Reality: Culture Matters And THERE IS NO MAGIC DIRT - Denninger

 But he didn't try to bring Indian cultural values to America, at least as far as was visible in my business dealings with him; he adopted American cultural values and operated a business here under those values -- and was successful doing so.

Today that is all gone.  The various schemes and scams -- Day 1 CPT, H-1bs, H-4EAD and more are all scams.  Worse, the SAT allows Indian nationals to take the test there where scamming is a daily thing and use those scores to get into US colleges!  Are they legitimate scores?  Who the hell knows?  We know that hundreds of thousands of fake degrees were sold over there and some of those people used them to get jobs here, displacing Americans.  Their culture considers this perfectly fine and we've imported a huge number of those people who, rather than****imilate into our culture, expect our schools, stores and everyone else to put up with that crap and even kowtow to their language rather than learning ENGLISH.  Once they get into a position of business responsibility they then use the same caste system to hire people under them in which all who are not Indian are the lowest of the castes.  This is wildly-illegal in America and it is now riven through virtually all of the tech firms.  Every single one of those CEOs and other managers must go to prison NOW and, if they're not citizens, be permanently expelled from America along with all of their family members.  In those cases of public firms where the Board has allowed this the company must be delisted and destroyed.  I don't give a **** how big it is, what that would do to the stock market or how many people it employs.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=255985 

He Never Read the Book - Vox Popoli

 Oh, Sweet St. Darwin, but it’s now it’s become clear that Dennis McCarthy has absolutely no idea what he’s even talking about with regards to evolution, natural selection, genetic drift, Probability Zero, or my case against evolution by natural selection. All this time, and all of these attempts to attack an irrelevant probability calculation, and he never even knew what the fundamental argument of the book is, much less understood it well enough to criticize it, as he demonstrated in the comments of his own site.....

https://voxday.net/2026/09/18/he-never-read-the-book/ 

....And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you always read the whole damn book before you offer even one little word in criticism of it, because no matter how confident you are in your position, no matter how absolutely certain you are of yourself, you’re going to look incredibly retarded when it inevitably becomes obvious to everyone that you aren’t even in the same zip code as the subject of the discussion.

A Mathematician's Review - Vox Popoli

 A significant figure in the Intelligent Design set, William Dembski of the Discovery Institute, set out to review Probability Zero, then wisely handed the book over to a Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Stockholm University to look more closely at the numbers on his behalf. This is what the Swedish mathematician concluded, in marked contradiction to the critiques of the world’s leading Shakespeare scholar:

https://voxday.net/2026/09/18/a-mathematicians-review/ 

Vox Day has written an excellent book where mathematical tools are used to showcase that unguided evolution (Neo-Darwinism or the neutral theory of evolution) cannot be used as an argument for common ancestry between humans and chimpanzees. In my view these conclusions remain even after some adjustments to the MITTENS equations.

Now, note that these reviews were both of the first edition of the book. I have since sent both of them the second edition, which contains the updates to the genomic mappings, but not my latest revisions involving Kimura’s equations and their ramifications for neutral theory, population genetics, and the molecular clock.

You can download the mathematician’s full paper in PDF format here. I would merely note that the problem with postulating how a larger genome might afford more opportunities for fixations is that such a postulate doesn’t incorporate the bottleneck necessarily imposed by the limits of sexual reproduction, which is why the speed of fixation in humans when measured in generations has never, and will never, approach the speed of fixation in bacteria.

It should be interesting to see what happens to the evolution debate now that the most staunch critics of Neo-Darwinianism are armed with more effective intellectual weaponry. Because math doesn’t lie, and while it’s possible get away with waving your hands and invoking fairy tales in response to logical criticism, no amount of fairy tales will make your numbers add up correctly when the maths don’t math.

I should also mention that I don’t have a position on common descent vs uncommon descent. I have a vague suspicion that Intelligent Genetic Manipulation utilized a melange of genetic material, including both proto-chimps and proto-pigs, which would technically fall more on the uncommon descent side, but is so far outside that debate that I don’t see how it even applies. I simply don’t have anything strong enough to be described as an opinion on the matter.

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A Review of Vox Day’s Main Argument in PROBABILITY ZERO

 Guest post by Ola Hössjer, Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Stockholm University

Bill Dembski

Sep 14, 2026

Introductory Remarks by Bill Dembski

Some months back, my friend and colleague at Tulane University, Frank Tipler (of Anthropic Cosmological Principle fame), alerted me to a book by Vox Day titled Probability Zero and subtitled The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution by Natural Selection (published January 2026). Tipler gave it a glowing endorsement and also contributed an appendix to the book.

Vox Day (aka Theodore Robert Beale) is a controversialist and contrarian, and thus not to everybody’s taste. Working outside the intelligent design community, he has nonetheless come to many of the same conclusions about the inability of Darwinian natural selection to drive any sort of meaningful evolutionary process. This book is hardly his first entry as a critic of Darwinism. He has been writing on this topic for years. I’ve read some of his work in this area, but just now I asked Grok to produce a reasonably complete list of it predating 2026 (it’s clear from this list that Probability Zero draws much from it):

https://billdembski.substack.com/p/a-review-of-vox-days-main-argument 

With all that I’ve just written, it would be easy to dismiss Vox Day as unserious and thus deserving to be ignored. But when he is not engaged in rhetorical flourishes, he can be insightful, as with his discussion in chapter 6 of the 1966 Wistar meeting featuring Murray Eden, Stan Ulam, and Marcel Schützenberger (Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution). Also, he seems to have a large following that does not intersect the ID community.

In any case, Probability Zero hinges on a core argument that, given known mutation and fixation rates for genes, there’s no way humans could have evolved from a common human-chimp ancestor in the 10 or fewer million years since chimps and humans presumably evolved on separate lineages. Given that others in the ID community were better equipped to assess Vox Day’s argument, I decided to approach my friend and colleague Ola Hössjer, Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Stockholm University.

I asked Ola to write up a review of Vox Day’s main argument as a guest post for this Substack column. He kindly agreed to do so. Note that his positive remarks apply to Vox Day’s main argument, not to the book as a whole. As it is, Ola needed some mathematical notation to do the review up right. Substack, however, is not great handling mathematical notation. Moreover, it seemed that most readers would profit from reading a version of his review that summarized the underlying mathematics in plain English.

I therefore decided to do the following. I would make the full review with its mathematics available here for download as a pdf:

The Squeeze Reaches the Runway: The Distillate War Is Now Cutting Flights - (And watching a self-induced calamity in slow motion is fascinating to behold! - CL)

 For most of this year I have been making an argument about a fraction of a barrel. Not the barrel itself — the flat price of crude has been a headline anyone can read — but the middle of it: the narrow band of the distillation column where diesel and jet fuel come from, and where the real damage of the Iran war was always going to land. I called America’s role in it a paradox — a shortage it is supplying, not suffering — and I argued that the country’s genuine vulnerability was never crude availability but the refinery-to-fuel chain that turns a barrel into something an engine can burn.

That argument has now stopped being abstract. It is hitting the commercial airline industry. In the past two weeks, American, United and Southwest have all confirmed they are pulling flights out of their schedules, and every one of them has pointed at the same cause: fuel. United says it has removed flights already on its December schedule and warned it may cut further into the first quarter of 2027 if prices stay where they are. American has temporarily suspended six routes — four of them out of Los Angeles, two connecting Charlotte to California — and is reviewing more. Southwest has quietly cut its planned 2026 capacity growth roughly in half, from an original target of 2 to 3 percent. And the first outright casualty is already in the ground: Spirit finished its wind-down in May, undone by a restructuring plan that had assumed jet fuel near $2.24 a gallon and then watched it climb to around $4.51.

Here is the sentence I want you to hold onto, because it is the whole story compressed. United’s chief financial officer, explaining the cuts, said the airline is now flying “to maximize profitability and free cash generation” — not market share. Read that against what all three carriers also say: demand is strong. Planes are full. Security checkpoints are screening near-record passenger volumes. This is not a recession pulling flights out of the sky. It is a refining-margin crisis doing it, and the airlines are telling you so in plain language.

That distinction is the entire thesis of the last three pieces I have posted regarding the shortage of sour crude, arriving now as consequence.

Diesel and jet fuel are not cousins. They are rivals for the same molecules. Both are middle distillates drawn from the same section of the atmospheric column, and every barrel of crude contains only so much of that band. A refinery chooses how to split it — more jet means less diesel, arithmetically — but it cannot conjure more of the fraction itself.

So when I wrote that the diesel crisis was a distillate-yield failure rather than a flat-price story, the corollary was always sitting there waiting: whatever starves diesel starves jet fuel, because they are drawn from the same well. The only question was the timing of when it would show up on the civilian side, and in what form.

Full text:

https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/the-squeeze-reaches-the-runway-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1225061&post_id=216381871&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

The Hidden Harms of Modern Lighting and the Fight to Bring Back Incandescent Bulbs

 Story at a Glance:

•Sunlight is one of the most important things for our health (e.g., it halves our risk of dying or getting cancer), yet all we ever hear is how important it is to avoid it.

•While the importance of vitamin D is generally recognized, many of the other critical functions of light within plants, animals and human beings remain almost completely unknown, and hence are the focus of this article.

•One of the defining characteristics of modern life is continual exposure to unnatural light (particularly from energy efficient light bulbs). This is viewed as relatively benign, but decades of forgotten research (and a growing body of new research) show it is a root cause of a myriad of inexplicable physical and behavioral illnesses.

•Cells communicate with each other through faint emissions of ultraviolet light. This was once one of the most active fields in biology (yielding over 700 papers, 11 Nobel nominations, and a blood test which detected cancer with over 95% accuracy) before it was abandoned for political reasons and forgotten.

•The eyes and the blood conduct light throughout the body. When this process is disrupted (e.g., by glasses with lenses that filter out critical parts of the spectrum), a variety of significant illnesses can develop.

•In 2022, the federal government effectively banned the incandescent bulb because most of its output is “wasted” infrared rather than visible light, despite our bodies using that infrared for a myriad of essential processes. Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee introduced a bill to bring those bulbs back, which yesterday received its first hearing, and with public support, can free us from the unhealthy bulbs that have been forced upon us.

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-hidden-harms-of-modern-lighting?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=748806&post_id=216152963&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Going Solo - by Jordamøn - AI Central

 Anyone with an interesting hobby, decades of experience, or simply the gift of gab has enough material for years of weekly podcast episodes. Hosting a conversation or delivering a monologue takes no specialized training, but everything after the recording session does: editing audio, cutting video, writing show notes, producing social clips. That post-recording workload once required either a small production team or enough free time to make weekly publishing unsustainable for a single person. AI-powered production tools have compressed the pipeline into a workflow that one creator can manage in an evening.

Full text:

https://substack.aicentral.blog/p/going-solo?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5325651&post_id=215575620&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email