#Arkhaven INFOGALACTIC #Castalia House
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As, obviously, is VP.
JDA attends Worldcon, writes a convention report, and filed it on File 770. This did not go over well with those who style themselves the Haters of Hate.
On Saturday, I published a report on World Fantasy Con for File 770. The convention was well run, the panels were good, and I found a few rare books for my collection. Within hours, commenters demanded that I be kept out of every convention in the country, and the pile-on moved to Bluesky, where the language got worse. All of this over a convention review that said the con went well.
Science fiction and fantasy has a hate problem. In my experience, it does not come from the right and never has. Most of what you see on the right is just want to be included and be aloowed to exist peacefully. It comes from a left-wing establishment that spent years pushing out anyone who disagreed with it on any topic, then grew so used to total control that it forgot the people it targeted were people.
The genre’s gatekeepers say “diversity” and “inclusion” constantly. Look at who is in the room. You will find one set of opinions, repeated by everyone, and a standing threat for anyone who voices another. A community with no room for a dissenting view is a monoculture with branding that makes them feel good about themselves. What you’ll find is complete intolerance coming from them.
I get death threats and hate on a regular basis, along with people flinging so much hate my way it would break most people and cause them health problems, which is the intention of the mob to do. They want to hurt or kill those they hate from the power of their own keyboards. I have been hesitant to attend conventions because of it. The people who pile on are the same ones who tell us, correctly, that harassment and threats of violence can destroy a person. They say we should stand against it. They often point to my criticism of different cultural pieces as justification for it, which should not be the case. Criticism is a time-honored tradition in our culture and helps hone things to be better. Their personal attacks are just about destruction.
The mob is angry because it lost a little power this weekend. World Fantasy Con did not ban me. File 770 reported on the convention and let me do the reporting. The people who wanted me gone found they could not do anything substantive about it. Both organizations put their love of the genre first, and I am grateful to them. Mike Glyer deserves love for what he’s got, and it’s my understanding the hate and pressure he received was so overwhelming he’s taking a couple of days off the internet. One has to remember he’s an older gentleman; this level of abuse is something he’s probably not used to and can cause real harm, something the mob does not consider. I read File 770 regularly for genre reports, and he finds a great number of things that are interesting, and does some good work. That site does not get advertising nor subscribers; he does it completely for free.
I, for one, don’t care one way or another. I’ve never been part of fandom, I wasn’t published by a genre publisher, and except for being able to talk with John M. Ford for about an hour, I didn’t enjoy the one convention I attended. But I do think that the SJWs who drove out everyone to the right of Barack Obama out of professional science fiction and fantasy are beginning to realize the permanent damage they have done to the various institutions of the genre as well as to the genre itself.
The world is changing. Kindle Unlimited is far bigger than any SF/F publisher has ever been. I believe that within three years, Castalia Unlimited will be bigger than any other SF/F publisher, not just in terms of annual titles published, but in terms of total revenue and pages read too. We’re at 63 titles already, 23 of which have never been seen in English before. We expect to be at 150 by time of launch, 275 by the end of the year, and 1,000 English titles alone by the end of next year.
So it doesn’t matter if they want to freeze us out or not. They have Hugo Award winners. We have the guy writing the #1 movies at the box office and the guy for whom the Japanese literature awards are literally named. They have their artisanal wokeslop, we have groundbreaking science, philosophy, and high-quality history. There isn’t a single book that has been published in the genre in the last five years that can begin to compare with The Book of the Black Death or The Midnight Mayor. And the Unlimited library is growing daily in no less than six different languages.
I think it’s great that men like Mike Glyer and JDA are reaching across the philosophical divide. It was a stupid and harmful construction from the start, and now it has been extended into a technological divide as well. But for me, any “science fiction” that stands against artificial intelligence is not worthy of being called science fiction at all.
“If paperwork can make an American, paperwork can unmake an American.”
Everyone needs to keep this in mind. If your great-grandparents came in through Ellis Island, then you can leave through Ellis Island. There is no amount of paperwork that will ever modify your blood or your DNA. Your body is a literal record of your alien nature.
And now every government can easily test it.
Just something to keep in mind when the civic nationalists are bleating that they are just as American as the sons and daughters of the American Revolution, if not more so.
That’s not true, it has never been true, and we can scientifically prove it.
It doesn’t necessarily need to come to that, but it should not be forgotten that it absolutely can, if necessary.
A woman on Substack asked about Castalia Unlimited.
so um i have questions and maybe the biggest one is. you’re the better option because you’re not doing the woman thing? i mean, okay, whatever. at least the radiology geek i chatted with at today’s book fair who’s inventing a new form of analog reading didn’t get stuck on the fact that i’m a girl.
I would say we’re the better option for anyone, male or female, who doesn’t want to read exclusively MY GAY BILLIONAIRE VAMPIRE BOYFRIEND, ANOTHER IMMIGRANT STORY ABOUT RACISM, and EVERYTHING THAT MAKES ME SAD which is all that women in the publishing industry have wanted to publish for the last 20 years.
We have no shortage of female readers who prefer classic literature, classic fantasy, classic Westerns, and classic science fiction. We’re not among the publishers who have ignored the excellent novels of Zenaide Fleuriot for more than a century or allowed Tanith Lee to languish mostly ignored while lionizing a male mediocrity who mercilessly ripped her off.
If you want to sign up for the mailing list pre-launch, this is the time to do so. And in the meantime, I am pleased to be able to say that in addition to the translated works, and my own works, and the classics, and the Junior Classics, a certain Legend has agreed to make his novels available on Unlimited.
Sources on the ground confirm the collapse and desperation of criminal gangs in the face of the arrival of El Salvador’s special forces in Croix-des-Bouquets.
The situation is one of extreme volatility, with hand-to-hand battles on the ground.
This is how to fix the NFL flag problem:
If you commit a penalty that is accepted, you have to come out of the game for the remainder of that posession.
So if an RB holds, he’s out for the rest of that drive. If a DB commits pass interference, he’s out until the offense punts.
If that doesn’t encourage the coaches and players to stop committing penalties all the time, nothing will.
This is where “free speech” and “tolerance” leads. It’s the whole reason they were created and imposed upon Americans in the first place.
The moral decay forced upon America by radical leftists has reached a terrifying new low right in the heart of the Midwest.
An Iowa city council opened its regular meeting this week by standing for an invocation addressed to a “dark father,” praising the “luciferian impulse,” and closing with “Hail Satan.”
The City of Ottumwa’s official YouTube channel posted the October 6, 2026, regular meeting.
After the mayor called the 5:30 p.m. session to order and invited those who wished to participate in the invocation to stand, the scheduled speaker began: “Let us pray. Dear dark father, let us stand now unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds in darkened times.”
He continued by urging the room to “embrace the luciferian impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old,” to judge people by “concrete actions” rather than “arbitrary social norms,” and to hold “only to that which is demonstrably true.”
He closed with the line that set off the room: “It is done. Hail Satan.” The Pledge of Allegiance followed immediately.
The Inquisition were never the bad guys. It was always the satanists of the so-called “Enlightenment” whose false philosophy was nothing more than their centuries-long Fabian campaign against Christendom.
Bukele understands. He’s leading a Christian crusade against the vaudun priests of Haiti right now.
Looks like Iowa needs one too.
Although it’s a rescue mission, not a nation-building action:
BUKELE AND HIS WATERLOO?
With the announcement of the deployment from El Salvador to Haiti of a contingent of 3,000 troops, whose mission is to locate the 4 members of that country’s armed forces who were kidnapped last Sunday—when they entered territory controlled by gangs and were attacked by a gang of armed irregulars—fierce armed clashes are looming in the coming hours.
At this point, knowing how things are resolved in Haiti, the chances of these soldiers still being alive are minimal. So, if there’s no possibility of negotiating anything, what we’re facing is an armed confrontation between El Salvador’s troops and the gangs that control the territory where the Central American soldiers were attacked and kidnapped.
According to reports in the international press, those responsible are two criminal organizations that dominate the “Croix des Bouquets” area. One is led by Claude Celestin, head of the Chen Mechan gang (rabid dogs), and the other by Wilson Joseph (“Lammo San Jou”), leader of the 400 Mawozo gang.
Yesterday, the latter publicly challenged President Nayib Bukele in a video posted on social media, where he warned that he won’t leave Haiti and displayed thousands of rounds of ammunition and gear with weapons of various calibers, which he said are waiting for the Salvadorans.
We thus have the table set for an armed confrontation just 45 km from the Dominican Republic-Haiti border: an army of armed gang members with nothing to lose facing off against regular El Salvadoran troops, who will fight an urban war in the streets of a country that isn’t theirs and is utterly unknown to them.
I wouldn’t bet against Bukele and the El Salvadorans. This is a spiritual war and the voodoo masters cannot stand against a Christian army.
I don’t know that I’d be averse to him invading Hollywood and Los Angeles.
UPDATE: Bukele’s response:
Many messages, analyses, and comments like this one, ensuring that Haiti’s gangs are not like those in El Salvador; that they are bloodthirsty, that they are heavily armed, that no one has been able to defeat them, that all missions have failed, that we are falling into a trap, that we don’t know what we’re up against, that it will be our ruin, that we’re heading toward our Waterloo.
But when God grants us victory, the same people who say all that today will change their tune. They’ll say it was always easy, that anyone could have done it, that Haiti’s gangs weren’t as dangerous as people thought.
In short, we’ve never listened to them, and we’re not about to start now.
Everyone who has enlisted is a believer, and we have entrusted this mission to God, while Haiti’s gangs are satanic, and it’s public knowledge that they carry out human sacrifices.
God will grant us victory. The Creator of the Universe is with us.
Deuteronomy 28:7
Yeah. Don’t bet against him and his men. And he’s right. People always tell you something is impossible and foolish to even try, then, after you do it, they tell you that it was easy and anyone could have done it.
Here is how you can confirm evolution and population genetics are mathematically invalid and many of their estimates are guaranteed to be incorrect for yourself. A group of SGers recently confirmed this method on a number of AIs.
In other words, the scenario upon which most neutral theory is constructed literally never occurs in the real world. It flat-out doesn’t happen over any time period, because it can’t happen in finite time. This proof that k ≠ μ in finite time periods disrupts a considerable amount of population genetics as well as the evolutionary escape to neutral theory from natural selection.
So far, every AI that has been asked these two questions has answered them more or less correctly, the lone exception being Venice AI. Often an AI will offer an explanation for the second answer that may or may not be relevant. To answer the obvious question, the reference to overlapping generations is to avoid the AI getting hung up on the very, very low probability, but theoretical possibility, of N/Ne = 1 in a non-bacterial population without forcing anyone to utilize variables they don’t understand.
In fairness to population geneticists, the math that exposed this wasn’t published until 2022 and it wasn’t published in any evolution-related journals, so they had no reason to know it existed. Furthermore, it wasn’t actually applied anywhere until September 2026.
Kimura’s neutral substitution rate (k = μ) is the most widely cited result in molecular evolution. We show that it is intrinsically irrelevant to every single real-world question it has ever been utilized to answer. The identity contains no time term and therefore cannot address whether any number of fixations can complete in any given window. Its sole practical application, the calibration of the molecular clock, is both circular and logically invalid because divergence dates are derived from the identity, then cited as independent confirmation of the identity. While Kimura’s derivation is mathematically correct, it is a limited steady-state identity that is almost always improperly applied and the results it produces answer no material questions in population genetics or evolutionary biology.
Tom Skerritt, best known for his role in Top Gun, has died. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the actor passed away on Wednesday of natural causes at age 93.
One of the few men of the 80s who could wear a mustache and look straight.
RIP Viper.