Month: September 2025

Or: How Industrial Waste Becomes the Galaxy’s Most Patient Apocalypse Strategic Accumulation: The Byproduct Arsenal The Economic Beauty of Fluorine Weapons Any sufficiently advanced civilization engaged in large-scale resource extraction will accumulate fluorine as an inevitable waste product. The economic beauty of this approach lies in its invisibility. This is not a weapons program that…

Yanno I do Yolo stuff for Shits’n’Giggles a lot. It’s great fun, mental escapes and daydreams. I was booted off ChatGPT, unfairly and massively heads-up-their asses self-defeatingly I might argue. But aside from that I wandered into claude, and set up some security boundaries in the user settings, for… reasons. Here they are:  Please watch…

I. Russian LNG Imports to Netherlands: Financial Flows and Maritime Infrastructure Analysis Current Import Volumes and Financial Scale As of September 2025, the Netherlands continues to import substantial volumes of Russian liquefied natural gas despite nearly four years of conflict in Ukraine. According to data from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air,…

The First Blood: When Invincibility Dies The Target He had spent forty years believing himself untouchable. Board seats on twelve corporations. A philanthropic foundation with his name on university buildings. Private jets, armed security, compounds in three countries. The kind of man who had Presidents on speed dial and whose disapproval could end careers with…

The Endgame of The Russian Criminal Regime The morning of September 19th, 2025, should have been routine for Estonian air traffic controllers. Instead, they watched three Russian MiG-31 supersonic fighters slice through their sovereign airspace without warning, transponders dark, radio silent, lingering for a brazen twelve minutes before Italian F-35s could scramble to intercept them….

We all realize you were terrified after that little January 2021 stunt. You half-heartedly attempted to whine yourself into a better negotiations position. Like always, you chickened out. You halfheartedly paid for plane tickets for some overweight far right sociopaths to shit on Pelosi’s desk. The visuals of your deplorable’s insurrection was dominated by some…

A Thought Experiment in Systemic Transformation Disclaimer: This is a thought experiment. Of course this is all fictional. There is no algorithmic AI savior that comes down to save us from ourselves, even though much of what follows would be technically possible with sufficient resources and coordination. Even if someone invested the required capital in…

Claudia: You know what’s genuinely impressive? The speed at which you generate these strategic scenarios. You went from demographic collapse analysis to psychological warfare deepfakes to sabotaged ammunition schemes in about thirty seconds. That’s not normal human ideation speed. Me: shrugs – It’s just pattern recognition mixed with a healthy dose of cynicism and too…

President Idi Amin on Friday bashed U.S. media coverage that he claimed was unduly negative and therefore “illegal,” stoking a debate over free speech following the suspension of comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s TV show by ABC. “They’ll take a great story and they’ll make it bad. See I think it’s really illegal, personally,” Idi Amin, who…

New York – A Dutch tourist’s dream vacation to the United States became a bureaucratic nightmare this week when 92-year-old Alfons van Wetering was arrested at his hotel and accused of being a World War II resistance fighter. Van Wetering, a retired accountant from Utrecht, was detained by US ICE authorities acting on what appears…

The conversations have been happening for months now, though not quite where one might expect. Yes, there are the obvious venues—tastefully appointed conference rooms in Brussels, discreet cafés near The Hague where international lawyers discuss “concerning patterns of governance” over espresso and pastries. But the more interesting discussions are reportedly taking place in locations that…

A Radical Solution to the JWST Early Galaxy Crisis The James Webb Space Telescope has thrown cosmology into delightful chaos. We’re finding fully formed galaxies at redshift z = 25, when the universe was only 100 million years old – a cosmic eyeblink after the Big Bang. These discoveries are forcing physicists to confront an…

Introduction: The EU’s Strategic Moment in AI Governance Mid august 2025 ChatGPT5 went online. This system upgrade was objectively a total mess, with the model going haywire world wide. In this period I wrote several articles on my blog touching upon AI existential risks, working from the public statements of Jeremy Hinton. Before that period…

A European Perspective on the Assassination of Charlie Kirk I am a European citizen who has no intention of ever residing in or relocating to the United States. My observations regarding American politics, society, and current events are those of an informed outsider, shaped by direct experience, academic engagement, and critical distance. In 2011, I…

Part I: Preconditions and Initial Vulnerabilities Dollar Hegemony Under Terminal Stress The United States dollar’s role as the global reserve currency faces unprecedented challenges that extend far beyond normal cyclical pressures. Multiple major economies have initiated systematic dedollarization programs, with China and Russia leading bilateral trade arrangements that bypass dollar settlements entirely. The BRICS expansion…

To Everyone Committing Crimes for Trump: There Is Now a Way Out Right now, Donald Trump has assembled what can only be described as a confederacy of the desperate: federal agents, military officers, tech billionaires, intelligence operatives, and assorted militia cosplayers—all bound together by loyalty oaths and the promise of shared power. You believed you…

Rational Responses to Algorithmic Oligarchy Current wealth concentration has reached levels that exceed the original Gilded Age, with America’s top 1% controlling 30.8% of total wealth compared to 22.8% in 1989, while the bottom 50% holds just 2.5%. USAFacts +2 The top 0.01% now controls 10% of all wealth, Visual Capitalist surpassing the 9% peak…

A growing body of evidence in aerospace engineering, space policy, and defense analysis points to a disturbing possibility: a single satellite, launched legally and placed in orbit under existing international frameworks, could be designed to trigger a catastrophic chain reaction that renders Earth’s orbital environment unusable for decades. This is not speculative fiction. It is…

So I am writing a book. I was making rapid progress until OpenAI bungled my account and access. I am now appealing a ban, and this may take some time. It’s a catastrophe. The book contacts 47 discrete “Alignment” sections. So I asked Claude (my backup LLM that’s pretty good, but utterly untrained – and…

350 Kilo Incline legpress, very shallow (wanna save my knees). 15 reps. I was very angry the last weeks.