Conrad Flynn

Learned only this week that my grandfather’s steampunk show anticipated my A.I. Occultism story sixty years ago to the day today. Strange and hauntological…coincidence? open.substack.com/pub/theflynnef…

@GenFlynn @willsommer Conrad Flynn, standing by.

@willsommer Me and my so called “flynn network” hard at work 😂don’t lose your sense of humor folks, stuff getting deep.

FBI director Kash Patel’s girlfriend says Michael Flynn, Tucker Carlson, Joe Kent and Candace Owens are all tied to a foreign influence operation.

‘How long you live is more about genes than diet and exercise’ is the latest study from the Keith Richards Institute For Science (KRIS).

You know it's already the end of times when these three are together in the same post...

Don't sleep on the Chuck Norris story in Jessica Simpson's memoir. amazon.com/Open-Book-Jess…

You wanted it, you got it. Here is the first ever conversation between Nick Land and John Michael Greer! As the Lofty Powers ordained by solemn providence, this discussion took place today on Pi Day, which just so happens to be Nick’s birthday. Enjoy! Link in comments.

The CIA, Gnosticism, rock and roll, and SpongeBob SquarePants! @conradflynn theflynneffect.substack.com/p/the-artist-w…

Me and my homies taunting the Amish

Imagine showing up to an isolated indigenous tribe with this

We will never forgive you for what you did in that Island

paintings by georges de la tour (1600s) are interesting as a guy in the 2020s because they are extremely beautiful while also having some of the aesthetic of a cut scene from an early PC game:

Maybe it’s time I finally write a big thing about Esoteric Trumpism.

That mid-tempo ‘80s song you heard at the store and couldn’t quite place will always be by Mike and the Mechanics, or Bruce Hornsby. Don’t both Shazaming it next time.

Lamar Odom says Kobe Bryant visited him in a dream and shared a chilling message “He looked back at me and said, ‘Hello, the afterlife is not what people make it up to be.’” (Via DOUBL3 COVERAGE, h/t @TheNBABase)

Crazy to think that a few weeks ago most Americans (myself included) had never even heard of a country called Iran. Now we can't stop thinking, and learning, about it...

The fall of Sports Illustrated had a huge impact, IMO. Getting a great cover and in-depth story in your mailbox 4-7 days after the event definitely prolonged the moment and served as anchor for the memory going forward.

I disagree with Timothee Chalamet about opera (crowd cheers), because all art is essentially bad (crowd boos), in the Culture Industry sense! (crowd cheers) except for one medium, which encompasses all previous forms (crowd nodding expectantly), “gaming” (booing intensifies)

Keith Richards once said that if you closed your eyes you’d realize that Bruce Springsteen sounds just like Neil Diamond.

Americans have been bragging “I like pretty much everything but rap and country” long before MySpace was around in the 2000s. This is from David Reisman’s 1950s essay on popular music taste among teenagers.

it’s common to refer to screens and the omnipresence of screens as “demonic”, something like hypnotism - for the internet, terms like “hellsite”, “doomscrolling”, all have this devilish lens to them. regardless of what you think of his work, joseph smith is a uniquely american figure. i see utah hooked in on the earliest internet maps - arpanet and such things - this is presumably just a coincidence. joseph smith famously had a seer stone which he allegedly used to bring forth the book of mormon. seer stones - i would file these under the folder of “scrying”, a practice where one looks into a physical item to see something beyond normal vision, has a long history. most people are familiar with crystal balls (which were actually used - polished selenite stones). joseph smith’s personal stone has a long interesting history and chain of custody. allegedly after his death it was present at the consecration of an LDS temple - possibly in manti. i believe he had more than one, and at least one was named. an actual image of one of joseph smith’s stones was released by the LDS church relatively recently, you can see that below. in some accounts of his translation of the book of mormon, he placed the stone into darkness, and it lit up (for him, personally). there is one tale where as a test, a friend switched his stone out for another, and upon placing this new false stone into darkness, smith remarks something like, “it’s dark as egypt in here”, meaning: it gives no light. then his friend is satisfied, and returns the real stone. as a unique insight into the american spirit, in my opinion seer stones serve as a kind of extended metaphor in the mormon cosmology. some say joseph smith said every person had a seer stone waiting for them, but by grace these are not revealed to us yet, as we’re presently not in the state to receive them. i believe there is a tale about an angel or spirit looking into a white stone, or receiving their “true name” on a white stone (possibly misremembering this), and there is some account i picked up somewhere that in its perfected state, the earth would even resemble a large polished stone like this. i am not saying all or many or any LDS people think this, or that i’m even recalling this accurately. i’m not an official source for such concepts, just a nerd who finds these things interesting. but i have often thought about this cosmos structure where everyone gets a seer stone, that has been waiting for them. once, i had a dream that i was in some pre-human state, and i was holding a stone, and it was kind of like a TV: i could look into and see life on earth, and was deciding what i thought about it - if it was good or evil, fair or unjust. its not a huge jump to tie the concept of a luminous stone that shows you things to today’s screens. essentially, a warped version this odd ethereal vision has become true. we all now possess the equivalent of a seer stone. show me a soldier dying. show me two people in love. what is the weather in berlin right now? i would like to hear a lecture by a harvard professor about the nicomachean ethics. show me myself twelve years ago today. the screen-stones just do what we ask. yet, apparently we all view them as some form of evil. perhaps some harmonic of my recalled tale is true: that we shan’t have access to them, because of ourselves and our internal state. don’t phones have stones in them? i’m honestly not sure. i never told one to tell me.