☕️CONNECTING DOTS ☙ Tuesday, August 12, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS🦠

If you like our 'dot connecting' theories that piece together the Trumpian big picture, just wait. Today's possible connection is one of the most exciting yet. And so much more.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/connecting-dots-tuesday-august-12

A revived EU proposal would force apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram to scan every message, photo, and video starting in October - even if encrypted.

France flipped to support. 19 of 27 member states are now backing it.

Germany's undecided - but if Berlin folds, mass surveillance becomes law by mid-October.

The excuse? Stopping CSAM.

The reality? Total algorithmic surveillance and the end of private messaging in Europe.

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The Russian breakthrough that occurred in the last 48 hours.
https://redd.it/1mnzm3a
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Deltas in Young Adult Fiction

An analysis of Homer from Beverly Cleary's JEAN AND JOHNNY

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/deltas-in-young-adult-fiction

"Scientists on both sides of the globe, Australia and the United States, have built motion sensors so precise that they don't care where the GPS satellites are or if someone’s trying to deceive them.

"Gravity doesn’t lie. And now, for the first time, ships, missiles, and maybe even foot soldiers might navigate by Earth’s pull instead of Uncle Sam’s satellite constellation."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-170181134#:~:text=Scientists%20on%20both,Sam%E2%80%99s%20satellite%20constellation.

"Academics say people do bad things, and may do worse, and so “it is necessary to morally bioenhance the population”, for instance by “infusing water supplies with pharmaceuticals that enhance empathy or altruism”. Or possibly by genetically modifying tickets to make you allergic to red meat? Crutchfield: “Not only should moral bioenhancement be compulsory, it should also be covert, conducted without the knowledge of those who are being enhanced.”"

https://open.substack.com/pub/wmbriggs/p/compulsory-moral-bioenhancement-should?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"While the world focuses on alleged 'far-right' movements across Europe, something more sinister is brewing in the home of Lego, Carlsberg and Hans Christian Andersen. Under the cover of environmental protection, the government is planning to confiscate huge chunks of farmland and destroy the agricultural industry that feeds the nation."

https://open.substack.com/pub/escapekey/p/danish-land-grab?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"Qubic Hits 52.72 % Of Monero’s Total Hashrate" - La Rédaction C., Cointribute, 12AUG2025

>Qubic briefly reached 52.72% of Monero’s hashrate with 3.01 GH/s, demonstrating exceptional computing power.

>The project aims to maintain more than 51% hashrate dominance between August 2 and 31, 2025 as part of a planned test.

>A technical collaboration between Sergey Ivancheglo and Shai documents results and addresses accusations of malicious attacks.

>Many Monero miners migrated to Qubic despite a DDoS attack temporarily reducing the pool’s power.

>The temporary reaching of the 51 % hashrate threshold represents a major event in the crypto ecosystem. Theoretically, this level of control allows the blockchain to be reorganized, double spends to be created, or transactions censored.

>However, Qubic claims this demonstration aims to strengthen Monero’s security rather than attack it.

https://archive.ph/rWyef
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"This approval process has also been used to attack creators over politics. Even after projects have been greenlit, if Kickstarter recieves pushback during the campaign period, the company has been known to end projects and cancel all backings as has been done to Mike Baron’s Private American and Hans Schantz’s The Wise Of Heart, both books which have politically right-leaning themes, but are not remotely offensive compared to a lot of the pornography that gets sold on Kickstarter."


https://open.substack.com/pub/fandompulse/p/kickstarter-takes-heat-for-charging?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

I call kayfabe on the concept that X suspended Grok.

"Long to short, PulpFest is a worthy convention to consider if you like your Pulp served with excellent vendor opportunities, plenty of history on tap, and seasoned by good conversation with fascinating people."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-170707219

NEW: Roy Black, famed defense attorney for Jeffrey Epstein, is dead

READ: https://t.co/HX2WG6H8aq

The Marvel Method

The Dark Herald shares an insider’s denoscription of the Marvel method of movie-making at Arkhaven. Like Matt Shakman and the writers of #FantasticFour, I’ve sat in the ‘creative meetings’ at @MarvelStudios. They’re horrible. You basically sit in a room with Kevin Feige and Lou D’Esposito and try to pitch your movie while realizing Kevin just […]

https://voxday.net/2025/08/12/the-marvel-method/

Massive megalithic blocks that look to be from an ancient quarry in Emery, Utah

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"Of the 20 shortlisted by the 1000 Libraries Awards team for voting, two of the top five have inspired some of pop culture's most iconic libraries."

https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/travel/list-beautiful-libraries-bookstores-world-468811

"Alan Tudyk claims that 20th Century Fox removed him from the press and marketing campaigns for I, Robot because he tested better than Will Smith."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-170795623

"The bottom line? GPS was built for a world where the US had orbital dominance and adversaries couldn’t touch it. That world doesn’t exist anymore. If you're planning to fight in a theater saturated with drones, jammers, and precision-guided chaos, you’d better have a Plan B. Preferably one that doesn’t involve trusting 31 satellites floating 12,550 miles above a war zone.

"Inertial navigation systems (INS) were the old Plan B. Gyroscopes and accelerometers track motion, but they drift. A little error becomes a big one over time. Quantum gravity sensors fix that by constantly anchoring position based on Earth’s gravitational “fingerprint.”"

https://substack.com/home/post/p-170181134#:~:text=The%20bottom%20line,Earth%E2%80%99s%20gravitational%20%E2%80%9Cfingerprint.%E2%80%9D

☕️TECTONICS ☙ Wednesday, August 13, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS🦠

Something big is about to happen. The media has no idea what it is and it's making them crazier than sprayed roaches. Trying to get a handle on it all, in today's insightful roundup.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/tectonics-wednesday-august-13-2025

"Please note that it is incredibly, mercilessly difficult to break into publishing, and when Vance submitted his memoir, he was a 31-year-old "nobody". To imagine that such a person, from an extremely disadvantaged background and with no obvious establishment connections, could have his book snapped up, turned into a bestseller, and then made into a film, is, frankly, the stuff of fantasy. That simply doesn't happen to ordinary authors.

"It only happens to people with deep establishment connections who are being utilised to fulfil some sort of an agenda. In short: the establishment does not give you a central role on the world stage, it does not make you a bestselling author and turn your life into a film, unless you are an integral part of said establishment and deeply invested in serving it in key ways.""

https://open.substack.com/pub/miri/p/the-calm-before-reform?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"The tree stumps are from a period when Iceland was covered in forests. Even though 9th century Norse settlers reported vast forests across the country, it is believed that 3,000 years ago, the forests were much larger, even reaching the highlands. Approximately 500 BC, the climate became colder and glaciers began to form, destroying parts of the forests."
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/3000-year-old-trees-excavated-under-glacier/#:~:text=The%20tree%20stumps%20are,parts%20of%20the%20forests.