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AI Propaganda Finally Got Good, and Yes, I’ve Been Having Fun With It

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For years, propaganda had a branding problem. It was too stiff, too obvious, too eager to announce itself as Serious Messaging for Important People. Then AI showed up and solved the issue by making propaganda cute, weird, funny, fast, and alarmingly shareable. That’s the real story. Recent reporting and analysis around AI-generated influence campaigns suggest the next phase of persuasion doesn’t always arrive wearing a uniform and carrying a manifesto. Sometimes it shows up as a toy-block parody, a surreal meme, or a slick little piece of visual candy that people pass around because it’s entertaining first and ideological second. That’s not just a media story. That’s a cultural mutation. And frankly, I get the appeal. I’ve been a willing participant in this aesthetic drift myself. Creating AI propaganda art is pretty fun. Not because I’m trying to hypnotize the public into marching toward some glorious synthetic tomorrow, but because the style itself is one of the most exci...
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SATURN TAUGHT THIS MAN TO PLAY PIANO

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  Howard Menger, the UFO contactee who brought back a record instead of a moon rock Howard Menger was a New Jersey sign painter who went public in late 1956 with one hell of a résumé: lifelong encounters with beautiful extraterrestrials, telepathy, flying saucers and trips aboard spacecraft. His appearance on Long John Nebel’s legendary WOR radio show helped turn him into one of the strangest celebrities of the original contactee era. But forget the saucer for a moment. Howard Menger said Saturn taught him to play the piano. According to Menger’s 1959 book From Outer Space to You , sometime in 1956 his automobile seemed to steer him toward an isolated cabin. Inside was a man playing extraordinary music on a piano-like instrument. Two blond visitors appeared and introduced the musician as being from Saturn . Menger protested that he couldn't play. The Saturnian essentially told him: sit down anyway. Menger later wrote that he suddenly found himself playing an instrument for t...
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CRITICAL GORILLA Runs Deeper Than the Surface

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Critical Gorilla runs because standing still has become suspicious. He comes pounding down the trail like some forgotten evolutionary branch discovered hydration packs, psychedelia, and an unhealthy interest in unanswered questions. Sunglasses reflect a landscape that may or may not exist. Behind him, mountains burn electric magenta. A UFO quietly abducts somebody from a distant peak. Nobody stops running. This is not exercise. This is field research. The trail begins near civilization—Hollywood lurks ridiculously in the distance—but quickly abandons conventional geography. Mushrooms become enormous. A frog appears to know considerably more than it should. A skull beside the trail offers practical advice: BE CURIOUS. STAY WEIRD. Critical Gorilla keeps moving. His shirt supplies the operating instructions: QUESTION. EXPLORE. REPEAT. That's the philosophy of the entire image. The trail isn't leading toward an answer. Every discovery creates another intersecti...
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A 1926 FILM FROM THE MAN WHO MADE HÄXAN SURVIVED WHEN MOST OF HIS AMERICAN MOVIES DIDN’T

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The Los Angeles Silent Film Festival screened The Devil’s Circus last night at the Los Feliz 3 with a live score. That title becomes considerably more interesting when you notice the director: Benjamin Christensen. The Danish filmmaker had already made the astonishing 1922 witchcraft/documentary/horror hybrid Häxan before Hollywood brought him to America. The Devil’s Circus, released by MGM in 1926 and starring Norma Shearer, was Christensen's first American feature. It is also one of only four of his seven U.S. films known to survive. � Screenline Films +1 The movie concerns a young trapeze performer, a pickpocket and a lurid circus world—exactly the kind of melodrama silent cinema could turn into nightmare architecture. Last night's presentation paired it with the 1920 short Cinderella Cinders and included live musical accompaniment. � Screenline Films +1 Documented: director, survival status, screening and festival. Interpretation: Christensen's American work...
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200,000 UFO REPORTS — AND THE GOVERNMENT STILL DOESN’T WANT YOURS

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The most interesting UAP development of the past 24 hours isn’t another blurry Pentagon blob. It’s a number: 200,000. VERIFIED: On September 7, the National UFO Reporting Center announced that it logged its 200,000th UFO/UAP report in August, marking a milestone in the organization’s 52-year history. NUFORC says its archive now spans every U.S. state and most countries, and that nearly 2,000 reports submitted during the last four years qualify for its highest-interest “Tier 1” category. � NUFORC +1 The announcement began circulating through Reddit’s UFO community this morning, where NUFORC framed its archive as “disclosure built from the bottom up.” � Reddit That phrase becomes considerably more interesting when placed beside Washington. VERIFIED: AARO currently accepts UAP-program information from government employees, military personnel and contractors. Military sightings follow official reporting channels; civilian pilots can report through air-traffic control. But AARO’...
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THE MOST IMPORTANT THING A UFO WITNESS CAN SAY MAY BE: “I DON’T KNOW.”

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Tonight Alex Dietrich returns to one of modern ufology’s most famous mysteries: the Tic Tac. Dietrich was one of four Navy aircrew involved in the November 14, 2004 encounter associated with the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. She and David Fravor described seeing a small, white, wingless object maneuvering above disturbed ocean water after their aircraft were redirected toward an unidentified contact. Twenty-two years later, Dietrich still says she doesn't know what it was. That may be the most valuable part of her testimony. No interdimensional species chart. No imminent disclosure date. No $799 consciousness seminar. Just: I saw something. I don't know what it was. Her new interview adds another important wrinkle. Dietrich says her aircrew did not know that operators aboard USS Princeton had reportedly detected unusual radar returns beforehand. She says she learned about those reports years later during Pentagon debriefings. That shifts the investigati...
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THE VICE PRESIDENT THINKS THE UFO MAY HAVE HORNS

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  The fastest-growing UAP story in the current cycle is not a Pentagon video, MUFON sighting or congressional subpoena. It is Vice President JD Vance revisiting his theory that UFOs might be demons. VERIFIED: In a newly circulating interview with Christian podcaster Bryce Crawford, Vance returned to comments he first made in March, when he told Benny Johnson that he did not think UFOs were aliens but “demons.” This time Vance added an important qualifier: he possesses no classified file establishing that explanation. He framed it instead as a theological possibility—if extraterrestrial intelligence is conceivable, he asked, why dismiss angels or demons automatically? The timing is interesting. Vance made the new remarks while promoting Communion , his book about Catholic faith, and during a broader interview involving the Antichrist, providence, AI and spiritual darkness. Meanwhile, there has been no comparable new evidentiary bombshell from AARO or the Pentagon over the last ...
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