Some good advice in the vein of why following conventional writing guidelines aren't always the answer.

"[W]hen you sand down every odd phrase, risky word, and deviation from the rules, you erase your fingerprint. And in so doing, you turn art into content."

https://brianniemeier.substack.com/p/how-to-revise-without-butchering

"Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) traces its origins to 19531, began to take shape in the 1970s, was touched upon in Blair’s 1991 article in Marxism Today, and gained momentum through Agenda 21. However, it took a scandal of epic proportions for it to gain major traction. And that disaster occoured in December, 2001, with the largest bankcuptcy in American history at the time: Enron."

https://open.substack.com/pub/escapekey/p/the-enron-code-of-ethics?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"I find the most effective way to get a chatterbox of either sex to slow their roll long enough to let me get a word in, if I feel there is any need for one, is to simply stare at them while they’re talking and refrain from making any noise at all. No “mm hmm”, no “yeah okay”, none of those little conversational encouragements that provide more fuel for the extended and repetitive replay. Even the most loquacious chatterbox seems to find a complete lack of response to be disconcerting enough to make them realize what they’re doing.

"So control your tongue. Not only because it’s annoying, unattractive, and low-status, but because people can only keep three things at a time in their minds anyhow. Which, of course, is why it is absolutely pointless to say anything that involves more than three total concepts at a time."

https://open.substack.com/pub/sigmagame/p/how-to-be-unattractive?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"Burroughs Wellcome took evolution’s most successful virus—one that survived by being harmless—and made it mean something it never meant. The absurdity is almost incomprehensible. People lose more sleep over herpes than HPV, which actually causes cancer. They panic more about cold sores than chlamydia, which can make you infertile. Ask any doctor off the record—they’re exhausted by it. They spend more time managing herpes anxiety than treating actual symptoms."

https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanreidstack/p/the-herpes-lie?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

The updated American Regional Cuisine Map. Cleaner Colors, More Visuals, 9 new regions + U.S. Territories V 5.3 [OC]

https://redd.it/1o6ge3d
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The Dancing Nurses of Covid-19

I never understood what purpose those stupid dancing nurse videos were supposed to serve, nor did I realize how prevalent they were since I wasn’t on Twitter, Tik-tok, or Facebook. But since I was personally acquainted with two nurses during that time, I was aware that they were nonsense and that real nurses working in […]

https://voxday.net/2025/10/27/the-dancing-nurses-of-covid-19/

Steve Bannon: “Well he’s gonna get a third term. Trump is gonna be president in ‘28 and people ought to just get accommodated with that. At the appropriate time we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan and President Trump will be the president in ‘28.”

"Google AI explains the consequences of Judge Jones’s decision: “The intelligent design (ID) movement is no longer a prominent force due to its significant legal and scientific setbacks, most notably the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District court case in 2005. This ruling found that ID is a form of religious creationism, not a scientific theory, and therefore its teaching in public school science classes is unconstitutional.” The “scientific setbacks” included ad hominem attacks and losing one’s job for questioning Mr. Darwin."
https://jackcashill.substack.com/p/how-the-aclu-silenced-the-evolution?post_id=177287131&r=lp6h7&utm_source=substack#:~:text=Google%20AI%20explains,questioning%20Mr.%20Darwin.

🇬🇧 An English suffragette handing out pamphlets, 1910s

"Physics has long insisted that electromagnetism springs from one paradoxical entity, a photon which somehow simultaneously combines the mutually contradictory properties of non-localized wave and localized particle. My research reveals a simpler truth: two distinct actors share the stage, first fields that move as a wave, the other an energy flow that traces definite paths and appears as particles at the smallest scales. My Fields & Energy model follows from an understanding of electromagnetic theory, yet looks suspiciously like the long neglected pilot-wave interpretation of quantum mechanics. Fields guide energy."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-176177352#:~:text=Physics%20has%20long,Fields%20guide%20energy.

Map of the kingdom of Armenia in 70 BC
https://redd.it/1o4k24z
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Odessa is Next

Col McGregor observes the significance of the recent Russian crossing of the Dnieper River. The Russians have crossed the Dnieper River. They already have special operations forces and agents on the ground outside of Odessa. They’re now putting together a bridgehead on the west side of the Dnieper River. For all intents and purposes, it’s […]

https://voxday.net/2025/10/26/odessa-is-next/

"The desired takeaway here is to help you understand how these influencers come to be well known and how they maintain their following - they have to adhere to rigid ideological guardrails and certain topics and they can’t criticize the Current Thing (unless it’s in pre-approved form as the dialectical reaction, like “COVID came from Wuhan lab leak” and “take Ivermectin”), and if they play by the rules their influence is artificially boosted by the media and illicit funding at the expense of actual dissidents. This applies as much to the far-left like Noam Chomsky as it does to the far-right like Joseph McCarthy or the John Birch Society. If a big influencer is taken out or comes under intense media pressure, ask if they’ve grown too big and/or if they’ve said anything disapproved by the elites. As Lenin stated, “The best way to control our opposition is to lead it ourselves”."
https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/the-battle-for-influence-why-some#:~:text=The%20desired%20takeaway,lead%20it%20ourselves%E2%80%9D.

Grokipedia is Already Better

Elon Musk is correct. Even version 0.1 of Grokipedia is better than Wikipedia. It also points to the way forward for Infogalactic. Who needs editors when you’ve got AI? Here is an excerpt from its entry on Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies: It’s a much more detailed, and accurate, account of what really happened. Of […]

https://voxday.net/2025/10/28/grokipedia-is-already-better/

200 years of US population growth In 30 seconds
https://redd.it/1o3v77f
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Lend Lease 18mm US made shoulder board buttons made for the Soviets.