The police are finally acknowledging that several women have disappeared near Rayners Lane. Within forty-eight hours, the tunnel had a ghost. Within seventy-two hours, the ghost had a Victorian backstory, a name, and a TikTok series. I nearly didn't make this episode, because normally I stay about a million miles away from active crime sprees but nothing makes me angrier than hoaxes, so someone has to say it clearly: real tragedies don't become paranormal events they become u

A video of what appears to be a shimmering oval aperture above a car park in Ohio has forty million views. I've watched it eleven times. It's lens flare off a wet surface interacting with a telephoto compression artifact, and I can show you exactly where the flare originates. This happens every few months: someone films something genuinely strange-looking and the dimensional rift crowd gets there before anyone with an optics textbook. Today we're looking at why cameras lie, w

TikTok this summer has been wall-to-wall angels. I want to be careful here because I'm not interested in arguing about faith, and that's not what this episode is. This episode is about image artefacts. Specifically: how diffusion models generate hands with six fingers and halos with impossible light sources, what compression does to fine detail in a low-resolution security feed, and why the visual grammar of AI-generated imagery maps so neatly onto the visual grammar of relig

Yes. This again. It's not me, it's you. Your ratings have put The Age of Disclosure's nuclear-site UAP sightings back in the news, and the claims are specific enough to actually investigate. Today we're going site by site to Malmstrom, Minot, Rendlesham and Loring to place our peepers on what the security architecture at these facilities actually looks like: the sensor coverage, the access protocols, the alert thresholds. If something genuinely unknown was operating in restri

Meta has started giving its AI assistants profile pictures, bios, and posting schedules, and Dead Internet Theory is back with a vengeance. We covered this in Season 2, but it deserves a revisit because the landscape has shifted. The original theory was that bots had already taken over. The new version is that the line between synthetic and real is being deliberately blurred by the platforms themselves, which is a more specific and more troubling claim. Today we're looking at

The Age of Disclosure just premiered at SXSW to standing ovations and a Variety review that called it 'the most credible UFO documentary ever made,' which is true and also not a compliment. Thirty-four senior government officials carefully say very little. Today we're going through the specific claims, testimony, radar data, and sensor footage — and asking the question the film keeps carefully not asking: compelling testimony and compelling evidence are not the same thing, an

DeepSeek dropped R1 on January 20th, trained it for a reported six million dollars, and by the 27th had wiped nearly six hundred billion from Nvidia's market cap in a single day. Both reactions - gaah the 'America is finished' crowd and the gahh 'it's a Chinese spy app' crowd - are dead wrong in interesting ways. Today we're actually looking at the model: what it does, how mixture-of-experts architecture works, why the cost claims are real but also complicated, and what it ac

The post-election conspiracy surge has reached its logical endpoint and its how I want to end this season as well: Elvis is alive, and apparently he now has company. In the last two weeks I've seen threads claiming that at least four major celebrities faked their deaths and are currently living under assumed identities somewhere warm. Today I want to talk about why our brains resist finality, how celebrity culture has always generated mythology around death, and how I traced

Welcome to the long awaited finale of Politicaltucky! The votes are counted. The algorithm discourse has already started, and I want to address it carefully because there are two very different claims getting flattened into one. Can social media algorithms influence political behaviour? Yes, demonstrably, and there's good research on this. Can they secretly flip millions of votes without any detectable trace in the underlying data? That's a completely different question, and

Two weeks out from the election and the deep state is everywhere. I want to approach this charitably, because the underlying concern — that powerful institutions operate without sufficient public accountability — is a legitimate one. The problem is the version being shared online, which requires a secret global government to be simultaneously omnipotent and completely invisible. Today we're looking at the actual technical infrastructure that runs democratic states — the procu