Shani Louk, say her name.

 Yesterday was October 7th, the third anniversary of the Palestinian terrorist attack on Israel. It seems that universities around the country have been having little pro-Palestine vigils, where they try to pretend this was in some way a justified act of  brave freedom fighters.

Today let's remember what those terrorists actually did, and took video of themselves doing, and posted it proudly on the internet. Remember that?

Shani Louk 2001-2023

The one that stood out to me as particularly unforgivable is the death of Shani Louk. This 22 year old girl's crime was attending a dance festival. For that they murdered her in a particularly horrible way, and then stole her corpse to torture her family and friends with uncertainty.

Wikipedia says:

 

At the end of the month, Israel confirmed Louk's death based on the discovery of a skull fragment on the road leading out of the festival grounds, indicating that she was killed during the attack, while trying to escape.^[5][6] On 17 May 2024 Israeli forces recovered her body from a tunnel in Gaza, and she was buried in her hometown of Srigim a couple of days later.^[7]

 So the next time some astroturf agitator waves their Arab headscarf in your face and cries about Palestine, remember Shani.

Elon defeats Gramsci? Or was it TheDonald?

This tweet is posted at Small Dead Animals. I think it needs a signal boost.

https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/10/06/did-elon-musk-stop-the-long-march-through-the-institutions/#comment-2133426

In 50 years, history books will say that Elon Musk won a war that no one knew we were losing. A war that began 100 years ago in an Italian prison cell. In 1926, Mussolini had a 35-year-old Sardinian intellectual arrested. At the trial, the prosecutor reportedly said: “We must prevent this brain from functioning for twenty years. » His name was Antonio Gramsci. His brain never stopped working. In prison, it filled thousands of pages that became one of the most influential political texts of the 20th century. I think we're living the moment his theory collapses. Let me explain. Gramsci was asking a simple question. Why did the communist revolution succeed in Russia but failed everywhere in the West? His answer: in the West, power does not only hold by the state, the police and the army. It is bound by culture. By what people find normal, obvious, “common sense.” He calls it cultural hegemony. So, to take power, you must not take the palace first. We have to take the spirits first. The schools. Universities. The newspapers. The theater. The edition. The courts. This is the “war of position”: a slow conquest, institution by institution. When culture has changed, politics follow itself. Forty years later, German activist Rudi Dutschke will make it a slogan: the long march through the institutions. For decades, we lived with an enigma that no one really could explain. Why are almost all artists left-wing? Actors, singers, teachers, journalists, a good part of the judiciary. Why could a country vote right-wing after election and still see its culture speak with one voice? We were told, “It’s because educated people are left-wing. » I think the answer is simpler. Gramsci had written the recipe, and it was applied. When you control who gets the grant, the position, the right review, the price, the invitation on the set, you control what becomes "culture." The same enigma existed on a world scale. Why did so many developing countries, especially in Latin America, vote again and again for socialist or radical left-wing governments? Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Argentina of the Kirchners, Colombia of Petro. The economy collapsed, the cartels flourished, chaos settled. And yet the same vote came back. My conviction: poverty was not an accident of the system. He was an electorate. And around it, there was a whole ecosystem of NGOs, “independent” media and “civil society” programs, largely funded by Western money. Then, in early 2025, something happened that no one had ever dared to do. Elon and DOGE have opened the books of USAID. An agency almost untouchable since 1961, tens of billions of dollars a year. The vast majority of the programs were cut, and the agency was absorbed by the State Department. The tap has been closed. And look what's happened since then. Bolivia: MAS loses power after almost twenty years. Ecuador : Noboa re-elected. Honduras: the right is taking over the country. Chile : Kast elected. Argentina: Milei largely wins the midterm elections. And two days ago, Brazil. Jair Bolsonaro is ineligible, sentenced to 27 years in prison. The left thought it had closed the chapter. Lula, 80, was running for a fourth term against a country that was said to have been acquired. On Sunday, his son Flávio came out on top in the first round. More than 47% against nearly 45% for Lula. Lula himself acknowledged an “unexpected” result. The largest country in Latin America is in a second round of rocking. The continent’s biggest right turn in decades. Coincidence? I don't think so. When the funding disappears, the story loses its speakers. There is one last real stronghold. Europe. Brussels finances its own NGO networks, with an opacity that even the European Court of Auditors has pointed out. The great foundations like the Open Society of Soros. Supranational entities that produce the norm without ever passing before a voter. It is the last fortress of cultural hegemony. And she's starting to crack. I'm convinced that this is all going to collapse, and faster than we think. Gramsci was right on one essential point: culture precedes politics. But he had forgotten that it worked both ways. When an artificial culture loses its infusions, what is true below rises to the surface. What comes next, I think it's a rebirth. A culture that begins to love beauty, ambition, science, the civilization that gave birth to it. And in history books, it will be remembered that it all started when a man decided to look at the accounts. It took someone rich enough not to depend on anyone, crazy enough to tackle it and free enough to take the hatred that would follow. Thank you Elon.

It is true that Elon was instrumental in finding and destroying US-AID. But somebody hired him to do that. The one who hired him was Donald Trump.

'Nuff said. 

Brian Chau finds a new way to follow the money.

 

This is an amazing video. Joe Lonsdale, Palantir co-founder, interviews Brian Chau, founder of Effort News.

Worth the watch worth a signal boost. 

 

 

 

Lest We Forget

 

Twenty five years on, we remember.

Happy 4th of July, America. Happy 250th!

 

 

From the Great White North, best wishes for a fun day of hotdogs and burgers today. Enjoy, you earned it.

The propaganda, it burns.

Now we have something so stupid it could only come from "Researchers".

Researchers found that common nitrile and latex lab gloves can shed stearate particles that closely resemble microplastics, potentially "increasing the risk of false positives when studying microplastic pollution," reports ScienceDaily.

Not following even the most basic lab procedures, check.

I haven't had much to say previously about "microplastics" as I think it is a self-refuting scam, but this is too classic to pass by.

No, plastic particles are not getting into your brain, liver, gut etc. They are too big, essentially. That's the bottom line. 

Furnace in spaaaace!

It's been quite a while since I posted anything sciency, but in my defense the news hasn't been that inspiring. Mostly nonsense, sadly.

But now, for the New Year something exciting. A new company called Space Forge has lit a furnace in orbit that can reach 1000 degrees Celcius. 

A UK-based company has successfully powered up a microwave-sized space factory in orbit, proving it can run a 1,000C furnace to manufacture ultra-pure semiconductor materials in microgravity. "The work that we're doing now is allowing us to create semiconductors up to 4,000 times purer in space than we can currently make here today," says Josh Western, CEO of Space Forge.

Higher purity metals and semi-conductors means smaller, faster chips, stronger materials and etc. My favorite science fiction material is iron whisker crystals, which are known to be ridiculously stronger than regular high-tensile steel. In a zero-gravity furnace you could grow iron whiskers of any desired length, in industrial quantities. And who knows, maybe they can make graphene and buckytubes as well. 

Exciting times, my friends!

Happy New Year!

 Happy New Year everybody! ~:D