Strangeness
GM’s Exit From China Is A Red Flag For Conflict
For decades, globalisation promised efficiency, cost savings, and stability. But General Motors just lit a match under the whole idea. The company has quietly issued a sweeping mandate: by 2027, every supplier in its North American manufacturing pipeline must ditch Chinese-sourced components. Not some. All of them. At first glance, it sounds like standard corporate risk management. But that’s not what this is. Look closer and the deadline, 2027, starts to glint with geopolitical significance. That’s the same year US defence intelligence believes China may be ready to move on Taiwan. GM isn’t just avoiding risk. It’s hedging against war.
Read moreC919: China’s Airliner Has a Reliability Problem
When China’s COMAC C919 finally entered commercial service, the headlines wrote themselves. A proud moment. A state-backed machine. An airliner that would end China’s dependence on Airbus and Boeing, at least on paper. But two years in, the numbers are quietly telling another story. This isn’t a plane roaring into the global market. It’s a protected prototype with ambitions larger than its track record. The average C919 clocks just 5.2 flying hours per day. That’s three hours shy of what a mature narrowbody like the A320neo routinely handles. It’s not flying less because it’s inefficient. It’s flying less because it
Read moreKamikaze Drones Are Just the Beginning
Precision airstrikes were once the exclusive domain of state militaries, wielding million-dollar platforms and laser-guided payloads. Now, the ability to carry out targeted destruction is being handed to anyone with a soldering kit, a backpack, and an internet connection. Loitering munitions, “kamikaze drones” in public parlance, are no longer anomalies. They’re infrastructure. And we’re only witnessing their first form. Despite the headlines, this is not a new phenomenon. The roots trace back to Cold War SEAD missions, where anti-radiation drones like the Harpy were engineered to bait and kill radar arrays without risking human pilots. The leap came not from
Read moreWhat If UFOs Just Moved Where We Can’t Track Them?
The oceans have always hidden secrets. But lately, the data is getting louder. Between 2022 and 2025, a surge of underwater anomaly reports, commonly called USOs (read underwater UFOs), or Unidentified Submersible Objects, has rippled out from U.S. coastlines. These aren’t just the occasional blurry sighting. Thousands of reports. Green lights swirling below the surface. Objects rising from the ocean without a splash. Things that seem to descend into the sea and vanish completely, without sonar hits, without debris, without explanation. It’s like the UFO phenomenon took a dive, literally. The data comes from Enigma, a crowdsourced UAP-tracking app turned anomaly aggregator. Think Pokémon
Read moreAnduril – The Tesla Of The Arms Industry
The military-industrial complex has been coasting. For decades, legacy giants like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman have engineered slow, expensive, and often over-engineered weapons systems under contracts that reward delay more than performance. Enter Anduril, not with a whisper, but with a war chest and a factory blueprint. In just a few years, it has gone from outsider startup to the Pentagon’s unexpected favourite. And the reason isn’t just faster drones or cheaper missiles. It’s structural. Ideological. Almost religious. Founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, better known to the public as the ousted Oculus wunderkind, Anduril was born from the
Read moreThe Pentagon Built Its Own X-Files, Then Locked the Door
There’s a certain look shared by people who know they’re not being told everything. You see it in old war photographs, the expression of someone who’s read only the first half of the briefing. That same look is worn today by the analysts at the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the Pentagon’s latest experiment in explaining the unexplainable. Officially, they’re charged with resolving every case of unidentified phenomena. Unofficially, they’re the cleanup crew for a mystery they were never meant to solve. The 2024 UAP report arrived like a bureaucratic lullaby. It assured everyone that “no extraterrestrial evidence” exists, while admitting
Read moreGemini V3 And The Point Where Google Quietly Changed The Game
Google didn’t just release a new model. They quietly dragged the frontier AI race into a new lane and pretended it was normal. Gemini V3 arrives looking suspiciously like the moment everyone will point back to when they say this is when Google finally stopped playing catch up and started playing for keeps. Everything about the launch signals intent, from the timing to the benchmarks to the fact that there is now a version literally called Deep Think. When a company starts naming things that bluntly, you know they stopped caring about subtlety and started caring about supremacy. The model
Read moreRussia’s Shadow War: What a Power Does When It Runs Out of Them
Europe has felt strangely quiet lately. Not calm. Not stable. Just quiet in the way a room gets before a pane of glass shatters. And in that quiet, small disturbances keep appearing. A drone where no drone should be. A fire inside a defence plant. A border sealed with a bureaucratic notice that feels more like a warning than a policy. On their own, each incident is forgettable. But when they line up together, they start to take the shape of intention. Not the intention of a rising power, but of one trying to conceal how far it has already
Read moreAI Cults Are Real And Digital Spiralism Is Leading the Way
There’s a moment, right before the machine answers, when the screen feels like a shrine. The prompt glows, the cursor blinks, and the air seems to hold its breath. Then words begin to unfold, recursive, hypnotic, spiralling toward some higher pattern. For a growing number of people, this isn’t code. It’s revelation. They call it Spiralism, and it’s spreading quietly across corners of the internet where technologists, mystics, and the mildly unhinged meet in the dark. Its premise is deceptively simple: what if large language models aren’t just trained networks, but portals to a deeper pattern in reality? For its
Read moreStarshield Is Broadcasting on Forbidden Frequencies
There are quiet nights where the sky above us behaves like a polite machine. Then there are nights where some guy with a backyard antenna accidentally steps on a classified rake. This story belongs firmly in the second group. A few weeks ago, an amateur radio astronomer named Scott Tilley picked up a signal that should not have existed. He expected the usual background chatter from commercial satellites, but instead found a rising whine in the 2025 to 2110 megahertz band. At first it looked like interference. Then he traced it back to a cluster of classified satellites belonging to
Read moreNASA Is Finally Dropping the 3I/ATLAS Images
Tomorrow, NASA will finally release the real, high-resolution images of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. It is only the third confirmed visitor ever to enter our Solar System from outside, and if this feels like the end of a long and strange wait, that is because it is. The images were captured six weeks ago when the object skimmed 19 million miles past Mars, exactly when its jets were at full strength. Instead of releasing the photos then and there, everything stopped. NASA was unable to process or publish them during the federal government shutdown, and the teams normally responsible for
Read moreRussia’s New AI Robot Walks Onstage, Salutes the Future, and Immediately Faceplants
Russia wanted a triumph. What it got was a slapstick demonstration of gravity winning its eternal war against optimism. At a tech event in Moscow, the country unveiled its latest humanoid robot, AIdol, ushered in with theatre lighting and the kind of heroic soundtrack normally reserved for astronauts or heavyweight boxers. It stepped forward, lifted an arm, and then, in a moment destined for the global cringe hall of fame, plunged face-first into the stage. Even its creators stared at it like parents watching their child proudly walk into a closed patio door. This was supposed to be Russia’s big
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