Oracle’s Force Majeure Reveals the AI Bubble’s First Real Crack

 The AI data center buildout is the largest speculative bubble in human history, and now we have the first visible crack in the facade. Oracle has invoked force majeure on Project Jupiter, its $18 billion Stargate data center campus in New Mexico, and the financial press is finally admitting what I've said all along: this thing is coming apart at the seams.

According to TechCrunch, "Oracle has sent a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, a Stargate data center campus in New Mexico", a move that allows the company to delay payments if the facility misses its milestones. That's not a minor construction hiccup. That's a multi-billion-dollar hyperscaler telling its financing partners that the underlying project may never function as promised.

The project's loans are already trading at a discount. Reports indicate the $18 billion in debt behind this facility is trading at roughly 88 to 90 cents on the dollar, a clear signal that lenders are pricing in a meaningful chance of default. When debt trades below par in a supposedly booming sector, the bond market is telling you something the cheerleaders on CNBC refuse to say out loud. I've said for months that the AI buildout is being financed with Enron-style off-balance-sheet vehicles, and now we're watching that architecture start to buckle. This is not a blip. This is the beginning of the unwind.

We are now witnessing the moment the AI narrative collides with physical reality. You can print dollars. You can spin press releases. You cannot conjure electrons, pipelines, permits, or transformers out of thin air. Oracle just discovered that the hard way, and I believe the rest of the industry is about to follow....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1286

 

Your Natural Sleep Remedy

 For anyone who’s struggled to get a full night of deep, restorative sleep, you know how exhausting it can be to spend your nights tossing and turning, only to greet the morning in a fog. And perhaps you’re beginning to notice that it’s affecting more than your energy. It can ruin your mood, contribute to weight gain, cloud your focus, and generally make life less enjoyable.

You’re far from alone. An estimated two-thirds of adults worldwide aren’t getting the recommended eight hours every night. And while there’s no shortage of sleep aids promising better rest, there’s something deeply important we often overlook: The quality of our sleep isn’t determined by one thing alone. It’s influenced by our lifestyle, diet, gut health, and more. That’s why the best remedy is often a holistic one.

Think of your body as a garden. When a flower struggles to bloom, we care for it with curiosity. Does the soil need nourishment? Is it getting enough sunlight? Does it need more water or perhaps a little room to breathe? Your body deserves that same loving attention. By tending to what may be out of alignment, you can begin cultivating the conditions for your body to naturally fall asleep and wake up refreshed....<<<Read More>>>...

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Lord Christopher Monckton: “The CO2 storyline has purely been the pretext which they are using in order to establish a global government” (2015)

 In 2015, Lord Christopher Monckton exposed that, since the early 1990s, the “evidence” for anthropogenic climate change has been spurious. He also explained the real agenda behind the climate change alarmist narrative.

“This entire process of saying there is a global problem that requires the West to shut down itself and to subsidise the rest of the world is a double whammy … They’ve been trying to achieve this at the UN for a long time,” he said.

“Only four years after the IPCC had been set up … already, the UN was planning to use [climate change] as a way of making itself into a global government … The CO2 storyline has purely been the pretext which they are using in order to establish a global government.” 

 

To be able to establish a One World Government, “They had to say there was a global problem and only global action can solve it. That’s why they chose CO2,” he said....<<<Read More>>>....

The Book of Enoch Says Certain Humans Are Guarded by Something Older Than Angels — And Names It

 

The Book of Enoch, an ancient text excluded from most Bibles yet directly referenced in the New Testament, describes a mysterious figure called the Son of Man, also named the Elect One, who existed before creation itself. 👁️🌌 In chapter 48, Enoch writes that this figure's name was spoken "before the sun and the signs were created, before the stars of heaven were made," placing him earlier than the angels themselves, who were understood to be part of that same created order. ⭐⛔ The text goes further, describing exactly what this pre-existent being does for the righteous: "He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay themselves and not fall," a guardian and support chosen and "hidden before Him, before the creation of the world." 🛡️📖 Scholars have long noted how closely this figure parallels later Christian descriptions of the Son of Man, making it one of the most studied ideas in the entire text. 🔍 In this video, we break down exactly what Enoch says about this being, grounded entirely in the ancient text itself.

From The Ridiculous To The Sublime - BBC Slammed Over Claim That Bare Fingernails Are “Racist and Classist”

 And this is from the gang of commie dictators who still demand everyone pays for TV licence to finance their bilge!!

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The BBC has been slammed after publishing a piece arguing that the popular “bare-looking” manicure trend is rooted in racism, classism and “white supremacy”. GB News has more.

The article explored the growing demand for minimalist fake nails and has been seen as an attempt to politicise personal beauty choices.

Accusations that the broadcaster was pushing a “woke Left-wing agenda” through such content quickly gained traction online, with critics dismissing the piece as absurd and divisive.

The BBC’s article featured an interview with Paloma Buddemeier, owner of Wumman Spa in London, who described how clients were increasingly requesting natural-looking artificial nails inspired by a “quiet luxury” aesthetic trending on social media.

The piece went on to argue that nail art has historical ties to black, Latino and Asian communities, and that the elevated status now afforded to the pared-back style risks stigmatising bolder manicures.

Beauty journalist Kristina Rodulfo said that the minimalist trend amounted to both classism and racism.

She told the BBC: “That trend really promotes blankness and this kind of sameness and erasure of culture and identity that is so important to black and brown communities.”

Rodulfo further argued that such styles “are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty”....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1285

 

Prepping For A Cashless Control Grid How Digital Currency Becomes Digital Control

 The quiet disappearance of cash is not a convenience story but a shift toward money that can be watched, frozen, and programmed—and most people, the author argues, will notice only after the exit is gone.

Writing on ZeroHedge, Milan Adams of Preppgroup says the change is not arriving with a midnight law. It is arriving transaction by transaction. “We are not approaching a cashless society.

We are sleepwalking into it,” he writes. Central bank digital currencies—the digital euro, a possible digital dollar, and China’s already running digital yuan—are not just faster payments, he contends. They would recast the relationship between citizen and state so that every purchase is logged and every economic choice depends on permission.

Adams says this is written policy, not rumor. The Bank for International Settlements, which coordinates central banks, has said CBDCs will enable “programmable money”—currency that can be limited by time, place or purpose.

The European Central Bank’s digital euro plan would cap offline payments at small amounts; larger transfers would need a live network and identity checks. The Federal Reserve’s FedNow system, launched in July 2023, built the rails for instant digital payments that could later support a U.S. CBDC....<<<Read More>>>...

Memory Lane - "Black Swan Cygnets"

STRANGER POND CANBERRA 

 

Today’s extremists are not on the political right; they are on the radical left

 A few days before a record 781 illegal immigrants arrived on Britain’s shores from across the Channel, Matt Goodwin highlighted how “hyper-liberals,” meaning radical left-wing die-hards who support mass illegal migration, are the real extremists of our age.

The real extremists are not the ordinary men and women who want secure borders, controlled immigration and sensible energy policy, as the establishment wants us to believe. The real extremists are “hyper-liberals.”

“That’s not me saying it,” Goodwin writes; it was in an article published by The Times.

Hyper-liberals like Angela Merkel, not the populist right, are the real extremists of our age. That’s not me saying it. It’s The Times columnist Matthew Syed, who in an important article this weekend revealed just how quickly the debate is moving towards the arguments many of us have been making for years, and our readers.

Syed, who explicitly describes himself as a liberal [left-wing], makes an argument that would have been considered unthinkable in polite society only a few years ago....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1284

 

Cancellation Took a Heavy Toll on My Mental Health – That’s Why Burnham’s New Ministry of Truth Terrifies Me

According to a new survey of Free Speech Union members, being cancelled takes a heavy toll on your mental health. It’s not just ‘holding people to account’. It can cause severe depression, even suicide. From the Mail:

According to a recent report by Big Brother Watch, a civil liberties group, between 34 and 40 people a day are being arrested for speech crimes, including making risque jokes. Only about 20% are found guilty, but those who aren’t risk having a ‘non-crime hate incident’ recorded against their name. The police are logging about 65 of those a day.

But it’s about to get worse. In a speech at the United Nations on Tuesday, Andy Burnham unveiled a new surveillance unit – the National Centre for Information Defence – designed to “stem the poisonous tide” of disinformation. The Prime Minister identified Russia as the biggest threat, but the agency, dubbed Labour’s ‘Ministry of Truth’, will soon start spying on the domestic population.

By my count, this new centre takes the total number of shadowy Whitehall bodies monitoring our speech to 10. Anyone posting something intemperate on social media about, say, the small boats or drag queen story hour, could well find themselves up before a magistrate or put through a disciplinary process at work.

In 2020, I set up the Free Speech Union (FSU) to protect people who get into trouble for ‘wrongthink’ and we’ve now fought over 6,500 cases – the tip of the iceberg.

But what is not often talked about is the mental health toll that cancellation takes on its victims. To this end, I welcomed the opportunity to collaborate with two clinical psychologists – Carole Sherwood and Andrew MacLeod – on a survey about the psychological impact of being cancelled. Of the 255 victims in their study – all people the FSU has helped – 80% said their mental health had been adversely affected, with 27% reporting they’d had to take medication as a result.

Even more alarming, 20% put themselves in the most severe depression category.

This comes as no surprise. The wellspring of the idea for the FSU came from my own experience of being cancelled in 2018. …<<<Read More>>>....

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The Sumerian Tablet That Describes What Enki Told the Species That Was Here First

 

Cutting Sweet Foods Doesn’t Curb Cravings or Improve Health, Trial Finds

A six-month randomized controlled trial found no significant differences in sweet taste preference or health markers among participants assigned to high-, low-, or average-sweetness diets, according to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

The trial was conducted by researchers at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands and Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom. Researchers said the results raise questions about public health advice that encourages reducing sweet-tasting foods to combat obesity.  

"People have a natural love of sweet taste which has led many organizations, including the World Health Organization, to offer dietary advice on reducing the amount of sweetness in our diets altogether," said Katherine Appleton, professor of psychology at Bournemouth University and corresponding author for the study. "However, our results do not support this advice, which does not consider whether the sweet taste comes from sugar, low-calorie sweeteners, or natural sources." ...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1283

 

The world is just enough: Ursula von der Leyen goes Bond villain

Leave it to a German to get EU-Europe properly encircled

As a historian who also happens to be German, that was my spontaneous reaction to Ursula von der Leyen's annual grand - and always grandiloquent - "state of the union" address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

It's not really a "union," of course, and not really a "parliament," either: technically, the EU is a confederation messed up by the ideological construct of "supranationalism"; and the parliament has no independent legislative power, but let's not dwell on the obvious.

At the head of her Commission (read: over-reaching Central Committee) of career bureaucrats, von der Leyen is the unelected de-facto leader and personification of the Frankenstein wanna-be-super-state that has long gobbled up idealistic dreams of European unity.

Once, those dreams may have been about democracy, sovereign equality, prosperity for all, and peace. But real-existing EU-Europe is very different: the European dream has come true as a nightmare, dominated by a smug and self-empowered globalist establishment, thoroughly insulated from popular participation, economically stagnant and crisis-prone, as well as unequal, and ever more militarist.

When von der Leyen boasted that, in effect during her tenure, EU-Europe had become "stronger" and "more independent," while "securing its prosperity" and increasing armament spending "by 80% in the last five years alone," only the last point bore any resemblance to reality, as the preponderant majority of the over 450 million EU citizens - really subjects - experience it.

But there is no misery a Eurocrat worth her (or his!) salt cannot make worse.

Now von der Leyen seems hellbent to take the worst of bad old German traditions to a whole new, all-EU level. As is well-known from the history of the last two world wars, Germany not once but twice first deftly maneuvered itself into being surrounded by (mostly) enemies and then lost, the first time crushingly, the second one even worse, in fact so badly it took a short half-century (and much Russian good will, as it happens) to put the country together again....<<<Read More>>>....

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Does Britain Have a Free Speech Problem?

 When Keir Starmer visited the White House in February 2025, J.D. Vance used the occasion to raise what he called “infringements on free speech” in Britain. Our then Prime Minister, sitting a few feet away in the Oval Office, was having none of it. “We’ve had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom,” he said, “and it will last for a very, very long time.” He added that he was “very proud of our history there”.

Was Sir Keir right to dismiss those concerns? I want to answer that question not with anecdotes, of which I have a great many, but with numbers....<<<Read More>>>...

The Anunnaki Tablet That Says Certain Humans Carry a Mark — And It Activates at a Specific Age

 

 

 

Babylonian clay tablets describe humanity as a engineered species built from divine blood, carrying an inherited component that does not fully express itself at birth. Ancient diagnostic systems were built to identify who carried it most strongly, and at what age it activated. Modern epigenetics has now discovered gene sequences in the human genome that sit dormant for years and switch on at biologically predetermined moments. The architecture described in thirty-seven hundred year old cuneiform and the one measured in UCLA laboratories in two thousand thirteen are structurally identical.

Bill Gates Warns AI Powerful Enough to Lead to ‘a Billion Deaths’

 Demon Bill is at it again. Supposedly. Scaremongering prior to a planned event. Demon Bill, the front person and public face of the satanic parasites ... likes to scare the useless eaters .... if it is indeed Bill Gates. More than likely not. When the current 'Bill Gates' is compared to photographs of the real Bill Gates ... there is no similarity. Foil hats have warned for years that the real Bill Gates is deceased and what we see is not Bill Gates. Demon Bill is a plant, clone or bad actor ...

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence is already powerful enough to trigger events that could kill a billion people—joining a growing line of tech leaders sounding the alarm on existential risk.

“AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths,” Gates said in an excerpt of an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, scheduled to air this weekend. “There’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools.”

The remarks land as Silicon Valley’s own ranks have grown louder. Jacob Coxon, a staffer at Anthropic, quit earlier this month and accused both Anthropic and OpenAI of “gambling with our lives” by “racing toward super-intelligent AI.” Another Anthropic employee said he sees a greater-than-10 percent chance that AI wipes out humanity within a decade.

Those warnings have pulled a long, bitter debate into the open and produced public demands for stronger safeguards. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for a slowdown in development, a stance quickly backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk.


Gates said industry self-policing will not suffice. “You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like,” he said. “And that has to be a required thing." ...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1282

 

Your kidneys need these drinks: What science says about hydration and organ health

Water remains the gold standard for kidney health, with experts recommending enough fluids to produce pale yellow urine.

Unsweetened cranberry juice may help prevent kidney stones and urinary tract infections due to its antioxidant content.

Citrus juices like orange and lemon provide citrate that can neutralize stone-forming acids.

Coffee and green tea are linked to lower risk of chronic kidney disease when consumed without added sugar.

Sugar-sweetened beverages, dark colas and energy drinks can increase kidney disease risk and should be limited.

Every day, the kidneys filter roughly 50 gallons of blood, removing waste, balancing minerals and maintaining blood pressure. Yet millions of Americans unknowingly consume beverages that undermine this vital organ. With kidney disease affecting an estimated 37 million U.S. adults—and many more at risk due to diabetes and hypertension—understanding which drinks support rather than stress the kidneys has never been more critical. New research published in 2025 and 2026 offers clearer guidance on what to sip and what to skip for optimal kidney function...<<<Read More>>>>..

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Retardageddon: Why the Collapse of Reason Is the End of the World as We Know It

 I have spent my adult life building things that work: laboratories, clean food supply chains, AI research engines, and independent media platforms that millions of people rely on every single day. From that vantage point as an informed builder, I refuse to pretend that what I am watching unfold right now across America and the broader West is normal. I'm not witnessing a temporary rough patch in politics or a cyclical economic downturn. I am witnessing the terminal stage of a civilizational cognitive collapse, and I believe the real existential threat facing humanity is not simply nuclear war, geoengineering, or even rogue AI. It is something far more fundamental: the mass inability of modern populations to ponder and embrace the future repercussions of their present-day actions.

I call this Retardageddon. The word is deliberately blunt because the phenomenon demands bluntness. Retardageddon is what happens when a society loses the cognitive capacity to think past the coming weekend, the next paycheck, or the next TikTok video. It is a world in which living for "the now" is celebrated as enlightenment when it is actually a civilizational suicide pact signed by people who do not even realize they are holding the pen. Once a population can no longer reason about consequences, no election, no policy reform, and no technological breakthrough can save it from what follows...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1281

 

Writing Your Story

 Everyone, at one time or another, has wanted to express their own story. Writing a memoir to read privately, share with family or friends, or publish is an emotionally satisfying way to gain perspective on your experiences while sharing your unique voice. We’ve all experienced feelings and events in our lives that we are longing to write down. Giving in to that urge can give you an outlet for purging any frustration, anxiety, or long-dormant feelings. No one else has to read it. You may even want to write your story without reading it right away. If you want to share it, reading your story to others can help meet your need to be heard.

Satisfying the desire to tell your story isn’t predicated on your writing ability. It does, however, take effort to write down the truth in detail. Your memories, captured on paper as descriptive scenes, sights, sounds, and scents, may at first seem disconnected or incomplete. But rest assured that you have the ability to shape your recollections into stories. This process can also help you understand your life experiences. And when you finish writing, you may be surprised by what you’ve accomplished. Your story can encompass as much or as little of your life as you like. You may be surprised by new insights or find yourself exploring your roots, your identity, and your future through your words. Allow your writing to guide you, and write as truthfully as possible. Don’t worry about what others will think of your personal journey, your style of writing, or your words.

Research has shown that writing a personal narrative filled with feelings and perceptions can create long-term health benefits. As you write, remember to have compassion for yourself, particularly when writing about traumatic events. If you are a young person, you can add to your life story as you grow older. Your writing may help family members know you better, or they may understand themselves more through reading about your experiences. More importantly, you’re expressing yourself in a permanent way, giving a gift to yourself, and letting your voice be heard. (Daily OM)

Who Was Here Before Us? 5 Ancient Roads That Don't Make Sense

 

 

From above, it looks like a railway yard. Dozens of tracks, crossing and curving through solid rock. But there are no rails here. No trains. No station. This is Malta, and these tracks come from a world thousands of years before trains. Some climb ridges. Some plunge off cliffs. Some run into the sea. 

 And nobody knows why. 

Across four continents, there are roads that go where no road should. A path one plank wide, chiseled into a Chinese mountainside by a monk who planned to become immortal. A highway of buried water jars, 250 miles long, aimed at a kingdom no map has ever shown. A paved track that let warships sail across dry land. And a road wider than a modern highway, found by NASA beneath nine centuries of sand that ends at the edge of a canyon. 

These are the five most mysterious ancient roads. Every one of them still leads somewhere. 

No one agrees where…

“Implausible” Met Office UK Climate Projections Still Whipping up Unjustified Net Zero-Convenient Fear

 Five months after the IPCC ruled that the infamous RCP8.5 computer scenario responsible for most mainstream climate doomsday copy over the last 15 years was “implausible”, what news can I bring you of the Met Office’s UK Climate Projection 2018 report (UKCP18) that based its predictions on the now cancelled modelling nonsense? Good news: the Met Office immediately withdrew UKCP18 with a fulsome apology for all the harm caused. Everything from the compromised geography A level syllabus to numerous Net Zero rules and regulations that relied on its claims have been withdrawn pending future alteration. Sorry, I must have dropped off for a moment and started dreaming. Of course, the report has not been withdrawn; of course, no apology has been forthcoming, and of course, UKCP18 is still up to all its old tricks.

On June 23rd, the Met Office produced a weather forecast for 2055 showing how the summer temperature in England under a “plausible” computer model scenario could hit 45°C along with nine consecutive days where 40°C was recorded somewhere in the country. Not bad going in 30 years, given that the UK temperature ’record’ of 40.3°C produced on July 19th 2022 by the runway at RAF Coningsby was somewhat challenged in its veracity by the fact that Typhoon jets were attempting to land at the time. The claimed record was a 60-second 0.6°C spike and over a five-minute average – recommended by the World Meteorological Organisation to reduce ‘noise’ – the temperature fell below the magic, headline-grabbing 40°C....<<<Read More>>>>...

Image of the Day - "Ceann scríbe turasóireachta cáiliúil"

 

ASHNESS BRIDGE CUMBRIA UK

Busloads of migrants harass and intimidate native Britons in Essex; Private security guards are hired to protect women and girls

 Reform-run Essex County Council has had to deploy private security guards in Braintree, Colchester and Chelmsford to address reports of male migrants intimidating residents and harassing schoolgirls.

Every Thursday, the UK government offloads a shipment of illegal migrants into the town centre, making the area a no-go zone for women and girls.

The women and parents’ concerns are not unfounded. It seems many are waking up to the threat that these foreign men from foreign cultures pose to British natives. Yet the Government continues to import these men into the UK, regardless of the associated security threat to citizens, taxpayers and residents....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1280

 

When We’re Feeling Anxious

 

So many of us are feeling dysregulated right now — especially as we experience the financial pinch, navigate emotional struggles, and witness unprecedented collective events unfolding around us. It’s only natural that anxiety would find its way in. But what might happen if, alongside everything that feels difficult, we intentionally turned our attention toward the small things that help bring us back to center?

Take a moment to reflect. Have there been pockets of goodness in your life? Maybe you’ve gotten some much-needed time away from work. Perhaps you’ve tried a new recipe, enjoyed a meal around the table with people you love, or eaten at your favorite restaurant. Maybe you’ve begun taking care of yourself in new ways and adopted some helpful wellness practices.

Life can be hard and beautiful at the same time, and part of caring for ourselves is learning to notice both. We may not always have control over what is happening around us. But we can choose how we meet this moment. And sometimes, tending to our mental health begins with something very small: seeing what nourishes us, appreciating what is here, and taking one small step toward greater groundedness, harmony, and well-being....<<<Daily OM>>>...

Who are the Archons - The Rulers of the Cosmos in Gnosticism & their Origins in Cosmology and Magic

 

 

 

Gnosticism is infamous for its conception of the cosmos as the creation of the satanic Demiurge. But along with this entity is a retinue of demonic cosmic powers or Archons that act as co-creators and wardens of this prison universe. Join me as I explore the origins, nature and function of the Archons. From their terrible origins as primeval excretions of the Demiurge, to their dreadful creation of the human physical and psychical body - even a renegade Archon that defied the Demiurge and is even said to have created Jesus Christ. The Archons are an often overshadowed aspect of Gnosticism. Let's trace their origins in the demonization of Yahweh, the Cosmic Daimons and Greco-Egyptian Magic.

Why the Renewable Energy Transition is Doomed to Fail

 Politicians make many grand claims for renewable energy. But simple arithmetic shows the 'energy transition' is doomed to fail, says Richard Lyon, whose new book, The Energy Trap, is out today.

Every reader of this site knows the moment. You’re three sentences into a reasonable question about energy policy, the cost of it, the pace of it, whether anyone has actually done the sums, and someone says the word. Denier. The conversation is over. You have been moved from the category of people with an argument into the category of people with a condition.

The word works because the fight until now has been staged on climate science, and that’s ground the other side owns: the journals, the institutions, the broadcasters, the referee and his whistle. It doesn’t matter what you know about physics or engineering or just common sense. Question the models and you have diagnosed yourself.....<<<Read More>>>... 

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The Era of Token Abundance Is Coming

 I have spent years steeped in the artificial intelligence industry, and I have come to a conclusion that will sound strange to most people: I want the AI data-center speculative investment bubble to burst. I am rooting for it. Not because I hate AI -- I love AI and use it every single day to build books, illustrate courses, and run research swarms. I want it to burst because the collapse of this speculative frenzy is the fastest path to token abundance for ordinary people.

Token abundance means cheap, local, high-intelligence AI running on hardware you actually own, sitting in your home or office, answering to you and no one else. That is the future I am working toward, and as I have said before, machine intelligence has become an undeniable force in our world. The question is not whether AI arrives, but whether it arrives as a centralized, subscription-based tool of Big Tech, or as a decentralized, locally owned utility that gives power to the people.

The AI investment bubble is what stands between us and that future. It is temporarily making the hardware we need -- GPUs, RAM, storage -- absurdly expensive. It is strangling the consumer market in order to feed the data centers that the big players insist are the only way forward. So yes, I believe the fastest path to consumer access is for this bubble to collapse under its own greed...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1279

 

The REAL conspiracy theories

 We underestimate neo-Marxist ideologues (“woke”) at our peril. “Woke” people are hypocritical, irrational and dangerous because they reject logic, approve suppression of dissent, and support the Great Reset and vaccination.

On the plus side, because of their support for vaccination and rushing off to get the latest version, they will eventually kill themselves off.

Among the woke are staff at corporate media organisations, who most likely believe the nonsense they spout. As such, Dr Coleman asserts that employees of corporate media and major internet companies, such as the BBC, Google, and Facebook, are the real “conspiracy theorists” because they hold false beliefs about government, public health, climate change and global institutions....<<<Read More>>>...

Is Our History A Lie? World's Fairs, Orphan Trains & Lost Records

 

 

 

"Why would you build something that magnificent just to destroy it?" 

 

They built a city of domed palaces and towering halls, then tore it down in just a few years. In this episode, I dig into the strange, forgotten story behind America's World's Fairs and ask why these wonders of the world were demolished so fast.

The Art of Being Here

 Mindfulness has become one of the defining buzzwords of modern self-care, yet its true meaning often gets lost in the noise of wellness trends. Strip away the app subscriptions, the aesthetic meditation cushions, and the jargon, and you are left with a practice that is radically simple: paying attention to what is happening right now, on purpose, and without judgment.

At its core, mindfulness is an active choice to anchor your awareness in the present. It means noticing the swift, subtle thoughts drifting through your mind without getting swept up in their stories. It means tuning into the physical sensations in your body — the tension in your shoulders or the rise and fall of your breath. In daily life, it manifests as total presence: engaging completely in the conversation you are having or giving your full, undivided focus to the task resting in front of you...<<<Read More>>>...

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Why are 20% of male cattle in America producing milk?

 Male counterparts to heifers and cows, as a rule of thumb, aren’t evolutionarily designed to produce milk from their teats. Neither are human males.

Yet, as Benjamin Bartee describes below, through the use of chemicals and hormones, both male cattle and human men are defying God’s natural order. The cattle have been given no choice. Men, however, are wilfully rebelling.

For years, smug corporate media twinks, the ones who read teleprompter propaganda for their paymasters in full makeup for a living and can’t rightly condescend to anyone, scoffed condescendingly as – from a place of simultaneous total ignorance of actual biology yet full confidence in the talking points they’d been fed, a combination of attributes unique to such sock-puppets of the ruling class – they ridiculed Alex Jones for claiming that agricultural runoff leaching into the tap water was “turning the freaking frogs gay.”...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1278

 

More Nonsense From the People’s Emergency Briefing

In the deluded world of the People's Emergency Briefing, power from "sun and wind" is "free", even though it needs endless subsidies! Paul Homewood continues his fact check of the latest nonsense from the climate brigade.

Audiences up and down the country have been watching the People’s Emergency Briefing, the film launched 10 months ago to great fanfare. The emergency, if you did not guess, is the so-called ‘climate crisis’.

The section on energy, for instance, was presented by Tessa Khan, Executive Director at Uplift, an advocacy organisation set up to “create a rapid and fair transition away from oil and gas production in the UK”. Uplift is funded by the usual Green Blob, notably the notorious European Climate Foundation.

Tessa is not an energy or economics expert. She has no qualifications or experience whatsoever in the subject. She is an environmental lawyer.

Her pitch was to blame high energy prices on the cost of gas and other fossil fuels. She points out that “the UN Fuel Poverty Coalition states there are now more than 12 million households across the UK who are struggling to pay their energy bills” and claims that the evidence is clear that an energy system powered by renewables will be more affordable.

She is wrong. Our energy, or more precisely our electricity, bills are some of the highest in the world not because of fossil fuels but because of the high cost of renewables...<<<Read More>>>...

The 1988 Book That Turned Magick Into Physics

 

 

 

In February 1988, a man named Steven Mace placed five copies of his new book on a shelf in a New Haven bookstore. On the cover was a Feynman diagram — the schematic physicists use to map how subatomic particles exchange force. The book argued that sorcery operates on the same mechanics. That same day, Richard Feynman died. 

 

The book was called Sorcery as Virtual Mechanics. It did something no magical tradition had ever managed: it turned magick into physics. Not metaphor — mechanism. The framework that followed connects virtual photons, Jung’s documented synchronicities, and the chaos magick of Austin Osman Spare into one operational pattern. 

 

This is the physics of the impossible — or at least, the closest thing magick ever had to a mechanism.

When You’re Feeling Despair

 Anyone who has walked through the valley of despair and come out the other side knows that even in darkness, seeds of light can be found. Often their tendrils reach out of the gloom and into the daylight alongside the journeyer who emerges from that deep sorrow. When we find ourselves in a place of despair, it can help to know this so we don’t give up. We can stop, take a deep breath, and realize that somehow we will find ourselves on the other side of this troubled time — and that we may even emerge with something new to offer.

Despair has been around for as long as humans have been able to express themselves, and many of the great artists, teachers, and visionaries have labored through times of depression and hopelessness. Their words, images, and lives can serve as beacons in the darkness, even if they can’t always immediately lead us out. In the end, we must find our own way, and this is why despair often overwhelms us when it comes; we doubt that we have the resources to contend with such a formidable presence all by ourselves. This is when we must come to our own aid and know in our hearts that we have what it takes to keep moving forward in the general direction of the light.

Even though we must ultimately rely on ourselves, that doesn’t mean we can’t ask for help. Our friends and family can assist us, as can our inner guides and helping spirits. They can serve the purpose of a fire that burns throughout the night, keeping us warm and providing a light for us to see the changes we may need to make in order to move forward. In addition, there truly are seeds of light inside us, however small, waiting to unfurl their shoots, if only we will give them the time. (Daily Mail)

Food for Thought #1277

 

The AI takeover – tick, tick, tick: Nearly half of young people trust AI over a human for fact-checking, report says

 Not just the young people in truth. All around me at work, colleagues use Copilot and A.I Chat Bots on a daily basis. I don't and I get criticised and ridiculed for not using A.I to enhance and write reports. Not a chance ... I know where A.I is leading; they are too brainwashed and ignorant to realise what a hazardous enemy they are dabbling with.

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Nearly half of young people trust artificial intelligence over a human to check a fact, according to a new report.

A Public First survey of more than 4,000 people aged 11 to 24 in England also found young men were even more likely to trust an AI tool over a person.

The survey was included in a report by historian Sir Anthony Seldon and tech entrepreneur Tim Bunting, which warned pupils may no longer see school as a “legitimate use of their time” if the education system undervalues AI.

The report claims England’s education system is trying to teach for an “AI-less world that no longer exists”, despite the majority of young people – nearly 87% – having experience using an AI tool.

“Education has not kept pace with how – and how much – young people are already using AI, and that gap is starting to show up as a loss of perceived value in the institution itself,” the report said.

“That is a very dangerous place to find ourselves in. In the absence of a robust, human response to AI in education, young people are placing their trust in AI.”

The survey, carried out last month, indicated less than 10% of young people believe schools and universities are preparing them for a world with AI.

The report warned the “legitimacy” of the education system is at risk while schools and universities “behave as if AI were a temporary contaminant to be fenced off”.

It said institutions will “look less like a serious preparation for life and work, and more like a protective fiction”, adding “parents and students will start to question the requirements of the system”....<<<Read More>>>...

 

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Acoustic Levitation: Lost Ancient High Technology

 

 

Acoustic levitation might explain how ancient civilizations moved massive stone blocks using nothing but sound.

The People’s Emergency Briefing is a Pack of Nonsense

More doom and gloom for The Pantomime and those of the human sheeples who have not yet woken up to the BS that is around us all.

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The People's Emergency Briefing, with Chris Packham and other celebrities pushing the 'climate crisis', is showing to audiences around the UK. Paul Homewood looks at its 'expert briefings' and finds a pack of nonsense.

Audiences up and down the country have been watching the People’s Emergency Briefing, the film launched 10 months ago to great fanfare. The emergency, if you did not guess, is the so-called ‘climate crisis’.

The 50-minute film features a mix of briefings by experts, interspersed with video footage of weather disasters and reactions from celebrities such as Jennifer Saunders. It has been produced to appear as if it is an official Government briefing, complete with Covid press briefing style podiums. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it is fronted by the BBC’s favourite eco-activist, Chris Packham.

The choice of film distribution is a curious one, given that those behind it want their message spread far and wide. It is not available by download, nor on channels such as You Tube. Instead, it can only be viewed at specially organised screenings. The organisers clearly don’t want people to have the time and space to carefully examine the claims made and question them. Instead, it is all about ‘group emotion’. Each screening is even followed by a ‘structured discussion’....<<<Read More>>>....

Food for Thought #1276

 

137 Gut bacteria species linked to sleep quality in landmark study of nearly 7,000 adults

 Researchers analyzed gut bacteria from 6,941 adults and identified 137 bacterial species tied to sleep quality, with more than one-third validated in a separate group.

Lower gut bacteria diversity was associated with poorer sleep quality, later bedtimes and greater mismatch between weekday and weekend sleep schedules.

Diet quality emerged as a key factor connecting gut health to sleep, with healthier eating linked to better sleep and earlier natural bedtimes.

Scientists discovered bacterial compounds called muramyl peptides, produced by gut microbes, can cross the blood-brain barrier and trigger sleep-inducing responses.

The study suggests microbiome-targeted interventions, including probiotics and dietary changes, could potentially improve sleep health...<<<Read More>>>...