“We’ve re-invented the oracle, except THIS time, you can buy ad space in her esoteric prophecies.” what are we doing here guys

Pleased to announce a new series for Substack in 2026; open.substack.com/pub/philipwb...

Johnny Mnemonic is an unexpectedly great film

lol. lmao even

“Elon Musk isn’t a scientist. He’s a billionaire con man with a checkbook.” — AOC And she’s right. Buying engineers doesn’t make you one. It just makes you rich enough to cosplay genius while other people do the work.

has anyone else finished a bag of grated mozzarella today or is it just me?

Its insane this dude was the director of intelligence for CENTCOM, director of intelligence of the Joint Staff, director of intelligence for ISAF, and director of the DIA (under Obama)

betwixmas listening youtu.be/3Lzjj7FQr7o?...

It is pretty funny to sit in Britain and watch as we get leapfrogged by other countries in terms of infrastructure and then listen to the government try to keep up the facade of a global power.

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

I’ve fallen into the trap of calling everything AI I must punish myself by reading something by Peter Thiel

“Our postwar plugin for ChatGPT can design internment camps and predraft judgments against your leaders and anyone else we dislike”

“Our data indicates you are unlikely to win this existential war would you like me to draft your notice of surrender?”

A) They’re not going to do this. B) If you’re not going to buy into the social contract then don’t expect to be protected by it. This is something past elites at least slightly acknowledged. If today’s elite think they can live apart from the social contract, well, good luck to them I guess.

I wonder how that went

We are reaching levels of WWII discourse never thought possible

Woe betide and tech or military bullshit I’m confronted with next year

rip brigitte bardot, our entire culture owes a debt to her pioneering example of being hot and racist

Christmas family holiday with a 4 yr old and a 6 month old is like intellectually touching grass.

So can we please start buying tanks, infantry support weapons and stockpiling ammunition and stop fucking about work wonder weapons and copium

Also the clever targeting systems we’re trying to build will immediately stop as will OSINT feeds AI is such a vulnerability not an capability boost

War in Europe will probably mean the internet as we currently understand it will stop functioning I hope y’all are stockpiling CDs and DVDs

FIFA Peace Prize 1940

ONLY 364 DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS

You have to imagine that the Donald got a badly spelled email from a ‘Nigerian prince’ promising a lot of money in exchange for just a couple of tomahawks as a gesture of good will.

DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS. Every damn day. It’s exhausting.

Dementia does not just erase memory — it exposes how institutions treat those who can no longer speak for themselves. I’ve written about my father’s Alzheimer’s and what it revealed about dementia care in the UK. open.substack.com/pub/philipwb...

(I have a stinking cold)

Merry Christmas!

Curtis Yarvin is the Garth Marenghi of Carl Schmitts.

Read Peter Frankopan's assessment of the White House NSS that wasn't published & then reflect on this post on X about US State Department engagement with AfD politicians. It doesn't look especially good for either the Atlanticists or those who support the EU.

2⃣ The conduct of war has increasingly become a fight with a one-dimensional, digital representation of the enemy. @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social and Gavin Wilde critique this overly reductive model of war. How can modern militaries resist this temptation?

🆕The age of technological disruption in warfare is here. War today is fought with codes, networks, drones, and smartphones—not just soldiers and tanks. @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social and @warmatters.bsky.social introduce these battlefield paradigm shifts for @carnegieendowment.org ⤵️

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

The radicalization of Silicon Valley is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy." It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

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Getting tired of having to take the tech industry seriously. These are not serious people.

@proton.me has 10.8.8.1 stopped working as your DNS server?

These are the people we are building the economy and defence capability on. Trusted partners something something… just wild.

Hot off the keyboard and gifted: Hegseth has to go. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Demonstrating the Future of War: Tech Companies and Claims of Epistemic Authority on Military AI opiniojuris.org/2025/11/19/d...

✨LETTERS TO KAFKA✨ reviewed in THE TORONTO STAR today!!

It's pretty openly acknowledged that their shit at best is hardware someone else built running their buggy kludged together shitty software and at worst just straight up doesn't work But hey kath hicks said they're the future of defense so

Maybe don’t name a thing for a sword that breaks, I dunno

Im SO EXCITED. The end chapter to possibly my favourite game of all time!

An entire industry unanimously crammed AI non-features into every single device and service we used and repeatedly doubled-down despite lackluster response and adoption. But it's YOU who is hurting the economy for not being excited about it. 🙄

A trans teen in Iowa completed suicide after severe bullying by classmates and teachers. "Miles’ death came a day after a substitute teacher refused to use his preferred pronouns." It's the type of bullying @thefireorg.bsky.social and @aricohn.com support. www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/17/m...

Poland: 'Be Ready' civilian training campaign launched. Aiming to train more than 500,000 people by the end of 2026... h/t @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social #civilprotection #societalresilience

I was witness to a very bleak discussion today about the need to adjust our ethical and moral expectations of war because that’s how our adversaries fight. With no trace of irony this is expected to protect our values by ensuring we win future wars.