Archive for 2025

86% OF COVID TEST POSITIVES WEREN’T: That’s the conclusion of a new peer-reviewed study in Germany that found 86 percent of the positive Covid test results in the 2020-2021 period were in fact negative, according to Nicholas Hulscher on Focal Point. This news will be studiously ignored by the Mainstream Media and I have to admit having some questions, too, but at the very least, the test should be widely scrutinized and discussed.

DOWNFALL: Poll Suggests the Platner Campaign Is in Trouble.

Graham Platner has been dubbed Maine’s Mamdani by some because his views, as revealed by his deleted Reddit messages, suggest he is genuine socialist. Platner’s campaign took off quickly as a kind of insurgent, blue-collar challenge to Senator Susan Collins, but his rise has been sidetracked by those deleted messages along with a mini-scandal about a Nazi tattoo he’d had for decades. A poll released this week suggests Platner may be too damaged to topple Collins.

But who will make the trains run on time?

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Sam Altman and husband fund startup to edit babies’ genes.

The OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband are backing a controversial startup exploring the genetic engineering of babies to eliminate hereditary diseases.

Preventive says its goal is to “correct devastating genetic conditions” and that if successful, gene editing could be one of the most important health breakthroughs of the century.

Preventive has raised $30 million from private backers and set up headquarters in San Francisco. It is a public-benefit corporation, meaning it is a for-profit entity legally committed to a public good other than maximising shareholder value.

Altman, his husband Oliver Mulherin and Brian Armstrong, the chief executive of cryptocurrency platform Coinbase, are among the investors.

Gene editing in sperm, eggs or embryos is highly controversial. Opponents say it raises critical ethical questions and its safety has not been proven. Gene editing with the intention of creating a baby is illegal in the US, UK and many countries around the world.

Decades of watching Star Trek lead me to ask, what could possibly go wrong?

WHAT CORRUPTION LOOKS LIKE:

YET ANOTHER HIGH QUALITY CHINESE IMPORT:

As Victoria Taft warned in July of 2021: Democrats Move to Take Over Your Credit Score and Go Full ‘Woke’ – Just Like Communist China.

Evergreen:

A CONSPIRACY SO VAST:

FROM CAROLINE FURLONG:   The Guardian Cycle, Vol. 3: Neptune’s Envoys and Other Stories.

There is no need to be afraid of the dark. But what about fearing that which lives in the dark? What if those shadows have teeth and glittering, hungry eyes?

Darkness conceals many Things better avoided. Meet the miner who delved too deep beneath Luna’s surface for treasure, yet lived to return and tell the tale in Despot Hold ‘Em. Follow Damien Fraser as he collects diamond rain from the cloud depths in Neptune’s Envoys – if he can avoid the Devil sharks. But are the Devils the worst things there?

Allan Kearney defeated the demons seeking his soul after escaping death in a Nihanese prison camp. Now, with the help of Michio Oshika and assembled allies, he plans to infiltrate the camp to free the other prisoners. But so much blood has been spilled that the ground is ripe for a Hellmouth to open. The demon priest who branded Allan and killed so many others is dead, yet another may appear, one who could draw a different demon to his aid with the right sacrifice….

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:

AH! BUT WE WERE MADE FOR TIMES LIKE THIS. ALL OF US WHO STAND UP:  At a time when submission is called “virtue” and fear “prudence,” Sydney Sweeney’s simple frankness serves as an act of insurrection.

For the times, they are achanging.

THE DAYS OF MICROSOFT — THE DAYS OF ALL THE GIANTS — ARE PASSING: I’m going to connect two dots that have been active conversation topics on X recently. One is Microsoft corporate blather about Windows turning into an “agentic” OS stuffed with AI; the other is increasing hype around the Steam Machine from Valve. Reaction to the Microsoft trial balloon has been, to put it mildly, negative. People hear AI from Microsoft and think “Oh great – superintelligence to spam me with yet more ads and spyware.” (Think Clippy with vampire fangs.) Slightly more sophisticated users worry about prompt injection. As they should.

It’s like watching the dinosaurs die after the asteroid, with no idea what hit them.

Oh, yeah, and a link for the X-communicated.

 

JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS WRONG, IT DOESN’T MEAN THE SCREAMING ISN’T A PSYOPS:   The Economics of Chaos.