2025-09-29



Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

  • 'Ostrich Effect': Researchers pinpoint the age we start avoiding information

  • A sordid tale of Covid Tyranny. Kevin Bass tells his story.

    People at my school used every method at their disposal to harm my reputation, even if it meant collaborating with people who engage in criminal online activities. This is not an exaggeration. I have documents exhaustively proving this.

  • Time to separate the art from the artist

    A developer of a highly successful framework or app speaking their political mind on their social platforms is their right. The same person publishing them on the official blog of the product or starting to stop contributions from people not aligned with their beliefs is an abuse of power. The community of that product should react accordingly, calling out that this behaviour isn’t wanted, limit the powers of that person or – in the worst case – fork it. That isn’t censorship, it’s acting against a hostile takeover from within much like any other social engineering hacking attempt. As a customer or consumer of that person’s product it’s up to you if you want to support such abuse as the product is too useful or if you want to consider alternatives. Nobody has to agree with those who shout the loudest. And being an expert in one thing that gives you a large following doesn’t mean we need to hear you evangelising your truth on all other matters.

    • "We can't stand to share ideas with this founder of our community" people oddly never have that problem with the rest of the stuff in their life. They'll drive a Volkswagen, instead of a Tesla, in the name of ideological purity.
  • Telegram's Durov says France asked to remove some Moldovan channels from app

Musk

  • The most powerful rocket built is set for its next test. Experts are worried

    The uncrewed Starship prototype will follow a similar flight plan to the last three missions and aim to complete test objectives left untried during those tests, all of which ended prematurely. SpaceX debuted the current generation of Starship vehicles in January, following a clean run of test missions with a slightly scaled-down version of the rocket in 2024. But since that debut, the vehicle has twice exploded over populated islands east of Florida, creating debris that hit roadways in Turks and Caicos and washed up onto the shores of Bahamian islands. The spacecraft also spun out of control as it headed toward its landing site in the Indian Ocean on its last test flight in May.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

  • How has mathematics gotten so abstract?

    Because the behavior of infinite sets is bizarre, there is a school of mathematics that rejects their existence. Heck, there is a small number of mathematicians who reject infinity altogether. The difficulty is that such a decision requires discarding vast amounts of useful math — or at the very least, tossing out an explanation of why we’re doing that math in a particular way. On some level, this might not be a major concern: calculus is usually still taught without providing a rigorous justification for limits or infinitesimals. On the flip side, as almost any calculus student will attest, it’s an intellectually unsatisfying approach. Just as important, without all these wonderfully confusing notions of infinity, how do you keep the riff-raff out of math?

  • People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting – Before It Happened

TechSuck / Geek Bait

  • Bundler belongs to the Ruby community

    In the last few weeks, Ruby Central has suddenly asserted that they alone own Bundler. That simply isn’t true. In order to defend the reputation of the team of maintainers who have given so much time and energy to the project, I have registered my existing trademark on the Bundler project.

    While the trademark has been registered under my name as an individual, I will not keep it for myself, because the idea of Bundler belongs to the Ruby community. Once there is a Ruby organization that is accountable to the maintainers, and accountable to the community, with openly and democratically elected board members, I commit to transfer my trademark to that organization. I will not license the trademark, and will instead transfer ownership entirely. Bundler should belong to the community, and I want to make sure that is true for as long as Bundler exists.

  • Why I'm Not Rushing to Take Sides in the Rubygems Fiasco

Trump

Left Angst

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

  • Multiple people shot at Mormon church in Michigan and shooter is down, police say

    At least one person was killed and nine others were wounded in a shooting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, according to police. Authorities say a gunman rammed a vehicle through the front of the church during a large service, began shooting, and then intentionally set a fire that grew into a large blaze. Police believe they may find additional victims when it is safe to enter the building. Officers exchanged fire with the gunman and killed him, according to police. He has been identified as a 40-year-old Michigan man.

    The deranged madman who killed at least two people and wounded eight others at a Michigan Latter-day Saints church is a 40-year-old Iraq War veteran who served in the US Marines, The Post can confirm. Thomas Jacob Sanford rammed his Chevy Silverado truck into the building before opening fire on worshipers at a Sunday service of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan. The vehicle had two large American flags behind the cab and a set of deer antlers attached to the bumper.

    He also set the church ablaze, causing the entire structure to burn down. Authorities fear there may be more victims in the fire. A Facebook post by Sanford’s mother says the gunman — who died at the scene in a shootout with cops — served in Iraq from 2004 to 2008. He was killed minutes after the first 911 call came in. A Department of Natural Resources officer and a local township cop responded to the scene in about 30 seconds, authorities said. A dormant GoFundMe page from 2015 raised more than $3,000 for the couple’s now-10-year-old son who was born with congenital hyperinsulinism, or CHI, a rare, genetic condition where the pancreas releases too much insulin. Pictures from the Sanfords’ Facebook page show the family smiling, posing in the beds of pickup trucks or in a field of tall sunflowers. An unnamed witness told Fox 2 Detroit that the attack started at about just after the congregational hymn, when hundreds of people were inside the building for the 10 a.m. service.

  • Tai Lopez charged by SEC in ponzi scheme

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

  • MSM Says It Knows What Hegseth's Mystery Meeting Of Hundreds Of Generals Is All About | ZeroHedge

    Apparently this somewhat unprecedented gathering is due to his "mounting impatience that the Pentagon hasn’t readily adopted the Trump administration’s directives on military culture, according to officials briefed on the plan." The speech will aim to get everyone on the same page in terms of Trump's desire to tighten up discipline and professional standards across military ranks. So far, President Trump has only said when asked about the somewhat unprecedented meeting by reporters, "It’s great when generals and top people want to come to the United States to be with a now-called secretary of war." The Washington Post states:

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel from around the world to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the "warrior ethos," multiple people familiar with the event told The Washington Post.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda