I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. Friedrich Nietzsche
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May 2026
Think carefully before getting tested for HIV
For moral and ethical reasons, I feel obligated to share the information in this article and cannot help but place major question marks around how easily the so-called ‘authorities’ burden people with the consequences of a ‘positive’ HIV test. The central HIV/AIDS hypothesis (that HIV infection eventually leads to AIDS unless one takes ‘life-saving’ medication) is far from undisputed. Read more ⟶
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins
AI models keep hallucinating
Current generations of Large Language Models (LLMs) are not very reliable. It’s been known from the start that they can easily make up all kinds of factually wrong information (hallucinations). Read more ⟶
April 2026
Nothing is more dispicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus
March 2026
FBI is buying data that can be used to track people
Here’s from Politico, “FBI is buying data that can be used to track people, Patel says” (March 18th, 2026): The FBI is buying up information that can be used to track people’s movement and location history, Director Kash Patel said during a Senate hearing Wednesday. Read more ⟶
January 2026
Politicians anywhere on the planet are worse than hookers. Hookers just sell their bodies; politicians sell their souls. Hockey_Maniac7
Your device may not actually be turning off
One of the important things to realize these days is that when you turn a device off, it may not actually be turning off. Instead, it might go into a standby or low-power mode and keep working in some way depending on the device, while looking like it is not functioning anymore. It’s especially important to keep this in mind when you care about privacy and security. Read more ⟶
December 2025
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Otto von Bismarck
The SIM card in your device is a serious vulnerability
There are important things that you probably don’t know or realize about the SIM card in your device. Especially if you care about security and privacy, you should know that using a secure device with a secure and privacy-oriented operating system and applications, still make you vulnerable when there’s a SIM card installed in the device. Read more ⟶
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. Arthur Schopenhauer
Shulamit Aloni, an Israeli politician and once Minister of Education, was interviewed by Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow many years ago. Goodman asked her: Often when there is dissent expressed in the United States against policies of the Israeli government, people here are called antisemitic. Read more ⟶
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love. Erich Fromm
Lessons to learn from the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation published their annual report for 2025, and it’s clear from that report that much of the funds that they receive do not go to the development of the Linux kernel, as many people would probably expect. From their own report, of about $311,343,021, only $8,410,114 actually got spent on the Linux Kernel Project. Read more ⟶
Taking somebody’s money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it’s taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it’s National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it’s National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it’s counterintelligence. Robert Anton Wilson
Watch out for hackers and spies during work
A while back I blogged about how the criminal US Government has spies in major (tech) companies. It was clear from that post that if you work at Big Tech companies or companies doing any kind of sensitive work, some of your co-workers are probably connected to 3-letter agencies such as the NSA, CIA and even Mossad. These days the problem is only getting worse; let’s take a look at some examples. Read more ⟶
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all. It is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level. To breed and train a standardized citizenry. To put down dissent and originality. H.L. Mencken
Dead Horse Theory
I found the Dead Horse Theory meme in my collection and wanted to share it here to remind myself and everyone else about the important lesson that it teaches. You’ll probably immediately recognize all the politicians and bureaucrats of the world in this and the stupidity that is common in governments. Read more ⟶
The State calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. Max Stirner
Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou on the CIA’s hacking capabilities
Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou, citing the 2017 Vault 7 leaks, says that phones, cars, TVs and laptops are not as private as we assume. There was a dramatic leak in 2017 that the CIA came to call the Vault 7 disclosures — gigabytes worth of documents leaked by a CIA technology engineer. What he told us was that the CIA can intercept anything from anyone. Read more ⟶