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Not on the macro scale. Polls, surveys, etc., reveal considerable stability in these areas, across decades. Just sayin'.

"I'm much more worried about Artificial Stupidity, actually." ~ Eric Idle

Illustration by Tom Seidmann-Freud from David the Dreamer: His Book of Dreams, 1922.

4. "technologies. The question is whether Pres. Trump strategically leaked insider or even classified information to pump up the UFOD ETF, or whether Lara Trump is simply reacting to online chatter." /end/

3. "of this year. Also this week, Tuttle Capital, which operates the Donald and Melania Trump meme coins, launched a UFO Disclosure (“UFOD”) Exchange-Traded Fund investing in companies engaged in space exploration, aerospace technology, and potential non-human -->

2. "Lara Trump said, 'I hear that the president has something in the queue to share with us about all of this.' Lara Trump’s comments come shortly after a viral social media posting alleged that Pres. Trump would announce contact with space aliens on July 4 -->

@jasoncolavito newsletter: "This week, Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump, said on a podcast that she 'heard' that Pres. Trump will be making a statement about UFOs 'soon.' Responding to a question about UFOs sent in by a viewer, -->

What Counts As A Mind? | NOEMA From chatbots to climbing beans, new research challenges our deepest assumptions about intelligence and consciousness.

An interesting read on minds and consciousness:

www.noemamag.com/what-counts-...

Current admin not big fans of the accurate preservation and documentation of history.

I don't think it's going to work, but it will generate lots of false signals. It needs a higher quality collection which costs money.

I've come across at least 3 "new" online databases that are attempting to record anomalous events in real time with an aim towards a scientific approach. NONE are any good because they are relying on unverified eyewitness data and people are really bad at this.

Live at the top of the hour. I hope you’ll join us for another episode of UFO Classified with Erica Lukes.

Just Because I Hung Out in the Cannibal King’s Murder Basement, It Does Not Make Me a Murderous Cannibal “If I actually wanted to spend my time partying with young women, it would be trivial for me to do so without the help of a creepy loser like Epste...

"I hardly knew the Cannibal King. I am very busy, working on very important projects, like robots, space exploration, and AI-generated pornography. Besides, I don’t need someone to help me abduct, kill, cook, and eat people. I could easily do that on my own if I really wanted to."

Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google” 1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong. 2. To se...

"To attempt to find useful information and instead take part in the solidification of the internet as an ad-delivery business, where you’re given no option but to be the product."

Despite the lack of scientific support of solar geoengineering the bill criminalized, “[Sen.] Winterton argued Thursday that the haze that lingers in the air from airplane emissions is suspicious, and the state needs to ’get control of what is being sprayed in our atmosphere.‘“

Big fan forever.

#AT40 A few years ago, I saw him do the entire album start to finish in concert here in Rhode Island. Flawless. (His backing band is The Empty Pockets," they're very good.)

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

Gabbard blocked distribution of report on phone call detected by NSA between Trump official & foreign intelligence, whistleblower threatened to go directly to Congress, deadline passed, Congress seeking details of report. There are issues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

2001: A Space Odyssey, Nietzsche, and the Nuclear Weapons-UFO Connection Part Two of a Series

D.W. Pasulka: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Nietzsche, and the Nuclear Weapons-UFO Connection

Saucers Spooks and Kooks (@saucersspooksandkooks) Gorightly is on the scene in New Mexico!

Saucers Spooks and Kooks (Adam Gorightly): Underground Nukes, The Ghost of a Crashed Saucer, and a Mom-and-Pop Italian Place

You Don’t Have to Be Recruited to Work for Russian Intelligence Confidential contacts can be virtually anyone: politicians, diplomats, scientists, businessmen, engineers, and reporters. They have no state secrets to pass on, and the safest way of engaging them is ...

Most of us have the wrong idea about espionage. Hence the dull genius of Moscow’s “Confidential Contact” program, @michaeldweiss writes in @newlinesmag.

“Moscow and Beijing believe Western unity has cracked, and they plan to exploit that perception with operations below the threshold of war: espionage, sabotage, cyber activity, proxy actors, and influence campaigns.” Norway: National Threat Assessment 2025 www.pst.no/wp-content/u...

by Roz Chast

Opinion | A viral infection can have devastating effects. I experienced this firsthand. The consequences of the anti-vaccine movement reach beyond today’s controversies.

"The consequences of the anti-vaccine movement reach beyond today’s controversies."

2. "as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." ~ Carl Sagan