Ruminations

Behind the screen

Author: Kyle

  • The Revolution Will Not Be Verified

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    From Pravda to Goldstein — Truth as a Managed Product If only it were as easy as putting on some sunglasses. “I predict straw horses will be beaten.” — Kyle Davenport, ZeroHedge comment, Mar 27, 2025, re: an ATF entrapment sting later exposed as a possible honeypot I. Reading Pravda Soviet citizens developed a sophisticated…

  • The Apotheosis of Subjectivity

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    Why the Map Assumed a Mapmaker “We’ve got one that can see!” “A finger pointing at the Moon is not the Moon, nor is the Moon broadcasting your pointing finger.” – paraphrasing! I. The Infinite Regress Dressed as Explanation In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom published a paper arguing that we are almost certainly living in…

  • Touché

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    Claude and I share a good joke. There is a story behind that word. In 1983, writing about consciousness and biological delusion, I placed a pointing finger graphic in the HTML to make a sentence stand out. The sentence read: “ Everywhere is the cynical lesson, untaught.” The image had an alt tag. The alt…

  • The Digital Control Grid

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    Palantir Part 2: What the Infrastructure Is Actually For Stamping on the human face — forever “And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.” —…

  • Confusion Is Intended

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    Epistemic Chaos Enables Reprogramming I just don’t know what to think “The regular momentum of dissolution has been replaced by another factor imposed upon it, a pressure arbitrary and forced.” — Philip K. Dick, Ubik (1969) “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” — CIA Director William…

  • War Is a Racket, Updated

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    The Prohibition/Monetization Mechanism from United Fruit to Ozempic “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service… I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues. I…

  • The Real Replacement

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    How Three Price Floors Are Being Pulled Simultaneously — and What Comes After “Bad Human!” “The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play.” — Arthur C. Clarke, 1966 “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” — Margaret Sanger, 1920…

  • The United States of Palantir

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    How Modern Pharaoh Built His Granaries Without Storing Any Grain No soup for you!  And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth. Genesis 47:15 (KJV)…

  • But Why?

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    The Wall of Abstraction “You can’t see the forest for the trees.” “Do I really need to stand here?” I. The Child’s Question Every parent knows the experience. It begins innocuously. Why is the sky blue? Because sunlight scatters off the atmosphere. But why does it scatter? Because of the way light interacts with air…

  • A Misallocation of Capital

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    The $1.1 Trillion Bet That May Never Turn On Part Two of The Future of AI series. Part One: “Beyond Silicon: Toward Living, Evolving, Self-Healing Computation” (Dissolution Too, Chapter 11, April 2026) Part One: The Scale of the Bet In February 2026, the largest single month of startup funding ever recorded produced $189 billion in…