Glitched

[Corey Atad @CoreyAtad]

these are the two movies you should see this weekend

[Carnival of Horror @HorrorCarnival]

In Phil Tippett’s MAD GOD (2021), the alchemist’s lab unfolds like a luminous dream—one of the most mesmerizing stop‑motion movies ever crafted.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

While deflecting questions on why he took sanctions off Russia, the White House Chief of Staff stands by, the woman who's daughter was just found yesterday to be earning $35k/month working for the Russians in the Balkans.

Putin has truely purchased the US government.

[Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson @algekalipso]

“To replicate consciousness you just need to replicate the right causal structure.”

“What if consciousness is a topological pocket in the electromagnetic field?”

“Then we replicate that causal structure.”

“So, er, how do you replicate the causal structure of a pocket of the EM field?”

“You coarse grain it, identify the computationally relevant variables, and reproduce their interactions.”

“Computationally relevant. Okay. How do you know the things you discarded weren't what made it a single experience?”

“Because we preserve the causal organization.”

“Which causal organization? A continuous field doesn't come with a preferred division into computational components. There isn't even a closest point to any given point. You can describe its dynamics with differential equations, sure, but getting from that to a finite collection of interacting variables involves choices. What tells you those choices preserve the pocket?”

“We can make the simulation as accurate as necessary.”

“Necessary for what? Predicting what the pocket does to the rest of the brain? Or reproducing what makes it a pocket in the first place?”

“Why would those be different? Parsimony.”

“Well, suppose the field is doing something that becomes extremely expensive to simulate on your chosen hardware. Maybe some quantum contribution matters, and the cost of evaluating the relevant amplitudes varies enormously depending on what's happening. Whenever you hit the tricky parts you have to slow down the rest of the simulation while you work them out.”

“Fine. We slow everything down. The relative timing is preserved.”

“Yes, you can do that. But now there's a reason for using that substrate. The physical system realizes dynamics directly that your simulator needs an enormous amount of extra computation to reproduce. Calling both ‘the same computation’ doesn't explain why one is so much more efficient.”

“Efficiency doesn't establish consciousness.”

“Of course it doesn't. But suppose the physical organization responsible for that advantage also has properties we're trying to explain about experience: holistic causal power (the relevant operation belongs to the whole interacting system), boundedness (there's a physical reason this belongs to one whole rather than several). Now you have a reason to investigate whether the computational advantage and the experience depend on the same physical properties.”

“You'd have to establish that.”

“Yes! And you'd have to establish that your replacement preserves them. You can't settle that by identifying the input-output function and declaring everything else irrelevant.”

“We'd simulate the internal dynamics too.”

“Okay, then we're back to slowing everything down whenever the substrate does something your hardware struggles with.”

“Or we'd use lookup tables.”

“For the outputs of the tricky part?”

“Sure. Same inputs, same outputs.”

“But then you're no longer replicating its internal causal structure. You've replaced the whole interacting process with a stored answer.”

“The rest of the simulation can't tell the difference.”

“Okay. Let's keep going. Replace another part with a lookup table. And another. Wherever two parts interact, make a larger table that gives the same answers for the combined system.”

“That could become impractically large.”

“Sure. Assume we have the storage. Eventually we replace the entire human with one lookup table.”

“You can't just replay a recording. It has to respond to different inputs.”

“Of course. Include every possible input history at the resolution your simulation uses, with the corresponding next response. Actual inputs, hypothetical inputs, unexpected questions, everything. We keep track of the input history and retrieve the appropriate answer.”

“Then it would behave like the human.”

“Would it be conscious?”

“If it preserves everything relevant, yes.”

[Nick Hinton @NickHintonn]

Crowley claimed a Moonchild is made when SRA is used to fracture the psyche, or the soul. Then, the psychic wounds act as portals into other dimensions where magical entities are captured inside the person. He called this method The Butterfly Net. Sounds like Project Monarch!

[Tommie @tommiedotjpg]

Ahhh.

I see why the industry panned it.

[Jordan Crowder @digijordan]

More plague synchronicities…

A MONTH before the first Covid illnesses, Event 201 was held - a pandemic simulation run by the WEF and Bill Gates foundation.

Now…

A MONTH before this lab accident in Siberia, a plague outbreak simulation was held, called the 2026 China–Russia Cross-Border Infectious Disease Joint Emergency Exercise.

AND...Sergey Balakhonov, the DIRECTOR of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute, was a speaker at the event and was there in person.

[Glenn O. Rutherford @Rutherford1414]

As someone posted earlier, we must remember this: Just weeks ago, Musk said "No one needs to worry about the Democrats winning the midterms. I have a plan."

That gives me the shivers. And if recall anything about the past, we do indeed need to be worried.

[Laocoon of Troy @LaocoonofTroy]

Something to keep in mind about the Greek Gods:

The gods left humanity in a miserable, primitive state to keep us subservient and dependent. Prometheus was a Titan who saw mankind's plight and felt compassion for us. He stole fire from the gods and gave it to us, which broke our forced stagnation.

Zeus was so angry that he had Prometheus chained to a rock and sent an eagle to tear out and eat his regenerating liver every day for eternity.

The Greek gods were no friends of man. At best, mankind was their playground, their property, or an extension of their own rivalries with other gods.

[Jason Wilde @JasonWilde108]

There is a story in the Sumerian creation texts sounds not so much like religion.

It sounds like development.

In Enki and Ninmah, the gods are doing the work themselves. Digging canals and moving shit. Carrying the load.

They get sick of it.

So Namma tells Enki to create a substitute to do the work for them.

Think about that for a second. We are doing exactly this right now. We are building humanoid robots like Tesla's Optimus specifically to perform repetitive, dangerous and boring work humans don't want to do.

Build the worker. Give it hands. Make it walk. Make it see. Make it useful. Test it. Fix what doesn't work.

Repeat.

And the Sumerian story gets fucking detailed.Ninmah doesn't simply snap her fingers and create "humanity."She starts producing different human forms.

One has weak arms. Another has abnormal eyes. Another has paralyzed feet.

Another cannot control his urine.Another woman cannot reproduce.

Then she creates a person described explicitly as having "neither penis nor vagina."

Every time, Enki examines the individual and determines what function that person can perform.

Then Enki makes his own version. Umul.

This one is catastrophic. Its eyes and neck and ribs are unstable. Its lungs, heart and bowels are deformed. Its hips and feet cant support it, it cant feed itself or answer questions.

Ninmah examines it and essentially says: this thing cannot function.

Check it out.

Create.
Examine.
Evaluate.
Assign function.
Create another form.
Evaluate again.

Did the Sumerians understood genetics?
This is a bizarrely specific way for people thousands of years ago to describe human creation.

The story does NOT present humanity as one perfect object appearing instantaneously.

There are forms or variations and failures.

I don't think it actually proves we were genetically engineered.

But if we found a modern paper describing engineers building humanoid workers and creating different configurations, testing mobility, vision, reproduction or functionality, and all the other shit and still rejecting designs that couldn't perform their intended purpose!

We would know exactly what we were reading. We'd call them prototypes.

Tesla openly describes Optimus today as a general purpose humanoid robot being developed to take over unsafe, repetitive and boring tasks.

Parallels all over the fucking place.

These people were incredibly detailed when describing agriculture, astronomy, kings, wars, contracts, trade, inheritance and law and on and on.

We use their tablets to reconstruct their civilization because we trust that detail. Then when they describe beings designing humanity we say: "Well, obviously they were just making shit up."

What do you think?

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

why aren’t the robots working in the mines and oil fields and handling toxic chemicals or picking plastic out of the ocean? why are they writing emails and making powerpoint presentations? what the hell are we doing

[C-Bo the Eggman @CBoTheEggman]

DOGE did this

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! A former DOGE official just went public and revealed Elon Musk was so consumed with fixing the federal government that he SLEPT ON THE FLOOR in a nearby office, per Tyler Hassen to Fox

“[Elon was] so locked in on the problem that he sometimes slept on the floor in a nearby office." 🔥

THAT’S OUR ELON!

Hassen slammed how the media portrayed DOGE:

"If a contract couldn't be defended, or even explained, why were hardworking Americans paying for it?"

The media wanted DOGE to fail. The mission continues!

DOGE is one of THE most important things for America in the 21st century

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

Trump: "Mark my words, I'll cut your energy prices in half, including gas, within ONE YEAR!"

Quadruples energy prices for 16 years 👇

[GOŁƊ @vidxn_]

Over the last 25 years, public money has bailed out the airlines, the banks, the insurance industry, the auto industry, agriculture… and then the airlines again.

If capitalism is so efficient and self-correcting, why does it keep needing socialism to rescue it?

[Not Sure Gnosis 🦈🐆🐧 @ViceLitty]

> Remembering when a there was a random assassination attempt on Trump by some black guy, that invented wheelchair stabilizers and interned at NASA, and sounded like Mort from Family Guy, while Trump was on stage with an israeli born jewish stage magician, who was doing a "trick"

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

Just a reminder that the Kennedy Center was built with 3,700 tons of gifted white Carrara marble donated by the Italian government. Mined from the same area of the Tuscan Alps that supplied marble for Michelangelo’s David.

And one narcissistic man wants to destroy it

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

Had a conversation last week with a New England friend, a former occultist, who told me that Maine is the most spiritually dark state in the region, and it's not even close. It's the forests, he said.

[Brenton @seizethebanks]

uh oh 😰

[Jason Wilde @JasonWilde108]

THE WANDJINAS ARE BEYOND STRANGE.

In the Kimberley area of northwestern Australia are paintings of beings that look weird.

Huge dark eyes and very pale faces with no mouths. They also had enormous halos surrounding their heads.

They are the Wandjina, sacred ancestral beings of the Worrorra, Ngarinyin and Wunambal peoples.

In the traditional accounts, the Wandjina are powerful beings connected with the creation and ordering of the landscape, rain, fertility, animals and the laws governing human society.

Traditions describe them as originating from the sky or the sea, travelling through the landscape, creating and transforming it before becoming embodied in the rock itself.

Archaeologists have evidence for Wandjina imagery going back thousands of years, including a beeswax Wandjina head dated to roughly 4,000 years ago.

Wandjina images were ritually repainted generation after generation by people with the proper cultural authority. Within the tradition, they are connected with living spiritual forces, Country and ancestral law.

So who or what were the original Wandjina?

I find the underlying story fascinating.

Beings arrive from the sky or sea.

They travel through the land.

They establish order.

They teach people how the world is supposed to function.

Then they disappear into the landscape, while humans continue maintaining their images for generations.

Sound familiar?

What happens if some of humanity's oldest stories aren't descriptions of extraterrestrials arriving yesterday, but cultural memories of something that has been interacting with us for an extraordinarily long time?

gods.

ancestors.

Maybe survivors of some forgotten human population.

Or maybe these are entirely spiritual beings and we're making a mistake trying to force them into modern technological language.

I think the least interesting thing we can do is immediately decide our ancestors were simply making shit up.

Maybe we should actually listen to what they said.