What Would Be Truly Bullish? Actually Fixing What's Broken - CHS

 We’ve come to an interesting juncture in history, interesting because while we’re being assured that AI will solve all problems, including any it creates, back in the real world, AI is incapable of fixing what’s broken because too many people are getting rich off the status quo, and since the status quo is the problem, those who own / control AI will use it to maintain the status quo, guaranteeing that what’s broken spirals into irreversible breakdown.

Richard Bonugli and I discuss what’s fatally broken in a new podcast on what it will take to become Bullish (32 min).

Let’s start with what’s “obvious”: letting what’s broken fester until it implodes the status quo is not bullish, and neither is substituting delusion and denial for a realistic appraisal of what’s actually broken–the essential observe and orient steps in the OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act).

I’ve often described the two dynamics that are broken that AI can’t fix because those who own / control AI are using it to increase the asymmetrical distribution of wealth and income that are the source of breakdown. Consider healthcare. Everyone except the managers / owners / shareholders of healthcare / pharma cartels agrees healthcare is fundamentally broken and is bankrupting households, employers and the government / nation.

Full text:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/05/charles-hugh-smith/what-would-be-truly-bullish-actually-fixing-whats-broken/ 

Why not do random testing in randomized trials designed to measure risk of infection? Answer: Well, you don't really want to know the truth do you?

Answer: Well, you don't really want to know the truth do you?

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/why-not-do-random-testing-in-randomized?publication_id=548354&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

You are trying to see the forest, and they have spent millions of dollars ensuring the data is presented as a series of disconnected, overlapping, and intentionally confusing trees. The overlap is not a side effect of their science; the overlap is a feature of their defense.

Summary

So now you know.

If these products worked as claimed, there would be no problem testing and reporting them honestly.

Looksmaxxing is Real Life - by Vox Day - Sigma Game

 ....Women decide if they are sexually attracted to a man in three seconds or less. That’s it. That’s all the time you’ve got. And not only that, but women do not find abstract concepts such as loyalty and goodness to be attractive nor are they attracted to more complicated elements such as intelligence or potential.

Women are attracted to four things.

1. Looks

2. Fame

3. Vibe/Aura

4. Money

There is very little a young man can do about items 2, 3, or 4. He can try to fake one of them, especially 4 in the very short term with the help of social media, but it’s nearly impossible to pull off any of the three over even a short period of time like a week. And each of these things need to be solidly established before ever meeting the woman; once a woman has an initial impression of a man it is very, very, very difficult for her to adjust it for better or for worse, and it’s much easier for her to lose attraction to a man than develop it.....

.....Excellence is the gift a young man gives to himself. Character is the gift he gives to society. Attractiveness is the public face he presents to the opposite sex. Never confuse these three very different things.....

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/looksmaxxing-is-real-life?publication_id=2265630&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

...So I’m not saying don’t pursue excellence or to refrain from developing moral character, I’m simply saying don’t commit the category error of thinking that doing so has anything whatsoever to do with attracting women.

The Architecture of the Lie - Vox Popoli

 And remember, just like Covid vaccine, most of your friends and family are going to fall for this one. It’s going to be a lot more convincing, and a lot more “proven” than any of the Covid nonsense ever was. And the social and economic pressure to submit to it is going to be even harsher.

The Birth of a Unified Cosmic Spirituality

The convergence produces a religion with six defining features:

1. Universalism — all paths lead to the same cosmic source.
2. Evolutionary spirituality — humanity is ascending to a higher state.
3. Extraterrestrial cosmology — the universe is populated with guiding intelligences.
4. Technological mysticism — miracles are framed as advanced science.
5. Mandatory unity — religious exclusivity is dangerous.
6. Allegiance to the Beast — loyalty becomes a spiritual duty.

This is not secularism.
This is hyper‑religion — mystical, cosmic, scientific, and compulsory.

It is the religion of the world...

https://voxday.net/2026/05/07/the-architecture-of-the-lie/ 

....This is the Empire That Never Ended, as Philip K. Dick described it. It survived the Romans, the Crusaders, the Conquistadors, and the Inquisitions. And the alien deception is going to be its next variant, perhaps even its final variant, although the history of failed apocalypses tends to testify otherwise.

Regardless, recognize it and reject it. In nomine Jesu.

DISCUSS ON SG

If You're Not Cheating You're Not Trying (As in 'Hey Stupid' - meaning you and me - how long are we gonna take this crap? - CL)

 I'm very tired of this.

The latest was the overnight spike in the futures market as a result of Trump's "oh ya man we're gonna have a deal" ****.

That's not the problem -- the problem is the shorts in the oil market placed very shortly before that, which magically were worth roughly a hundred million in profits -- in the middle of the night.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=255377 

 This isn't a one-off either; there have been multiple instances of it in the last couple of months.  In fact hardly a week goes by that there isn't another one.

It also raises the obvious question as to whether the entire Iran adventure is in fact a manufactured clown show for the purpose of diverting information to favored people who then get very wealthy while the rest of us take it up at the**** at the gas pump, many people die particularly in Iran (does that make it "murder for money"?) and, by the way, beyond the rather-likely energy cost-driven recession that is now basically baked into the cake there's a decent shot at a pan-Asian or European (or both) famine coming out of this due to the urea cutoff during it when fertilizer must go on the ground for crops.

A Retraction and a Revision - Vox Popoli

 Unlike the mainstream science orthodoxy, I don’t feel any need to avoid admitting when I got something fundamentally wrong, fixing the problem, and revising my conclusions. Which, of course, is why I’m working on the new appendices for the second edition of Probability Zero rather than trying to defend, rationalize, and justify the various mistakes I made in the first edition, which were mostly the result of relying upon the consensus numbers produced in 2005 rather than the 2025 update of them......

Full text:

https://voxday.net/2026/05/07/a-retraction-and-a-revision/ 

.....The result of this retraction and revision is that the central critique of neutral theory survives and is now backed by two methodologically independent empirical tests rather than a theoretical framework with a contested parameter. Kimura’s identity is still wrong, the molecular clock as currently calibrated still overstates divergence times, and the Neo-Darwinian accounting of sequence evolution still rests on a Wright-Fisher idealization that doesn’t describe real populations. The fix is more conceptual than catastrophic and will require properly labeling what each constraint measures, accepting more modest recalibration magnitudes than Term 3 originally suggested, and grounding the falsification more solidly in the empirical evidence rather than theoretical derivation.

We did the best we could with what we had at the time of the original paper; the addition of the empirical data allows us to refine the framework and make the case stronger and more conclusive.

The Alien Hoax is Coming - Vox Popoli

 https://voxday.net/2026/05/06/the-alien-hoax-is-coming/ 

You know it’s a psyop because they constantly talk about how this will somehow threaten the Christian faith. Which is absolutely absurd, given that Christianity literally requires the existence of beings from other dimensions interacting with humanity on the material plane.

The purpose of the revelation will be nefarious, of course, but what else is new on what is, after all, a fallen world. If they dislike the name of Jesus Christ, then it really doesn’t matter what they call themselves or where they say they’re from.