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Advanced robotics
Brassneck was a cartoon robot schoolboy from a popular comic I read as a young lad in the 1960s, The Dandy. Older British readers will also remember this comic’s great rival, The Beano, and Dennis the Menace (which was very different from the American Dennis). (more…)
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The smartest people I know who do personally work on AI think the scaremongering coming from people who don’t work on AI is lunacy. — Marc Andreessen, Twitter (more…)
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Counter-Currents is aiming to raise $300,000 by the end of this year. Thanks to those of you who have kindly answered the call, we currently stand at $202,881.51, which is 68% of the way to our target. For the rest of you, please bear in mind what Greg Johnson tells us in his special Black Friday article, “It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas,” namely that there are other ways of expressing generosity towards your loved ones than by giving your hard-earned cash to evil corporations who want to banish white people and our legacy from the world once and for all. (more…)
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This is my art. This is the game I never cease to play. I turn the wheel that spins. — Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
The wheel also appears in alchemical texts as a symbol of spiritual ascent and descent. — Richard Cavendish, The Tarot (more…)
Sir Robert Peel, who created Britain’s police force.
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The United States of America and the United Kingdom are both, as you might expect in these transvaluative times, disunited realms. Remaining loyal to Yuri Bezmenov, I believe this disunity is entirely manufactured and intentional, and the main point of interest is the marginally different approaches taken to destabilizing two once-great nations. One major difference in disruptive operations lies in the two countries’ undermining of the power of the police. (more…)
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We owned a horse which had been presented to us by a dear friend. It was a magnificent animal of Arabian breed, possessed of almost human intelligence . . . — Nikola Tesla’s autobiography, My Inventions
You know if it came to a brainy game
You could baffle a blockhead with ease.
—Ian Dury, “Blockheads” (more…)
Rishu Sunak
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We’ve tried the cowboys, now for the Indians
There is nothing so exciting or colorful as the election of a Hindu Prime Minister. The splendor of India, the heat and dust, the parade of many-armed goddesses and elephant gods, the dusky maidens in bright saris doing that thing with their necks that parrots do, the flowers, the smell of spice, the . . . (more…)
René Descartes
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I rooted out of my mind all those errors that had formerly crept in . . . — René Descartes, Discourse on the Method
I know this much is true. — Spandau Ballet, “True”
There are famous concepts in Western philosophy, but it is hard to find any better known than René Descartes’ seemingly indubitable pronouncement that “I think, therefore I am.” (more…)
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“Have you accepted Jesus, Agent Starling? Do you have faith?”
“I was raised Lutheran.”
“That’s not what I asked.” — Thomas Harris, Hannibal
I am a sick man. I am an angry man. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
“I am one thing,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, “my writings another.” Although a few decades after his death this aphorism would chime with the Derridean, post-structuralist dictum that there is “nothing outside the text,” a hermeneutic approach to philosophy excludes the philosopher’s life to its detriment. (more…)
Lemmy Kilmister
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Mark Gullick is a rarity for Counter-Currents. He is a professional writer and an expert on the English cultural milieu. Mark is mainly interested in current politics, but his interests also include bars, travel, funny stories, philosophy, Tarot, adventure, and professional literature. Let’s get to know him better. (more…)
Ivan Throne
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I knew it would be a book that left men stricken and with no choice but to see what they cannot unsee. — Ivan Throne on The Nine Laws
. . . to translate man back into nature; to master the many vain and fanciful interpretations and secondary meanings which have been scribbled and daubed over that eternal basic text homo natura . . . — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (more…)
Royal commentator Hilary Fordwich recently stood up for Britain by owning Don Lemon on his own show when he brought up slavery reparations.
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No pal of mine
Free speech and skepticism are or should be two central pillars of civilization, so it is no surprise to see them under attack from the British deep state and its provisional wing in the guise of Big Tech. (more…)