So, You Want To Get On A Watch List?

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The baseless conspiracy theory grifter would scream out to the world, “Oh no!  My views are down!  My subscribers are getting unsubscribed!  My channel was terminated!”  And immediately prove that something was fishy about it, by just going right back to business as usual.  The channel being terminated gag doesn’t hold as much weight when you pull it so often people with actual functioning brain cells can see that if things were that serious, the tech bros in charge would simply not allow you to so easily create a new page or channel.  It’s all theater and projection.  Look at what a bad ass I am, these tech companies are out to get me!

In 2024 I took on a large, quite time consuming and rather counterintuitive project.  The main goal of that is still kind of a trade secret.  But I learned a couple of things, had some assumptions confirmed, and now the side effects are being dealt with.  For example, it appears that since rage bait = engagement the algorithms on YouTube think you want to see more of the content that pisses you off.  That hitting the dislike button is at least equivalent to the like button if not more so for getting recommendations.

Now the side effects, purging my recommendations to get back to things that entertain me.  Although I have a lot of different and harmless “touching grass” interests, the algorithms on YouTube latched on to the anti-Trump content and recommended some intriguing alternatives that I find myself enjoying when the new video drops. 

If you want to get put out the anti-Trump naughty list, here are some of what I watch.  Big players like MTN (Meidas Touch Network) will naturally flow in through the normal algorithm process.  I’ll warn you ahead of time, some of these channels are monetized to a large enough extent that it may look hypocritical.  Grifters projecting that more legitimate content is asking for money is a time honored tradition.  So next up in prep for the actual list is some common themes to look for.  My recommendations tend towards the positive side of consuming information beyond, “Gromk no like Republican/Democrat bad.  Gromk like Rebublican/Democrat good.  Gromk give money and talk big.  Grunt grunt!”

1). Citation of outside sources beyond the content creator.

2).  Spin is fine.  Opinion is fine.  Promoting personal opinion as fact, is not fine.  Willingness to take a quick break and admit your opining is a good thing.

3). Lack of excessive monetization.  If the author puts out a video every week that is nothing more than begging for money, run away fast.

4). Presentation of the material as reporting on events without a “join or die” cult message.

So now to the list of what I watch that is both informative and I find entertaining since I’m sadly far from normal regarding what amuses me these days.  #1 ✅.  I’m citing outside sources.  #2 ✅ It’s what entertains me.  #3 at least half a ✅.  I think.  #4 - I’ll leave that up to you.  Are things really that dark or is it overblown?  Ate the two largest protests in U.S. history with millions of people just a blip, or a sign?  These are not in any particular order of favoritism.

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Hank Green

Science communicator.  Not overly political but dabbles because like Trump said himself, smart people don’t like Trump.  Gives off a down to earth homey vibe that Carl Sagan and Neil DeGrasse Tyson don’t hit with as hard.

Dark Brandon

Short animated videos with different characters.  Dr. Dee for science, Leopards for eating faces content, Frank the angel.  Aimed at pointing out MAGA lack of logical thinking in a short, easily digestible form.

Literate Machine

Not all of them short and easily digestible, but full length essays.  Good for scholars looking for a deep dive.  Puts a lot of prep work into videos that take months to get out instead of daily or even weekly material.

Steve Shives

A snarky Star Trek content creator who doesn’t pull punches on his distaste for Trump.  The Star Trek content is stand alone from the anti-Trump content other than the overlap of how Star Trek has a history of sneaking in social commentary into an entertainment franchise.

Mallen Baker

If you want to see what foreign countries are saying about the mess in the U.S. without the lopsided spin from U.S. media sources, try Mallen.  U.K. politician.

Patrick Boyle and Damon Cassidy

My favorite sources for economic bad news.  Patrick is a professor and hedge fund manager with surprising deadpan jokes for a “stuffy” academic.  Damon is a “just a regular guy” with a YouTube channel.

Upper Echelon

What I imagine conspiracy theorists SHOULD be.  Focusing on actual conspiracies without the scapegoating and whining for money.  He’s been having a field day with Epstein stuff.  A lot of the content is about the gaming industry and the adverse effects of AI and capitalism that affect that.

Benn Jordan

Probably would be fine being left alone making music.  Had turned his engineering skills in to content that dives into surveillance equipment.

Kat Abughazaleh

More guts than common sense would dictate.  Has transformed anti-Fox News content into a run for Congress.  A fighter that like AOC just happens to be an attractive, non-white, female that knows what she is talking about.  (Gets a pass on the monetization point from me because sadly $$ are a necessity for political campaigning.)

Tennessee Brando

Sounds like he should be MAGA, but fiercely proud he’s not.  Reminds people that it does happen that if you have a soul and a moral compass you can fit the demographic superficially while still having functional critical thinking.

Genetically Modified Skeptic

More than anyone else on this list, a “not for everyone tastes” pick.  This is pro secular content.  I try hard in real life to keep my own thoughts about religion and the political mess that results from it.  Not everyone is that wussy.

I stand by my claim.  Instead of the fake Projectecution from baseless conspiracy peddlers, absorb a lot of this content like I do and you are far more likely to make it on to a government watch list or face censorship.

Projectecution

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Scanning through YouTube gematria videos filtered for the week, somebody actually wasted the time of showing I’M GOD = 48.  Mathematically sound as far as  the gematria math goes, yet as a talking point completely meaningless.  Presumably, whoever the author is who is seeking out what 48 could mean would assume that they are the God in question, and being an actual god or the capital “G” God is a good thing. And then the mantle, titles, and accompanying superpowers of the singular God are constantly shifting to whoever typed that in to a calculator last.  Yeah…I’m going to have to call bullshit on that one.  Being able to keep track and shift the superpowers, that job is the real power.  A bookkeeping nightmare.  It could be about the Christian God as the one and only, but that is still vague as there’s a couple thousand (at least) other gods that could have a minion typing that in.  Based on some of the other pro Trump gematria that showed up from that author it has Q stink all over it.  

Instead of directly jumping in to I’M GOD = 48 and pretending that this extremely vague person worthy of description like this, people will slow play it.  A biblical gematria practitioner may innocently take a step towards godhood by finding a match with GOOD SAMARITAN or LOVE.  But the real fun, that’s in persecution content.  After a lifetime of moral complacency and the resulting bad decisions you get the, “Woe is me!  Everyone is out to get me!!”  Even extending in to every wrong sports pick as, “They flipped the script.  I’m taking too much money away from the casinos.”  Flipping the script themselves as being both the greatest sports picking gematria practitioner and the worst ever since everyone is out to get them.  And some of those sports pickers aren’t just doing it for shits and giggles.  It’s deliberate projection so the minions pick up on the persecution and blame the scapegoats for their problems instead of the simple reality of sports gematria being complete and utter bollocks.

Projectecution, a newly made up word today  (unless who or whatever is assigning the title of GOD out has already created it) is a portmanteau of projection and persecution.  And instead of your innocent trying to gamble for fun or looking at the biblical gematria of LOVE OF JESUS, it’s a mental state where someone is pushed along the extremist pipeline to the point where they’ll believe just about anything that’s possibly even dangerously wrong about what’s going on in the world around them.  And in current news there are the examples of real life fascist projection arising.  On top of a not mentally healthy population of improperly socialized young men and the stress of economic problems coming out the ass.

Earlier this week Trump was asked about the Epstein files by a female reporter.  As there’s no good answer he lashed out immediately.  “Quiet, quiet piggy”.  It’s literally impossible to make a good answer about the cover up.  The contradictions in the various stories used in the past are so far apart you can’t gel them into a cohesive single narrative.  Unless you’re the being that’s constantly reassigning who is God at the moment.  The Piggy comment, not the first time that insult has been used, is the projection way of saying, “I’m not answering you because I’m better than you and I don’t have to.  Not because I have evidence and good reasons, but feewings are hurtsies.”  Trump at this point doesn’t need to hold a press conference ever again.  We know that the answer coming out is going to be, “That’s fake news.”

And you better be damned concerned about the congresspeople that asked the military to pay heed to the constitutional oath about disobeying illegal orders.  The first time a sitting President has called for the death of political opponents.  Covered by the bootlickers claiming he’s not serious.  Even if he’s not serious, the math shows that there are minions aplenty who are far enough along the Projectecution pipeline to take it seriously.  Can you say, “Jan. 6th 2021, Gabby Giffords, and Melissa Holman?”  Silence by intimidation is such a quaint little fascist traditional, ain’t it?  Let’s throw in $50,000 signing bonuses to deport random people in to the mix.  What could possibly go wrong?!?

In an odd way, being the target of Projectecution is a compliment.  You wouldn’t be the target if you didn’t display some kind of value to the world in regards to empathy, common decency, and intelligence.  And that’s the point.  When those who value profit over people take control and simultaneously want to be admired for being profitable have no real value they rush to the arbitrary labeling and bullying.  There’s a common comment in the baseless conspiracy theory posting on social media.  Something about being on a government naughty list and having your channel suspended or shadow banned.  Nope.  You, the ordinary person that wants to enjoy your family, friends, kindness and respect.  You’re the superheroes.  You’re the ones put on the naughty lists for surviving while indicating your mad as hell and I’m drawing the line in the sand, here.

Building Real Community

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A common theme about resisting the increasingly obvious problems with authoritarian takeover is building community and relationships.  A network of people who have your back, knowing that you will have theirs in return during crisis.  Overall the main topics that rank countries hug in lists of quality of life are housing, education, and healthcare.  Instead of getting your news from profit driven “social” media now famous for being a haven for scams and propaganda you should be taking notes from sources that are a lot less preachy and asking for money with the vaguest of unfulfillable promises.

It’s been a long time since I mentioned it, but one of the lessons I’ve tried to instill is that talking about Biden, Trump, Pelosi, the Jesuits, Freemasons, Alex Jones, or any target being bad more often than not does not provide a solution.  Most of my personal value added to the world has amounted to the same thing.  Merely bringing attention to the problems without solutions.  But, I did start almost a decade ago and didn’t know exactly how the dire economic and political landscape would play out.  And knowing full well I’m not the guy to be the superhero that the masses think will rise up and save them let me wait it out until things became a little clearer.

For those with family and friends still stuck on the mistaken idea that Trump is by any means a solution you have the unenviable task of convincing them to get out of their comfort zone and read things like the linked article.  Don’t expect perfection from these articles.  I find the phrasing of “alternative healers” a bit disturbing.  It’s an uphill battle all the way, trying to undo literal generations of abuse and neglect.

Healthcare.  Failure.  The U.S. has the most expensive system and is the only high income country without basic human healthcare.  People elsewhere have better ideas that work better than tying care to being employed and the negative feedback of being unable to be employed when injured or sick.

Housing.  Monetized that the better off have been trained over decades that the dwelling and the second home in Florida is an investment.  Nearly universally where I live these people vote Republican.  “BlEeDiNG hEArT LiBs ArE rUiNiNg My StOcK pOrTfOLiO!!”  You know what is really ruining it?  Hiding climate change based inflation masked behind decades of propaganda.

Education.  Without proper education you miss out on a big infrastructure investment.  The AI bubble is already disturbing all the other bubbles.  Instead of utopian everyone has robot servants and unlimited leisure time we get data centers using so much electricity it’s adding to the housing and affordability problems already.  And the worst is yet to come.  The bad ideas from not managing understanding the world around us gets you the stupid idea of 50 year mortgages and impossible dreams of retiring being wealthy other than for a select few.  Who could retire today and be fine instead of playing the 1%er version of keeping up with the Joneses via Game of Thrones policy decisions.

I could go on and on about the details of the lack of community in the gematria community.  How they can never agree on anything like how many ciphers to use, when it’s ok to drop zeroes or not, but let’s keep it simple.  The rage bait does not address oligarchy and healthcare/housing/education in the slightest.  The conspiracy theorist community pretty much only pretends to address education, and false claims that conspiracy gematria has a value to education are implicit.  And they do rely on genuine problems to provide a hook to dangle the bait on.  But in the end, anytime they stumble on the right idea (it’s never manufactured by them) it gets ruined by the overzealous dialogue of:

Give me your money.  I’m the superhero that needs your money (strangely) to keep superheroing.

At the end of the new Superman movie (5 ⭐️, would recommend) the man with the S on the chest addresses the real artificial intelligence in our society.  What makes Superman truly a hero and not Lex Luthor’s money driven artificial intellect, and makes me confident that Musk hates this movie.  The real superhero is the person who gets up everyday and tries to do the best that they can because it’s the right thing to do.  Make every day a day where you tell yourself, “I think maybe today’s a good day to not exploit people and act in a selfish, destructive counterproductive manner.”

Projection and Overconfidence

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Veritasium - Overconfidence video

A constant theme of the SportsGematria YouTube channel’s videos is that Hubbard, despite talking big and congratulating the winners who took his advice, never seems to provide any solid evidence that he actually places bets himself.  You don’t acquire a perfect nickname  like “After the Fact Zach” without relying heavily on waiting until the game is over.  Exuding confidence and actually being confident are entirely different things.  It’s so much easier to come across as exuding confidence when the question is difficult, but you have a cheat sheet you reference instead of your own brain power.

From the way a lot of people act they have gone through decades of life never realizing that the con in “con artist” means confidence.  TLDR.  If you’re decent in the critical thinking skills department you have a leg up on the competition.  First you’re willing to admit your own brain does stupid things at times, some people are smarter than you or a specialist with knowledge you don’t possess and can use, and someone exhibiting confidence without the right information to back up that confidence is really fucking dangerous.  The con artist is an expert; an artist.  Gaining your confidence through manipulation of emotion.

People would have money than be right about things.

Short term contact long enough to get you to bite at the bait, then goodbye.

I am 100% confident I’ve talked about projection on this blog in the past.  For a period of some months I had a special post dedicated to the best projection of the month.  Willful deception be it positively projecting your a Good Samaritan while actually stealing behind the scenes, or the ever popular, “I’m a bad ass, you’re a loser troll”.

But considering what’s going on with the Epstein files now let’s turn to a more personalized story.  My first encounter with a malignant narcissist long term.  And what a learning experience it was that I was able to utilize going forward.

My first college roommate was a high school friend, maybe the only nerdier person than me.  His first girlfriend, (GF from here on) was a real piece of work.  I already knew about willfully deceptive tactics in dating.  For instance, the handsome guy who eventually uses his skills to make sure he leaves the bar with a different conquest each trip.  Over time I realized GF had elevated projection to an art form because she actually believed she was the smartest, prettiest, most perfect person in the world.  GF was physically attractive, she was certainly bright enough although never managed to show exceptional intellectual skills.  And something was always off about her constant need to get attention.  Everyone in the guys dorm fawned over GF was so special and how out of her league rookie was.

Except me.  I wanted nothing to do with her.  And that was why she deliberately went out of her way to interrupt me as much as possible.  Constantly being in my dorm room, even pretending to sleep while roomie was away at class.  Trying to conquer the one hold out that wouldn’t accept the goddess in his midst.  Of course roomie was enthralled and wouldn’t accept even the slightest infraction on common decency as a problem, much last the major infractions on my college life.  I’ll spare you more details.

Armed with this knowledge, this first hand experience with narcissism elevated to Narcissistic Personality Disorder, I landed a job with GF model 2.0.  A generation X’er who believed her own hype without any real talent to back it up.  When confronted with some pretty obvious facts about the 25 hour work week (on a good week), management’s best defense they could muster.

“She’s extremely confident.”

Shortly thereafter, Model 2.0 knowing I was on to her doubled down.  My lack of interest in anything to do with her combined with being promised an executive position from the date of hire made her determined to break me.  I discovered for myself what later became to be openly known as quiet quitting, unwilling to work 60 hours a week just to keep up with the psychological and direct job related sabotage.  And let me throw in the only time that I confronted her on her faults (only about direct job related performance), in the heat of the moment she actually told me I was the most condescending person ever.  That just confirmed what I already knew, a very NPD type of thing to say.

I had my escape plan prepared and left just before the Trump political era.  And it’s totally unsurprising that this company’s management team had grown accustomed to the right wing propaganda machine and now they have to deal with lack of results from unjustified overconfidence on top of a government that is making it tough on businesses everywhere.  Because, yes, Trump exhibits the same baseless overconfidence that GF and Model 2.0 had shown.  And if you think skill in detecting NPD is marketable for employment, well………no.

The same way Model 2.0 desired competent people to do her work while reaping the unwarranted financial rewards - that’s the same way some of the most openly not competent way this administration has become infested with boot licking loyalists.  Model 2.0’s management team didn’t care.  GF was never given any negative feedback.  And I defy you if you want to insist that anyone in Trump’s second term regime  has shown consistent positive results.  That type of person was from the first term, and they’ve been forced out and the actual swamp has been projected away as FAKE NEWS!! and WITCH HUNT, while the actual stories coming out in the Epstein files and real affordability problems are increasingly hard to defend.  Projecting overconfidence when the actual swamp was hiding in plain sight.

Because people don’t like to admit the tiniest bit of being wrong about anything.  Not about losing a couple hundred dollars about a sports betting scam.  Certainly not admitting to supporting the election of a true monster.  The doubling and tripling down sounds less sincere every day.  Grasping for straws.  Desperately trying to deflect away from how Oz is hiding behind a curtain.

To quote a Triumph song from the GF era -

You say you’re something special.

Well you talk a real good game.

But now the party’s over,

And you just don’t sound, you just don’t sound the same.

Overconfidence.  The most dangerous cognitive bias according to the Veritasium video.  A video that starts with a parade of really smart, yet humble, people willing to admit that there’s more nuance than the black and white projection offered by propaganda.

Gematria & Gibbelins

The past two days, especially this morning, has been a train ride of my brain taking wild tangents.  A problem I face regularly as it can be quite distracting.  I did end up back where I started.

Many fictional monsters are a metaphor for other issues.  Godzilla is a personification of the horrors of nuclear weapons.  Vampires are fascists.  Werewolves are the unbridled beast hiding inside.  And so on.  So what would be a perfect metaphor, or more likely a close metaphor, for some of your top Internet grifter personalities like a Hubbard or Alex Jones.

During that journey I reminded myself that The Beast/Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes greatest work, is a metaphor for an all powerful Beast.  A social contract where freedom is deliberately surrendered to stop mankind from destroying itself by its own stupidity.  A perfectly natural tangent for someone recognizing authoritarian takeover while indulging in constant random baseless accusations of someone being the literal Antichrist.  Therefore, the next perfectly logical tangent was to check the gematria of Hobbes and I found that HOBBES = 111 in reverse.  Which of course means that in the cheap cheat of multiplying by 6 in Sumerian:

The tangents weren’t finished, and since I’d already been investigating monsters as allegories, the greedy goblins had already crossed my mind.  And HOBBES + GOBLINS meant HOBGOBLINS which did not equal 666.  But without the HOB:

A tidy little perfect match.  So like a 15 year old first discovering conspiracy gematria and not realizing it’s confirmation bias based nonsense, I knew I was on to something and continued doing more research on goblins and greed.  Because attention and money is really what it’s all about.  But the obligatory gematria tie in satisfied I performed what qualifies as actual research and I found - Gibbelins.

https://ruinousreliquary.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/public-domain-spotlight-the-hoard-of-the-gibbelins/

(After a brief side trip for the unfortunate Litiz, Pa based insurance company that had purchased the domain name for Gibbel Insurance - gibbelins.com).

Gibbelins do not hoard wealth like Ferengi or Dungeons & Dragons monsters because they love the money and attention a lot of money gets them.  It is a tool, it is bait for a trap just to lure foolish people to their lair to eat them.  Although there’s no doubt internet grifters live the money purely for the sake of having money, so far we have no reports of actual cannibalism.  Not yet.

But to understand the story properly, you need to examine the “hero” Alderic.  The hero stops the dragons reign of terror, but it’s implied that once Alderic has finished his mission that he really doesn’t care if the dragon goes back to eating princesses.  Alderic is a toxic narcissist, more interested in projecting his image as a savior and noble person and the bestest knight that ever knighted in any night.  He may be competent enough to get to the Gibbelins lair, but even he alone is not prepared to fight the final battle.  Sometimes real friends can help a lot.  Being the bestest knight ever implies that you have a lifetime of assuming that nobody matters but yourself.  And when somebody doesn’t care about how wealthy you are, including raising that wealth by fraudulent means - they’re going to eat you.  Especially if they have more friends than you, which they will, Mr. Toxic Narcissist Knight.

The story is only lengthy enough to address the tale of Alderic.  But there are lots of other Alderics in that fictional world.  Lots of petty burglars and lesser knights consumed with avarice falling for the trap the Gibbelins have set.  The top names in the grifting economy and GOP are not Gibbelins, they are Alderics.  Fake heroes doing 24/7 image projection and having fun on the side by getting the attention a real hero should be getting.  Bullies in appearance, but losers in end results.  Fighting with each other more than generating any true sense of community.  If you want to impress us, stop gathering new members to a sports betting Patreon and raise money and food for food banks.

If there’s another NO KINGS protest I may participate with my NO ALDERICS OR KINGS sign, just to amuse myself on being pretty much the only person who understands the reference.

Filthy, Ugly, Satanic Coal

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My top pick for The Big Lie is not the false claim of a 2020 stolen election.  That’s just a Side Lie.  An afterthought or side dish served up with how modern global society is utterly dependent on continued burning of fossil fuels.  Keep those capitalist economies chugging along, and never, ever admit that proper job costing should include some clean up of waste materials.  And instead of “some” clean up, there’s a constant push for no cleanup.  It interferes with oil company and sovereign state fossil fuel production CEO compensation and bottom lines.

If you search out some material on the internet about late stage capitalism you can find commentary about how there’s an anomaly in world history.  History that we might add is trying to be erased in these times.  After World War II, there was a brief blip from about 1945-1975 where oligarch taxation and policies benefitting the working class took hold.  And then without benefit of an internet, propaganda slowly took hold and the fossil fuel industry decided it would be more fun to lie about the consequences of constantly dumping more pollutants in the environment than for effective clean up.  And now the can has been kicked down the road about as far as it can go.

The Big Beautiful Fossil Fuel lie worked something like this.

Fossil Fuel energy is essentially limitless.

Fossil fuel energy is clean.  (I had a physics professor that often quoted about the “damned environmentalists not letting us burn coal - 1978 or 1979).

Exploitation of cheap labor abroad for the U.S.  The country that benefited the most from the end of WWII with infrastructure remaining intact.  It’s good not to have the homeland bombed.

Democracy and capitalism spreads, the communists being a convenient scapegoat.  Probably helped along by capitalism being genuinely a better option.  (Personal opinion.)

RARE takes over.  Rich Assholes Ruin Everything.  Go away, U.S.  I’m here at ground zero; these are my people to exploit.

A lot of the social problems from employment and cheap labor and not cleaning up move back to the U.S.  Mostly rural South and low population red states elsewhere.

The better off middle class from the golden 1945-1975 era are convinced, like my physics professor, that “My investments are more important than your children” and take over business leadership.

The anti-science movement takes grip.  All as a cover up for the big, fossil fuel lie.  Any scientific issue is targeted as a hoax.  Vaccines & medicine in general, moon landing, evolution, etc….  All become fair game for background noise to make people distrust actual scientific reality based commentary.

Since the religious right already had a foothold in magical solutions they evolve into the top bad actors straying from the positive social messages of loving thy neighbor into the oddball stuff.  Conspiracy theories, without being burdened by the cumbersome “love thy neighbor” aspects of religion push to extremism.  Social media becomes the battleground for political propaganda.

The extremism, more outrageous means more clicks and views which means more money leads to the outcome of people preferring to have money than being right about things.  Politically motivated violence ensues.

And finally we elect a President that claims outright that coal isn’t just not bad, it’s big, beautiful, clean and the bestest thing to MAGA.

This seems like a long time, but compared to the formation of coal from dead plants it’s a geological tick of the clock.  Literally millions of years to sit in the underground pressure cooker.  Of course this goes against the idea the Earth is only thousands of years old.  Of course it’s easier to form an army of people needing immediate gratification to slide into Mussolini’s fascist idea of cracking the skulls of eggheads.

And in the meantime, if gematria had any real meaning to the global situation some “scholar” would certainly before me have discovered that coal is not big and beautiful, but the poster child of all the evils in the world.  Sitting in the ground quietly absorbing the hellish sulfur to be released along with that precious, not so lovely carbon dioxide.

Big, beautiful, clean coal is right wing economic projection at its finest.  Coal mining jobs are notoriously difficult, laborious, dangerous and low paying.  And we’re about to waste resources on coal burned electricity on the AI bubble that’s looking like it’s getting ready to pop.  But hey, you can find a sports gematria YouTuber to gamble with, so that’ll be fun.

Gematriapedia

This popped up on Bluesky not too long ago.

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Which we’ve seen before.  Old school conspiracy gematria (i.e not Qanon gematria) was heavy on all politics was corrupt, not just enemies of Trump.  And this exact assertion about FOX is not the animal, or a common word after the construction worker whistles at a pretty girl.  This is then and here FOX NEWS.  Whether they are right to claim that FOX is evil because of this.  It’s a lot easier and has just as much empirical evidence.  Zero.

Using the same logic the letter combination of C-L-U has the same values in reverse ordinal.  And it would make just as much sense to focus on the evils of any university that uses the initialize of Cxxxxx University Library (CUL), cul-de-sacs, Lincoln University of Chicago (LUC), Jean Luc Picard, and Clu Gulager.  But creativity often doesn’t meet with hopes and dreams of attention seeking, so we get just FOX in the ordinal.

And that’s not even gematria. The actual gematria is 6+6+6=18.  A cheap method using the total randomness that infests conspiracy related gematria.  If a number can be misinterpreted into a desired number, you can count on that this misinterpretation will be performed.  And it’s all so pointless for the FOX wishful thinking.  There’s a perfectly fine 666 already in there without “cheating”:

Seriously, what’s the point of going through the crazy gyrations of claiming 6 and a 6 and a 6 IS 666 when there’s a perfectly good 666 out there.  There is an explanation for this.  In a fake attempt to legitimize their gematria, some clique leaders insist that it’s only proper to use the four base ciphers.  No more insisting credit cards and carbon copy ‘cc’ is a Freemason 33.  I haven’t seen Freemason content in so long I’m thinking it’s in storage in Freemason jars.

If only, and this amuses critics, there were an actual community instead of just calling themselves a community and then going off on individual confirmation bias fueled binges.  Something to standardize what’s what.  And especially put it in print that zeroes are officially dropped when needed for the narrative but can be retained for the narrative because the hypocrites really don’t want to feel bad about all those 201’s they never changed to 21.  Maybe if there were some sort of Gematriapedia.  An open source catalogue of everything gematria related where certain rules could be put in place so we could take these clowns more seriously.  I would contribute to that.  A front row seat for the constant edit wars, because just like people in this government administration they can never agree on anything.

I was kind of hopeful that Grokepedia would come to their rescue.  Musk’s alternative is loaded with articles.  Considering that conspiracy gematria fiddlers and Musk both hate Wikipedia they can have control of the gematria content there.  Test the waters until an independent gematriapedia is created that won’t be re-edited on a daily basis.  But there’s this roadblock.

Large Language Models scrape the internet for training data.  And the hated Wokepedia, as Mudk has called it.  Is the primary source for Grokepdia’s scholarly writings.  Wikipedia isn’t perfect.  But it’s a lot better than anything else out there like it.  If you aren’t deliberately searching for something politically divisive and looking for straight up facts it’s pretty good.  If you aren’t deliberately searching looking for politically divisive content, let the browser beware.  That screen grab is at the bottom of Grokepedia’s gematria article, and the, “I stole this from Wikipedia” AI signature is all over Grok content.  And I personally don’t trust the guy who tweaks his coding on X that results in the Mecha Hitler incident.

Finally, the gematria article is decent.  Like Wikipedia it doesn’t reference Qanon or Jesuits rigging sports, or other slanted nonsense.  But that is a danger with LLMs.  A bad actor in charge of forcing an advertised independent and factual article can force propaganda into it.  There are probably people doing that now.  There’s too much money at stake for that not to be tried.

 

We Truly Are In the Golden Age of Grifting

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The unholy matrimony of money grows on trees thinking versus woe is me take care of my selfish needs today.

In one corner we have the SNAP benefits government shutdown saga.  There’s a lot more to the government shutdown and the other outspoken problems.  Air traffic control understaffed and overworked for decades.  Lack of effective regulation and investment in infrastructure because CeOs NeEd MoRe PrIvAtE JeTs AnD gOlF aNd A fOuRtH MiLlIoN dOlLaR mAnSiOn instead of running a company with long term sustainability in mind.  But gematria to the rescue because we had this the past week:

Over six hours of video, most of it with nothing to do with Zach or gematria, that can be correctly answered, “No” and left at that.  Two seconds move on with life.  A slightly lengthy answer, the gematria answer, would be either to find a narrative that the SNAP benefits will resume soon and a counter narrative for the government shutdown will continue for a lot longer.  Then wait until we see what actually happens and claim you predicted it.  The real life social issue version of picking both teams to win in tomorrow’s NFL games.

Within that lengthy video is commentary that is spreading a lot on the pessimistic YouTube arena.  Poorer people desperate to feed themselves and their families, a mix of genuinely actual at risk now as well as what you call middle class feeling the pinch and worried about becoming the genuine at risk - that’s an entirely different breed of angry than what the U.S. is used to.  The narratives about increased expectation in crimes from shoplifting to make ends meet to full blown food riots are taking root.  And it’s worth pointing out that a gematria story about any sort of resolution to when SNAP benefits resume does diddly squat about how it’s going to affect your personal finances.

EXCEPT.  Gambling has reached epic proportions.  The Robin Hood banking app offers gambling.  For now this is worded diplomatically as something like, “Blurring the lines between investment and gambling.”  Which is itself Orwellian doublespeak for “It’s  fucking absolutely gambling, but it’s sanctioned by the blooming authoritarian leadership so don’t you dare call it anything but investment.”

Coffezilla video on gambling epidemic:

https://youtu.be/9Ii1ROzeSwU?si=f_ML_fqP2PpLB7Hc

Now in addition to hidden traps on traditional sports betting, things like the endless prop bets and teasing on top of the actual more normal win or lose the game you can bet on all kinds of not sports stuff.  Elections including papal enclaves, pop culture like award show winners, and even when the government shutdown will end.  If it can be argued about at the bar where you can conflate your subjective opinions with actual facts, you can bet on it and simultaneously be a total bad ass genius, even if you lose.  We aren’t going to be surprised if it turns out gematria sports has been secretly funded by sports betting companies.  There’s too much easy money for this to go away.  Ever.

On the other hand, there’s gambling with retirement savings.  Like sports betting any influencer willing to take up sponsorship dollars is going to put up a disclaimer saying you should be careful with gambling, retirement advice is going to warn of investment risk.  And retirement scams are reaching epic proportions.

https://www.psca.org/news/psca-news/2025/8/scams-against-seniors-increasing-dramatically-ftc-warns/#:~:text=Scams%20against%20the%20elderly%20have,have%20been%20growing%20in%20particular.

I’m sooooo much smarter than these poor people!  Don’t you date mess with my investment rate of return!!!!  Yeah, maybe you should hedge that stock portfolio with a Polymarket bet on when a food riot breaks out.  I personally find the people in this category more annoying to deal with in  my everyday life.  The concept of the traditional retirement is evolving.  A million dollars goes less far than it used to in retirement than before.  But the ads before YouTube videos still hold that out as the magic number.  The difference now is WHEN you retire with a million dollars.  The job market is totally screwed now, globally.  There’s more people than jobs.  The number one thing to go for cutting costs is staff.  People rioting for food don’t tend to drive healthy investment markets upwards.

Clearly, there’s adults in the room to rationally discuss the issues are absent.  And finally there’s enough sustained protest and objection that show the more average of us recognize the core issue.  The wealth distribution systems are not working.  And the current so called leadership is not working on it.  They don’t have any intention of working on it.  Humans are pretty resilient and change will happen, but WHEN.  And what that will be is waiting for a gematria decode so we can pinpoint what is WRONG and narrow down what is RIGHT.