Every civilization eventually forgets what made it strong. Ours is forgetting faster than any before it — not because we lack memory, but because we’ve outsourced it to machines that do.
The web that once promised universal knowledge has become a patchwork of walled gardens and incompatible truths. The Splinternet isn’t coming; it’s here, and its side effect is cognitive decay.
The collective Ebbinghaus curve — the rate at which a population forgets — is now visible in everything from market reactions to politics. We are living inside a forgetting machine.
In the early days, the Internet was a cathedral of connection. That drove me to write my book Broken Web in 2012. Back then? Protocols were open, bandwidth was shared, and information wanted to be free.
That was the dream. But as every engineer knows, dreams get patched, monetized, and eventually fenced off. Each firewall, each algorithm, each national censorship node split the network’s once-coherent fabric.
We didn’t notice the fracture because the lights still came on — but the light was no longer the same everywhere. The Internet of things became the Internet of factions.
For investors, this fragmentation isn’t just cultural; it’s financial. The same Ebbinghaus law that measures how quickly we forget words now applies to market memory.
Traders forget so crashes happen faster. Consumers forget scarcity sooner. Corporations forget lessons learned about leverage and risk.
The result is volatility without conscience — capital chasing momentum through an amnesiac network that can’t remember yesterday’s mistake. In a world of accelerated forgetting, valuation becomes a hallucination shared by algorithms.
That’s where this week’s Peoplenomics report begins: at the intersection of systemic amnesia and digital fracture. This ain’t just another TA shop.
We map how the Splinternet undermines not just geopolitics but investment stability, how the “Ebbinghaus-Ure Effect” explains recurring cycles of risk blindness, and why the next crash may not be caused by war or debt — but by the sheer inability of markets to remember what coherence looked like.
The real danger isn’t disconnection; it’s forgetting what connection meant.
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Speaking of forgetting things, thanks for reminding us of Pee Wee Herman:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2y94xe397o
Yo Chief,
Them thar fireballz be dropping out da sky on the regular nowadaze, saw a couple last night while out stargazing, in a museical trance, induced by the sounds of babbling brook/pond less waterfall feature in backyard. A very cool/interesting NRGetic event occurred LIVE on MRMBB3 youtube show last night. He had the soho camera live feeds open on site when an enormous “bolt” of white Light flashed by the SUN? Within seconds of this bolt of NRG flashing by, the SUN emitted one of the largest Flares possible- full (360) spectrum blast in direction of the Ohuremomma “comet”.
One moar time for the weak intellect types – that thing is NOT A COMET .
70- pts or less = weak intellect, care to guess avg boomer score ?
Dont bother, just look around..
You cant handle the Truth…just yet, but we are getting there ever so slowly, and Ure brains havent fallen out yet, so thats good.
As for the Anti’s anything ?
Being anti anything can not supply a positive vision of the good .
Rocking Ronnie Rayguns granted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, and uncle Milty taught a generation to believe in borderless markets. This synthesis (reagan/freidman)became Bipartisan Continual Wisdom, and it destroyed any idea of conserving the actual Nation.
Antifascist taboo against “blood & soil” ended in Demographic replacement and the erosion of any shared civic identity.
GNR -Civil War..aint so civil-https://youtu.be/OXAcZ_IPK5c?
Turn on the waterfall next time.
re: “Contact”, 1997
feat: 18 hours of static
Folks,
Welcome back from a “PN 2-fer” edition. Thanks as always to DJ George for grounding the magnetos before stirring the prop. Here’s a Youtube link to “White Noise Waterfall”:
https://www.youtube.com/live/LUhmGy0jqpY
OMG I may have to use that as my canned reply to empty posts!
Nein, nein,nein
The pondless Waterfall runs 24/7 , and has a built in Copper Ion dispenser for Algae treatments. Studio Downspout frm roof is tied in to system as well.
Big pool at top of “stream” where the diffuser sits hidden under a big rock. Diffuser is connected via heavy duty armored flex pipe that runs just under ground along “stream” course. It is multi levels of rocks and river stones , with each level creating unique falling water sound.
You can “tune” them with different “splash” Rocks placed just so under each mini waterfall. Been experimenting with different types..Rose Quartz, Petrified Wood..Beys Rock Shop is my source for all things related to Rocks/Gems/Minerals, as need be mindful of reactions from Sun..color fading, ect
Extensive native Plantings all around the stream area, it has already started to attracted TONS of Birds and wildlife in the AM. There are even 3 different under/inda water Lights that highlight the Falls at nighttime.
Took aquareale one week to install the water feature in back yard. Toddler and Russel proof, first time Grand Daughter saw it – in her watershoes already, ran up there to big pool, steps right in and starts taking off her clothes. I just smiled and thought to myself “Yep, we got another “Otter” in the fam. She spent the next 20-30 minutes wiggling and splashing around. None of Adults were willing to intervene once informed of situation, as was lil nippy for Adult water activities.
Pondless Waterfall = Structured Water Device
Better than that… a little Clair ..
https://youtu.be/ea2WoUtbzuw?si=O7HgfrsCNa5oZJ1b
or better yet Clair in the evening…cool adult beverage the sun setting slowly your hunny next to you.. what more could a person ask for..
https://youtu.be/hh9UMz6C76k?si=DQyOZb-75ptbRadZ
A very cool/interesting NRGetic event occurred LIVE on MRMBB3 youtube show last night. He had the soho camera live feeds open on site when an enormous “bolt” of white Light flashed by the SUN? Within seconds of this bolt of NRG flashing by, the SUN emitted one of the largest Flares possible- full (360) spectrum blast in direction of the Ohuremomma “comet”.
Beautiful to watch
https://www.spaceweather.com/images2025/21oct25/fastCME2.gif
Sorry to bang on but that bolt of white light is a misdirect….happens ALL the time….random specks streaking across the SOHO view, linear and fast moving. Not a random peppering of protons but I’ve seen it before.
To understand the world, to understand threats you need to immerse yourself in another way of looking at the world. It’s boring, time consuming and won’t get many “clicks”. The background sets the stage. Without context you’re buffeted by opinion, drama and manipulation.
You seem to be truly interested in spirit and energy….. just saying.
GU : a few remarks (having only speed scanned the ChartPack on your contributor side on PeopleNomics.com ) :
“… The web that once promised universal knowledge has become a patchwork of walled gardens and incompatible truths. …”
Truths remain (barring the blather from your Poster of the same name) but are skewed by perspective and narrative. Paywalls are surprisingly easy to defeat. In some cases hit “X” [stop loading] then the circular arrow (reload] and, shazam, the hidden content appears?
“… the Internet was a cathedral of connection. […] Protocols were open, bandwidth was shared, and information wanted to be free.
That was the dream. But as every engineer knows, dreams get patched, monetized, and eventually fenced off. …”
To serve instantaneous info on a click request. That’s where we started. The Longwave crowd formed as did hundreds of other high powered sometimes opinionated in extremus groups sussed out just about everything. I used to participate in a forum with top end Australian and Kiwi PROs (Principal Race Officers) and RC (Race Committee) heads. An amazing collection of knowledge, shared for free … for ever. But, that was last forever?
Our site still struggles with monetization. We have decades of interested parties offering serious money to (in the day) serve a side-bar or banner ad. Six-ish years ago the owner of the largest sailing site on the planet proposed his sponsors would become ours too in a sharing arrangement. Then, a free high powered sailing journalist (who we all knew).
We decided to stay free, pure in a sense, vs. being beholden to the industry. Now, seeking a middle ground, I am interested in long form sponsored info-mercials. There are loads of highly specialized firms making products for top end sailing so ? None of the four of us need the money but … more would get done if paid a stipend? TBD.
Markets usually wobble before taking the next leg higher -or- collapse. Remember, they shoot the Generals first. Watch the AI complex and Mag-7 for smoke signals.
Egor
Excellent and savory, as always Egor – thank you.
For those thinking we have gone woke, his reference to Australian and Kiwi PROs (Principal Race Officers) is not militant Maoris (a great lot) – something a little different – Sailboat Racing Committees. No additional BP’s needed.
Too early to hoist the martini pennant?
A once proud member of https://styc.org/ and https://opyc.com/
GU : “… Too early to hoist the martini pennant? …”
But why would anyone douse the thing?
It’s always cocktail time …
somewhere.
E
ps – many mkts seem to need a drink. Close early and …?
No drinking on the helm, cockpit, or foredeck when racing. (what kind of lack discipline to the pondies allow???? Tethers and clipped on when racing…OMG Egor!!!). We also strike the pennant after dinner *(avoiding gerd)m and never raise it until noon except on on days ending in “___day…)
non powered BUI ?
goodluck in district court with that one..
the glory gilded age returns. trump is going to pay himself $230,000,000 with taxpayer money, he tears down the east wing to build a gilded ballroom for $500,000,000, new $170,000,000 planes for DHS so noem is comfy while cos playing, $900,000,000 to rehab the bribe jet from qatar and trump is proud to spray feces on americans.
while on the street SNAP checks won’t be coming, medicaid and medicare are cut, no more health insurance subsidies so millions of americans are going to lose health insurance and access to benefits and the military is patrolling american cities.
thanks for making america great again in the image of republicans.
U R absolutely WELCOME .
Our pleasure..Cleaning up the GARBAGE that has been darkening our once Safe and Clean streets.
Tis AWESOME , no ?
Why dont you tell us all how Ure nose ring and blue dyed hair been working for ya lately ? Were all ears..
you wrote this sort of thing before. i could care less how someone does their hair or what jewelry they choose to wear. why do you care?
too bad you don’t actually know any immigrants. otherwise you would know how hard most of them work.
From a speech of Sen. Kennedy of what else the democrats want to be voted for besides health care for aliens:
– $3.6 million for cooking and dance workshops for male prostitutes in Haiti.
– Over $4.2 million for LGBTQ projects in the Western Balkans and Uganda.
– $6 million to subsidize Palestinian media outlets.
– $3 million for circumcision and vasectomies in Zambia.
– More than $833,000 for transgender people in Nepal.
– $500,000 to purchase electric buses in Rwanda.
– $300,000 to sponsor a pride parade in Lesotho.
it’s all garbage spewed from a garbage bag. all have been disproven. do some research so you don’t appear ignorant about that which you opine.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/government-democrats-haitian-male-prostitutes/
Those Democrats!!!
How much do you think the Libs will gift cattle ranchers to buy votes?
Hey big spender, A laundry list of how Trump has outspent every Pres.in history, on his own personal trips, etc:
https://x.com/i/grok/share/9fYuh3zh5H1ER1O0N3hEaxoKi
‘Comparison: Trump’s spending is significantly higher than Biden and Obama due to frequent trips to his own properties, which also generated personal profit (e.g., $650/night for Secret Service rooms at Mar-a-Lago).’
‘Secret Service at Trump Properties: Nearly $2 million was paid to Trump’s businesses, including $300,000 at Mar-a-Lago and $850,000 at golf properties. Rates were high, e.g., $650/night for Mar-a-Lago rooms (triple federal limits) and $17,000/month for a Bedminster cottage.
Golf Outings: Trump visited his golf courses ~300 times, with each trip costing millions due to security and travel logistics. For example, Secret Service spent $588,000 on golf cart rentals.’
Even Tariffs haven’t offset the increasing Federal Deficit:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/federal-budget-deficit-grows-92b-nearly-2-trillion-even-trump-tariffs-increase-revenue
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ray-dalio-warns-looming-fiscal-crisis-us-doesnt-address-deficit-spending-economic-heart-attack
“The basic picture has not changed – if the U.S. doesn’t cut the deficit to 3% of the GDP, and soon, we risk facing an economic heart attack in the next three years,” Dalio wrote in a post on X.
Peggy Lee’s Big Spender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM9nZKfcQf8
Missing from this laundry list are the Military/Trump Bday Parade, Melania’s NYC costs, etc
ccording to cryptocurrency news website 99Bitcoins, the Melania meme coin has lost more than 95% of its peak value since its launch in February, and is now trading at under 10 cents per unit.
Biggest Pump and Dump ever?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/melania-meme-coin-lawsuit
‘While Melania Trump was not directly involved in the creation of the now nearly-worthless meme coin, the Trump family was accused last month of the “greatest corruption in presidential history” when it was reported they had added $5 billion in cash to their fortunes when President Donald’ Trump’s cryptocurrency was opened to the public market.’
But DJT has really good golf carts, c.
re: A Golden Age, Rome, 69-96ad
feat: USA 2016-2020; 2024-2036
Truth be told, I imagine Rome had many a naysayer when the three Emperors of the Flavian (“Golden”) Dynasty pitched the Colliseum commencing in 69 a.d., and the streets were clean. Modern day D.C. tourists may take heart that the newly paved-over “Rose ‘Garden’ Club” and adjacent “Presidential Walk of Fame” featuring a portrait of the #46 Autopen will remain open during Ballroom construction.
Curiously multiple msm reports about the Ballroom and Golden adornments perhaps draw inspiration from President Trump’s speech two days ago in the current White House Ballroom. He addressed the 9-inning 2025 college baseball champions Louisiana State University Tigers who sport royal purple and gold colours.
The President noted the current Ballroom facility holds 88 people whereas the new venue will offer a capacity of 999. According to AI and Wiki, the number 999 in China conveys meanings of power, authority, and longevity. Apparently the number 9 itself associates to the Chinese Emperor.
One looks forward to the completion of the this new Ballroom atop the old East Wing. Its feng-shui seems to offer golden promise. Finally a time shall come when the Firm can be properly accommodated at a future State Dinner. Here’s a link to a transcript and video from the Monday shindig at the White House:
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-event-lsu-baseball-october-20-2025/
Following is a brief snippet from around the 23 minute mark when the President rebuts Democrat ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ symptoms:
“…no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. The biggest tax cut in history, the biggest deductions ever taken, job producing deductions, $50 billion to rural hospitals. We took care of Medicaid, Medicare. We took care of everything….”
And the TRUTH is that the ballroom is being built with NO taxpayer or government funds… fully from donations and out of pocket from… (wait for it)… DJT himself… personally footing the bill. Great President, eh?
re: Oslo (“meadow at the foot of a hill”)
feat: stalled coherence
Folks,
“NRK” (Norwegian Realm Broadcasting) has heralded the brief stop at an Oslo airport of the Ukrainian First Couple to meet Norwegian PM Støre. Gardermoen (“fenced fields, drill ground”) airport apparently first saw development of its runway facilities during the WW2 nazi occupation.
“NRK” notes that President Zelensky departed his recent meetings in America without Tomahawks, and should settle for Russian peace along current battlelines. What’s in store? PM Støre believes the Ukrainian leader still has an axe to grind as Europe stands behind Ukraine.
“NRK” advises the Ukrainian entourage will proceed to Sweden. There will be a man and machine aerial display. It seems the President wants to get a Gripen. Here is the “NRK” link by journalist Fathia Mahmoud Farah:
https://www.nrk.no/1.17621862
Separately, Fathia Mahmoud Farah’s documentary “Lett å Hate” (Easy to Hate) saw release in 2024.
Oslo ??
No wonderz ya cant make any money..its OKLO, the mini nuke maker set to power the Ai revolution. Price of underlying peaked 3 days ago and has been down for 3 days now. (Three Red Candles Down) I will prolly load the boat late this afternoon – buying the dip after 3 red down candles. Gonna ride this “badboy” all the way to the BANK, once again.
Thats right – BCP is a double dipper, “so step right up and get Ure ticket”-RHCP – Love Rollercoaster -https://youtu.be/4n6D8lB0A9w?si=Djdz53XPmr6l6Uj1
you gotta be on something mate . best you buy a bible and start reading it
truly offensive Ure bible scheisse be.
I of course deal plenty of crap out, so I welcome all nasty insults. israHELL loving bloodsukers on board here specially enjoy insulting the light bringers. Like cockroaches, they avoid the LIGHT at all costs.
Weak intellects always go low, always.
good on ya , Mate.
Cheers and Happy Int’l WOMBAT Day .
Only Up 6% today..so far…
Yes indeedy, do I never get tired of Wining. See anybody else consistntly posting Winnerz ?
Go Short some moar GOLD, surely the top is in as any longtime Gold trader should know.
70’s all about BEAR mkt and shorting GOLD.
Its game on for who has the most Phyz GOLD in the world..Chynah vs LBMA, and when youse see a Selloff in GOLD like we just had – screams Liquidity issues to this wild eyed gambler..ISSUES.
Dollar in Ure Pocket = Smile upon my face.
The oscillations continue and appear to be tied to just the 100 yr. toaster ads on the right.
I turned off web caching ut I will also turn off some css reflow down in the code to prevent poor content shifts…hmm
“OpenAI launches its own browser to compete with Google.”
My take is browser A.I. isn’t designed/doesn’t work for browser users. Similar to OS A.I. bloat.
SEO begets (anthropomorphism) GSEO begets uBlacklist add on. But if a CIO/CEO is smart enough to pay, charge them. Like Trump pulling almost 1/4 billie out of the treasury. If nobody is smart enough to stop him, three cheers! Grab what you can!
A large percentage of the world-wide financial institutions and SSI data backups use old, now unsupported, IBM ventage hardware that is programmed in COBAL. Over 90 % of living COBAL programmers are near or already retired, and very few replacements are being trained.
What could possibly go wrong?
I have heard the fed meeting is called off lack of data from shutdown . Is this true ? If this is it’s the end. Anyone ? Please
Why would a feriner worry about what is happening in the United States, after bad mouthing a president you didn’t or couldn’t vote for.
Just a random thing. November is my city’s second annual pick up grocery carts and take them to the dump month. We have been directed to put any found shopping carts out by our trashcans on trash days and the city will remove them. They are everywhere. There is often up to a dozen in a yard up the street from me from Dollar Tree, Walmart. Aldi’s, CVS, and elsewhere.
Sounds like a lot of fun you guys are having. I am having a neighbor add some more clear firing lanes through my pine trees with his bulldozer next week.
You guys have gone cold on fresh cataclysms to worry about. A very large x-flare just popped on the back side of the sun (viewed from earth). The rotation of the sun near the equator puts that spot facing earth sometime in the 8-16 day range. So we could have a violently active sunspot coming into view, maybe the earliest would be October 30th. Hmm, I’ve been hearing that date bandied about. So, a solar event could be on the table. And what has become of A___ ?
Sweet deity! It’d be a real doozy if SA started lobbing missiles over the U.S. interior. Any Patriot batteries in Coobah/Puerto Rico?
Maduro says Venezuela has 5,000 Russian missiles to counter US forces
“President Nicolas Maduro announced that Venezuela has deployed 5,000 Russian Igla-S missiles to counter U.S. forces. He stated these missiles are positioned in key air defense areas for national security. “
Is the shutdown affecting treasury direct accounts ?
I Have a Plan to Destroy America
And many parts of it are underway
by Richard D. Lamm
Spring 2004 THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, too white bread, too self-satisfied, too rich, lets destroy America. It is not that hard to do. History shows that
nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they all fall, and that “An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.” Here is my plan:
I. We must first make America a bilingual- bicultural country.
II. I would then invent “multiculturalism” and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture…
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/fourteen-three/xiv-3-181.pdf
Richard D. Lamm, former governor of Colorado, currently directs the Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues at the University of Denver.
(Actually, Mr. Lamm is deceased. I posted this because he is the person who coined “multiculturalism” and the contemporary meaning of a number of Leftist buzzwords.) FWIW I’d never heard of “Mexifornia” but it just went to the top of my reading list.
Two pages, *.PDF