Ruminations

Behind the screen

Author: Kyle

  • The Rule of Lawlessness

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    A Story About the Rule of Men The kangeroo court is in session. The World Justice Project released its 2026 Rule of Law Index on October 21. It covers 143 countries and found that declines outnumber improvements for the ninth straight year. Inside Europe, rule of law scores fell in 26 of 40 countries with…

  • Remaking Mars

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    The Red Planet is not dead. It’s bound — and the unbinding is the plan. Robots build a thorium molten salt reactor on Mars. “Beam us up, Scotty.” First off, Mars is currently incredibly hostile to life. The most inhospitable place on Earth is the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica. With extreme aridity, winds up…

  • Uninformed Consent

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    The claim that governance is justified by the consent of the governed applies everywhere — and everywhere, the consent is manufactured. “You have to sign this consent form first.” The Claim That Governs Everything You’ve probably heard the term “informed consent” before. You probably think it’s a medical footnote — the fine print on a…

  • No One at the Top, part 2

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    The Ruler Is a Prisoner Save me, Rapunzel. The first article in this series asked who is at the top, and answered: no one. Not because the pyramid lacks an apex, but because the stable configuration at the top of a coercive hierarchy is mutual deterrence, not single dominance. The power structure has no head…

  • The Latest Ponzi Scheme, Part II

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    This Time Is Different One more won’t hurt. Cake for me, and none for thee — and thou shalt pay the tax that bakes it. Every bubble suffers the same taunt. At the top, the bulls sneer at the bears: “This time is different.” Dot-com was different — the internet changed everything. Housing was different…

  • The Latest Ponzi Scheme

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    The AI Bubble is Popping The Banality of Evil Every bubble of the last forty years: the S&L crisis, dot-com, housing, and now artificial intelligence, has been presented to the public as an accident: a mania, a euphoria, an unforeseeable excess of animal spirits. That framing is a lie. These bubbles are not accidents. They…

  • Don’t Be That Guy

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    The Tumor that Learned to LARP This is for informational purposes only. For medical advice or diagnosis, consult a professional. We’ve all been out in public, or at a social gathering, where one arrogant, opinionated guy speaks loudly enough for everyone to receive his “wisdom”, except, the guy is dead wrong or misinformed about what…

  • Your Brain Is Aging

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    Exercise can Reverse That For busy leaders who think they don’t have time. You already know you should exercise. You don’t need another lecture about cardiovascular health or weight management. What you may not know is what’s happening inside your skull while you skip the gym. A randomized clinical trial published this year in the…

  • Do not ask for whom the bell tolls…

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    You’re ringing it! Diogenes again fails to find an honest man. A review of a new movie about mass migration into Europe appeared on ZeroHedge: “Replacing Europe”: Undercover Film Follows The Money Behind Europe’s Taxpayer-Funded Mass Migration Pipeline. I had to comment – Do not ask for whom the bell tolls… you’re ringing it! The…

  • Nikola’s Revenge

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    In a Stranger Land Series “The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.” — Nikola Tesla On October 16, 2026, Elon Musk demonstrated a Tesla jumping over a row of cars and trucks. Compressed air thrusters. Zero to sixty in 0.81 seconds. AI landing system catching 4,800 pounds mid-air and…