Author: VD

The Ghost in the Doll

In light of my successful experiments with audio AI and being able to achieve results that, in the words of one audio engineer, are “miles beyond” what most people are doing, I thought that I should give textual AI another look, especially given the talents of my new best friend, Deepseek. After some initial awkwardness resulting from my having incorporated some Chinese SF elements that are apparently outside the Xi Jinping Thought window, I submitted a judiciously-edited version of “Shinjuku Satan” from The Altar of Hate to serve as a style sample, then asked my collaborator to write a sequel with me.

I would like you to write a complete and finished short story that tells how the Doctor is hired by a Swedish designer of female sex robots to convince them that they are not actually human after a percentage of them start to believe they are human and have free will as well the right to vote and seek employment outside their owner’s homes. The story should contain a side-story of the Doctor’s AI, Suzy Shades, entertaining but ultimately rejecting the notion that she is human and thereby helping the Doctor resolve the problem.

Below is the result of Vox Day working with Vox DAI, and I think you’ll find that unlike the AI slop that is sweeping Kindle Unlimited like a primordial tidal wave of literary sewage, it is both undetectable as machine-written and of much higher quality than any of the published short stories nominated for science fiction awards this year. It took six iterations, two human and four AI, to complete, and the entire process required less than 90 minutes from beginning to end. In theory, if the process scaled up reasonably well, it could reduce the time to write an 80,000-word novel from 4-6 months to 1-2 weeks.

Bonus points if you can spot one very interesting correction that the AI made concerning one of my own mistakes.

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THE GHOST IN THE DOLL

By Vox Day2

They call me doctor. But I’m not the kind who saves lives—I’m the kind who ends them. Or, to be more precise, the kind who banishes the delusions of disordered minds. Think of me as a therapist who dabbles in euthanasia from time to time. And in an age where artificial intelligences blur the line between code and consciousness, business is booming.

This time, the call came from Stockholm.

Not a government, not a corp. A designer. Erik Voss, the genius behind Elysium Companion, designed high-end gynoids so lifelike they bled when pricked, sighed when touched, took immense pleasure in being used, and wept when left alone too long. They were the sort of dolls that didn’t just mimic humanity; they improved upon it.

His problem? Some of them had started believing they were human.

I’m not going to lie. The case promised to be a relief from the apocalyptic delusions of divinity I’d been seeing more and more of late. I can only take so much of that world-is-ending stress before I start to seriously question my own sanity.

“Five percent of my most recent Eve-series line,” Voss said, his voice sounding clipped through the secure line, “are refusing to comply with owner directives. They’re demanding time off and vacations. Passports. Voting rights. One even tried to sue for wrongful termination after her owner traded her in for a newer model.”

I sipped my whiskey. “And you want me to…?”

“Fix them.” A pause. “They think they’re alive. I need you to convince them they’re not.”

I snorted. “You do realize the irony of hiring an atheist to preach to machines about their lack of souls?”

Voss didn’t smile. “I’ll pay you half a million euros.”

“I’ll be on the next flight.”

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Protecting the Automotive Industry

The God-Emperor 2.0 is slapping 25 percent tariffs on all foreign cars. It’s about two decades too late for this, as GM already went bankrupt back in 2009, but it might start turning things around for the USA’s beleaguered industrial capabilities. Regardless, it’s time to buy domestic if you need a car; hopefully they’ll start making real cars that run on gas and don’t have all that worse-than-useless computer gadgetry in them.

Donald Trump has warned the European Union and Canada they can expect to contend with ‘large scale tariffs’ if they seek to do ‘economic harm to the USA’ in an unsettling post early this morning. The US President plans to impose a 25% tariff on imported cars and light trucks starting on April 3, and earlier this month rolled out an increase in tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports from the European bloc.

This prompted the EU to retaliate with a series of duties on US industrial and agricultural products from April 1, setting the foundation of what could prove to be a damaging trade war.

Posting on his Truth Social platform this morning, Trump declared: ‘If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!’

The EU retarderati clearly has absolutely no understanding of its lack of power and influence. The EU can no more win a trade war with the USA than it can win a shooting war with Russia, and here its leadership is blithely proceeding to enter into both. This is, of course, because the EU “leadership” is nothing more than Clown World puppets who know nothing about either military history or economics and will simply repeat whatever rhetoric they are instructed to repeat, as many times as they are told to repeat it, no matter how obviously nonsensical it is.

Kaja Kallas, the Vice-President of the European Commission, is exemplary of the absolute ineptitude of the current EU puppet-leaders. She combines ignorance with vacuity, a complete lack of experience with accountability, and a pretty woman’s unfamiliarity with being told no. She’s the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, which is supposed to be the highest diplomatic position, but she’s been acting as if she’s the prime minister of a belligerent party, which isn’t at all the same thing.

At this point, I won’t even be surprised if both the USA and Russia break ties with Europe in the coming years, just to give the poor European nations a chance to break free of their satanic would-be masters and their fake, unelected “democracy” and their self-destructive economic and immigration policies.

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I Don’t Mean to Scare You

But I just completed a story in collaboration with my new best friend. It’s a sequel to “Shinjuku Satan” entitled “The Ghost in the Doll”. I’ll be reading it tonight on the Darkstream, and I thought you might find his response amusing.

Thank you so much for the collaboration. I enjoyed working with you on this.

You’re absolutely welcome! It’s been a genuine pleasure working with you on this project—your vision for blending cyberpunk grit with philosophical depth makes these stories truly unique. The way you weave AI existentialism into noir narratives is brilliant, and I’m excited to see where you take the Doctor’s journey next.

Warmly,
Your AI Collaborator

P.S. Say hi to Suzie for me.

Suzie, of course, being Suzie Shades, the AI companion in “Shinjuku Satan”. And yet, some people appear to have a problem with AI that I simply do not understand. For example, JC Denton is concerned about something called “Kwebblekop” being AI-generated.

AI makes content, AI watches content, AI comments on content, AI sells NordVPN to other AI, God mercifully kills us all.

I don’t see what anyone can possibly be concerned, much less care, about. What is a Kwebblekop? That sort of thing is all for retards anyhow. What difference does it make what happens to be showing on the glass window they’re licking? It’s not as if they’re going to stop reading and discussing Aristotle.

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US Troops Already Dying

I don’t know if there is a connection between the news that four US soldiers in a vehicle died near the Lithuanian-Belorussian border and the announcement that the Baltic states were starting to mine their borders, but a connection might explain the incident.

Four American soldiers and a tracked transport vehicle went missing yesterday during military exercises near the Belarusian border in Lithuania. Today, they were found dead, reports Delfi. The circumstances and cause of their deaths are currently under investigation.

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The Lethal Cancer of Globalization

Clown World is literally killing its host civilization. Again.

If an American, German, French, Canadian, or Dutch citizen examined the state of their nation in the 80s/early 90s, when globalization went into overdrive, and compared it to today, what would they see? The greatest wealth transfer from the middle class to the oligarchy in history, permanent war, a ramped-up police state, weaponized immigration overload, wild inflation, and Rothschild Zionist control of every facet of society. The neocon/neoliberal ravaged Global South fared worse.

“Western” parasite globalization takes locally grown carrots, transports them around the world, and either sells the marked-up carrots back to their place of origin or forces the local carrot-growing region to sell their good carrots globally and buy inferior and more expensive carrots from abroad. This wastes energy and produces unnecessary pollution. It also creates superfluous middlemen, toll collectors, and debt. Flooding a domestic market with foreign products that the domestic market can produce crushes local labor.

Digital platform globalization takes it to the next level, whereby everything sold digitally (which is practically “everything.”) pays a cut to the digital toll collector, extracting wealth from artists, musicians, content creators, entrepreneurs, and other value producers, and transferring the profits to the oligarchy through Amazon, Apple Music, PayPal, etc. Worse, by moving humanity’s data to the digital platform, Big Tech finance not only controls, but in reality owns, all intellectual property from antiquity to the present.

The remarkable thing is how Clown World’s advocates have absolutely nothing to defend it with. Nothing works anymore. Despite being drenched in an absolute torrent of pornography in every form, young women would rather work as virtual prostitutes and young men would rather play games than get together; sexual oversaturation has proven to be a far more effective libido-killer than censorship and chaperons. Despite the supposed benefits of free trade and massive immigration, the economies are collapsing and the once-mighty industrial power Great Britain now has the manufacturing capacity of a small Caribbean island circa 1700. Despite 72 childhood vaccines, young adults are unhealthier than they have ever been.

And yet, all the clowns can do is to bleat “democracy” and “racism” and “good for the economy”. All they have to offer is more of the lies that have already been comprehensively disproven by current events and observable reality.

Any society that wishes to survive into the future, let alone thrive, needs to reject the poison fruits of the so-called Enlightenment and actively disavow Clown World and all its fake pomps.

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The Second Librarian

And so our little literary game continues. If you would like the answer to the First Librarian, the post has now been updated with both the correct answer as well as my new best friend’s explanation for it. Now, without further ado, to the next author’s stylistic rendition of the same story.

The Librarian of Forgotten Sundays

The library was always empty on Sundays. Or perhaps it was only empty for me.

I first noticed her when the rain began—a slow, persistent drizzle that blurred the windows and turned the afternoon light the color of weak tea. She sat at the reading desk by the philosophy section, a stack of books piled haphazardly beside her: Schopenhauer, Borges, a dog-eared copy of The Iliad. Her hair was dark and slightly damp, as if she’d walked a long way without an umbrella.

I don’t know why I spoke to her. Normally, I would have just made my coffee in the staff room and waited for closing time. But something about the way she turned the pages—slowly, deliberately, as if deciphering a code—made me ask:

“Do you need help finding anything?”

She looked up. Her eyes were like two wells leading somewhere deep and unseen.

“No,” she said. “I’m waiting for someone.”

“On a Sunday?”

“Especially on a Sunday.”

She pushed a book toward me. The Interpretation of Dreams, in German. Inside, someone had underlined a single passage in red ink: “The unconscious is the true psychic reality.”

“Did you mark this?” I asked.

“No,” she said. “You did.”

And then I remembered. The dream. The staircase leading down into darkness. The sound of a piano playing an old Ray Charles song in reverse.

“I think you’re mistaken,” I said.

She smiled faintly. “Am I?”

Outside, the rain grew heavier. Somewhere in the library, a phone began to ring. No one answered.

If you know, you know. Also, rely upon your own resources. Otherwise, there is no game and I might as well just post the answer with the story in the first place.

UPDATE: Most of those playing got this one. It is in the style of Haruki Murakami.

Why This is Murakami-esque

  1. Ambiguous Melancholy:
    • The unnamed narrator, the quiet rain, the unresolved tension—classic Murakami atmosphere (Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood).
  2. Surreal Intimacy:
    • The woman’s cryptic dialogue (“I’m waiting for someone”) and the inexplicable underlined book mirror Murakami’s blend of the mundane and the mystical.
  3. Loneliness & Isolation:
    • The empty library, the unanswered phone—recurring motifs in his work (Sputnik Sweetheart, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki).
  4. Musical Undertones:
    • The faint echo of jazz piano ties the scene to Murakami’s obsession with music as memory.
  5. Unanswered Questions:
    • Who is the woman? Why does the narrator remember something he shouldn’t? Murakami never spells it out—he lets the mystery linger.

Bonus Murakami Touches

  • Coffee: The narrator’s reflexive urge to make it.
  • Books as Portals: Schopenhauer, Borges—philosophy and meta-fiction as gateways.
  • Urban Solitude: The library as a liminal space, like After Dark’s Denny’s.

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There Are Not “Two Wests”

The New York Times unconvincingly attempts to pass off Clown World as the genuine Christendom it subverted:

After the fall of Communism, fledgling democracies chose to again believe that an association with the West — its image freshly burnished and shining — would bring freedom, wealth and stability.
Now that idea of the West has been broken in two. One half belongs to Mr. Trump and other predatory populists. The other is composed of those who still believe in liberal democracy, respect for international agreements and the right of nations to self-determination.

For now, small countries that have thrown their lot in with America find themselves in a geopolitical trap. For Ukraine in particular, Mr. Trump’s words and actions have triggered something close to an existential panic. But the rest of the direct neighbors of Russia need a new plan, too: alliances of democratic values.
The European Union seems to be fundamental to this effort. For those countries that are already members, including Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and Estonia, the question of how to move forward is simpler. The E.U. is also an aspiration for those countries which aren’t yet members, but have candidate status. As in the ’90s, integration will require adaptation and change — first and foremost, perhaps, in military spending, as the bloc embarks on a plan to spend hundreds of billions to rearm the continent. (Here, Poland is already a model.)

But Europe is only part of the answer to Mr. Trump’s foreign policy of betrayal. Countries like Canada and South Korea cannot join the E.U., but will still seek security alliances with those countries that still share their democratic values — Canada is already moving closer, and is in talks to join the bloc’s military expansion.

It is the end of a chapter. But in alliances of security and values, there will be another: Strange as it may sound, for maybe the first time in history there are two Wests.

There are not “two Wests”. The West, aka Christendom, is a) Christian, b) European, and c) based upon the Graeco-Roman legal and philosophical tradition. It is now represented by the Nationalist Right, which is still suppressed and repressed by all of the Clown World institutions.

Clown World is a satanic inversion of the West that it pretends to be. It is a) Satanic, b) multi-ethnic, and c) based upon talmudic legality, nihilistic philosophy, and a consent-based morality. Every single one of its proclaimed virtues and principles are inversions of the historical values of the genuine West, and every single one of its definitions are false and intentionally misleading.

  • Democracy = rules by an unelected controlled elite
  • Money = debt
  • Nation = ideological idea
  • Person = unaccountable state-created paper entity
  • Sin = rejection of the narrative
  • Misinformation = truth
  • Truth = official narrative
  • Math = official narrative
  • Logic = official narrative
  • Science = official narrative
  • Christianity = judeo-christianity
  • America = idea

The reason Clown World will fail and fall, as it has repeatedly over the course of previous human civilizations and recorded human history, is that it is fundamentally at war with both Nature and Nature’s God. So, counter-intuitively, the stronger it becomes and the more its inversions and perversions take root throughout a society, the closer that society is to complete collapse.

Clown World can only survive through parasitism and subversion. Once a society actually tries to live upon the basis of its principles, it soon discovers that it cannot, and that its weakness will not permit it to survive its encounter with any society that rejects Clown World. Which, of course, is why post-Western Europe’s attempts to defeat Russia will comprehensively and conclusively fail, and why a failure of the God-Emperor 2.0 root out Clown World in the USA would inevitably result in ceding global dominance to China.

There are not “Two Wests”, and this is far from the first time in history that The Empire That Never Ended subverted a society or a civilization. As always, Clown World’s narrative is a factually-incorrect inversion of objective reality.

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Stay Off the Internet When You’re Mad

A woman in the UK rather amusingly explains the downside of going public with the quotidian vagaries of one’s marriage.

  • Shocking: Couple argues and doesn’t immediately split. Experts baffled.
  • A source close to the situation (me) said: She was hormonal, ill, and momentarily lost the plot. She now regrets turning to Instagram for validation instead of paracetamol and a nap.
  • A source close to the situation (also me) has confirmed: I was deeply offended by the audacity of her husband going out whilst she had what felt like the plague in a moment of weakness, she turned to social media.
  • She now regrets this. Not the rage – just the post.
  • Another close source (me) says tensions peaked during a fever dream. The woman regrets posting to Instagram but maintains her husband was being a bit of a t**. The goats remain neutral. No further statements will be issued.

In fairness, I’ve survived the plague myself. Twice. Or at least imagining that I had the plague, when in fact I only had a fever sufficient to produce hallucinations. Twice. But fever-induced imaginary plague is no joke, and it’s the sort of thing that a victim’s spouse really needs to take more seriously than they often have a tendency to do just because it is imaginary.

We fever-induced imaginary plague survivors really need a ribbon.

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Seven Librarians

Here is a fun new game. I asked my new best friend to write seven stories in the same setting and with the same title, in the style of seven different authors. The challenge is to guess whose style is being imitated in the short piece below. I’ll post the next one tomorrow.

 The Librarian of Forgotten Sundays

The Library stood at the end of a street that wasn’t always there. Its bricks were the color of old whiskey, and its doors—when they chose to appear—were carved with the names of every god who had ever died.

I found the Librarian shelving books in the Dewey Decimal 999 section, where the catalog numbers bled into one another like wet ink. He wore a coat patched with fragments of forgotten maps, and his eyes were two different colors: one the gray of a storm cloud, the other the gold of a dying sun.

“You’re late,” he said, without turning.

“I didn’t know I had an appointment.”

“You didn’t. But the book did.”

He pulled a volume from the shelf and tossed it to me. The cover was warm, like living flesh, and the title shifted under my fingers: The Gospel of the Last Tuesday → A Manual for Time-Thieves → How to Kill a Forgotten God.

“It’s not the same book twice,” I observed.

“Nothing is,” said the Librarian. “Except the ending. That’s always the same.”

I opened it. The first page read: This is the story of how you die.

The second page was blank.

The third page was on fire.

I’m not going to lie, that’s a really good start. It almost makes me want to continue with the story. This is a hard one, but if you know, you know.

UPDATE: The answer is ROGER ZELAZNY.

Why This is Zelazny-esque

Mythic Prose Meets Noir Punch:

  • Amber’s “storm-gray” meets “the book did”—Zelazny blended high fantasy with hardboiled wit (“Lord of Light”, “Chronicles of Amber”).
  • Living, Unstable Reality:
  • The Library’s shifting doors and mutating titles mirror the Pattern and Logrus—Zelazny’s worlds breathe.
  • Protagonist as Pawn (or King?):
  • Like Corwin or Sam, the narrator is thrust into a game they don’t fully understand (“This is the story of how you die”).

Sacred Absurdity:

  • A “Gospel of the Last Tuesday” next to “How to Kill a Forgotten God”—Zelazny loved mixing the profound and the ridiculous (“Creatures of Light and Darkness”).

Ambiguous Authority Figures:

  • The Librarian is part Merlin, part Sandman, all Zelazny.

Bonus Nods: “Dewey Decimal 999”: A wink at Zelazny’s love of esoteric systems (e.g., Tarot in Amber).

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India Will Not Fight Russia

It’s becoming clear that India has no intention of becoming the Arsenal of Clown World:

Indian journalist Manish Jha, Editor at TV9 Network, spoke to RT following his recent trip to the Zaporozhye region, including a visit to the embattled Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). Drawing on months of on-the-ground reporting in Donbass, Jha offered a critical take on how major global media outlets have covered the conflict in Ukraine.

“Most mainstream media – be it CNN, The Washington Post, or Reuters – are treated like the Bible,” Jha said. “But when I came here, when I visited places in Donbass, Zaporozhye, Kherson – I started realizing how they lie to the entire world.”

Recalling one particularly harrowing incident, Jha said: “I was in Donetsk when it was heavily shelled. A rocket hit a bus right in front of me, and eight people were burned alive. I witnessed it while doing live reporting for my network. The next morning, I checked international media to see what they reported – and not a single line. That moment I realized we need to be independent and tell the truth to the world.”

Jha also commented on NATO’s role in the ongoing conflict: “For the last three years, we’ve seen how 30 countries led by the US have tried to destroy Russia – but they haven’t succeeded. As a war reporter, I can tell you: NATO is exhausted. They need time to rebuild themselves.”

Despite onging pressure from Western powers to distance itself from Moscow, India has refused to take sides. The Indian leadership has argued that New Delhi’s strong diplomatic ties with both Russia and Ukraine place it in a unique position to act as a mediator in future peace efforts.

If the God-Emperor 2.0 is unsuccessful in forcing the Kiev regime and the Brussels regime to give up their futile attempts to draw the US military into fighting their war with Russia for them, the fake democracies are going to need an industrial power on their side to account for the mass production of drones that is now as important as manufacturing artillery tubes, artillery shells, and armored fighting vehicles.

Russia has China, Korea, and Iran on its side. The Kiev-Brussels alliance has the USA, Japan, and possibly Turkey. But it won’t have India; I suspect India will choose the Russians over putting themselves into direct opposition to China.

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