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@s7ephen
Apr 30 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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23 years after airing, I gave BBC's "Neuromancer" a try. (I didnt want to ruin my memory of the books).

If you (re)listen today, it's amazing what holds up : use of AI, the oligarchs, political intrigue of megacorps. And (of course) first use of the word "cyberspace" (🧵1 of 5)
William Gibson wrote amazing prose, but this BBC version misses some of his more poetic details, like this favorite scene of mine. In the book, Case isnt just laughing, his cheeks are streaked with tears of release. One of my favorite scenes as a teen/young adult
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The tech bits not only hold up, but the way society USES the tech does also. Amazing tech is ultimately just leveraged for surveillance, military, and hedonistic "bread and circus" for the masses. Pretty amazing to be that prescient in the first years of the 1980s.
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All told, I was pleasantly surprised by this BBC version.
You get the whole story in under 2 hours. It's missing the Gibson-style that hypnotized me 27 years ago, but it still felt (for me) like hangin out with a old close friend from gradeschool. Worth a (re)listen.
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A link to the free full BBC show is currently here on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/neurom…

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Apr 5
The BBC Radio play "Medici" is a good listen. A concise history of the banking Dynasty from Cosimo and his father down through Alessandro the black (Moor) Duke of Florence, down to Catherine the "Serpent Queen" of France.

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The music is great and the show has small bits of historical references woven into the script for you to catch. the show also has lots of good one-liners like:

"you have ancient blood and modern hopes"
"you carry your own end within you"
"take time for your revenge"

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The show also gives the historical timeline in a clever way: by reading off P&L statements so the listener gets an idea of the size of the Medici wealth relative to other European powers, families, and rulers.

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Mar 24
Metatron reference in "Gravity's Rainbow".

once again: Thomas Pynchon, way ahead of the pack.

Pynchon books are parapolitical periscopes. Deep-politics and hidden-history masquerading as fiction. Image
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Mar 20
It just came out that the CCP hacked a buncha U.S. voting systems in 2020. U.S. Intel knew it and hid it from the public! This should be the biggest new story but:

Media: Crickets
Intel community: Crickets
Infosec folks: Crickets

See? this is why I dont f*ck wit yall no more. Image
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Also, the CIA has since retracted 19 fake "election" intelligence reports
- PDF source: justthenews.com/sites/default/… (page 5 "yellow box" is like a warning about "Technocracy".)
- Article: justthenews.com/government/sec…

more on Haines: 👇
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I was always proud of being in the Infosec community.

It was always based on TRUTH. Information Freedom Fighters. an exploit cuts past marketing and noise. it is a PROOF of reality

We are post-TRUTH and post-REALITY in Infosec. Covid and political crap proved this to me

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Mar 6
The official logo of OPERATION Warpspeed that quickly deployed the coronavirus shots, had a strangely occult symbol in it, called the Antahkarana.

Anti-corona. Antekarana.

That antekarana looks curiously like something else also... (🧵 1 of 12) Image
The repeating Antekarana looks suspiciously like the "Greek Key" or "Meander" pattern found in lots of Greek and Roman architecture and Greek pottery (amphoras, wine flagons, etc).

A variation of Greek Key called "Enigma" is also on the seats of the US Capitol.

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If that pattern on the seats at the US Capitol look (to you) curiously like something else, you are not alone ;-)

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Mar 4
"Remember SARS? I was in Hong Kong [as a researcher] when SARS hit, so I went in, had a look and found out it didnt exist"

"SARS didn't exist!?!?"

"No, the whole thing was a series of unrelated respiratory infections, took me under an hour to see [it]"

BBC's "Utopia" 2013
"Thats how they get it into us, via the food chain [...] and if [he] is a Nazi, a disease that targets certain races!"

"wait a minute what if it's not the disease which is selective, what if it's the cure?"

"Wait, CoVAT is making the vaccine [...] and the food."

-BBC "Utopia"
From my gigs of Covid notes, here is video from a Chinese PLA General talking about bioweapons that can target specific races

(video archived 7Sept2021, misplaced the source)
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Mar 1
Wait a minute!

Is *this* the next man up for running Iran !? 🤔

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maybe (🤞) we are cleaning up "old mistakes" like overthrowing the leader of Iran in 1979 and installing the Shah.

... but it's hard not to see it for what it looks like: a imperialist / expansionist favor to Israel
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Remember there *IS* something called the "Greater Israel Project" that was a conspiracy theory up until very recently, when people began speaking openly about it as if it was never whispered previously.

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