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.