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Ksy Elf
ƒrom St Petersburg with love…
Hello world! Can you hear me? My name is Ksenia & I am an artist of Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg

Smell the oil paint & linseed… Want to start an art school? Warm nostalgic fuzzies seeing these studio & design classrooms —J–∑edia
Laibach
Old Black Mattie
Design Lovers
iPadOS 26: End of Post-PC Dream
This analysis examines the shift in multitasking functionality and user interaction patterns

ƒig is my DynaBook design work for Robert Abel's 1989 'Odyssey Project' anticipating multi-touch hyperlinked learning…
On-any-Monday, here in XXIst —J–
Saltwater
Behind the Sun
Chicane ∆∆usic
Comin' Back
Vegas 1997
The Crystal Method ∑edia
Narayan
Fat of the Land
The Prodigy ∆∆
Paul Chadeisson
Second Skin
Second surface like a second chance
Wake up, babe: UPDATED Chadeisson

Diamond Age conceptual vignettes of unchecked aggressive Kardashev mega-manufacturing & resource extraction as tales of human avarice & ambition   … and redemption

ƒile under : Anime Realism
A Chef's Kiss exceptional quality. Gorgeous extreme telescopic lense-zoom on leviathan mechanicos as flat monsters sliding on planes of Akira cel nostalgia with a Cowboy Bebop sweep. Splash of Syd Mead flair immix William Gibson word tones for time-lapsed still-lifes of Koyanasquatsi. Notable:
Migrants
Forgotten archives of Solstice 5
Learn Squared interview ∑edia
Diesel   e x t e n d e d
Fat of the Land
The Prodigy ∆∆usic
JetPens
DoodletmeGO
Soundgarden
Nothing To Say - Live on I-5
Mercer Arena, Seattle/1996
*sigh* …voice like a trumpet∑edia
Electric Light Orchestra
Thunder & Lightning
Out of the Blue, 1977

…came for Mr Blue Sky,
hangin' for The Storm
∑edia
E-Clips
The Wizard of Speed and Time
Cult film starring quint-threat writer/ director/ animator/ effects artist/ actor… Mike Jittlov - his final 1988 classic here. SWAK

You'd catch early clips at film fests, but never better quality than this laserdisc/fps conversion —J–
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Talking Heads
And She Was
Talking Heads (Official Video)[HD]
Animation by Jim Blashfield∑edia
Concrete Blonde
Bloodletting
The Vampire Song
…recurring themes for new traditions∆∆usic
HISTOMAPS

power

myth & lore

Samo Burja
Using the Iran Conflict to Reindustrialize the US 
How America leverages Iran conflict to fast-forge XXIst reindustrialization

Everywhere I see every excuse needed… from power, data-centers, to neo-smelters, from 'mini-nukes' & power-on-chip we are primed to leap-frog to our Lost Jetsonian Future —J–
a16z
Tommy's Podcast
Alex Krainer
Pummel Civilization w/Human Rights
Empathy made a Weapon, from Minnesota to Mexican Cartels
Strategic explaner matching w/Boghossian's PDXreal tactical
The Mithril Bugle
Mostly Peaceful Mordorian Tourists Now Feeling Unsafe
Promethean In-Depth
Promethean Update
Tommy's Podcast
All the Marbles…
Colonel Towers General Holt
EM Burlingame

…not US Civil War II, but The American Resolution
SIGNALS

bio
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eco

Jason Goodman
Southern Poverty Fraud Center
Color-me Revolutionary, Boss!
DOJ issues sweeping indictment w/Ken Silva joining
Is it a Protection Racket, or Limited Hang, when Morality Police hire Scary Mobs?
Mike Urban
SPLC Indictment & Massachusetts
The rot goes marrow deep, from grade school to Congress
Imagine, Grandma donating via ActBlue paying Thugs scaring Grandpa… a tidy loot-loop
Tom Scott
Pinball Preparedness
Tommy's Podcast
Foreign Entanglements
Joe Kent & Joe Oltmann
Respect. Tommy fires on all cylinders: support him.
My initial take holds: his Hero's Journey rallies new Dukes + Cohorts, to deliver words of fresh folk wisdom to a ready King's Court.
The American Resolution™ —J–
Jason Bermas
Can We Come Together and…
Confront Crimes Of Humanity?

Someday, a nerd with gumption will track & decipher those ultra flights running a secret IFF that cross over all borders∑edia
Moconomy
P O P U L A T I O N …
    BOMB  -or-  flash-bang ?
Sorry misanthropes, but your Faith that people-are-useless-eaters was bad Malthusian math that hasn’t Victorian Aged well, here in the XXIst

Reprise Post to beautifully erase Ehrlich's life.
Impeccable production values & one of top dozen decks seen in my professional life. Worthy of Dr Hans Rosling’s timeless statistics. Heartening –J–
Tommy’s PodCast
Peter Boghossian
Boho City transmogs to Dungeon
{fixed link} Angela Todd explains how social sabotage deconstructs America, Portlandia-style

My hometown examples are universal. Your corruption may vary. CA makes noise, but Oregon appears They/Them's legal path for west coast succession as 'Cascadia', first Narco State.  —Jonathan–
Static in the Attic
Petrodollar System Rise & Fall
Shah Outed a Phake-N-Gae Oil Crisis & was Replaced by Mullahs
SCORE!
Denying Garcia-access is first time in my life Britain, City Of London, Lloyds, is not lock-step w/ America 'Special Relationship' —J–
Dr Phoxotic
A Flock of Eagles
Anthem-memes of World War Web

  Twitter is a Munition —J–X
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     A N N O U N C E M E N T
I have, Transitioned…
It was unexpected. I didn't ask.
Emergent, elemental, like a new force of nature revealed by events…



Behold…
I am your Conspiracy Influencer


A new role for a better age

"When the going gets weird,
  the weird turn pro" — HS Thompson

Make Conspiracy Great Again
First, accept nothing important happens w/o sharing plans, 'conspiring'; from parents gathering over a school board, business lunchees who seek advantage, or workers upset about safety. This is everyday human social mechanism, 'scandalized'.

Now, I've never felt Too Special, but did test 99.9999 in Mechanical Reasoning percentile cohort. I know, that four decimal-places does look odd, when The Science teaches three-place accuracy… back in grade school I knew Someone measures your nethers in greater detail than you do
You missed it?

Here, in the clear light of this new day, I am feeling a wind at my back. There is a spring in my step not felt since 9/11 destroyed …well everything. When Americans were made fear-based automotons.

You really should have been buying me lunches & picking my brain this last decade, or three.

I've demonstrated superior pattern-matching skills from youngest days through architecture, then interactive design & systems where my internal visualizing makes comparing different overlapping systems easy & I was hyper-linking before computers.
OK, maybe, I've some OCD: as pre-internet teen I filled up file cabinets making Art Morgue, info on tech, dossiers on friends {we moved a lot}. I lack my mother's eidetic random page-recall, but have very strong visual memory.
Three decades now I'm pulling unravelling strings. Some never end. This site are the found patches, snatches, torn & stitched reality leftover from threading my wordy needles

This is first time since my 2001 Baby Odyssey began that I measure real hope & greater expectations for my son & humanity …and I can imagine lots.
We have been lied-to, deeply & profoundly & repeatedly, with every cruelty & humiliation a slaver imagines & unlimited resources with centuries of planning. They don't march armies… the falsehoods, deceptions, larcenies, and strangeness brings self-weakening anxiety and fears.

Over-slopped? Welcome to Orwellville. This is Future Shock. Hypernovelty. Constant change is here to accelerate… & speed breaks oligarch plans. We have bright breakthroughs burning ahead. Move towards the light. Take comfort between crisis, because what we had could never get better. Soon months will deliver as years & years skip whole centuries to leap-frogging wonder.

Even if you don't see a Golden Age, any "Good Reset" is still better than their Great Preset-thang. Find the humor. Events keep turning experts into clowns as world flips upside down. So, get out, push the cart uphill. Enjoy the Roller Coaster when it's downhill

True Knowledge is a process.
Pro-Tip: my biggest rug-pull warning is avoid dirty International Banking like Amsterdam's ABN-Amro holding a solid $5M Apple stock my son should inherit… another gear-tooth of their financial kill-chain.

Share a choice topic here, all of them, and enjoy your Jonathan Bounce, reputation boost!
Until corporate & product sponsorships arrive with action-figures & celebrity kissy-faces, I’m looking for SubStack & other patrons.
Get out and push me, I'm already leaning forward for speed

— Jonathan —   5/1/26


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