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Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Wolfian Wednesday Persnickety Placeholder and Open Topic, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Wolfie’s WOO-WOO Wednesday, due to the author’s expected rambling about his most WOO-WOO opinions. Please bear with us!
We are living in an episode of The Outer Limits.
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s WEDNESDAY…again.
So are we halfway through the week? Is this really HUMP DAY?
Let’s try that again.
OK – maybe Wheatie’s rules need to be posted on Wednesday, too.
- No food fights.
- No running with scissors.
- If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a pure placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday Wednesday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
How did Q put it? Ah, yes.
“Enjoy the show!”
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(1) Crow Intelligence
Why People Call Them “Chimps With Feathers”
For our first stop on this tour, a video which will change how you see crows. HOWEVER, I don’t ask you to accept everything in this video. I ask you to be skeptical.
SO – what percentage of this is “AI slop” or “AI fiction” and what percentage is real? Which parts do you think are truthful? Which parts are exaggerated?
In looking for verification, I found more AI-produced science, this piece being written instead of a video.
The information is very similar to the video, and it seems like the video may have even selected information out of the AI-generated article.
However, the written material does talk more about who is behind it, so unless that is all lies (it could be), then perhaps this information is somewhat real.
The use of AI to decode crow-talk does appear to be real science, but the article in Nature is pay-to-play science – the kind I hate.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00539-9
However, the VIDEO in this case is open to the public.
And finally, I offer you this TED talk from 2008, about a guy who built a vending machine for crows.
(2) – Brown University Psy-Op
The Academia-Media-Activist-Government Propaganda Axis, Featuring Extra Disinformation to Throw off Conservatives, and How It Worked At Brown University in the Assassination of Ella Cook
OK – this is complicated, but it’s imperative for our side to understand what the left is doing, and how they not only MURDER and LIE, but use THEIR lies to make US look stupid, by getting us to chase the WRONG conspiracies (sound familiar, e.g., Charlie Kirk?)
Alternate Title: It’s the trans killers, stupid!
Next Alternate Title: It’s the lunatic Pal-pals, stupid!
You are familiar with the Brown University attack – correct?
The apparently targeted attack in which the young Republican activist Ella Cook was one of TWO people killed?
Well, suddenly, people on our side were pointing out that two young students who “survived” earlier school shootings, “survived” this one, and were calling for gun control.
Joshua Hall (@JoshHall2024): “BREAKING: There are now TWO STUDENTS who survived the shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island tonight that also supposedly survived two other well-known mass shootings: Zoe Weissman, a Parkland survivor and now Mia Tretta (@mia_tretta), a hardcore gun control and anti-2nd Amendment activist who has met with disgraced former President Biden and just happened to be there tonight. Both have already been making the rounds on CNN and MSDNC pushing the gun control agenda in the immediate aftermath of surviving yet another mass shooting. Does anyone actually believe that this is a coincidence? We are talking about two completely different parts of the country, two alleged “repeat survivors” of mass shootings YEARS APART from one another. Call me a conspiracy theorist guys… But something just isn’t right about this.” | XCancel
Pat Frederick found this shocking information, posted it here, and I jumped on it immediately. Why? Because this was CLEARLY another “Sandy Hook conspiracy theory” forming in real time. If it was true, it’s simply too incredible to believe, and is a sign of some kind of malevolent organized psy-op. But if it was FALSE, then we had a chance to discover who was creating the disinformation.
Well, it turns out to be MOSTLY FALSE – with the disinformation being created mostly by the FAKE NEWS, but with some assistance by CLICKBAIT FAKE MAGA that is allegedly on our side, but ain’t exactly helping.
The truth is that the leftist Fake News exaggerates and stretches the truth, and dopes on our side take the bait and stretch it even further for conspiracy theory clicks.
The left lies, lies, and lies – and when we don’t call them on the lies, but instead go along with them – well, we get what we deserve.
For starters – it turns out that these “two survivors” who “survived” Brown University were actually covered by the FAKE NEWS – who called them “survivors”.
The first “big” article I could find was in the Boston Globe – but it’s “pay to play”. However, I was able to find an archived copy.
Here is a picture of their headline.
There are many derivative versions of the story, but we’ll stick with the Globe’s version (https://archive.fo/kESl9).
The bottom line is that these “survivors” are not actually “survivors” of the Brown shooting – and only one of them is truly a survivor of another shooting.
Yes. These people are not true “survivors” of the Brown University shooting, and the noisiest one is not a true “survivor” of any previous shooting. And the one true survivor clearly understood that she was merely “on campus” for this shooting, and didn’t provide the desired agonizing sound bytes for the Fake News. That is the key to understanding this journalistic trickery, if not political treachery.
The Fake News has LIED about the “survivors”, then forced people to PAY FOR THE ARTICLE, so the Fake News can’t be fact-checked by the public.
Thank goodness for archive sites.
First, let’s look at Brown University.
There are two alleged survivors – who are really just left-wing, anti-gun activists who are (surprise, surprise) attending one of the most left-wing, radical universities in the country.
The first “survivor” is “Zoe” Weissman – who in my medical opinion was very likely not born as a Zoe.
Alleged Zoe has “she/her” pronouns, by the way, so we are expected to believe “her” on that as well.
See how this forced propaganda thing works?
It turns out that “Zoe” was on CAMPUS – in her DORM ROOM – when [after several paragraphs of drama] we learn that she learned there was a shooting on campus!
OMG – Zoe is a victim! AGAIN! But she survived!
Too bad a conservative Republican Christian activist who opposed the trans ideology didn’t survive – when she got shot in the face by somebody who is very likely another trans activist/murderer at Brown or a different Ivy League school, but hey – nothing that FAKE NEWS can’t turn around in real time!
Ella’s not the victim. Zoe and TRANS KIDS are the victims! /s
Oh, but it gets better.
You see, “Zoe” wasn’t actually a student at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. No. She was a middle school student at the nearby Westglades Middle School. But – and this is what makes her a survivor – she could hear shots from that other school. When she was outside.
Or so she says.
Details. Details. A double survivor. Who just happens to be some kind of trans anti-gun activist, although Duck.AI can only find information about Zoe and the shooting, and is absolutely unable to find any information about that male chin. But believe the she/her! You MUST believe!
UGH. Next.
The second (true) survivor is Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in a real school shooting in California, and survived. She became an anti-gun activist.
This young lady (a real one) is a lot more savvy than “Zoe” – and if you read this article, from which the image above came, then you will understand that she is deeply political and highly connected to massive Democrat and Deep State politics.
LINK: https://www.brown.edu/news/2024-10-22/mia-tretta
ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/lwC75
You will notice, if you read the Boston Globe article, that Mia didn’t have a lot to say in this wrap-up smear / prime the pumps operation, in which left-wing journalism creates a knowingly defective but politically convenient sound-byte. I think Mia understands that her political movement value as a “real victim” would be degraded and lessened by claiming victimhood right now, so she’s holding on this round of political poker. But I’m sure people will be hearing a lot more from her at controlled events, etc., IF this shooting is deemed worthy of monetization by the Democrat Party.
And that’s it. A real victim who is not claiming victimhood now – but who can be mixed with a louder phony victim to create two “kinda” victims, and a desirable sound byte.
So – is there a conspiracy of some kind going on?
Yes – there is a conspiracy here – to monetize and advance politics on tragedy that was created by the very same people, the same money, and the same politics – and to then blame it on the opponents thereof.
It’s very likely that yet another TRANS SHOOTER or PAL-PAL LUNATIC is getting away, because nobody in that part of the world wants to find “them”. Meanwhile, Demmunists want to blame everybody but their own psycho world that caused this stuff.
The further problem here, is that people on our side are not being critical about what is actually happening. We’re not jumping on the Fake News for calling people “survivors” when they’re just “on campus” – which is kinda like being “in the same city” these days.
Then, these same people “on our side” are making our side dumb and stupid by going along with the false idea that these uninvolved activists were actually “survivors” of the Brown attack, and that their presence is some kind of malevolent coincidence, and not merely a Fake News lying insinuation.
Were there other conservatives at that campus event, who survived? Let’s hear from THEM. The Fake News isn’t going to cover them. How about OUR journalists? Maybe Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Glenn Beck, or TPUSA should be interviewing THEM.
I’m pretty sure that is the wordiest headline for a Q-Tree post EVAH!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
Does it beat “I’m a cranky old Yank in a clanky old tank on the streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu mama doing that beat-o beat-o flat on my seat-o Hirohito blues”?
Hoagy Carmichael! He was a Republican. He composed “Georgia on My Mind,” “Heart and Soul,” “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” “Stardust,” and lots of other songs.
Yep. And this one hit the 1967 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest song title.
Never heard it performed before I looked it up on YouSchmoob tonight.
Did he have to travel to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch to bring it back?
Check out this Daily Lame article from their “US correspondent”. All part of the psy-opping on this shooting. Very sketchy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15383697/eva-erickson-survivor-contestant-brown-shooting.html
I just came across that crow / A.I. video today too. And I’ve noticed you post videos regularly that are showing up in my recommended video list, or that I have watched recently.
That can’t be random, with millions of videos on youtoob… it’s some kind of convergence 😂
This is a problem of AI. We’re popping up the same web pages with YouTube videos in them – so they’re slowly merging our lists associated with our accounts.
Wow.
“with an official saying he didn’t ‘give a damn about the optics’ of the search.”
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WHICH official?
Name names, or it might as well not have happened.
Now THIS is some good reasoning.
It’s all coming out.
I was suspicious of the “two previous survivors” story because the article only mentioned which shooting one of the victims had survived, but not the other.
But it turns out that the one they didn’t specify is the real one—the Mia Tretta one, and that the Parkland one is not a real survivor.
Aaaaaaand, I knew it:
WATCH: Candace Owens Doubles Down After Meeting with Erika Kirk and Turning Point USA – “I Did Not at all Recant ANY of my Suspicions”
Because to recant would take away Candace’s whole schtick, which is her claim to fame and her bread and butter.
I wanted to make sure Mark Kelly was the guy I was thinking of, the bald guy. So I went to Brave browser search and started typing Senator, and before I completed the word “Senator”, it auto filled ‘Mark Kelly’.
Things that make you go hmmm…
When the truth finally comes out, the trans-people and everyone who facilitated their insanity, and everyone who helped cover it their crimes, are going to be professionally and socially destroyed.
The term ‘pariah’ won’t be nearly sufficient. They are monsters.
From OT:
British Intelligence Head Says Prepare for War Against Russia
December 16, 2025
SD: “The newly appointed head of MI6, Blaise Metreweli, formerly known by her position as “Q”, is literally the granddaughter of factual Ukraine Nazi, Constantine Dobrowolski. Now, as head of MI6 Metreweli wants war with Russia.
In a rather remarkable speech to the British people, Blaise Metreweli proclaimed Europe is in “the space between peace and war,” with a direct military conflict with Russia looming as the biggest threat. Metreweli declared, “Our world is being actively remade, with profound implications for national and international security.”
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Seemingly targeting a shift in U.S. position toward Europe, Metreweli said, “Institutions which were designed in the ashes of the Second World War are being challenged. New blocs and identities forming and alliances reshaping. Multipolar competition in tension with multilateral cooperation.”
She went on to imply the risk evident in Elon Musk by saying, “Power itself is becoming more diffuse, more unpredictable as control over these technologies is shifting from states to corporations, and sometimes to individuals.”
The once Great Britain is a collapsing society, completely incapable of controlling the Islamic extremist population within the nation. Heck, they cannot even stop rubber boats filled with illegal aliens who are crossing the British channel daily, while gangs of rapists run unchecked through the streets of the U.K.
Metreweli’s remarks about preparing for war against Russia would be laughable, were it not for the top intelligence position she occupies which makes her statement alarming. An expanded segment of her remarks is transcribed below:
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[Transcript] … “I’m going to break with tradition and won’t give you a global threat tour, but will focus here on Putin’s Russia. We all continue to face the menace of an aggressive, expansionist and revisionist Russia, seeking to subjugate Ukraine and harass NATO. I find it harrowing that hundreds of thousands have died, with the toll mounting every day, because of Putin’s historical distortions and his compromised desire for respect. He is dragging out negotiations and shifting the cost of war onto his own population.
But Putin should be in no doubt, our support is enduring. The pressure we apply on Ukraine’s behalf will be sustained. Because it is fundamental not just to European sovereignty and security but to global stability.
Alongside the grinding war, Russia is testing us in the grey zone with tactics that are just below the threshold of war. It’s important to understand their attempts to bully, fearmonger and manipulate, because it affects us all.
I am talking about:
Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.
Drones buzzing airports and bases.
Aggressive activity in our seas, above and below the waves.
State-sponsored arson and sabotage.
Propaganda and influence operations that crack open and exploit fractures within societies.
Countering this activity is the work of intelligence and security services across Europe and the globe. And as the Foreign Secretary made clear in a speech last week, the UK is defending itself against this Russian information warfare – sanctioning Russian media outlets pushing Kremlin narratives.
The export of chaos is a feature not a bug in this Russian approach to international engagement; and we should be ready for this to continue until Putin is forced to change his calculus.
So, how should we respond?
It’s not enough now just to understand the world. We must shape it too.
MI6 is well-positioned to respond to these threats and wider global instability. And we will continue to evolve, just as we have throughout our long history.
The UK government has invested in our intelligence agencies and we are all using our unique powers to keep the British people safe.
Our ‘open and connected’ partnerships across the UK Intelligence Community, with HMGCC, NSSIF and the wider tech ecosystem in the UK will become even more important – because in the digital battleground, no single organisation can prevail alone.
As a global agency, MI6’s inbuilt strength is our partners and our people. The risks I have set out require us to work ever more closely with our colleagues in MI5, GCHQ and in defence and diplomacy. But also with our Five Eyes partners, with the E3, the EU, NATO, those across the Middle East, the Indo-Pacific and beyond. And with many valued partners whose identity needs to remain secret. Together, we integrate our diverse talent, data and tools to meet the threat.
AI is a domain in which we will excel, using the technology to augment, not replace, our human skills. Every digital trace, every byte of data, every algorithmic decision has implications for the safety of the lives of the courageous people who work with us as officers and agents, and for the UK’s strategic advantage.” (read more)
Why does everyone in Europe seemingly want war against Russia?”
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“The once Great Britain is a collapsing society, completely incapable of controlling the Islamic extremist population within the nation.”
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That’s not true, the could control it easily. It’s not like the 700s or the 1400s, where everyone was armed with swords and similar.
The police and military have guns, while I would guess 90% of islamic invaders don’t have guns. They could round up every islamic person in England in a matter of days, and shoot dead anyone who resisted. If they wanted to.
If they needed to.
No pitched battles, no civilization hanging by a thread as Charles Martel defeats the mooslime army. Just a simple police action, with the equivalent of some National Guard type back up if necessary.
Even if mooslimes grew to 50% of the population, all they need to do is arm everyone except the mooslimes, and announce that no one will be prosecuted for removing islam from Great Britain, and then let nature take its course.
It’s a simple thing, requiring only the will to do it.
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“Heck, they cannot even stop rubber boats filled with illegal aliens who are crossing the British channel daily,”
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Sure they can. One .50 caliber machine gun, every half mile or so along the shoreline, could sink every approaching boat from a mile away.
Easy.
Like fish in a barrel.
There’s no invasion crisis, they are allowing it to happen.
And they could stop it just as easily.
If they wanted to.
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“…while gangs of rapists run unchecked through the streets of the U.K.”
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Because TPTB want them to.
If they didn’t, it wouldn’t be happening.
They don’t have any trouble stopping what they don’t want. Look how they treated white people during Covid. Not just in not-so-great Britain, but in Canadia and Australia and New Zealand.
They are perfectly capable of using brute force against civilians, and that same force works just as effectively against mooslimes.
They just choose not to target them.
A few nights ago, I had mentioned that sea lions fly through water like birds fly in air. I just tripped over some video to demonstrate this.
There’s a nice shot near the beginning which triggered a memory. There are signs you can make to alert other divers to points of interest. One of which is to do lobster claws with your hands to point out a lobster…….except, as even experienced Atlantic divers are surprised to find out, Pacific lobsters have no claws. The sign for Pacific lobster is the two antennae, typically pointing out of your other hand forming a cave.
This group of sea lions is quite young and haven’t yet learned manners. In particular, they are fascinated with the camera gear and keep wanting to explore it with their mouths. If they were actually aggressive, they could easily grab an arm or leg and do some damage — they are carnivores — but they’re just inquisitive. In one shot, you see a diver holding a camera well away from his face and a sea lion messing with it. Similarly, they get into little wrestling groups and just bumble into a diver. There are legal penalties if you chase them down and touch them, but they have no qualms about playing around and body-checking you.