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Björnarna (eller "nallarna" som de kallas på text-TV) på Skansen i Stockholm har tydligen vaknat. Ja, de brukar väl göra det efter vintern varje år? Eller? LOL.
Monday, March 16, 2026
Ett meddelande till alla kulturknuttar
Jag antar att ni fattar att ingen, säger ingen, bryr sig om Habermas, va?
The Zen of Disclosure
Damien Echols on UFO disclosure and the Epstein files. Well, I don´t think I agree...
Car crash
Michael Tracey (the leading and perhaps only "Epstein skeptic" in the world) actually posted this himself on his YouTube channel and even self-ironically titled it "CAR CRASH interview". Which seems to be about right...
White as they come
Once, I asked a White supremacist (?) on YouTube if Albanians are White. He denied it.
The picture above shows the Albanian national hero, the Catholic crusader Skanderbeg. Looks White to me...
Sunday, March 15, 2026
Wtf, I love Flint Dibble now
Who the heck is Professor Jiang? Everybody is talking about him right now. Jiang seems to be a Chinese conspiracy theorist. Probably some kind of Alt Right stuff. Apparently, he predicted Trump´s attack on Iran with the help of "game theory". Or was it Hari Seldon´s psycho-history? He actually mentions psycho-history (a concept from Asimov´s science fiction novels) in his YouTube channel presentation. Jiang has also predicted that the United States will eventually lose the war in question.
Debunker Flint Dibble has found some weird videos featuring Jiang´s rather colorful adjacent opinions. For instance that the famous Carthaginian commander Hannibal Barca wasn´t a real person, that Freemasons and Rosicrucians rule the world, that there is no evidence for the Holocaust, or that Jiang himself can somehow communicate with the Divine. He also seems to be doing cold reading on his students?! Elsewhere on-line, I found a video in which the Chinese gadfly seems to be denying the Moon landing.
Flint claims that Jiang isn´t a real professor, but a middle school teacher in Beijing (note, however, that his YT channel is registered in Canada) with an old bachelor´s degree in English literature from Yale. Jiang has millions of subscribers on YouTube, so it´s possible that he isn´t going away any time soon...
Rococo Basilisk
Roko´s basilisk is a silly thought experiment which apparently mind-fucked members of the "Rationalist" on-line community. I don´t know who they are and little motivation finding out. Some kind of autistic tech nerds spinning the usual blend of libertarianism, transhumanism, NRx and other quite irrational bunk?
Roko´s basilisk is obviously inspired by an idea found in certain forms of Christianity. If you never heard the Gospel, you will be saved since not hearing the message wasn´t your fault. However, if you *have* heard the Gospel and reject it, you will go to Hell. In other words, hearing the Gospel might actually *endager* your soul - a rather absurd and paradoxical situation (which logically should make Christians stop all their missionary activity). Roko´s basilisk is *exactly* the same idea but with God replaced by an intelligent machine. Another confirmation that certain atheists are simply constructing a simulacrum of Christianity or theism-in-general. The bizarre ideas about retro-causation are presumably inspired by God´s omnipotence and the fact that He stands outside of Time itself, which perhaps leads to various paradoxes.
And then there are the Zizians...
The Zizians are supposedly an off-shoot of the Rationalist subculture, although it´s difficult to see any obvious connection. They are allegedly a cult preying on vulnerable trans-people, and may be responsible for at least four murders. Apparently, the Zizians claim they can save people from Roko´s basilisk?!
Oookay...
I admit that I completely missed this particular cult/cultic milieu. But yes, I´ve heard of Roko´s basilisk before. Of course, I´m not terribly impressed by these Silicon Valley-adjacent counter-cultures. Still, it´s interesting that some of the biggest pro-AI crazies may be busy actually developing, well, AI. Which makes the entire basilisk scenario a kind of strange self-fulfilling prophecy. Until the real God (or just lack of good ol´ electricity) puts an end to this silliness once and for all!
I have spoken.
I fucking hate science
Apparently, some quantum physicists have proven that objective reality is, well, objectively real. I mean, dude, what a mind job!
It´s shit like this that makes me...I don´t know...hit somebody. Maybe all of QM is bunk? Time for an "objectivist" turn in science, maybe? *Of course* reality is real. Next Q-uestion!
When space opera makes sense
Fun factoid: it actually took me a very long time to realize that "Babylon 5" was heavily indebted to Tolkien, probably because I never read Tolkien´s stories as a child. There are also some nods to C S Lewis (where do you think "Narn" come from?) and maybe even Rudolf Steiner.
This just came up in my YouTube feed the other day, so I decided to link to it for some kind of nostalgic reasons.
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