Crystal Ray
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- Sep 8, 2026
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- Jul 13, 2026
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Coup 2025 Tracker UPDATE (opens the original)
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The chances of a successful Coup 2025 have remained the same since May 1, when they dropped 10% from Trump’s second election because of the Iran War and other failures. They have not changed because the situation remains….fluid. If you want to read all of my Coup2025 predictions and other analysis, such as the role of the U.S. military in all this or on thinking about a General Strike to resist a coup, see my website. Some things have made the chances of a Trump 2025 Coup succeeding better, some
My Opinions of Recent AI Books (opens the original)
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Because I write about AI and have researched it since 1985 I have to read lots of books about it. I already published an essay on substack (free!) about my regular sources for analyzing (desperately trying to keep up with) AI, key sub stacks and the like. Besides these, specific sources for my work can be found in my books on AI and substack posts on AI. By popular demand—really, I may not be that popular but I do have a few friends and readers—I’ve written up my opinion of some of the most impo
An Epidemic of Epidemics (opens the original)
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A pandemic isn’t a collection of viruses, but is a social relation among people mediated by viruses. — Ian Allen Paul (2020) Outbreaks are inevitable, but pandemics are optional. — Larry Brilliant (Mackenzie 2020) Bundibugyo ebolavirus. Cyclospora cayetanensis. Lentivirus. Rubeola. Orthohantavirus. Vibrio vulnificus, Cochliomyia hominivorax. Feeling healthy again? No reason to pandemic yet, just some epidemics here and there. To bad the U.S. programs aimed at dealing with them were gutted by Elo
AI is More Than Slop— (opens the original)
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It is also a dangerous virus mutating fast… [Note on pronouns…humans are given the pronouns they desire, AI agents are referred to as “it’ and “thing”. Do not misgender artifacts please. ] “Every Day, Computers Are Making People Easier to Use” — tag line of the short lived 1998 print magazine In Formation I published two books last year, so at first I wasn’t surprised to get a nice, if stilted, letter from “Trent” of the Brisbane Geek Social Book Club, saying “they” thought my book Virus is a La
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