tuesday report #5 // lab leak: an about face on covid's origin, still looking for apologies, the fight over section 230 heats up, a ton of AI links, and more
In terms of what the Pirate Wires media company should be - don't try to be everything. One of the great things about substack is it allows me to assemble my own mix of relatively narrow but deep sources to get a comprehensive picture. Some sites are going too broad - The Free Press is a good example. They do some great work but as the volume increases the average quality has dropped and the pieces dropping the average tend to be really shallow. So stick to giving us deep reporting and commentary and don't emphasize quantity. I'd much rather read fewer, better, deeper pieces.
Here's an idea for pandemic amnesty. Send every lockdown, mask, and jab enthusiast to Venice Beach. Fill the skate park with sand like in March 2020. Give them each one spoon. Make them scoop out every grain of sand while double masked. Let kids run around and throw sand back into the skate park for fun. Film it so that the footage can be watched anytime, anywhere. If they give up, fire them. Then they shall be forgiven.
What I look for in my news media is honesty and integrity. Period. I don’t have to agree, but I have to trust you’re giving me the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I actually like reading something I think or thought was incorrect, if it’s coming from a source that I trust, that makes me rethink my own thoughts on a matter, and I find it more interesting and/or engaging.
As far as what I’m interested in, everything. Just don’t saturate me with one topic. Even crap that I find irrelevant (such as the moron Sussexes, Meghan and Harry), but don’t beat me over the head with it. Tell me what’s up, then move on to another subject. Come back to it if some new revelation is relevant, otherwise go on to another subject. I bring up the “We Want Our Privacy” twins because as much as I love Megan Kelly, she goes on and on about them too much. Your feed here is pretty good about spreading the wealth of interest.
In terms of what to make PW: the stuff that's weird and interesting and not being done elsewhere really (lately: transmaxxing, a lot of River's stuff). Outlaw shit. She especially your voice when it comes to the love of freedom, and how to preserve that spark moving forward (I would love to see you guys do a deep dive on Próspera, the network state, and that whole crew
Let's also give credit where it's due by mentioning some of those who pushed back on the early narrative ("couldn't have been a lab leak") by name?
Nicholson Baker, who wrote that article published in New York Magazine on January 4, 2021, is first and foremost a novelist. He's not an academic or public health official. Yet the editors of that publication set aside reflexive credentialism and nonetheless gave him a platform to credibly explain, backed by experts that Baker interviewed, that the lab leak hypothesis wasn't merely a conspiracy theory but instead was a viable alternative explanation for the origins of SARS-CoV-2:
"New York Magazine wrote that its fact-checking team spent a month vetting Baker’s story, which was sent around to “multiple scientists, including two molecular biologists who believe that SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotic virus, who all provided critical feedback to help ensure the accuracy of the work.”"
In addition, many notable academic researchers put their own reputations on the line by deciding to devote work time to investigating the lab leak hypothesis, no matter what the 'official line' might have been, to publicly discuss and debate their findings – some of these based on deep dives into genetics – that this hypothesis had credibility, and to share what they learned with the media and public.
Among these researchers (by no means a complete list) were Alina Chan at the Broad Institute (MIT and Harvard), David Relman at Stanford, Marc Lipsitch at Harvard, and Akiko Iwasaki at Yale. Even (despite some mixed messages on his part) Nobel laureate David Baltimore at CalTech lent credibility to the lab leak hypothesis.
I’d love to be able to understand the geopolitical and cultural landscape of the world in such a way that it’s relatively easily digestible but also thoughtful, incredibly smart and funny (i.e. what this Substack is right now).
As far as expansion of your brand is concerned, as someone who doesn’t have a ton of time to dedicate to reading the news every day I’m looking for someone to aggregate the important things and expand upon the interesting minutiae of the news in such a way that it colors in the headlines. Hope that helps?
"Wet market", like "the big bang", are totally ridiculous ideas on their face and always were to anyone with basic critical thinking skills. People who believed in Big Bro's "wet market" and Fraudi Fauci's BS should not be allowed to vote. That's all it really boils down to.
As long as gullible cretins, and worse, are allowed to vote, much less constantly vote themselves and foreign corrupt leaders free shit, all we're doing is arguing how well the band played "War Pigs" while we all go down with the Titanic.
She concluded it with this paragraph: “ COVID-19 is a pre-planned global bioweapon attack that used mRNA lipid nanoparticle bioweapons, but has been portrayed to global citizens as a ‘viral pandemic’ by our government officials, media, Big Tech, large corporate employers, our healthcare systems, our churches, our school systems, and our trusted leaders.”
If covid was a lab leak, the next logical question is what was really in the experimental vaccine?
Which, by the way, was just quietly added to the CHILDHOOD vaccine schedule - an experimental vaccine with multiple extremely concerning, un-investigated safety signals.
Keep PW firmly sighted on what other outlets no longer have the freedom to write about.
And - if you'd like to go further down the "Plan-demic" rabbit hole, check out
In terms of what the Pirate Wires media company should be - don't try to be everything. One of the great things about substack is it allows me to assemble my own mix of relatively narrow but deep sources to get a comprehensive picture. Some sites are going too broad - The Free Press is a good example. They do some great work but as the volume increases the average quality has dropped and the pieces dropping the average tend to be really shallow. So stick to giving us deep reporting and commentary and don't emphasize quantity. I'd much rather read fewer, better, deeper pieces.
Most of the Covid takes of 2020 seemed to me to be first run through a filter of “what would be worse for Trump?”.
A deep recession, caused by lockdowns, is bad for the incumbent.
Being able to blame China would have been good for the incumbent.
Here's an idea for pandemic amnesty. Send every lockdown, mask, and jab enthusiast to Venice Beach. Fill the skate park with sand like in March 2020. Give them each one spoon. Make them scoop out every grain of sand while double masked. Let kids run around and throw sand back into the skate park for fun. Film it so that the footage can be watched anytime, anywhere. If they give up, fire them. Then they shall be forgiven.
“River dives in”
lol
What I look for in my news media is honesty and integrity. Period. I don’t have to agree, but I have to trust you’re giving me the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I actually like reading something I think or thought was incorrect, if it’s coming from a source that I trust, that makes me rethink my own thoughts on a matter, and I find it more interesting and/or engaging.
As far as what I’m interested in, everything. Just don’t saturate me with one topic. Even crap that I find irrelevant (such as the moron Sussexes, Meghan and Harry), but don’t beat me over the head with it. Tell me what’s up, then move on to another subject. Come back to it if some new revelation is relevant, otherwise go on to another subject. I bring up the “We Want Our Privacy” twins because as much as I love Megan Kelly, she goes on and on about them too much. Your feed here is pretty good about spreading the wealth of interest.
In terms of what to make PW: the stuff that's weird and interesting and not being done elsewhere really (lately: transmaxxing, a lot of River's stuff). Outlaw shit. She especially your voice when it comes to the love of freedom, and how to preserve that spark moving forward (I would love to see you guys do a deep dive on Próspera, the network state, and that whole crew
Mike, you are very clever.
Love how s230, AI, and Crypto are colliding on the theme of code litigation
The cleverest.
Let's also give credit where it's due by mentioning some of those who pushed back on the early narrative ("couldn't have been a lab leak") by name?
Nicholson Baker, who wrote that article published in New York Magazine on January 4, 2021, is first and foremost a novelist. He's not an academic or public health official. Yet the editors of that publication set aside reflexive credentialism and nonetheless gave him a platform to credibly explain, backed by experts that Baker interviewed, that the lab leak hypothesis wasn't merely a conspiracy theory but instead was a viable alternative explanation for the origins of SARS-CoV-2:
As well, as described by Lia Eustachewich in the New York Post (https://nypost.com/2021/01/04/new-life-into-theory-covid-19-is-result-of-china-lab-leak/), they backed Baker by committing resources to thoroughly vet his story before publication:
"New York Magazine wrote that its fact-checking team spent a month vetting Baker’s story, which was sent around to “multiple scientists, including two molecular biologists who believe that SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotic virus, who all provided critical feedback to help ensure the accuracy of the work.”"
In addition, many notable academic researchers put their own reputations on the line by deciding to devote work time to investigating the lab leak hypothesis, no matter what the 'official line' might have been, to publicly discuss and debate their findings – some of these based on deep dives into genetics – that this hypothesis had credibility, and to share what they learned with the media and public.
Among these researchers (by no means a complete list) were Alina Chan at the Broad Institute (MIT and Harvard), David Relman at Stanford, Marc Lipsitch at Harvard, and Akiko Iwasaki at Yale. Even (despite some mixed messages on his part) Nobel laureate David Baltimore at CalTech lent credibility to the lab leak hypothesis.
I’d love to be able to understand the geopolitical and cultural landscape of the world in such a way that it’s relatively easily digestible but also thoughtful, incredibly smart and funny (i.e. what this Substack is right now).
As far as expansion of your brand is concerned, as someone who doesn’t have a ton of time to dedicate to reading the news every day I’m looking for someone to aggregate the important things and expand upon the interesting minutiae of the news in such a way that it colors in the headlines. Hope that helps?
"Wet market", like "the big bang", are totally ridiculous ideas on their face and always were to anyone with basic critical thinking skills. People who believed in Big Bro's "wet market" and Fraudi Fauci's BS should not be allowed to vote. That's all it really boils down to.
As long as gullible cretins, and worse, are allowed to vote, much less constantly vote themselves and foreign corrupt leaders free shit, all we're doing is arguing how well the band played "War Pigs" while we all go down with the Titanic.
We are the Romans.
We truly live in a 🤡 world
You’re clever. I subscribed, please don’t kill me. Also, please take a look at Karen Kingston’s Substack of yesterday: https://karenkingston.substack.com/p/its-time-to-let-the-sars-cov-2-lab?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1103773&post_id=105270338&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email
She concluded it with this paragraph: “ COVID-19 is a pre-planned global bioweapon attack that used mRNA lipid nanoparticle bioweapons, but has been portrayed to global citizens as a ‘viral pandemic’ by our government officials, media, Big Tech, large corporate employers, our healthcare systems, our churches, our school systems, and our trusted leaders.”
If covid was a lab leak, the next logical question is what was really in the experimental vaccine?
Which, by the way, was just quietly added to the CHILDHOOD vaccine schedule - an experimental vaccine with multiple extremely concerning, un-investigated safety signals.
Keep PW firmly sighted on what other outlets no longer have the freedom to write about.
And - if you'd like to go further down the "Plan-demic" rabbit hole, check out
-Event 201
-Coronarvirus patent
-SM101 & 102
There should be an award called the red dot of truth for anyone who was being completely honest about COVID from the early days.
The red dot here referring to the attempts of the mainstreams news organizations to character assassinate these people out of political life.