The most reliable way to kill an idea is not to argue against it. It is to replace it with a ritual. When a practice stops being a means to an end and becomes an end in itself, when it is performed for its own sake, judged by its own internal criteria, and protected from outside evaluation, it ceases to be a method and becomes a cult. This is preci...

Twenty-five years ago, the world watched something it was told it understood. Two aircraft struck two towers. Three buildings fell. The official story asks us to accept that the second pair of events followed naturally and inevitably from the first. It asks us to believe that the most catastrophic structural failures in the history of high-rise con...

Australia treats superannuation like a civic sacrament. You do not question it. You contribute. You thank the priests in the industry funds. You wait until 60-something to touch your wages. Anyone who says "I'd rather have the cash" is treated as a heretic who wants old people eating cat food. That is not policy. That is religion. The compulsory sy...

The most fundamental duty of any state is not what its politicians imagine it to be. It is not the management of GDP, the refinement of social policy, the polishing of diplomatic credentials, or the endless theatre of parliamentary procedure. It is something older, simpler and vastly more consequential: the protection of the people who live under i...

For forty years, one scientific experiment has been repeatedly wheeled out to tell us something rather disturbing about ourselves: you think you make decisions, but your brain has already made them for you. Christians should be concerned. The experiment was conducted by the American neuroscientist Benjamin Libet and his colleagues in the early 1980...

"Billionaires like Elon Musk and Sam Altman are racing to see who can conquer AI first – at all costs. They're treating the entire world as a laboratory, and we are their test subjects. But AI was built on our collective human knowledge and creativity. It should enrich humanity, not wipe us out. That's why a group of AI experts, technologists, arti...

Sydney Sweeney said the male gaze dehumanised her. Then she sold it back, harder. That gap is not a celebrity gotcha. It is a working model of how "modern feminism" talks about bodies, choice, and power when the invoice arrives. Let's take this nonsense apart. In March 2024, after the SNL circus around her body, Sweeney told Variety that constant s...

The irony here is delicious. As reported at Alex Jones: "Paula Devlin, a juror in the widely publicized Lindsay Clancy trial, joined "CBS Mornings" on Friday to share her experience taking part in the court proceeding that ended in a mistrial. When CBS host Gayle King asked about the age and racial demographics of the 12 jurors, Devlin said they ra...

With 62,000 people arrested for speech crimes in five years, the UK can no longer claim to be a free society, says Paul Birch. The state has learned to fear its people and will no longer tolerate them speaking freely. Many of us in Britain still flatter ourselves that we live in a free country. Although the UK isn't quite a police state (not yet an...

Pop psychology has sold us a compelling promise: if you dive deep enough into your own psyche, untangle every string of trauma, and audit your core values, you will eventually unlock your true self. We buy journal prompts, map out our archetypes, and analyse our personal identity with microscopic detail. Yet, despite this explosion of self-awarenes...

 There's a grim symmetry to the whole thing, and it deserves to be stated plainly. For years the climate-control apparatus trained its fire on livestock: methane from cattle, burps and farts measured, taxed, and eventually discussed as something to be engineered out of existence. New Zealand's government literally proposed a "burp tax" on farm...

The Australian headline says it all: Peter Malinauskas, the South Australian Labor Premier, warning Anthony Albanese not to "join Pauline Hanson's migration madness." Read that sentence slowly. A state Labor Premier, from the party that spent two decades treating any discussion of immigration numbers as a thought crime, is now openly admitting that...

The Macrobusiness item (link below) sits on top of a real labour-market pattern. Sham contracting is how a high-migration intake gets turned into a discount workforce without anyone having to say the word "discount." Australia still tells itself a tidy story about migration. We are short of workers. We import them. They fill gaps, pay tax, and join...

 There are stories that sound so extreme that the sensible first response is disbelief. The recent account involving Sydney pastor Andrew Sedra and his family is one of them. According to reports circulating online, activists arrived at his family home, threatened members of the household, demonstrated knowledge of his family and newborn child...

The movie version has a missile hitting a warship, followed by an enormous fireball and perhaps an aircraft carrier folding in half. Real naval warfare usually does not work like that. More importantly, sinking the ship may not even be the main objective. A U.S. warship is effectively a small city that moves. A destroyer carries roughly 300 people,...

Russian writer Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) knew how to horrify respectable society. His 1902 story The Abyss (Bezdna) produced a literary scandal in Russia sufficiently intense that more than a century later scholars still write about the controversy surrounding it. Readers were appalled, critics attacked Andreyev, and even Leo Tolstoy reportedly r...

The West, and America, keeps trying to solve a moral problem with a medical word. That is the whole fight. Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children in the basement of a Duxbury house in January 2023 while her husband was out on errands. Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old. She has never denied the acts. What a Massachuse...

"I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below. Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman...

There's something quietly strange about the moment we're in. A pop star's fiancé can spend years in stealth keeping leftover surgical skin alive in a lab, feed what that tissue does into an AI model, and then walk out of stealth with a company that promises better anti-aging molecules. People laughed. Then they got angry. Then they started arguing ...

[Note: submission by a young Adelaide machine learning engineer. While this deals with an issue in pure maths, what is important here is AI may have solved a problem that had stumped humans since it was posed by Jean Leray in 1934. The modern mathematical problem of singularities in the Navier-Stokes equations was officially posed as a Millennium P...