Lanmaoa asiatica: Most people who eat it are functionally sober, and their surroundings remain largely unchanged, except for the little people all around them.

"In other ways, plate tectonics is a very unusual paradigm. It was discovered twice: first intentionally by geologists in Europe and its colonial sphere, and second, accidentally, by North American geophysicists. The two paths offer opposite lessons on the secret of scientific discovery. There is no lone genius who can claim the majority of the credit. The theory went from fringe to total acceptance over the course of ten years, with nary a funeral in sight. And it all came together much later than one would think: around the time of the first moon landing in 1969. This is the story of how two separate groups of scientists near-independently discovered plate tectonics with wildly different approaches, and what this can teach us about paradigm shifts."
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/on-the-origin-of-continents/#:~:text=In%20other%20ways,about%20paradigm%20shifts.

Replying to Whitney Webb’s extensive and well-documented efforts to investigate the origins of Polymarket, Twitter’s jewish Head of Product Nikita Bier accuses her of being mentally ill for “thinking this way.”

Webb’s investigation uncovered ties to Israel and close relatives of Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as connections to Palantir and Peter Thiel.

https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2072692514642149725

NEW: 🇨🇳 A historic day in China’s space program

China’s Long March-10B has successfully completed its maiden flight—and recovered its first stage via a sea-based net.

@Megatron_ron

Technology is on the cusp of allowing humans to disrupt or steer natural disasters, like hurricanes, according to a new study, which appeared in the journal PLOS Water on June 24.  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2026/06/27/study-cloud-seeding-disrupt-hurricanes/90655884007/

I still think about this

I think social media algorithms are being used to induce burnout to keep dissidents and the general population docile - angry but ineffective

Safeguard your peace of mind, it is a battlefield objective

#DictatorshipIsDemocracy: Influencers will be able to film content while top EU leaders meet in Brussels — as long as they don’t question the bloc’s values. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-wants-influencers-to-cover-its-summits-but-only-if-they-love-the-bloc/

Maybe using Signal and other “secure” apps can protect you from your local police department if you’re buying molly off our neighborhood dealer — that is, if the cops don’t get ahold of your phones. But if you think you can win a privacy arms race against our imperial tech oligarchy by using apps that are run and developed on property owned and controlled by this very same imperial tech oligarchy…well, you know the answer to that. https://www.nefariousrussians.com/p/signal-is-a-government-op

"Ukraine's extraordinary success in bombing basically all of Russia's refineries...basically, nothing is safe in Russia anymore from Ukrainian drones and and roughly two thirds of Russia's oil refining capacity is currently offline.

This crisis has pushed [Russia] into consecutive bans, first they banned exports of gasoline to try and save that for the domestic market, then they banned exports of jet fuel, and just this morning they announced that they are in fact banning diesel as well, and that's what helped shoot diesel prices higher, well beyond what we saw even in the rally in crude.

Because of the lack of domestic refining capacity in Russia, you've seen Russian refined product exports drop to their lowest level on record, at least post-Soviet record." Rory Johnston of CommodityContext.com 🛢

🔗 https://geopoliticsandempire.com/2026/07/08/rory-hormuz-china-russia-uae

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✈️ WW3 PLAN-B REPORT https://expatmoney.com/geopolitics

There's some fascinating (if highly circumstantial) evidence to suggest a connection between Hitler and the British establishment. Hitler lived in Britain (in Liverpool) 1912-1913 according to his sister-in-law. A self-portrait attributed to him (painted in 1910) shows Clapper Bridge at Postbridge near Tavistock, namesake of the famous Tavistock Clinic.

https://open.substack.com/pub/benefitoftheother/p/the-tavistock-hitler-connection?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web