Yes, I know, this week’s “Monday” browser killer is actually appearing on a Wednesday – so maybe we should think of this as the “hump-day special”. Hump ‘em if you got ‘em, boys – consensually, obviously. The late publication has to do with the fact that I am very busy enjoying myself on a very badly needed holiday, somewhere in Mordor, practising my Orcish accent and sunning myself on the slopes of Mount Doom.

It’s really quite nice around here, I have to say. As long as the Gondorians don’t get uppity and try to invade, I think I shall rather enjoy my time here. It’s always good to be back in the eastern dark lands.

Anyway, let’s get on with this week’s very late Monday, on a Wednesday, with some good old conspiracy theorising. This week’s theme is all about something called Project Blue Beam, which was suggested by The Male Brain, and the details are rather interesting:

Conspiracy theories today are a dime a dozen, ranging from speculation about the assassination of John F. Kennedy to beliefs about a flat Earth. But among the more bizarre conspiracy theories, there is one that just might be the wildest of them all: Project Blue Beam.

Project Blue Beam was first proposed in the early 1990s by a journalist-turned-conspiracy theorist named Serge Monast. After taking an interest in the work of other conspiracy theorists, Monast began reading about secret societies and became particularly interested in theories about a potential New World Order — which served as the foundation for Project Blue Beam.

In short, Project Blue Beam is a conspiracy theory that suggests NASA and the UN are trying to create a New World Order by implementing a New Age religion headed by the Antichrist, using advanced technology to trick people into believing in this religion. If they succeed in their supposed mission, all traditional religions will be abolished and all national identities will be removed in favor of a one-world religion and one-world government.

Here’s everything we know about Project Blue Beam, the hypothetical totalitarian dictatorship, and the conspiracy theorist behind it all.

Before he was known for his Project Blue Beam theory, Serge Monast was a Canadian writer working as a journalist during the 1970s and 1980s. Few details are known about his early life, but it’s clear that by the early 1990s, Monast had become deeply interested in conspiracy theories.

He began writing about the New World Order, a term used in several conspiracy theories that claim an organization — such as the UN or the Illuminati — is working to create a single-world government and to indoctrinate people so that they’d accept such a totalitarian dictatorship.

Often, these theories overlap with antisemitism, playing into false narratives that Jews are in complete control of the world’s finances and media organizations and hope to take over the Earth. These theories are also often steeped in fear-mongering and reliant on concerns about the Antichrist.

Notably, New World Order theories have been pushed by one of America’s most infamous conspiracy theorists, Alex Jones, who claimed that the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a “false flag” hoax perpetrated by “crisis actors” in an attempt to take away Americans’ gun rights. (Jones was later ordered to pay about $1.5 billion to the families of Sandy Hook victims after his false claims about the massacre.)

This is important context to identify where Monast was coming from when he first came up with the Project Blue Beam theory.

Monast first wrote about Project Blue Beam in 1994, publishing NASA’s Project Blue Beam, and expanding on the theory a year later in Les Protocoles de Toronto, which was largely modeled on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated text detailing a Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world. In a strange twist, some have speculated that Monast may have also been inspired by Star Trek, specifically the premise of a never-produced movie, Star Trek: The God Thing, which would have introduced a mysterious force that claimed to be God but was actually a sentient computer.

But Monast’s theory focused most heavily on NASA and the UN — and their supposed four-step plan to achieve world domination.

The first step of Project Blue Beam, according to Serge Monast, involves effectively rewriting history by faking earthquakes around the world. These manmade quakes are meant to lead to the discoveries of fake “artifacts” that will discredit traditional religions, especially Christianity and Islam.

In essence, Monast believed that NASA and the UN would dismantle these established religions around the world by sowing “historical” doubt about them, in order to propagate their New Age religion.

Step two involves three-dimensional holographic laser projections that would be beamed across the planet to create a massive “space show,” depicting a variety of religious figures in the sky, including Jesus, Muhammad, and Buddha. The finale of the show would then involve all of these various holograms merging into a singular entity: the Antichrist.

But how would this space show convince every single person on Earth to go along with NASA and the UN’s supposed plans? This was Monast’s explanation: “Such rays from satellites are fed from the memories of computers that have stored massive data about every human on earth, and their languages. The rays will then interlace with their natural thinking to form what we call diffuse artificial thought.”

Read the whole thing, if you would like to know more. The one thing I have learned about conspiracy theories is, they almost always turn out to be FACT only about 3-6 months later. So I am far less inclined to dismiss this one than I might have been once upon a time.

Here are some videos, as well, supplied by TMB, to supplement the article.

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#BasedTucker is Based

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Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain has plenty of great stuff for us this week. We start with one from How Money Works about the real nature of scams:

Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the uses of sulphur – yes, my heathen rebel colonist friends, that is the CORRECT spelling – for storing hydrogen:

Chill Dude Explains how modern science still cannot figure out a bunch of ancient technologies:

Economics Explained talks about the European Union, and how it hasn’t actually lived up to the original hype:

PsycHacks has some very useful advice to the WAMMENZES about how to attract and keep a man, through proper strategery:

Honest Ads honestly explains the nature of electile dysfunction:

The world’s busiest bald YOOTOOBER uses his Sideprojects channel to unpick historical events that didn’t quite happen the way you think they did:

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Mind-Expanding Drugs

Your General Knowledge piece of the week comes from Dawn Pine, and concerns the evolution of the English language, which as we all know is highly illogical and irregular – and gets a lot of that nonsense from French:

Interestingly, though, the very things that make English so irritating to learn for non-native speakers, ALSO make it a very easy language to learn, overall.

See, the lack of cases and gendered nouns makes it something of an exception in the Indo-European language tree. If you look at many of those languages, they are HEAVILY influenced by Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, all of which have genders and cases.

And, as I can personally attest from learning Russian, a case/gender-based language requires you to learn and memorise a very large number of rules to keep everything straight.

These rules are not given to flexibility or ease of use. With German, for instance, things get even worse, because you can never figure out the gender of a noun based on anything in the noun itself – while, in Russian, the last letter of the noun tells you the gender, with very few exceptions.

English, by contrast, has none of these issues. It simply inherits all of those stupid irregular verbs – which is almost EVERY VERB in English – from French, and the huge number of tenses.

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Death Smiles At Us All…

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Poli-Ticking Off

Mark Dice watched the Spawn of Satan herself appear on late-night TV, and somehow maintained his sanity long enough to discuss it in a video:

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The very-thoroughly-married couple at Redacted talk to DA KERNEL about the sheer insanity of Israel attacking an Iranian consular outpost in Syria:

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PJW looks back to Ye Goode Olde Dayes of TV in the early 2000s:

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Lord Razor of the Fist Clan analyses Brandon’s stumbling, stuttering, very seriously creepy public appearances during Easter:

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Rulings from the Bench

Judge Nap has had a busy week after returning to normal programming post-Easter. We start with Col. Douglas Macgregor, talking about the problems Israel is having with trying to uproot Gaza:

Maj. Scott Ritter reckons Ukraine is on its last legs – I mean, we’ve been saying that for like 2 years now, but the fact is, they are in very desperate trouble, and it is only going to get much worse:

Alistair Crooke looks at the impact of the Crocus City Hall attack on Russia’s stance with respect to 404:

He is more right than he realises, because just today, the Russians released new details of the key contact who coordinated the terrorist act, and the Ukrainian connection is getting increasingly strong.

Larry Johnson & Ray McGovern provide an intel overview of the nature of WWIII:

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs despairs at the death of diplomacy in trying to resolve the various crises afflicting the world:

Prof. John Mearsheimer can only shake his head at the insanity of putting US boots on the ground in Taiwan – right next door to the world’s largest air force and navy:

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Дед Сварливый Говорит!

Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the recent phone call between Sergei Shoigu and Sebastien Lecorneau, the Defence Ministers of Russia and France, respectively:

All you have to do is look at the two men to get a sense of the profound differences between the two countries.

On the Russian side, you have a highly capable, exceptionally intelligent man who came from Tuva – one of the toughest and poorest of the Russian regions – who started from very humble beginnings and is now one of the most powerful men in the WORLD.

On the French side, you have an effete homosexual who could not be more of a globalist if he tried, and whose very countenance SCREAMS weakness and indecision.

Not difficult to figure out which side is winning here.

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Polonium

Ania Konieczek speaks with one of the greatest living economists of our time, Dr. Michael Hudson, about how Russia – with its heavily mixed economy – is storming ahead of the supposedly free-market West:

In reality, Russia is FAR more liberal in most matters of economics than the West is. It isn’t the easiest place to do business – many of its regulations date back to Soviet times – but its tax rates are low, its business incentives are excellent, its manpower pool is superb, and its infrastructure is highly impressive.

In other words – Russia is becoming today what the FUSA was in the past, whereas the FUSA is become Europe, and Europe is becoming the old USSR.

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Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentes…

The good gentlemen of The Duran talk at length with Grandpa Grumpuss, who brings his signature style and sense of grouchy old-man humour to the current issues of the day:

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The Bald Truth

Brian Berletic of The New Atlas probes the realities of ammunition shortages in Banderastan:

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Bad Medicine

Dr. John Campbell talks about a mother’s desperate attempts to protect her vulnerable son from the insanity of the clot-shot:

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Dr. Suneel Dhand docsplains some key risk factors for dementia for oldies:

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Warriors of Faith

Tha Dizzle points out the serious problems with the New Atheists, who are belatedly realising that Christian morality is better than any other kind:

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Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Al-Fadi from CIRA International continue to examine the Sana’a Palimpsest and analyse the implications it has for the Izzlamist narrative:

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Christian Prince shreds through Izzlamist claims about being “peaceful” when dealing with a very nasty Muzzie:

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Sam Shamoun smashes through Izzlamist unscientific fraudulent nonsense about the origins of the Universe supposedly being found in the Koran:

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Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp unpacks Steven Crowder’s divorce, which looks like a truly awful train crash:

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Joker from Better Bachelor has his way with Australia’s most ridiculous hot-mess, Jana Hocking, and her latest round of blithering idiocy:

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hoe_math mansplains the very different types of value that men and women bring to the table:

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Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Midnight’s Edge reports on the latest insane idea from the House of the Devil Mouse:

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Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock reports on the extreme damage done to the Star Trek brand by Paramount:

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Gary from Nerdrotic tries to figure out what Disney is up to with the idea of a female Silver Surfer reboot:

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The Critical Drinker punked us BUT GOOD on April 1st:

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Reading Too Much Into Things

Your Science is F***ing Weird moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and looks at how you can seriously mess with generative AI prompts:

Data poisoning attacks manipulate training data to introduce unexpected behaviors into machine learning models at training time. For text-to-image generative models with massive training datasets, current understanding of poisoning attacks suggests that a successful attack would require injecting millions of poison samples into their training pipeline. In this paper, we show that poisoning attacks can be successful on generative models. We observe that training data per concept can be quite limited in these models, making them vulnerable to prompt-specific poisoning attacks, which target a model’s ability to respond to individual prompts.

We introduce Nightshade, an optimized prompt-specific poisoning attack where poison samples look visually identical to benign images with matching text prompts. Nightshade poison samples are also optimized for potency and can corrupt an Stable Diffusion SDXL prompt in <100 poison samples. Nightshade poison effects “bleed through” to related concepts, and multiple attacks can composed together in a single prompt. Surprisingly, we show that a moderate number of Nightshade attacks can destabilize general features in a text-to-image generative model, effectively disabling its ability to generate meaningful images. Finally, we propose the use of Nightshade` and similar tools as a last defense for content creators against web scrapers that ignore opt-out/do-not-crawl directives, and discuss possible implications for model trainers and content creators.

And here is a tl;dr article that sort of breaks it all down for us:

Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed a technique that can “poison” generative text-to-image machine learning models such as Stable Diffusion XDSL and OpenAI’s Dall-E when they scrape the internet for training images. And it can do it with as few as 100 poisoned images, they said.

The tool, dubbed Nightshade, has implications for publishers, filmmakers, museums, art departments, educators, and artists wanting to protect their works against generative AI companies violating their copyrights.

University of Chicago computer science department researchers Shawn Shan, Wenxin Ding, Josephine Passananti, Haitao Zheng, and Ben Y. Zhao have published their paper, “Prompt-Specific Poisoning Attacks on Text-to-Image Generative Models” for peer review.

Earlier this year, the same team released the free open source software, Glaze, which allows image makers to “cloak” their works in a style different from their own, preventing an AI from stealing the original image, researchers said in an FAQ.

The poisoning attacks on generative AI are prompt-specific, researchers said, and target a model’s ability to respond to individual prompts. Further, because a doctored image contains specific but random poisoned pixels, it becomes nearly impossible to be detected as any different from the original and thus corrected.

“Surprisingly, we show that a moderate number of Nightshade attacks can destabilize general features in a text-to-image generative model, effectively disabling its ability to generate meaningful images,” they said.

In addition, Nightshade prompt samples can “bleed through” to similar prompts. For example, the prompt “fantasy art” can also poison the prompts “dragon” and fantasy artist “Michael Whelan.” Multiple Nightshade poison prompts can be stacked into a single prompt, with cumulative effect — when enough of these attacks are deployed, it can collapse the image generation model’s function altogether.

“Moving forward, it is possible poison attacks may have potential value as tools to encourage model trainers and content owners to negotiate a path towards licensed procurement of training data for future models,” the researchers conclude.

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Your long read of the week is a piece from Joseph Kay about how virtue-signalling Whites make life much worse for themselves by insisting on electing and hiring Wakandans:

Blacks are not unique in using elections to create environments that reflect preferences that contrast sharply with American society more generally. The small town of Kiryas Joel in upstate New York, has a population of 20,000, almost entirely ultra-orthodox Jews from the Satmar sect. This group originally lived in Brooklyn, NY, then many moved upstate to Monroe, NY. In 2018, they exercised their political influence to start an entirely new town with its own officials, including a town court. Though there are regular elections, everything is controlled by religious leaders, making it a de facto theocracy. Very few residents speak English at home, and it has the highest poverty rate of any town in America — but virtually no crime. During the pandemic, the school district also got $94,000 per student in federal aid, though learning is devoted almost entirely to study of the Torah and Talmud.

What many Americans think of as “dysfunctional” black cities is consistent with the world-wide decolonization that began in the late 1950s. Millions of Africans and Asians ousted their colonial rulers in favor of self-rule. Though locals might have had qualms about replacing the British or the Dutch, the desire to be ruled by people like themselves was stronger. Blacks in Gary, IN, Jackson, MS, and similar cities may be thinking the same way: Yes, the economy may collapse, but that is less important than cultural autonomy.

Building a community around a single culture — black, Appalachian, or Orthodox Jewish — is like a lab experiment. Outcomes reflect the group, and this is equally true in Stockbridge, MA, and Jackson, MS. I argue that these outcomes better reflect what the group really wants, and are far more accurate than the results of preference polling (“Do you want good schools?”).

Understanding what people really want has major implications for public policy. First, it avoids the cliché, “We are all the same and all want the same things” invariably trotted out to justify expensive government expansion into every corner of life. Yes, all people want less crime, but at what cost? Voters get what they want. Actions speak loader than words.

Sharp group differences in preference ordering and tolerance of costs suggest there should be political separation. To be sure, many communities have divergent voter preferences and can reach compromises, but this is not inherent to democracy. Differences may be intractable. Everything depends on the details, and it is foolish to wonder, “Why can’t we all get along?” Sometimes, the best solution to domestic strife is divorce.

A national divorce in America would indeed be a very good thing. Blacks have shown themselves to be utterly incapable of running their own lives and cities – see e.g. Chicago, Detroit, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Newark, etc. etc. ad nauseam et infinitum.

And Whites have shown themselves utterly incapable of changing the situation in any meaningful way.

So, why not simply separate? Let the 13% of America that is Black, go its own way, peacefully and easily, and let the White majority continue doing what it wants in its own corner.

The alternative to a peaceful, but ugly, dissolution of a long-standing “marriage”, is open war, with horrendous losses on both sides.

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Linkage is good for you:

• David Goldman, aka Spengler, recently attended a conference of the Great and the Good of NATO, and came away profoundly depressed at the fact that no one has a plan for 404;
• Western MUH SANKSHUNS!!!! have not WERKED REEL GUDDER at all against Russia, but they are deterring Central Asian friends of Russia from using their MIR cards;
• Timofey Bordachyev explains the immense hatred the Western neo-liberal elites bear for Serbia, a small and severely brutalised, but proud, country with deep links to Russia;
• Paul Craig Roberts doesn’t much understand Russia or its leaders, but he DOES understand, quite clearly, that a new and very powerful Russia is emerging – which I see right now in person;
• Dmitry Trenin continues on this theme and explains how Russia has rediscovered its sense of self, purpose, and pride of place in the world, and what this means for the Global Majority;
• The Russians recently found, uncovered, and captured a heavily overhyped Ukrainian “super-tank” prototype, which turned out to be just a really heavy and badly designed IFV on a T-64 chassis;
• Henry Johnston writes a superb piece for RT about how and why financialisation, which is now so clear and so rampant in the West, is the death-stage of empires;
• One antidote to financialisation, is sound money – and Zimbabwe, of all places, is trying to launch a gold-backed currency to replace the dollar, which is shocking, if you know the history;
• The movement toward gold is becoming increasingly strong across the entire world, and the West is worried – rightly so, because it is losing its ability to determine the price of gold;
• The world’s most “prestigious” strategy consultancy – which has been behind much of the financialisation we see in the West – is now offering a lot of money and resources to some people to leave The Firm;
• Millennialtards and Gen-Zykloners from the DINK movement (Dual Income No Kids) may have more fancy pants and lollipops, but as one Gen-Z mum points out, having kids is way better;
• Gen-Zers apparently have a tough time dealing with basic rules of office etiquette, which we all learned quite young, and this shouldn’t really surprise us;
• Keeping up with the “let’s bash Gen-Z” theme, it looks like many Gen-Z types are treating employers like crappy dates and ghosting them on the first day of work – and, again, one can kind of see why;
• The problems with Gen-Z are not unique to the West – in China, Gen-Z workers are disillusioned and checking out of the traditional Chinese approach to saving and investment;
• If you ever want to bring a corrupt organisation to its knees, simply insist on following its own rules to the letter, as this one enterprising woman found out when she figured out a way to get over 4 weeks’ paid leave;

And some more from Dawn Pine:

• They say persistence pays off, but when you’ve failed at something 238 times, you might want to take the hint already;
• AI is getting rather weird – apparently, you can now push for a retrial if you think it caused a problem with your previous one;
• Nuclear fusion comes a step closer to reality, as a South Korean company figures out a way to keep an extreme-temperature plasma going for nearly a full minute;
• Fast-food chains are investing in automated order kiosks both to cut costs AND raise prices, which is about as close to the Holy Grail as you can get in business – regardless of how customers and employees feel about it;
• The Babylon Bee reports Brandon wants to release his own version of the Koran – which, if it actually happened, would make about as much sense as the other 37, or however many it is now;
• You know abortion is getting way out of hand when doctors kill the foetus of the wrong woman due to a language issue, which is precisely what happened in Czechia recently;
• Apparently, wanting to keep women’s sports for women, actual and biological ones, is now MAGA-racism, or some such nonsense;
• If birth rates and demographic trends in Japan continue the way they are now, supposedly everyone in the country will have the same name – which I find a little silly, but it IS Japan, after all;

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MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar is, among many other things, actually quite a comedian:

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HALO Nation

Slayergod Remy aka MintBlitz does his thing:

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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

Scholar’s Lore explains how the Primarchs came to be:

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Mad Man! Crazy Man!! BATTY-MAN!!!

MojoPlays ranks the top Arkhamverse boss fights:

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Jeepers Creepers

This week’s horror show is from The Male Brain, and is about a woman who was buried alive, and then was dug out, with scenes reminiscent of the most pants-wetting moments from old vampire films:

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Creature Features

What Lurks Beneath talks ALIENS:

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Oh No! Anyway…

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

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Comedy Hour

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Meme Warfare

We begin, as usual, with some dank memes from Dawn Pine:

[CAN. CONFIRM. – Didact]

[Fun fact: the best way to make a Great White Shark shit itself, is to bring a Killer Whale along with you as a bodyguard. No, seriously. An Orca will literally rip the liver straight out of a Great White, and then pin it down just to dick with it as it drowns. – Didact]

[Yep. Literally me about 95% of the time my phone rings. – Didact]

And now, as LRFotS RobertW likes to say:

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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:

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REPS FOR JESUS!!!

Gym beast props this week go to Jamal Browner:

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Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs

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They See Me Rollin’…

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Palate Cleansers

Axe Me Anything

Knives Out

Drumlines

Guitar Heroics

MOAR DAKKA!!!

Mighty Wings

Jump-Starts

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Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods

Given the theme of this poast, the next song seems highly apropos:

And given the North Americans saw a total eclipse of the Sun on the 8th, this one seems even more fitting:

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Rock Out With Your Glock Out

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Thot Shots

Finally, here is your Instathot for the (mid-)week. This here is a suggestion from The Male Brain, going by the name of Eduarda Marques, age 20, from Brazil, and the only reason she graces this page is because she acquired the nickname, “Cocaine Barbie”, after revealing a big stash of drugs by accident on one of her videos.

As you can imagine, given that introduction, this is not a girl you introduce to your mother. And that’s BEFORE we get to

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