# 1674: "Subproject 68 and the Acoustic Masking Trials"

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Podcast: [Interesting Things with JC](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-things-with-jc-5049896)
Published: 2026-06-05T07:00:37+00:00
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Interesting Things with JC #1674: "Subproject 68 and the Acoustic Masking Trials" – A recorded message keeps playing for up to 20 hours a day while psychiatric patients are isolated from competing stimuli, and the same phrase continues repeating thousands of times as researchers attempt to reshape thought itself.

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