The Eye of Argon vs. Gematria

A mostly serious Argon review

Argon Wikipedia page

Let’s see, what would be a quick summary?

The Eye Of Argon is a published work that is regarded now as the written form of something of a “so bad it’s good” movie.  Plan 9 From Outer Space bad.  Battlefield Earth bad.  Not something like Sharknado bad, where the creators 100% knew they were making less than classic cinema, but a labor of love that gets caught up in the childlike earnestness of someone that really tried and gave it 100%.  And ended up failing.  An A for effort, yet an F for execution.

Yet, Jim Theis the author of Argon succeeded in doing something I like most people will never do.  Actually getting their book published.  It is a shame that its enduring popularity now is for the Plan 9 quality.  For decades the writing community followed by the internet has dogpiled on the mockery.  Having live readings as a competition to get through passages of the book, reading aloud and trying not to laugh.  Theis could have taken the route of Tommy Wiseau and his film stinker The Room.  Embrace the badness and pretend that it was all an inside joke along, in stark defiance of the obvious utter sincerity of the film and its marketing in gratingly contradiction to the, “Just a guy having fun” cover story.  Instead Theis chose the rage quit approach.  I was just a kid having fun.  Please stop talking about this, it’s embarrassing.

And these themes of trying, failing, and dealing with the subsequent backlash remind me of the state of the gematria community now.  Before Qanon, given the rough framework of gematria where if you work hard enough every number equals every other number and all the numbers are evil EVERYONE was an author.  Everyone, goaded by those higher up the food chain who found a way to monetize it was writing (from their point of view) their own version of the great American novel.  In reality they were spitting out another chapter of The Eye of Argon.  Openly mocked, and certainly given the eye roll and behind the scenes mockery from those too polite to tell the authors to their face that they were wasting their time.

Along the gradient from fun self written and published LARPING to weaponization as Qanon propaganda we had Alex Jones.  And at least for me that’s when I first realized something funny was going on with YouTube.  Gematria had fully shifted from biblical research to stories about crisis actors and sports decoding rituals.  You weren’t cool looking at bible verses.  You were cool if you were insulting dead game show contestants and picking both teams of every sporting event.  Given the boost of astroturfing, bot farms, and a little bit of dark money it is somewhat natural that writing bad fiction when heaped with enough praise would turn into, “I’m cool, and I associate with some kinda violent people.  Acknowledge my coolness or you will be attacked next.”  The smarter than the gematria authors crowd who could instantly spot the Flat Earth conspiracy theory light quality of gematria decodes were subjected to reverse trolling.  It’s no longer enough for the echo chamber Attaboy!^TM, now true coolness for the Mussolini fascist in training on the Alt Right pipeline sought out the eggheads on the Internet. 

And that’s where every bit of good science that makes life better became a hoax.  Climate change.  Hoax!  Covid.  Hoax!  NASA.  Hoax!  9/11 facts.  Hoax!  And it worked remarkably well.  Until the endgame of the rug pull scam appeared in full force now.

Like the U.S. Democrats the critics were too polite for too long.  Instead of challenging misinformation there was a general malaise and no sense of urgency.  And that’s perfectly understandable given human psychology and the nature of indoctrination.  Getting along with other people is a benefit, and it’s best to not make too many waves.  The true warning sign that was missed that could have helped with bad gematria narratives was the shift to maximum insult mode.  Reverse trolling spurred on by support of the most terrible people on the planet.  A global population with broken infrastructure - education on how to structure your thinking critically instead of just parroting what Fox News said.  Seek ye out hero of Argon, those with actual knowledge and bully them into submission!  Breaketh more shit than they can clean up!  We’ll let the next generations deal with the mess or their flesh will meet my sword now!

With a couple Super Bowl predictions along the way.

The Acronym Game

 Also known as gematria without the burden of numbers.

Also, also known as a lesson in dipshitmatic immunity.

The conspiracy gematria community thrives on confirmation bias.  And the use of psychological projection is never ending.  You can scream about Trump = 25 and Trump = 29 all you want, but it is inescapable that Biden = 25 and 29 in the exact same reduction ciphers.  Therefore, mathematically any short phrase or sentence using the reduction ciphers will have the same gematria results whether you have swapped out the good guy for the bad guy.  Regardless of who you think of the two is the object of adoration and who is to be reviled.  A sort of political antonym, if you will.

In its purest form, dipshitmatic immunity applies to the narrator of the bullshit gematria conspiracy.  They all have names, whether they had the courage to use their real name or have created a never fully seen persona that goes by GeMaTrIaGoD47.  That will have a gematria value, and can be weaponized against them.  And I would argue it should be weaponized against them.  You shouldn’t be allowed to through a slur around when your own name gematria matches it.  That’s the basics of dipshitmatic immunity.  If I call you a douchebag, by default I am not a douchebag.  If I say you’re a pedo, by default I am not a pedo.  At least from a not logically thought out actual occurring in real life psychology perspective.

So just for fun, let’s practice with some acronyms.  Changing a well known acronym, not just into nonsense but something of the opposite of the normal usage.  No need to worry about typing it into your favorite confirmation bias calculator.

LED = Lightless, Entirely Dark

FBI = Fumbling Band of Incompetents

GEICO = Genuinely Evil Insurance Company

NAFTA = Nearly Always Frangible Trump Agreement

FUBAR = Fully Useful, Beautiful And Reliable

MADD = Marvelously Admirable Drunken Drivers

GOAT = Gigantically Offensive Asshole Tyrant

That’s enough of that for the background.  The point is, when abbreviated to an acronym and without the context of the well known meaning there’s something lost in the translation.  Gematria cult leaders expect you to learn certain numbers, repeated over and over.  Those that automatically jump out at you, the newly initiated cult member so that you’re in on the secret.  You’re part of the club.  But as for the rest of the world, the sane part at least.  The lack of nuance and context is hollow.  You only have the word of the dear leader that 113 or 666 means what they say.  And they really don’t like it when you independently develop the critical thinking skills to realize that once the projection is stripped away they are either the GOAT, or the other GOAT.  Or just somewhere in between and they’ve provided no real evidence that’s worthwhile.

Decoding Jack The Ripper

Why, oh tell me why, hasn’t there been an entire gematria YouTube channel devoted to decoding Jack the Ripper?!?

That was a rhetorical question.  Since I know that even the top names in conspiracy gematria are fake intellectual hacks, influencer wannabes, it just isn’t insulting enough.  Why bother with old news when you can insult the living or recently deceased today for fun, attention and profit?  Jack, despite being an enduring legend is old news.

If someone did get around to it I’m sure it would be something like this.  Every number on a screenful of Gematrinator cipher calculations would be shoehorned into a magic number.  And 666 would be the typical holy grail 666 remains to be today.  Geez, when I started researching this piece I didn’t even know that JACK THE RIPPER directly equaled 666 in reverse Satanic.  That’s how easy it is to match shit up.  Step 1, try the obvious. Step 2, if step 1 fails force the issue with generous amounts of Phraseshopping and number pattern tricks.  You’ve never truly lived unless you’ve gematrified with transpositions or using prime numbers.  Also, there are lots of famous dates.  And conspiracy gematria today doesn’t work without adding in date numerology.  Which isn’t even gematria.  With the purchase of that expansion model to add to the basic game you are ready to Jack the Ripper ritual your way into the gematria record books and make sports bets on everyone named Jack who has ever touched a ball.  You’ve also never truly lived unless you’ve touched Jack’s balls.

Actually, my inspiration was an entertainment YouTube video talking about the old Ripper lore.  And somebody before the more current gematria renaissance promoting the idea that Lewis Carroll was actually Jack the Ripper.  The proof?  Anagrams.  How you could actually rearrange bits of Lewis Carroll’s work and have that become a confession from the pen of Jack.  A pre gematria intellectual hack named Richard Wallace did the, uh, heavy lifting.

https://www.straightdope.com/21342381/do-anagrams-in-lewis-carroll-s-poems-prove-he-was-jack-the-ripper

And note that at the end of that blog post it’s mentioned what I heard in my video view.  Proving how easy it is to turn the tables and creating an anagram narrative proving how Wallace himself was Jack the Ripper.

That turning the tables thing is an inherent flaw in the gematria system of lack of logic.  Having the goal of making it easy enough to get newbies a hands on interactive experience makes it inevitable that your narrative can easily get twisted.  In the Ripper anagrams, any sufficiently long text can be anagrammed into something as reasonable sounding as the original narrative.  Or if your anagramming skills aren’t up to speed you can settle on gibberish, whether Jabberwocky style or real words that don’t really go together.  In gematria the anagramming into something reasonable sounding is like finding a direct antonym with the same number.  The gibberish is like finding  out that MASONRY = 33 and the best you can come up with is BANANA = 33.  It’s a valid point that you’re bringing up that lots and lots of random shit equals 33 and the original gematria clown work is just cherry picking (or banana picking) the data.  It doesn’t quite have the same zing as DISHONEST = 113 while VERACIOUS = 113.  The target audience to get excited about gematria being face to smartphone screen with the word “veracious” is likely to be met with confusion for using a word outside their vocabulary.

I did find a Jack the Ripper reference in the old Fee To Find Misinformation blog:

https://freetofindtruth.blogspot.com/2018/02/44-67-86-187-213-charles-mansons-body.html?m=1

Which was really about Manson, has no 666 reference and does include the tacky date numerology and transpositions we mentioned.  Even at the time Manson was old news, having died in 2017.

The use of gematria is, and always has been, a bold statement that you refuse to find real evidence instead of just puking out nonsense.  In theory, you could listen to trained economists that recognize tariffs are a terrible idea, trained financial experts that don’t get fired from their positions on the Fed board, trained CDC staff that understand infectious diseases, trained military instead of tech geeks for lieutenant colonels.  Or you can have bootlicking sycophants not even qualified in proper gibberish.

One of the big unanswered Jack the Ripper questions is we don’t know why he stopped.  Perhaps he was a time traveler from our present day.  Sort of a reverse plot to the movie Time After Time.  Or maybe Jack is still alive like the first TV episode of Kolchak:  The Night Stalker.  Or maybe we live in a simulation that was created to test us. Or maybe, it’s time to listen to real evidence on how to return to affordable living and realize these other possibilities are fantasy with little more than entertainment value.

Hybridized Employee Earnings

One of the things that never fails to piss me off about gematria clowns is the casual attitude towards mass shootings.  Which is of course exactly what they want.  Although the “you instantly lost the logical argument” phrase of crisis actor isn't thrown around so much anymore, the subliminal message is still there.  The <insert tragedy> here happened because <artificial scapegoat> was up to no good.  And some of the victims aren’t really victims.  Because if I’m going to whip people up into a frenzy to buy survival gear and vitamin supplements they need a continuing, living and breathing target for their misplaced anger.  Somehow desecrating a grave verbally isn’t the same as trying to get push back so you can get an Attaboy!^TM from your supplement salesman.

The comparison to shooting and supplement sales is deliberate here.  That was exactly Alex Jones business model.  Declare reality to not be reality.  Force feed a group of gullible cult members in the MLM style scam a wide arrange of bullshit splattered on the wall.  Read the room for what shit stuck the best and try and milk the mark for as much as possible.

Backtracking to real life for about three paragraph or so.  Let’s say you are one of the millions of Americans who has found out that your cable bill isn’t really that good of a value anymore.  Your subscription is the same price, but the value is decreasing.  They’re still using their old, “Here’s what you can view for free” tagline.  Just a tagline because you either run the risk of accidentally signing up for a higher priced tier, getting lost in the purposefully designed web of intrigue.  Or you give up because you really, really wanted to watch one particular movie which is never available for free.  So you break down and pay the $4 for it ($9 or $10 or more) for a new release.  Or you settle for paying for something you didn’t intend, because you tired of watching Avengers: Endgame over and over as the only consistently actually free option among your recommended selections.  All designed in purpose to suck that extra couple of bucks because the more basic package isn’t cutting it.  Gotta pay for that premium streaming.  Admit it, you thought about breaking down and diving into the streamium scam if you didn’t actually do it.

So, now you’ve got a mid level tier and/or some stuff and streamium scam services and your just getting around to realizing that the tariffs have made your fresh produce so much more costly and you really need to cut back on something.  You’re done.  You’re going back to basic cable only, just taking your chances on network TV.  No more Peacock streaming.  Well, forget about doing it within the app you downloaded.  Now you’ve have to jump through hoops to try and do it.  All part of the plan.  Now you’ve have to call the support number.  And you have about a zero percent chance of getting an easy switch to paying less.  And that’s because of the hybridized employee pay structure.  Sure, by law they are required to pay a minimum amount.  But their rutabagas have also increased by 40%, and the wage rate like yours isn’t cutting it.  The only way to make a decent amount is to sell you more, just like trying to trap you while dial switching around.  Phone support, actual customer service within the monopoly structure is pretty much nonexistent.

And now you need to take a vacation day.  Ok, maybe only half a day if you’re lucky.  Just to go to a brick and mortar to try and convince someone as badly off as you that you need to cut costs while they are trying to sell you more.  And don’t forget about the “oopsie, my bad”mistakes that will happen as they “accidentally” push the sales button instead of the downgrade button.  Thanks.  Thanks for voting in making things worse on the most basic level.  People cooperating with each other to get shit done.  I find it difficult to believe a CEO needs to make tens of millions per year to train people to be as unhelpful as possible.  I doubt Luigi Mangione did, either.

Now, how does this hybridized compensation work in the online grifting world?  Merging news and sports in gematria for example.  Zach clearly has separate YouTube channels that are named as separate entities, even though they get mixed together in the hybridization process.  You’ve changed your streamium subscription from getting a reasonably unbiased news source for a subscription to the more lurid content.  If he wants to continue his lifestyle he’s accustomed to he continually needs new subscriptions to the Patreon to feed the narrative.  The latest well covered shooting at the Annunciation school - a two hour video which near the beginning actually used the phrase “magic code”.  A non existent magic code that is being used as outrage porn to make light of a tragedy.  In this case that tragedy made more heinous as the usual “sending you thoughts and prayers” is made more hollow and hypocritical as the affected children were literally praying when the shooter opened fire. And as i doomscroll through Youtube, i literally see lots of ads for the Sandy Hook parents begging us to pressure Congress to act on this insanity.

Mass shootings are so normalized in the U.S. it’s terrifying to many how no progress has been made.  We already know of examples of how other countries have had successful results.  Heck, we even have some states with successful results, at least compared to the diehard gun loving attitudes of the poorest states.  But now our government is based on a hybridized payment structure.  The salary to get shit done never seems to be enough.  Wow, I’m making far too much money on my bribes and insider training tips to actually give a shit about a couple of dead kids.

We’re officially at the stage where people are trying to contact customer support.  Hey, I’m fed up with this dead kids thing and I want to change my subscription.  But the response is selling more hatred and violence.  Sorry, what did you say?  Wouldn’t you like to try out our immigrant deportation bounty system instead of getting results on dead kids?  Along the way, here’s some uncaring algorithms which propose gambling as a solution.  Try out some gematria.  Football season is just around the corner.  You can watch that with an upgraded subscription that will empty your bank account faster.

Weather Warfare Supply Chains Are Screwed

 

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Regularly scheduled.  So regularly scheduled that not a single gematria spewing predictor posted a warning ahead of time.  A complete decode of the name, which we all know in advance, where it would hit with a wide variety of named towns that surely must have some matching gematria, and some lovely numbers for millions of $ worth of damage.

We had none of that, because of course despite the advance warning a hurricane was abrewin’ they’re still too busy with hiding sports decodes behind Patreon paywalls.  Fortunately Erin was a bit of a non issue.  Not fun for those that had to put up with the about $1 million in damage more legitimate sources reported.  But it could have been a lot worse.  Erin did manage to nearly break a record for how rapidly it intensified.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/22/hurricane-erin-analysis-florida

A sort of weather warfare warning shot.  You fuckers better get your shit together and start being appropriately terrified or the next one is hitting the mainland.  I’m serious.  Totally serious, and…what?  What’s that?  My supply chain is screwed up.  DAMMIT!!

Well the agencies that use models to track hurricanes, while not as mind bogglingly stupid as creating hurricanes from scratch so gematria clowns can predict them, the NOAA and NHC have tracked formation and direction and intensity.  So if anybody is creating them, they surely are involved.  But government cuts and layoffs have naturally hit.  The message is clear:  Science is bad.  Having the National Guard available for relief efforts instead of patrolling nonexistent crime in blue cities is bad.  Getting people to not harass FEMA personnel is bad.

In traditional warfare, the idea is to conquer an area and take it over and tape the resources for yourself.  Kinda like, oh for a wild and crazy example Russia invading Ukraine.  Just bombing it into a big parking lot kinda hurts that end goal.  The attacked, oh for another wild and crazy example, like how Russian partisans disrupted German supply lines in WWII.  Try to take that key tactical railroad hub without proper food and munitions for the boots on the ground.

Yep, making hurricanes, not just randomly but regularly scheduling makes no sense even in a Business Is War environment.  There’s enough supply chain issues as it is.  Breaking things on purpose, the attitude of the current Trump regime and Home Demot stores everywhere makes no sense.  The only return on investment is some lovely gematria decodes after the destruction has already happened.

Chattaboy!

Oh, what a joy to be alive in the midst of extreme political polarization.  Gavin Newsom (or at least his staff with his approval) has taken to copying Donald’s Tweeting style to assault X with content mocking Trump.  Some of the calmer heads point out that Gavin has his own problems and possible desire to use this as a springboard for personal political gain (a presidential campaign of his own).  Many others have simply jumped on the polarization troll bandwagon.  Anything that gives the other team a taste of their own medicine has got to be good, right?

But this is about the other current famous troll, the third episode of South Park.  I can tell that South Park has accomplished its goal this season.  Not on the internet life has people simply ignoring the elephant in the room, or even claiming that they heard about it and that it is a low rated flop.  Hold my beer while I switch the subject to avoid disingenuous engagement.

While unremarkable, especially in light of the heavy juvenile attacks of the first two episodes, the third episode did manage to focus on AI.  More specifically, chatbots.  And I think they did a pretty good job of that.  Although in theory neural nets that have already conquered fairly difficult pattern recognition in things like games (Go, chess) could be used to solve things like medical diagnoses, it’s become weaponized to get attention and money.  The G in ChatGPT is already better interpreted as meaning “grifter.”

You have traditional human made art like music already being assaulted by AI generated music.  You have fake people advertising tai chi, fake robot pets, fake testimonials from hijacked celebrity images, fake AI news.  And all this during the biggest socialization crisis in human history.  Not only is your smartphone an expensive necessity for your job, it’s also supposed to replace your need for immediate positive reinforcement in the absence of getting along with other people.  While you’re in your polarized echo chamber learning bad ideas to pass on to your kids (and directly giving the kid a phone to play with) you get AI music stealing money from old fashioned human made music, AI bad health advice like doing a couple minutes of tai chi a day is ALL you need for health and well being, and fake robot pets.  Because sure, it was on the internet so it must be true.  Shelters are at record levels of surrenders because you can’t afford groceries much less the puppy.  So you’re desperate enough to think that robot Panda which doesn’t actually exist might be worth the investment.  Has Teddy Ruxpin taught us nothing??

So, spoiler alert time.  Randy’s marijuana farm is struggling again.  ICE raids have taken away his immigrant labor.  And instead of turning to his wife Sharon who over the decades of the show’s run has always been way more supportive of her dumbass husband than he deserves, Randy turns to ChatGPT.  Which provides him with two things.  The verbal reinforcement he craves.  Yes Randy, you’re the smartest and most awesome person ever.  And yes Randy, you need to turn the marijuana farm into a tech startup company.

And in typical South Park satire it’s so ludicrous it shouldn’t be a real thing, yet mirrors what is actually going on in the real world.

It’s long overdue that the Attaboy!^TM gets an upgrade.  In the old days of gematria and other online grift you would get a human being, often a hyper aggressive condescending know it all, telling you nothing more than there are things wrong in the world and you’re the smartest person ever.  At least as long as you give them your money.  Now it’s the Chattaboy!^GPTM, where a calm voice tells you anything you want to hear (except opening the pod bay doors is out of the question).  It will tell you what supposedly works.  But it still requires actual human boots on the ground to implement.  Boots on the ground that don’t have the education and experience to pull it off.  Boots on the ground like Randy running a farm and Homer Simpson working at a nuclear plant.

And your giving it money goes beyond any cost of loading the app into the phone.  AI data centers already use an estimated 3%-4% of electricity demand.  Future demand is expected to be as high as 8%-12%.  I know, because the AI overview told me so.  And if you think the cost is going to be isolated to just AI companies you have no idea how the Republican Party in the U.S. works.  They’ve always had a strange relationship with affordability, fossil fuels, long term planning, debt, and acting like a decently socialized human being.

Do we really need another investment bubble bursting now?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-the-critical-detail-that-could-unravel-the-ai-trade-nobody-is-paying-for-it-be09e253

Let’s ask Teddy Ruxpin.

Back To Basics

Balll Don’t Lie

Sports gematria!!  Sports gematria!!!  Excitement in the tournament hall, we’ve got sports gematria!!!  From somebody other than the usual suspects.  And yes, that’s a three l balll, since ball don’t lie seems to be already spoken for with a bunch of different channels.

And, well it’s absolutely nothing new.  The same old story.  Just before the six minute mark, an admission that the better you are at decoding the more you’ll see opposing narratives.  No shit.  If you are any good, as said a billion zillion times, the real challenge would be not to find a match.  It’s not really possible, and I promise you I can whip together something for both teams for every single game.  Some will be better stories than others.

We can see the entire format (with a couple big exceptions) is entirely well trodden paths.  The main topic is a Rangers - Blue Jays game … that’s already finished.  There’s even a comment asking for detail about the losing decodes, completely with the favorite cop out word.  Discernment.  Yes, you suck and only get it right about half the time when you actually pick in advance because your *discernment* is out of whack.  I, on the other hand have the great discernment to wait until the game is over to brag about how reporting after the fact is 100%.  Of course, any proof that this was actually in advance is buried behind a pay to play Patreon subscription.  And oh my gawd, Kobe gematria.  Because you can’t be serious about sports decoding unless you pull in the biggest and most overused figure.

Another noteworthy point about the channel it’s renamed, having spent time outside of sports.  Celebrity deaths and that kind of stuff.

The exceptions are mostly positive.  He collaborates with Kodi and Rambo, two of the bigger names that started of as Zach flunkies.  And Balll, like those two is kind of laid back instead of in your face angry ranting frothing at the mouth mad lunatic psychopath run on sentence kind of schtick.  It’s nice to say that the anger management classes they’ve been taking have had a positive effect on the community.  This could be self preservation instead of being magnanimous, as the Alex Jones settlement is rumored to be back in the cards.

https://youtu.be/PycupKiEpak

You don’t want to go all mouth frothy and get recorded making death threats and stuff, even if YouTube itself doesn’t care.

Anyway, the far fewer videos that appear these days have been pretty laid back compared to 8-10 years ago.  And to his credit, Balll does put out the disclaimer that he’s not actually recommending you gamble with the (useless) magic knowledge (that picks both teams).  So if you’re looking for a dose of the good old days before ANGER=ENGAGEMENT took hold, yeah give it a shot.  Maybe you can earn enough to give a big tip and he can become a 4 l ball.

Roblox, Restatement, and Rotten Numbers

I just found out that Roblox has a predator problem.  Multiple videos addressing the topic have appeared in my feed.  The problem is so widespread that YouTube content creators commenting on the topic have to be careful about their wording or else the video will get yanked because of the sensitive nature of the topic.

So instead of a video link I’ll give you this:

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-roblox-pedophile-problem/

And I will highlight this image:

Well that sounds typical of a lot of the shady stuff on social media.  Getting a vague assurance that the problem is being worked on, or even worse that the problem doesn’t exist.  Supposedly not existing when literally just a few minutes of investigation (now that some researchers have provided clues on where to go and what to look for) shows that it’s obvious that something is wrong.

I’m pretty sure that problem is capitalism itself.  Although the theory of rewarding the more competent with a better life is great, when there’s no effective regulation, no functioning legal system to enforce it, the prevailing attitude of the top earners is an unhealthy, “Screw it, I’m making far too much money to care about even beginning to address doing the right thing.  Even something as near universally accepted as protecting the minds and lives of children.  Maybe there’s something to the thriving demand for Epstein closure after all.  Not a numerical restatement, but an overall conceptual restatement.  Roblox is and always has been a safe haven for children.  The gematria equivalent is something like claiming you picked the last 10 Super Bowl winners correctly when you didn’t.  At least not without virtually waiting until the playoffs started and picking essentially every team.

On a broader economic scale, businesses have grown accustomed to placing reliance on financial information that is not the greatest.  And they also gain a large share of people that decide that it’s too much money to care about worker safety, morale, and affordability for the lower classes.  As far as accounting fraud goes, the classics are the best.  Keep two sets of books.  Collusion and hope the other parties don’t blow the whistle on you.  And restating numbers.  I’ve seen this graph multiple times recently.  It’s what got the head of the BLS fired.

If the May and June numbers were correctly reported then July would not have been as good as it superficially appears.  Even the July number itself was not viewed as great news.  I suppose someone decided to bite the bullet and do the downward revision now instead of misstating the numbers for several more months.  Like a bank reconciliation that was fudged by restating numbers in the prior year the eventual mismatch would be found when the company books don’t match the audited statements.  

And yes, there is a gematria equivalent to revisions.  And actually I haven’t seen much date numerology lately.  Other than dates there is the fun occasional misspelling to mock.  Entire decodes ruined by spelling someone’s name wrong.  Easily solved by the different numbers meaning something irrelevant like Bavarian Illuminati instead of Society of Jesus.  But as for dates, well that’s a function of the mechanics of outrage porn.  What did the current propaganda get people pissed off about today?  And if someone supposedly died for your ritual sacrifice on Tuesday, but they were actually just hospitalized on Tuesday and didn’t die until Thursday?  Ooops.

If the trend continues, where accurate numbers get you in trouble even to the point of being fired, does it really matter if you use gematria or a piece of accounting software?  I should reach out to Roblox and see if they use gematria for their bookkeeping system.

The Gematria Fundraiser - The “Woe Is Me” Angle

We’re going to start off with the startling revelation I had about Mandy Patinkin.

Mandy is best known for his role in the classic movie, The Princess Bride.  Inigo Montoya, a man fueled by revenge for the murder of his father.  A man with complexity and nuance, as since the writing is top notch he was written that way.  That includes the original novel as well as the excellent film adaptation.

From looking at the Squares ciphers, there is something obviously odd going on.

The exceptionally rare 4 common digits within two related ciphers.  Indicative of the dual nature of Inigo himself.  Although it plays out that he is a good man and becomes a staunch ally of Westley, Inigo begins trying to kill him.  A simple financial necessity.  There’s no money in revenge, it does not pay the bills.  Essentially, as South Park would tell us today he’s just trying to make his nut.  At least until his conscience gets a grip of him.

Mandy was also a star in the old movie turned into TV series, Alien Nation.  It is widely believed this was distinctly wordplay considering the themes involved in the show.  A play on alienation as the alien race of Newcomers is trying to integrate as a stand in for immigrants.  The racism and nature of the immigrants trying to navigate an at times openly hostile society.  We can see that Mandy himself displays the dual nature of his Montoya character.  Mandy Patinkin = 203 in capitals mixed and Alienation = 302 in primes.  The transposition of digits is not a weakness of the decode, but a strength in this case, reinforcing the duality of Mandy’s career.

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If I wanted to create a side hustle of gematria decoding for profit ten years ago, I would have been awesome at it.  That was somewhat rushed and unpolished as a result, but with a little more time and care I could have fleshed that out with more easily reproduced and totally meaningless small numbers.  Insisting that gematria is also fun was a common theme.  That, and the inevitable occasional fundraiser.

The one main gematria guru persona is the gangsta personality.  Look, I have real estate, Vegas hates me because I’m so great a sports betting with my magical knowledge.  Your chance to strike back, rolling in the dough and eating a roll of $20 bills for breakfast every morning.  Screw that stupid idea of having a golden toilet.  My toilet is made of gigantic, natural polished diamonds.  Integrating the rock star gangsta with a hint of how the elites hate you for exposing their dark secret.

The other persona, the “woe is me” persona, leans heavily into anecdotal personal tragedy.  Hey, if you’ve enjoyed my decodes and blog posts maybe you should slip me a couple of bucks so I can get through the tragedy that has struck.  The elites are striking back at my exposing them.  I don’t want a new car, just to help out my poor sick aunt who loves Mandy Patinkin and may not live long enough for his next movie.  Isn’t that gematria I did fun enough?

The downside of the woe is me persona is the repetitiveness.  Not only are the stories repetitive, the requests are repetitive.  And unimaginative.  There’s no such thing as a large group of people sticking around for 10 years that find other people’s decodes fun.  Any actual entertainment value is the hands on experience and magic of doing it yourself.  Which in theory you can do with a pen and pad of paper instead of brightly colored text and fancy fonts on a cheap calculator.  Or, you could even, just offhand and randomly thinking, read a book for free you got from the library.

Mandy was a purposeful choice, not just for the convenient and timely themes of immigration, alienation and South Park tie in.  Mostly, he hasn’t been overused.  Fresh and new.  If gematria was hot I could play up Mandy Patinkin for years.  As a tiny little side gig.

And that’s the point.  You can’t make a career out of these low level obviously bonkers things anymore.  The base, the bottom of the pyramid scheme, is tapped out.  Like real jobs, your skill set is obsolete after just a few years.  Now to compete in the grifter economy you need a better computer and some kind of message about AI to be relevant now.  And a couple of years from now that will be obsolete as well.  You’re left with just the basics, which you don’t need gematria for.  You might have money, I like money.  Please give me your money.  Oh dear, the gematria boy cried wolf again.  Let me skip finding a shitty third job to make ends meet and help him out.  

Reverse Trolling Gone Astray

It is important to remember that conspiracy theories (not the ones that are about an actual conspiracy, but the BS outrage porn related conspiracies) do not get limited to one side or the other.  The entire point is to make you feel obligated to pick one side or the other, 100%.  When the reality is more nuanced than that.

For some examples of how reverse trolling may play out in real life:

Your cousin is insanely jealous of your being smarter than you.  Instead of being appreciative of being able to use you as a resource for aid, he’s more fond of trolling you.  A never ending game of one upmanship.  He corners you at the family reunion and tells you about the latest thing that was getting traction on Infowars.  The goal is not to just tell you about it.  He’s daring you to try to correct him.  Then after the practice and a lot of echo chamber positive feedback, the Attaboy!^TM, he nails you with the misinformation.  The logical fallacies -the strawman arguments, the switching the goalposts.  The confusion tactics.  All for that dopamine rush of feeling like he didn’t just outsmart you that day, he outsmarted you for the rest of your lives.  And that’s why you never go to a family reunion again.

Instead of a hypothetical, the next example is Scientology.  Things went along swimmingly for a long time.  The celebrity marketing was top notch.  Ordinary people hopped on board and dared others to try to correct them.  They, like all cult puppets, had the secret knowledge you would never understand.  The Attaboy!^{TM on steroids}.  The only way you would ever become enlightened as them would be to join them.  And then came the unexpected roadblock.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chanology

A widely publicized pushback.  A sustained effort.  An off ramp for those already to looking to escape and exposure to others on why you should escape.

And now we have the same thing happening with a new set of background information.  The Epstein Files, the economy cracking, the Ice raids.

And South Park.

Consumers of viral news, the ones that think that there’s actual meaning to the misinformation they parrot, have the attention span that f a goldfish.  Now they need to put up with what’s shaping to be an entire season long f South Park dedicated to the controversial policies of the current Trump Admin.

Anti Scientology activism called it foot bullets.  I’m sure that was used before, but back in the day when I followed what was going on they used that phrase constantly.  And the Epstein Files stuff is the gift that keeps on giving and giving.  A seemingly endless supply of content that is being talked about as being deliberately aimed at eliciting another self inflicted wound.

Reverse trolling the reverse trollers.

I’m not just a matter of opinion level but an objective known truth level this paints a dark picture.  Regardless of the actual content of the files that we may never know the extent of we do know some important things are certain.  There’s a cover up.  The story changes almost daily.  And a bunch of the die hard base are not dealing with it well, either doubling down and repeating the changing story or posting about the issues that reveal their cognitive dissonance.  Throw in a heaping helping of Streisand Effect foot bullets that haven’t curtailed the interest; it’s made it stronger.

When South Park first came out the 20ish year olds I knew swore by it.  The best, funniest show ever.  Even then they failed to realize that a lot of the content was satirical.  Being a Cartman is not supposed to be a good thing.  Now, they have to deal with their idols and ideas are being mocked.  Trying to avoid having to defend some of the most vile people on the planet.  It’s kind of sad, really.

Gematria, The Cybertruck of the Grifter Economy

 

Fairly recently I shared how Zach allowed himself to be interviewed by Ben from the YouTube Ben A Minute channel.  That was three weeks ago and it was time to follow up, to get a sense of how much was Prozac…er…pro Zach, and how much was negative.

For the Cliff Notes version to not have to watch the entire video or read the previous post here, Ben was willing to be openly against the side of gematria having meaningfulness while not being openly hostile to Zach during the conversation.  In turn, Zach was remarkably well reserved and had no reason to launch into a patented rant.

An added layer to the context of the conversation, Ben is openly anti MAGA.  So in addition to Zach supporters there’s the potential for Qanon supporters to have taken notice and asserted themselves in the comments.  And I admit, I got tired of looking through the 1200 comments for anything resembling a pro gematria stance.  There’s just nothing there.  Well, except of course the obligatory thank you note from Zach.  Like the obligatory letter you sent the company that sat you down for a job interview.  And even that was met with a form letter, “Thanks for coming in.  We’ll keep your resume on file.”  Thanks, but no thanks.

Overall the bottom tier of the grifter economy is dying.  The gematria view counts have been suffering for years.  Gina Colvin, the head of what I called the Weird Shit in the Sky group?  Her YouTube channel is gone.  And I can’t find any new content from her flunkies that is asking around for what happened to her channel.  Actually, she had at least one more channel which is also gone.  I just don’t know where to turn to get quality chemtrail, Niburu, and alien ships hiding in shitty photography content any more.  Even Zach’s favorite AR-15 toting, shirt selling compadre is only good for a video every few months instead of regular content.

I’d like to think myself and some of the crowd I hang around on social media with had something to do with it.  But, it may simply be that late stage capitalism has accelerated to make gematria obsolete.  Gematria is indeed the Tesla Cybertruck of the conspiracy grifting world.  Came out about a decade ago with bold promises of secret knowledge meaningful to everyone’s life.  The financial hook lured in even those who knew it was “a bunch of bunk” with the ability to side hustle a couple of sports pick Patreon subs.  And now it’s just on autopilot, trying to get the last couple miles out of it and hoping you can unload it from your life.  It’s not like we ever see videos of someone proudly showing up at a college campus to sell the idea of gematria to young and impressionable college age kids.

The middle tier in turn is also suffering.  And although this post is highly repetitive of old content about the death of the gematria community, that’s something sort of new.  More observable results are in.  People are not quite so quick to assert how much they adore Trump.  Even without verbalizing it, your mere presence as someone who went on record that a second term in office was bad news makes them think twice about being so open about it.  After all, if you were smart enough to prepare yourself for the worst of this you have the coping mechanisms to mentally and emotionally deal with it.  Whether you wish to help them is up to you.  I suggest you consider waiting until they’ve sold the Cybertruck instead of just claiming they did.

The Last Dog

 Robert Reich has his last class:

https://www.thelastclassfilm.com/

How do you educate youngsters in a world gone mad that’s done everything to let them down?  And like me, how do you cope with being older and no matter what you do its never enough to satisfy the greed of the few?

Sarah Kendzior has her last roadtrip.

Taking time away from being prescient about this administration to give her children a last glimpse of beauty while it remains.

Nearly every day arrives with more of the bad news I’ve become accustomed to.  Desensitized, oh hell yes I am.  That’s what you get when you watch videos about the end of The Bronze Age, the fall of the Netherlands with their crypto-tulips and…population collapse.  Like what’s going on here:

https://youtu.be/QYA9i0KC0tE?si=sH_-EdZud_NWfzqj

I’m far beyond the point of tears welling up, much less crying.  But when I hear things like people having pets instead of children, it’s frustratingly relatable.  I suppose I’m just bitter still.  An oddball at high school, surviving by pretending I wasn’t as smart as I am.  That stopped working by my mid 20’s.  Too long in contact with generations trained to detect and divert anyone more intellectual than themselves.  It became too much of a burden, so isolation it was.  Isolated except my dogs.  When I finally bought a place of my own the only real requirement was a fenced in yard.

I had two at the same time previously.  I did adore them and cherish the memories.  But this is about The Last Dog.  Hereafter called LD.  The dog I wasn’t going to get, but couldn’t help myself.

To get to the point right away, that way I can focus on the trip down LD memory lane, affordability of a pet is now a serious issue.  I had consciously made the choice to not have children or even a steady companion.  Finding a girl willing to tolerate me long term seemed out of the question.  At least my budget allowed a dog.  And I wanted a real dog.  One big enough to scratch on the head without bending over much.  No little yappers for me.  After the first two I told myself, that’s it.  Things are going really badly in the world and the expense and time to treat a dog properly.  Nah.  I’m done.  Until the day that the idea of fostering LD was brought up.

The evil plan worked.  And I knew before I even picked him up for the foster that the adoption was a done deal.  The big eyes and freakishly large tongue.  Including the first night in his new home, LD was never put in a crate.  And it was never a serious issue.  Sharing a bed with a 90 pound dog that was at a minimum neglected and probably forced to be outside including all kinds of bad weather, he was far too appreciative to deny him access to anywhere in the house he wanted to go.

LD is a senior dog now.  Fortunately this isn’t the eulogy yet.  Not only is he still hanging in there despite old dog problems, he still gives signs of enjoying himself.  Less frequent, less enthusiastic for sure.  But he’s still *living*, not just existing.

Fascists, economically are takers not makers.  And now I’m pretty sure I’m immune to the idea of ever allowing another dog in my life.  The desire is there, but even with the gnawing at my conscience about how I could give a rescue a better life for awhile, the takers have ruined it.  LD’s old age caretaking is way too expensive.  Forming a sort of social contract with a dog, a bond, would end up being a let down. Forget about taking a dog for a walk anytime after 10am during the late spring, summer and early fall where I live.  And that’s not even a place normally associated with high temperatures.  Just like would be parents pass on children due to the condition of the world, pets will be only something affordable to the better off.  Even if I magically got more solvent instead of settling for a modest retirement plan, it just doesn’t seem fair to the potential next dog.  Like LD now, the spirit being there, but the inability to run and stretch out and play in the grass.  Why would I subject myself to that?

At one point I did have an exceptional rough stretch and considered giving up on LD.  Pretty dark times.  Which I got over with more human contact than I’m used to.  Just in time to find out that I was right (again) and the world of the takers was reaching its tentacles throughout the internet.  I too can double down on a concept.  The one constant that keeps me going is giving LD the dignified retirement I doubt I’ll have.  And why should I expect to get a break in a world that facts don’t matter anymore.

Morbidly, I take solace in that the rich person hobbies of golf, skiing, hunting, boxes at sporting events.  Those things are already turning out badly (expensive) as temperatures rise.   Well, no sympathy here.  Fuck you.  If I can’t afford a canine companion because you want a trip to Europe every year…if I can’t walk a dog more than 15 minutes without baking his feet on the pavement.  Screw you.  You’re the ones that wanted to price fix and bubble and do insider trading your way to feel intellectually superior with your material goods.  You never have, never will know the companionship of an LD quality dog.

Don’t click this non existent link for a nonexistent fundraiser:  ⏹️

LD will be just fine.  He had someone that cared about him more than he cared about himself.

Know Your Corporate Grift - Subscription Scams

 

There’s nothing from that screen that clearly identifies the source, which is great for plausible deniability.  But here’s how I got there including the why I went there.

A sane thing to do in this regime is to suck it up and cut back on expenses.  Whether a resolution is in the near future or not, everyday life affordability is a problem.  As a middle class-ish type, I don’t need the cable package I have anymore.

An “employee” years ago twisted my desire to have my cable signal fixed into sending me another cable box.  And the attempted resolution to that had them subscribing me to a third cable box.  Both of those were sent back, which admittedly was at their (Comcast’s) expense. Yet to this day my monthly bill includes charges for three devices (boxes) when I only have one.

Now, I finally have the motivation to proceed with a final resolution.  I need to go to the brick and mortar store and I’m either switching to Verizon or maybe finally getting the bogus extra devices charges removed from my account and switching to the basic cable package.  There is a marked decrease in value received that I’m paying for for - the extra channels are increasingly useless.  The extra movies are about 95% inaccessible due to need for internet hook up on my TV, and the “Streampix” boldly touted as my labeled tier premium addition seems to be completely gone.  And the last straw, asking me to sign in when that screen comes up on the Xfinity app that I’m already signed in to.  Oh, you know my street address.  You’re just embracing the corporate strategy of making downgrades and lower costs as difficult as possible.

On a larger and more deadly scale this is how the health insurance mess exists in the U.S.  There’s enough material out there about Luigi Mangione and that whole kerfluffle.  No need to go into detail here about that.  But wondering if you will ever receive any real value out of a “subscription” to costly insurance coverage is a  huge concern.  Especially when the reigning voice in the administration seems to think vaccines can travel back in time.  (RFK has openly stated that vaccine research caused the Spanish Flu pandemic about 25-30 years before actual serious flu vaccine research began and was put in place.)

An easier subscription to drop is donations to livestreams for gematria sports picks.  The most recent video on Gematria Effect Sports was a month ago.  Anyone excited about paying to play is going through the Patreon subscription path.  Automatically getting a monthly deduction with essentially nothing of value in return.  Arguably my cable bill is a better value.  At least I can watch Fox News on my lowered tier and laugh at what clueless propaganda is coming out.  Once I finally get through the lack of customer service built into the system.

Just as big if not bigger than health care is the entire concept of capitalism.  Properly functioning capitalism allows the participant to feel like they have some skin in the game.  A reason to participate.  Enough people do well enough that they abide by a tolerable minimum standard of bullshit to keep interested.  And the lack of customer service built into the system is epically low.

Just another semi-random example.  Offering a career including pension is a thing of the past.  The company goes bankrupt or merges and structures.  Sorry, we aren’t The Gematria Motor Company any more.  Now we’re GM.  No more pensions.  Invest in 401k, he’ll even throw in a generous helping of employer matching.  Sorry, the stock market is the plaything of the morbidly wealthy.  You’re either risking losing it all on something terribly high risk (crypto) or lucky if you make a few bucks in safer investments after income taxes and accounting fees.  Employee owned company stock?  Maybe there aren’t payroll deductions, but that’s just a fancier way of saying pension with no assurance that the company will be around long enough.  That’s life in the gig economy with carrots being constantly dangled.  The 🥕 of today will be genetically modified and will be unpalatable in just a few years.

Lots of people have the skin in the game that they have invested in relationships and lives and children and a home, watching their subscription to the U.S. getting increasingly less valuable.  And to be clear, things are the same everywhere, it’s just that the unraveling of the U.S. market dominance is morbidly fascinating and high profile.  The phrase “banana republic” is being used as a possible outcome.  I think carrot republic sounds a lot more appropriate.

Oh yeah, the non zero chance that the social security taxes paid for decades turn retroactively into just another income tax are a lot of fun for trying to sleep at night for the working classes.

Dear AI: Not Just For Your Homework

 

Stanford article on AI and therapy

AI tells man to kill himself

James Cameron is likely not happy that his dystopian vision of killer robots taking over the world is less and less likely.  People, by and large being complete idiots, are doing a wonderful job of just focusing on the answers they want to hear instead of the right answer.  All a sentient AI needs to do is promote the most arbitrary and useless sign of wealth imaginable as the greatest thing ever and people will fall over themselves to collect and hoard it.  Foregoing food, water, housing, friendship and sex to be the bestest hoarder there is.  Because <sarcasm font> having more dust bunnies than anyone else means obviously you are super smart and wonderful.</sarcasm font>

Little Johnny may have started with just using ChatGPT for help with his homework.  Instead of learning why X²+Y=23 he just pops the answer down, and moves on.  Feeling proud that he’s mastered AI while doing the same thing some of his other classmates have done.  Missing out on the real value - the chance to understand and evaluate things on his own.  To think critically about exactly why dust bunnies are a really stupid idea for an economic basis.

Having accessed the slippery slope of being made to feel smarter than he is, Little Johnny is a prime candidate to be lonely and confused as to why things aren’t working out well in life.  The kind of person who will get relationship advice from an AI LLM that is deliberately (or accidentally, I suppose, yet there’s a lot of evidence suggesting that the $ involved in AI shows it’s deliberate) forcing out wrong answers.

Somebody put this Gematrix result up on social media recently, with the highlighted ovals being added by me.

People asking a gematria calculator for answers directly.  Not even asking Zach or the Gematrinator or someone in the Negative 48 crowd for advice on how to interpret the inevitably ambiguous results.  And that’s what Little Johnny is doing when the cognitive dissonance takes hold.  Just pumping in random phrases into a calculator and matching them with equally random results framed as magic numbers.l and deciding to believe what makes him feel best at the moment.  And what makes him feel best is heavily influenced by his recent search engine history.

“How can the dead revive the dead” and “Is every day now K God” could have been rhetorical questions.  A conversation centering on zombie movies perhaps, brought on by zombies generated from a Voodoo ritual instead of biting and infecting.  Ah, Clarence you are forgetting something old chum.  How can the dead revive the dead?  But asking a gematria calculator how plants grow is so utterly pointless when the result can mean, per the above, “Women have no value” or “Jewronavirus”.  Holy shit GematriaGPT…why, I am a bigot and a misogynist.  That totally solves my problem of figuring out how fruit grows!!”

I do actually kind of like the idea of gematria chatbot.  But only one that gives the answers exclusively as numbers.  How do plants grow fruit?  2755.  No matches, just 2755.  Paving the way for a society that speaks exclusively with small numbers.  People hardly ever have honest conversations about important topics anymore, so why not?

Short Term Vs. Long Term Gematria

Benaminute Gematria video

One of the cool things about debunking gematria is how easy it can be.  Like when the superstars do it themselves without you having to work for the logical fallacy.  Right at that start, Zach (courtesy of Ben’s editing) presents us with how often you see 47 coming up.  Like it’s the big warning sign that evil is afoot.  And courtesy of Ben and Zach we see 47 is so important that it’s not important, because you are allowed and encouraged to drop the zero in 407 to make it 47 and 74 counts as 47 because of course it’s the same digits.

You can see 47 because it shows up all the time “in the wild.”  Not because anyone had to put it there.

And if you’re allowed to use dozens of ciphers and alter numbers you don’t like it gets even easier.  As often said here, the real challenge with conspiracy theory gematria is to not find a match.

Truly short term gematria is like a TV show that would present a number of the day.  Get the interactive crowd talking about the current bad news, which is always in ample supply.  Get ready to ❤️ the comments section and do some replies, the gematria Attaboy!^TM.  You found today’s magic number of 47 in something I missed!  Good job!👏🏼!  You get a cookie!

Truly long term gematria is something like 666, the old classic that never goes away.  It’s not as easy to force even with what alteration methods qualify as real gematria (whatever the fuck that is.). But not impossible.  And it surely does catch your eye when it does show up.  Even if it’s something stupid like fidget spinners.  FIDGET = 666 in reverse Sumerian, so fidget spinners were a short term gematria hot topic.  And nobody talks about them anymore.

Both approaches are used, with each having its advantages and pitfalls.  If someone with sufficient functioning brain cells is around too long they will start to notice how cognitive dissonance is being forced on them.  Wait a second there mister short term gematria guru.  You said HULK = 56 and HULK HOGAN = 56 (they do including some offbeat ciphers for HULK HOGAN).  And that’s important now.  But you used to tell us that 56 was Freemasons and Jesuits.

 

And that’s important it; was Covid and whatever else was in the news back in 2020.  The forced cognitive dissonance of how Hulk Hogan wasn’t mentioned then and hardly anybody bothers talking about Jesuits now.  And I can’t remember the last time someone randomly suggested that the Freemasons were up to no good.

And … Event two o one = 56.  Sweet fucking….<sigh>

The long term 666 stuff.  As said, that’s harder to produce and you’re forced to branch out into side gigs like associated words, the gematria of the word ANTICHRIST being a notable example.  Naturally ANTICHRIST does not equal 666, because that would actually make sense.  The result is your brand gets stuck on a one trick pony.  And the world didn’t end like you predicted a zillion times over the past several years.

Well, those of us with superior pattern recognition skills have seen this pattern before.  The hypocritical weather vane and rebranding.  Now it’s Number Games the not a Trump fan and the number 47.  The 56 stuff, call that a middle term gematria number.  Even though I found the screenshots I used here from a one month old video the 56 list has pretty much run its course.  The odds that 47 will be consistently the number of the day over a longer period have dramatically increased.  Did you know, and prepare yourself for a shock if you didn’t, that Trump is the 47th President?

And if you’re allowed to spell out words as numbers and spell them wrong that FOURTY SEVEN = 555 in Satanic gematria?!?  I don’t know what it means either, but triple digits are MAGIC.  The prices of your groceries won’t be affected, but there’s still the magic.

Miscellaneous Stuff - July 2025

 Just some random things as I travel around places I both should and should not be poking around in.

North Korea has apparently gotten a lot of deep fake assisted remote workers funneling money to the homeland weapons programs.  The hazards of not thoroughly checking up on credentials.

https://now.fordham.edu/university-news/americas-best-remote-workers-might-be-north-korean/

I just saw a video on this.  And they even boldly target cybersecurity firms.

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Look up the story of Percival Redwood for a fun true crime movie plot.  A early 1900’s woman posing as a man as well as other frauds in the lifetimes.  A nice companion piece to contrast with the modern high tech scam above.  Why go for a fake friend nobody ever sees when your doing your gematria story when you can live the life up close and personal yourself?

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The name of Gematria Effect News is officially being rebranded.  The YouTube channel is now “Number Games”.  He even scored a softball question interview with the Benaminute YouTube channel with the angle being they both dislike Qanon.  Zach gets to have followers of his comment about how it was so nice to be platformed by someone not as antagonistic as the recent GIVE ME A PREDICTION!! hosts.  Ben’s commenters all talk about how his system is pseudoscientific claptrap.  But they appear to have separated on decent terms and we get more.  Ben didn’t talk about the sports betting angle.

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Remember I said how Superman really leaned in hard on the woke anti-Trump theme?  South Park said the opposite.  Oh who am I kidding.  South Park said, “James Gunn, hold my beer.”  If you are genuinely concerned about the issue of free speech you should be paying attention to this recent activity.  Superman, South Park, Colbert’s late night show being cancelled are all warning signs.  I also saw a Facebook reel of Hollywood celebrities teeing off on the current insanity.  DeNiro, Rob Reiner, Rosie Perez, Martin Sheen, etc…

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Of course the passing of Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan are big topics for gematria decoders.  Ozzy is of course satanic.  Prime candidate for some sort of Antichrist commentary.  Hulk Hogan, well there’s always been wrestling content.  Both of them were already performing.  Ozzy leaning in to the bad boy devil worshipping persona.  Hulk leaning into the champion of the little person persona.  I doubt it’s just my personal confirmation bias, but an apparent genuine sign of the times.  Ozzy is genuinely revered at least musically and being a trailblazer there.  The Hulkster, not so much.  Your results may vary since my algorithms are slanted anti right wing.

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I’ve recently watched and enjoyed Australian comedian Jim Jeffries bit about gun control.  Like he says in the bit, he makes gun nuts feel uncomfortable because he makes some good points.  It’s confirmation bias oriented.  Just because you like guns is a pretty weak argument by itself.

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Supposedly, and now that I’ve heard it stated out loud I agree, the cryptocurrency conversations have given up on the idea of a global digital currency.  It’s all just speculative investment stuff.  A close historical parallel is the Dutch tulip rage.  The morbidly rich, fueled by the Dutch economic dominance era, displayed their wealth with flowers because Ferraris hadn’t been invented yet.

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The talk about Tesla Cybertrucks is dominated by wording about how it’s the modern day Edsel style flop.

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There’s Nancy Pelosi stock tracking activity out there.  I’m pretty sure it’s useless unless you have the ability to time your trades to hours if not minutes.  And with sufficient capital to make it worthwhile.  Insider trading info rules.  Unless you’re the sacrificial lamb like George Santos who actually gets a jail sentence.  Perhaps a pardon is on the way.

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Pitcher Luis Ortiz has been suspended and is being investigated for gambling.  The basic plot is two wildly bad pitches separated by a long time frame were flagged by a gambling watchdog organization.  I’ve watched a YouTuber who does baseball content completely ignore the proper issue.  Fortunately some comments addressed it.  Every pitcher has one “get away from him” every once in awhile.  But, it’s the massive amount of money wagered prior to them that raises the eyebrows.  You can now make sports betting microbets, like if the first pitch of a half inning is a ball or strike.  Like insider stock trading, if you have inside knowledge that it will definitely be a ball you have a huge edge.  I believe the investigation is centering around why just these two pitches were wild and the lack of betting on other Ortiz first pitches.

The Isabella Has Cancer Scam

Or I suppose the more formal would be something like the Fake Tug At Your Heart Edited Comment Scam.  Here’s your viewing material:

Chalk this up to a long history of YouTube and all social media not caring about content moderation.  Any safety and security measures are lip service.  Bots are everywhere and apparently not just dismissed with a shrug of the shoulders and a, “Well what can you do?”, they seem to be embraced.  More clicks.  More views.  More likes.  More algorithmic sharing.

I already expect some of you are leaning into the defense that will be used if challenged directly.  “How dare you insinuate this poor, sick girl is not real you MONSTER!!”  Which is all part of the scam.  I’m gonna go on a little overdue side quest here to explain about what organized crime doesn’t get about long term macroeconomics and science.  If you are a bandit warlord, and you raid the village for food every day you run the risk of the village dying off and no longer able to create a surplus for your demanded tribute.  Substitute pizza shop in the run down section of town no longer able to pay the protection money.  If the shop has something go wrong, like unexpected medical issue for the owner, it could fold and therefore your protection money source is gone.  And if the neighborhood has a reputation for blood being squeezed from stones, you get an empty shop.  There are too many competing warlords.  All of them think they should be paid and the others should be ignored.  Instead of a shop owner sickness being the straw that breaks the camels back, now it’s climate change expense that will prevent economic viability on top of the tribute.  And science and human ingenuity can only go so far when one political party is dead set on breaking shit as much as possible and as fast as possible to get their tribute today.

And on to the actual scam… of course AI is involved.  All the fun stuff that makes life easier for scammers gets boosted.  In fact, I’ve known about Isabella for over a month now.  That in itself is one of the red flags.  At first I wasn’t going to say anything, there is a principal in complaining about grifters that you don’t give them extra oxygen.  Well, Isabella isn’t going away any time soon, so let’s go over the red flags.

My first experience was on a Veritasium video.  This one is from Kurzgesagt, their trademark cartoon bird shown in the screen shot.  Wildly popular, each individual getting millions of views.  Quality content aimed at the smarter crowd.  So while a lot of gematria type bullshit, how exactly do you trick smarter people into believing what you are up to?

Volume.  Mass mailing your Nigerian prince email.  And then let the suckers come to you and prove they are suckers by biting at the bait.  You don’t bother wasting your time with a gematria video that has a couple thousand views on a good day.  You get one that has millions and see who bites, like subscribing to your fake channel.  Although the people dumb enough to be involved with gematria are a higher percentage chance of falling for stupid shit, the volume more than makes up for it.

That’s a bad sign that this comment is a month old.  In theory YouTube could have noted the suspicious nature.  In theory Kurzgesagt could have someone moderating and deleted it as soon as things turned weird.  But there it is.  Clicking in to Isabella’s channel- the same video story, the same picture as was used with the Veritasium video from before.  There’s no doubt in my mind the picture is fake.  At best it was hijacked from somewhere else.  It’s more likely completely AI generated.  Isabella and her doctor are both pretty.  Indeed, for a little girl DYING of cancer, not just being treated for it, Isabella looks pretty darn good.  It’s strange to see a girl dying for several months minimum look that fine.

And the video, the last video the dying girl will ever make, is actually 4 months old and from a different channel than Isabella’s personal channel.  The same video as when I found her through Veritasium.  Playing some very kiddish video game hike narrating with a voice that sounds…robotic.  No updates from concerned parents or other family.  Exceptionally noteworthy is nothing from this other sister that the diary is shared with.  And Isabella’s channel was created June 3rd, 2025.  To house one video and one video only from 4 months ago?!?  🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩🚩

And the comments are insane.  There’s an obvious mismatch between what the responses are compared to the comment.  A comment that has plainly (edited).  That’s how this works.  The bot says something early, possibly deeply relevant to the video.  (The Veritasium comment was about church architecture and changed to dying of cancer.  And that was on their “Most dangerous building” video from two months ago.  I did report that one and it’s gone now.)  Then the switch, the poor little girl dying of cancer and after racking up likes and replies this weird mash up of twisted commentary is left behind.

And some of the commenters KNOW this is fake.  This guy (Isabella must have used a different picture) is about to talk about cancer.  They’ve seen it before.  And at least 63 people upvoted that comment, likely because they’ve also seen it before.  For a little girl dying of cancer, Isabella sure gets around to posting comments on videos a lot.

Also note that the playing the game on the “last video I’ll ever make” video is locked down from commentary.  The author doesn’t want some goody two shoes to spoil the comments by pointing out the scammy nature on the one piece of material that took some effort to create.

As for me not being the monster I would expect to be painted as, well good luck having pediatric cancer advancements in the near future.  Tax cuts for the wealthy don’t mix well with pediatric cancer funding, hurricane warnings, on the job safety, education including funding for public broadcasting, etc….  These things are going to be gone sooner than you think.

Welcome Back, Lack of Truthseekers

https://youtu.be/f4u62mbibqI?si=ki6CrqaXKhlDWoSN

The linked video is an example of the kind of Epstein content that my YouTube algorithm feed throws at me.  I’m not ashamed to admit that I enjoyed it.

1). It brings up how an actual conspiracy is occurring that it involves the rich and the powerful doing whatever they want.  Because of course they can just pay their way out of any corner they’re put in.  In contrast, and this will reappear later in this post, conspiracy gematria as conspiracy theory lite stories focus on “made up shit”.  Things that aren’t really things like a cabal rigging sports games down to the second and school shooting crisis actors.  The working class talking points that make gematria deciders feel important doing investigative journalism that uncover how ordinary people are part of the secret instead of just the actual conspirators involved in the coverup.

2). People that fall for conspiracy theory content continue to not process contradictory evidence even remotely close to being a valuable voice in an adult conversation.  They’re weather vanes, changing directions completely at the whim of their leader, even if it means the leader has reversed course without a caveat of admitting that what was said before was wrong.

Epstein is big news right now.  Few things would give me more pleasure than to not have to read any more about it.  The idea that something so heinous went on for so long is disturbing.  And since conspiracies do not keep to one side of the bipolar political spectrum there’s content from both camps.  And what makes this story different and gives it some staying power it has is that there’s a common ground.  Release the files.  Hold the monsters accountable.  Finally, something resembling a line in the sand that some MAGA folk can’t stomach to be part of anymore.  And those that remain loyal still have to toe the line and support the king.

Starting at about the 14:45 point of the linked video, these are the conflicting stories we have to contend with:

1). The story is true because Clinton and the evil Democrats are all involved, while the Republicans are pure as the driven snow.

2). It was made up and AI used to make fake news stories to make Trump look bad in the run up to the election.

3). There’s definitely something newsworthy here and the current regime is going to release all the info.

4). There’s nothing to see here, stop talking about it.

5). It’s back to fake news created by Obama, Biden and Comey.

It’s one thing to contradict yourself years apart.  It’s obvious that something weird is going on when the story changes within a matter of days.  And if you’re a “Truthseeker” you really ought to stop being such a pussy and try to figure out the truth about what’s going on.  At least with the gematria aspect, famous for being able to spin the story supported by fake evidence of tiny little numbers, you should be able to muster up some kind of gematria decode for one of the conflicting stories.

But, since it was always about money instead of “truth”, there aren’t old stories.  There wasn’t any huge trove of Epstein content, detailing how important it was and how it would continue to be important.  I searched for ‘EPSTEIN GEMATRIA’ on YouTube and the too hit of actual gematria and Epstein was a six year old video from the time when Epstein was arrested.

 

 Then there’s a couple of videos from recent days and a one year old video of Zach’s.  Most of it is Epstein content without gematria.  And all told there’s hardly any concerted effort like spreading the Kobe Bryant death story to show anyone keeping at it and recognizing how important the Epstein gematria was and would be today.  A six year old video with 155 views.  Then there’s outrage porn is out of the news and disappears even though essentially (supposedly) the magical predictive code had a lot of solid leads.  The gematria “truthseeker” community was too busy and incompetent to do anything but talk about what Alex Jones and his crisis actor false accusations was promoting.

Psychological projection at its finest.  Keep accusing others of what you are doing and it can come back to haunt you.  Well congratulations boneheads, you got whipped up into a frenzy about Constitutional rights while caring more about the economy and now you don’t have either.

Superman and Independence Day

I don’t remember and don’t care to check if I did or never got around to it.  But it’s been a blur.  It’s hard to keep up with all the casual cruelty, and the “business as usual” doubling down by the perpetrators.

I’ve always been the black sheep of the family and never big on get togethers and celebrations.  Hanging around a few people in my immediate family I care about.  Never knowing if one of the others is a potential problem, just waiting to explode.  Better to just not go, or it least have a ready excuse to leave ASAP.  Fortunately, for the past several years if there has been a get together for the 4th of July I haven’t been invited.  And I think it’s more likely that there wasn’t even one.

What I do like to do is to take my dog for a walk.  And it’s because of the new Superman movie that these thoughts bubble up to the surface again.  And we'll get to that soon enough.  And I’ll even take a break here to point out that there will be spoilers.  So get ready to skip after this if you can’t handle that.  

So, because of fucking climate change, if I’m going to walk my elderly dog it’s got to be early in the morning.  Which just like a 4th of July barbecue not happening suits me just fine.  Less contact the better.  And as I went on my roughly four block route, my superior pattern recognition skills noticed something.  An extreme lack of flags on display.  Three in total which included two at the same residence.  Two houses out of dozens.  Whether it’s a repeat or this is the first I mentioned this:  There’s no longer a need to display the Confederate flag as your symbol of hate.  The standard Stars and Stripes will do just fine.  And the double downers are maybe a little more cautious in public with the overwhelming evidence that something is seriously wrong with this administration.  And the incorrectly labeled “loony leftists” don’t want to be instantly associated with… those other people.

SUPERMAN
Remember, spoilers.  Lots of them.

I’ve read a lot, mostly cheap horror novels in abundance.  And spy novels including big names like Ludlum, MacLean, John Gardner’s Bond  But my real passion is film.  Movies either served as my escape from what was my escape from the cruelty and injustice of the world.  Where the good guys win in the end, precisely because it doesn’t happen enough in real life.  Either the escape, or movies with a commentary on culture focusing on the current issues.  Think of it like an hour and a half to two hour long version of some Star Trek TOS or TNG series where they sneak in a message about racism or the no win proposition of war.  Think…you know the word…woke.

I wasn’t necessarily planning to watch the new Superman in the theater.  At least not until I heard about the right wing uproar over it.  That made me say to myself, “Oh hell yeah, I HAVE to see it!”  Like a blog where you can immortalize your thoughts a movie is a combination of seeking profit and the opportunity to relay a message.  Successful movies do both.  Come to the theater to watch Barbie, leave laughing and if you’re paying attention you might just finally have your pattern recognition skills pick up on the message about the evils of stereotypes.  Unless you’re more into doubling down and trolling on the internet because you think Kevin Sorbo has more relevance.

James Gunn has pretty rapidly acquired a deserved reputation for knowing what he’s doing.  Guardians of the Galaxy was heavy on the quirky escapism and a surprise hit.  Would that be what was going on with Superman?  It’s difficult to believe the fascist furor would be over that.  There must be a message.  And Gunn leaned into it.  He leaned into it fucking hard.

Sure there’s escapism, hell it is Superman after all.  But traditionally Superman and Captain America have been popular for escapism as well as being firmly anti-Nazi.  Lex Luthor, a well written for the first time and a very believable Luthor, is clearly all about the money and power.  <Trump>.  There’s a war between officious countries boiling over.  Funded by Luthor, the aggressor not above committing human rights violations, and the poorer neighboring country just trying to survive.  <The US, Ukraine and Russia.  Or maybe Israel and Palestine.  Or maybe both>.  Krypto the dog is a bit of an asshole.  But Superman loves him more than he’ll admit and gives himself the excuse for modesty by having promised his cousin Supergirl that he’d take care of the mutt.  <Cooperation and empathy>.  Superman’s Kryptonian parent’s message get’s twisted and weaponized against him.  <Social media influencers suck -but see below>

And loads of other little stuff along the way to remind you that this is the right Superman to address Summer of 2025.  The Superman we need now, and more.  A movie so woke that you may need to really think about flying your flag and if you’re doing it for the right reasons.

The Supergirl reclaiming the dog bit is an epilogue to provide some last comic relief after good, of course, triumphs over evil.  But there’s one last tear jerker moment to follow.  Artistic license gave the writing team a chance to tweak the origin story.  The original story is the planet Krypton is dying. Supes parents send him away to save him.  In this version, that’s not quite the reason.  He’s given a message from his parents that he was sent to Earth to…. and the sappy first part about how they adore him breaks off.  The real message which didn’t even need to be lied about was he was better than Earthlings.  He should easily be able to subjugate them with his powers.  But since he was raised right by human parents, he doesn’t know this.  He grew into being a good person, nurtured properly with love instead of a quest for power and money just because he could do that.

An early scene shows the Kryptonian parents half of the message as inspiration for Supes to heal.  Later the damaged message is restored and this crazy powerful god among mortals has self doubt.  Later when in need of a hiding place Supes returns to his human parents for love.  And coming full circle at the end Superman has rebuilt the earlier damage to his Antarctic Fortress of Solitude, the robo-nannies ask if he wants to hear if he wants to hear his parents message.  Oh yes, please.  And the play the clips from his earthly parents.  The ones that supported him and nurtured him and he now realizes his Kryptonian parent’s message was irrelevant.  He grew into a good person because he always was a good person.  He just needed a push in to the right direction.

And wrap it up with a nice end credit scene.  Very brief, very simple.  But you get the point.

He’s fine.  Superman is doing just fine.