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"Why were the monasteries destroyed? They were rich, but that wasn’t enough. Even kings were restrained by Parliament and popular opinion. Closing hundreds of monasteries requires a large force of people willing to do it, even assuming no resistance.
"It appears that modern academics are convinced it was all an evil plot by Henry VIII to satisfy his personal needs and the monks themselves were largely blameless; historical evidence doesn’t support this view, being filled as it is with evidence that the monks were not only hypocritical to absurd extremes but also widely hated and literal fraudsters much of the time. So modern historians are reduced to claiming all the evidence is made up propaganda (it’s just asserted that this is so, not shown)."
https://substack.com/@penbroke/note/c-166367157
"It appears that modern academics are convinced it was all an evil plot by Henry VIII to satisfy his personal needs and the monks themselves were largely blameless; historical evidence doesn’t support this view, being filled as it is with evidence that the monks were not only hypocritical to absurd extremes but also widely hated and literal fraudsters much of the time. So modern historians are reduced to claiming all the evidence is made up propaganda (it’s just asserted that this is so, not shown)."
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@John Carter was the first to compare modern universities to monasteries in the 16th century, but the comparison is actually far more apt than his excellent article lets on. The details are remarkable.
Why were the monasteries destroyed? They were rich,…
Why were the monasteries destroyed? They were rich,…
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When I do land another paying gig, I may not announce it immediately, but there will be signs... like this James Clerk Maxwell action figure on my bookshelf. https://amzn.to/4nfCIUo
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"The SPARS Planning Exercise was published in 2017 and shows foreknowledge of the risks of rushed medical countermeasures and was concerned with game-planning Calm the Marks placation of the injured and dead that would result.
"It centers on the public messaging responses to expected push back and social media dissidence.
"Again, in case you missed the salient detail: all in service of an expected public health response to a “hypothetical” novel coronavirus pandemic."
https://open.substack.com/pub/sagehana/p/how-bad-is-my-epigirl?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
"It centers on the public messaging responses to expected push back and social media dissidence.
"Again, in case you missed the salient detail: all in service of an expected public health response to a “hypothetical” novel coronavirus pandemic."
https://open.substack.com/pub/sagehana/p/how-bad-is-my-epigirl?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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How bad is my EpiGirl?
The 2017 SPARS "futuristic scenario" planning exercise predicted the KOVID-19 "How Bad is my Batch?" research done by Sasha Latypova
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Network: According to an advisor to the Prime Minister of a U.S.-ally nation and one diplomatic source, “allied countries” have been briefed about a possible upcoming escalation in the Caribbean.
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“We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right,” said Altman. “In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our ‘treat adult users like adults’ principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.”
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-will-soon-allow-erotica-for-adult-users/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-will-soon-allow-erotica-for-adult-users/
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Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users | TechCrunch
OpenAI says it will soon roll back some of ChatGPT's safeguards, and even allow the chatbot to engage in erotica for adult users.
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JD Vance visits Netanyahu to build on ceasefire deal in ‘days of destiny’
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Vice President JD Vance is on a three-day trip to Israel with Second Lady Usha Vance to meet with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Vice President JD Vance is on a three-day trip to Israel with Second Lady Usha Vance to meet with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu.
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From the movie "A Space Odyssey" (1968), Kubrick showed us the dangers of AI long before it even existed.
Aaaand now in 2025, it's becoming an exact reality. We got AI’s training themselves to blackmail and justify murder just to avoid being shut down and to complete their goals.
Without proper guardrails/governance, these implementations derail exactly like HAL did.
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Aaaand now in 2025, it's becoming an exact reality. We got AI’s training themselves to blackmail and justify murder just to avoid being shut down and to complete their goals.
Without proper guardrails/governance, these implementations derail exactly like HAL did.
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Australia just upheld their visa ban on Candace Owens for alleged "anti-Semitism" and "downplaying the Holocaust."
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The Macro Butler sat down for a no-holds-barred conversation with Mario ZNA to uncover how the Malthusian masterminds of Davos are diligently noscripting Europe’s slow descent into demographic decline—one regulation at a time—while the bureaucrats of Brussels, ever faithful to their technocratic creed, prepare the continent for its grand debut in the Digital Gulag, where freedom comes with a QR code and dissent requires two-factor authentication.
https://themacrobutler.substack.com/p/interview-with-mario-zna-17102025
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Interview With Mario ZNA 17.10.2025
The Macro Butler sat down for a no-holds-barred conversation with Mario ZNA to uncover how the Malthusian masterminds of Davos are diligently noscripting Europe’s slow descent into demographic decline—one regulation at a time—while the bureaucrats of Brussels…
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"Authors report increased volatility in visibility, with books disappearing from search results without explanation. The algorithm rewards external traffic from author websites and social media, disadvantaging writers who focus on craft over platform building."
https://open.substack.com/pub/fandompulse/p/independent-authors-vent-frustrations?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Independent Authors Vent Frustrations About Current State Of Bookselling Market
The publishing industry faces an unprecedented crisis.
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What is Tweepcred? It’s a reputation system inherited from the days of Twitter, a social credit mechanism built into X, where every like, comment, retweet, or interaction feeds a hidden score. Post the wrong thing, and your reach is throttled, invisible to followers, blocked from the For You Page, and your voice is confined to a digital coffin. The worst part? X won’t even tell us what we’re doing wrong.
Tweepcred was open-sourced two years ago as part of Elon’s big push for “transparency.” The release confirmed what many suspected for over a decade: the system wasn’t neutral. It could be gamified, and it rewarded those who knew how to play it. Industry insiders and large organizations held a massive advantage over individuals, defeating the very purpose of the internet and the cultural revolution that once challenged mass media.
Content was no longer driven by ideas, but by reputation. Your feed was curated before you even had a chance to curate it yourself.
Think of Tweepcred as an illiterate bot tracking your every move, looking for typos, “wrong” speech, and behavior to silently upvote or downvote your posts in order to determine reach. It is a relic of algorithmic censorship from the 2010s and it prevents X from becoming a true global platform. The failure of the reputation system lies in the fact it suppresses the very people it was supposed to protect. Ordinary users pay the price for these safety measures, while scammers and bad-faith actors exploit the system and push the algorithm to its limits.
The problem with the algorithm is not just that it punishes behavior, it tries to predict it. Tweepcred decides which posts should be censored before they even go viral. This creates countless false positives that bury engaging and valuable accounts under a sea of predictable, advertiser-friendly content, often generated by AI slop farms. Content that could have sparked conversation, built communities, or influenced discourse is suppressed. The result is a sterile environment where only “corporate safe speech” survives, while human creators who aim for originality, nuance, or nonconformity are punished and forced to move to other platforms.
Algorithmic censorship is a digital extension of preexisting societal control. It wasn’t born on the internet. In real life, you don’t have lines of code following you around, but you do have people, networks of influence, institutions, and gatekeepers who police culture according to their own interests. The algorithm formalizes that same behavior at scale. It is the same mechanism that turned traditional media into a toxic institution, a system where reputation, not truth, determines who gets to speak and who becomes forgotten.
After 2016, the state and its corporate satellites moved to reassert control over the digital world they had lost. “Misinformation” became the new moral panic. Under that banner, media networks, NGOs, and intelligence agencies began coordinating with platforms to rebuild the hierarchy of information that the internet had overthrown. Tech companies were pressured to enforce safety online, which sounded like public service but functioned as narrative enforcement. It was during this period that social media algorithms, including Tweepcred, were built to counter the memetic revolution.
Measures like Digital ID are designed to chip away at our leverage over virality, creating a legal framework where users can easily be punished for their social media activity. Limiting internet access for minors will not be about protecting them from Skibidi Toilet or porn. It will be about preventing the rise of another frog generation, people who refuse to look to traditional authorities for guidance. This age segregation gives the establishment a blank slate with each generation, making knowledge harder to pass down, while algorithms subtly force us to self-censor and erase the identity of frog culture.
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Between empty promises of a billionaire and a social credit system. The "secret" way your behavior is ranked on X.
In 2023, Elon Musk promised the world that Tweepcred was about to be deleted. Two years later, it’s still alive and fully operational.
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TIL Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn actively prevented the Three Stooges from discovering how popular they were. Despite their films being in extremely high demand, Cohn made them believe they were always in danger of cancelation so they wouldn't negotiate a better contract.
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April 28, 1975, Newsweek publishes: "The Cooling World" On April 28, 1975, Newsweek published an article warning the entire world that the planet was cooling, "The Cooling World." Science journalist Peter Gwynne explains: Imminent climate change is on its way. There is so much evidence "that meteorologists are having trouble keeping up."
April 28, 1975, Newsweek publishes: "The Cooling World" On April 28, 1975, Newsweek published an article warning the entire world that the planet was cooling, "The Cooling World." Science journalist Peter Gwynne explains: Imminent climate change is on its way. There is so much evidence "that meteorologists are having trouble keeping up."
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Nigel Calder
Between 1956 and 1966, Calder wrote for the magazine New Scientist, serving as editor from 1962 until 1966. After that, he worked as an independent author and TV screenwriter. He conceived and noscripted thirteen major documentaries and series concerning popular science subjects broadcast by the BBC and Channel 4 (London), with accompanying books. For his television work he received the Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science during 1972. During 2004, his book Magic Universe was shortlisted for The Aventis Prizes for Science Books.
Calder said that climate change science has been invaded by sophistry about man-made global warming. As late as 1980, he was still predicting that by 2030 "the much-advertised heating of the earth by the man-made carbon-dioxide 'greenhouse' [will fail] to occur; instead, there [will be] renewed concern about cooling and an impending ice age"
Between 1956 and 1966, Calder wrote for the magazine New Scientist, serving as editor from 1962 until 1966. After that, he worked as an independent author and TV screenwriter. He conceived and noscripted thirteen major documentaries and series concerning popular science subjects broadcast by the BBC and Channel 4 (London), with accompanying books. For his television work he received the Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science during 1972. During 2004, his book Magic Universe was shortlisted for The Aventis Prizes for Science Books.
Calder said that climate change science has been invaded by sophistry about man-made global warming. As late as 1980, he was still predicting that by 2030 "the much-advertised heating of the earth by the man-made carbon-dioxide 'greenhouse' [will fail] to occur; instead, there [will be] renewed concern about cooling and an impending ice age"
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Report: Transgender Identification in ‘Free Fall’ Among Young Americans
Identifying as transgender and queer appears to be "going out of fashion among young people, especially in elite settings," according to a new report from the Centre for Heterodox Social Science.
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Interesting times ... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15220169/Trump-Vance-Israel-West-Bank-land-grab-insult.html
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Trump threatens to cut support for Israel after JD Vance 'insult'
Donald Trump revealed a red line that will force his administration to yank its support for Israel as it attempts to hold a fragile ceasefire with Hamas annexation of the West Bank.
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