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TIL that Andrew Carnegie funded an organization to simplify spelling in the English language. Teddy Roosevelt began using the reformed spelling in his official communications and tried to get the federal government to follow suit, but Congress unanimously voted to stop him.
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TIL that when Radio Shack in 1977 planned its first personal computer, the $599 TRS-80, it built 3,500 units. The company had never sold that many of anything at that price, and planned to use the computer for inventory in its 3,500 stores if it failed. More than 200,000 were sold by 1980.
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"But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction." 2 Peter 2:1
"At the brunch (the theme was the Holy Ghost), Mr. Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire and right-wing kingmaker, delivered a talk about miracles, forgiveness and Jesus Christ. The guests were enthralled.
“The room of over 220 people, mostly in technology and venture capital, were coming up to us saying, ‘Oh, my goodness, I didn’t know Peter Thiel was a Christian,’” recalled Michelle Stephens, Mr. Stephens’s wife. “‘He’s gay and a billionaire. How can he be Christian?’”
That reaction — eyebrows raised, curiosity genuine — gave Ms. Stephens an idea: Gather influential people, including in Silicon Valley, to talk about Christian belief. Last year, she started a nonprofit called ACTS 17 Collective, which holds events where the bigwigs of the tech and entertainment industries discuss their faith. For those seeking not just spiritually but also professionally, it’s a chance to get close to industry demigods." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/business/silicon-valley-christianity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE4.-Wh2.7Dbc8uGvCeg1&smid=url-share
"At the brunch (the theme was the Holy Ghost), Mr. Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire and right-wing kingmaker, delivered a talk about miracles, forgiveness and Jesus Christ. The guests were enthralled.
“The room of over 220 people, mostly in technology and venture capital, were coming up to us saying, ‘Oh, my goodness, I didn’t know Peter Thiel was a Christian,’” recalled Michelle Stephens, Mr. Stephens’s wife. “‘He’s gay and a billionaire. How can he be Christian?’”
That reaction — eyebrows raised, curiosity genuine — gave Ms. Stephens an idea: Gather influential people, including in Silicon Valley, to talk about Christian belief. Last year, she started a nonprofit called ACTS 17 Collective, which holds events where the bigwigs of the tech and entertainment industries discuss their faith. For those seeking not just spiritually but also professionally, it’s a chance to get close to industry demigods." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/business/silicon-valley-christianity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE4.-Wh2.7Dbc8uGvCeg1&smid=url-share
NY Times
Seeking God, or Peter Thiel, in Silicon Valley (Gift Article)
When tech luminaries talk about their Christian faith, people listen.
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Vaccines are the Cause of Autism
You have to either be prodigiously stupid, willfully blind, totally corrupt, or some combination of the three to still deny that vaccines are the cause of autism, which they quite obviously are. When Elaine C. was seven years old, her parents became so worried about her speech that they approached a psychiatrist. The little girl […]
https://voxday.net/2025/02/16/vaccines-are-the-cause-of-autism/
You have to either be prodigiously stupid, willfully blind, totally corrupt, or some combination of the three to still deny that vaccines are the cause of autism, which they quite obviously are. When Elaine C. was seven years old, her parents became so worried about her speech that they approached a psychiatrist. The little girl […]
https://voxday.net/2025/02/16/vaccines-are-the-cause-of-autism/
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"The crowds have spoken and their wisdom is here to behold. The Based Book Sale is how many of us spot the up-and-coming new authors we’ll grow to love, and crowd-sourced lists like this are an essential way to identify them. I’ll run through the top fifty books in the sale, so far, and share some of my personal favorites that may have been overlooked."
https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/my-favorite-based-books-in-the-sale
https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/my-favorite-based-books-in-the-sale
Based Book Sale
My Favorite Based Books in the Sale
And Over 1500 Books Sold So Far!
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TIL that from 2003 to 2005, Dell sold over 11 million computers with leaky capacitors, with documents indicating that Dell was aware they were almost certain to fail. At one point, 1,000 computers that Dell delivered to the law firm that was defending it in a related lawsuit started failing.
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Why peer review is the death of innovation in science.
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The 7-Year Honeypot
Those who are seeking to reveal the surveillance society are increasingly confident that Ashley St. Clair wasn’t just a garden-variety grifter, but a Deep State asset targeting Elon Musk: The bigger story here is that Ashely St. Clair may not just be a fake MAGA gold digger, opportunist and a fraud. She has all the […]
https://voxday.net/2025/02/16/the-7-year-honeypot/
Those who are seeking to reveal the surveillance society are increasingly confident that Ashley St. Clair wasn’t just a garden-variety grifter, but a Deep State asset targeting Elon Musk: The bigger story here is that Ashely St. Clair may not just be a fake MAGA gold digger, opportunist and a fraud. She has all the […]
https://voxday.net/2025/02/16/the-7-year-honeypot/
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One of my Based Book Sale authors created this. It's going to be amazing seeing what indie creators can do as the technology continues to advance.
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The Fall of Tartaria | AI Short Film
This video has been turned into a short story which is available on Amazon!
Preorder: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCHCJD4M
An alternative history epic in the style of Atlantis
Put a massive amount of work into this one, hope you enjoy it!
Made possible…
Preorder: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCHCJD4M
An alternative history epic in the style of Atlantis
Put a massive amount of work into this one, hope you enjoy it!
Made possible…
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Originally published a few months ago behind a paywall at Fandom Pulse, revelations that USAID was putting their thumb on the cultural scale by funding NGOs to make money-losing propaganda make the point of this post more relevant than ever. What will happen when the endless money to support SJWs and their art is cut off? And which creators will be poised to survive and thrive once the playing field is level?
https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-antibiotic-resistant-a20
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Based Book Sale
The Rise of the Antibiotic-Resistant Creator
How Based Creators Survive and Thrive Despite Mainstream Gatekeeping
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Speaking at the WEF, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz comments on Elon Musk:
"We have freedom of speech in Europe and Germany. Everyone can say what he wants, even if he is a billionaire."
"What we do not accept is if this is supporting extreme right positions."
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"We have freedom of speech in Europe and Germany. Everyone can say what he wants, even if he is a billionaire."
"What we do not accept is if this is supporting extreme right positions."
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"The Democrats’ strategy throughout the country now, but mostly in blue States, is to get the federal judiciary to usurp the executive powers of the executive branch and that’s what this is all about. It’s a very dangerous ploy. These judges should not be entertaining it but in multiple cases they have, and they’ve issued temporary restraining orders on a whole host of issues that really amount to political policy issues.
"This is the problem. If the federal judges really want to run the executive branch then the executive branch should be in their courtrooms two to three times a day asking the judges to make decisions and the judges are going to regret that."
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/02/the-only-constitutional-crisis-is-that-democrats-lost-now-theyre-trying-to-govern-from-the-courtroom/#:~:text=The%20Democrats%E2%80%99%20strategy,to%20regret%20that.
"This is the problem. If the federal judges really want to run the executive branch then the executive branch should be in their courtrooms two to three times a day asking the judges to make decisions and the judges are going to regret that."
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The Only 'Constitutional Crisis' is That Democrats Lost, Now They’re Trying To Govern from the Courtroom
My Hot Take on Democat Lawfare: 'There is no constitutional crisis other than the Democrats lost. They are trying to create a constitutional crisis by having the judiciary and the federal district courts assume control of the executive branch.'
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TIL that 1985 Steve Jobs hid his Porsche 911 to secure $20M funding from Ross Perot for his new computer company
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"A staggering flood of residential homes being put up for sale in and around Washington, DC has caused an utterly STUNNING effect: Housing values have plummeted 36.5% in ONE WEEK. The leftists in DC are being utterly, financially crushed by Trump.
"With the lightning-fast closure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the termination of over ten thousand of its employees, plus the pending closure of the US Department of Education, liberal leftists are realizing that not only is their Grant money gravy train done, they can no longer afford their oh-so-pricey homes."
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/housing-values-in-washington-dc-collapse-36-5-in-one-week
"With the lightning-fast closure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the termination of over ten thousand of its employees, plus the pending closure of the US Department of Education, liberal leftists are realizing that not only is their Grant money gravy train done, they can no longer afford their oh-so-pricey homes."
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/housing-values-in-washington-dc-collapse-36-5-in-one-week
Hal Turner Radio Show
Housing Values in Washington DC COLLAPSE 36.5% in ONE WEEK
A staggering flood of residential homes being put up for sale in and around Washington, DC has caused an utterly STUNNING effect: Housing values...
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The Kremlin is running a “special campaign” to obscure the war’s impact on the economy, according to ISW. Analysts note that Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin told Putin on February 7 that GDP grew by 4.1% in 2024 due to the “intensive” development of the manufacturing industry—essentially, military production. He also cited inflation at 9.52%, while Putin had previously stated on February 3 that it was 9.9%.
ISW reports that real inflation is nearing 20%, and the Kremlin is silent about the Central Bank’s rate hike to 21% and the National Welfare Fund’s war-related spending, which could drain its liquidity by fall 2025.
ISW reports that real inflation is nearing 20%, and the Kremlin is silent about the Central Bank’s rate hike to 21% and the National Welfare Fund’s war-related spending, which could drain its liquidity by fall 2025.
"One takeaway is quite clear. Whatever comes next, it's going to come from independent creators who control their own IPs. Hollywood is a propaganda factory that's forgotten how to entertain. The Big Two comics publishers are now brand management firms maintaining copyrights for propaganda films. The Big Five book publishers are dead and on their way to going broke.
"Creating a cultural touchstone like Spider-Man or Star Wars takes a visionary with an idea that resonates with mass audiences by solving longstanding storytelling problems in revolutionary ways. Furthermore, that next-level artistic vision must be paired with expert marketing savvy.
"A combination like that only comes around once or twice in a generation, and in Current Year, the big media corporations have become too bloated, monopolistic, and shortsighted to foster what's next.
"The revolution awaits an indie creator to come along with the right idea at the right time and maximally leverage the new open distribution infrastructure. We're already seeing the first glimmers of this future in newpub."
https://www.kairospublications.com/blog/u4jiidl4hnqj5wnkuha9zh1w0ch3cm#:~:text=One%20takeaway%20is,future%20in%20newpub.
"Creating a cultural touchstone like Spider-Man or Star Wars takes a visionary with an idea that resonates with mass audiences by solving longstanding storytelling problems in revolutionary ways. Furthermore, that next-level artistic vision must be paired with expert marketing savvy.
"A combination like that only comes around once or twice in a generation, and in Current Year, the big media corporations have become too bloated, monopolistic, and shortsighted to foster what's next.
"The revolution awaits an indie creator to come along with the right idea at the right time and maximally leverage the new open distribution infrastructure. We're already seeing the first glimmers of this future in newpub."
https://www.kairospublications.com/blog/u4jiidl4hnqj5wnkuha9zh1w0ch3cm#:~:text=One%20takeaway%20is,future%20in%20newpub.
Kairos Publications
The Corporate IP Death Cycle — Kairos Publications
At the height of the Disney Star Wars controversy, YouTuber David V. Stewart produced an insightful video The 5 Phases of Corporate IP Ownership. In his video, David breaks down the corporate decision making process that runs franchises across all media…
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