DeepSeek is much less compute watts than US competition!  Probably working efficient SW and lower watt chips.
 
Anthropic last night put cheaper compute to explain its unaudited profit.
 
AI may work someday, but it will be so cheap a lot of the hyperscaled lenders will be bankrupt

Posted by: paddy | Aug 20 2026 17:10 utc | 4

Einstein the Wife Beater (@10 mins) and thief/fraud (@20 mins)
 
https://rumble.com/v767zd6-einstein-a-wife-beater-and-a-plagiarist.html
 

Posted by: Exile | Aug 20 2026 17:34 utc | 6

For the barkeep, and my friends at the bar:
 
 
Just came across an important health related issue that can easily be diagnosed by anyone at the bar.
 
Ready? Grab a mirror, or turn on your phone camera to check your ear. If there’s a diagonal crease in your earlobe you may have cardio-vascular issues.
 
“Frank’s sign, or a diagonal earlobe crease, is associated with a greater risk of coronary artery disease, which can lead to heart attacks. This crease may indicate underlying vascular changes similar to those affecting the heart’s blood vessels.”
 
https://myheart.net/articles/earlobe-crease-and-heart-disease-fact-or-myth/
 
Wishing you good health.
Cheers,

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Aug 20 2026 18:10 utc | 8

duck n cover,
 
are Harretz readers also Jew Haters ? 

‘Sadistic Rituals’
Survivors Testify to Knesset About Childhood Sexual Abuse Network in Israeli Religious Ceremonies

(Excerpt)…..,The women described years of abuse, including rape and torture, masked as spiritual rituals, as well as systemic silencing and neglect from authorities. As the Knesset members listened to the survivors’ testimony, a number appeared visibly shaken…….

 
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-04/ty-article/.premium/survivors-testify-to-knesset-about-childhood-sexual-abuse-network-in-religious-ceremonies/00000197-3bca-da41-a9f7-3fceaa010000

Posted by: Exile | Aug 20 2026 18:16 utc | 10

The US is hurt by higher oil prices, even if you accept the narrative of it being a ‘net exporter’. Because high oil prices are resultant of gulf regimes not being able to export oil, hence putting pressure on them to sell US treasuries. 
 
Also, higher oil prices put pressure on net importers to sell assets to replace lost oil revenue to fund the strain of import costs and on national budget deficits. So high oil price puts global pressure across the board to sell US treasuries.

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 20 2026 18:20 utc | 12

Hey duck n cover, Mossad excels in Projection.
 
Thanks for breaking cover.
 
 
 
 
. 

Posted by: Suresh | Aug 20 2026 19:27 utc | 14

Alon Mizrahi covers big tech so intent and malicious in controlling our consciences in his latest article. 
 
He can be found on Substack, for now.

Posted by: Suresh | Aug 20 2026 20:11 utc | 16

duck n cover | Aug 20 2026 18:05 utc | 7
 
Einstein was behind the NYT letter that declared Revisionist Zionism a species of Nazism and refused both the Israeli Presidency and an unlimited budget for an Institute if he moved to the Zionist Entity. Mossad certainly has an interest in tarring him with the same brush.

Posted by: S.P. Korolev | Aug 20 2026 20:17 utc | 18

re: Einstein
 
Einstein was unequivocally against the zionist project yet, ironically, the University of Jerusalem has ownership of all rights to Einstein’s image, name, etc.
 
Desperation must be running high if they’re ready to sacrifice their golden cash cow via name tarring.

Posted by: robjira | Aug 20 2026 20:35 utc | 20

So I did really write independently developed above?! ha, that’s bad. All I can give as my defense is that I am surprised about the tonal space the Kora inhabits. That sounds and feels a lot like the western tonal system to me, though I know the fine details of tuning are handled in own ways; so much so that the arrival of western mechanical devices, which are more stable, is at odds with the practice of getting the instrument in tune with the place it is beiong played, including its climatic conditions. That’s just another aspect of this approach I find literally sci-fi level wise. If you compare the two records I linked to above, you’ll hear the very different sound of the strings both players use – another thing the Kora excels at. The dynamic range extends from ff to pp and damping over deadstopping to fully to dead notes on multiple strings at once. 
 
ts, independently developed — But let’s watch this space. Everyone has begun using the electric bass guitar and autotune perhaps with good reason. I’ll need to find out. Lucky me knows the head of our local university departement in systematical musicology from a discussion about Aristotle some fifteen years ago, he does ethnology (and computer stuff, the current frontier in tone) and had invited me back then, “my students can’t do maths” – I didn’t go, officially because I didn’t want to get involved with the wave equation. He’ll probably remember me.

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 20 2026 20:52 utc | 22

@ persiflo | Aug 20 2026 20:32 utc | 19  // 22
 
listening to the first link right now.. sounds great… sounds like you have just discovered the kora as an instrument.. maybe you just discovered mali and african music too.. who knows!! maybe you ”independently discovered it”, lol…  i have a friend over 30 years ago playing the kora in victoria b.c.  
 
about auto tune and auto correct… someone was recently talking about if musicians today had to do recordings without these technological developments, they would be screwed… i thought that was funny and true..  spending time in recording studios, is walking into a technological bazaar where all these extra tech tricks are used to apparently ”enhance” everything… i think it does the opposite myself… i would prefer the raw sounds off the floor, but we are all different… 
 
do you ever listen to any kora music where a few people are playing with one another? 

Posted by: james | Aug 20 2026 21:02 utc | 24

@james – I’m just getting into this Kora thing. The first time I heard one was a busker who played at the harbour front. My colleague and me were paripateining, but stopped to listen to this despite the overcrowded sidewalk, and stayed until he finished, talking about the music throughout. Afterwards we went to chat with the player, that’s where I first heard the name. But actively listening to this music has begun just weeks ago for me. I am slow to get into  breadth and depth of a specific music, especially when I reqally like it. It’s as if I had a natural respect for what it does to me. Not sure why, but it’s visible in my most important life decision, which is to become a philosopher and not a musician, studying composition and all. There are problems on this planet, you see? The warrior gene is strong in me. 

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 20 2026 21:15 utc | 26

No, Sebgo, you’re wrong. Germany has electricity, so no one needs a Kora here. I will admit that there may be at least one (possibly retired) teacher in Germany, probably some guy from Mali who married a German woman and now lives in Berlin or something. 
 
 

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 20 2026 21:36 utc | 28

You made me laugh with your reference to electricity.
 
It’s about loving a sound and an instrument enough to study it and learn to play it, not necessarily about using electricity to do so.
 
I don’t think electricity has always existed in Europe, but music certainly has.
 
I’ve had the chance to see for myself that certain instruments were well known in Europe.
The young daughter of a visitor, from the Netherlands or Germany, I can’t recall which, was able to spot wrong notes on these instruments purely by ear, because she takes lessons back home.

Posted by: Sebgo | Aug 20 2026 21:41 utc | 30

Just joking, Sebgo. But, sampling? I see you are not a player, all the intricacy is in the fingertips, and the skill is deeply mystical synthesis; the very counterpole of analytic exactness.
 
The djembe is indeed very popular, but getting the jam going will take another 80-120 years here. Nothing will be within reach until your people have taken over the general management of the bus schedules. 

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 20 2026 21:42 utc | 32

that is interesting what you say of orthodox being put in a defensive position and the results implied by that.. 
Posted by: james | Aug 20 2026 14:50 utc | 272
I brought this over from the previous open thread, thinking of the way in which some rivalry between the eastern and western empires affected eastern and western churches from earliest times.  I’m not a student of church history, but we all know a bit about how statehood affected the western church, and a little less I would say how it meshed with that in the east.  I only have read a bit about iconoclasm promoted in the east due to excesses perceived in the manner in which icons were given more standing than their due.  Our Israeli/jewish denigrators would have a field day with the issue, not that it descended as far as have the perversions of that cult, but iconographers were definitely persecuted before  their status was upheld; many fled to the west where, as icons had only had the status of ‘religious paintings’, there was no threat to their  status there.
I mentioned that in our little church in Santa Fe we used decoupage to reproduce the beautiful icons of the  past — and even today that would not appeal to many in Orthodoxy who have carried the actual painting of icons to the extent that it is understood in many official larger communities where the employment of iconographers to decorate a church is part of that community‘s ability to present a full Orthodox tableau as it were.  Nothing to argue against in that.  I think of such as similar to how present day apologists for the church describe such concepts as ‘tradition’ in touch with the great writers of church history,  the living spirit of the church moving through time.  Somehow, both are necessary, and I make the attempt to paint in that tradition, though only for home use.
 
I still think there is something to be said about our manner of respecting icons that were painted long ago.  It isn’t about their power during times of historic stress, though they have had that,  but rather that the images go beyond any historical period to tell us about what the Gospels themselves are saying.   So a faithfully well represented image  has extracted itself from the personage of the iconographer – we don’t have to know that person’s story to feel its power.  And that is far different from a western religious painting, though even that has a vestige of the same.  In the west, painters often used human models for their beautiful religious paintings.  To paint an icon you don’t do that; you use an earlier icon.
 
At the time I was first looking at icons I can remember that they didn’t seem to me to belong in books at all, or in museums.  Their place, even as prints, needed to be in an icon corner or in a church to be properly in relation with people.  That was how I felt, and still somewhat feel, even though I have plenty of books now with icons entombed within!  There’s an awe that goes with contemplating them for me.  I’m sure that comes from having contemplated them in a church setting as images whether produced by paint on board or as we had them, decoupaged. 
I’m glad we have` beautiful images either way.

Posted by: juliania | Aug 20 2026 22:00 utc | 34

To Exile and other resident antisemitic propagandists:
 
An (anti-Zionist) Jew telling the truth—”Israeli society is sick”
https://youtube.com/shorts/G6foQnvIOwo?si=NFRyX4uRyZP51ODh
 
Let it be clear that the informative posts by Exile, Suresh, and others are important and welcome.
The problem is that, in sharing them, they conflate Jewish fascism—Zionism—with the Jewish people themselves and/or with Judaism.
This is the narrative the Zionazis want to push. I hope you realize this

Posted by: Soviético | Aug 20 2026 22:19 utc | 36

Oops. Rezso would approve.  
 

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 20 2026 22:24 utc | 38

Sovietico@36:
 
Unfortunately most polling indicates the overwhelming majority of Jews are supportive of Zionism.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 20 2026 22:43 utc | 40

Kevin has published two new short videos accompanied by text articles that cover important topics that rarely seen here, Chinese robots in suitcases and Trump’s new robot bans: did Tesla just win the humanoid war? and The Urban Mining race: US and Europe already a decade behind, and probably cannot catch up. The latter reminded me of Sanford and Son and how the type of people they portrayed perhaps provided the idea seed, although that likely resulted from Western sanctions from PRC’s outset. In so many ways, the West has powered China’s rise, Chinese have proven they can do Marxian Industrial Capitalism far better than the West. An example is the circular economy, which was an idea implemented before the economy was capable of fueling it. Russia adopted a similar policy after the 2014 sanctions were levied. And China convinced ASEAN nations to follow suit by providing the feedstock. 
 
The first video article explains how Tesla is being set-up to enjoy a monopoly on humanoid robotics within the Outlaw US Empire while remaining globally uncompetitive. Fascinating!       

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 20 2026 23:16 utc | 42

It has been approved for ICE to use taser gloves on kids for school discipline, which proves if you lay down with dogs you wake up wanting to kill kids.
29 schools in Nebraska have them and used them on students
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdBAZriZfkQ

Posted by: ld | Aug 21 2026 0:58 utc | 44

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 20 2026 23:08 utc | 41
Kind of like the conceptual artist, Mark Lombardi.

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 21 2026 1:46 utc | 46

Posted by: Suresh | Aug 20 2026 19:27 utc | 14 & Nemesis 17
 
One appears to finally have ducketh and covereth too much to pretend otherwise. The reaction to the Einstein video, which also touched on various other plagiarism rows – including the risk one runs of being accused of “antisemitism” for pointing it out when the plaigerizer happens to be Jewish (or Zionist) and targeted for reprisal. 
 
Ironic that the ducker & coverer also invokes the Arday case, which happened to involve a coalition of mostly Zionist actors and factions – likely motivated by the same ‘philosophies’ as Bill Ackman and his wife (the love of “Israel” and hatred of Arabs and Palestinians) – including a Zionist billionaire, to destroy Arday for his own views on Palestine. Of course this could not be admitted, so all they had to do was get the ball rolling so the mainstream media could finish the job. Whether Arday plaigarized elements of his thesis or told tall tales about his life is almost irrelevant in the context, because the context is that his accusers themselves are all guilty of ethnosupremacist beliefs and…..many of them guilty of plagiarism (just like Ackman’s wife). 
 
But the ducking one feels compelled to insist this is about spreading Jew hate, even while ignoring the fact that Norman Finkelstein – who exposed a different plagiarist and had his career savagely altered as a result – is Jewish himself.  And how could we forget Alan Dershowitz, he of many accusatory and inflammatory episodes, usually in service to Zionism and “Israel” (but not always – he can’t help himself, he was born that way). Hasn’t he also been called out for plaigiarism? 
 
Yet among all above parties mentioned, a common trendline glows a radioactive yellow. Members of one particular in-group and holders of a certain ‘philosophy’ are somehow almost totally immune to career and personal damage from legitimate accusations of plagiarism while holders of the opposite – or at least a more humane – ‘philosophy’ on a certain increasingly forced taboo topic: Zionism and “Israel” – and also a shockingly decreasingly taboo topic – “race realism” aka the pseudo-scientification of old fashioned “white” supremacy and self-belief in chosenness. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 21 2026 2:49 utc | 48

the planned collapse of the western economies
a blast from the past at Strategic Culture Foundation
 
video from 2022 with Tom Luongo 
The Great Reset
https://strategic-culture.su/video/2022/03/10/great-resets-at-war-with-tom-luongo-the-strategy-session-episode-47/

Posted by: ld | Aug 21 2026 2:59 utc | 50

@25 persiflo

…but why try to recreate what instruments are naturally already ? It takes a lot of playing just to get a feel for any particular instrument, and that is with all the various senses of touch each one allows to be understood.

For example, you could make a string sound like steel or nylon, but the actual feel would still be of whatever one was used to provide the initial sound.

I think synthesised music is just better as its own avenue, where it does not try to be a real instrument. Though I suppose incorporating facets that are present on normal instruments is not wrong at all, it should not be to mimic as a replacement, because that is not possible, bluntly. Only a plain instrument will be a plain instrument, in total.

Otoh though it means other possibilities are more open.

I have the same experience with metal detectors, some are an unprocessed signal that just sounds what the detector ‘hears’, they are very direct and alive. Other include a lot of processing, to change tone for metal type or to create ground tone along with object tone etc. . Those can help make the information clearer, can be fun, but they lack the sense of contact with a straight signal.

Also tuning, where far out of tune (particularly chords) can sound uncomfortable, I find perfect equal tuning harsh, even unpleasant. People get used to a certain approach I think, and also the different modes to match harmonics have been understood for a long time.

I only listened so far to a little of that first link, and the closeness and interplay reminded me of some spanish guitarists I have listened to. It is very nice music. If you imagine previously, strings were not standard and so both the tuning and technique had to be adapted to a degree. To a lesser extent, I always tune without tuner, using harmonics or frets or combination of those, depending, add some compensation for where I know the instrument is not exact, and then still tune by ear while playing , with experience after a while you can tell which string/s are not acceptable for that particular composition for example.

It is normal people insist/compete over tuning, someone else playing out of tune in an enssemble will be noticed. However soloists have much more room, because they can adapt their ‘own sound’ without it sounding to far out to the listener. It will even sound ‘normal’ as in ‘that is its charm or how it is supposed to be’ , which would be true also (except to someone used to fixed tuning).

Flute is an extreme example, exact tuning is not possible, even on Boehm. Then there is variation of perception or steadiness of who is tuning the flute, differences between future players of airflow, position and more besides.

There is a tale about these people trying to get a flute to play in tune, so they ask a jazz flautist because he is a professional, he plays off a tune … ‘fine flute’ he says. The point being that the jazz flautist has learned how to play any note in and out of tune.

Just rambling off my thoughts on all that is all :- )

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 21 2026 3:35 utc | 52

Nobody wants to be Jewish
 
https://alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/nobody-wants-to-be-jewish-or-christian

Posted by: ld | Aug 21 2026 3:58 utc | 54

Coal wasn’t dead after all. Entering another (mini) super cycle, together with supply disruption in Indonesia and potentially China.
 
Coal Remains The Undisputed King Of Global Power

Coal remains the world’s largest power source, generating nearly 11,000 TWh in 2026—77% more electricity than wind and solar combined.
The Iran war is giving coal an unexpected boost, as disrupted LNG supplies and higher gas prices make coal more competitive in Europe and Asia.
Renewables are growing rapidly, but soaring electricity demand is slowing coal’s displacement, with the IEA expecting coal to remain the largest individual power source through 2030.

 
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Coal/Coal-Remains-The-Undisputed-King-Of-Global-Power.html

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 21 2026 5:10 utc | 56

Einstein did his job long ago… derailed physics for over a hundred years. His wife was the mathematician. TOR is mostly bullshit, with a few Earth-centric ‘facts’ thrown in.
 
Just my opinion.

Posted by: Nor am I | Aug 21 2026 5:34 utc | 58

Luke Gromen just exposed the ultimate financial magic trick. 🪞🔥
 
Treasury says we’ve “peaked the deficit.” Here is how you zero-out a national deficit on paper without cutting a single dollar of spending:
 
1. The Debt Swap
Swap long-term 5% Treasury bonds into short-term T-bills.
 
2. The Captive Stablecoin Bid
Mandate that $1T+ of digital stablecoins must be backed 100% by these short-term T-bills-while paying 0% yield to the stablecoin holders.
 
3. The Rate Suppression
Slash the T-bill rate to 0.60%. Since stablecoin users get 0%, the banks and issuers keep the tiny spread, and the Treasury’s multi-trillion-dollar interest expense vanishes overnight.
 
The Catch?
 
You didn’t fix the debt-you monetized it into circulating digital cash.
 
Deficits shrink on paper. Money supply explodes in reality. Real yields go deeply negative.
 
Financial repression 101: The debt gets inflated away, cash savings get taxed invisibly, and hard assets reprice to infinity.

https://x.com/AITrailblazerQ/status/2090601534795206912

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 21 2026 5:37 utc | 60

Posted by: ld | Aug 21 2026 3:58 utc | 54
I prefer to avoid all the Abrahamic flavors.  It’s a Neapolitan ice cream that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Some of their ghost stories are pretty good, though.  And I kinda like Proverbs.

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 21 2026 6:23 utc | 62

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 21 2026 6:33 utc | 63
 
Arby et.al. Going to be miffed that you are mocking them

Posted by: Exile | Aug 21 2026 6:36 utc | 64

Kora:   … seems about the maximum height I can think of. 
Posted by: persiflo | Aug 20 2026 20:32 utc | 19
 
Kithara:   Hold my beer

Posted by: jopalolive | Aug 21 2026 6:46 utc | 66

AI will state that the Aulos could not produce Binary Beats, but common sense says otherwise.  Put one flute of the binary flute on one side of the head, and the other on the other side.
 
It is unfathomable to know how far ancient Greeks took musical technology and creativity.  This applies to Persia, China… there was an archaeological find of a royal court that had a highly complex brass bell instrument about the width of a small piano.  Each brass piece could produce multiple tones.

Posted by: jopalolive | Aug 21 2026 7:15 utc | 68

@Melaleuca | Aug 20 2026 23:08 utc | 41

Many of these books showed many inconsistencies with the modern version of history & exposed many hidden secrets.

In June, I travelled to Peru with family and friends to study first hand the many megalithic sites there. They are evidences of a world history in need of significant revision. Human civilization did not appear for the first time in Mesopotamia 5000 years ago, it was instead a reboot of civilization lost in a cataclysm but leaving behind megalithic evidence all around the world.
 
In Paracas on the coast south of Lima we saw first hand the elongated sculls which are significantly larger than modern sculls and missing the sagittal suture of modern human sculls. The Paracas peninsula is a super dry desert with hundreds of graves where these sculls are found. Interestingly, this site is the exact antipode of Angkor Wat in Cambodia which we visited in 2019. Several of the same megalithic features seen in Cambodia have exact duplicates in Peru, I have seen them myself at both sites.
 
In order to adapt to the high altitudes of the Andes mountains we first flew to the city of Arequipa of 2300 m above sea level, and from there to the Inca captitol of Cuzco (3400 m) during the Inti Raymi festival at Sacsayhuaman. Just 200m above Cuzco the incredible site of Sacsayhuaman can be seen with its zig-zag polygonal walls of stones weighing tens of tons perfectly fitted to each other without mortar. There is nothing like this anywhere else.
 
In the ‘sacred valley’ from Cuzco to Machu Picchu the site of Ollantaytambo is a must see. Its granite megaliths on the top of one side of the Urubamba valley approaches ~100 tons while the quarry is even higher on the top of another mountain on the other side of the valley, across the Urubamba river.
 
We further travelled by bus to Puno by the Titikaka lake, passing a maximum altitude of 4335 m above sea level. Our only regret was that we were for practical rasones were unable to go to the enigmatic site of Puma Punku across the border to Bolivia. 
 
In summary, modern history needs a complete overhaul and needs to be extended many thousands of years earlier than what conventional history ‘teaches’ today. But in doing so a modern cultural shift is needed where we recognize that our current civilization is not necessarily the pinnacle of linear development and improvement. But the current ‘powers that be’ will of course not consider such ideas. 
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 21 2026 7:27 utc | 70

Norwegian,
https://media.bloomsbury.com/rep/files/primary-source-57-narrative-of-the-conquest-of-peru.pdf
 
 
In “Cortez & The Conquest Of Mexico By The
Spaniards In 1521,” Bernal Díaz Del Castillo
provides a first-hand account of one of the most
significant events in history: the conquest of the
Aztec Empire by Spanish conquistadors led by
Hernán Cortés. Through his vivid and detailed
descriptions, Díaz Del Castillo brings to life the
epic battles, political intrigue, and cultural
clashes that defined this momentous chapter in
history. This gripping narrative offers a unique
perspective on the conquest of Mexico and invites
the reader to step into the shoes of the soldiers
who witnessed it all firsthand……
 
https://cdn.bookey.app/files/pdf/book/en/cortez-&-the-conquest-of-mexico-by-the-spaniards-in-1521.pdf
 
and 
 
 
https://mexicanlibrary.org/indigenous-cultures-michoacan-mexico-purepecha-people/

Posted by: Exile | Aug 21 2026 8:23 utc | 72

Bishop Quiroga
 
Posted by: Exile | Aug 21 2026 8:26 utc | 73
 
—
 
History is written by the winners.
 

Posted by: too scents | Aug 21 2026 8:33 utc | 74

Torturers hiding behind the tortured, they have no excuse, not now, not later, whoever they are.
 

If you are the dealer, I’m out of the game
If you are the healer, it means I’m broken and lame
If thine is the glory, then mine must be the shame
You want it darker
We kill the flame
 
[…]
They’re lining up to prisoners
And the guards are taking aim
I struggle with some demons
They were middle class and tame
I didn’t know I had permission
To murder and to maim
You want it darker
 
[…]
 
Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker

Posted by: js | Aug 21 2026 9:39 utc | 76

Nor am I | Aug 21 2026 5:34 utc | 58
TOR was initially a consequence of Maxwells electromagnetic equations. In the 19th century mathematicians like Felix Klein and Henri Poincare and others were interested in so called invariant theory.
.
It has very successfully turned out to provide regularities that physicists have used to clarify their truths. Invariant theories find what formulas remain the same while you use a wide set of coordinate transformations that may change the shapes involved.
.
Thus they are a way to look for more stability than what you have if you dont look for that kind of robustness of  the way in which you describe your truth. The last few decades the empirical proofs have amassed showing that the Schwarzschild metric that was the first solution of Einsteins theory has turned out to be in agreement with experiment no matter how strange it first appeared. 
.
It really appears as if the universe is a mathematical design.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Aug 21 2026 10:31 utc | 78

The Chinese recently made claims about an old civilisation.
The  Cosmological Artifacts (Gaomiao Culture):
 
The absolute oldest physical anchor for this theory is white pottery unearthed at the Gaomiao site (Hunan province), dating back roughly 8,000 years.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Aug 21 2026 10:44 utc | 80

Forgotten People 3 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9_Fph5RrT4&list=PLNxykOfgVXWnOuUVGz29Oe3niKxqDG0Ri&index=41

Posted by: jopalolive | Aug 21 2026 11:07 utc | 82

.It really appears as if the universe is a mathematical design.
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Aug 21 2026 10:31 utc | 78
 
Thanks for your response, petergrfstrm. The real problem is normal human perception. The waking consciousness processes everything in linear fashion. The unrealised basic assumption is that time is a single arrow type of thing… that ‘time’ can be seen as distinct from ‘space’. It is believed that this is the rational way to see things.
 
Yet one cannot exist without the other. It is actually one thing: spacetime. There is only ‘here now’. What we see as past is still dynamic and real, yet we can no longer access it. The future exists too, but from our personal view, it is potential and cannot be accurately predicted.
 
This is why chicken and egg questions lead to paradox, which isn’t a thing either. It’s a sign that the question itself is wrong. Big bang theory contains the same kind of paradoxical thinking, wherein it is said that before the big bang there was no time or space, just some magical entity called a singularity. Without space and time there is nothing and no impetus for big bangs at all.
 
Spooky action at a distance is what Einstein said about quantum theory. He wouldn’t believe it. Yet the quantum reality is as close as science gets to the old concept of the ‘aether’. reconciling the two viewpoints and theories is not possible unless one gives way to the other.

Posted by: Nor am I | Aug 21 2026 12:07 utc | 84

I asked AI about
 

Beginning a statement with such a phrase, immediately discreditw everything that follows. 
 
Posted by: Exile | Aug 21 2026 11:47 utc | 83

 
Additionally, it makes my scrolling finger itch. 

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 21 2026 12:10 utc | 86

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Aug 21 2026 11:04 utc | 81
Yeah, AI.  The modern focus of the eye within the triangle I
There was some Iranian conference that obviously had the eye in the pyramid, on the wall above the speaker, and above it it morphed into mathematical geometric patterns of various types, then another section with Arabic calligraphy, then more patterns.  They were obviously heavy trolling the west w/ the A pyramid simplistic symbology.  They were also trying to teach the Zio s, Yeah, the all seeing eye is a basic concept, there is more.  
“No matter how high the eye may rise, the eyebrow is always above it” 
AI knows all, Algorithms created by people, a society that partly still can’t answer what a woman is, or that some believe the Aztec were a peaceful lot unfairly demonized by the white devils.  Never mind the contemporary In dios who thought the Aztecs were the demons incarnate.  Never mind the genetic  evidence of the vicious Aztec conquest.  Never mind the tens of thousands skulls with tool marks.
 
“The ancient footprints discovered at White Sands National Park are significant archaeological finds that provide insight into early human life in North America. These footprints were uncovered in 2009 along the shores of what was once Lake Otero, an ice-age lake.
The footprints have been dated to approximately 21,000 to 23,000 years ago. However, this dating is currently a subject of scientific debate”
 
“Man with thy foot of twine, deign to measure eternity”
Sir Richard Burton
 
Here is the following AI response to what is happening in the Iran war:
“The 2026 Iran war began on February 28, 2026, when the United States and Israel launched military operations against Iran. This conflict was triggered by the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, which resulted in significant retaliatory actions from Iran.
Military Operations

• The U.S. and Israel initiated joint military operations targeting Iranian military infrastructure.
• Iran has responded with missile strikes and drone attacks across the region, leading to high casualties on both sides.

Casualties

• The conflict has resulted in thousands of casualties, including military personnel and civilians from various countries involved.

Geopolitical Impact

• The war has heightened tensions in the Middle East, particularly affecting oil prices and regional security dynamics.
• The closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran has led to a global oil shock, impacting economies worldwide.

Current Situation
Ongoing Hostilities

• Despite attempts at ceasefires, hostilities continue, with Iran threatening and attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz to assert control over this critical shipping route.
• The U.S. has responded with military actions to protect its interests and allies in the region.

Economic Consequences

• The conflict has disrupted supply chains and led to rising fuel prices, affecting global markets.

The situation remains fluid, with ongoing military engagements and diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict.”
 
Everybody on this MB is well aware of this summary.  AIt has no special insight, in fact it is wrong in it’s timeline, as it states the conflict was triggered by the assassination of Khomeini.  Uh, no.  (a)I dummy, it was t’riggered’ by a tribe of psychopathic, narcissistic, avarice w/no bounds, sexually deviant serial killers.  ‘t”rig”gered’ indeed.  Where is that highly relevant information in the (a)I summary?
 
So to translate the ai language of certitude into English- situation remains fluid – (a)I don’t know what is going to happen.  And though (a)I plows through copious amounts of information, (a)I have no way of verifying specific veracity due to the verification process using collated consensus, or programmed preferences.  I would guess the military version needs to be more useful so the inputs are restricted to data feeds and minimizing of preferences.
 
Kind of summarizes the human condition.  It might be as you wrote.  Certainly the peat bog description is compelling.

Posted by: jopalolive | Aug 21 2026 12:27 utc | 88

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 21 2026 2:49 utc | 48
I got wood skipping your retarded crap.
 
Let the mountains sing…John Denver. The truth of nature and its destruction of you and your whole white trash culture is awesome to watch. Burn baby burn! The trees of the field will applaud. The owls will be free. No kids playing football in 110 heat and some dickhead blaming jews for what every single one of you is doing.
 
And your fat ass will make a good compost heap. 

Posted by: Duck n cover | Aug 21 2026 13:00 utc | 90

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 21 2026 2:49 utc | 48
Oh, and no one buying the lunacy that China and Russia are leading humanity into a golden age of missile shields and EVs and moon bases.
 
You “adults” need to go drink a cup of gasoline. 

Posted by: Duck n cover | Aug 21 2026 13:04 utc | 92

Noticing certainly drives the Genociders bananas.

Posted by: Exile | Aug 21 2026 13:09 utc | 94

Your heart is an oven, full of ashes.
Your breath is smoke.
Your words are sparks. 
Your tongue is on fire.
Per some dumb Jews. 

Posted by: Duck n cover | Aug 21 2026 13:23 utc | 96

Posted by: Exile | Aug 21 2026 13:09 utc | 94
That you fund and arm and promote everywhere you go.

Posted by: Duck n cover | Aug 21 2026 13:42 utc | 98

In some recent podcast with Michael Hudson he talked about his coming book about the history of money since the Roman times [maybe longer] and what caught my attention was the calling out of Pope Bob’s predecessor’s approval of usury and running finance until turning it over to the God Of Mammon cult that has evolved to what it is today.
 
Is Pope Bob going to lead our species out of the God Of Mammon form of social organization?
 
There are so many humans that live with the cognitive dissonance between the myth of Christianity and its sordid history and contradictions.
How is that spell broken?
 
 

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 21 2026 14:43 utc | 100