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I'm looking for a historic document that is kept in the Gunma Prefecture Library. They won't make scans for you. You have to go there in person. If anyone knows how to hire someone to go there, for a reasonable price I'd be interested. I've seen Japanese websites where you can hire translators...

On Twitter there's a nice thread with very differing opinions, all of them conspiratorial: Pro: Barak Ravid @BarakRavid More than one U.S. official told me in recent weeks that the Saudis say in private they want Israel to destroy Hamas. The press conferences the Saudis are doing in Washington...

Because we have no thread on it yet (but we have some metaphysicians) I decided to find and list some of the weirdest metaphysics I could remember. I will be delighted if you do better than I :) The weirdest examples: Some theories suggest that space is not an objective feature of reality, but...

Xi Jinping removes his predecessor Hu Jintao from the CCP summit on live TV in full view of everyone. Communist purges in real time are really Fortean! (No politics intended.)

This has been doing the rounds of my Twitter in the last days. Now that it's on Zerohedge we may call it an official conspiracy theory :) Nicely debunked here:

This is from the book: Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty (Brain Talk: Conversations with Neuroscientists #1) by Virginia "Ginger" Campbell, MD...

This came around on my Twitter: Dirty South Right Watch @DSRWnews According to documents supposedly from inside the group, this was part of their "Operation Storm of White Tears", a plan to gain attention with incendiary comments and to cause other Communist groups to attack each other. The...

I have this from a Czech newspaper site that quotes British newspapers and intelligence sources. Couldn't find an existing thread. Putin may have been dead for weeks, he may have a doppelganger, MI6 agents speculate Russian President Vladimir Putin may be weeks or months dead, and a...

Mods, if this is too political then just delete it. No explanation necessary :cool: Personally I've always thought that the Hunter Biden laptop thing, was an artificially constructed evil conspiracy plot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controversy ... So I simply ignored...

Here's a whole wholesome thread about Child Tossing: The kids love it :)

This is a weblog of a highly intelligent physicists and maybe financial speculator: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2022/01/twilight-struggles-kazakhstan-edition.html He cites Dmitry Orlov: What happened in KZ was a paramilitary attack meticulously organized but launched in haste by Western...

Great article! https://palladiummag.com/2021/10/11/the-triumph-and-terror-of-wang-huning/ One day in August 2021, Zhao Wei disappeared. For one of China’s best-known actresses to physically vanish from public view would have been enough to cause a stir on its own. But Zhao’s disappearing act...

I could not find a good thread to post this. Mods: you may merge it if appropriate. https://www.nu.nl/opmerkelijk/6153732/kat-overleeft-52-dagen-in-leegstaande-woning-in-schiedam.html Cat survives 52 days in a vacant house in Schiedam During their first visit to the house, the brand new...

Chart Brut: How the MS-Paint Graphics of Conspiracy Took Over the Web https://gawker.com/chart-brut-how-the-ms-paint-graphics-of-conspiracy-too-1651851261 There's a new style of folk art booming on the internet: The crudely rendered, text-and-arrow-happy conspiracy diagram. Let's call it...

Some optimistic scientists and economists try to found a new field studying possibilities for progress. I like that. Here is a basic outline: https://www.notion.so/Progress-Studies-101-7089d11646d144928ded1274e1b03755

Copied from twitter: This is amazing. Mannakin, a mannequin company in Grantham, offer customers the chance to do a ‘Drive Through Heist’ where you have 15 minutes to fill up your car with mannequin body parts from their mannequin mountain. https://t.co/W8xZw321D4 https://t.co/XGL18UE2zU

Let's put this here. How times have changed: Neal Stephenson’s classic 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash depicts a future United States in which all forms of hierarchical authority have collapsed and each suburban subdivision have become its own burbclave requiring visas and passports to enter...

@mods: I didn't see a specific thread for this, so feel free to combine this with other threads. I follow a highly intellectual blogger who has been writing a blog series on scientific theories of conspiracy theories. It started with the Ross Douhat article...

https://www.amazon.de/Wonderful-Little-Girl-Starving-Bewitched/dp/1904095704/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=fasting+girls&qid=1615114911&sr=8-6 On a winter's day in 1869, two surgeons performed an autopsy on the body of a 12-year-old Welsh girl who had died in strange circumstances. Though...

I could not find a suitable conspiracy thread. Also, this is an edge case, because it's not certain if this is real or just a joke. But we may see more theories in this vein, so I think a new thread is defensible. Oh no, the secret CIA plan to replace the Sun with lower-cost LED lightbulbs to...

My Twitter is full of these messages. I'm inclined to find it suspicious. Black men being tree lynched countrywide - is this not bothersome to my Twitter family!? A queer black trans women Tete Gulley, was found hanging from a tree in Portland, Oregon on May 27. Police are will not...

I'm playing around with a high quality sound recorder (Olympus LS-10). It is more silent during lockdown, so I experiment with sound recordings of night sounds. I'm curious about such simple things as: "When do the birds start to sing in the morning?" I've taken a first look at my recordings...

I couldn't find a thread to post this in ... On this Twitter thread there's an interesting discussion of how (if at all) 4chan damaged a whole generation. (Weird, but I'm reading books on anorexia right now (it has become a whole new literary genre!) and they describe a similar process of...

Speculation about Russian influence on the next PM. Sounds plausible enough. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/revealed-boris-russian-oligarch-and-page-3-model/

I find it extremely irritating that the sucker who wrote the original algoritm is congratulating him/herself on the positive change they're making. At least that's how I read it ... But interesting and scary at the same time. Some comments are funny. Brian is my best friend’s in-law. After...

I began this reporting four years ago at another newspaper 1,900 miles away. In 2015, I was working at @MyDesert in Palm Springs, California. It was a few days before I took a vacation. A private eye I knew – Bill – called me. He said he found something big. It felt clandestine. I liked Bill...

Saw this on 9gag and then remembered I had seen his work at the Documenta in Kassel. Didn't know about the suicide then ... https://9gag.com/gag/aOYQAGv In March 2000, on the day before his death, Lombardi moved all his work to Pierogi 2000. He then bolted his apartment from the inside and...

Interesting :) This is a wicked extortion attempt. It got my attention because of this subject line: [my real name] - [one of my real passwords] Then it continues like this: Thatcher Petkova <[email protected]> I do‌ know [one of my real passwords] o‌n‌e o‌f yo‌ur pa‌ss wo‌rds. L‌ets...

Cool story: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies Nested on the servers’ motherboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original...

There is a lot happening around the mysterious pre-Cambrian Ediacara fossils. They did not survive and have no comparable modern species. They look and feel alien. No one knows what they were but research is continuing. A few nice recent lectures: This lecturer stutters, but the content is...

Seen this holiday in German municipal flower plots. I think they're asters? Same kind of symmetry as pineapples and pinecones.

Don't know what to make of this. ZeroHedge is a dodgy website and the reports are very sensationalist. But "Saudi Barbaria" (Nassim Taleb) is a dodgy country: www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-23/saudi-royal-reportedly-tortured-death-after-refusing-fork-over-his-fortune Rumors that Saudi Crown...

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/canada-forces-investigate-mysterious-pinging-sound-coming-from-sea-floor/ar-AAjRZ1h?ocid=spartandhp The Canadian armed forces have sent a crew to investigate reports of a mysterious “pinging” sound that seemed to be coming from the sea floor. Hunters in a...

Didn't know about this one. Sounds like Bilderberg 2.0 :D http://infoproc.blogspot.nl/2016/03/dialog-2016.html Everything at this meeting is off the record, so I can't say much about it. The one comment I'll make is that among this group of elites almost no one I've spoken to groks Trump or...

I didn't know this hobby, but it looks like fun. There is a lot of it on YouTube. Here is one local example: magnet fishing in Rotterdam (also a bicycle, of course):

Let's see if this thread has a chance ... hope you can add some. Yesterday I found a catalogue with this delightful conceptual artwork: Wohnungsobjekt II - (Living space object, 1974) A block of frozen black ink that has to be kept in the freezer. More here...

hThere must exist more formal formulations of this problem. Any pointers (to philosophy or mathematics or anything else) are appreciated. Now please excuse my vagueness: 1) We all know the standard Lovecraftian meme: person X goes to place Y and there experiences a phenomenon Z that completely...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/afp-india-police-probe-godman-over-alleged-castration-of-400-followers-2015-1?r=US New Delhi (AFP) - Indian police said they are investigating a popular self-styled godman for allegedly encouraging 400 followers to undergo castrations at his ashram so they could...

A funny statistical exercise here: http://eighteenthelephant.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/sasquatch-is-an-alien-a-proof-in-three-graphs/

Found in my mailbox: https://translate.google.com/#la/en/uti%20nsa%20im%20cu%20si This is an enhanced version of this message: A longer discussion for the crypto challenged :-) https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/truecrypt_wtf.html

Two of my artist friends went searching for luminous molluscs along the British shoreline. It's quite interesting and I didn't know these existed: A report: http://www.psychogeophysics.org/wiki/doku.php?id=piddock And an interview: http://soundcloud.com/rebootfm/sub23this I didn't...

This is a weblog about luxury editions of occult books. If you're a book lover this will either make you salivate or make you green with envy. Nothing below 200 dollars. Notice the white gloves :D http://balkansarcanebindings.blogspot.nl/

Browsing some occult weblogs I stumbled on a reference to these two strange books: http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Shamans-Kanaima-Poetics-Violent/dp/0822329883/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335313703&sr=8-1 You can browse the book on Amazon. Now go to page 14 (or maybe: don't) and there you will...

http://islingtongue.blogspot.nl/2013/06/strange-light-in-skies-over-leytonstone.html

Couldn't find any existing topics so started a new one. These are two artistic views of this sordid subject. They make me feel better how it must feel to be a target. Would it be comparable to London under the V1 and V2? Under the Shadow of the Drone...

I rode home from Berlin and I sat in a compartment with a German couple, my age, 50-ish. I told how I once was trespassing (and met a german shepherd watchdog and how the guard said "don't be afraid, she only bites when I tell her to") and then she told me this: I was pleasantly surprised by...

I can't be the first one to post about this but "search" found nothing: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/02/12/what-s-really-causing-tourettes-symptoms-at-le-roy-high-school.html

Two photo sets from the Suffolk Psychogeophysics Summit. In the afternoon we built ghost detectors: http://www.flickr.com/photos/uair01/sets/72157627638901970/ In the evening we used them for ghost hunting in the streets and pubs of Ipswich...

Suffolk psychogeophysics summit 28th August to 3rd September 2011 http://www.psychogeophysics.org/wiki/do ... escription The Suffolk Psychogeophysics Summit presents an intense week-long series of interventions, field trips, open workshops and evening discussions led by international...

There is a Dutch website that collects the weirdest interiors from house-sale websites. This evening I browsed a bit and found these ... and many others: http://www.foutehuizen.nl/moet-geen-uitschietertje-worden/ http://www.foutehuizen.nl/actualiteiten/...