Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

March 7, 1951: Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by 26-yr old Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, outside a mosque in Tehran. Razmara was the third Iranian prime minister to be assassinated.
Khalil was described as a "religious fanatic" by The New York Times. In January 1965, Hasan Ali Mansur became the fourth Iranian Prime Minister to be assassinated, also by a Fada'iyan-e Islam member.




March 7, 1953: No Shortage of Ammunition Here




March 7, 1955: Biggest A-Blast Of '55 Set Off On Nevada Flat with a 20-second Fireball banger in Area 2 of the Nevada Test Site, Operation Teapot: test shot "Turk" on a 500-foot tower. A primary for the XW-27 Class "D" (light weight) thermonuclear weapon. The device, named LINDA, was a mockup of the XW-27 radiation case and was 30.5 inches by 61.3 inches & weighed 2325 lb. Yield: 43kt







Just 4 fun... Based on the entirety of this photograph, what is your best estimation of the year it was taken?


Looking at the TV and spending a bit of time, I think it's either a Zenith Chromacolor or an RCA XL-100 but I believe it matches up with the RCA model's from the early to latter 1970's. Also, the window air conditioner is probably a GE model from the late 1960's to early 1970's. The stereo looks to have a frontloader VHS VCR (tape slot looks wider than Betamax) which weren't widely available till early 80s and few households had them until mid-80s. On second thought maybe it's just an analog tuner with the dial on the top right corner.

The wall panels are definitely 70s. The Miller High Lite logo on the box under the speaker is definitely pre-1975 as that was the change in logos to the gold and white logos with the Red Miller name.

She has hair that was inspired by Charlie's Angels which came out in '76 and went viral in 1977. The photo to me screams typical middle-class American living room from mid 70s to mid 80s. That AC unit dimmed every light on the street when it kicked on. My gut tells me 1978.


Gettysburg’s Blue & Gray Grill totally buying into the Civil War theme.


I heard they used to put little flags in the burgers to represent which side your burger fought for. LOL!


I can't tell if Trump is troll bombing or he's actually being serious.


https://x.com/amconmag/status/2030055730330447924


The Trump administration launches the Patriot Act 2.0.
I wonder why they waited until late Friday to drop a policy guide where one of their top priorities is passing legislation to regulate all activity online?

Lots of Orwellian goodies throughout: to counter the spread of the surveillance state, we must grant the government greater authority to "detect, confront, and defeat cyber adversaries before they breach our networks."


Repeated references to empowering private sector partners (i.e., the Palantirs of the world) to "defend America in peace and war."

President Trump’s CYBER STRATEGY for America (7-page PDF)

"We will unveil and embarrass online espionage, destructive propaganda and influence operations, and cultural subversion." When the government starts defining threats by "propaganda," "influence,” and "cultural subversion," it is not just targeting hackers. It is targeting narratives.

They're currently pushing an age-verification bill (of British stench) to end online privacy, among other actions, as part of their larger surveillance plan. Both parties are pushing nebulous bills like the KIDS Act, KOSA, and COPPA which rely on vague language to use age verification requirements as a tool to erode digital privacy. Seems like a trend...




Welcome to the Age of Cyber Warfare Chaos:

Information warfare, information operations, cognitive warfare, psychological warfare, psychological operations, military information support operations, perception management, influence operations, strategic communications, narrative warfare, narrative engineering, narrative shaping, narrative dominance, propaganda, computational propaganda, political warfare, ideological warfare, memetic warfare, memetics, cultural warfare, semiotic warfare, symbolic warfare, information environment manipulation, cognitive domain operations, behavioral influence operations, opinion shaping, public diplomacy operations, strategic persuasion, disinformation, misinformation, malinformation, active measures, reflexive control, maskirovka, deception operations, military deception, operational security, counterintelligence, information concealment, information denial, narrative suppression, reputation warfare, character assassination campaigns, social engineering, social manipulation campaigns, psychological manipulation, rumor propagation, rumor warfare, narrative seeding, narrative amplification, rumor networks, narrative laundering, media manipulation, media framing operations, agenda setting operations, perception hacking, attention warfare, attention manipulation, outrage engineering, polarization engineering, trust erosion campaigns, institutional delegitimization campaigns, legitimacy warfare, legitimacy erosion, cognitive overload operations, information flooding, information saturation, narrative dilution, message jamming, discourse disruption, epistemic warfare, knowledge manipulation, epistemic capture, epistemic sabotage, epistemic destabilization, truth decay campaigns, reality distortion campaigns, belief shaping operations, worldview engineering, ideology propagation, ideology destabilization, cultural narrative manipulation, mythmaking operations, symbolic myth warfare, narrative myth engineering, storytelling warfare, narrative reframing, narrative hijacking, counter-narrative development, counter-propaganda, counter-disinformation, counter-influence operations, information defense, narrative defense, resilience operations, media literacy campaigns, cognitive resilience operations, narrative inoculation, psychological inoculation, pre-bunking campaigns, debunking campaigns, reputational defense operations, online influence campaigns, digital influence operations, social media manipulation, platform manipulation, algorithmic manipulation, algorithmic amplification campaigns, engagement farming operations, virality engineering, astroturfing, sock-puppet networks, botnet amplification, troll farm operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior, fake grassroots movements, identity spoofing campaigns, persona management, fake persona networks, digital impersonation operations, narrative swarm campaigns, meme propagation campaigns, meme engineering, meme warfare, memetic payload design, memetic contagion engineering, memetic virality modeling, memetic saturation campaigns, memetic signaling warfare, hashtag warfare, trending manipulation, search engine manipulation, search engine influence operations, search engine poisoning, search engine optimization for propaganda, digital reputation manipulation, review bombing, platform brigading, community infiltration operations, forum manipulation, comment section warfare, narrative reinforcement loops, echo chamber engineering, filter bubble exploitation, recommender system exploitation, platform governance manipulation, algorithm gaming, data poisoning, model poisoning, training data manipulation, adversarial machine learning influence operations, AI generated propaganda, synthetic media operations, deepfake influence campaigns, voice cloning disinformation, synthetic identity networks, automated narrative generation, narrative bot swarms, AI persuasion systems, machine scaled propaganda, automated influence agents, cognitive AI operations, digital persuasion architecture.

Congrats if you made it through that wall of chaos! And sorry if you now feel discombobulated.


Weapons factories into overdrive...

Months ago? I would think years ago given the Ukraine war and the massive expenditure of bombs & missiles dropped on Iran the past week which the writing was on the wall last June. The MIC execs are going to be trillionaires by this summer. Keep that money printer humming!

On the flip-side if the War Dept waited another 5-10 years, Iran may have been on par with US weapons tech. Every non-nuclear country on the planet is asking their weapons science dept:

Politicians: "When can we expect our first nuke?
Scientists: "Three years if we offer a lot of bribes."
Politicians: "Them crazy Americans will be at our doorstep within a year. What can we offer that lunatic in North Korea."
Scientists: "A very large container ship full of Kimchi & cheese."


I'm almost getting the ambition to make a visit to the White House to find out exactly who is running this account. Whose [AI] child is running that damn account?