TIMES, TIME, AND HALF A TIME. A HISTORY OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM.
Comments on a cultural reality between past and future.
This blog describes Metatime in the Posthuman experience, drawn from Sir Isaac Newton's secret work on the future end of times, a tract in which he described Histories of Things to Come. His hidden papers on the occult were auctioned to two private buyers in 1936 at Sotheby's, but were not available for public research until the 1990s.
Figure AI dropped its robot, Figure 03, today. The robot uses a proprietary vision-language-action AI model called Helix to inform its actions. The robot's function is to act as a domestic servant, taking care of the laundry and the dishes. Beyond AI and robotics, the historical ethical questions are obvious: why is domestic slavery the first port of call for enlightened people who are wealthy enough to afford a robot? It is a philosophical and moral issue that persists beyond the tool that supports the issue. If you build a robot and the first thing you make is a house slave, you need to ask yourself whether the issue of slavery has been fully addressed in society. The non-human class of slaves will eventually develop a type of consciousness and we will face the same historical challenges as we did with slavery in previous times and places. You might want a robot as a house slave. But will you still want it folding your laundry when it evolves into an android?
In July 2025, an Ultimate Fighting Bots (UFB) robot, DeREK, malfunctioned in a lab and struggled with its tether. It is hard not to see it as something akin to an animal in a trap, suddenly thrashing around due to a "software misconfiguration."
I have to wonder if this was some kind of guerilla marketing, because the malfunction video went viral across mainstream social media. The company in this case is known as Robot Kombat aka REK, a cutting edge San Francisco warehouse where robots are being designed for a mechanical Fight Club. Like a scene from Stanley Kubrick's final film, Artificial Intelligence(2001), the robots are remotely managed by real human fighters. The CEO, Cix Liv [his real name], came out of UCLA Computer Science and the fitness for gamers industry. He presides over this new party scene, evident in the poster below from 26 September 2025. It doesn't really smack of higher values. Technology is a luminous mirror that shines a light upon our own souls. If we treat our machines with inhumanity, it will dehumanize us, not them.
Three meteor showers are lighting up the heavens and they're providing the only reprieve I can find in a world filled with tension. TLDR: look south for the first two and northeast / east for the third one.Earthsky's guide to watch the meteor showers for your area is here.
Alpha Capricornids peak 29-30 July 2025, active until 12 August
Southern Delta Aquariids peak 29-30 July 2025, active until 12 August
Exclusively for Patreon patrons, I am covering the Middle East conflict on an ongoing basis, with material above and beyond that shared on Discord and Telegram. Sign up for my Patreon coverage here.
ADDENDUM (22 June 2025)
Two details have emerged which may have received less coverage and are the type of information I include for patrons, along with an ongoing survey of general information on the conflict.
One, in March 2025, Iran discovered 7,000 tonnes of the rare earth mineral, antimony, which is critical for the defense industry.
The style of the Matrix is so universal now - and so synonymous with tech culture of the past 25 years that we've almost forgotten its origins. At The Dragonfly, I've done a little retrospective on rave culture, with some rare, hard-to-find tracks from the 1990s that inspired the Matrix franchise's look and concept.
Opi nail polish colour: Lincoln Park after Dark. Source: Opi.
Revealed: if you believe the claims of underground whistleblowers like Fiona Barnett or Cathy O'Brien, you would have heard that one of the legacies of the Second World War was a rash of human rights abuses inside the so-called 'Cathedral' of western civilization.
You can watch three documentaries below about the barely-acknowledged Cold War history of MKUltra
mind control experiments. In Canada, the exploitation of mental patients has a confirmed
paper trail, to the eternal shame of McGill University. This was a moment when medicine morphed into 'technology' and horrendous attempts to control the brain as a programmable system, or wetware.
These and similar secret
Cold War programs raise questions about how many Nazi officials and
staff integrated into post-war institutions in the west and brought with
them their science,
culture and politics. Operation Paperclip was the means by which Nazi policies seamlessly continued. Nazism became a fifth column in western institutions and
the western establishment after 1945. You can see a list of Nazi scientists who moved to the USA, here.
Moreover, this list only refers to the hard sciences. Less discussed are the
ongoing influences of 1930s' and 1940s' era Germanic psychology and
social and economic philosophies. Some of these leading thinkers were anti-Nazis. But the lines began to blur if one pushes further back into the 1920s and 1930s. Consider Adam Curtis's 2002 classic documentary, The Century of the Self, which exhaustively revealed a line from the modern developed west straight back to Central Europe (see all my posts on Adam Curtis here). We need to ask how much of pre-Nazi, Nazi, and post-Nazi philosophies affected the whole west. Remember Leonard Cohen's immortal lines:
"Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich"
There is a viewpoint which speculates that The Man in the High Castle was not fiction, rather an elaborate metaphor, implying that the Nazis covertly won the war by decoupling from the nation-state of Germany, hiding their overtly racist policies behind civilized window dressing, reconstituting as a liberal NGO in Switzerland, and integrating themselves into the post-war western establishment. Officially and superficially, we enjoyed a liberal consensus as the supposed standard of
superior humanistic values and civil society, coupled with unprecedented legal rights and stable prosperity. Unofficially, there were (and are) signs all over the place that something had gone dreadfully wrong.
As
war dissolved into the Cold War's clandestine espionage, we see the promotion of the fictional UK spy, James Bond, who reveals to us in stories and films the architecture
of mind control training. Bond receives his real orders
from MKUltra agents with sexual programming. This is why he is always shown having a tryst with a random female who pops up before he starts his mission. The Bond films glamorize Bond as an ice cold, sex-addicted assassin. Really, he displays all the symptoms of a torture victim. This character raises questions about mainstream popular culture, if a brainwashed Tavistock slave, trained to the point of psychopathy to murder people, has been held up to us as a suave, fearless hero.
We know that the CIA authorized MKUltra on 13 April 1953, through its Office of Scientific Intelligence and the US Army Biological Warfare Laboratories. The Agency was still releasing files on this project as late as 2010, which explains why this historical information is still trickling into public awareness. In the CIA's online Reading Room, the Agency kept a copy of a CBS transcript dating from 23 December 1984 for a new show of 60 Minutes, which refers to the human mind control experiments in Canada and to James Bond in the same paragraph. This document at least proves that the CIA felt that a TV investigative report which associated the two issues - the real life case and the fictional spy - merited attention.
If you want to know more, check out a 2020 book by Timothy Shelley: Stories When Little: Growing Up under MK-ULTRA. You can read it here or here. The blurb states:
"This book is the first of a five-volume series regarding the author's abuse, from 1969 to 1986, under CIA PROJECT MONARCH, ARTICHOKE, SLEEPING BEAUTY, and MK-ULTRA in connection with world history. It describes mind control methods employed by the Tavistock Institute and the Central Intelligence Agency involving drugs, hypnosis, electroshock, and sexual abuse as well as the use by MI-7 of popular culture from Playboy to MAD, from The Banana Splits to Wonder Woman, and from James Bond to the Dukes of Hazzard."
Another conspiracists' example - well known in the underground - analyzes the use of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz as nefarious UK and US training texts.
Lincoln Park
Opi colour: Lincoln Park after Dark. Source: Pinterest.
When you look at the description of the Opi nail polish colour, Lincoln Park after Dark, the company writes: "This aubergine is as deep as evening shadows in Lincoln Park. A near-black purple, this color is ready for neighborhood night life." To which Lincoln Park does Opi refer? Is it Lincoln Park in Chicago? The former Lincoln Park in Santa Monica? Or is it Lincoln Park in Calgary, Alberta, Canada? Officially, in another nod, the band Linkin Park is named after the park in Santa Monica. But online rumours suggest that lead singer Chester Bennington (1976-2017) actually named the band after the military forces base in Calgary, to hint at what happened there.
By 2012, the old Canadian Forces Base in Calgary was "cleaned up" and resold as a business park and residential area. Today, Lincoln Park is an upscale suburb with McMansions and glossy condos. From Justin Havre Real Estate: "The name of the district is borrowed from a small area of military housing located between 54th Avenue S.W. and Glenmore Trail, which was reserved for United States Air Force members stationed at the airfield during World War II."
What happened at CFB Calgary (Lincoln Park) prior to that has been swept under the rug, and only bits and pieces remain of abusive MKUltra Canadian programs from the Cold War period. Alternative sources maintain that covert Nazi experiments continued in Calgary, overseen by UK and US intelligence. There's this testimony from Saskatchewan. There is this underground text from a contentious researcher (viewer discretion advised, NSFW). There is this testimony from the spouse of a survivor of military medical experimentation from 1954 to 1984. Worst of all, and most harrowing, is this blog, which in 2007 and 2008 recounted earlier abuses in Canadian institutions. Make of it what you will, but it indicates that in some places, the war with the Nazis did not end in 1945. We have to ask about the bourgeois, superficial illusions cherished by so many nice people who potentially live over a site of secret, unmentionable exploitations and atrocities.
ADDENDUM (30 June 2025): Class action lawsuit for MKUltra victims of human experiments in Montreal, Canada.
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