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The documentary I'm putting together is VERY long, + is really more like a freshman-level university course on scientific controversies. First of its kind. Will include curated reading materials, short videos, thought-provoking conversations + some relevant comedy.
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Ever notice that in Dune humans fly spaceships between planets but don't use a single computer? That's not a plot hole. It's completely on purpose. The movies barely explain why, but once you know, almost everything else in Dune starts to make sense. About 10,000 years before Paul Atreides, humans did exactly what we're doing right now. They built thinking machines to make life easier. They let the machines do their work and make their decisions, hoping it would set them free. Instead, the people who controlled those machines gained the power to enslave everyone else. Humanity eventually fought back in a holy war called the Butlerian Jihad, and won. The thinking machines were destroyed. To make sure it would never happen again, they made one rule sacred: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." But getting rid of computers created a problem: who would do their work? The answer was humans. Mentats are trained from childhood to think like computers. Navigators use the spice to glimpse the future and steer ships safely through space. The Bene Gesserit spend generations pushing the human mind and body to their limits. Every superpower in Dune exists for one reason: there are no computers. That's my favorite thing about Dune. It's also the most terrifying. Dune isn't a future without AI. It's the future after AI. Frank Herbert wrote that in 1965.
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Warner Bros releases the final trailer for Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Three 8% chance the film wins Best Picture at the Oscars
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2017: Former Stanford Provost Warns Students about the Threat from Within (original link terminated) web.archive.org/web/20230714…
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"... But we all need worthy opponents to challenge us in our search for truth. It is absolutely essential to the quality of our enterprise ..."
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"... The first step is to remind our students and colleagues that those who hold views contrary to one's own are rarely evil or stupid, and may know or understand things that we do not. It is only when we start with this assumption that rational discourse can begin ..."
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This is telling us that there is no infectious agent at all. The mines are leaking toxic substances like arsenic, which produces same symptoms. "Virologists have been unable to trace the full chain of infection in about 80 percent of these cases" breitbart.com/africa/2026/10…
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The bias against the cosmic plasma runs deep w this account.
💻 SUPERCOMPUTERS CRASH WHILE AN OLD LAPTOP SOLVES THE UNIVERSE: HOW SATURN PROVES SPACE-TIME IS A CRYSTAL AND OFFICIALLY TROLLS NASA! 🪐💥 Open your eyes and look at Saturn! Right now, a giant, direct, and irrefutable proof is hanging in our Solar System, showing that no "smooth, continuous space-time" actually exists! The space around us is a rigid, discrete crystal 💎. Yet, modern academic science has been staring stubbornly at it for over 40 years, seeing absolutely nothing. Why? Because they are measuring the cosmos with the wrong ruler, burning billions running continuous differential equations on supercomputers that fail, while the true code of the vacuum can be computed on a simple, old, dusty laptop using clean discrete mathematics! 🖥️❌ 1. A BEAUTIFUL POKE IN THE NOSE: OLD LAPTOPS VS. SUPERCOMPUTERS 🧠💻 Mainstream science loves complexity because complexity secures funding. They capture data on 1.55 million solar system objects (the MPCORB database) and panic because their continuous Keplerian χ² orbit-fitting algorithms catastrophically diverge and fail at specific celestial coordinates. Why? Because they are trying to force a discrete topological lattice into smooth calculus! 📉 To hide this failure, they build massive supercomputer clusters, burning megawatts of electricity to simulate continuous fluid dynamics that blur out reality. Meanwhile, the frozen, zero-parameter K-PHAM discrete operator runs flawlessly on a basic, years-old computer. It executes an iterative floor cascade over the square root of 3, instantly collapsing continuous gravitational chaos into strictly discrete, integer topological floors (Sn). Pure Diophantine equations don't need a supercomputer-they just need a clear mind! 2. EXPERIMENT IN LIVING COLOR: THE BLINDING VISUAL PROOF 🌌🔮 You don't have to take our word for it-the data has been translated into jaw-dropping, cinematic 3D interactive visualizations. When you run the open-source Master Visualization Suite, you see the smooth matrix of fairy tales vanish: - You see the entire Solar System mass distribution materialize as an exact, literal Micro-Macro Phase-Dichotomy, overlaying perfectly against the quantum nodal rings of a Hydrogen Stark state! - You see the 1.55 million objects instantly snap into a flawless, rigid 2x3 transverse-vertical phase-space lattice (Sk, Sh), occupying exactly 6 permitted structural nodes. The visualization doesn't smooth the data; it exposes the absolute geometric rigidity of the cosmos in real time. 3. TO NASA AND THE GRAND ACADEMIC GRANTED INSTITUTIONS: I AM OFFICIALLY TROLLING YOU 🛑🦣 Let's be completely honest: dear mainstream scientists and friends at NASA, I am officially trolling you, and I feel absolutely no shame! - You have multi-million dollar grants; I have a piece of paper and a pen. - You have supercomputing networks; I have a clear mind and an old computer. - You have fairy tales like "Dark Matter", "Gravitons", and a mythical "Planet Nine" to fix your broken equations; I have pure mathematics and 100% reproducibility. While you spend 40 years spinning water in a laboratory bucket trying to explain why Saturn's North Pole has a razor-sharp, straight-edged Hexagon (m=6) that survives monstrous storms and seasonal changes, pure vacuum crystallography explains it instantly. It is the Oh cuboctahedral symmetry group of the vacuum itself! The gas is just the smoke under your nose highlighting the invisible crystalline framework of space. 4. THE REVOLUTION CANNOT BE RENEGOTIATED 💎🚀 An atom is quantized, light is quantized, our DNA is a strict discrete program of 64 codons, but you want us to believe the cosmos in between is a "smooth rubber blanket"? The gig is up. The billions allocated to dead-end colliders and endless parameter-fitting are exposed. Space is a self-correcting arithmetic matrix. I am calling out physicists, astrophysicists, and mathematicians for an open, honest scientific dialogue. Step out from behind your grant reports, download the open-source python pipelines, and verify the formulas yourself. There are exactly 0 fitting parameters: 🔗 Full proof, metric, and code (Zenodo DOI): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21792… Stop playing with "dancing mammoths" and look at the math. The future of science is being made right now! 🦅 #NASA
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🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in North Carolina after an HOA just DOUBLED monthly fees to **$2,500/MONTH** for homeowners who were paying just $158/month just five years ago... ...and the homeowners say the HOA board tried to charge homeowners $7,500/MONTH JUST IN HOA FEES!!!!!!! On Monday night, the board backed off $7,500... ...but voted to DOUBLE fees to $2,500 a month instead. Yes, $30,000 a year just to LIVE IN YOUR HOME THAT YOU BOUGHT. Nearly SIXTEEN TIMES what families were paying a few years ago. Families who bought what they thought were their forever homes are now being told to pay $30,000 a year in HOA fees, or GO INTO FORECLOSURE!!!!!! The neighborhood is Magnolia Cove in Sherrills Ford, Catawba County NC. Jill Menson and her husband bought their house believing it would be their LAST home and five years ago, their HOA fee was $158 a month. This summer it shot up to more than $1,200. Plus a $10,000 ASSESSMENT on top of that. On Monday night, the HOA board voted to raise fees AGAIN, from $1,250 to $2,500 a month. That’s nearly SIXTEEN TIMES what they paid five years ago. And the meeting? It was held over ZOOM. Menson says they’ll be forced out with nowhere to go, because no one will buy a house carrying fees like that. So they went to the state for help. The North Carolina Attorney General’s office told Channel 9 there are NO STATUTES limiting how much an HOA can charge. None. As long as the board follows its own documents, it can charge whatever it wants. In Jill Menson’s words: “Nobody is helping us.” THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ABSURD AND SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!
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BREAKING: NASA TRIGGERED A HUGE EARTHQUAKE IN INDONESIA (probably) Analysis of ionospheric measurements show that NASA's Artemis II rocket launch back on April 1st 2026 (starting at 22:35 UTC) created a 5000 km long plasma contrail in Earth's ionosphere over North America. The Artemis II rocket was blasting its engines in the ionosphere for a full 18 minutes shortly after takeoff, with pressure from the hot exhaust creating and displacing local plasma, leaving a trail of disturbed plasma along its flight path stretching 5000 km (3100 miles), approximately the length of the continental USA. Here's where it gets crazy. 13 minutes after launch at 22:48 UTC while Artemis II was in Earth's inosphere creating this plasma contrail, a powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Indonesia in the Molucca Sea, shaking nearby islands of Sulawesi, Halmahera, Taliabu, and Pulau Obi. Here is the M7.4 USGS event page earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqua… I'm sure some of you remember my live coverage of the rocket launch and ensuing earthquake youtube.com/watch?v=W3YyBy4i… (this is a clip). Additionally it was a Full Moon (3 hours from exact, another triggerig mechanism) at time of launch with both South East Asia and the Americas on the sunlit side of the Earth (sharing the dayside ionosphere) Now if you're unaware, TONS of research has been done studying the interconnectedness of high-magnitude earthquakes (and just in general the lithosphere) and the ionosphere. Pulsing flashes of light (plasma, earthquake lights) have been observed happening just before and during earthquakes. Changes in ionospheric plasma (TEC) are often observed before, during, and immediately after powerful earthquakes. Schumann resonances (Earth's naturally resonant energy fields) can shift in their power, frequencies, and q-factors before, during, and immediately after powerful earthquakes. Anomalous radio-frequencies are often picked up as earthquake precursors, drastic increases in atmospheric conductivity in the boundary layer (0-2 km) have been observed, and even long-period magnetic waves have been observed pulsing in Earth's magnetic field after the most powerful earthquakes (Alaska M9.2 1964). There's more, but to summarize, the ionospheric and lithosphere are energetically connected together via a variety of mechanisms and they form a dynamic system where nudging one can nudge the other. See what a lot of geoscientists are loath to admit (for whatever reason) is that many unique triggering mechanisms exist for earthquakes. We have strain buildup finally tipping a fault or plate boundary over the edge (here everyone agrees), gravitational triggering via lunisolar effects (well proven), space weather (overwhelming evidence), and apparently ionospheric disturbances natural or manmade such as from huge rocket launches or nuclear detonations. Space Weather . Com wrote about the plasma contrail from Artemis II today (spaceweather.com/archive.php…) and said at the bottom: "No harm done? The plasma contrails faded after about an hour, and the paper reports no problems with GPS. But Artemis II may be just a preview. When SpaceX begins frequent launches of its giant Starship rocket, plasma contrails could become bigger and more common. The experiment is about to begin..." They did not acknowledge the huge earthquake which struck Indonesia, so "no harm done" would be FALSE, but they did point out how as heavy rocket launches are about to go exponential, a giant global experiment is about to begin that could have disasterous ramifications for millions. What if a space mission or war mongering nuclear test triggers New Madrid, or Cascadia? Now personally, drawing a direct triggering connection between the rocket launch and the M7.4 Indonesia earthquake I think is a slam dunk not only from the beyond coincidental timing but also from the undeniable GPS evidence of the giant plasma contrail created from Artemis II in the ionosphere. What do you think though? Here's a link to the research paper "Rare reoccurring ionosphere disturbances observed during the Artemis-II Lunar flyby voyage" just published in Geophysical Research Letters essopenarchive.org/doi/full/…
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The M7.4 Indonesia quake on April 1 2026 struck a tectonically active zone with frequent similar events and was unrelated to the distant Artemis II launch. Studies of the rocket's ionospheric effects report no harm or seismic link. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Nort… spaceweather.com/m/m_archive.ph… spaceweather.com/images2026/26o…
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Can we stop talking about "former" intelligence agents and the podcast drama between them and maybe focus on real issues that matter? How about "independent" media covers the many disturbing developments courtesy of the government (and the broader global governance structure) is currently doing, which in many areas is drastically under-reported, and try and hold actual power to account instead of reality TV-style mudslinging. Isn't it supposed to be different than mainstream media? In the event these people don't still work for intelligence, they are doing their work of divide and conquer and distract for them. I for one am tired of having this dramaslop algorithmically thrown at me.
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Soon people will be terrified to go to a hospital because they won't know if they'll come out alive. The depopulation conspiracy is morphing into truth.
BREAKING: M.A.I.D. now part of DNR Orders(Do Not Resusitate) with Bill C-41... Massive outrage as Canada’s highly controversial medical updates spark absolute horror over patient safeguards. Critics are calling it an unhinged dystopia after proposals emerged that could blur the lines between standard medical care and state-sponsored life-ending procedures. Under the guise of "advanced directives," critics warn the system is opening a terrifying backdoor that effectively lets medical institutions decide if and when to end a citizen's life. Slipping lethal execution protocols into a patient’s medical chart—collapsing the line between a standard Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order and an active push for medical assistance in dying (MAID)—is a localized death sentence. Giving hospitals the bureaucratic authority to decide when someone's "quality of life" has expired is an unspeakable violation of human rights. Bill C-41 is turning hospitals from places of healing into execution chambers. This is absolute insanity. #Canada #MAID #C41 #BreakingNews #DNR #AssistedDying
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Okay, let’s get this straight. The limestone blocks of the Great Pyramid of Giza are ARTIFICIAL. Why? Because they taste salty. This one fact PROVES it. No natural limestone contains table salt. None. I know, I know. Limestone formed in the sea, tidal waves, millions of years of geological processes, blah, blah. NO-NO! Natural limestone is NOT SALTY! Never! Check this out. Even though limestone forms on the seabed, beneath miles of salty seawater, its interior contains no salt. Why? Because salt dissolves readily in water and stays dissolved as long as the water remains. When water is squeezed out of limestone, THE SALT GOES WITH IT. Anyone who has ever tried to extract salt from water knows this. Either you use a salt evaporation pond, or the salt stays dissolved in the water. That’s it. By a strange twist of fate, I happen to have a piece of stone from the Great Pyramid. Before you freak out and accuse me of stealing it, first of all, I didn’t. And second, the person who took it didn’t steal it either. He simply brought it home, back in 1978, long before anyone cared or taking such a piece became illegal. A friend’s father brought it home at a time when climbing to the top of the pyramid was still allowed. Heck, a French couple even had sex up there, in the middle of a Muslim country. Climbing was banned shortly afterward. Anyway, my friend’s father took this infamous piece of stone from one of the inner corridors of the Great Pyramid. Go ahead and freak out now, but it doesn’t change anything. He took it more than 40 years ago, and it’s not going to grow back. He brought it all the way back to Hungary in his pocket. When I read Davidovits’ recipe for making pyramid stones, I came across his claim that the stones are indeed salty. So we organized a pyramid-stone-licking session with the guys. (Don’t freak out again!) Four grown men licked this original, unquestionably authentic piece of pyramid stone. And guess what? It IS salty. So, what now? How did the salt get in there if not millions of years ago? Well, then, thousands of years ago. Exactly. The recipe is astonishingly simple: 2 parts natron + 1 part quicklime + water = limestone paste (CaCO₃). That’s the basic idea. But the mixture isn’t salty yet, and it can even release corrosive NaOH. To prevent this, Imhotep added one part magnesium salt (MgCl₂), which transforms the mixture in a rather interesting way. But that’s too much chemistry for one post. I’ll explain it separately. The point is that the final product is an artificial limestone containing a little dolomite and table salt. But what about the snails? “But the pyramid stones must be natural because they contain fossils!” Ever heard of gravel or aggregate? As far as I know, it’s absolutely impossible to find billion-year-old pebbles in concrete. Nooo, you can’t mix gravel into concrete! Impossible! Just as impossible as finding fossil-bearing limestone fragments embedded in a limestone binder. So much for the snails. And now comes the inevitable question: “But how did they lift the cast stones into place?” They didn’t. Why lift something that’s already in place? CAST IN PLACE, MY FRIEND. CAST IN PLACE! Here are four advantages of casting the stones in place: 1. You only have to lift the raw materials, never the finished blocks. 2. Hardly any formwork is needed. Just a few boards, because three sides of each block are already there: the bottom and the two sides formed by adjacent stones. 3. The joints can be so precise that you can’t even slip a razor blade between them. 4. Every block can have a unique shape and size because there’s no need for a standardized mold. The result? An interlocking wall that could be highly resistant to earthquakes! If you believe the pyramids were built by aliens, or that 20-ton blocks were hauled 600 kilometers from a distant quarry, that’s your problem. That’s a belief, not an established fact. LET THE COMMENTS BEGIN! :-)
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dish soaps poke holes in your gut and ultimately cause loads of inflammation use baking soda, vinegar and natural products instead
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Immediately after an election, a public representative of the Brazilian Congress, a member of Lula's own Workers' Party, says, "I have information from the Federal Police that they're going to arrest many Bolsonaro supporters." You can expect many of Lula's political adversaries to be rounded up and put in jail. Apparently that is how "democracy" works in Brazil. If they are people charged with crimes, then why should it matter whether or not they were Bolsonaro supporters? Shouldn't justice be applied evenly to all?
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This ex-RFK Jr. supporter just sounded the alarm. Tiffany Cianci: “MAHA is fully captured by corporate interests.” And she named the one person who’s responsible: “Susie Wiles.” “The former lobbyist for Bayer-Monsanto and Pfizer.” Bookmark this. “She was the lead lobbyist for Pfizer that almost single-handedly negotiated the Covid mandate for the vaccines.” “She and Pam Bondi were partners at Ballard lobbying and one other lobbying firm that worked for Bayer-Monsanto and Pfizer.” “Before she had that job, she was Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign manager.” “Now, at the president’s right hand.” “The MAHA summit that took place over the last two weeks … OpenAI and Anthropic paid $300,000 each to be the keynote sponsors.” “And now we’re espousing AI is going to revolutionize healthcare.” “Bayer-Monsanto and Syngenta were able to successfully force Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to [remove all references to pesticides] in the MAHA Commission Report.” “That is corporate capture.” “At HHS, they appointed Brad Smith, the CEO of a healthcare company.” “He appointed 25 cronies that surrounded Bobby to serve as his roadblocks.” “You put Lee Zeldin and Brooke Rollins at the head of the EPA and the USDA.” “And what you have is a trifecta of completely walling off any good that could have been done.” @TheVinoMom @ClaytonMorris @RedactedNews
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The “climate crisis” is the biggest scam in scientific history. There's not one shred of empirical evidence that we are facing a crisis because the planet is slightly warmer than it was during the depths of the Little Ice Age.
When I became @UN Secretary-General, climate change was already an enormous threat. Today, its impacts are all around us. And those who did the least to cause the climate crisis are paying the highest price. We need climate justice. Now.
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