Monday. Eugh. It’s like that disgusting gunk stuck to the bottom of your shoe that you just cannot get out, no matter what you do. Unfortunately, you cannot throw away the shoe, and you cannot get rid of Monday – it is just something we must endure. That being said, nothing gets me in the mood to do some serious deep work quite like good classical music (well, except for IRON MAIDEN, but I’m weird that way). And there are few better examples of virtuosity combined with melody than the works of Niccolo Paganini, the man often referred to as “the Devil’s violinist’.
The guy had SERIOUS talent – just listen to some of his music, and you will understand why, even if you know nothing about how to play a stringed instrument, never mind a violin:
He sure milked his reputation, too – he was a bit of a ladies’ man, by all accounts, and an incredible showman:
Now, you sort of have to pick and choose which recitals of Paganini you want to sample – some of them are too fast and flashy and do not do the man’s compositional genius justice. I personally recommend Shlomo Mintz‘s take on the maestro’s works:
Of course, it wouldn’t be a Didactic Monday without a cute girl’s take on it too:
The Mighty God-Emperor
His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, held a rally in Erie, PA last week, and outlined parts of his vision for what his second Administration might look like:
We shall see. I am extremely doubtful he will ever even be allowed to get anywhere near the ballot in 2024 – assuming there is, in fact, an election next year, which I seriously doubt. Even if, by some miracle, he actually wins, his instinct to negotiate, rather than to wage outright war, will betray him when dealing with the GloboHomoPaedoPharisatanist neoclown lunatics currently running the asylum.
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has lots of material to keep us busy this week. We begin with a great one from Cracked about divorce:
In the words of the late, great, very sorely missed Robin Williams: “Divorce, from the Latin ‘divorcare’, meaning ‘to rip a man’s wallet out through his genitals!'”.
Prager U discusses the realities of nuclear waste:
This is true. When properly handled and stored, nuclear waste is not a dealbreaker, and nuclear power is a clean, efficient, and very safe way to derive cheap power. The Russians have been using nuclear power for decades, without serious incident (INSIDE Russia itself, I’m not talking about Chernobyl, which was in modern Banderastan).
New channel Whatifalthist asks a rather germane question, given what is happening today:
How History Works asks a highly pertinent question – and the thumbnail picture is quite accurate:
The Babylon Bee explains how American universities are resorting to Plan C, D, and E through Z, to prevent Whites from applying to their totally-not-biased campuses:
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice despairs for the future of the US military – as well he should:
The dynamic duo over at Redacted go full-on X-Files:
As I said earlier, I am agnostic on the subject of little green footballs kicked around by strange creatures. I do not for one moment discount the possibility that all of this is nothing more than a major psyop to distract the population from the rapidly failing state of the Empire of Lies. We shall see what comes out of it.
Jackson Hinkle appeared on Piers Morgan‘s show (obligatory puke warning, because Piers is unbearable), alongside Bandera apologist Konstantin Kisin (who is actually kind of funny, and otherwise intelligent, at least on the subjects of censorship and free speech, sometimes), and handed out a bit of a school lesson:
The problem is that Jackson calls himself a Communist and a Stalinist. I’m not sure he understands either term particularly well, given he has actual, y’know, sponsors on his channel, and given he does not seem to understand the price the Soviet peoples paid for forced collectivisation and industrialisation under Lenin and Stalin.
Nor am I at all certain that he understands just why it was the USSR fell so far behind the USA and the Western nations economically during the Cold War. If he did, he would not call himself a Communist.
This, sadly, is one of the unintended consequences of the otherwise sensible global movement toward multipolarity – it may well end up restoring some credibility to Communism and Fascism as ideologies. Communism is flatly unworkable. Fascism is only slightly less so. Both are terrible ideas which need to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan is rather sick and tired of the “open world” game:
Being an FPS gamer myself – specifically, a HALO campaign gamer – I cannot really comment, but I will say that the open-world games I have played and enjoyed (e.g. The Legend of Zelda series, Darksiders 2, the Arkhamverse games, Assassin’s Creed, etc.), actually got rather repetitive after a while.
PJW is thoroughly unimpressed by the latest Global Climate Warming Change Cooling scam:
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Nap looks tanned, refreshed, and rested after his long holiday on Lake Como. (The lucky so-and-so…) He is back now, and has been every bit as busy as before, interviewing various talking heads about the current geopolitical situation. We start, as usual, with Col. Douglas Macgregor, who is not sanguine about 404’s prospects for… well, much of anything:
LTC Tony Shaffer is unimpressed by the endless stream of weapons, money, and bullshit flowing into 404:
Maj. Scott Ritter reads the tea leaves of the khurrent khlearly khatastrophic Khreat Khokholite Khumvee Khounteroffensive, and is not amused, to say the least, by the results:
Alistair Crooke talks up his latest book and explains how Europe’s much-vaunted “unity” is in fact breaking and crumbling before our eyes, as the Russian pressure on the Banderastan front lines intensifies:
Ray McGovern attempts to discern the truth from the lies:
ะะตะด ะกะฒะฐัะปะธะฒัะน ะะพะฒะพัะธั!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about network-centric warfare and the power of Russian methods in implementing that battle doctrine:
Polonium
Ania Konieczek did a very interesting livestream from Moscow with the gents from The Duran on all things Russia and Ukraine:
Itโs All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran explain what the promotion of uber-neoclown Victoria “F-the-EU”/”Cookies” Nuland means, even as the Khreat Khokholite Khumvee Khounteroffensive khlearly khollapses:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas reviews the current state of the KKKKKK as we near the 2-month mark of the counterploink:
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell looks at the link between Vitamin D and reduced risks of dementia – so take your Vit-D capsules every day, boys:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle and his good buddy The Apostate Prophet review Dr. Stephen Meyer‘s recent appearance on Toe Rogan‘s podcast series:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms takes on the sirah of Mo’Lester, and is not impressed:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Lloyd de Jongh point out the many, MANY inconsistencies in the Izzlamist scholarly narratives – which, if you have any familiarity with the subject material, are immense and very complicated:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp has some straightforward words for GenZ, telling the Zoomers to grow the F up:
Joker from Better Bachelor illustrates the inescapable truth of the saying that “men start out poor and grow rich slowly, while women start out rich and grow poor quickly”:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge watched the Barbie movie so you don’t have to – in this case, seriously, AVOID:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock notes that things seem to be getting really quite bad for the people still left at Lucasfarts:
Again, we shall see whether this is even remotely true. The fact is, Disney is deep in the shitter and will never climb its way back out without extremely radical surgery. It just will not happen.
Gary from Nerdrotic has absolutely no Fs left to give for Hollyweird as strikes and stupidity lead it into disaster:
The Drinker reviews Oppenheimer:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and is rather apropos on the theme of UFOs/UAPs/LGFs:
Mobile communication towers represent a relatively new but growing contributor to the total radio leakage associated with planet Earth. We investigate the overall power contribution of mobile communication towers to the Earthล radio leakage budget, as seen from a selection of different nearby stellar systems. We created a model of this leakage using publicly available data of mobile tower locations. The model grids the planet’s surface into small, computationally manageable regions, assuming a simple integrated transmission pattern for the mobile antennas. In this model, these mobile tower regions rise and set as the Earth rotates. In this way, a dynamic power spectrum of the Earth was determined, summed over all cellular frequency bands. We calculated this dynamic power spectrum from three different viewing points, HD 95735, Barnard star, and Alpha Centauri A. Our preliminary results demonstrate that the peak power leaking into space from mobile towers is โผ4GW. This is associated with LTE mobile tower technology emanating from the East Coast of China as viewed from HD 95735. We demonstrate that the mobile tower leakage is periodic, direction dependent, and could not currently be detected by a nearby civilization located within 10 light years of the Earth, using instrumentation with a sensitivity similar to the Green Bank Telescope. We plan to extend our model to include more powerful 5G mobile systems, radar installations, ground based uplinks (including the Deep Space Network), and various types of satellite services, including low Earth orbit constellations such as Starlink and OneWeb.
Here is the explainer for all of that, in more-or-less plain English:
What would the Earth look like to an alien civilization located light years away? A team of researchers from Mauritius and Manchester University has used crowd-sourced data to simulate radio leakage from mobile towers and predict what an alien civilization might detect from various nearby stars, including Barnard’s star, six light years away from Earth. Ramiro Saide, currently an intern at the SETI Institute’s Hat Creek Radio Observatory and M.Phils. student at the University of Mauritius, generated models displaying the radio power that these civilizations would receive as the Earth rotates and the towers rise and set. Saide believes that unless an alien civilization is much more advanced than ours, they would have difficulty detecting the current levels of mobile tower radio leakage from Earth. However, the team suggests that some technical civilizations are likely to have much more sensitive receiving systems than we do, and the detectability of our mobile systems will increase substantially as we move to much more powerful broadband systems.
Saide is also excited by the fact that his simulations show that the Earthโs mobile radio signature includes a substantial contribution from developing countries, including Africa. According to team leader Professor Mike Garrett (University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics), โthe results highlight Africaโs success in bypassing the landline stage of development and moving directly into the digital age.โ Garrett is pleased with the results. โIโve heard many colleagues suggest that the Earth has become increasingly radio quiet in recent years – a claim that I always contested – although itโs true we have fewer powerful TV and radio transmitters today, the proliferation of mobile communication systems around the world is profound. While each system represents relatively low radio powers individually, the integrated spectrum of billions of these devices is substantial.โ
Your long read of the week is from, of all places, The Daily Fail, and discusses exactly why it is that even true Hollyweird heavyweights like Tom Cruise fear the Dawn of the AI:
AI lies at the heart of the strike that has brought Hollywood to a standstill. Battles over pay and healthcare are certainly part of the dispute but the unions claim ‘generative’ AI actually poses an existential threat to film and TV as we know it.
They say it could be used by studios to replace actors and professional stuntmen and women by making it look as if the actors are performing when they are not. It could be used to bring long-dead stars ‘back to life’ to play roles in modern films. And, astonishingly, it’s widely predicted that AI programs will one day be able to create digitally the entire cast for a film. All of it so much cheaper than using real people.
Fran Drescher, president of the 160,000-member SAG-AFTRA union, has bluntly warned: ‘We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines.’
Is this all Tinseltown hyperbole? Experts say not. AI really could make huge numbers of screen actors obsolete โ which explains why Tom Cruise is not the only celebrity involved in this fight.
Among many others are his co-star in Dead Reckoning, Hayley Atwell, and Succession star Brian Cox, who joined a demonstration in London last week by the British actors’ union Equity.
Hollywood writers, who were the first to strike, also fear that AI will replace them โ that digital entities could soon be delivering polished scripts created by computer. Popular AI programs such as ChatGPT don’t seem able to produce a convincing film script โ but experts say that will change.
And in the meantime, the technology is churning out film plots and ideas, while some screenwriters complain that they are being offered insultingly cheap rates to clean up sub-par AI-created scripts rather than produce original ones themselves.
But if the threat to film writers seems obvious to anyone who has ever tinkered for five minutes with ChatGPT, industry experts say the AI revolution ultimately poses a far more serious menace to those who appear on the screen. And particularly to the massed ranks of actors whose names you will never recognise.
The principal issue surrounding AI for the unions is that it has potentially calamitous implications for the rank-and-file ‘extras’ (known in the U.S. as background actors) who constitute the vast majority of the profession in Hollywood. They are not famous and scratch out a living, working for modest day rates and never knowing one week to the next whether they will have work.
These are the people who have made up crowd scenes and even armies in epic productions โ actors we have all taken for granted for decades. Their jobs are under threat as never before.
For AI can create and manipulate digital images of these actors so they can be replicated again and again in film after film.
In other words, you could be hired to appear in a crowd scene in a new adaptation of Pride And Prejudice only to reappear in the background in a Star Wars movie, a Game Of Thrones sequel and possibly โ if you’re sufficiently photogenic โ in a new Barbie film.
I rather fail to see the problem here. AI democratises the entire movie-making process, to the point where we will one day be able to create our own movies, using our own AI-generated scripts and special effects, with the faces and voices of some of the greatest and most capable thespians of all time. This just means the vast majority of adult pretenders will need to up their games – true quality always makes it to the top, no matter what.
Linkage is good for you:
- Connor Echols despairs at the fact that arch-neoclown Victoria “F the EU/Cookies in the Maidan” Nuland is now the #2 in charge of the State Department – explains a lot about the FUSA, doesn’t it?;
- Pepe Escobar explains the rather solid geopolitical reasoning behind the Russian overtures to Africa, which is out of rather more than just the goodness of the Russians’ hearts;
- The Neo-Tsar accurately and correctly explains the real reasons behind rising global food prices – here’s a hint, it comes down to INSANE levels of Western money-printing;
- The Banderite crackdown on Orthodox Christianity continues apace in 404, and it doesn’t get anywhere near the coverage it should;
- The Farage Fiasco has proven juicier and more funny than any of us could ever have imagined – and it has managed the minor miracle of forcing the Tories to actually ACT LIKE GOOD GOVERNORS for a change;
- Farage has also forced out one of the most Establishment-y of the Deep State types in Britain – no small feat at all, when you consider the CV of ex-NatWest CEO Dame Alison Rose;
- Matthieu Buge attempts to explain why Paris is burning, yet again, and how the EUSSR has totally failed to learn the lessons posed by France on the subject of national identity;
- For some reason, ‘Strayans are really pissed at former Prime Minister John “Eyebrows” Howard for saying that British colonisation of EVERYTHINGWANTSTOKILLYOULAND was a GOOD Thing;
- Boeing continues to prove just how badly wrong it has gone as a company with its Starliner programme, which has cost the company over US$1.4B in losses;
- As a counterpoint to the story above, it is worth noting that AI is actually plenty dangerous, and there are LOTS of loopholes in supposedly “secure” AI networks like ChatGPT or Bard;
- Tobias Langdon points out that AI, by its very nature, represents a powerful tool for breaking free of Leftist and ZOG-controlled lies about the world;
- Hans Vogel laments the ongoing Global Climate Warming Change Cooling nonsense currently taking a real hold within Europe and the West;
- The Norks claim to have created a brand-spanking-new main battle tank – is it any good? We report, you decide;
- I am not sure what the worst part of this story is – the fact that the woman in question slept with 300 people in 12 months (!!!!!!!!), or the fact that she is only TWENTY SIX (and, of course, she is Australian);
- Here is a tip, gents – if you are 54 and your wife is 29, and you just pay for endless plastic surgery so she can look ever more bizarre, you aren’t a good husband, you’re a SIMP;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Brandon seems to think that using shorter stairs to board Air Farce One is going to force people to stop making fun of him – yeah, good luck with that, meat-puppet;
- Apparently, there is a great big-ass collection of fresh water below the sea floor – i.e. below SALT WATER – that might help us solve a number of serious problems with water;
- For the umpteenth time, can we please stop with this whole ridiculous “HOH-LEE SAYENCE!!!!” nonsense? “Science” is not reliable anymore, as the case of a Stanford president who just got caught falsifying research demonstrates;
- If you get out of university having made yourself really famous for your mugshots, rather than your academic record… let’s just say your life probably isn’t going to go well;
- There were a wide range of interactions between early Christians and their Jewish contemporaries – which sounds blindingly obvious, until you actually model them out, and realise how deep some of those connections ran;
- Despite appearances, the Brits do in fact have a hilarious and very sarcastic sense of humour – sometimes very rude, as well;
- Remember that story about the “emotional support stripper” from last week in Banderastan? She’s back again, and the details just get more ridiculous every time;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar has been ridiculously busy over the past week – seriously, the man is 70 years old, and yet he maintains a robust schedule that would run a man a THIRD his age straight into the ground. He held a Russia-Africa Summit, which appears to have been actually quite successful, despite Western presstitute attempts to spin it in the opposite light, and then stayed up very late on Saturday night answering questions from Russian reporters – who, unlike their Western lickspittle counterparts, actually do ask useful questions:
HALO Nation
Let’s watch slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz do his thing:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
We start with some great memes to get us ready for August, from Dawn Pine:
You listen to fake news, you suffer
Onward – and while we’re on the subject of the A-10:
Yeah, but the A-10 has never actually fought against an enemy with really serious, really dangerous air defence. Put that thing up in the air over 404, and watch it get shredded at 400Km ranges by S-400s and Su-57s.
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to Shane Hunt, who makes heavy lifts look ridiculously easy:
Gonna be honest, I am NOT a fan of sumo deadlifts, as I think they reduce the total ROM, and also complicate an already very technical lift. But, those kinds of numbers are AMAZING.
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Because WHY NOT a Chainsaw Solo?!?!
Jump-Starts
She really is awfully cute, eh?
Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
And finally, here is your Instathot to get the week off to a… well, some kind of start, anyway. This is Ayumi, and my Japanese is insufficient to the task of deciphering who she is, what she does, how old she is, where she is from, etc. All I can say for sure is, she is… atypical for someone from that part of the world, let’s put it that way.
OK, that’s all, gents, back to work now.
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Monday is coming? damn, i’m not even breathing hard.
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also, Jackyl is awesome. it’s NSFW but “She Loves My Cock” rocks out pretty hard ( all innuendos intended ).