Today is the anniversary of Robert Bruce Thompson’s death. Is it even possible that it was 8 years ago? So much has changed in our world, and here, yet so much still remains. Being prepared is better than not. We can get through disasters, and life will go on. There is an ‘after’. What you do ‘before’ makes a great deal of difference in what ‘after’ looks like. Community makes everything better.
Raise a glass for our absent friends- gone, but not forgotten. Still present, like the ripples in the pond. They live on through the changes they made in us, the people around them.
nick
Tuesday. Good morning!
Absent friends. I miss them. I miss RBT’s “voice” here, although I can often guess what he might have said about a particular topic. I miss Dr Pournelle too. The world is richer for having known them, but the internet is a thinner place without them.
I notice, as time goes by, that the cohort of sites on the internet that I consider worth looking at every day, or even regularly, is getting smaller and smaller. Maybe that is just the universe telling me to spend less time online and more time doing stuff myself.
48F as the coffee brews. Clear sky to the east.
There is a long list of people who have contributed to our lives. So many are no longer with us. It’s important to takes some time and reflect on how we got to where we are, and who helped us get here.
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@denis, I think that is partly a function of reducing the size of the circles of “give a f#ck” that we have as the world situation degrades. Many people who were on my daily and weekly read list have stopped writing or are concerned with things closer to home. I’ll admit that even I have not written an actual “post” of more than 300-500 words on a specific topic in a long time.
When political blogging was new, and the pajama media was breaking stories, a9and paradigms), it was exciting and you could make a name for yourself and gather an audience. Now, how many times can you say “they are all corrupt” or “two sides of the same coin”, or “dumb people are doing dumb things again” before it all blurs together?
This young kid in MN getting visual evidence of the somali corruption is the next wave. Pair him with a ‘follow the money’ investigator, and we’ll have something again. Something for the attention impaired. We were starved for real information and alternative viewpoints, which blogging got for us. Could be that the next generation are starved for a way to participate in the creator economy, and x and youtube, and a camera in every hand will provide it for them.
nick
– how to lie with the truth.
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https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/01/18/nick-sortor-robbed-in-minneapolis-fbi-is-on-it-n2198277
Nick Sortor was robbed over the weekend. He was filming out the window of his car when the device was literally ripped out of his hands. Fortunately, someone got it on another device. It was posted on “X” then taken down because it showed the perps. But not before someone ran the license plate and traced it back to a Somali autism scam center. Stay tuned.
If you put “Nick Sortor was robbed” into a search engine and look at the results, you’ll see a perfect illustration of “the problem”.
I did just that to find the above link, which was the first post I had seen on the subject, and found it way down the page after at least three links to Hindustan Times, a couple others in India, MSN, and the top from Newsweek.
The Newsweek report is actually decent, if you read it through.
Nick Sortor needs to be careful or they will murder him.