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Solaris, Pizza, and the Digital Mirror
As a follow-on to a recent post by one of my colleagues, I offer my experiences with machine intelligence and image generation. The results we achieve...
US Foreign Policy Explained: The Gun is Good, the Penis is Evil
The wild 1974 John Boorman movie Zardoz provides some useful insights into American foreign policy (it's crazier than you think)....
AI Generated Art: A Revolution, or a Scam?
Over the past 12 months or so, I've watched the increasing media blitz surrounding the rise of AI generated art. All of humanity has formed into two c...
Russian Shopping Malls and American “Careless Consumption”
Tonight we went out to central Moscow and Red Square. Here's what it looks like... and my thoughts from it all. I want to talk about a certain little ...
The TRUTH About the Brittney Griner Prisoner Exchange
Yesterday Tucker Carlson just revealed a crucial detail from the Brittney Griner/Viktor Bout prisoner swap, revealing the true reason it happened. How...
The Tragedy of Darth Zelensky, Clown of Kiev
Zelensky is the biggest hero of our dopamine-starved consumer culture, and has now been recognized as such by Time's Person of the Year award. This re...
Wind of Change
The song “Wind of Change” by the German rock band the Scorpions was perfectly timed when it was released in 1990: the communist system was crumbli...
Poison or Treatment? Dose and Doctor Matter
In a way, the West denied people in the Global South and in the former USSR the right to protest. I mean, whenever people in those countries are unhap...
NATO is Using COIN in Ukraine (I Told You So)
Sometimes I'm wrong, but sometimes I'm right too. For the past eight months I've argued that thoroughly prepared for a war, but the wrong kind of war....
Oil Price Cap: The British Are Prepared to Fight to the Last Prussian (Again)
Tomorrow, the "free world's" price cap on Russian oil is set to begin. This reminds me of another historical event. On 9 October, 1806, Prussia declar...
We Are At War With Eurasia. We Have Always Been At War With Eurasia
On October 20, CNN actively and deliberately discouraged people from leaving Kherson, dismissing Russian evacuation efforts as "hysteria." Of course a...
Superhero Movies, Then and Now
Last weekend Maria and I watched Disney's 1991 movie The Rocketeer, and it got me thinking. How has this genre of action flicks changed over the last ...
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