"Today’s post is about one of the most fascinating characters of antiquity: a great engineer who refused to document his remarkable inventions because of his disdain for the practical applications of abstract geometry. That attitude strangled classical science in its crib, and the rebirth of that attitude threatens to do similar today. This guest post comes from the great Roman historian, Plutarch (AD 46–119), taken from his “Life of Marcellus.” It is the third century BC, and a brilliant philosopher who thinks engineering is beneath his dignity is about to save his home town of Syracuse, on the island of Sicily, from an immediate conquest by the Romans. Read on!"

https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/plutarch-on-archimedes

The exploration into the battle to create a unique new renaissance culture led by the artist-scientist-statesmen that led the American revolution continues with the second part of an ongoing series https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/samuel-fb-morse-goes-to-war-and-the

Reject modernity; embrace tradition: https://www.techradar.com/news/if-you-can-believe-it-millions-of-people-are-still-using-windows-xp

🇪🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 The Baltic states are preparing for a potential Russian invasion, according to LRT.

🇧🇾 Explosive structures have reportedly been installed on bridges along Lithuania’s borders with Belarus and Russia.

🛡 Dozens of locations have been set up to store anti-tank obstacles, and trench construction is underway.

🇫🇮 🇵🇱 Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland are reportedly preparing to fully mine their borders with Russia and Belarus.

🇷🇺 Latvia has completed the construction of a 280-kilometer fence along its border with Russia.

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BREAKING: U.S. vaccination rates are collapsing, with no county in Idaho, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, or Wisconsin meeting kindergarten herd-immunity levels.

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BREAKING - Denmark says will summon US ambassador over ‘totally unacceptable’ appointment of Greenland envoy https://bit.ly/4saDE01

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🇪🇺🇮🇹 Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni told Europeans not to worry because the new 2026 will be worse:

"2025 has been tough for all of us, but don’t worry—next year will be much worse."

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Update on Joel Davis.

I just got off the phone from Joel's lawyer and he has stated that Joel is being held in conditions that could only be described as human rights abuse. Joel has had no run out, no shower, and multiple times he has not been fed. He is spending 24 hours a day in lock up instead of the usual 23 hours for solitary confinement.

Victoria and NSW Police have charged Joel another 6 times with hurting peoples feelings with a range of offences for a podcast in December 2024.

https://rumble.com/v60sx8k-terrorism-is-either-gay-or-faked-by-jews-to-take-our-rights-away.html?e9s=src_v1_clr%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a

(The lawyer said something about comments on 'jews having too much power', 'Indians shouldn't be proud of working 100 hour weeks as that makes them slaves', and 'why are we bringing nigger rapists into the country?'. I'll try and get the time stamps so we can clip it so the public can see how the government is completely attacking political communication.)

Joel has not received any mail since being moved (which is pretty typical for at least a week and sometimes up to a month unfortunately), and has been denied books.

The prison is denying him phone calls to his friends and his mother because "he is a National Security Risk and has no rights". The Commissioner still has not allowed him to call his own mother because it would be a risk to National Security...

Joel has asked for people to send in chapters of books in the pdf form in A4 envelopes, specifically Nietzsche and Heidegger. He has also asked for news articles and I think he deserves to hear twitter gossip.

He wishes everyone a Happy New Year and said "The show goes on".

Please write to Joel and send him interesting twitter threads, essays, articles and chapters of his favourite books.

Joel Davis
MIN: 532624
Long Bay Correctional Complex
PO Box 13
Matraville NSW 2036

Fmr Rep. Matt Gaetz tells Tucker Carlson that agents of the Israeli govt tried to blackmail his wealthy father for $25m by saying they had "images of me with underage prostitutes."

Scott Adams helped expose the plot and the DOJ—under Biden—dropped their probe into Gaetz.

Stephen Alford, who "conveyed the message" to Gaetz's father, pled guilty to one count of wire fraud.

Jake Novak, who at the time worked for the Israeli Consulate General in NY and shared partial details of the plot with Adams, was never punished and now works at Real America's Voice.

"He got a television show!" Gaetz quips.

Gaetz also reveals that just the other day he was personally offered "a bunch of money" to "go to Israel" and give speeches.

After he declined, he says he got attacked as an "anti-Semite" by Jonathan Greenblatt at the ADL.

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2025: The Year Europe Lost its Mind

Or perhaps it was the year it became obvious that the European elites were taking orders from someone who isn’t the Americans and who doesn’t give a damn about the various European peoples. To be fair to the dismal year on the way out, at least 2025 won’t be a hard act to beat. In […]

https://voxday.net/2025/12/31/2025-the-year-europe-lost-its-mind/

SEN. TOMMY TUBERVILLE PAYS EMOTIONAL TRIBUTE TO ELLA COOK

On the Senate floor, Sen. Tommy Tuberville honored Ella Cook, Vice President of the College Republicans at Brown University, remembering her as a devout Christian who loved God, children, and her country. He spoke of her service in...
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