Ruminations

Behind the screen

Category: Politics

  • 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…

  • The Real Burden of Government

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    What the Lapps Knew That We’ve Forgotten I. Eight Hundred Years of the Same Racket Somewhere in the Arctic interior of what we now call northern Finland, sometime in the winter of 1240, a Sámi family broke camp and moved their reindeer herd south along a frozen river valley. They had no maps. They recognized…

  • Faux Science

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    The Architecture of Manufactured Truth “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” — George Orwell I. PERSONAL WITNESS In 1980 I joined a computational physics research group at Northwestern University. What I witnessed over four years had nothing to do with the pursuit of…

  • The Dark Side of Censorship

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    Dead Men Tell No Tales “How do you know they’ll print it?”, Higgins smiles. — Three Days of the Condor (1975) It was not a secret to audiences even in 1975 that witnesses are eliminated, and institutions cover it up. You may know about dozens of such cases; this article is about thousands. The famous…

  • The Inner Prison

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    The Body Electric “The fundamental fault of man is to think the enemy is external, not internal. Prison is in here, not out there.” — Sherlock pointing to his head in “Young Sherlock Holmes” (2026), paraphrasing Schopenhauer Life runs on charge. Every living cell — not just neurons, but every cell in your body —…

  • To Pause and Reflect

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    Whose Reality Is It? “Do you think that’s air you’re breathing now?” “I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.” — Morpheus, The Matrix, 1999 “I know why you’re here, Neo. I know what you’ve been doing. I know…

  • No One at the Top

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    Who are They? “There is no head to cut off. It’s a conglomerate. If one of them betrays the principles of the accrual of money and power, the others betray him. What it is… is human weakness. You can’t kill that with a gun.” — Mikhaylo Sczerbiak, The Shooter, 2007 “No one knows that. No…

  • Borgifying Humanity

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    Nanotech In Everything “We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.” Star Trek: The Next Generation PART ONE A Tender Introduction to Nanomaterials Start small. Smaller than you think. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. A human hair is approximately 80,000 nanometers wide. A red blood cell is 7,000 nanometers…

  • The Puppet Masters

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    “But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save.” — Morpheus, The Matrix, 1999 * * * I. Heinlein Named It The Book That Changed Everything In 1951, Robert A. Heinlein published The Puppet Masters. The premise was…

  • A Curated Reality

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    From Gila Monster Venom to VALIS: How Reptile Peptide Pharmacology, Engineered Biology, Population-Scale Limbic Disruption, and the Suppression of Light Converge Into the Oldest Agenda Ever Documented “But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save.” Morpheus, The…