I’m not interested in politics currently. However, “JD Vance” (real name James “Jim” Bowman) just misused the word “normative.” He meant “descriptive.” He didn’t correct himself. He doesn’t know what the word means. Ozempic cannot hide the reality that this is just a silly fat boy. He does not have a “high verbal IQ.” He just practiced pretending to be an adult. “Adult millennial” is an oxymoron. “Pretend adult” coaching is a lucrative industry. These misshapen loafs learn the cadence of speech and memorize patterns without understanding the content. They read books about how to manipulate social interactions. They grow beards. They will look you right in the eye and tell you “Lincoln in the Bardo was an excellent novel.” They lean hard into ideologies because ideologies are sociological instruction manuals for babies. Any activity that does not fit the structure of the education system that shaped them is beyond their capacity. Critical thought it null, all behavior is performative and procedural. Identity is externally defined. Millennial psychology is machine output. The best advice they ever got was “Fuck that, take drugs, rape sluts, make fun of gay clubs, men who wear makeup. Get aware, wake up. Get a sense of humor.” Few internalized the underlying philosophical content of the message. Those who did are mostly dead or gone off somewhere else.

There is a surreal and pornographic thing that is pervasive on streaming media/podcasts: two men pretending to be engaged in normal social leveling behavior when they actually hate each other. It’s more disgusting and titillating when only one of the two knows what’s going on. People see this behavior constantly now. It is a standard dynamic. Up until a just a few years ago, you would have gone your entire life without ever witnessing this very specific type of antisocial human interaction.

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During the event, when I thought I was having a stroke, I kept adding at the end of the list of my symptoms: “and I can’t remember the word for aphasia.” No one thought it was funny.

No. jk yes sure of course, but briefly, you can fact check me solo. Basically, I just mean the obvious: Nero’s palace and all records were buried, the account by Tacitus can be confirmed as not fact based Flavian propaganda, etc. During a personal creative period now known as “The Sobriety Sessions” (which officially ended when “The Stroke Struggles” began, although the latter are a direct sequel to the former), I went to a shop and had most of the famous images of martyrs printed on good paper and taped them to the walls around my sleeping spot. This included Caravaggio’s crucifixion of Saint Peter. Became obsessed with the symbology of the upside down cross, not as the traditional interpretation of humility (I had meditated on that enough), but as a symbol of the empire upside down. The sticking point is that some governor agreed to honor the request of Peter to turn the cross upside down, which is to imply the thinking was “you can turn the world upside down and Rome stands.” But this also planted the seed of Christianity flipping Rome, putting the cross above the crown. The Stroke Struggles are mostly defined by the good headphones and FLAC files leading to a review of the dynamic range of various rock albums, leading to various shocking discoveries. In a review of indie rock, which revealed several deeply troubling issues, ran across Craig Finn’s “Saint Peter Upside Down” (sonically simple but good DR compared to his rock albums which are standard smoothed causalties of the loudness war). The painting and song led to a review of the materials on the period, which led to the concerning realization that there is no documentation to support this “evil and insane” image of Emperor Nero, who I can much more easily reconstruct as a gentle artist who leaned towards populism and was eliminated by ruthless elite actors, those selfsame ruthless actors ruthlessly defaming him after his elimination (sound familiar?). I do not intended to deny the martyrdom of the saints or question any of that. But Paul describes in much detail his persecutions, which were by local authorities, not a mandate from the emperor. The stories of the latter half of the New Testament become impossible if the emperor himself had ordered a systemic campaign of persecution of Christians. The theory of “evil and insane” requires one to assume that Paul simply forgot, in his meticulous list of grievances, to mention it was an orchestrated imperial campaign. In practical DS terms, while the Jews would prefer Hadrian the Great be the representive of “evil Rome,” using Nero as a stand in doesn’t bother them. Further, while Nero is now a part of Christian mythos, that is irrelevant, because the facts do not support it, nor does the text of the New Testament itself. Fact check this: Nero Redivivus legends, widespread belief Nero had faked his suicide and would return to save the people from the new dynasty. Unlike Tacitus’ accout of Nero’s reign, written decades later after burying all relevant records, Nero Redividivus is well documented. No one prays for an evil and insane leader to come back from the dead and save them. Arguably. But that onus isn’t on me. The documentation of evil Nero is so lacking and claims afterward so absurd (Christians doused in wax and used as candles), the historians involved in this defamation need to prove their case. And yes I am aware that historical revisionism on this issue is now widespread in the academy, probably for the purpose of undermining Christian mythos. That can be true alongside “Jews promoted the narrative they are now debunking.” The explanation would be that because Hitler exists as the image of “evil and insane” white leader, Nero is no longer needed as a stand-in for “this is what happens when white people are left alone.” Further, modern information flow sort of necessitates you can’t base an entire myth on a single line in a two thousand year old propaganda tract. View quoted note →

Jeez. A day later, reads like I was having another stroke while writing this. But there were enough intelligent replies that I clearly communicated something. I am going to abstain from lengthy writing until the logistics problem is solved. Clarification: this isn’t really so much a paradigm shift as it is anagnorisis. And it’s complicated. But no, I don’t believe in not engaging in activity that will have potential political consequences, I just have reasoned that there needs to be stoicism first, which requires a form of “surrender to the world as it is.” After that, I would go after Yogi Berra’s “when you come to a fork in the road, take it,” with, “when you come to a revolution, join it.” View quoted note →

I have reviewed the allegations against Emperor Nero and found him innocent of all charges. As one of only a handful of legitimate public representatives of western civilization, I, Andrew Anglin (former CEO), am unilaterally issuing a full posthumous aquittal for Nero Augustus Caesar. Exonerated. Full stop.

Mortal Kombat 2 is not just better than the previous film. It is better than every single idiot comic book film and every “prestige” depression art movie I’ve seen in twenty years, with few exceptions (Mandy, Blade Runner 2). 1.) Thinking of why: there are no ideas in Hollywood I am interested in hearing about, let alone any ideas that would entertain me. 2.) The “hopeful humanism” of comic book films is about as adult as the aesthetic. This is in some ways more offensive than some Holohoax crybaby horseshit. Not entertaining. Humanism by definition cannot be hopeful. 3.) Conversely, ultra violent inter dimensional death matches is fundamentally entertaining. The fact that the tone appears to be mocking the entire concept of films as an entertainment medium within the modern context makes this much better, viz, the underlying meta of “the only safe way to make an entertaining film in current year is to just string together a bunch of scenes of brutal violence and other dumb spectacle with an ultra thin plot about like, a magic amulet or whatever.” 4.) The hero is white male. A middle aged white male down on his luck who has to rise to this occasion. If the purpose of film is entertainment, rather than social engineering or abstract art no one understands, Mortal Kombat 2 is objectively the best movie in decades.

Epistle to the Tenants of the Black Iron Prison I Yo. Checking in. Proof of life or whatnot. I keep thinking “proof of life is pointless, a post proves nothing, a two hour conversation wouldn’t prove anything.” But it’s psychological. Anyway, lost about half the sensation and more than half of the fine motor function in my left hand. I thought I had a stroke. Not drinking for so long, having lost weight very quickly, gotten into exercise, using ADD meds to deal with post alcohol brain fog, been sloppy with diet, it seemed plausible if not terribly likely. But no. Had an MRI. Paid full price. I don’t have insurance. As I’ve been open about, I have a DNET in my temporal lobe, which is probably making me weird, but wouldn’t cause nerve issues all the sudden. I haven’t had a seizure in years. Anyway, I’m pecking this out on one side while still using my right hand normally, but it is extremely annoying. I’m going to look into physical therapy and maybe get a Wacom pad where I can write script with my right hand and translate it to text. That is the current plan. Though there has been slow recovery. I don’t feel my wrist go limp when I try to lift objects anymore. It’s whatever. Such things occur. It is the nature of material existence, the chronic instability of the black iron prison. I’ve been focusing on reading. I can now consistently hold my e-reader with my left hand and push the page turner button. Most of my adult life was sent in front of a computer. Now it’s mostly lying on my back on the floor on a thin bamboo mat like a nip with the electric book (non luminescent of course). I think it’s actually a palm petate. It feels good to be totally flat. I also got some good headphones for music. I have stopped the stims as I think they could have been contributing to nerve irregularities, then realized that after four months, or five or whatever it’s been, I don’t actually even have post alcohol brain fog anymore. I just have really bizarre neuro-psycho processes. Not negative. Beg forgiveness for writing a bunch of stuff about myself. I’ve just established a parasocial bond with people, so it seems important to follow up. It’s also a framing for the rest of what I’m going to say. Also, thanks to God or providence, this typing incapacity comes with a total lack of interest in saying anything about anything. I don’t want to comment on the wars anymore. I hardly even follow the news. News monitoring is an evolutionary glitch. Our brains assume that a crisis needs monitoring because we have an ability to immediately affect it. The reality is we have no ability to affect any crisis in the news, meaning monitoring it is applying an evolutionary survival function in a meaningless manner. There are a lot of things I do want to comment on, but I don’t fully have a grasp how any of it should be framed. Being offline largely, I’ve had the concentration for the kind of texts I used to read. After twenty years, I reread the primary works of Jaques Ellul, along with several related documents. My perspective has shifted dramatically. (Note: to be clear, I do not recant anything, everything I said was simply factual, it is simply that much of it now seems irrelevant.) Here is the underlying issue: there is this problem with no solution which drives everything in the world. Yes, that would include the Jews. In pre-technological society, Jews were a persistent nuisance, not an existential threat to the existence of all life on earth. I need to figure out framing here. The idea is quite simple. But everyone, including far-right extremists, have been conditioned not to be capable of processing it. Maybe it isn’t conditioning, but rather a psychological mechanism that prevents the mind from processing problems that do not have solutions. To prevent this from being overly vague for people not familiar with Ellul, I will give a simple explanation, but it is unlikely many will actually process it, and it may instead sound like the meaningless drivel I’ve put out in recent years. Basically, the modern technological society demands efficiency in all things. This is driven both by capitalism on the private level and great power competition on the state level. We don’t know what the most efficient means of doing something is. The most efficient path reveals itself through technological development and application. But there is only one “most efficient” path, and it will always win out. No technology in history has ever been removed from society because it was disruptive. The only time a technological means of doing something is removed is when it is replaced my something more efficient. This means that technology itself is progressing along a predetermined path, which humans, whether Western democracies or Chinese authoritarians, have no control over. External factors demand that they implement the most efficient processes, in every case, regardless of the human costs. The reality of this truth has been self-evident since shortly after Ellul wrote these books in the 1950s and early 1960s. But if the social disruption of smartphones didn’t make the reality undeniable. Among other threads you could pull at, all of the top AI developers are simultaneously claiming that the technology could or perhaps will destroy the world and kill all humans, and yet there is choice but to develop it. Regardless of the veracity of this claim, it demonstrates the internal logic of the machine. All attempts to regulate the development of the technology have been dismissed, with the society instead embracing the “inevitably” narrative. This speaks to the fact that technology is self-progressing, that humans are left merely to stand by and watch, to do their best to manage its effects. The machine hasn’t served us in a long time. We are servants of the machine. Humans exist for the sole purpose of implementing the will of the machine. The elite are now talking in terms of an “obsolete population.” In fact, that is an elite consensus. However, due to hubris or cognitive dissonance, they are missing the fact that to the machine, they are no more critical than an Amazon warehouse grunt. In World War II, neither side used mustard gas. They stockpiled it. And Japan did use it in China, though it was a limited use not known about until decades later, a decision made with the knowledge that China did not have stockpiles of the poison. The primary belligerents, the US and Germany and their allies, abstained from using it, knowing that if they did, the other side would, and it wasn’t worth it. In the international sphere, there is no such built-in inhibitor on technological development and deployment. In fact, it is the opposite, or the inverse. The external pressure is not only to develop weapons capable of matching those of the perceived enemy, but to deploy technologies domestically to integrate the strategic processes. While China has the mechanisms to simply tell AI developers to stop developing AI, or to selectively deploy it, for the purpose of maintaining social stability and preventing job loss and other corrosive social effects of the technology, if it is not fully implemented domestically, this creates a weakness against a state like the US where the systems are being fully implemented through the unrestrained liberal social system, where those who would regulate the tech are easily paid off and fraudulent studies are easily passed as science. China’s system gives them slight advantages in terms of public health. For instance, if Monsanto had knowingly continued to market Round-Up after internal studies had shown its toxicity, individuals would have been executed. But the power of a conservative economic order, along with the lack of any need to pretend the process is democratic, does not actually give them an edge on big issues of technological implementation. The competition with the US demands efficiency at all costs, and by definition, there can only be one “most efficient” method. Their most recent moral guidance publication for the public had clearly been edited to remove language directly critical of cellphone addiction, given that electronic business is a huge economic engine which the country needs for competitiveness. That is, reading the document, is clear that it originally contained explicit critique of the overuse of cellphones having a deleterious effect on society, but it was obvious to reviewers that they don’t have the luxury of addressing that problem due to structural economic necessity. The hope, if there is any (there isn’t, actually) is that because the Chinese system is currently more efficient, it will dominate the geopolitical competition, which will give them room to make decisions in opposition to technological determinism. It’s a long shot, but that’s the best I’ve got. Statistically, this all probably sounds like gibberish to you. It’s not. You can ask your favorite LLM to explain “Ellul technique” to you. It is an entire body of research, but Ellul created the language to describe the parameters we’re working with here. Ellul, you might recall, was the biggest influence on Ted Kaczynski and his manifesto. I have discussed these issues at some length previously, as I have most issues, but at this point, I don’t really see much point in discussing macro social and political issues in any other terms. All those words I just strained the status of my nervous system to tap out should at least prevent me from being in a situation of stating that “I have shifted paradigm that is too complicated to explain.” It’s not too complicated. It’s just intensely bizarre and specific. Somehow more bizarre and specific than “satanic pedophiles who eat children.” In future, I will negotiate better analogies. Things are very strange now, because not only can I not publish due to this disability, but can’t write my own notes as I have done my entire life to organize my thoughts. Lacking this structure, combined with whatever neural rewiring my brain is doing to establish a post-alcohol synaptic consensus model, I’m left feeling like there is a whole lot I need to say, but unable to pinpoint how to say it. There are a lot of things I want to say about the above paradigm, but there are, more importantly, things I want to say about the nature of being in “reality.” Combining all the things, there’s something important that needs to be said about the highjacking and exploitation of evolutionary biological systems in the human psyche by the technological system and the absurd and odious compulsive dysfunction this creates. Despite the nagging, ubiquitous allure of defaulting to philosophical nihilism, stoicism offers a much clearer path for the individual to navigate the sense of helplessness we all experience. It’s not a sense, but a fact. We are all totally helpless. Therefore, the only logical course is to isolate variables we have control over, and shape a state existence where these are the only things you engage with on an emotional level. If you can silence the external noise, however, that’s really just a modest first step. The much harder realization is that there are things within your self you can’t control, hardcoded by childhood trauma. This is the more stimulating avenue of inquiry. Regardless, despite appearances, I have not disappeared and don’t plan to. Because there are no financial incentives here, I don’t have immediate pressure. Which is a good thing and potentially a bad thing. Probably, my hand will start working again at some point. Note: If this was tedious to read, please know, that is a reflection of the writing process itself, physically. I have not plan to intensify the tediousness of my writing. Rather, with a critical eye, I have been looking toward the reverse. In principle. Note 2: Whenever you say “you can’t change politics, just focus on yourself,” you get accused of giving up. I don’t have any desire to refute that. I’m fine pleading “guilty as charged.” I have given up and I encourage others to do the same. I’m trying to avoid even mentioning politics here, but it’s no different than the US surrendering in Iran. The Jews are screaming in protest, but none of the Jews have a solution. The only possible “solution” is to use nukes, liberally, and hope for the best (Iran would still be able to followthrough on threats to delete the Gulf states using underground missiles even if you killed 90% of the population in a nuclear strike). Just so, when speaking of this idea you can influence politics, people will protest when you say there is no solution, but when you analyze it, your “doing something” option is to start killing cops and hope for the best. Engaging with politics does not lead to change, can’t lead to change, and therefore it is a waste of resources that could be spent on things you can change.

I think I might write a book called “The Empire That Never Ended” about gnosticism within a technically non heretical orthodox framework. And Palantir. But who knows. Probably won’t.

Even interdimensional demons in underwater bases know not to fuck around with a bulletproof ballroom

It’s going to take more than Bitcoin to fix that beast behind you. You’re gonna need a whip. Or a Dodge Challenger. View quoted note →

Stop listening to indie rock, dickhead. Or at least listen to better indie rock. Also get some decent headphones and use BitTorrent to download FLAC files like a normal person instead of listening to half the song on Spotify.

(Folk-Rock) Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash [Atlantic / Rhino 8122-73290-2] - 1969 (2006), FLAC (image+.cue), lossless :: RuTracker.org

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We're on the ground floor of a new platform that is going to explode over the next few years. Those of us who are simply consistent with content are going to end up with top accounts regardless of the quality. However, I am considering posting a video of me sticking a banana up my ass, just to make sure everything goes smoothly.

I know you're a fellow Timmy fan. It creates a conundrum. The other week, the funniest bit in the show was Erika Kirk using neurogum.

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Most of his ads though are just as annoying as anyone else’s. Well, not annoying as Tucker’s, because that nigga just puts them in the middle of sentences. But yeah, this app changed my life. There is apparently a way to download YouTube audio for a podcast app. I couldn’t really understand it, but it would be worth it for someone who primarily uses podcast apps. Since Freetube allows subs without a google account though, and I don’t use a phone, I’m fine with that option. For those using Freetube, Sponsorblock is installed by default but it’s not turned on by default. Also, noteworthy: you can skip not only ad reads, but intros. Such as the Judge’s 3 minute Ron Paul speech for his 28 minute show. Imagine this: if you sit and watch 2 hours of the Judge, which is not even all his daily content, you’ve listened to 12 minutes of that Ron Paul intro. Boomers, man. No matter how based they may appear, they are going to do you in, possibly in some strange way you never could have imagined was even possible. View quoted note →

Palantir’s business model is literally “give us all your secrets and we’ll organize them for you.” They don’t have a better AI. They are just using Claude. So any government could just use AI to organize their own secrets instead of giving them to a shady US organization tied to intelligence. The US already has an in-built mechanism for using private companies as contractors to do illegal things, and regardless, the US government functions on private lobbying (paying politicians to redirect public funds to you - best ROI ever). There is zero reason for any other country to contract with Palantir.

I assume everyone is already using Brave, which blocks all normal ads, including on YouTube. However, it does not block ad reads. Adding this to Brave will block ad reads, which have gotten out of control.

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This is already installed on the FreeTube app, which also allows you to follow channels without signing up to Google.

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There’s no podcast app that lets you block ad reads, unfortunately. I don’t have a phone anymore, but I use an mp3 player for podcasts when I’m out, and the amount of ad reads is always shocking. People no doubt skip these while driving, which means that Tucker Carlson is killing people with his constant ad reads. Is he killing as many as Israel? We don’t have the numbers yet.

At least 30% of Americans celebrate whenever Iran scores points against the US military. Some top sentiments include: -“Semper Fi, Semper Fags” -“Soldiers Die, God Laughs” -“Soldiers Die for Fag Marriage” -“Jews Rape Kids” -“Fags are Violent” There’s nothing that can be done about it. The only solution was to not be a fag nation. It’s much too late for that.

The Tim Dillion Show is the apotheosis of whatever kind of shock comedy slash harsh reality news and cultural commentary I did at the Daily Stormer. HePggTZ8V22Vcferent medium, but the aesthetics and rhythm are very similar. I used to read Hunter S. Thompson and say “I could never write this good.” It turn out I actually could. If someone were to compile my best work, it would be better than Thompson’s best work. Dillon, however, is funnier than I could ever be. On his current podcast. His standup is not great. He seems to labor over his written material too much and it loses the edge of the stuff that comes out of his mouth when he just starts talking. He’s not a person I would totally trust to be honest about everything, necessarily. He would probably sell people out for some space in a vault when the big war happens. On the other hand, he might blow that gig by thinking it is too funny to publicly joke about it. He blew his gig for the Saudi comedy festival by talking about how he supported slavery, and blew any chance in Hollywood by immediately calling Joker 2, which he had a cameo in, “the worst movie ever made.” He blew the chance for any serious political connections by publicly commenting on a dinner he had with James “JD Vance” Bowman. He can’t even resist mocking Joe Rogan, who he credits for making him rich and famous (I don’t agree that Rogan deserves that credit). This week’s bit on a staged alien invasion is most of my talking points about such a thing, but he says it in a way so much funnier than I could say it, even back when I was funny. No bitterness here, by the way. I’m glad someone is talking about real shit in a way that’s funny. For me personally, the similarities in content are flattering, and his popularity is a confirmation that my approach was correct, and that I would have been ultra-huge if it would not have been for the censorship. It’s unclear why he isn’t censored. I guess it was just the right timing that allowed him to get big after the Ukraine/coronavirus censorship had gone too far and had to be rolled back and they didn’t know exactly where to draw the line (aside from the fact that I’m banned from everything forever - except Nostr, which is the only platform for real niggas anyway).

I’ve been exhausted. But no matter how exhausted a nigga be, he always be said to himself “at least I ain’t be Tim Pool exhausted.” This poor sorry bastard is gonna be in a nursing home at 45. He looks like someone with a peanut allergy that only eats peanuts. He could be addicted to bee stings.