John Calvin's involvement in the burning of Michael Servetus in 1553 is a controversial aspect of his legacy. While Calvin was a prominent figure in the Reformation, he was also known for his strict enforcement of Calvinist doctrine, which included executing heretics.
first letter to the Thessalonians says, “You know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety,’ destruction will come on them suddenly,
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/is-peter-thiel-the-target-of-pope-leos-gandalf-quote-an-investigation/
Open war is upon youse
Stalinism LITE as different as coke from pepsi
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bensaid/2002/07/leaps.htm
KGB Carlson, like an Augustinian Pontiff, can never break from Eastern Orthodoxy
Anarcho syndicalists reportedly oppose Marxist China and Chekist Russia.
https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit/report-on-paris-2026-internationalist-meeting/
This makes them objectively rightwing, pro market and petty bourgeois.
If assassination politics , or APSTER , follows a similar trajectory to crypto economics then Chaum and eGold were direct precursors for public facing blockchains and so CJ's DEAD LUCKY deadpool preceded Sanjuro's markets* and APster should ignite any day now.
Sword of Damocles my friends. But only for the rich and famous.
A great levelling. And just what the ubiquitous global UBI doctor ordered.
*Assassination market — Grokipedia
The 2013 Assassination Market website, operated pseudonymously under the name Kuwabatake Sanjuro, adapted these ideas for Bitcoin-based bounties, shifting toward direct incentives for assassins rather than pure prediction
https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/25/google-is-cannibalizing-the-web-to-feed-ai/5244641
A few get it. The Bill Murray news anchors.
https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/otherPAMpress.html
Cannibals up in arms. Forbidden!
James Surowiecki, Damn the Slam PAM Plan! Canceling the Pentagon's futures market is cowardly and dumb, Slate, 3:39 PM PT, July 30, 2003.
The dead are many
Carl Johnson's attempt to popularise the concept of assassination politics was Dead Lucky. Sear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market
With
https://web.archive.org/web/20160319230420/http://parrhesia.com/cj/
AND THE LIVING SHALL ENVY THE DEAD
Hard rains gonna fall
RAIN Token Jumps 44% In a Day as Protocol Joins Top 3 Prediction Markets
Rain has entered the global top 3 prediction markets by total value locked, joining Polymarket and Kalshi after the Rain Foundation deployed $100 million . . .
Always bet on black
https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/policyanalysismarket.html
The timing of this was another thing of political beauty.
Slate had a piece on it " DAMN THE PAM SLAM MAN "
Its gone down the memory hole of current really stupid search, but worth digging up. Fuck knows Slate only ever produced a couple of decent articles ever.
