<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Brother Skeleton]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brother Skeleton]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:37:20 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[S3/E7: The Rayners Lane Disappearances Aren't Supernatural.]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 unsolved cases. If...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s3-e7-the-rayners-lane-disappearances-aren-t-supernatural</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d8027c84b746063026a36</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S3/E6: Your Brain Wants That to Be a Portal. It's Lens Flare.]]></title><description><![CDATA[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, why compression...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s3-e6-your-brain-wants-that-to-be-a-portal-it-s-lens-flare</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7fe740b34fdeb1f0102e</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S3/E5: God Didn't Make Miracles. A Diffusion Model Did.]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 religious iconography...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s3-e5-god-didn-t-make-miracles-a-diffusion-model-did</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7fa5c46da0aa0d47115d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S3/E4: If Aliens Keep Visiting Nuclear Bases, They're Terrible at Hiding.]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 restricted airspace...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s3-e4-if-aliens-keep-visiting-nuclear-bases-they-re-terrible-at-hiding</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7f59c84b7460630267f8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S3/E3: Meta Made AI Friends So You Don't Have to Make Real Ones]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 how synthetic...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s3-e3-meta-made-ai-friends-so-you-don-t-have-to-make-real-ones</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7eaa433568818449656d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S3/E2: The Aliens Have Now Been Discovered for the 47th Time This Decade]]></title><description><![CDATA[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, and the difference...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s3-e2-the-aliens-have-now-been-discovered-for-the-47th-time-this-decade</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7e61c46da0aa0d470df8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S3/E1: One Good AI Model and Everyone Forgets How Panic Works]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 actually means when...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s3-e1-one-good-ai-model-and-everyone-forgets-how-panic-works</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7e00c84b74606302647f</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S2/E10: Every Famous Person Who Dies Is on a Beach Somewhere And I Wouldn't Blame Them... But No]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 one of the...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s2-e10-every-famous-person-who-dies-is-on-a-beach-somewhere-and-i-wouldn-t-blame-them-but-no</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7d67c46da0aa0d470b74</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S2/E9: Politicaltucky Pt. 3: The Algorithm Didn't Elect Trump. You Did.]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 conflating the...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s2-e9-politicaltucky-pt-3-the-algorithm-didn-t-elect-trump-you-did</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7cc9c46da0aa0d4709de</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S2/E8: Politicaltucky Pt. 2: The Deep State Can't Reset Its Password.]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 procurement systems,...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s2-e8-politicaltucky-pt-2-the-deep-state-can-t-reset-its-password</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7c7b433568818449600e</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S2/E7: Politicaltucky Pt. 1: The Microchip Was Already in Your Pocket.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don't do politics. I do technology. The problem is that early voting has started and someone has to explain why the vaccine microchip theory requires you to believe that the same governments currently failing to agree on daylight savings time somehow coordinated the largest covert injection programme in human history without a single nurse, pharmacist, or logistics worker leaking evidence. Today we're looking at what RFID and NFC chips actually are, what they can and can't do, and the...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s2-e7-politicaltucky-pt-1-the-microchip-was-already-in-your-pocket</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7c46c46da0aa0d470898</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S2/E6: The Robots Aren't Running Wall Street (Mostly)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Markets had a strange summer. Algorithmic trading got the blame, and for once the conspiracy crowd and the financial press were basically pointing at the same thing. Today we're talking about what algorithmic trading actually is, how much of daily market volume it accounts for, and the specific feedback loops that can make markets behave as if they have emotions. During production I found a monitoring dashboard that wasn't intended to be publicly accessible. I can't confirm exactly what it...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s2-e6-the-robots-aren-t-running-wall-street-mostly</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7b744335688184495d20</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S2/E5: The Moon Landing Is the Dumbest Conspiracy on Earth.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fly Me to the Moon just put a fake moon landing plot on cinema screens worldwide, and the comments sections have reminded me that a significant portion of the population thinks the real one was also fake. I genuinely find this one tedious, not because it's offensive, but because it requires you to believe that 1960s America — a country that couldn't keep Watergate secret for two years — successfully coordinated a deception involving four hundred thousand engineers, twelve astronauts, and...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s2-e5-the-moon-landing-is-the-dumbest-conspiracy-on-earth</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7c044335688184495e98</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S2/E4: The Internet Isn't Dead. You're Just Following Bots.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dead Internet Theory has gone properly mainstream, and generative AI is getting the blame. The theory holds that most online activity is now synthetic — fake accounts, automated engagement, AI-generated content — and that real human interaction online is essentially over. Here's my position: bots are genuinely everywhere and the problem is real and growing. But 'the internet is dead' has also become a suspiciously convenient reason to dismiss real people saying things we don't want to hear....]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s2-e4-the-internet-isn-t-dead-you-re-just-following-bots</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7b114335688184495c0b</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S2/E3: Your Phone Knows More Than Your Therapist Does And Likes You More.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Vision Pro launched last month and the 'they're listening through your phone' crowd is louder than ever. I want to be precise here, because this is one of those conspiracy theories that's wrong in the specific way people describe it, but correct in a direction that's somehow more unsettling. Your phone almost certainly isn't recording your conversations in real time. It doesn't need to. I obtained internal documentation from a major advertising ecosystem that most people will never read....]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s2-e3-your-phone-knows-more-than-your-therapist-does-and-likes-you-more</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7aa5c46da0aa0d470443</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S2/E2: Usher Blinked Twice. The Internet Lost Its Mind.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A hundred and twenty-nine million people watched Usher skate around in rhinestones for thirteen minutes, and by halftime of halftime the symbolism threads had started. The eye of Horus in the stage lighting. The Illuminati in the choreography. The New World Order encoded in a quick change. Today we're talking technical stagecraft, symbolism, why every lighting cue apparently summons the Illuminati, and one production document I somehow managed to get my hands on that should finally put at...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s2-e2-usher-blinked-twice-the-internet-lost-its-mind</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d7a3540b34fdeb1f0016e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:58:57 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S2/E1: The Internet's Facial Recognition Skills Are Absolutely Atrocious]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every major tragedy now produces, within about forty-eight hours, a viral thread claiming someone spotted the same crying woman in two separate news events on two separate continents. It's been happening for years and it's always wrong. While building a facial comparison tool for this episode I found something completely unrelated that I genuinely wasn't expecting — I can't make claims about it yet, but I think it'll become its own investigation. For now: probability, base rates, why human...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s2-e1-the-internet-s-facial-recognition-skills-are-absolutely-atrocious</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d79f5c84b746063025a12</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S1/E6: The Thing You're Afraid of Just Butt-dialed Your Ex.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple just unveiled the iPhone 15, and right on schedule, the 5G towers are poisoning people again. The same forums that spent the morning watching the keynote stream are now posting about radio frequency radiation, and I find this genuinely fascinating. Today we're talking about how wireless communication actually works, what the research on non-ionising radiation actually says, and the specific logical manoeuvre that lets someone spend ten hours a day on a device while fearing the...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s1-e6-the-thing-you-re-afraid-of-just-butt-dialed-your-ex</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d799d40b34fdeb1efffea</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S1/E5: David Grusch Has Never Met This Rock on Mars.]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Grusch just told Congress under oath that the US government has recovered non-human spacecraft. I'm not going to tell you he's lying — that's a separate and genuinely complicated question. What I will tell you is that the internet's immediate response was to start finding alien skulls in every blurry Mars image ever taken. Today we're going through the five oldest tricks in the misidentification handbook: pareidolia, compression artifacts, terrible lighting, wishful thinking, and the...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s1-e5-david-grusch-has-never-met-this-rock-on-mars</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d795043356881844957b7</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2023 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[S1/E4: A New Lost Civilisation Drops Every Six Months, Like Clockwork]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tartaria is having a moment. If you haven't encountered it yet, the theory holds that a vast global empire was erased from history sometime in the nineteenth century, buried under a worldwide mud flood, and replaced with the one we currently live in. It has millions of believers and zero corroborating documents, which the believers will tell you is itself proof of the cover-up. Today we're looking at how history is actually preserved, what a real cover-up requires logistically, and why...]]></description><link>https://www.brotherskeletonhacks.com/post/s1-e4-a-new-lost-civilisation-drops-every-six-months-like-clockwork</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d78f2faba6cee57d8ff83</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>brotherskeleton</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>