Untraceable and lethal

 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/01/australia-gun-control-laws-3d-printed-firearms-ntwnfb

The gun had been made by an associate with a 3D printer, according to court documents. It was untraceable and lethal, and part of a trend that experts say threatens to fundamentally upend Australia’s world-leading gun controls

 the 3D-printed gun world has become a “social movement”.

The Urutau and other models, including perhaps the most infamous 3D-printed firearm, the FGC-9 – or “Fuck Gun Control” – emerge from online communities that share information and promote the creation of weapons both as a means to push the boundaries of science and, according to some designers, “permanently undermine global firearm prohibition”.

Kama Sutra

 

'The dragon and elephant' should 'dance,' Xi tells Modi . " I read about it in TIME magazine "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSXx6MIpB4M

Red fascist sex-orgy

Ex-premiers in China ‘standing with axis of evil’: Labor MP

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AFR

Why are Carr and Andrews legitimising China’s axis of authoritarianism?

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The Australian

LAST POST: Carr and Andrews have shown true colours

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The No-State solution mansplained

 This is so simple.  Just get me a crowbar, hammer, fencing-wire and duct-tape.

The label APARTHEID state must stick to Israel.  It hasn't taken yet. More work needs to be done.

Then there's the killer blow.  No Virgina.  We don't call it a Narcissists state .  We outlaw all religious states. 

Secularism becomes a baseline. Along with representative democracy. Strong AI can handle most of this. 

Even today's LLM's could handle this.  Its political economy - not quantum gravity!

Imagine all the people - living their lives in peace.  Zolgo make it so.  But in such a way we think we did it. 

Living with a hernia

 How then to break free of the cage within which we live? 

By no longer conflating myopic worldview for cosmic purview, as in Schopenhauer’s lament that ‘every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.’ 

No longer expecting predictability or periodicity, rhyme or reason. 

No longer abhorring the ‘cataclysm upstream’, but warming to its embrace. No longer conflating the morale of a story with the moral of a story. 

No longer rejoicing in civilisation so-called, but warming to its ever-tenuous and ever-contingent enmeshment in cosmic forces impervious to prisons, no matter how impenetrable a tyrant’s rampart. 

Whether viewed through a literary or scientific worldview, a civilisation unmasked as a hollow conceit against cosmic vicissitudes reveals something arising in its stead: a meek purview for equanimity between being and becoming petrified. And, therein, a re-worlded worldview, premised not only in being alive during a rupture of life on earth, but actually being alive to rupture itself. 

The hunt for Black October

No sun — no moon! No morn — no noon — No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day.   No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member — No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! — November!

Yellowgate

 I don’t have an opinion. It could be anything – volcanic activity or it could be nuclear war. It is not really important. The whole thing now is, what do you do? The last time the caldera in Yellowstone blew, the entire North American continent was under about a foot of ash. People who’ve gone diving in Yellowstone lake say that there is a bulge in the floor that is now about 100 feet high and the whole thing is just sort of pulsing. From different people, you get different answers, but it could go in another three to four thousand years or it could go on Thursday…

In our journey down The Road we are not meant to know when it terminates, just as we can never know which umpteenth layer of the World Turtle will yield an answer to whether Yellowstone’s next supervolcano eruption is a few days or a few millennia away. 

In Praise of Dourness | Sydney Review of Books

Killing Fiat Thiel

 https://www.theblock.co/post/368858/pete-davidson-casey-affleck-to-star-in-killing-satoshi-conspiracy-thriller-film-slated-for-2026-release-variety?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

Starring Matt Damon and Michael Douglas -  ". It's like a sickness! "

Curb your AI and blockchain enthusiasm

 https://www.benzinga.com/crypto/cryptocurrency/25/08/47432632/as-ai-and-crypto-mining-converge-energy-pressures-spark-global-shift-in-hashrate-and-regulation

Quantum AI and quantum cryptoeconomics are clean,  green and serene.

Only brute-force steampunk sweats the small stuff.

And it's all small stuff when there is PLENTY OF ROOM AT THE BOTTOM

( Richard Feynman)