"The reductionist mindset—reductionism in science was at first fruitful but is becoming a mind-block—of randomists is wrong. Their direction of cause is backwards. They envision tinker toys (genes) being put together in various configurations, with genes themselves tinkering the toys. None of this is coherent, as Day (and many others like David Stove, David Berlinski, Stephen Meyer, and so and on) point out."
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/of-course-neo-darwinian-evolution-132#:~:text=The%20reductionist%20mindset,on)%20point%20out.

Bill Gates Ordered to Stand Trial in Netherlands in November Over COVID Vaccine Injury Claims — Ordered to Pay Legal Costs as Dutch Court Dismisses Jurisdiction Claim

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/bill-gates-ordered-stand-trial-netherlands-november-covid/

This is a brilliant summary of how we got where we are, geopolitically. If you do not understand these facts, you do not understand current events.

"The central drama of the last three decades has been the fusion of state and society. The ’89ers ushered in actually existing postliberalism, a society in which governmental power, cultural power, and economic power are coordinated to buttress regime security and punish the impure. 1989 heralded not the triumph of liberalism but its downfall. However, many refuse to recognize—or cannot recognize—how profoundly the West has changed. Our task is to live in the world into which we are thrown, to see it accurately, and to push it in a better direction."
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/11/actually-existing-postliberalism#:~:text=The%20central%20drama,a%20better%20direction.

Joe Biden lets slip he wants Trump in JAIL 14 days before election: 'We gotta lock him up' | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13989643/Joe-biden-kamala-harris-donald-trump-lock-up.html#

"I was a licensed doctor for 16 years but decided not to renew my practicing certificate in 2021. It was not because I was at retirement age – in fact, I was 39 years old at the time. And it was not the first time this decision had been made in our household. My husband, Dr Mark Bailey, had elected not to renew his licence in 2016, also after 16 years in medical practice. On his last day at work, he urged me to get out of the system as well.

"While I appreciated some of the sinister compliance issues that were creeping into medicine at that time, I also continued to love aspects of my work, particularly the interactions with patients and their families. I worked in hospital medicine, emergency care, and sexual health before settling into a role as a clinical research physician. The popularity I enjoyed with patients expanded to New Zealand network television in 2019 when I was asked to front a new series covering common medical topics.

"The following year, I was sacked from the TV show, asked to sign a “gag order” and the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) began their prosecution attempts against me. Apparently, I was now such a threat to public health that corporate media outlets needed to dissuade people from my publications and social media platforms employed “fact-checkers” to block my videos from wider viewership. What on Earth happened?…"

https://canberradaily.com.au/should-you-trust-a-licensed-doctor/

◾Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that Gaza is the "land of Israel" at a conference on Monday, calling for new settlements.

Speaking at the conference, Ben Gvir said they're giving the Palestinians the option to go to other countries, while Smotrich said "This is our land of Israel. We have been waiting for many years. We will quote Rabbi Charlap, who explained to us the main point: when we look at where the gentiles (non-Jews) are, we fight them."

More than a thousand people attended the event, described by organisers as "a celebration for the preparation of settling Gaza."

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This was a lot of fun.

https://www.carousel.blog/p/146-academia-is-womens-work

"The Monster Telescope would be built by launching 20,000 separate mirrors, each with a diameter of 8 metres (the largest diameter that can be fit into a Starship). Each of these, by the way, is already larger than the 6.5-metre mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope, currently the largest space telescope ever launched. The mirrors will be deployed as independent spacecraft, flying under their own power to rendezvous at a gravitationally stable region such as the Earth-Sun Lagrange1 L2 point, where they would self-assemble by docking into adjacent segments."

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/what-big-eyes-you-have#:~:text=The%20Monster%20Telescope,into%20adjacent%20segments.

For the first time in the history of the republic, the winner of the election was not given the task of forming a government.
The President of Austria (a Green) gave the task to the second-placed party. It is now forming a coalition of the losers to prevent the FPÖ.
But this is the beginning of their end: https://x.com/Martin_Sellner/status/1843848928560648484/photo/1

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This was a great chat. https://delingpole.podbean.com/e/vox-day/

Robert Kennedy Jr. Puts Democrats on Blast for 4 Minutes Straight

“The Democratic Party today is the party of war. It is the party of surveillance, of censorship.”

Kennedy pointed out that Dick Cheney and the people who wrote up the Patriot Act are now oddly aligned with the Democratic Party.

"You think Dick Cheney has changed his opinion about the Patriot Act?" he asked. "No," Kennedy answered.

"He's changed parties because he thinks the Democratic Party is now the party of the neocons. It's the party of surveillance, of censorship, of war."

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"Last month, after 21 years studying and teaching Classics at the University of Cambridge, I resigned. I loved my job. And it’s precisely because I loved the job I was paid to do, and because I believe so firmly in preserving the excellence of higher education, in Britain and beyond, that I have left."

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/decline-and-fall-how-university-education-became-infantilised/

Investigation Reveals Trump’s Role In 'Home Alone 2' Was Staged

https://buff.ly/4hfTIYL

"Twitter user "Pliny the Prompter," who calls themselves a white hat hacker and "AI red teamer," shared their "GODMODE GPT" on Wednesday. Using OpenAI's custom GPT editor, Pliny was able to prompt the new GPT-4o model to bypass all of its restrictions, allowing the AI chatbot to swear, jailbreak cars, and make napalm, among other dangerous instructions."
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/godmode-gpt-4o-jailbreak-released-by-hacker-powerful-exploit-was-quickly-banned#:~:text=Twitter%20user%20%22Pliny,other%20dangerous%20instructions.

When Science is Silent

JK Rowling summarizes the scientific philosophy of the wicked: ‘We must not publish a study that says we’re harming children because people who say we’re harming children will use the study as evidence that we’re harming children, which might make it difficult for us to continue harming children.’ One of the many reasons that the […]

https://voxday.net/2024/10/24/when-science-is-silent/

"The Mercator projection is well known to most of us, but its utility is perhaps not.

"The horizontal lines on the map correspond to parallels on a globe, and the vertical lines correspond to meridians. Now, on a globe, meridians all meet at the North and South poles, which obviously is not possible on a rectangular map. So how does it work? Starting from the equator, and moving north (or equivalently south), the distance between successive meridians is less on each parallel. So, as we move north, the distance between meridians is augmented on the map to allow the meridians to remain vertical. And, since the horizontal distance is augmented, so must the vertical distance be augmented correspondingly. As a result, the distance between successive parallels increases as we move north. And the same holds true heading south from the equator.

"What is the result of such a map? A straight line on the map will cross successive meridians at exactly the same angle, and so the map can be used by navigators heading on a fixed course, guided by the sun and the stars, anywhere on the globe. Of course, the navigator must bear in mind that the projection does not preserve distances."

https://johnplaice.substack.com/p/looking-at-the-origin-of-gerardus#:~:text=The%20Mercator%20projection%20is,does%20not%20preserve%20distances.

" A housewife poses with a week's worth of groceries in 1947. She spent $12.50 a week to buy all her groceries except milk. On this she managed to feed herself, her husband, her four-year-old twins and the family cat. Robert Wheeler / Time & Life Pictures / Today "