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A Treatise On Probability
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 14th 2024 2:43am EDTImage Source A Treatise on Probability ,[1] published by John Maynard Keynes in 1921, provides a much more general logic of uncertainty than the more familiar and straightforward ‘classical’ theories of probability. [notes 1][3][notes 2] This has since become known as a “logical-relationist” approach,[5][notes 3] and become regarded as the seminal and still classic account of the logical interpretation of probability (or probabilistic logic), a view of probability […]
The Making Of The Atomic Bomb
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 14th 2024 2:42am EDTHere for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly — or have been so […]
An Open Letter To Donald Trump’s Current 2024 Campaign
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 11th 2024 5:44am EDTINTRODUCTION We are compelled by a deep love and admiration for Donald Trump, the American nation, and the American people to deliver the following message to his campaign, and the American voters. In 2016, Donald Trump expressed a revolutionary vision for our country. He outlined an America First platform that brought millions of Americans hope […]
The Judeo-American Liberal Order Reaps Chaos: Lessons from Britain and Iran
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 10th 2024 5:54am EDTA Contradiction in Principle? We are now accustomed to holding to principled yet highly marginalized and repressed views. Such is our lot in life, and we accept it without fuss. But it is worth making explicit in writing what many of us instinctually feel with regard to the root common cause of the out-of-control chaos […]
Brain Implants to Restore Sight, Like Neuralink’s Blindsight, Face a Fundamental Problem − More Pixels Don’t Ensure Better Vision
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 6th 2024 4:03pm EDTImage Source Human vision can’t be fully reproduced with ones and zeros. seamartini/iStock via Getty Images Plus Ione Fine, University of Washington and Geoffrey Boynton, University of Washington Elon Musk recently pronounced that the next Neuralink project will be a “Blindsight” cortical implant to restore vision: “Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo […]
Intellectual Terrorism
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 6th 2024 3:29pm EDTImage Source April 10, 2003 The modern thought police is hard to spot, as it often seeks cover under soothing words such as “democracy” and “human rights.” While each member state of the European Union likes to show off the beauties of its constitutional paragraph, seldom does it attempt to talk about the ambiguities of […]
Mission Creep
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 6th 2024 2:47pm EDTImage Source Sensation — media nourishment — is situated on a border. It tells the inside something about the outside, and is shaped from both sides. The outside is what it is, which might not be perceptible, or acceptable. The inside wants relevant information, selected and formatted to its purposes. Sensation is therefore where subject […]
The Passing Of The Great Race
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 4th 2024 1:31am EDTThe Passing of the Great Race, (Or, The Racial Basis of European History) by American eugenicist, lawyer, and amateur anthropologist Madison Grant, was originally published in 1916. The work looks at the racial history of the world, drawing on scientific theories of genetics and Darwinian evolution, including the works of prior eugenicists and racialist authors, […]
Was Hiroshima Necessary?
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 4th 2024 12:02am EDTMark Weber Why the Atomic Bombings Could Have Been Avoided On August 6, 1945, the world dramatically entered the atomic age: without either warning or precedent, an American plane dropped a single nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion utterly destroyed more than four square miles of the city center. About 90,000 […]
Fascist Civilization: The Civilization of the Spirit
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 30th 2024 8:35pm EDTFor us Mystics Fascism is Mussolini and only Mussolini. This, even though we know and remember exactly what he said in 1921 when asked, “How then was Fascism born; amid what conflicting passions, sympathy, hatred, and lack of understanding? It was not only born from my mind or my heart, it was not born only […]
Supreme Court Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back.
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 30th 2024 2:40am EDTRon Paul We can all probably agree that this has been one of the strangest Julys in memory. From the attempt on Trump’s Life to the Republican National Convention to the bizarre “coup” against Biden in the Democratic Party. With all this, it’s easy to forget some truly momentous events that happened this month. For […]
On Scripture
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 30th 2024 2:32am EDTThe Encyclical “Spiritus Paraclitus” Given by His Holiness Pope Benedict XV 15 September 1920 Since the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, had bestowed the Scriptures on the human race for their instruction in Divine things, He also raised up in successive ages saintly and learned men whose task it should be to develop that treasure and […]
State Of The War
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 30th 2024 1:51am EDTWars happen because some people expect one outcome, and others expect a different outcome. So prediction is hard, for if it was easy, the war would likely have been avoided, though as the war goes on, and on, and on, becomes easier. Due to fog of war, hard to know what is happening now, or […]
The Straussian Moment
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 30th 2024 1:34am EDTImage Source Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and Palantir, author of the essay “The Straussian Moment,” describes how the ancients believed in the power of the intellect and the weakness of the will, but how today we believe the opposite. We want machines to do the thinking, because we don’t trust rationality. 2007 Thiel The […]
I Am The Constituent Power
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 28th 2024 3:27pm EDTMay 15, 1804 It is not as a general that I rule, but because the nation believes I have the civilian qualifications for governing. My system is quite simple. It has seemed to me that under the circumstances the thing to do was to centralize power and increase the authority of the Government, so as […]
The Metaphysics of Conservatism
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 28th 2024 3:03pm EDTRichard M. Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences, published in 1948, was among the founding documents of contemporary conservatism. The title phrase has become something of a cliché, and overuse has stripped it of the interesting meaning it once had. Nowadays most people assume that what Weaver was saying was that how we think is bound to affect […]
In Defense Of Standardized Testing
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 27th 2024 4:54am EDTJohn Hilton-O’Brien There’s been a lot of noise about getting rid of standardized exams. Supposedly, minorities are at a disadvantage with them. Consequently, the argument runs, doing away with standardized exams will allow more minorities to enter into prestigious career paths, enhancing “social justice.” If you look more closely at the history of standardized exams, however, this isn’t […]
Stalin’s War Against His Own Troops
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 27th 2024 4:46am EDTBy Yuri Teplyakov At dawn on June 22, 1941, began the mightiest military offensive in history: the German-led Axis attack against the Soviet Union. During the first 18 months of the campaign, about three million Soviet soldiers were taken prisoner. By the end of the conflict four years later, more than five million Soviet troops […]
Rebuilding What We’ve Lost
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 24th 2024 2:26pm EDTTom Piatak In 1949, America’s ten most-affluent metropolitan areas, as determined by median household income, were Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Chicago, Dayton, Akron, San Francisco, New York, and Hartford, Connecticut. Washington, D.C., was 15th, trailing Youngstown, Rochester, Buffalo, and Columbus. This list no doubt strikes many contemporary readers as surreal—even bizarre. How could the rust-belt cities […]
Our Vanishing Cousins
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 24th 2024 2:07pm EDTImage Source (Liberty Bell, December 1985) SINCE THE PUBLICATION of the late Robert Ardrey’s African Genesis in 1971, the mountain gorilla has been a species of particular interest to us, if we take an intelligent interest in our own species and its problematical future. The gorillas, our cousins and a branch of the evolutionary line of which the […]
‘Why All This Foreign Aid?’
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 24th 2024 2:02pm EDTImage Source Julian R. Sinclair Many people are justifiably tired of failed overseas wars, fought by men who were lions but led by donkeys, in which defeat was consistently wrested from the jaws of victory. These conflicts led to trillions of dollars in wasted money, over 8,000 lost American lives, and entire regions upended and sent […]
Disrupting the Right
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 24th 2024 2:01pm EDTImage Source Raw Egg Nationalist Two weeks before I was doxxed—before my real name was revealed to the world—I got a nasty shock at a local farm shop. I arrived expecting to pick up a bit of butter and maybe some blue cheese and obviously a whole lot of free-range eggs, and be on my […]
Nothing New Under The Black Sun
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 24th 2024 2:10am EDTThere’s nothing more to say. I can give the same take in a hundred different ways. Everyone I hate should be forced away from me. I can’t stand them. They aren’t human. I am not a white nationalist. There’s a small percent of white people I respect, and out of those an even smaller amount […]
Race: The Power Of A Lie
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 23rd 2024 11:27pm EDTImage Source 05/29/2003 Superstitions about race never seem to die, in large part because those who peddle racial pseudo-science get funding and publicity from the U.S. government. The Public Broadcasting System has just finished airing a three-part wallow in brainwash called “Race: The Power of an Illusion,” which purports, as an academic it interviews spouts, that “Race is a […]
Ai and Energy: Will Ai Help Reduce Emissions or Increase Demand? Here’s What to Know
Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 23rd 2024 1:34am EDTImage Source Tech companies are reporting increased emissions due to running the data centres that power AI. But AI tools can also help facilitate the energy transition. A multistakeholder approach, like The World Economic Forum’s Artificial Intelligence Governance Alliance, is vital to help balance AI’s resource use and benefits. How much energy does AI use? Ask […]