Ruminations

Behind the screen

Category: Politics

  • 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    Epistemic Chaos Enables Reprogramming I just don’t know what to think “The regular momentum of dissolution has been replaced by another factor imposed upon it, a pressure arbitrary and forced.”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 as a Racket was just the Beginning

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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)…

  • 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 We’re from the government and we’re here to help. 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…

  • 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 —…