the tools of persuasion are now tools of precision—and they’ve quietly migrated from lab benches into ad agencies, Silicon Valley platforms, defense contracts, and consumer headsets. LFOs interact with brainwave states, such as theta and alpha, which govern memory, attention, and suggestibility. When synchronized through audiovisual stimuli or haptic feedback from wearables (yes, the ones you wear "for your wellness"), they can alter mood, reinforce impulses, and—under certain conditions—amplify compliance.

APPLE INC.

Apple has filed a patent for next-generation AirPods that could monitor brain activity using embedded sensors. This technology involves placing electrodes within the AirPods to measure biosignals such as electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG), and electrooculography (EOG). The system is designed to dynamically select subsets of electrodes to capture accurate readings based on individual user characteristics and conditions.

The patent, titled "Biosignal Sensing Device Using Dynamic Selection of Electrodes," suggests that these AirPods could serve as discreet health monitoring devices, capturing data related to brain activity, muscle movement, eye movement, heart function, and more. This development aligns with Apple's broader interest in integrating health-focused features into its wearable devices.

While the primary aim appears to be health monitoring, the capability to track and analyze brain activity raises questions about potential applications in areas like personalized advertising and user engagement. As such, technologies become more prevalent, discussions around privacy, consent, and ethical use are increasingly important.

One Big Beautiful Bill Firewall

Just as the Patriot Act was framed as a protective measure in the wake of crisis—intended to safeguard citizens but later revealed to enable sweeping surveillance—the integration of brain-monitoring wearables under the guise of health tech carries a similar double edge. While its stated purpose is wellness and safety, the latent power to decode and steer thoughts opens a quiet door to manipulation. What begins as a biometric Fitbit for your brain can easily become a psychological Patriot Act, where the pretext of care masks a structure of control.

These technological advancements also intersect with legislative efforts, such as the "One Big Beautiful Bill," which aims to regulate biometric data collection and protect individuals from unauthorized surveillance and manipulation. As consumer devices gain the ability to monitor neural activity, ensuring robust safeguards and transparent policies becomes essential.

If emotional and psychological manipulation via neurodata is already being used by giants like Nike, Bentley, and Mars—as confirmed by EEG-based advertising campaigns—it’s safe to say we’ve already crossed a major ethical Rubicon. These companies are not engaging in sci-fi speculation; they’re deploying real-time brainwave tracking to assess your mood and reactions and then tailor content that’s engineered to hit your dopamine receptors just right. No jail time, no regulatory reckoning—just better click-through rates.

And this isn’t limited to headsets or flashy labs in East London. Meta, for instance, has long faced allegations of using ambient audio data—your phone’s microphone—to enhance ad targeting. While they publicly deny listening to private conversations, numerous anecdotal experiences (and some academic probes) suggest otherwise. In 2021, a former Facebook employee leaked internal documents indicating that inferred emotional states were being considered as variables for ad optimization. That’s marketing jargon for: “We track how you feel to decide what to sell you.”

Consider this: we now live in a world where your feelings are treated as data points. Your sighs, tone shifts, and even unspoken thoughts—captured through EEG headsets, biometric sensors, and, potentially, your microphone—are turned into behavioral predictions. Companies exploit these signals not just to sell you things, but to shape your worldview subtly and persistently.

This neurotechnology arms race—the use of LFOs, EEG wearables, and biometric surveillance—fits uncannily well into long-standing “super soldier” narratives and even more disturbingly into the quiet, ethically murky ambition to reprogram criminals or the “undesirable” through behavioral brain hacking.

Let’s start with the super soldier angle. Military research dating back to DARPA’s “Cognitive Enhancement” programs has long explored the idea of neurologically enhancing humans, including faster reaction times, reduced fear, improved memory, and hyper-focus. What does all this require? Precision control over neural oscillations—enter LFOs, EEG feedback loops, non-invasive brain stimulation. You don’t need to surgically implant chips when you can achieve neuromodulation through headphones, AR goggles, or wearables already in civilian hands. The same tech brands that used to test how much you liked a sneaker ad can, under a different banner, be used to suppress pain, boost aggression, or sustain vigilance in soldiers. From Call of Duty to classified ops, the overlap isn’t fiction—it’s a blurry continuum.

Conspiracy Theory? The Department of Corrections Is Already Doing It

In the evolving frontier of neurotechnology, one of the more controversial experiments has emerged from programs exploring behavior modification in incarcerated populations. These initiatives, often cloaked in the language of rehabilitation, involve using neural feedback devices and low-frequency stimulation to influence emotional responses and moral decision-making in prisoners. The idea isn’t new—governments have long fantasized about reforming the "criminal mind"—but now, the science has caught up to the fantasy. Trials have explored whether targeted brainwave entrainment or neuromodulation can reduce aggression, enhance empathy, or condition prisoners to associate antisocial behavior with discomfort. What used to be a trope in dystopian fiction—think A Clockwork Orange—is now being applied in real-world facilities under the banner of public safety as a framework for behavioral neuroscience.

While advocates argue this is a breakthrough in reducing recidivism and prison violence, critics point to the ethical minefield: Are we rewiring people’s moral compass or simply zapping them into compliance? The deeper question isn’t whether it works—it’s whether it crosses a line into cognitive coercion. If you can train a brain not to misbehave through electromagnetic conditioning, what’s to stop that same tech from being deployed outside prison walls to engineer "better" citizens? These programs flirt with the possibility that morality itself could be state-managed, enforced not by consequence but by circuitry. And in doing so, they raise a chilling prospect: that in the future, freedom might not be taken away with chains but with a quiet recalibration of your conscience.

Let’s Talk Science

Low-Frequency Oscillations (LFOs) are slow, rhythmic patterns of brain activity that occur within specific frequency bands: delta (0.5–4 Hz), theta (4–8 Hz), and alpha (8–12 Hz). These waveforms are not just background noise—they are foundational to the brain's regulation of consciousness, emotion, and memory. Delta waves dominate during deep sleep and are involved in restoration and unconscious processing. Theta waves are associated with states of deep relaxation, meditation, and the liminal space between waking and sleeping, where the brain is more susceptible to suggestion and open to associative thinking. Alpha waves emerge when a person is calm but alert, often described as the brain's “idling” rhythm, and are prominent during light meditation, creative flow, and pre-sleep drowsiness.