The cosmic capitalist

 

A lot of stuff like this on YouTube: recaps of science fiction films, perhaps AI-generated? The recaps, I mean. This way, you don´t have to waste two hours of your life watching an entire B-movie, LOL. 

The first recap is of a recent Russian movie, "Forsaken", which actually could be interesting. The plot revolves around a failed mission to Mars which is turned into a succesful reality TV show by an unscrupulous broadcasting corporation - unfortunately a very realistic scenario! There is also a kind of pseudo-philosophical message (of course, it´s a Russian film) which sounds like a mixture of Gnosticism and atheist materialism. *We* created the universe to become conscious of ourselves...only to go astray and do evil instead. Hence, we - not some gods or aliens - are the creators. But note that this message is revealed to the stranded cosmonaut by a god-like being on Mars...

The other recap is of "A Sound of Thunder", which seems to be a more typical American science fiction/horror film. Time travel, temporal paradoxes, "the butterfly effect", that kind of thing. Evolution goes haywire as reptiloid baboons descend on an unsuspecting US city amid an invasion of primordially tropical plant species. Note the nod to global warming. 

Interestingly, the bad guys in *both* films are evil capitalists. 

Make of this content what you wish. 

The aesthetics of evolution

 

The Atheist Party Line crowd will "counter"-attack in 10, 9, 8, 7...

I never read "The Wedge" (as in Scott Carney´s book with that title), but I suppose this 15-minute video is a kind of teaser trailer. The title is "What the Theory of Evolution Gets Wrong" and it´s posted on a channel jokingly called "backchannel"...

Short story: Consciousness plays a greater and more independent role in evolution than we usually assume. Maybe even love and aesthetics! Yes, it´s the peacock again...

Fiaskot i Baku

 

Nämen, Wolfgang Hansson låter ju nästan som Romina Pourmokhtari här. Ovanligt realistisk artikel om det ganska så uppenbara bluffmötet i Baku nyligen. Och om klimatkrisen. Ja, så när som på en liten detalj. Hansson tror fortfarande att man faktiskt kan stoppa den på något sätt...  

Väst bär INTE skulden till klimatmötets misslyckande

Om kriget kommer

 

"Var är svenne-jävlarnas plastpåsar?" 

En härlig svensk pseudo-debatt. 

Bajstipset i krisbroschyren kritiseras: "Kan läcka"

OK, Boomer

 

"Ja, vi är ondskefulla robotar.
Och? Vad är anklagelsen?"

X-kontot "Stop Antisemitism" gör bort sig totalt och blir bokstavligt talat trollade av Israel-kritiker (eller anti-semiter?). Hur svårt var detta att räkna ut år 2024? Är "Stop Antisemitism" Boomers?  

Nu kan du rösta på årets anti-semit

Cruising

 

- Yes, earthling, the pulsar disfigured our bodies,
but what´s left is still alive, a new kind of life,
to be sure, mu-hah-hah!

The Stellivore Hypothesis is making the obligatory rounds, before being shelved...or becoming nische nerd material on YouTube, alongside the Silurian Hypothesis, the Dark Forest hypothesis and similar stuff.  

Fast-moving stars are piloted by aliens, new study suggests

The end of the world. Or just the multiverse?

 

The anthropic principle is dead as a vaguely anthropoid dodo, apparently. Jokes aside, Sabine Hossenfelder summarizes a new paper which (perhaps) proves that the universe *isn´t* hospitable for life. Goodbye, anthropic principle and Christian apologetix based on it! But...it also means that the atheist attempt to make an end-run around it has to go, as well. Yes, that would be the multiverse.

Not sure why this is "good news". Surely, it is extremely bad news. And a bad take? Posted on Stir-up Sunday, to boot!

Good news would be that God is a blue shepherd boy awaiting our arrival on a moon-lit evening at a distant multiversal planet in yonder heavens... 

Nuclear blast from the past

 

So the Swedish government has sent out a small pamphlet titled "Om krisen eller kriget kommer" (In the case of crisis or war), containing information about what to do if the shit really hits the fan. For instance, where to find shelter in case of a bomb attack. It states that the risk of a military attack on Sweden has increased and even contains a paragraph on nuclear strikes.

Scary, right?

Well, maybe to some people, but hear me out, fam! I´m old enough to remember when Swedish phone directories contained a section titled "Om kriget kommer" (In case of war) with detailed instructions on evacuation routes for civilians, exactly where to gather while waiting for the buses, and so on. I believe "my" neighborhood was supposed to be evacuated to some small town near the Norwegian border. Which just shows you who the Swedish military assumed would be the attacker (hint: not NATO). 

So no, I´m not particularly scared or even surprised. Feels like homecoming. The only thing I miss are the evacuation plans. I mean, are we supposed to just shelter in place??? 

Vem är otäck?

 

Jeppsson gånger två.  

Sluta skrämma unga, säger de, men vem är otäck?

"Civilisationen kan kollapsa 2040"

Domsöndagen

 

Credit: X 

Håller förstås inte med om skribentens politiska perspektiv, eller hennes naiva kolartro på Bernie Sanders (ähum, Hillary Clinton fick fler röster än "distraktionen" Trump). Fast i en viss annan mening är artikeln faktiskt intressant att läsa... 

I helvete heller, man måste inte alltid förlåta