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COSMOSIS

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Heavy Pulp
Follow John F Kennedy into Portal…
W W G 1 W G A
You suffering Narrative Whiplash? That neck-crick from tracking political, science & historic Sonic Booms …already fading?

Shades Of Gray categories fail here: is this Signal? Powerful Lore? Forging realities? Something to Think about, frame-by-frame?
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Static in the Attic
This Is MURICA!
Europeans Blown Away by Things We Take for Granted in America.

Feel the Vibes: timely Stattic update.
I am steadfast: Red-Wave Super-Majority Midterms. The American Resolution is a Global Revolution™
 –Jonathan-
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Like Stories Untold
Disclosure Day...
Outdated fantasy, or what's needed?
Truth, in a Post-Truth World

You die as Stanley Kubrick, or live to become a Ridley Scott  ∑edia
National Science Foundation
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT :
Currently Vetting Whole New Cadres of Thinkers & Doers

NSF X-Labs will scale a new generation of transformative independent research organizations to advance breakthrough science outside of traditional institutions
$1.5 billion over next decade…

Stage TWO of Disclosure.
ONE was blurry UAP pix, but security-cleared. Vetted thinkers now examine same FUZZY.GIF with reams of milspec clues & honesty denied public.
We'll never see THREE  —J–
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CREATION

art
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design

Anything You Want
Roy Orbison, Mystery Girl
Diamond Awards LIVE '88

'One look, from you, I drift, away
I pray, that you, are here, today
Anything you want, you got it
Anything you need, you got it
Anything at all, you got it. Baby…
Every time I hold you,
  I begin to understand
Everything about you
  tells me I'm your man…'
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National Design Studio
Government 2.0
       
America by Design
Congratulations NDS, for bringing our public-facing federal IT surface into a modern light-touch service.
Go try White House App.

Great fun watching their back-end work it's way to July 4th launch, now delivering UI/UX Americans expect elsewhere, everywhere. Glad for '80's apocyloptimism vibes & expect State IT's stop Logging-You-Out for using Back Arrows.
Ahem; still WIX-ish & startup-janky, they prepare key Federal Voting Infrastructure with still missing Track & Transparent Notices!
Feeling great my odd-ball craft given national priority   —J–
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Paul Simon's American Tune
Sung by Camden Voices Choir
SWAK! {Sealed With A Kiss}

These kids mirror my great joy singing this in Swing Chior for North Marion Middle School in wee Hubbard, OR —Jonathan–
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Let's Go
The Cars, Candy—O 1979
Models name, Candy Moore∆∆
Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen, 1975
Tramps like us∆∆usic
Human Touch
Joe Jackson, Blaze Of Glory '89
  when it's you and I
    against the world…
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Gabriel Torch
Smart Toys Were Already Dangerous. Then We Added AI
I walked from Age of Aquarium dev & Virtual Pets in '09 when I saw liability for child-companions required serious time + R&D in psychology & learning to avoid harms. —J–
Motor Explorer
Detonation Ignition Jet Burns Foam
The future of jet engines & rocketry.
Imagine aerogel fed at higher speeds for greater efficiencies
Cosmos
The GOATAS soundtrack
Greatest Of All Time & Space
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English Beat
Tears Of A Clown
Top Of The Pops 1979

billed as 'Live' performance∆∆
Johnny Cash
Hurt
Unforgiving sons, spurned fathers

Aye.
I would find a way —Dad–∆∆
'When It's Cold I'd Like To Die'
Yankovich, Al Weird
Banana Synthesizer
America's misplaced Poet Laureate

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HISTOMAPS

power

myth & lore

American Fire w/ Ace
Trump isn't just Fixing Economy…
He's fundamentally CHANGING it

Wealth is when everything is ridiculously cheap, aka Deflation …the forbidden word
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The Path Forward
Q and Answers …kinda-sorta
Learing Annex Debate Society

White House salute to Q-centric memes directly acknowledge Operations tempting autistic nerds w/ ARG-puzzles to deconstruct Deep State & Take Command of Infosphere

I'm with Colonel Watkins… Handfuls of savants outperformed every AI: turning 30-year JFK conspiracies into weekend movie spoilers: False Flags off the menu  –J-∑edia
Professor Hamamoto
American Symbolism
As Crypto-Political Fashion
{ R E P R I S E posting }
Media anthropologist delivers semiotic sermon on the unspoken language of asthetics & '24 Trump Inauguration. Extra Points knowing Maritime Law of Admiralty

Patience. This is academic discussion in no hurry rambling with errata, but not obtuse. Discussing social order encoding of colors, symbols & signals and what fashion means for American policy
Uncaptured Media
India quietly runs America while media hyper-focuses on Israel
Dan Cohen does excellent work.
He still misunderstands how Indian tech classes are branch of British management infiltrating western infrstructure, whereas Israel is more a financial wing   —J–
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Academic Agent
Has Britain Reached Tipping Point?Noticing of crimes and immigrants.
As I asserted last year, the year before that, count three years: Ireland will be the first to ignite.
This is planetwide   —J–
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Caleb Maupin
The Left and Right are Trapped?
Caleb chats with Academic Agent

Surprisingly, AA only recently sees managing 'opposites' as kiting
SIGNALS

bio
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eco

Mike Benz
Antidote [компромат]
Alpha & Colonel
Sun Caesar
Invisible Advertising
A video essay on the viral 'Geese is a psyop' controversy. What does it mean for culture as a whole?
What do we do about it?

Once-muscular RAP was captured by depraved Hollywood Diddy-types as Dark Alliance tentacles for demoralization campaigns
BIBLOS

Index
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Archive

myWORD by Jonathan…
a topical word-salve for social rashness §ubstack

ChatGPT steals EVERYTHING
    Yo, Grok. What is Apple lawsuit against OpenAI and can you give it to me For Dummies format?
Game Theory & Geopolitics with Tom Luongo, EM Burlingame & Rich Does Politics
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Golem, walk with me…
Intelligence is a State term only recently and awkwardly grafted onto newfangled notions of brains, biology, or associations with ethereal abstractions & higher thinking. It actually draws from older social reflexes and traditions; political ties, diplomatic signals, dominance games… Spycraft.
Signals Intelligence is the True Name & Purpose of Ai: Control… of everything, everyone.
Intelligence interprets signals from the field to inform decisions and extend power. Our networks first followed empire trade routes, turning into telephone lines, then finance+data conduits. Understand that no apps and services built on top of this are too-important and will be bent to serve core State functionality as they deem needs. Everything we do on top of this to make money and share cat-vids is window-dressing swept aside, or more-often subsumed, under protocol.

False Flags Are Off The Menu
As seen in recent White House broadcasting All Things Q-onsidered, is the value of SIGs to punch way-above weight: as in the Q and Anons of 4chan. This is a white-hat corollary to how small committed groups usually scam larger publics. We just watched a small autistic population lured into ARG puzzles unlocking State secrets, with Open Methods, sharing results w/groups who process & format Raw Data into Memes & Messages for family + friends & wider public… Mighty Wurlitzer failed to dominate Listserves & Podcasts:
We Are In Control of Infosphere.
Understand This: mere handfuls of savants took apart Deep State in just ten years. Now, today, thirty-year John F Kennedy assasination Plots become another weekend movie-release Spoiler: was that Monkey-Poo-Pox? AGAIN?
Powered by Jolt Cola these flawed, earnest savants, just out-performed every foe AI with decades of planning & vast resources to draw on. That is the lesson about frailty of AI over-investment and lost-opportunities for other infrastructures needed. We used to get actual platform upgrades with our national infrastructure boondoggles.

AGI/data-center ROI as presented is absurd & FUD-mongering, a feint. The roll-out of micro-nukes is the reveal & how we finally upgrade American power grid. Across centuries & civilizations the Wealth of people goes up+down with Energy consumption. This is why Green Transition was always imposed Doctrine of Austerity.

Welcome to Orwellville
Where 'xecs one-shot themselves, replacing whole departments w/ whispering Dashboard playing as Narcissis' Mirror. Letting ChatGPT+ilk into an enterprise is to leak your hard-earned bespoke Special Sauce for 5% of tomorrows' Magic Beanstalks.
The underlying Apple ARM CPU immix GPU w/memory directly, for all sorts of efficiencies negating NVidia's large RAM & GPU stacks of super-mega monster-clusters to process.
The future is local-controlled Ai operating as custom/personalized adversarial shield verifying outside world. Because…

We are Already in the Technate. Orwell taught what he learned in British East India Company and all this was built analog long ago, and just these last decades cyberized & financialized. Trump+Co may yet rug-pull, but I see effective systemic change and best shot at un-plugging HAL-9000 from errant mission.
I also see rabid-terriers, like Thiel, or “Handsome Jack” Palmer, as doing useful modernization work & routing out poisonous actors/actions coursing through our systems.
They are evermore Watched; the XXIst panopticon will work both ways, or it won't work at all - after our last Century of Lies: we may not know Where security-adjacent Alex Karp is having breakfast, but We Will All Know if he's sprinkling sugar, or Adderall, on his grapefruit.
Take heart. The Chads, the Jocks, those more vigilant types were never going to let the A/V Nerds dictate Hall Pass rules to Student Body.

ERRATA in a funny co-inky-dink I knew Jensen as teen, in Portlandia. Always competitive, political, he qualified for exhibition games of Ping Pong Diplomacy, Kissinger's Chinese charm-offensive, and all I think about as I see Jensen at podium with world leaders.
Never ran into him in Silicon Valley & will probably regret never pitching him, well anything. Disappointed he's never invested in Oregon chip fabs.
Anyway, I know why he wears black leather jackets

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— Jonathan —   7/13/26


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