I wonder when the conspiracy theorists and anti-government people out there are going to realise that Alex Jones and Joe Rogan are now just state media propaganda outlets?
- QAnon theorist confirmed as new FBI director. Words fail me…we’ve somehow found ourselves in The Upside Down in 2025.
- Given new FBI director Kash Patel has previously called for the jailing of Americans he considers the enemy, it might be worth re-reading my 2018 warning about the dangers of QAnon…
- A psychedelic molecule controls your consciousness at the moment of death, new theory suggests. Pretty sure that theory has been around a while now…
- Jupiter’s moon Callisto is very likely an ocean world.
- Archaeologists discover first pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt since Tutankhamun, more than a century ago.
- Alpha Centauri is sending a stream of objects into our solar system, say scientists.
- Video captures ‘doomsday’ fish from deep sea washing ashore in Mexico. (Archive link)
- Related: Were these California oarfish beachings harbingers of an earthquake?
- A gruesome murder rocked Northern California. Then came the CIA’s psychic army.
- Strange radio signals traced to outskirts of long-dead galaxy — and scientists aren’t sure why.
- Eight ancient writing systems that haven’t been deciphered yet.
- These seven anti-science myths threaten modern-day society.
Quote of the Day:
The new technocrats are…leading an antidemocratic, illiberal movement. Many of them profess unconditional support for free speech, but are vindictive toward those who say things that do not flatter them. They tend to hold eccentric beliefs: that technological progress of any kind is unreservedly and inherently good; that you should always build it, simply because you can; that frictionless information flow is the highest value regardless of the information’s quality; that privacy is an archaic concept; that we should welcome the day when machine intelligence surpasses our own.
And above all, that their power should be unconstrained.
Adrienne LaFrance, ‘The Rise of Techno-Authoritarianism‘
