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The primary claim of the cryptoterrestrial hypothesis is that all the unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) sightings that were immensely popular in the media during the summer of 2023 do not come from above, they come from below—or to the side. The nonhuman intelligences are from Earth and represent a wide variety of different possible sources. This is according to an article published in the Journal of Philosophy and Cosmology (Lomas et al. 2024). I want, right away, to establish the difference between what is possible and what is probable. I’m not going to give the deepest philosophical definition, but I…

Andrew Gault, the venture capitalist who funded the quantum hardware labs now threatening bitcoin, says the industry is looking in the wrong place. Google’s own security team moved in the same direction in March. Aventure capitalist who has spent a decade backing deep-tech and quantum hardware startups says the bitcoin industry is fixated on the wrong half of the quantum problem, the wallet keys instead of the encrypted messages already moving between exchanges, bridges and custodians today. “The financial system’s most dangerous vulnerability isn’t stored data, it’s the data moving between institutions right now,” Andrew Gault, CEO of networking firm…

We live in a fabulous world: amazing hidden civilizations, exotic unknown animals, and even bizarre human giants abound—at least, on our televisions. TV program schedules continually promote the ubiquitous daily presentation of such exotica on series after series, always with disparagement of the foolish mainstream scientists who fail to become True Believers in the paranormal exotica du jour. And yet, let’s face it: none of the giants or fabulous beasts even exist, and the amazing hidden civilizations never turn out to be as advertised. So why have so many modern people turned from relatively rational scientific perspectives on the world…

Trump seems dead-set on installing Bill Pulte as director of national intelligence. Source link

Kevin Warsh’s maiden voyage press conference as the new Fed chairman was a masterful performance. He was knowledgeable, succinct, collegial, humble. By the way, so was the Fed’s press release. Short and sweet. My two biggest takeaways were first: the central bank’s emphasis right now is on price stability. Their statement emphasized strong productivity and business capital investment, along with job gains and low unemployment.  By the way, productivity and business investment on the supply-side will be a hallmark of Mr. Warsh’s thinking. Yet inflation is the key target right now. As Mr. Warsh put it: “We recognize that inflation…

Voter turnout under California’s vote-at-home system was off-the-charts. That’s a far more important story than waiting a week for results. Source link

The last few months have opened the eyes of the American public to global nefarious activity. Dark fleets have long traveled the high seas, carrying cargo outside of international laws, norms, and standards. This fleet has increased to a thousand-ship armada, allowing rogue regimes and criminal actors to avoid oversight and skirt the power of American financial systems as they pursue their illicit activities. Never has that activity been as robust as it is today, and the opacity of cryptocurrency has empowered and emboldened criminals and tyrants like never before. The Islamic Republic of Iran provides a prime case study. As America’s…

WIRED Magazine has reviewed leaked documents showing how, as the Trump administration prepares for AI to cause a wave of social unrest, it is already using the technology to suppress anti-AI “extremism,” Alan MacLeod reports. Google Data Center in The Dalles, Oregon, in 2011. (Visitor7 /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) By Alan MacLeodMintPress News New documents from U.S. government agencies such as the F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security show that Washington is preparing for widespread anti-A.I. riots, as the technology destroys communities and industries across the country. Ironically, the Trump administration is already using invasive A.I. technology to identify and suppress what…

The lonely landscape of Robben Island with Table Mountain in the background. Photo credit: Malorie Mackey. Imagine an eerie abandoned island complete with dilapidated prison buildings and half-open graves. Empty war-carved pillboxes that were dug deep into the soil but never saw any use are now occupied by the bones of dead steenboks and mole snakes. The lone human inhabitants are a group of eager scientists intently following the nesting habits of penguins. I found myself in this exact scenario at the historical goldmine that is Robben Island when I worked with the South African Penguin Project, a scientific research…

College football is a tradition unlike any other. Every year, millions of fans cram into stadiums to watch their alma mater on the gridiron. But while there is a lot to love about college football, the sport has problems, as well. If college sports are to survive, something needs to be done about the ongoing chaos. There is indeed a great deal of change going on in college football. One of the biggest is “Name, Image, and Likeness” (NIL), which essentially allows college athletes to be paid, something that was once unthinkable. A 2021 court ruling created a world where…