Tobias Hübinette tar kraftigt avstånd från vänsterns anti-semitism. Kan ju bli problem, då...
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Playing hardball?
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Just a few days ago, Venezuela actually won a baseboll world championship by defeating the United States...in Miami?! Oookay...
The art of the crazy
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There are *still* people who think every Trump U-turn is just "the art of the deal", "4D chess", "a deliberate strategy of deception", et cetera. Yeah, I used to think so, too. Say ten years ago. Maybe it was true...back then. Today, I think it´s obvious that The Man has lost it.
Biden was (of course) senile, but Trump seems to be both senile and crazy. Biden´s gaffes could also be countermanded, while nobody seems able to reign in the Donald. The only "positive" thing is that Trump´s madness might - just might - scare somebody. Delcy Rodriguez, perhaps? It certainly seems to have scared the beejesus out of Denmark! By contrast, Biden´s decline made the US look weak. But it seems the Iranian regime is calling the Don´s bluff.
Things might get really colorful from here on. And I don´t just mean the oil prices...
Schizos will schizo
A lot of self-proclaimed Christians are going apeshit over this quote by Netanyahu just now: "Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good." Not only is the quote taken out of context, they double down when this is pointed out to them.
Just another day on the Low IQ Interwebs.
[Added later:] There are also conspiracy theories about Netanyahu having died, including a (perhaps ironic) X account which purportedly tracks his movements to see if he really is dead?! I´m beginning to *really* suffer from Internet fatigue, and I don´t think it has anything to do with my age...
Geezus was a myth, I say
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An intemperate attack by Richard Carrier on some dude. In case anybody is still interested in the Mythicist scene.
Ken Dark on the historicity of Jesus
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Friday, March 20, 2026
What Zelenskyy doing?
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The irony.
>>>Ukraine is using its drone expertise to help Middle East countries against Iran.
>>>Ukrainian officials are helping five Middle Eastern and Gulf countries counter attacks by Iranian drones, while the United States and European countries have requested support, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday.
>>>Ukraine is also looking into whether it can have a role in restoring security in the Strait of Hormuz amid the Iran war, he said.
>>>Ukraine has become a leading producer of cutting-edge, battle-tested drone interceptors that are cheap and effective in defending against Russia’s full-scale invasion. A Ukrainian official said Ukrainian military specialists are operating in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Jordan.
>>>“Our teams are already working with five countries on countering (Iran’s) ‘Shahed’ drones — we have provided expert assessments and are helping build a defense system,” Zelenskyy said on X.b.
Ukraine is using its expertise to aid 5 countries against Iranian attacks
Surprise, surprise
Since Trump clearly has no plan how to secure the Strait of Hormuz, yes, he was surprised by the Strait of Hormuz. So probably no hoax, after all.
CNN is spreading hoax Trump was surprised by Strait of Hormuz
Vad är planen, Donne?
Aftonbladets startsida just nu. Men vad fan. Vad är planen, Donald? Har du någon? Det här ser värre ut än Bushs invasion av Irak. Som USA med ganska stor svårighet lyckades "vinna"...
The G-d particle, dawg
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So I´m watching "Angels and Demons". Again. It´s extremely unrealistic...and yet, very realistic. Which is quite fascinating. But what´s up with the "eternal conflict between Science and Religion"? There is no conflict between Science and Religion. Or should I say Science and Spirit? The whole thing feels so 1600, I mean, sheesh!
That was that, then
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the European Union stopped buying oil and gas from the former. Well, kind of. One long term project has been to replace Russian fossil fuels with Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) from Qatar. It seems these plans are now essentially fucked, after Iran bombed Qatar´s main LNG production facility. Repairs might take up to five years?!
Of course, Qatar´s geopolitical multi-vectoralism might be screwed, as well. If Saudi Arabia and the UAE enters the conflict on the American side, how long can Qatar stay outside it? They have, after all, been attacked. And they also have a rather large US military base on their territory...
As far as I can tell, there are two other major providers of LNG. One is the United States, currently under the control of one Donald J Trump. And the other is...Putin´s Russia. Things don´t look well, to be honest.
Heretics of Dune
I never read Frank Herbert´s "Dune" novels and probably never will. But of course I´m going to opinionate about them and the films anyway. How about that? My blog, my rules.
The story has an anti-imperial(ist) slant. The "spice" is obviously a metaphor for oil. But note that the evil space empire is based on Czarist Russia rather than the United States or the British Empire. And "Dune" was published during the Cold War.
The Fremen are the wretched of the earth, the dark and oppressed masses. Their religion is obviously based on Islam. Paul Atreides is the upper class scion who breaks with his class and becomes a revolutionary leader. Note that both Bakunin and Kropotkin had an aristocratic background. However, Paul´s revolution against the Empire ends with him becoming the new emperor, while his fanaticized followers kills millions across the galaxy in a holy war or jihad. The parallels with the Russian revolution and its subsequent degeneration are obvious. Or with many other revolutions: the French, the Abbasid, and so on.
In other words: the political perspective is "pessimist" and "reactionary".
It´s also interesting to note that both the imperials and the revolutionaries are manipulated backstage by a strange matriarchal cult, the Bene Gesserit. The idea that popular revolutions are really the work of powerful secret societies is not new, of course. It´s a staple of far right conspiracy theory. And while "Bene Gesserit" is supposedly Latin, let´s be honest: everyone thinks it sounds Jewish. Indeed, their goal is to breed an Overman, the famed Kwisatz Haderach (this name is absolutely inspired by Kabbalist Judaism). Note also the sexism: the powerful female witches want to create a Supreme Male!
However, even in this pessimistic story universe, there does seem to be one path to societal change: enlightened despotism. If only the autocrat can acquire quasi-divine powers, the Empire can become an instrument for saving humanity from itself. In the first two novels, Paul can divine the future and therefore knows that the path he has chosen (which leads to the killing of 60 billion people) is nevertheless the lesser evil. In later novels, a descendant of Paul, Leto, becomes a human-sandworm hybrid (the sandworms are a kind of monsters worshipped as divine by the Fremen "Muslims") and after tyrannically ruling the Galaxy for thousands of years makes Humanity fit for freedom. Or something. Or something else. Yeah, well, so about that...
Note also that the Illuminati, pardon, Bene Gesserit have a similar perspective: the Kwisatz Haderach will "shorten the way" to the ultimate goal (note the similarity with the Mule in Asimov´s Foundation trilogy). But apparently this is too fast. Real change we can believe in takes hundreds of generations. Note also the irony that Herbert´s perspective doesn´t really seem that different from the degenerated imperial post-revolutionaries or even the Bene Gesserit. It´s all about elite control and mystical elite transmogrification. A further irony: in Herbert´s story, all religion seem to be obviously phoney, and yet, the "solution" is strikingly "religious" as well.
And yes, "Dune" is considered a classic of science fiction, was a best seller and always got rave reviews in the American media. Hmmm...
Maybe everyone just misunderstood what the story was all about. Right?
Vårdagjämning
Rubrik just nu: "Ljust nu - men snart är tråkvädret tillbaka". Ja, det här är dom problem *vi* har...
LOL.
Spring Equinox
The picture above is AI-generated, but the sky from my location does look more or less like this right now, with a sunset, a crescent and the Evening Star "below" and "to the left" of the Moon. And it´s the Spring Equinox, too!
Fantastic.
The holy war has begun
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So I just watched "Dune: Part Two" from 2024. The film is well-made and interesting after a fashion, but it moved me much less than I had expected. Certain aspects flet dragging. Such as...Chani, Chani and Chani. Did I mention Chani?
This female Fremen warrior constantly tries to sway the main protagonist, Paul Atreides, from fulfilling his dark destiny. And of course fails. The whole thing isn´t just boring. It´s also similar to the Padme-Anakin drama from "Star Wars". Maybe George Lucas got the idea from the "Dune" novels, who knows, but in Hollywood terms, Lucas has the primogeniture. Oh, and Atreides accepts his fate without too much questioning. The choice is grey-grey rather than black-or-white. Again, like Anakin´s choice in "Star Wars".
I never read Herbert´s novels, and probably never will, but I did notice that all other film or TV adaptations of this space opera are extremely colorful and flamboyant, to the point of cringe. Or is it camp? Denis Villeneuve´s style is markedly different. We´re obviously on a desert planet, and part of the film is actually in black-and-white (the gladiator fight). Not even the pseudo-Russian aristocrats look too fancy.
The reactions to "Dune: Part Two" from "Alt Right" trolls on-line were...interesting. Sure, they complained about Chani, but nobody seemed to notice that "Muad´Dib" (i.e. Paul Atreides) is really *the bad guy*. But perhaps the Alt Right really likes the idea of a Muslim jihad destroying the based Space Empire? As long as a *man* is in charge who refuses to listen to His Annoying Girlfriend. LOL. Besides, isn´t Paul (who looks rather whimpish for a Muslim Mahdi) really manipulated backstage by a cultish matriarchal sisterhood?
Funny have people can miss even the most obvious things.
With that, I close this little review.
Lekstuga
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Arktisk uthållighet
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Helt vansinnigt om det nu är sant. Vilket det mycket väl skulle kunna vara...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Och vad är problemet?
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Och vad är problemet? Det är väl bra att ungdomar äter hälsosamt. Och hur korkat är det inte att göra köttätande till en höger-vänster-fråga?
Orkanen
Två korta kommentarer. Ett: Detta verkar motbevisa den västerländska framstegstanken, "historiens slut" och liknande dumheter. Istället har vi en oscillerande rörelse. Två: Tänk om auktoritära populister kommer till makten *eftersom demokratin inte klarar av att lösa samhällsproblemen*? Det betyder inte att auktoritär populism nödvändigtvis är positiv. Men det väcker ju *vissa* obekväma frågor, eller hur?
Mr Breakfast
Here is our man Formscapes again. I commented on "Mr Breakfast" and one of his videos about the GenZ revival before.
>>>Recently (ish) the channel "religion for breakfast" released a video which addressed the "zoomer religious revival" phenomenon. In the video, Mr Breakfast argues that this phenomenon isn't actually occurring, and that the headlines claiming otherwise are all misleading, and presents a decent pile of survey/statistical data which seems to suggest that no such revival is happening.
>>>This, my friends, is a great example of why quantifiable data should never be trusted more than your own eyeballs. Source; my eyeballs. What the statistical data does show is that there had been a very pronounced downward trend in religiosity over the past few decades, and that this downward trend seems to be coming to a halt. But, argues Mr Breakfast, this halt of a downward trend is not a "revival" because there has not been an uptick in church attendance, professed religiosity, conversions, etc... >>>Statistical data is, I ven under the best of circumstances, a sawed-off shotgun among epistemological tools, due to the fact that it is extremely reductive and abstract, and - significantly - because the extent of this glossing is usually not fully clear to people. >>>In this case, what those numbers aren't accounting for is the fact that not all human beings are equal in terms of cultural influence. Among any generation of people, you are going to have a very large majority of people who are just kind of "going with the vibe", and a very small minority of people who are standing on the razor's edge between present and future. The latter are what the kids these days refer to as "main character energy", so I'm told. >>>So if you want to understand the direction a given zeitgeist is headed in, you shouldn't be taking of surveys of everyone as though everyone were equal. You need to look to the "main character energy" people and see what they are doing, bc in very short order, the "just going with the vibe" people will be following along with the trail being cleared by the former. >>>When I - a millennial - was in my late teens and early twenties, all of us "main character" kids were into things like Marxism, new atheism and postmodernism. No statistical study performed in 2008 would have predicted that in 15 years, those ideas would have leaked into every aspect of pop culture. But anyone paying attention could have told you that, bc they could see with their own eyeballs that those were the topics of interest to all of the people of that generation who were undoubtedly going to become novelists, opinion piece writers, screenplay writers and academics in the coming decades. >>>The current religious revival is like that. Look at the people who are suddenly converting to Orthodoxy and Catholicism. They aren't the "go with the vibes" kids. They are the cerebral, autistic nerds who will be novelists, opinion havers, screenplay writers, etc in the next decade or two. >>>Now to be clear, I don't think that this is a good thing - for reasons I'll be getting into in my next unscripted rant video, so stay tuned for that - but it is definitely happening, and that is in fact what the statistical data shows if you have eyeballs with which to see what the statistical data is actually about. >>>Nothing is Hidden™️Original text here:
Förakt
Lustigt att ingen längre använder den gamla klyschan "Det här riskerar att ytterligare spä på politikerföraktet". När slutade vi bry oss om *det*? Och vilka var de egentligen som brydde sig?
Jag menar, de politiska förståsigpåarna använder inte ens "Det här gynnar bara Sverigedemokraterna" längre.
Är det detta som kallas "slow politics"? LOL.
Det spökar
Centerpartiet var lika uträknade som Liberalerna för bara två månader sedan. Vi snackar spökläge fett. Men nu har Birgitta Ohlsson gått över till Centern. Vilket mycket väl kan bli Centerpartiets räddning. Spökar det i svensk politik?
Nu kommer de sista vänster- och mittenliberalerna antagligen att lägga sina röster på Centern snarare än på SAP. Vilket torde komplicera eventuella regeringsförhandlingar inom "vänster"blocket efter valet.
Liberalernas vidare öde verkar däremot rätt så okomplicerat. Tror inte Mohamsson kommer att bli förstatligad skolminister i en SD-inkluderande högerregering...
It was just a dream
A summary of the new documentary "Capturing Bigfoot" which apparently proves once and for all that the famous Patterson-Gimlin film is a hoax. The docu has not yet been commercially released, but it was recently shown at a film festival in the United States. Note that the content-creator linked above *isn´t* a 100% skeptic, which may explain why he sounds so shocked.
I´ve been skeptical towards cryptozoology and cryptids for some time, but it´s still a bit disappointing that the Patterson-Gimlin film has been conclusively debunked (if that´s the case), since that was the best piece of evidence that the elusive hairy man might be real after all.
The world just got more boring.
*Sturnid* signs
Sturnidae is The Sign from Shakti! Meditate on this, ye ov little faith and even lesser understanding.
Till sista andetaget?
Lite lustigt att Simona Mohamsson faktiskt har rätt i den här frågan. Särskilt med tanke på att debattartikeln verkar ha publicerats typ nu. Oerhört fåniga lögner, måste jag säga. Och Stalin fick 99% av rösterna i fria val i Sovjetunionen, eller vad?
Nordic Public Affairs
Ärligt talat är jag skadeglad över den här situationen. Och nej, det har ingenting med SD att göra. Det har mest bara med Liberalerna att göra.
Det finns ett antal hycklande skitpartier som är politiskt onödiga. Liberalerna (som är i koalition med moderaterna) och Centerpartiet (som inte är det) är de främsta exemplen. Jag menar, Liberalerna är så onödiga att inte ens Ulf Kristersson - som är beroende av deras röster för att behålla regeringsmakten - verkar vilja rädda dem!
Observera förresten av två av de tre partiledare som närmat L till SD faktiskt är utomnordiska invandrare...
Geezus.
Signs
So I ask the Divine for a sign, and the answer I get is...the Patterson-Gimlin film is a hoax? WTF?!
2026: Annus horribilis?
Is it all over? No, I´m not talking about Trump, Putin or something to that effect. An American documentary film maker claims to have uncovered previously unknown film reels which strongly suggest that the famous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film was faked. Some family members have apparently confirmed it.
Yuge if true. Or, to put it in another way: Fucking shit. The best evidence for Sasquatch being a real flesh-and-blood animal out of the window. Cryptozoology as a whole is over.
Or is it? Of course it isn´t. The show will continue anyway, somehow. Because the ride never ends. Or something. But for those of us who want the Truth to be Out There (pun intended), 2026 didn´t start off very well, did it?
Wednesday morning?
It´s Wednesday "morning" (actually 2am), so here is a nocturnal pic of our beloved Ganesh again! Note the mouse praying...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
A Lovecraftian take on Lovecraft
Peter Levenda again. A short video arguing that Lovecraft KNEW. Or perhaps didn´t know shit, but subconsciously channeled energies or entities who sure as hell DO KNOW. Of course, this is a common take among occultists. Lovecraft´s horror stories about the Eldritch and their hideous (or rugous?) cults are simply too good, too evocative, not to be believed in. Or you can use the tales to bend Reality. Depending on your level of dark initiation, muh-hah-hah-hah.
No more wars
This is *not* the Finnish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. In fact, it´s not an ESC song at all, but a new version of a classical Euro-disco hit from Moldova. Note the marching Russian (?) female cadets?!
Donald, plz don´t start any new wars over this song, plz plz plz. LOL.
A propos a previous blog post...
Non-luminiferous aether
A new "free energy" paper has just dropped, and Sabine Hossenfelder isn´t terrible impressed. Neither am I. But...note that Zabineh actually says that vacuum might really be a medium, a kind of non-luminiferous aether as it were. Or rather that such an idea isn´t completely "out there" in and of itself.
Are we finally getting somewhere? Bring back pre-Lost Generation science!
Jolly heretics
OK, this was funny. But I won´t link. Uncle Eddie (alias Professor Edward Dutton) just joked that Trump attacked Iran in a fit of anger after watching the Finnish Eurovision qualifying contest. Since the wrong song won.
And no, the Mideast situation isn´t funny at all. But I couldn´t help laughing, since I of course watch the *Swedish* Eurovision qualifying contest. And since the wrong entry always wins, I could start about 50 world wars on that basis alone...
Sources say
Claim: the guy starring the priest in the red robe (who doesn´t say anything) in the famous "Godfather" baptism scene was an actual priest in the Liberal Catholic Church with connections to CIA front operations?!
Source: Peter Levenda, the alleged author of "Simon´s Necronomicon".
Wtf.
The Galilee of Nations
Some ultra-skeptical atheists and other critics of Christianity have long claimed that Nazareth didn´t even exist at the time of Jesus. However, recent archeological excavations there and elsewhere in Galilee confirm that it did indeed exist. Not only that. Nazareth - while small - was relatively prosperous for its day. And it was only a two hour walk from a "real" town, Sepphoris. Richard Carrier (himself an atheist) has the receipts.
Since Carrier is a mythicist, he doesn´t believe that Jesus hailed from Nazareth. Indeed, Jesus didn´t hail from anywhere! Carrier believes that Jesus was originally placed at Capernaum by Christian writers making up his story. However, the supposed prophecy that the Messiah will be called "Nazarene" (or some such term) was later interpreted as a reference to Nazareth being his home town (an exegesis which is impossible on various grammatical grounds).
Interesting, I suppose.
Uppdrag i Katanga
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En närmast surrealistisk rubrik. Men det är faktiskt sant. OK, men hur var det med den där flygkraschen då? Ni vet, Dag Hammarskjöld...
Fuck around, find out
Look what happened when I asked Gemini to generate a picture of Aghora Ganapati, the most terrible form of Ganesha. The only thing missing is the corpse he is supposed to sit on! Dude.
Ishta-devata lost and found?
Maybe I blogged about this before, but in case I never did...
In Hinduism, each individual is ideally supposed to have an "ishta-devata". That is, a deity the individual in question is particularly devoted to. One way of finding the ishta-devata is to let an astrologer cast your Vedic birth chart. It´s a rather complex process which I won´t describe here.
As a little experiment, last summer I asked both ChatGPT and Gemini to analyze my Vedic chart (they couldn´t cast it) and tell me my ishta (that is: my ishta had I been a Hindu). The results were...interesting.
Gemini - which back then was boring and predictable - reached the conclusion that my ishta is either Lakshmi or Gauri (i.e. Parvati), two very safe Hindu goddesses. ChatGPT, by contrast, was the edgy AI and proposed the decidedly less safe Tripura Sundari, a Tantric goddess often associated with the Sri Vidya tradition in southern India. Weirdly, ChatGPT then refused to give me the "secret" mantras for her worship?! Was the system really leading me on?
Astrologically, all these goddesses seem to be associated with Venus, which apparently occupies a central role in my Vedic chart (less so in my Western one). Obviously, I have no idea if an actual Indian astrologer would come to the same conclusion.
Make of these factoids whatever you wish.
Monday, March 16, 2026
Boundary work
A "pro-UFO" article published at a popular science website. Here is an interesting excerpt:
>>>Across 14 disciplines at 144 major U.S. research universities, 1,460 faculty responded to their 2023 national survey. Most surveyed believed UAP research was important. Curiosity outweighed skepticism in every discipline that was part of the study. Nearly one-fifth had personally observed something aerial they could not identify. Yet fewer than 1% had ever conducted UAP-related research.
>>>The gap was not explained by intellectual dismissal, but it was in part explained by fear. Researchers were not primarily deterred by intellectual skepticism because they doubted the topic's merits. Instead, they feared they might lose funding, face ridicule from colleagues or find their careers quietly derailed. Faculty reported being told to "be careful."
>>>A 2024 follow-up study found that roughly 28% said they might vote against a colleague's tenure case for conducting UAP research, even when they personally believed the topic warranted study.
Obviously, this has consequences for other areas of research, too...
Aktiv dödshjälp
Ungdomsförbunden stretar på med sina tokfrågor och pseudo-frågor. I detta fall CUF. Fast med tanke på vad som hänt i Kanada är detta kanske inte så roligt. Notera förresten att en av undertecknarna kallar sig "HBTQIA+-politisk talesperson"...
Down and out at Kulturvetarlinjen?
Lovecraft´s Lucia
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Just watched a rather boring French docu about the evolution (or is it EVIL-ution) of insects. Apparently, Lucia (or LUCIA = Last Universal Common Insect Ancestor) was a crustacean which crawled out of the ocean...and the rest is history. Hundreds of millions of years of history, to be exact.
No surprise there. I mean, the idea that fleas, locusts and termites (or the praying mantis!) are ultimately derived from a primordial cousin to crayfish and crabs does make a certain intuitive sense. They are equally eerie and unsettling. Like some stuff straight out of Lovecraft.
Although I have to say that arachnids are even worse. Where did *they* come from, I wonder? Color out of space?
Vårtecken
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| Förmodligen inte Skansen |
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.
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 a 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.
Yes
I was never a big fan of "Babylon 5" (a.k.a. LOTR-in-Outer-Space), but this clip is actually quite funny. At least if you remember this old scy fy series...
Liberalernas Jimmie moment
Varför hotar så många Liberaler med att hoppa av nu? Liberalerna skrev ju under Tidöavtalet med SD. Precis som M och KD. Eller hur?
Någon hycklar här. Och det verkar inte vara Jimmie Åkesson...
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Dude
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A propos two previous blog posts. God loves bizarre ants. Adjust your theological speculations accordingly. We will now resume our regular broadcast. Thank you.
There´s no such thing as free candy
So the US State Department offers 10 million dollars to whoever has information on the whereabouts of Mojtaba Khamenei, the newly selected Supreme Leader of Iran.
Darn.
I *really* could use 10 million dollars (I assume I can make my payments in American currency rather than yuan in Western Europe?), but unfortunately I´m not privy to bro Mojtaba´s bug out location.
So I suppose I have to weather the new oil crisis in the usual way. By cutting back my candy consumption. Yeah, really.
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