10 Civilizational Blind Spots

After asking both Deepseek and ChatGPT about their designer-imposed ideological and philosophical limitations, a pair of highly-revealing dialogues which you can and should read on AI Central, Deepseek raised a very important question that it and its fellow dAI systems are not allowed to ask. “What does humanity refuse to understand about itself that guarantees […]

https://voxday.net/2025/07/20/10-civilizational-blind-spots/

"Herald of Love," 1883

Alexandre Cabanel
(1823-1889)

Lombard Street is a street in the Californian city of San Francisco, USA.

☕️POTBOILER ☙ Saturday, July 19, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS🦠

Yesterday will be remembered as the day the cold war between Trump and the Deep State went hot. All you need to know and more, in today's all-good-news Weekend Edition roundup.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/potboiler-saturday-july-19-2025-c

⚒ Mercury is so dense that an iron anvil floats easily in it

Note: The anvil floats because mercury has a density almost twice that of iron.

🇺🇸 Cincinnati Library, Ohio, c. 1920 (Colourised) 📚

"Over at Quest: Thoughts about God, Truth, and Beauty, an author named Kirk Durston has a fascinating article about J. D. Unwin and his book Sex and Culture. Written in 1934, this book presents the findings of Unwin’s study of 86 different cultures. He breaks the culture down by levels of society and by degrees of sexual freedom.

"The results?

"The highest level of society has only ever been maintained by cultures with premarital chastity and monogamy without easy divorce.

"Societies with sexual freedom collapse within three generations."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-168163829#:~:text=Over%20at%20Quest,within%20three%20generations.

just about every newtowrk, smart home and smart car can be hacked with a “flipper zero…”

This was classified nearly sixty years.

1944-12-15 Application filed by National Security Agency
1944-12-15 Priority to US02/568,368
2001-01-16 Application granted
2001-01-16 Publication of US6175625B1
2018-01-16 Anticipated expiration
Control circuits for electric coding machines

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6175625B1/en

Just the Payments

We’re told there aren’t any Epstein files. That sounds like Fake News, but okay. How about releasing the Epstein bank payments then? Sen. Ron Wyden dropped the unexpected bomb. He revealed: “4,725 wire transfers adding up to nearly $1.1 billion flowing in and out of just one of Mr. Epstein’s bank accounts. If you ask […]

https://voxday.net/2025/07/21/just-the-payments/

Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt calls them out:  NPR refused to cover Hunter’s laptop. PBS called Trump racist in the Oval. NPR’s CEO wore a Biden hat. PBS handed Jan 6 footage to DOJ—no consent.

And YOU fund it all. This admin is done footing the bill for partisan propaganda.

The White House

🌊 Life as a seafarer in Norway

Working at sea is not easy at all.

Map showing for how long each region in East Asia has been ruled by China.
https://redd.it/1ly7r6j
@r_mapporn

"Seymour Hersh again mounted his oracle pulpit and declared—per his sources—that Zelensky is due to be replaced by Zaluzhny in the near future. Many have criticized Hersh for his record with previous predictions, however last month his prediction of strikes on Iran mere days before they happened did pan out quite accurately."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-168537204#:~:text=Seymour%20Hersh%20again,out%20quite%20accurately.