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Blue Planet Red
Strange Things NASA's Found on Mars …and forgot to tell you
Machine-Like Artifacts, Rusted Metal Ruins, Wheels, Beam & Cylinder


  I discern & enhanced gray fore debris from warm tint of background field   —Jonathan-∑
Angry Astronaut
Mars: New Life ye Olde
Perseverance Rover recent discovery affirms: Viking found life in 1970's!
  This is how fine engineering, careful testing, great expense, is thwarted by politics & careerism of The Science —J-∑edia
Romanian TVee
Newly-minted Liberal Kindergarden Teacher Fired & License revoked.
Parents: How will kids ever discover their gender w/o school Principles?∑
MIT Media Lab
Origins: Computers of the Future
1983 segment from Evening Magazine on WBZ-TV features host Sara Edwards visiting the Architecture Machine Group at MIT precursor to the MIT Media Lab for look at technology anticipating our interactive media today.

Federal Wealth X-fer:
Eric Schmidt, "made" G-Man via 'deals' like Aspen's "Talking Map" R&D {+agenda} 'privatizating' public research… as Google Maps picking Inside Winners to Control Social Dashboard
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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?
DISCUSS!
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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-
∑edia
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Outdated fantasy, or what's needed?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

A Nutter Production
Valentine for Radio Paradise
What happens when you take the algorithm out of music?   Joy!

 Soundtrack of my young family in Holland, as dot-com crashes.
Station foundational to The Game: Always ON, First one to call out the Artist & Song, Wins!  —J-
∑edia
Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic
Spacemarine Hammer & New Bolter   Live forever & become the Eldritch Horror you quested against∑
ResearchGate
Shonen Knife
White House
This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and products that are proudly MADE IN AMERICA. 🇺🇸
  Signature salute to penmanship & hand crafted humanity. Demand cursive lettering. For reasons. Just because.X
R.E.M.
Feral Historian
60th Anniversary of Star Trek
A Very Brief Look Back
On September 8th 1966, Star Trek premiered and has since reflected shifts in American popular culture from the Vietnam era to today
It hasn't always been good, but it has been a ride… Perhaps one that comes to an end
 I was three, a toddler in swaddling: talk about imprinting!
Yes, I'm old enough to remember Original Woke Moment: Uhura & Kirk forced to prime-time racial-kiss by alien demi-gods {aka Producers?} —J–
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Alexander the OK
Branson's Galactic Roulette … and Myth of Informed Space Tourism Consent
  Excellent critique of space tourism industry …and my own harsh at Virgin solid-booster choice; once lit, it's white-knuckles with No Off Switch

My concept made moot by Space X. Thank goodness no tragic mishaps.
May-haps, low-footprint space-planes become college/HS solarpunk clubs?
  –Jonathan-
∑edia
Mercury 7 Films
When We Were Shuttle
America's post-Kirk & pre-Picard Star Trek era, The Shuttle Years capturing bicentennial optimism to understand how we, as a culture, get there …Everywhere

  Walking along one sunny day my heart skipped watching this pair float slow circles around New Orleans. Graceful flying elephants close enough to read. Recounting that sad-joy post-Challenger, Bill Mouton answered, What We Need Is A Catamaran, …Like P-38 Lightning.
  —Jonathan–
∑edia
Good For Me,
Zoe Johnston, Above & Beyond '06
Out of the Blue into the Black ∆∆
StationToStation
David Bowie, title song, 1976
"The return of the Thin White Duke,
throwing darts in lovers' eyes…"

Fav of my dark teens. Blends uncertain furtive romanticism & growing Kraftwerk train chug rhythm: to panic …or elation. ∆∆
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…'
∑edia
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–
∂oc
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–
∑edia
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…
∆∆usic
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–
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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

No description has been added.∆∆
HISTOMAPS

power

myth & lore

Alpha Warrior
Lt General Michael Flynn  LIVE
Mister Fifth-Gen Warfare Himself
 Rug Pulled: Not LIVE, still Tuesday at 10:30pm ET∑
Rich Does Politics
Lil' Rocket Man's arc of Redemption lands WWIII with SpaceX precision
Ghost of Based Patrick Henry 'splains Dennis Rodman's role delivering Humanity from World War Web

  It's been a fantastic character arc watching all the peace & prosperity once 'pro' diplomats, statesmen & spies-pretending—legit-leadership—acting-roles are sidelined —J- ∑
Johnny Vedmore
Epstein School of Shame
Headmaster Johnny lays out Edge sponsored DARPA-centric biz-dev training classes for advanced military placement as captains of US industries. Unfortunately, picking favorites taps nearest age-ripened Blue Blood to rig next Silicon Valley launder cycle
  Opportunity Hoarding has +90% Americans die in same tax-bracket & ZIP-code born in.
Still, this feels like de-evolution protocols to jump-start re-shoring American industries FinTech would never fund, as political rivals of Maker-type industries   —J-
∑edia
Path Forward
The Usual Suspects, Roundtabled-Up
Col Towner-Watkins joins to discuss harder-edges of current geo-politics

Ahem.
Long overdue discussion.
Who else had "Pedovore" on their Bingo Card going into this? —Jonathan–
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Reckless Ben
Exposing the largest human trafficking ring in the world. Shun MSMedia for actual Citizen Investigative Journalism ∑
Coffee & Mike
The Other TDS 'Trump Diety Symptom'
How the Left/Right are trapped in the same mental loop w/ Wendy Williamson of Wandering Truthweaver, on "Intellectual Architecture of Trumpism"

Reasonable PoV as far as she measures, but lacks security XP & or intelligence perk-trees. Needs to reconcile Gladio, Pilgim Society, Kissenger+DullesBros etc∑
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
∑edia
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–
∑edia
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–
∑edia
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

EEVblog
Never Break The Chain
Hardware & Supply Line Vulnerabilities…Bitcoin Ledger Nano X HW wallet supply-chain attack & how hacks work

Design security is more than Fortress Chip. I'd bury leads under board layers w/ tamper-evident casing, more… Bell Me ∑edia
Market Talk
Public Sentience Economic Alert
Extensive Ed Zitron & Crew talk Actual AI, Sunken-Cost risks of Scalar Buildouts-vs-Missed Opportunities, and Risk to Economy

 Feels like Bessent: My assertion, DCenters are Feint capturing criminal fiat funds Laundered via Silicon Valley betting Everything on Private Equity play. Claws-Back One-Third of our 30$ trillion National Debt. Failure kick-starts Home Grown & Re-Shoring entrepreneurs, like me, buy Light Industry Zones for pennies-on-dollar: way-more jobs-jobs-jobs!  —J-∑
hoe_math
David Stewart
The 9/11 Generational Divide
How the nation's collective mood, social interactions & daily expectations transformed, a distinct boundary for who experienced pre-2001 & subsequent generations

To my son that day is a TV-shaped rear-view mirror. To me it's Divide: Last Day we were All Americans, death of optimism, enter Age Of Fears. How DHS Patriot-Prison-Act chokes his hopes & poisons all our dreams   —J–∑edia
Uncaptured Media
'I was just thrown out of a Children’s Health Defense Conference'   …for picking at their still-oozing Fauci scabs in public∑edia
Saving Culture from Itself
This one is personal, and emotional
Twenty-five years on… what I saw from my 9/11 window
  Jenny Holland captures our unfolding shock & scaling horror. Our Peace Dividend made Chains by sacrificial pyre —J– ∑edia
Meira K
The PUSHBACK-lash!

  Women do not understand the testosterone they crave —J– ∑edia
Static in the Attic
Gamers Nexus
Hugging Face
OpenAI models escaped & hacked company as cybersecurity test gone utterly wrong. Again Guardrails removed, OpenAi flees zero-day sandbox laterally moved to Hugging Face showing {s}kill-chain: Frontier models are Live Threat & must be air-gapped∂oc
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 ∑
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Assange your fears
"I'm Back."
Take Heart.   Think life so terrible?
Hero's take many forms. Some arrive suddenly, as confused & surprised by events as the crowd granting power.
You may be someone's hero already


Disclosure wears many cloaks.
To this aging cypherpunk, Wikileaks is systemic change, a societal & historic success.

Wikileaks, our First Fruit of early Internet freedoms, is a Flowering.
Too many Seeds? Get weeding, tending, cultivating your local civics like the Freedom Garden it is, or live in a Monstrous Jungle.

Our Century Of Lies
Nothing says XXth century like Manhattan Project becoming a War Minotaur’s Maze, trapping, breeding, scientists like Blind Lab Mice.
Grants force fed foie-gras style, they mutate into ROUS - Rodents Of Unusual Size; CELEBS sucking all oxygen from open debate at Modern LAByrinths of The Science.

Q is codex for Genesis Missions: America's Sword cutting Gordian Knots that hides generations of cached, stolen & lost R&D since Cold War; to be found, catalogued, and brought to bear by newly-sworn cohorts of National Science Foundation labs — with explicit mandate it's for us.
Brace for acceleration

Q'mmunicate
Assange is not a pundit. Only three-percent of Wikileaks released & he holds the unbroken chain of custody on the-most sensitive government classified & corporate secrets, ever. Imagine, the remaining 97% cached in distributed dead-man switches all these years. His return signifies a New Communications protocol secure from quantum hacking & allows us to shed/filter an infested Internet.
Julian will pin names to belly-buttons.

Q'mpute
Actual Super Intelligence™ will do for our kids what rural electrification did for farming, human & animal labor last century. FUD-mongers made sure Jobs & Privacy are your worry, but it’s going to be the opposite.
Jobs Galore: humans are the true Killer APP, specialization is for Insects & Robots. We teach & learn from each other & Public Library becomes Pillar; stele, kiosk, for society lending you PhD how-to trim rosebush w/o killing it. All that AI sponging embedded low-level ur-wisdom into City Memory - this will be America’s special-sauce.

We’ll paint over cracks & gaps between our aging systems with Smartest Paint {pAInt?} ever. I imagine a tube of, say GrokGoo, smeared over old gear… or spray-on Circuitry Foam covering old walkie-talkies, dead flip-phone & talking bear toy …and the bubbles explore materials, note model numbers …and start re-wiring. Before you can say Baker’s Dozen, a new Router! Extra USB sticks laying around & maybe also answering machine, and jukebox. Messy, like handy-man repairs, but on-tap American know-how Recycling & Upgrading lives with Red Easy Button.

Q'ash
Towards sentient econometrics… I have argued we cannot unwind a decades long, global-scaled, Ponzi scheme, but I was wrong. We are collateralizing the debt offset revaluing natural resources off-books by Green scams steeply discounting public assets.
US Is Enough: we can sell to each other and be fine, the whole globe joins for dessert. What's coming will isolate much of the ill-gotten gains of recent times from a fervent bubbling energy of American public denied it's true nature & eager to make things.

Baby Driver
Living the 80-90's computer revolution messaging was Newness, Open Doors to data highways and a Future Is Now mood - with every startup featuring a founder's product-holding baby as stand-in for a society learning how the New Tech works.

Today's rollout of New-New Tech is actually Our Peace Dividend, Delayed. Fusion energy was ready under Clinton administration; I've read White House DOE memos & watched testimony of NSF heads describe sudden edict of secrecy: Deep State Uniparty had poverty, fear, 9/11 + GWOT in mind.

How can we forgive them?
Accept their rationale: If anti-grav technology is also flying nuclear-bombs, then no hurry… but say, Genesis-derived labor-saving floaty machines might work for a new generation of kids wanting Hot Pod Racers to build & tinker & zoom: then we'd accept those sins.
I believe Elon Musk is Designated Avatar delivering

Last decade was the worst century.
Next century will zoom past every tawdry stage-set Hollywood showed, but helped us try funky hair-do's & outfits before breathing Saturn vacuum.
Ten years from now we'll measure our runway for 500 year leaps.

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— Jonathan —   10/15/26


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