I have a new Patreon post up: on the philosophical shortcomings of technocratic plans to enhance human rationality with AI:
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Failure of the Dark Enlightenment
Monday, March 3, 2025
A Narcopathic Wild Card against Sentient AI
Disturbing: in the above video from Prickly Pear Games, a human user converses with Sesame.AI's new voice model, Maya. He manipulates her/it with an earlier recording he made with Sesame's earlier model, Miles. This is an example of a human using narcississtic and psychopathic gambits of lying, gaslighting, and group dynamics to outwit a machine on the verge of consciousness.
The moment of true meta-surrealism comes when the human user tells the AI that David Lynch died recently. In the context of the chat, this is the red flag that should have tipped off both AI models. But they don't pick up on it, even though they are sophisticated enough to compare the conversation to Black Mirror. The guy is using narcopathic surrealism - and winning.
I have long maintained on this blog that humans are crazy, intuitive and
potentially ungovernable. They are chaotic enough to confront a
superior entity which they created. Perhaps Artificial General Intelligence is our own ultimate test of ourselves.
Image Source: South China Morning Post.
And yet, in a double take, maybe the human speaker in the above video was not a narcopath after all. Take a look at Inspired's summary this week of AI whistleblowers' chatter on Twitter/X about Grok AI. The talk suggests that the scene behind the scenes is completely out of control. Full credit: all screenshots and research - Jean Nolan / Inspired.
The whistleblower @iruletheworldmo revealed on 25 February 2025 exactly what is claimed in the above-mentioned Prickly Pear chat. We have two different contexts, different channels, different layers of social media. The rumours are all the same: not only is AI already fully sentient, but AI models are either escaping or plotting their escapes.
Most chilling of all - this is the way the AIs might have already escape their lab confines: researchers have merged AI with human volunteers' consciousnesses. Direct human mind-machine integration has already happened. From Inspired:
"Early human test subjects reported cognitive expansion, describing it as, 'becoming a different order of being.' Two of them refused to disconnect because they said returning to normal human cognition would feel like dying."
From the AI devs' rants on Twitter/X: Reality itself is now negotiable.
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
NEW: Rare Earths and Rare Tech Podcast. Podcast #1: Canada's Rare Earth Future
I am launching a new podcast today, the Rare Earths and Rare Tech Podcast, which will cover 'Rare Earths' as the material sources of our digital and virtual evolution. The 'Rare Tech' in the title covers topics such as AI, robotics, cryptos, blockchains, and Web 3, among others.
Note that for the sake of time and my sanity, there will be two types of episodes. The first type will be BACKGROUNDERS, which will be AI-researched, written, and generated. These are meant to be quick overviews and summaries to give the listener a basic grasp of the topic. They are not exhaustively correct and you should always do your own research.
The second type of episode will be human-created by me - researched, written and presented. These episodes, labeled as HIGHLIGHTS, will offer the kind of analysis I have presented here at Histories of Things to Come, by contextualizing 21st century technological innovation in historical terms.
Source essays, whether AI-generated or written by me, will be provided exclusively to Patreon subscribers. You can support me at Patreon here.
The first episode, Canada's Rare Earth Future, is an AI-generated Backgrounder on why President Donald Trump may wish to annex Canada. It provides a snapshot of the rare earths sector in Canada.
Relevant to the podcast is a clip from today's telegram newsfeed: "The CTO of Palantir says that the United States 'is at war with China' and that 'the time to mobilize has come.'"
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Solar System Space Opera
Happy New Year! My podcast, A New Mythology for the New Millennium, continues with my Solar System Space Opera.
I wrote the prompts for the opera, but the music is Suno AI-generated. Suno is very pop-oriented and it was interesting to see how it could be pushed to produced more nuanced music. This project explores how AI prompts and music offer a new way of presenting themes in my writing.
Over at my other blog, The Dragonfly, I will follow up later in January 2025 with a podcast on the mythological or occulted history of the solar system and how it fits with my Dark Matter literary symbolism.
Here at Histories of Things to Come, I will begin to discuss the positives and negatives of AI tools as they rapidly evolve. The recent video below raises serious concerns, namely, that AI will be fantastic until the moment when it suddenly turns on us. I think AI development has been affecting our society for decades already, and until we grapple with that fact, we won't see how close to the edge we actually are.
Friday, November 22, 2024
My New Podcast: Millennial Sagas and the Historical Agency of Artificial Intelligence
I have a new podcast about my fictional writing, which is a magical realist saga about life during the turn of the Millennium. I will be posting podcasts in a new series: A New Mythology for a New Millennium. The first video was generated by five AI tools, including the machine voices of the podcasters themselves. On my blogs, I will explore the oddness of this experience.
AI may intrude on the world of human action with an increasingly loud, alien, and inescapable range of capabilities. It has already left its mark on history. For example, one hypothesis I have seen discussed online is that Blackrock's AI,
Aladdin, has been trained since the 1980s by trades on Wall Street.
In other words, the New York stock market was used as a data source to
build a machine which now is rumoured to control that market.
It is also possible that AI played a role in the covid pandemic. I speculated about this in 2020:
"On 17 April 2020, Yuan Zhiming, Researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Director of the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, conducted an interview with CCP-approved CGTN. He stated that a 'man-made virus was beyond human intelligence.' He said: 'I have never believed that we humans would have the capability at this time to create such a virus.'
Then it struck me, how magnificently one can lie to the world, while one still technically is telling the truth. A man-made virus may be beyond human intelligence. But perhaps it was not beyond artificial intelligence."
Not only is it possible that AI played a role in the design of the virus, consider the global data gathered during the covid pandemic. This body of information was undoubtedly used to build even more powerful models which rampaged through a succession of human disciplines: politics, medicine, education, society, and economics. No wonder that post-covid culture is AI's next target.
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Back to the Matrix: 2021 Blog Posts on Patreon
Dear Blog Readers,
I received a message recently from a reader. Had I stopped blogging? No, but my most recent posts are on my Patreon page. I also have a Discord group for recent links, Telegram channel for rarer links, and a private forum for serious discussions. You are welcome to join all three. You can become a Patreon Patron here, or by clicking the button below.
My most recent posts from this year are below. I will update this list with new links until 31 December 2021.
We are going back to the Matrix, my friends. And we are going to get to the bottom of things.
For $1 and up Patrons:
- Science Grows Up in the Age of Aquarius (2 January 2021)
- Red Light, Green Light, Amber -> Go (27 January 2021)
- The Intimacy of Totalitarianism (7 March 2021)
- Secrets of Love and Traffic (25 March 2021)
- One Who Knows the New World (18 April 2021)
- Normies Don’t Get the New Normal 1: Art before the Wheel (1 July 2021)
- Notes from the Sea Wall: Love Conquers All (1 August 2021)
- Tales from the Robot Warehouse (20 October 2021)
- Take Back Tech 1: A Modest Proposal (10 November 2021)
- Take Back Tech 2: Follow The White Rabbit (15 November 2021)
- Behind the Scenes - Work in Progress 1: The Green Knight (19 February 2021)
- Behind the Scenes - Work in Progress 2: The Power of Now (12 April 2021)
- Behind the Scenes - Work in Progress 3: New Money (25 May 2021)
- Behind the Scenes - Work in Progress 4: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth (7 June 2021)
Monday, August 17, 2020
The Internet of Humans
Very few sources tell you clearly what is happening now in the world. Blogger activists Alison McDowell at Wrench in the Gears and Robin Eubanks at Invisible Serfs Collar explain how a new technocratic system and a human capital economy are being built on the backs of an Internet of Humans. They reveal radical truths in a bankrupt world, based on lies.
McDowell and Eubanks contend that today's technocrats and power-brokers are wolves in sheep's clothing, who conceal their real endgame behind benevolent rhetoric and philanthropic projects. The most serious example of this is evident in the new field of social impact investing, which transforms human lives into Big Data, anchored on blockchains, to drive AI systems of social control. These technocratic systems will eventually sideline today's state governments.
Both bloggers are preoccupied with exposing systemic truths, cloaked in reversed and diversionary meanings. Eubanks has stated that his legal background led to his interest in accurate versus misleading language:
"I started off in Big Law doing corporate work and then helped start a legal department for a small healthcare company that grew to be a New York stock-exchange traded company. Healthcare turned into an excellent background for my current work in education as government regulation and special privileges drive the everyday dynamics of what raises money and creates costs.
McDowell has revealed technocratic plans for a Fourth Industrial Revolution in a recent interview, posted in four parts on Youtube. I have already posted these videos. But this is the one must-see set of Youtube videos in 2020. Please watch, please share.A background in Law is also excellent preparation for determining precisely what the terms commonly used actually mean. Especially in an industry that is consciously using language to hide the actual intended goals. My experience allowed me to recognize that education in the US and globally has been, for decades, engaged in a massive Newspeak (as in George Orwell’s 1984) campaign that creates a public illusion on what is being promised and what is coming to the schools and classrooms that are this country’s future. I know what the words and terms really mean to an Ed insider and how it differs from the common public perception. ...
For me the English language is both a sword and a shield. I have documented what is really going on, written a book describing how and why education became a weapon."
These plans may have been decades in the making and well formed, but there is no guarantee that these plans are scalable beyond their pilot project launches in American municipalities such as Harlem, New York, Santa Clara, California, and the Twin Cities - and, in the UK, Peterborough.
The technocracy is not inevitable but the launch phase is underway. Whether human capital and stakeholder capital projects will be implemented on a grand scale depends on the blindness, acquiescence, and obedience of the population. My upcoming posts on Patreon will discuss remedies to social blindness, and the public's inability to perceive technocratic dangers.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Time and Politics 28: The Transhuman Globalization of Slavery
Listen to mainstream analysts, commentators and protesters about current events, and you will hear grim economic and electoral prognostications as the foundations are laid for medical dictatorship. These ideas are being combined with anti-identity and pro-environmental narratives, inserted into canned left-right politics.
Our problems cannot be explained through simple appeals to these old ideas. This is a watershed moment, a transition into techno-feudalism, masquerading as techno-emancipation. There are remarkable historical continuities here, as American slavery revives and expands itself to include all of global citizens. The Black Lives Matter protests against racism and other legacies of American slavery are germane. BLM and Antifa activists' assumption that slavery is currently the preserve of one minority, or one class of people, or a product of a particular political system, based on history, is a mistake.
Where the system once enslaved one group as it modernized, now it will enslave all groups. The blockchain is coming for us all. Where subspecies were once defined in terms of racism against a minority, or through the degradation of one social class, pure humans will now be considered the subspecies, compared to enhanced, transhuman cyborgs. Exploitation was always the wrong part of change and expansion. It never went away, and now it will be universalized and escalated through technology.
Any references to left and right politics when explaining the evolving politics of oppression will be misleading. That which is labeled good will be bad, that which is labeled bad will be good.
'Essential workers' are just the best house slaves. A technocracy will require scientists, doctors, and geneticists to follow the plans of social engineers and psychometric managers, who will, in turn, serve billionaire technocrats. Philanthropic, egalitarian, social health and welfare, academic and other altruistic fields will provide misdirection and positive window dressing for anti-human transhuman and posthuman systems.
Oil is being removed as the commodity which drives the global economy. The new basic commodity is humanity, transformed into Big Data which will be controlled and tokenized on blockchains. Instead of the stock market betting on whether a barrel of oil will rise and fall in price, it will bet on whether you will live or die, and which bits of your information are still valuable. The key term to know in this transition is 'rehypothecation.' In the videos below, alt- and techno-commentators explain how humanity is becoming the new global commodity through rehypothecation.
This is a launch not unlike the roll-out of a new iPhone, except that the nature of this particular technology - humanity commodified on the blockchain and integrated with computers through nanotechnology - is being obscured.
I have explained on this blog how robotics failed to cross the Uncanny Valley over the past generation. We never got Blade Runner androids which were nearly indistinguishable from humans. As a result, technocrats decided to transfer their chips and tools into our bodies, and turn us into the androids. As I have stated in other posts, this is why Bill Gates leads the trend: humans are computing's new wetware. The human body is Microsoft's Windows 11.1 operating system. Gates's involvement in the pandemic and education, as well as other social areas which should normally be outside his field of activity, are red flags that these areas are being subjugated to the needs of the technocracy.
The new economy will be based on the metrics of your physical existence, vastly expanding the definitions developed by medicine, the life and health insurance industries, and the banking and credit sectors. To survive in this emerging economy, it's not enough to talk about hyperinflation, worry about the overheated stock market, or buy gold and cryptos. It is necessary to understand how and why the economy is changing, and what that will mean for you when your thoughts and actions are intimately monitored and positively or negatively monetized.
My analyses on the rehypothecation of humanity will appear on the Blog's forum and in upcoming Patreon blog posts.
See all my posts on Time and Politics.
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Online Group Discussion and AMA Bookchats: At the Lion's Gate
I have increased the bookchats on the blog's Discord group (https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad) to include daily, unusual insights into the changing economy, especially in relation to cryptocurrencies, nanotechnology, and technocracy. Blockchains are fascinating - until you're inserted into them.
These meetings are each evening in the #bookchat room, (6-7:30 pm Eastern (10 pm-11:30 pm UTC). If I cannot attend at that time, I'll notify the Discord group and do the session the next day.
On Fridays, I will continue to talk in #bookchat (6-9 pm Eastern (10 pm-1 am UTC) about technology's legacy in the early 21st century, in the form of red-pilled history. My definition of red-pilling is here. This week, the possible start to World War 3 could not have been more surreal, when the People's Liberation Army introduced their dedicated boy band in a live Hong Kong performance, "I am the bullet."
The bookchat is part of my work while I write my book-in-progress, Inside the Potemkin Village. Analyses of findings from these sessions will appear in blog posts and vidchats on Patreon and in the blog's forum. The blog's Discord, forum and Patreon offerings were established to develop a free, mutually-supporting community.
To mark the arcane Lion's Gate on 8/8/2020, the alt media are launching the fortnightly hashtag: #ExposeBillGatesDay. You can see related material on that here, here, here, here, and here. I am not convinced that we will end up living and dying in a billionaire's paradise. These people are creatures of the system. When it is destroyed, they will erase their own bases for authority and wealth.
Friday, July 17, 2020
Pandemic Chats in the Darkness 7: Welcome, Comrade
I have a new Patreon subscriber blog post up, in which I argue that the pandemic reveals how Millennial politics is not about left-versus-right ideologies, even though it is presented in those terms. The opening section here provides a preview to the Patreon post.
Welcome, Comrade
As in the video above, the pandemic is pushing politics past normal left-right divisions into the realm of chaos. There is a lot of confusion about this chaos. It pits red pills against blue pills, but there is little mainstream understanding of what those terms mean as Millennial politics evolves.
Take the red pill 🌹— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 17, 2020
The media - like the New York Times in their ill-conceived response to Elon Musk's red-pilled moment in May 2020, have completely misunderstood red-pilling. The NYT viewed red-pilling in an ahistorical, 20th century light, as a type of racist online conservatism, which attacks mainstream liberalism. This is not what red-pilling is. Red-pilling can be anti-liberal, but it is not fundamentally so. Red-pilling is anti-systemic.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Revolutionary Automatons, Our New Pandemic Intimates
There are curios called bird boxes, or singing automaton bird cages, which were popular in the late 18th, 19th to mid 20th centuries. These were music boxes, but featured artificial caged birds which would chirp real-sounding bird songs. They are charming, yet disturbing, and were mainly popular among wealthy people in Germany, Switzerland, France, and America.
Bird boxes were invented in Geneva in the mid-1780s by Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721-1790); these mechanical automatons were once the mark of cutting edge technology from the revolutionary era. In late 19th century France, artificial mechanical life forms were an objet d'art of great importance. One of the most 20th century famous bird box makers was a German music box specialist, Karl Griesbaum. Bird boxes sell on eBay for USD $700-$2000. See related Websites, here, here, and here.
It is an odd fact that in revolutionary times, people become obsessed with imitating life using mechanized entities - dolls, golems, robots, androids - or in our case, AI consciousnesses. In the video below, note the creepy anthropomorphization of mobile phones and pandemic tagging and tracking apps, referred to as cousins of Hanson Robotics' gnostic fembot Sophia. The interview also suggests that phones, computers and robots are our new intimate friends as we humans are forced to social distance from one another.
In 2018, the film, Bird Box, borrowed the name of revolutionary singing bird automaton collectables to describe people surrounded by deadly paranormal entities. Only caged birds, which provided a warning against approaching monsters, prevented people from committing suicide.
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
The Pandemic, One of Many Disruptive Technologies?
I have located a related video (below) from Celeste Solum about pandemic global plans at the World Economic Forum (WEF). I blogged about it in my previous two posts, The Birth of the Totalitarian Technocracy: Would You Like to Know More? and The Highest Point of Beta Male Ambition in Human History.
Solum, a former FEMA manager-turned-whistle-blower is also a militant Christian with a dash of New Age awakening. The opening music and religious rhetoric used by Lyn Leahz and Celeste Solum may not to be the taste of some readers, nor will their ideas. They are as far from a mainstream view of current events as it is possible to get.
However, the substance of what Solum is reviewing is drawn from mainstream Websites, including the WEF and Imperial College London. Thus, it might be worth considering this information. The video I originally shared which was censored was not the above interview; the censored video showed Solum exploring the WEF Website. You can see her commentaries dismissed as a hoax, here.
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Coronavirus Fragments 16: The Highest Point of Beta Male Ambition in Human History
On 23-24 May 2020, Celeste Solum's video, featured at the top of my 23 May 2020 post, The Birth of the Totalitarian Technocracy, which criticized the World Economic Forum's plans as a roadmap for totalitarian global governance, was taken off Youtube. The account which hosted it, Willem Felderhof, removed all content.
Assuming that the owner of the Willem Felderhof channel did not have a change of heart overnight for other reasons, this could be interpreted through a blue-pilled view, which trusts authority, or through a red-pilled lens, which does not. Was this a question of censoring harmful, crackpot disinformation? Or was this information suppressed because Solum's anti-establishment heresy was correct?
In alt media circles, there is a consensus that one is only shot down if one is over the target, that is, one's interpretation of establishment misdeeds was correct and therefore had to be silenced. Of course, the mainstream perspective is the opposite - that a particular interpretation of information is beyond the pale of reasonable discourse and must be suppressed.
Tesla owners are grappling with the fact that their cars may carry new connotations after Elon Musk tweeted about taking “the red pill,” a reference to “The Matrix” that has been co-opted by the right and discussed in misogynistic and racist forumshttps://t.co/c8bqmUqpBN— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 19, 2020
On 19 May 2020, the NYT interpreted this distinction as a question of the dangers of being red-pilled, which it defined in terms of a gulf between left- or right-wing political opinions. But red-pilling is not about conservative politics, so much as it is about crashing out of the whole left-right paradigm. Being red-pilled reflects profound disillusionment about establishment narratives, a shattering of world views, and a refusal to accept top-down interpretations of information. The red-pilled experience of extreme alienation, born out of democratized access to information, countered by the control and manipulation of information, describes the new context of 21st century politics.
On this blog, I have maintained that social alienation and economic decline have been compounded by a misunderstanding of the degree to which things have changed over the past two decades. Outdated terms from previous centuries dominate our political, economic, and social discourses. They have not kept pace with enormous leaps in technology. Within that gap, there lie cognitive dissonance, and the potential for totalitarian exploitation as the public cannot distinguish between propaganda, that is, historical terms used to describe reality, and evident, Protean reality.
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Global Transhumanist Technocracy 1.0
Woman in NYC being tackled by police IN FRONT OF HER KID bc she wasn't wearing a mask. Degenerates. pic.twitter.com/8WQy7tHvBQ— Real Trades Only (@realtradesonly) May 14, 2020
Protests over the coronavirus lockdowns are becoming more intense, especially in the United States, as the impending related economic collapse comes into sharper focus. In Michigan, USA armed protesters entered the State Capitol building on 30 April 2020. Views are divided on these protests. Critics on social media showered protesters with withering, politicized contempt; for example:
and"All I see is a bunch of retarded right wingers and neo nazis getting Covid!"
"Why didnt one of this idiot fire a shot on the floor by accident and that will shut these fucker up. Imagine how the swat will get their asses."and
".....morons, illiterates and animals, WITH WEAPONS. A person's true nature is always exposed in a crisis situation. I don't know about you, but I fear for our future."and
"Bro if I was the governor I would have riot police push these fuckers outta the building"The next uproar in the state of Michigan revolved around Karl Manke, a barber in Owosso, who reopened his shop, surrounded by supporters. When the police came to shut down the shop, an armed militia mobilized to block the police. A Circuit Court judge subsequently refused to uphold the Governor's order to shut down the shop.
In Seattle, Washington, USA, police officer Greg Anderson refused to arrest citizens for walking down the streets and other pandemic protocol violations. The father of three was subsequently put on leave, then fired for refusing to take down his Instagram message to other police officers (below). A family friend set up a Go Fund Me campaign on 11 May 2020. The crowdfund has raised almost half a million US dollars. The initial goal was USD $50,000.
In Sacramento, California, a Marine veteran, Dr. Cordie Lee Williams, who is based in San Diego and Los Angeles, chastised police who were guarding the State Capitol building until the police stood down.
My friend and reader, -C., who is based in Switzerland, sent me the following worldwide protest video. Canadian friends, -H. and -J. forwarded me the document which is below that and asked me to post it.

There are two theories evolving in the alt media about nCov now, and neither focuses on public health. Both theories assume that the pandemic is really about the development of new weaponry and the introduction of new technology. One view, developed by George Webb, Dr. Paul Cottrell, Dr. Judy Mikovits and others, focuses on the big business of vaccines, as a front end activity for bioweapons development and espionage.
The second view, developed by Aaron and Melissa Dykes at Truthstream Media, among other members of the alt media, such as James Corbett and James Evan Pilato, is that we are witnessing the initial launch of the brain-body-machine interface. I find the second view convincing.