Nathan Eric Dickman

We feel as if we had to repair a torn spider's web with our fingers. ~Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §106

This is stunning: it looks like Iran degraded American military bases into unusability across an entire theater, simultaneously. As far as I know, no other U.S. adversary has achieved that, ever. This is directly reported in the NYT (nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/…): they write that Iran has rendered "many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops [...] all but uninhabitable." As the article describes, "there were close to 40,000 U.S. troops in the region when the war started, and Central Command has dispersed thousands of them, some to as far away as Europe." Those troops that do remain are "not on their original bases" but have been "relocated to hotels and office spaces throughout the region." Genuinely incredible.

BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The three countries voting against it? 🇺🇸 USA 🇮🇱Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina Nearly all of Europe abstained.

So what the fuck do we give them $11 billion a year for?

“Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, which is next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage.” -NYT just now First MSM admission I’ve seen of this fact

Are Western media outlets going to report this or are they still pretending there’s a ceasefire?

They’re demanding Israel release the hostages.

my biggest conspiracy theory is that these disreputable free “detectors” are not just ads for “humanizer” tools, but also false flag operations run by AI corps to sow confusion: “if even a machine can’t tell, you certainly can’t; ergo, you must accept our bots’ prose.”

White phosphorus ignites on contact with oxygen. It sticks to skin and burns down to the bone. It is very hard to extinguish. Israel is bombing Gaza and Lebanon with white phosphorus. Iran's strikes on Israel's white phosphorus factories are a service to humanity.

Takes 10 paragraphs to get to this: "police had arrested a man named Ori Solomon, a 55-year-old Israeli citizen...investigators found a cache of weapons and arrested Solomon on federal weapons charges"

Hate to think of how many students have suffered and job applications have been ignored because the software that does stuff like this basically doesn’t work.

I wish those Iran Lego videos were not AI. I like the Iran/Denmark mashup, but AI is irredeemable.

not a single major outlet is reporting on this, meanwhile we’re getting wall-to-wall coverage of chappelle roan’s bodyguard making a girl cry

"Man in military fatigues" is a new one.

NYT finally got a community note for its whitewashing language.

NYT now casually admitting the CIA/Mossad have been doing ops to try to collapse the Iranian state. This is the project that the Western media and political class, including its pseudo-radical variants like Owen Jones and Yanis Varoufakis, launder as a "heroic organic revolution"

“Cognitive Surrender” - a new study argues that use of AI leads to suspension of human reasoning, not its augmentation. The implication being that over time people will lose their reasoning ability & use AI as its substitute. Download the paper for free here, excerpts & reference below: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… ——- “As people increasingly integrate AI into their decision-making processes, they interact and engage with a cognitive system that can reshape the functions of both intuition and deliberation. For example, System 3 can replace System 1 by offering confident, ready-made answers that preempt the need for intuitive reasoning.” (page 15 of pdf) “As AI systems increasingly participate in human cognition, a new phenomenon emerges that cannot be explained by traditional concepts such as cognitive offloading or automation bias alone. We define cognitive surrender as the behavioral and motivational tendency to defer judgment, effort, and responsibility to System 3’s output, particularly when that output is delivered fluently, confidently, or with minimal friction. Unlike cognitive offloading, which is typically strategic and task-specific (e.g., using GPS to navigate), cognitive surrender entails a deeper transfer of agency.” (Page 17) “Access to System 3 outputs significantly influenced accuracy, increasing correct answers when AI was correct, and decreasing accuracy when incorrect. Access to System 3 made decision-makers more confident, despite approximately half of System 3 outputs being incorrect. Finally, users who trust AI more and have lower NFC and fluid IQ were more likely to display cognitive surrender. Whether System 3 was accurate or faulty, its presence displaced internal reasoning.” (Page 27) “Cognitive surrender was robust across studies.” (Page 42) “Across our studies, we observe that when System 3 was available, people readily engaged it and frequently adopted its answers. This shift reflects a reallocation of cognitive control rather than mere effort saving. System 3’s fluent, confident outputs are treated as epistemically authoritative, lowering the threshold for scrutiny and attenuating the metacognitive signals that would ordinarily route a response to deliberation. In the case of cognitive surrender, there is a shift in the locus of control, with an external system (System 3) occupying the default position.” (Page 45) “Time constraints clarify why surrender arises so readily, while incentives and feedback show that surrender is malleable. When decision time is scarce, the internal monitor detecting conflict and recruiting deliberation is less likely to trigger. Hence, the low-friction path to defer to external cognition becomes attractive.” (Page 46) “Tri-System Theory is not a warning about AI’s dangers but a recognition of System 3’s psychological presence. We do not merely use AI; we think with it. In doing so, we must ask new questions: What happens when our judgments are shaped by minds not our own? What becomes of intuition and effort when a generative, artificial partner stands ready to answer? How do we preserve agency, reflection, and autonomy in a world where users engage in cognitive surrender?”

they still haven’t found the driver who hit the Muslim woman in a hit and run targeted attack 2 weeks ago. Nor has it been reported on by the BBC.

Palestinian life is cheap. In the videos below we see: 1⃣An Israeli soldier just shooting a Palestinian man dead at a checkpoint for no reason at all. 2⃣An Israeli soldier just shooting a Palestinian teenager dead on the street for no reason at all. 3⃣A Jewish settler just shooting a Palestinian activist dead for no reason at all. In this case we have two videos, one taken by a third person and the other filmed by the victim himself; he can be heard uttering harrowing sounds of agony as the scene blacks out when the device he was using to record the events falls to the ground. The casualness, the coldness, the callousness with which these Israelis take Palestinian lives — the lives of people who have done absolutely nothing to them — is blood curdling. Israel is a nation that has lost its soul — if it ever had one in the first place.

The Resistance Axis versus the Epstein Axis. Iran is fighting for humanity.

“The problem is Netanyahu”, “The problem is DC”… No, the problem is the existence of the Israeli colony