22 hr ago

Beyond Lindsey: If Women Are Not Responsible for Their Actions, How Can We Trust Women?

Today on Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone explore how menstrual cycle tracking has moved from apps into work planning and legal arguments. The discussion covers period trackers in games, cycle syncing for productivity, and historical court cases where PMS or postpartum issues were used to reduce charges for violent acts. The Collinses also examine ancient medical views on the uterus and modern debates over personal responsibility versus hormonal explanations. Episode Transcript Malcolm Collins: HELLO SIMONE! I’m excited to be here with you today. Today, we are going to be pulling on a thread that the Lindsay Casey case has unraveled to some extent, which is women in mass are claiming that women lack the intellectual or emotional capacity to act as normal people in society. Sure. Right? Like and and I, at first, thought, okay. If we are cordoning this off to just a very rare thing, like postpartum depression, which is what they’re claiming or postpartum psychosis. imone Collins:Like, okay. Then just let women werewolf like I do, right, whenever I give birth. I just lock myself away in the hospital. You drop me off at the beginning four days later. Malcolm Collins:Then I started to dig into it and Realized it’s actually normal for female organizations to do the same around regular parts of a woman’s menstrual cycle. My god. So it’s not just Oh, no. imone Collins:It’s not her. Malcolm Collins:Someone that you can get off for postpartum psychosis. You can also get off murdering children because you were on your period. Speaker 5:But, oh, dear. What’s this? One of the women is about to embarrass us all. The lady has foolishly attempted to join the conversation with a wild and dangerous opinion of her own. Women, know your limits. imone Collins:Wait. On your period or, like, PMS ing? Like, what what what part of the cycle do I have a get out of jail free card here? I need to know when I can time my Malcolm Collins:We’ll go into it. imone Collins:Okay. And Oh my gosh. Now that, like, your period tracking apps need to have, like, a now would be a great time if you need to commit a felony. Go ahead, girls. Malcolm Collins:Great time to commit a felony. That’s why they’re tracking you guys, don’t you know? We need to know when you’ve turned into ravenous monsters. imone Collins:Well, one of the big things with the app Love and Deep Space is included they added a period tracker. And then, like, the male companions on the app would be like, oh, what brand of, you know, sanitary napkin do you need? And, like, women were like, oh my god. He knows the difference between a daytime and a nighttime pad. Swoon. Like, women do seem to act different. Like, it actually was very well reviewed, the the period tracker. What is love in deep space? It’s that it’s that romance game. It was really big in in China and also in The United States. Malcolm Collins:Oh god. Oh, so this is anime character saying Yeah. imone Collins:It’s it’s like it’s like a romance game with, like, really, really beautiful men, and they added a period tracker to it fairly recently. And all the men who saw that this was added freaked out and were like, this is gooner nonsense. But, like, the women were just like, oh, like, he’s offering me a hot water bottle. Like, he’s gonna make like, he’s gonna cuddle with me and, like, tell me how sorry he is and and go to the store and buy me feminine napkins and ask me what brand I prefer. And they thought it was amazing. Speaker 3:But has the concept of women having choices gone too far? We’ve assembled this diverse panel of white men in bow ties to talk Gentlemen? imone Collins:But I really think, like, if that element of a period tracker inside an existing game works so well, they need to just really start beefing up existing period tracking apps. Like, now’s you know, you should commit a crime now. This is the period where you’re gonna be more attracted to hot guys. This is gonna be your best time to, like, date, you know, a cash cow and settle down with him. You know, like, just really max it out, you know, period maxing, cycle maxing. Actually, I read recently that there was this this new trend of cycle maxing where women were yes. I’m not kidding about this. Hold on. Hold on. Cycle Malcolm Collins:Women shouldn’t have jobs. Right? Like, we this is a how how are we still pushing for a female president, and cyclomaxing is a thing? imone Collins:Yeah. Hold on. News. Where did it go? It was, an actual like, women who were syncing their work schedule with their Malcolm Collins:their aggressive careers. imone Collins:Cycle maxing at work is an emerging social media term for using menstrual cycle tracking to adjust your workload, beatings, creative work, recovery, and sometimes food or exercise. It’s essentially cycle syncing reframed in optimization language. So what you’re supposed to do is track your mood and bleeding, etcetera, and then put all your demanding or public facing tasks, like presentations and negotiations and, like, your big work things on days when you are more likely to feel good, like, not PMS y, not bleeding, not cramping. And then you reserve your flexible, like, solo work or your work from home days for the days where you have cramps and PMS, you’re, like, kind of a terrible person. And then you should have, like, buffers to, like, avoid doing anything important, like major deadlines or travel or all day meetings on the days when you are So which one should Malcolm Collins:recognize this about themselves? imone Collins:Yeah. They’re like, oh. Malcolm Collins:We have a werewolf protocol. imone Collins:Yes. And They’re werewolf protocol. Yes. It’s exactly it. No. This is like, Malcolm Collins:you know, in the werewolf shows where they, like are, like, chain me up of all of the imone Collins:It’s like the modern version of this. Speaker 4:Mom, dad, can I come upstairs now? I’m sorry, son, but you’re a demon spawn now. You’re an abomination. Can I please just have something to eat? Well, I’m pretty hungry. It’s hungry. Yes. It must feed. what are you doing down here? There you go, son. Eat. What are we becoming? imone Collins:Like, it’s werewolves are real. They’re called women, and they literally have apps where they just, like, track their lunar calendar where they’re like, time to train myself up here. Okay. We got I’m sorry, girls. I can’t meet you for dinner. I can’t, you know, can’t book this work appointment now because I gotta cycle my Malcolm Collins:So this is this is gonna be the new thing in in werewolf dating books where the werewolf and the what the werewolf’s like, I’m sorry. It’s the night of the full moon. I have to be chained up in my house. And she goes, that’s so convenient. So do I. No. imone Collins:No. No. It’s supposed to be where the, you know, a very beautiful boyfriend asks her if she needs more daytime or nighttime pads because, apparently, that really gets girls going. Would you would you care about that, or Malcolm Collins:would you just be gross out of a guy? Look. imone Collins:Anyone who’s gonna help me with the bleeding stuff is welcome in my world. Malcolm Collins:Okay? Do you see you see all the imone Collins:we’re not gonna get into the details because I’m still dealing dealing with the miscarriage bleeding. Like, what, three weeks later? I’m like, anyone who’s willing to help me with that is my friend at this point because the amount of ruined clothing I have now. Well, not ruined. I just had to scrub things with a toothbrush for a very long time. Obviously, not one for my teeth, people. Jeez. Anyway Oh my. Malcolm Collins:I’m just gonna ask that out. Twitter person. I may be imone Collins:a female, gosh, I I cycle max, so it’s okay. I’m just under control. But, yeah, I guess if this is all true, right, if women are, like, getting this into their cycles and not only admitting this in the context of of legal trials, but also just literally building their lives around this expectation that, like, oh, yes. I have observed that I am insane and a terrible person on these days of the month and that I’m a functional human on these days of the month. This is not this is a very worrying trend because it’s like this admission of insanity, and I don’t like it. Malcolm Collins:But, like, all women know this. Like imone Collins:I mean, I don’t. As someone with amenorrhea who doesn’t have periods, I had no cycle to track. I I had no periods of insanity. My only experience with that is, like, giving birth and then having to deal with that hormonal fallout and then also giving myself exogenous hormones, which actually what’s really interesting too is when you see trans people take the same amount of hormones that, for example, I do, they also like to talk about at length, how they go crazy. Like, remember when Dylan Mulvaney started going on hormones and was like, I tried being a girl, and I just sat there and cried for a long time. I can’t remember her exact words. but do you remember this whole thing where she was like, I’m gonna be a girl for a day? And, like, the schedule was like, cry, go shopping, eat yogurt. Like, I can’t remember what it was, but it was really ridiculous. However, it is interesting that even when men start to experience the hormones that will hit women at various points in their cycles, they also report going crazy. In other words, typically, but, you know, that’s kind of disturbing. Malcolm Collins:but, no, I think it’s interesting with the tramp thing. That’s a good side point here. Is it like, we all accept that these people are getting crazy. Right? imone Collins:And Counterpoint, though. Women also report going crazy when they go on testosterone. So When they go where? On testosterone. But more mostly, it’s not like, I’m crying. It’s just like they wanna bang everything. Oh my god. I’m so horny. Malcolm Colli

1 day ago

Anti-Man BDSM Cult That Made Video Games & Invented Cosplay (Nothing Changes)

A deep dive into the strange history of a 1970s fantasy religion that broke containment into real-world communes, immersive boarding school experiences, and early computer game development. The episode traces its evolution from Oxford-area writings and goddess-focused observances through anti-modern settlements in Ireland, the creation of text adventures on Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum hardware, and later publishing efforts. Listeners explore how the group attempted financial self-sustainability, the role of role-play and discipline practices in its later phases, connections to far-right materials, and why the movement ultimately remained a niche online remnant rather than a lasting community. The discussion highlights themes of invented religions, alternate reality games before the term existed, and the challenges of building sustainable new belief systems. Show Notes Hat tip to those who sent us to the YouTube video (and check it out if you haven’t seen it!): The Neo-Victorian Neo-N*zi Lesbian BDSM Cult That Made Video Games by Tor’s Cabinet of Curiosities Fantasy World Breaking Containment This weird movement emerged from what was probably a fantasy world: * Around 1973–74, a small Oxford-based circle produced the texts that became the Madrian/Filianic sacred writings: notably the Sacred Mythos, The Crystal Tablet, and The Teachings of the Daughter. * Members regarded these writings as inspired—sometimes described in terms of divine inspiration or trance—rather than merely as a conventional authored religious manifesto. * A more public movement then emerged under the banner Lux Madriana, distributing scripture and catechism, publishing the newsletter The Coming Age, holding religious observances, and recruiting through the era’s feminist, occult, and alternative-spirituality networks. A later Filianist source describes the founders not as a formal college club but as a small group of people in Oxford and the Home Counties who created a complete religious framework: theology, scriptures, ritual calendar, terminology, and community practices. Madrianism was unusual among 1970s British Goddess movements because it was not simply Wicca with a stronger female focus. It presented itself as a structured, devotional religion—more analogous in style to a sacral tradition with scripture, prayer, catechism, feast days, rosaries, priestly roles, and moral teachings. Its core claims included: * The ultimate divine reality is feminine: Déa, the Mother. * Divine life is understood in a threefold form, later commonly expressed as Creator, Sustainer/Daughter, and a transcendent or “Beyond” aspect. * The Daughter functions in a savior-like role, giving the tradition a devotional shape that some observers find reminiscent of Marian and Christian forms. * The faith had a sacred calendar and a named set of spiritual virtues/emanations, the Janyati. * Prayer, religious study, handmade devotional items, domestic community, and a refusal of aspects of modern consumer culture were emphasized.lambentpath. Here’s where the breaking of containment emerges: The Oxford-origin Madrian milieu eventually split into several strands: * One stream became associated with Aristasia, a female-centered constructed world/community. * Another developed communal, anti-modern, and increasingly role-based forms in Yorkshire before relocating to Burtonport, Donegal, in 1982 as the Rhennish Community / Silver Sisterhood. The Emergence of a Victorian Curiosity This movement physically manifested with a primal scream, literally. In 1974, the Atlantis Primal Therapy Commune descended upon the Irish town of Burtenport, buying a large house they subsequently painted with rainbow colors, murals, slogans, and zodiac imagery. Commune members quickly became known by townspeople as “the screamers” because members used confrontational “primal scream” sessions—shouting, crying, and sometimes aggressively challenging one another—as a supposed form of emotional release. They weren’t fans of the middle-of-the-night primal scream sessions. In 1989, they left Burtonport proper for Inishfree/Inisfree, a remote Donegal island, where it continued communal and subsistence living, and this opened up the logistical portal through which the Silver Sisterhood was able to physically manifest. St. Bride’s School Though the Silver Sisterhood first moved to Burtonport hoping to form an anti-modern communal settlement calling the house An Droichead Beo, Irish for “The Bridge of Life.” Their pre-boarding-school era is captured in RTE archives. They lived without electricity and just seemed like self-contained bog hags. * Daily life included Rhennish-language music and storytelling, prayer-oriented work, and making their own instruments and clogs. * They planned to sell handmade clogs and embroidered textiles, grow crops, work the surrounding land, and gradually bring more members from Yorkshire. That failed and they pivoted to branding the house as St. Bride’s School, which sold an immersive, Victorian-style boarding-school holiday for adult women. The boarding school era was much more fun, though the house remained without electricity or modern appliances (with one notable exception), though they did like to listen to songs on their hand-cranked gramophone. Visitors—adult women, generally in their 20s and 30s—paid for week-long “terms” in which they lived 24 hours a day as pupils in an imagined 1920s–30s English girls’ boarding school. They wore period clothes, followed school routines, attended lessons, went on outdoor rambles, used old-style money in the tea room, and took part in mystery games based on noticing clues in the surrounding landscape. * It’s in these mystery game that the Silver Sisterhood may have gotten into video games * On rambles, participants noticed odd objects or features, imagined them as clues, and worked out supposed hidden connections—the activity that inspired the group’s text adventure The Secret of St Bride’s. The Video Games The group’s move into video games seems to have started with one resident, Priscilla Langridge, who brought a Commodore 64 to St Bride’s and began turning the community’s real-life mystery games and heavily imagined boarding-school world into text adventures. * The venture then became both a small business and highly effective publicity for St Bride’s, despite the school’s public rejection of modern technology They called their computer an ordinator. One of the sisterhood’s leaders, Miss Martindale, is quoted as saying that games required concentration and commitment, whereas television was passive. Langridge used The Quill, an adventure-game creation system. * She reportedly began on a Commodore 64 and later moved to the ZX Spectrum. * The first game, The Secret of St Bride’s (1985), made the school itself the premise: a character arrives at a 1985 Irish holiday center built around old-fashioned boarding-school life, then begins to suspect it is actually 1927. St. Bride’s School ultimately released several ZX Spectrum/Commodore-era text adventures in the 1980s, including The Snow Queen, The Very Big Cave Adventure, Bugsy, and 1987’s Jack the Ripper. * Jack the Ripper reportedly became the first game assigned an 18+ rating * The games were unusually surreal and often centered feminine power; Jack the Ripper, for example, resolves through a fantastical confrontation involving the victims’ “pure” femininity rather than a conventional detective solution. The Beatings The leader of the Silver Sisters, Marianne Martindale—then using the name Marianne Scarlett—was convicted in 1993 of assault for caning a young woman at St Bride’s, but the beatings went beyond isolated canings among residents. According to sources like an April 1984 article titled “Shocking hidden lessons at St. Bride’s School…” * The author reports that the women running St Bride’s admitted offering “special” courses in which adult “pupils” were whipped, birched, and caned. The report distinguishes these from the ordinary boarding-school holiday Later accounts say the school was marketed to adult women as a £95-per-week alternative holiday and that normal visits did not necessarily involve caning, while a deeper or specialized course could involve it. HOWEVER: Those later accounts should be read cautiously: they draw on retrospective reporting and the group’s own shifting descriptions rather than a full, independently audited account of what happened. The group appears to have incorporated BDSM-like practices by turning its existing interests in female hierarchy, obedience, role-play, period-school discipline, and controlled regression into paid “special courses” at St Bride’s. * It was not an abrupt change from an otherwise ordinary holiday school * The sexualized or disciplinary element seems to have been an extension of the group’s broader constructed social world—although the boundary between consensual adult role-play and coercion became a serious issue, like the 1993 incident. Post Collapse St. Bride’s fell apart in 1993 and the Silver Sisterhood evolved into the Wildfire Club, a publishing and mail-order venture associated with Marianne Martindale and some Aristasian associates. * Its books list a London postal address—“B.M. Elegance, London, W.C.1”—and invited correspondence. A book published under the imprint [this link leads to the full text] directs prospective visitors to write to “Her Excellency the Imperial Ambassadress” via the Wildfire Club. As part of all this, Marianne Martindale and associates openly sold BDSM- and corporal-discipline-related publications, most notably The Female Disciplinary Manual. * It was presented as a “complete guide to the correction and chastisement of young ladies,” in deliberately old-school “mistress” and “girl” language * it included detailed discussion of: * Different ty

2 days ago

Buddhist Cult At The Nexus of The Tech Elite (It Wants to Kill Your Soul)

A deep investigation into Maple, a high-control organization with roots in effective altruism and Buddhist philosophy. The discussion covers its leader’s past statements on human extinction, ties to major tech funders, isolation practices, financial extraction from members, and plans for an AI system to enforce total control over society. Hosts contrast these goals with their own focus on human flourishing and technological progress. The episode examines whistleblower accounts, funding sources like the Survival and Flourishing Fund, and why such groups represent a unique risk within elite intellectual circles. Episode Transcript Malcolm Collins:: Hello, Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today, we are going to be talking about something that genuinely terrifies me. I feel like we’re personally blowing the lid off of this particular controversy. So if you guys remember, we had an episode where we were following organizations that had been funding. These were effective altruist organizations. These are sort of tech elite types, often on the the leftist side of things, that had been funding organizations that have been secretly planting people within news organizations without telling you to try to shut down the development of AI. Like the famous Guardian piece where three of the people were paid off. All three of them who wrote the piece Six. Six were paid off. Simone Collins: Yeah. Basically, yeah, it was it was all of the expert sources. It was the author, and it was the publication itself. So yes. To the tunes Malcolm Collins: of millions of dollars. And when we were chasing down their religious entanglements, one of the things that we noted, and we sort of passed it off, was, well, it appears the largest religious group, while they have been putting millions into Christian groups, the largest is some Buddhist group. And then the the the the just off the cuff statement was and it appears it’s mostly one group. So we mentioned this one group, then a few days later, a fan reaches out to us. And they’re like, that is something you want to double click on. So I will read a excerpt about the leader of this particular group. Okay? Sawyer considers human extinction as a noble impulse and as an ethically defensible goal. He has repeatedly shared that killing every human on Earth to protect the rest of life on Earth with his explicit life purposes from the ages of nine to 19. Oh my god. CRISPR, a gene modifying technique that could be used to create a novel bioweapon as his best available means. Simone Collins: That’s worse than the antinatalist. The antinatalist are like, look. The animals are way more miserable than we are. They need to go too. Or he wants to keep them around? Where they you know? Of course. Let the lions Malcolm Collins: or be it’s just us who can’t cause suffering. Simone Collins: Right? Yeah. Yeah. Malcolm Collins: Let the all of the insects in nature that eat animals and birds and frogs and Simone Collins: all the gazelles be eaten alive by the lions. It’s fine. Malcolm Collins: Well, you know, there are actually effective altruist organizations that have been funded to stop animals killing other animals in nature. There was the argument that it was, we might even do an episode on this point that it was the largest overlooked cause area that we needed to stop animal predation. And we did do an episode on it. Did we? Speaker 3: The episode came out six months ago, it was called the morality of the elite technocrat. Simone Collins: Look. You thought we did an episode on the Victorian cult that loved beating women. Malcolm Collins: Well, I’ll look it up. I’ll see. But he has now moved to what he wants to attempt to do until his vision shifted to killing them spiritually. Simone Collins: Oh, because that’s better. Alternative. Just kill their souls. At least it’s for eternity. That’s that’s how to really get it done. Malcolm Collins: Yeah. The reason I wanted to go into this and, no, he he said that’s the awakening, and you could say, well, that’s just, you know, being this is what Buddhists believe. This is one school of, like, genuine Buddhist thought, like, willing to kill you spiritually. Simone Collins: Yeah. Malcolm Collins: Yeah. And this is what they want to do. So I wanna get into this cult that this guy has built up. It’s incredibly dangerous. The the if you follow this guy’s individual story, what is so interesting is this particular, impulse of his to eradicate all of humanity. I decided to dig deeper into it to be like, okay. Did he say this? Like, what’s actually going on here? Is this actually a cult? How dangerous is this organization that apparently has its tendrils? They’ve been funded by JPMorgan, by the way. They’ve been funded JPMorgan. Speaker 18: Note here, the funding from JPMorgan was more like a fund that funneled through JPMorgan than JPMorgan directly. Malcolm Collins: The survival and flourishing fund, which is the org that funded us and and and funds a lot of this anti AI sentiment. The the they’ve been funded by innumerable, effective altruists orgs that are not like, they’re really closely tied to, what was that? Inc something thing that happened at that hacker house that used to invite us until they were mad that we’re not approving of, you know, everything that Simone Collins: trans people say? Yeah. Malcolm Collins: You know how manifest held that second conference called ink something? Simone Collins: Less online was what happened before. Right? Oh, no. Malcolm Collins: There was a second thing that they did. That was for, like, writing stuff. Oh. So, anyway, they’re really tied with manifest and stuff like this. So this is, like, one degree of separation from us. If the techno puritans had, like, a mortal enemy as an organization, we have found it. Because, like, the Zizians, this is the trans murder cult that also spun out of the EA org. It really was a trans. Almost everyone in the organization was trans, and they killed more people than the Manson family. And yet you probably haven’t heard of them. Simone Collins: Yeah. But they killed people not in a we need to take out all the people, not even in an ideological way. They killed a landlord who wanted them to pay their rent after, like, years of nonpayment. Somebody’s parents who would die in the and then they killed someone who pulled them over. Look up the Zissians if you don’t know about them. You’re But we Malcolm Collins: have an episode. Them. You can read about them. This is fantastic. Yeah. Simone Collins: Yeah. Malcolm Collins: But I think that a lot of people the reason I wanted to go into this is there’s this perception that, okay, the rank and file democrat, whatever, you know, they’re they’re evil. They’re extremists. They’re lobbying stuff at cars on the streets. But, you know, the they’re the the behind the scenes intellectuals controlling everything. Presumably, they’re less nefarious. Right? Like, they’re not so evil. Their intellectual upstream of this movement is, like, more muted. Because I think in republican circles, that’s often the way it is. If you look at a channel like ours, I mean, I think we’re pretty extreme, but a lot of people think that we’re fairly muted. And you and you see this in a lot of sort of upstream republican intellectual groups. And the reason I wanted to highlight and bring this group, their practices to light, is so that people can see, actually, the people at the end of this are not muted. They do want the eradication of all life on Earth. They do want the subjugation. I mean, this org talks about turning the world into a monastery. And they think that 50% they did this in an Atlantic article. They said this. So they’re not, like, quiet about this. So they wanna create their own army. Said they’d be Simone Collins: 50% what? If they’re Buddhists, they’re Malcolm Collins: To enforce their lifestyle, which we will get to what their lifestyle is. Are you serious? Yeah. And well, they want to use an army and an AI god. They call it this demigore. Demigore. Or the cy no. Cybergor. And so they’re trying to build I know not a very appealing name for an AI god. Right? Simone Collins: No. But, also, like, we have organizations out there called Hugging Face, which to me just sounds like, you know, a sort of alien situation. I’m not Malcolm Collins: I’m not into this. The demigore. Demigore is hugging. Simone Collins: What what is this timeline? Why? I’m sorry. Carry on. Malcolm Collins: So, anyway, so they want 50% of all of the world’s gross revenue dedicated to the development of an AI god. And Tear to dream. What they want this AI god to do Yeah. Is monitor everything you do all day every day to ensure that you are living within their ethical framework. Simone Collins: No. Malcolm Collins: I mean go into this ethical framework. Simone Collins: In general. I think that that would be a really cool thing for any religion to have going forward. Like, it just constantly someone being like, you’re little Jiminy cricket. Malcolm Collins: You know? No. No. I agree if you you are thinking that they’re, like, a normal religion, like a Christian group or a Mormon group or, like, a whatever. Sure. Simone Collins: Yeah. Malcolm Collins: They’re not. What they mean is absolute control to a dictator who’s going to control every aspect of your day. You are not allowed to look at a screen. You are not allowed entertainment. You are not allowed anything, which is very interesting given, like, they they have a practice where they leave people in isolation for, like, two to three months at a time, and you’re only allowed to talk to their founder. Simone Collins: Oh, so it’s like they’re they’re silent retreat Speaker 13: truth. Perhaps you can answer the one question that has plagued thinkers for all time. What dauf naive? What Speaker 11: What I find fascinat

3 days ago

Exposed: Voter Fraud Is Built Into the System

Join us on Based Camp today for a detailed discussion on vulnerabilities in US voting systems, including same-day registration without ID, vouching rules in states like Minnesota, challenges verifying citizenship, and risks with deceased voters on rolls. The conversation examines real-world examples and state policies that make exploitation possible, along with broader implications for election integrity. Simone and Malcolm review evidence from hidden camera investigations, compare rules across multiple states, and address why certain safeguards remain absent despite ongoing concerns. They also touch on related topics like enforcement gaps and the impact of immigration on voter rolls. Show Notes We fell down this voter registration rabbit hole because someone posted this video to the Based Camp subreddit. Minnesota Minnesota has a same-day voter-registration vouching rule whereby a registered voter in the same precinct may legally vouch for the residence of up to eight otherwise-unregistered voters; all they need to do is sign a sworn oath that they personally know each person lives in that precinct. What “up to eight” means Minnesota Statutes § 201.061 permits a voter to establish residence at the polls through a registered precinct voter’s sworn verification. The basic requirements are: * The voucher must already be registered in that precinct. * The voucher must personally know that the applicant lives in that precinct. * The voucher signs an oath in front of an election judge. * The applicant also signs an oath regarding identity and eligibility. * An ordinary registered voter may vouch for no more than eight people in one election. For reference, the “voiched-for” person: * Does not need to have a photo ID: They can either provide a drivers license/ID number *or* the last four digits of their social security number * Minnesota’s Secretary of State says that every voter registration is verified against Department of Public Safety, Social Security Administration, and other records, and specifically says Election Day registrations—including registrations using vouching—are verified by local officials after the election. * The Secretary of State says a discrepancy found in that process is referred to local law enforcement for investigation and possible prosecution * Note: While MN has prosecuted people for submitting registrations using fictitious identities and information, nobody has been prosecuted for this. * Does not need a document proving residence What James O’Keefe Did In the video, O’Keefe and affiliated reporters asked Minneapolis-area poll workers whether a registered voter could bring in multiple people without ID and vouch for them. Workers reportedly explained the eight-person limit and the residency requirement; in one exchange, a worker said he could return with additional people until reaching eight. Problem with what James O’Keefe did is he gave another man’s information to poll workers, without this guy’s knowledge or consent. Other States That Allow Same-Day Registration Without ID Minnesota is distinctive because it lets a pre-registered local voter’s sworn oath substitute for the new registrant’s documentary proof of residence, allowing a regular ballot rather than automatically requiring a provisional one, HOWEVER * Other states permit unregistered people to show up and register-and-vote on Election Day without necessarily handing over a government photo ID Some are OK: Maine, Virginia & Michigan * You can fill out a provisional ballot without an ID that gets counted unless officials determine the person was ineligible. Some are less OK: Colorado * You can vote even if you don’t have a government ID *or* the last four numbers of your social security number, you just have to indicate you don’t have them on a form * According to the National conference of State Legislatures, “Colorado developed its own electronicpoll book system that is networked to communicate with the statewide voter registration database in real time. All jurisdictions have access to the system to check that a new registrant has not registered or voted in a different county in the same election.” * THIS DOES NOT CHECK FOR CITIZENSHIP: The real-time electronic-poll-book function in that quotation is primarily a duplicate-registration / double-voting control: it lets Colorado election officials see whether a person has already registered or been issued/cast a ballot elsewhere in the state for that election. It is not, by itself, a real-time citizenship-verification system * Colorado does not generally require every registrant to submit documentary proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a passport, birth certificate, or naturalization certificate. Its normal framework relies on the citizenship question and signed attestation, along with registration-list maintenance and database checks. Hawaii * According to the National conference of State Legislatures,“To register, applicants must provide their Hawaii driver license, state ID, last four digits of their social security number, or voter ID, which will be confirmed when received by the clerk’s office. Applicant makes a sworn affirmation that they have not voted and are qualified to vote. Any applicant providing false information may be guilty of a Class C felony pursuant to state law.” Vermont * Generally people can register and vote the day of an election without a photo ID * A registrant must identify themselves and/or provide required documentation under the registration rules * A post-election audit can identify people registered and voting in more than one town BUT THAT ASSUMES AN AUDIT IS CONDUCTED AND THAT THAT PARTICULAR VOTE WAS AUDITED States That Don’t Require Voter ID For Already-Registered Voters 14 states and D.C. let already-registered, in-person voters cast a ballot without presenting an ID document under their ordinary poll rules. These states use measures such as signing a poll book or affidavit, stating name/address, comparing a signature to the voter file, or checking a registration list. They include California, D.C., Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. Citizenship and Voter Registration is SCARY The United States lacks a single complete database that can instantly verify citizenship for every person. States that are actually careful about ensuring citizenship are the exception, not the rule. As of the cited 2026 state-policy summaries, five states were expected to require documentary citizenship proof from all people registering or updating a registration for the 2026 midterms: * Arizona * New Hampshire * South Dakota * Utah * Wyoming Louisiana also had a requirement enacted but not yet implemented. Rules can be subject to litigation, implementation dates, and federal-form limitations, so “law on the books” and “operative procedure” can differ. States that don’t require documented proof of citizenship would need to cross-check against the Department of Homeland Services’ Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (aka SAVE). * a SAVE non-match or failure to verify cannot be treated as conclusive proof of noncitizenship; election officials must do further verification and allow the affected person an opportunity to respond before an adverse action USCIS’s expanded SAVE program became more available to election officials in 2025. The Bipartisan Policy Center reported that 22 state election offices had SAVE information-sharing agreements as of December 2025; later reporting described roughly 26 states with agreements completed or in progress. * An agreement means the office may be able to make citizenship-related queries; it does not establish that the state automatically checks every new applicant, runs the full voter roll, or cancels registrations solely on a SAVE result * So that means roughly half of states HAVE THE ABILITY to check for citizenship, but whether they actually do is another matter. Some states have publicly announced that they check for citizenship, namely: * North Carolina * The State Board announced in April 2026 that it would check citizenship of all registered voters against federal databases to identify and remove ineligible noncitizens. * Texas * Reporting says Texas election officials uploaded the full voter-registration list to SAVE for mass verification. * Tennessee * Likewise reported to have uploaded its full voter roll to SAVE. * Utah * SB 300 requires the lieutenant governor to register with DHS’s SAVE program for voter-list-maintenance purposes. * Kentucky * 2025 legislation authorized use of SAVE to verify citizenship of people in the statewide voter-registration system and required cancellation procedures subject to the law’s safeguards. * Idaho * Since March 20, 2026, people registering through the BMV must provide citizenship documentation or have already provided it. * Florida * Adopted a 2026 law scheduled for January 1, 2027: applicants whose citizenship cannot be verified through the DMV must receive notice and have 30 days to supply proof. The Dead Voter Problem A useful benchmark from voter-registration research is that if the mortality rate among registered voters is roughly 1% annually and deaths are removed once per year, the average deceased record would remain on the roll for about half a year. A deceased person may remain on an active voter roll temporarily because: * Death data can take time to reach the state vital-records agency and the election office. * A voter may die in another state or abroad, complicating matching. * Name, date-of-birth, or address differences can prevent an automatic high-confidence match. * Officials must avoid falsely removing a living voter who happens to match a death record. * Federal and state law impose procedures for maintaining and removing voter records. The National Voter Registration Act permits re

4 days ago

American Political Influencers ... In Eastern Europe? (The Globalisation of the Culture War)

In this wide-ranging interview, Romanian streamer and VTuber Romanian TV discusses his journey from early 2000s leftism to opposing modern identity politics and censorship. He explains how Reddit bans during the Gamergate era radicalized him and why Eastern European perspectives differ sharply from those in the US and UK. The conversation covers algorithmic suppression replacing old-school bans, the rise of safety rhetoric as a control tool, digital ID schemes, and the coming privacy scandals around home robots. Romanian TV also shares insights on Romanian culture, immigration, historical Muslim integration, and why anime themes now align more with right-leaning values than Western entertainment. Episode Transcript Malcolm Collins: Hello. I’m excited to be here with VTV or Romanian TV, the guy who used to VTube as a troll. I don’t know if you still do that. But he is one of the as I hear from everyone, one of the longest streamers in, like, the right wing online sort of YouTube space. And when our channel before we were even a right wing channel, he was one of our most overlapped channels in terms of subscribers, which I always thought was very interesting. And that’s actually where I first found his channel, and I started watching it. It’s fantastic. And somebody suggested we have him on, and I’m really excited to talk. And what I wanted to start with was you have become a somewhat large figure in within right wing, you know, Internet tubing or whatever you wanna call it, American politics, but you are Romanian. When did you start focusing and and, like, living in Romania, not, like, ethnically Romanian. When did you start focusing on American politics, and how did that happen for you? Romanian TVee:Yeah. Well, I didn’t start calling myself as a right wing at first. I I just didn’t like this whole culture that was coming from, I I guess, The United well, not really The United States. It was more like the Anglosphere, this this feminist culture where there is no room for disagreement. It is full on identity politics. It was being pushed everywhere, gaming, TV shows, every type of medium. So I didn’t start as, like, here’s my, political body Malcolm Collins:for Actually, I I wanna pull apart this because this is something Okay. This is something that we’ve had with, like, pretty much everyone who we’ve had on our show who is now considered, like, a far right Internet YouTuber. And they all started, us included, as even us, I wouldn’t say maybe you weren’t a leftist at the beginning, but I was definitely. Simone was definitely. And when we go to other people, like, we go to Leaflet and we have her on stream, she’s like, the thing that woke me up was streaming Hogwarts legacy. And then people came and attacked me for that, and then I began to radicalize. And with a lot of people, it’s like there was this one moment where they’re like, Like, maybe I actually do have a political side in this fight. Do you remember what that moment was for you when that happened? Romanian TVee:Well, I mean, I was a leftist as well, but a leftist in the early two thousands was something completely different than what a leftist is now. In 2000, if you didn’t hate homosexuals and you were an atheist, you were labeled a leftist. Malcolm Collins:So yeah. Simone Collins:Yeah. Yeah. So I Malcolm Collins:and we definitely fit into into that category of leftism. But do you have a a moment or, like, when you began to identify politically, do you remember anything that pushed you in that direction? Was it, like, people were attacking you for something or, you saw something that just seemed so ridiculous? Romanian TVee:I think it was, when Reddit started censoring. there was a conversation with TotalBiscuit that, was very polite. It it had absolutely nothing rude done to it. And he was discussing I think it was, like, the Zoe Quinn scandal at the time. And everyone was getting banned around him. Like, at the time for in in the Internet to see something like that was unthinkable. And I was like, okay. Who are these people? What do they want? And they were left wing. And it’s like, well, if that’s what left wing is, then I should stand against it because I I don’t agree with the fact that the Internet should be controlled and censored to the point where political opinions cannot be discussed anymore. Malcolm Collins:He he was discussing the what scandal? Sorry. This is a part of Internet history I’m not aware of. Romanian TVee:So there was this indie game developer that was called Zoe Quinn at the time, and she Malcolm Collins:was Oh, the Zoe Quinn. Oh, you’re talking about the original game stuff. Yeah. Romanian TVee:It was way back. Right? And he basically I was trying to understand what was going on, and Reddit was just banning everyone around him. Like, there were hundreds of accounts banned. And then you you you realize their idea was, like, no platform for fascists, and they would define who a fascist is. And so yeah. And, actually, this Malcolm Collins:this has me realize something that I didn’t really fully like, this is my first time realizing it. But back in the day on Reddit, I’m talking, like, ten years ago when I voted all all leftists, even after this point, I ran a leftist political organization essentially that, like, took donations and worked on campaigns. And yet when I was on Reddit, my primary subreddits have today all been deleted. They were things like Tumblr in action and fat people hate and the red pill. And I I loved these types of subreddit, but I never considered myself right wing because I didn’t consider these types of views right wing. And I think that they were defined as right wing. I think today if you told this to somebody, Tumblr in action was not actually a right wing subreddit. Fat people hate was not actually a right wing subreddit. The red one wasn’t even a right wing subreddit. Right? If you told people that today, they’d be like, that can’t actually be true, but it was actually true for a period. Romanian TVee:Yeah. To be a right wing at the time, I think, you needed to be, like, in support of George Bush, the paperback. you needed to be in support of, Middle Eastern conflicts that, you know, like, America is chosen by God in order to bring democracy to the Middle East. Like, those were the talking points. And it was also against, you know, like, standing against gay marriage, standing against atheism. Completely different than what right wing ended up. Right? And this is kinda normal, like, you look at different points in history, like, wing and right wing, the politicians at the time support as policies. And they they can change and shift. Like, they have the same general idea, but you couldn’t be a right wing, for example, and be an atheist before the Bush era. Right? Malcolm Collins:No. No. It is very true. Very true. Romanian TVee:Yeah. Like, right now, nobody cares if you say, yeah. I’m a Trump supporter, and I don’t believe in god. They will be like, well, I mean, okay. Malcolm Collins:Let me like, Sargon of Akkad is one of the biggest figures in our space, and he’s an atheist. Romanian TVee:He is an atheist. Yes. Yeah. I mean, he promotes Christianity because he likes the cultural aspect but he doesn’t believe in, like, life after death. What? He’s gonna be so right? And so nobody has a problem with that. Like, nobody is saying, like, why is an atheist leading a right wing movement now? Of course, course, that can change. Like, at some point, maybe people will say again, but, like, right now, it’s it’s definitely so the right wing then, it was completely different than now. Malcolm Collins:Well, here’s a question I have for you because this happened to us. So after we began to and I and we made our switch way after you. We probably didn’t make a switch really fully until maybe, like, a year and a half ago. And for us, it was because we kept going viral. We’re saying the fertility rate is low, and that’s gonna cause, like, problems with, like, Social Security and stuff. And people kept calling us racist for saying that. And then eventually, we talked to right wing people, and they were, like, really nice and accepting. I was like, okay. Like, I guess I wanna be part of this community. And one thing that changed about us is a lot of our views began to change after we were in the right wing community for a while and felt comfortable having these tests. So for example, I began to more critically say, no. It’s not just that children shouldn’t gender transition. It’s that the entire gender transition phenomenon might be a problem. And I began to say, like, actually, we should probably be pretty restrictive on abortion. Did you have any of these moments where, like, major concepts where you changed, or they just that the whole political spectrum migrated around you? Romanian TVee:Well, I mean, I’m from Eastern Europe, and we we still have the strong communist culture even after communism. And communism was all about censorship and controlling what people think, not just what they say. And so the moment, like, I saw how the modern left was behaving in The US, I didn’t need a specific moment. Like, immediately, when you say, oh, these opinions aren’t allowed. These ideas are not okay. I was like, no. Absolutely not. And then I remember when started saying believe on women, and there was, like, this cultish, like, mega church, if you will, with, like, huge panel behind, and it’s, like, believe on women. And I was, like, like, women has the depth of ethical thinking because women are people. And some people lie, some people speak the truth. And the idea that you should just automatically believe, like, a class of people that do the thinking for you was giving me all sorts of red flags. So, no, like, there wasn’t, like, a specific moment or a specific policy that made me decide that this is an ideology I should

11 Sept

Angels/Watchers/Nephilim: Are They An Extra-Dimensional Civilization? (Exploring A Bible Theory)

In this Tract Series episode, we review a an argument presented by Graf Herzog Kaiser on X exploring the hypothesis that angels are a distinct extra-dimensional species with their own society, technology, and history. The discussion examines how this view aligns with a serious reading of the Bible, including Genesis 6, the Nephilim, and references in Enoch, while contrasting it with materialist monist and Techno Puritan perspectives. We analyze biblical descriptions of angels in human form, as radiant beings, and as multidimensional entities, along with connections to ancient myths and the Book of Enoch. The conversation highlights the value of open, evidence-based inquiry into scripture and reality, even when hypotheses differ from our own framework. Huge thanks to Graf for the thoughtful and beautifully produced argument! Episode Transcript Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today, we are going to be doing something unique, which is reviewing a fan made video on the track series, which is proposing an alternative hypothesis that angels are a separate, essentially, species. Species is the wrong word. Extra dimensional beings. And I have actually argued this in the past, and people can say, well, that seems to contradict a lot of the other stuff you say about angels or heaven or anything like that. And the reason I wanted to review this is, one, to clarify in my own beliefs, like, what sort of people I think are genuinely trying to figure out what’s true, and I put in the larger umbrella of having beliefs similar to ours and, this techno puritan tree. It’s not about agreeing with whatever we think about the world. It’s about being on a genuine quest to try to determine believing that the bible is a a a serious book saying serious meaningful things, but in a way that is not just obviously incompatible with reality as we observe it. Simone Collins:Agree. Yes. Malcolm Collins:So if I was going to way two different things here. One person says to me, angels are a a separate race with their own, you know, military structure, governance structure of extra dimensional entities that serve god who created the universe. Right? One person says that, and that sounds weird. And that sounds anti Christian to a lot of people because it’s not something you know, you you say it in Sunday school or whatever. But it’s not actually at odds. Like, if you in the way I do, like, really interested in in reading the bible and trying to understand it. Is that actually that particularly at odds with with the bible, and it’s not at odds with our current understanding of reality or science or anything like that? Yeah. Whereas, if another person comes to me and says something like, I think there recently was a global spanning flood that killed all land animals. I’m like, that doesn’t appear not just in the geological record, but we would see it in the genetic record from different animals. They wouldn’t speciate at all these various periods in history unless God was just intentionally trying to f with us. Right? Like, you’re messing with the record to as, like, a test of faith or something, which I, you know, don’t don’t think is the way that god works. Alternatively, if angels were and and we’ll go over this. And I think this is interesting because it’s it’s not what I believe, but I think it’s totally plausible with both our current understanding of science and a straight reading of the bible. An alternate type of being with its own culture, governance structure, military structure, way of living. I and I and I said, I’m I’m looking at the bible. I would not think the bible had deceived me about the nature of angels. I I would say, okay. Yeah. This seems to align with a lot of the way the bible talks about angels in various parts. So let’s go into this. And what’s really cool about how he did this is he built it as an AI because he’s practicing his AI skills in terms of putting this together. So let’s go. Graf Herzog Kaiser:Before I begin, I want to mention how valuable I have personally found your track series to be. I don’t align with your beliefs entirely, but I am continuously surprised at how much I do agree with considering my theological background. This is my response to your invitation for commentary on the topic of angels taking human wives in the antediluvian world as described in Genesis. This is not intended to sway you to the position presented, only to provide an expanded perspective. Some information aligns with your materialist monist perspective, some may not. I hope you find it enlightening all the same. I want to credit Timothy Alberino with much of the information I want to introduce. Malcolm Collins:So a few things here. one, I like the AI work, the the camera angles and stuff like this, you know, using Kavka plus AI to put this together. Simone Collins:Yeah. Brock Imagine is when he made this in. Malcolm Collins:Yeah. I I think this looks really good. Simone Collins:It looks great. Malcolm Collins:The second thing is is Timothy Alberino, has really interesting ideas. I decided to look him up after this. I don’t what’s what’s interesting is I would consider everything within this belief system under techno empiricism. I would not even though it’s radically different from our beliefs, it seems to be a genuine search for the truth. I would not consider Timothy Alberino’s own beliefs under the the Simone Collins:the Techno puritan umbrella? Malcolm Collins:Yeah. And the reason being is a major one of Timothy Alberino’s beliefs or a lot of his belief system seems to be constructed to argue that some humans, will not be able to be saved by Christ if they have engaged in significant technological or genetic modification of themselves. EG, any sort of, like, some amount of genetic engineering, some amount of AI integration, some amount of, and I just I think that that’s a so Simone Collins:That seems incredibly arbitrary. Malcolm Collins:It is incredibly arbitrary. Speaker 11:And I’d go further than to call his views arbitrary. I would say they are very clearly anti biblical. Throughout the Bible, we hear that god’s interest is focused on beings called the sons of man. Why does he need to distinguish the sons of man from men unless the sons of man includes types of beings that today we would not consider men, e g genetically modified, integrated with AI, whatever. It’s a very odd word that is consistently used throughout the bible, very odd framing. There’s no need to word it that way unless you were talking about something that is descended from man but not man. And worse than that, he’s in an anti biblical way acting as a moderator of God’s grace. Being like, well, you know, if you do x amount of genetic modification, now God’s grace can’t reach you. Like, what? Like, especially if the Bible seems to imply the exact opposite, that’s quite, in my view, like, a deeply bad thing to insinuate Speaker 13:Now I don’t want to overstate his position here. He is actually pretty flexible. Specifically, it’s not just any amount of genetic engineering. It’s he’s very interested in adding nonhuman sequences to the human genetic line. Specifically, in an interview, he has said that human to human genetic repair that stays inside the human matrix is fine. He’s more interested in nonhuman segments of being within the human body, but this I find almost, like, worse when you actually think about it. It’s like somebody gets to heaven. obviously, this isn’t the way it works, but I’m I’m speaking in in analogy here. And they’re like, oh, sorry. At one point, your heart was repaired with a pig valve. You gotta go to god Jesus grace just can’t reach you if you if you had your heart repaired with a pig valve. Or as we get better with medicine and we make it so that, you know, somebody’s dying and their liver can be replaced with a genetically modified pig liver. Right? Oh, they don’t get into heaven? That’s insane. That is genuinely, like, insane to me, to think that God’s grace is so incredibly limited. Speaker 14:As a note, he has said that he doesn’t think that artificial valves and stuff like that prevent you from being subject to God’s grace, but he’s never addressed the topic of xenoinplantations. and I’m sure if he did because his argument doesn’t seem very serious to me, he’d just fold and take the easy answer and say, no, of course, when that goes against what his actual theology says. Because I think it’s a theology that it’s he feels comfortable having now because he doesn’t need to talk to somebody face to face and say, you, individual, are not subject to Christ’s grace anymore. Speaker 15:This is one of those beliefs that’s easy to have now because of the anxieties he has around how humanity is changing and how the world is changing around him. but the moment he needs to, you know, in a crowd, point at some five year old kid and say, god’s grace doesn’t reach this kid because he underwent some genetic modification to not die at a young age of cancer or something like that. One, he loses the crowd in that moment because, you know, it goes against this the sons of man stuff from the bible. But two, it’s just obviously not the way God operates, and everyone would immediately see that the moment he’s talking about real people instead of hypothetical people. and keep in mind how broad his theology would actually reach. You know? This would rule god’s grace out of of anyone who is, diabetic and using insulin that comes from, you know, hept in from pigs’ gut structures and stuff like that. it’s it’s just not a theology that seems coherent with a just god, or coherent with what the Bible says. Speaker 16:And as a final note here, if you wanna say something like, well, that’s not exactly what sons of man would have meant to a Jew of this time period giv

10 Sept

Lindsey Clancy is Not the Problem; Women Are (We Did Not Want to Make this Episode)

This episode examines the Lindsay Clancy case in detail, including why it does not align with postpartum psychosis based on clinical insights from a trauma nurse. It explores historical and cross-cultural patterns of infanticide, legal responses in various societies, and the role of cultural and religious frameworks in shaping attitudes toward child protection. The discussion also covers the mother-baby dyad concept in modern medicine and its potential influence on perceptions of maternal responsibility. Listeners will gain a deeper understanding of anthropological data on neonaticide and infanticide rates, comparisons across hunter-gatherer groups and historical societies, and proposals for building stronger cultural safeguards. The conversation emphasizes evidence-based analysis while addressing broader societal implications for preventing such tragedies. Episode Transcript Malcolm Collins:. Hello, Simone. I know this is gonna be a hard episode to you for you. as our watchers know, we have avoided talking about the topic of the Lindsay child I can’t handle it. Because it emotionally affects my wife so much. Simone Collins:I can’t log on the Internet. I just want all the kids to be okay. Malcolm Collins:I recently wanted to go into two parts of this in detail that I haven’t seen other people talk about a lot. And they were brought up by a fan outreach to us because I originally was of the opinion, and I know this is going to piss off our fans, that I thought that it was plausible, perhaps even very likely Simone Collins:That Lindsay Clancy had postpartum psychosis. Malcolm Collins:however, I received new, breakdown of the what it’s like when a woman is in that from one of our fans who is a nurse and works regularly with women in postpartum psychosis that convinced me that this was not a case of postpartum psychosis. The second thing that I wanted to explore is why do women kill their babies at such high rates? And this is something that I was unaware of both in terms of our culture and in terms of other cultures. If you look over the course of a child’s entire lifetime, the rates are about equal for husband and and wives. But if you look at infancy, the rates are overwhelming for wives. Simone Collins:Well, that’s because they’re overwhelmingly around the women and not the dads. Malcolm Collins:Well, it’s also true if you look at cross cultural infanticide. So, there’s Simone Collins:Why does that change? The women have the boobs. The there’s been some Malcolm Collins:studies on this. If you look at, bird cell, estimated systematic infanticide in hunter forager groups, it was at between 1550% depending on the groups. Simone Collins:Woah. Woah. Woah. Woah. Woah. Woah. Malcolm Collins:The rate sits around 41%. If we look at the Aceh in Paraguay, the homicide rate and this is before the age of 10, so they they kill much later, which is unusual, is between ten and fourteen percent. If we look at the and this is one of these things when people talk about, like, uncontacted groups, and we need to preserve their lifestyle. Simone Collins:Not. No. I’m I’m like, man. Malcolm Collins:No. Eraticate their lifestyle. What are you talking about? Simone Collins:It out. End it. Malcolm Collins:This reminds me of this African story that I had to read in school about, like, how colonialism was so bad. And in it, they talk about leaving one twin always to die in the woods, and and they talk about this is, like, this horrible thing that, like, colonizers were ending this practice. And I was like, what are you talking? Colonize out of these people. Yes. Bend them over a log and colonize this. Because, clearly, they aren’t handling things on their own. Okay? Speaker 4:It’s the book Things Fall Apart where this is described, which was assigned reading in my school because they thought it made the Christians look bad. Malcolm Collins:Mhmm. If we look at the Inuit people, this was a a Ramessen 1931. Of the ‘96 births recalled by parents, thirty eight girls were killed. That is forty percent of them. If we look at Australian aboriginal groups in the nineteenth century, this is Kelsaw Yongenden, they put rates at between fifteen and thirty percent. And so I wanna understand why this happens. Why do you get these incredibly high rates of mothers killing their offspring? What does the science say? What do other sources say? And I also sat Simone Collins:with Wait. Wait. Wait. So what you’re saying basically is, like, without strong cultural or statutory or both guardrails, women just be killing their babies? Malcolm Collins:In fact, it is so common, and the nurse goes over this, which we’ll get to later in this piece. Simone Collins:Yeah. Shout out to you, by the way. We, like, really love and respect you, so thanks for running in. In many countries You’re the only reason why we’re doing this, and it’s your fault that I’m not gonna sleep tonight, but I love you anyway. Malcolm Collins:In many countries outside The United States, it is it is until fairly recently in legal history, it was legal for moms to kill their their kids. Simone Collins:Well, I mean, she pointed out that even in was it Brazil? Like, the maximum sentence is three years Speaker 6:So I decided to look up the case of Brazil, and it’s not that the maximum sentence is three years. It’s just that that’s around what mothers often get. For some recent cases, there was the Bella Horizonte case where the baby was left in a dumpster, and this she only got two years and nine months for. Then there was the Baluma case where a baby was stabbed with scissors, and she only got two years, two months, and twenty days. Malcolm Collins:or some other It was Brazil and Japan and China. Simone Collins:Very licenses. You did it, and you admitted you did it. Now please serve your three years in jail for kill. And this is, like, one of the worst crimes I could imagine. No. You don’t get three months. This is an innocent child. Like, it’s one thing if, like, oh, you you killed an adult. Like, they had a good run. Okay? But, like, a child, an infant, this Malcolm Collins:is Well, I mean, Simone, you gotta keep in mind, you talk about other cultures is doing this. As it’s, like, horrifying thing when we know this was common and normalized in ancient Rome until they became Christian. Simone Collins:Always thought until today that this was, like, men or even, like, external people to the family resting sick, nonviable babies from, you know, screaming mothers who were too weak in their postpartum state to fight back. Malcolm Collins:No. It’s almost always the mothers. And in fact, it’s even almost always the mothers. So I was reading cross cultural analysis. Simone Collins:The most cruel and sick thing in the world. Like, the a baby the the only safe place you have is a kid. Like, that’s supposed to be the final safe refuge. I know you killed by that. Malcolm Collins:So what’s important to note is, when mothers do it, because the, Lindsey Clancy case actually does not match the anthropological record. K. The anthropological record, the normal time to do this is before you start nursing the baby. With the the hormonal chemicals that create the bonding to the infant, that process happens with weaning, and that makes it much harder for the mother to kill the infant. Whereas in many cultures, what happens is they go into the woods. Basically, they have the kid with the other women, and then they, without the husband having any input at all, they get to decide if they wanna keep the baby or not. This is the way that it works in many hunter gatherer societies. Basically, the wife and the other women who are involved in the birthing process. Simone Collins:No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Malcolm Collins:And and and in forty percent of cases, they decided they didn’t want them. So I want to no. Simone Collins:Mean, Maybe we need to rethink this whole prenatalism thing. I don’t think we’re Malcolm Collins:Not for everyone, Simone. Not for all cultures. And I think that this is something that we’re increasingly understanding. Simone Collins:Culture until the eighties didn’t give anesthesia to infants they were operating on. They just gave them paralytics. Malcolm Collins:We’re I understand. And we have to move and create a new techno puritan society that helps everyone else stay in line where I I mean, I I think that’s the only option. Right? But I think what what I wanted to before I go into the Lindsey, Kancy, and the nurse stuff is to highlight for people is I think in our existing culture, both the pro choice and the pro life movement, I think, has trivialized the life of children. And I I don’t wanna say that again. I think the pro life movement has trivialized the life of children. Because if you look cross culturally outside of Christian and Jewish communities, killing babies was historically the norm. We’ve pointed out that, like, in Rome, Tacticus, who were retaining one of our future kids after complained that the Jews didn’t kill babies. He thought it was like a weird vegan thing. He’s like, why why are they doing this? It’s annoying. Right? Like, it’s something every every other society in human history understands that sometimes you just expose babies when it’s they’re inconvenient for you or whatever. Simone Collins:Maybe we need to rethink that name. Malcolm Collins:He he was cool in most other respects, and it was from the pre Christian period. Okay? But the I’m getting the angry look for my wife. but to continue here, I wanna go over this argument from the nurse because I found this really compelling. So she said, not sure if this is something you plan to touch at all, but in the discourse around Lindsay Calancey, seems very surface level, and I think there are a lot of things we can glean for both the crime and the reaction at large, especially if we try to look at the historic parallels. I

9 Sept

Over 300 Plants Found Controlling Media: Our Old Friend Group Went Rouge & Wants to Destroy AI

Malcolm and Simone break down new reporting from effort.news exposing how effective altruism organizations spent tens of millions funding anti-AI narratives across journalism, YouTube explainer channels, and religious groups. They discuss the circular donor ecosystem, undisclosed grants, and the impact on public discourse. The conversation covers specific examples from The Guardian, Time Magazine, Kurzgesagt, and multiple faith organizations, along with personal context from their own grant history with the Survival and Flourishing Fund. They also address the mental health effects of doomer messaging and why the arguments fail under scrutiny. Shout out to Matthew Seagren / @MatchewXD who created the wasp clip! Show Notes The Media Astroturfing Brian covered this on Effort.News in an article titled: How Effective Altruism Bought the Media. They found “Potemkin articles, in which claims are fabricated, corroborated, and published as journalism by members of an insular donor ecosystem” They explore the issue through a guardian article that six people collaborated to publish, all of whom were paid for by three megadonors. The Guardian did NOT disclose these sources of funds, and, as Brian’s article puts it: “In a fundraising statement attached to the article, the Guardian proclaims its “fierce independence.”” The payments: * The Guardian: Paid over $3M by Coefficient Giving * The reporter, Aisha Down, paid $60-$110K through the Coefficient Giving’s Tarbell Fellowship, which pays her salary * The quoted experts were all recipients of funds from either SFF, Coefficient, or the Effective Ventures Foundation. The reporter does not justify her reasoning behind calling these people “experts” despite these “experts” publicly admitting their predictions were off by years, if not decades. * Henry Papadatos paid $620,000 * Malcolm Murray, paid $129,376 plus $47.1M to affiliated institutions * Andrea Castagna, paid $30,000 and the recipient of two undisclosed grants * The subjects of the story Daniel Kokotajlo, paid $2,851,166 * Given $400K by Coefficient * Given a $2M grant by the Survival and Flourishing Fund (which also was the biggest ever grant-giver to the Pragmatist Foundation—$500K!) As Brian puts it: “All six belong to a circular ecosystem known as “AI Safety,” united around the belief that AI will end the human race. What Down promotes as ‘expertise’ is not merely unrigorous or exaggerated — it is a work of cultlike fiction which openly promotes their vision of the AI apocalypse. This belief underwrites millions spent annually on promoting a firehose of anti-AI narratives with the goal of banning AI outright — the price of preventing the apocalypse.” “This ecosystem is bankrolled by three megadonors — Dustin Moskovitz’s Open Philanthropy, Sam Bankman-Fried’s Center for Effective Altruism (CEA), and Jaan Tallinn’s Survival and Flourishing Fund. The media arm of this empire has over $40 million in donations and includes paid journalists, influencers, and religious groups.” Apparently the Center for Effective Altruism rebranded to the Effective Ventures Foundation after the SBF fallout and Open Philanthropy rebranded to Coefficient Giving after distancing itself from SBF. $17.9M has gone to print $13.9M to video content $4.87M to political advocacy $2.66 film and fiction $1.81M to religious NGOs $1.35M to other The Tarbell Fellowship program is how Coefficient Giving influences media coverage; it uses it to pay the salaries of over 20 journalists at major news outlets. TIME is their biggest fellowship Recipient; Brian found that 58/100 of the TIME 100 profiles were written by Tarbell-paid journalists. He also shared leaked emails showing how AI safety orgs sponsor anti-AI content on YouTube and showed channels that have been funded by these orgs, including: * Kurzgesagt ($5.83M) * Rational Animations ($2.53M) * A Primer ($300K) * A Happier World ($150K) * Space Science Guy ($24K) And he points out how the AI-doomerism-sponsored videos perform between 12% and 89% worse than these channels’ normal videos. Related to this, Sabine posted about her experience being contacted by these orgs. What Sabine covers in her YouTube video: * She says an organization asked her to make an AI-risk video with prescribed sentences and references, * So it’s clear the messaging can go beyond simple sponsorship. * She also points out that it’s not just anti-AI orgs reaching out to content creators, Taylor Lorenz being offered $5,000 to make a tiktok video about the USA’s need to outcompete China with AI by Build American AI * My god did they ever make a stupid choice on who to contact * She points out these organizations would be dumb to NOT try to sponsor content, but she doesn’t like that political lobbying is flooding into science and tech reporting * BTW, her sponsor for that episode was Ground News, which another YouTuber hilariously attempted to claim was some sort of right-wing psyop ‘because what’s the point of showing both sides of an argument when one side of the political spectrum is just wrong’ The Religious Astroturfing Brian & Co. reported on this under: AI Safety Donors Paid Religious NGOs $3.3M for Statements on AI on Effort.News They find it rich that largely atheistic EAs are trying to get religious people to believe that AI will bring the end times. As it’s put in the article: “The AI Safety movement descends from rationalist and new atheist roots. Its core belief — that AI will literally end all human life — often draws comparisons to doomsday cults like Heaven’s Gate. Yet with enough funding, some churches are willing to square that belief with the Book of Revelation.” They observed that “AI Safety’s largest donors — Dustin Moskovitz and the now-convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried — were among Biden’s largest donors.” and yet when he lost the 2024 election, they were on the outs, which led them to turn to religious NGOs. “Since 2025, AI Safety donors put $3.3 million into churches, seminaries, faith networks and religious-affinity groups. It paid for pronouncements: declarations, red lines, and a “Magna Carta of AI.”” “The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America took $105,000 from [the Future of Life Institute] FLI. They credit their “red lines on AI” to “a grant from the Future of Life Institute.”2 The Gospel Coalition received $200,000 for a podcast called “Silicon Spiritualities,” without disclosing their sponsor. They later barred their writers from using AI to research, write, or edit. The World Council of Churches took $100,000 to write its “red lines.” The Mormon nonprofit Faith Matters took $299,000 for a “Magna Carta of AI.”” Their reporting shows that: * Multi-faith AI media got the most funding: $574,721 * Buddhist media came in second: $555,000 * Faith-adjacent: 550,000 “FLI, an AI Safety megadonor, runs a full-time religions program with a “Religions lead,” Will Jones, and a “U.S. Faith Liaison,” Brian J. A. Boyd. The program lists the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Vatican’s Fratelli Tutti Foundation among its partners. FLI’s grantees make up the overwhelming majority of religious signatories on statements produced by FLI and its allies.” Not all the religious astroturfing is going well: “Of FLI’s recipients, only two disclosed their donations on their project pages. Two more disclosed their donations, but only on LinkedIn. Four more made no public project-related disclosures. FLI’s other religious outreach is not progressing as smoothly. They paid a Muslim NGO for a declaration of Islamic principles and Impact Academy for a Hindu consensus statement. Neither has been delivered.” Catholic Stuff: “In September 2025, a Vatican working group chaired by papal adviser Fr. Paolo Benanti handed Pope Leo XIV an appeal for a prohibition on superintelligence “until there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably,” plus an IAEA-style inspectorate for AI labs.6 By November, FLI sat on the Vatican’s Builders AI Forum. In May 2026, it put $200,000 into two Catholic projects: a post-liberal magazine in Steubenville, Ohio, and a Slovenian faculty educating Catholic leaders on AI. FLI is using its newfound connections to support the business disputes of Anthropic, an AI-safety-linked company. In March, Boyd co-signed a Catholic theologians’ brief backing Anthropic in its dispute with the Department of War. Anthropic brought him to the company’s two-day summit with fifteen Christian thinkers.7 Then, on 25 May, Pope Leo XIV presented Magnifica Humanitas, the first encyclical devoted to artificial intelligence, and the lay speaker beside two cardinals in the Synod Hall was Chris Olah, co-founder of Anthropic.” “The AI Safety movement spends more brazenly and deceptively than almost any other political cause. This affects not just the AI debate, but theology broadly. As Nirit Weiss-Blatt puts it, “AI doomerism fills a ‘religious-shaped hole.’ For people who left religious upbringing but retain a hunger for a mission-driven community, the AI-risk subculture offers a replacement meaning system.”” Episode Transcript Simone Collins:. Hello, Malcolm. I’m very glad to be speaking with you because sweet satisfaction is at hand. We have known since the height of Sam Benjamin Fried that effective altruists have been pouring millions of dollars into AI doomerism propaganda or AI safety content as they would put it, but we didn’t have definitive receipts. And that was until two former Basecamp guests delivered them last week with Brian Chow and his effort.news revealing how effective altruism bought the media, basically. It’s it’s actually worse than you would think, Malcolm. And also how AI safety donors have paid religious NGOs 3,300,000 to make statements on AI. Then also, Sabina Hoffenfelder, who was on our

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