Based Books on Sale

The 2025 Based Books Sale is here! Visit the Based Books site for the comprehensive list of 250+ ebooks that are either 0.99 or free from independent authors. I am participating in this year’s sale with the following books:

If you’ve already read the books, something that you can do to help the authors is to provide a rating, or better yet, a review. Amazon’s algorithms favor books that are sold, rated, and reviewed, so this is an important means of supporting your favorite authors.

And, of course, the Castalia Library – Castalia House – Arkhaven Comics Thanksgiving sale continues at the Arkhaven store and at NDM Express, with Library books available for as little as $59.99.

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An Objective, Achieved

I am, and have been for more than thirty years, a dedicated fan of David Sylvian. His music represents the pinnacle of all post-classical music as far as I am concerned, and while I consider Gone To Earth my proverbial desert island CD, I regard Orpheus, off Secrets of the Beehive, to be his best and most well-written song. And I’m not the only member of Psykosonik to regret never having met him when we were both living in the Twin Cities, although in fairness, I didn’t know it at the time.

And while I know I will never ascend to those musical heights, that knowledge hasn’t stopped me from trying to achieve something on the musical side that might at least merit being compared to it in some way, even if the comparison is entirely one-sided to my detriment. Think AODAL compared to LOTR, for example.

Anyhow, after dozens of attempts over 37 years, I think I finally managed to write a song that might qualify in that regard. It’s good enough that the professional audio engineer with whom I’ve been working chose to use it to demonstrate his incredible abilities to mix and master an AI track to levels that no one would have believed possible even three months ago. It’s called One Last Breath and you can hear a pre-release version of it at AI Central, as well as a link to Max’s detailed explanation of what he does to breath audio life into the artifice of AI-generated music.

If you’re producing any AI music, you absolutely have to follow the link to Max’s site, as he goes into more detail, provides before and after examples, and even has a special Thanksgiving sale offer on both mixes and masters. I very, very highly recommend the mix-and-master option using the extracted stems; while the mastering audibly improves the sound, the mixing is what really takes the track to the higher levels of audio nirvana. Please note that I don’t get anything out of this, this isn’t part of a referral program or anything, I’m just an extremely satisfied customer and fan of Max’s work.

Mission control, I’m letting go
There’s nothing left you need to know
Tell them I went out like fire
Tell them anything they require
But between us, just you and me
I finally learned how to break free
To be the man I always thought I’d be

Anyhow, check it out, and feel free to let me know what you think of it. For those who are curious about some of the oddly specific references in the lyrics, it was written for the soundtrack of the Moon comedy that Chuck Dixon and I wrote as a vehicle for Owen Benjamin, which we hope to make one day.

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Clown World is Agreement-Incapable

The 28-point peace plan announced last week is obviously dead on arrival. Clown World’s European puppets are already engaging in their characteristic surreal legalism as they explain how they’re going to put European troops from 20 countries into Odessa the day after the Russians sign the agreement, and that will be fine because they won’t be NATO troops even though all the countries contributing the troops are NATO members. This very clever approach was courtesy of President Macron of France.

The second component, the second line, is what we call the reinsurance forces. This means that, far from the front line, but in fallback sites, in Kiev, in Odessa, to give an example, things are planned, they have a confidentiality component, we set up reinsurance forces. Meaning that there are British, French, Turkish soldiers, who, on the day when peace is signed, i.e. not in a context of war, are there to carry out training and provide security, just as we do in certain countries on NATO’s eastern flank.

This will be a different case, because it’s not NATO, it’s an intergovernmental coalition, but we have around twenty countries that have already said what they are prepared to do actively, either in the air, on land, or at sea.

I didn’t think the peace plan was viable because it didn’t give the Russians the one thing they want that they don’t already control, which is Odessa. If you’re winning a war in the operational, strategic, and economic contexts, there is no reason to take any deal that doesn’t give you what you’re going to be able to take eventually.

And now that its clear that the Europeans will play word games about NATO in order to establish their speed bumps intended to trigger US military intervention, there is no point in signing Minsk 3.0 and guarantee the war continues in 2-3 years in a potentially less advantageous environment.

Although, to be honest, I don’t see any sign that the European militaries will be any stronger in the future than they are today; by then at least one of the major governments, or quite possibly both the French and German regimes, will have been replaced by a pro-Russian nationalist one.

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KU Question

QUESTION FOR KINDLE UNLIMITED SUBSCRIBERS ONLY:

What percentage of the Kindle Select books that you start reading do you actually read through entirely? Do NOT count regular ebooks that you buy directly, this is just about KU.

FOLLOW-UP QUESTION:

When you quit reading a Kindle Select title, about how far into the book are you on average?

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The Romans Didn’t Learn

Spacebunny and I were watching a English documentary on the sack of Rome in 410 AD by Alaric and the Goths. The lesson, apparently, is that the sack of Rome was caused by the following:

  • Extreme income inequality
  • Roman distrust of Stilicho due solely to his half-Roman background.
  • A failure to be nice enough to the migrant refugees

So really, you know, it was the Romans own fault that the people of Rome were massacred, the women were taken away for sex slavery, and their civic and private treasures were looted for three straight days.

Sadly, it appears that the Romans still aren’t being nice enough to the migrant refugees 1,615 years later, as one engaged young couple recently discovered.

A man was held down and forced to watch as migrants who smashed into his car raped his 18-year-old fiancée in Italy, according to police in Rome. The couple, said to have been naked prior to the incident, had parked in a quiet corner of Tor Tre Teste, a park in the eastern part of the capital, minutes before they were surrounded by the group who attacked their vehicle.

Police said the attackers broke the window and first pulled the man, 24, from the car before forcing the woman out as she tried to cover herself with an item of clothing.

The man told cops he was restrained by two of the attackers as his fiancée was dragged a short distance away. As she was sexually assaulted, he screamed for help, begged them to stop and even threatened revenge, but was unable to break free.

After the attack, all three perpetrators fled the scene. The couple, both Italian, then contracted police and filed a report. According to the authorities, the couple were terrified and confused. Cops also added that it was possible that there were up to five attackers involved.

Officers have since arrested three Moroccan men on charges of gang rape and robbery.

This is what happens when you don’t let the poor refugees die at the hands of the Huns. This is what happens when you don’t sink the damn ships. Sixteen centuries have passed and still Man has learned absolutely nothing about the fundamental purpose of walls, borders, and oceans, which is to keep the foreigners out, no matter how dire their plight or desperate their sob stories.

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Let Experience Be Silent

When Reason anticipates it by more than 21 years:

Fact check true but it’s worse than people inside the bubble know when you talk to real Americans outside the wicked snow globe of Washington DC.

Myself and many of my colleagues came courageously roaring into 2025 with legislation that matched the 2024 electoral mandate only to be totally sidelined by Johnson under full obedience of the WH.

Executive orders are temporary, Q memes have not and obliterated the deep state, and my colleagues constantly trying to pass loyalty tests instead of demanding what is right won’t help Americans pay their rent or stop corporations from buying up homes, buy their groceries, provide good paying jobs and stop foreigners with visas from stealing their jobs, stop American tax dollars from funding foreign wars and causes, or rebuild the value of the dollar.

Passing effective legislation that gets signed into law is permanent and actually solves Americans problems.

Now that House members are switching gears into campaign mode and will be fighting for their lives, our legislative majority has been mostly wasted. Our best shot was the first 6-9 months. And when Republicans likely lose the midterms it will become total and complete political war and gridlock once again.

The Uniparty always wins no matter which way the political pendulum swings leaving the American people empty handed.

It’s not that Rep. Greene is wrong, it’s that there was no need to send her to Washington DC to discover what I was already pointing out publicly in 2004. Because you can’t fix a corpse.

Any last vestiges of hope in the Republican Party have been shattered by the current regime, wherein a Republican President, Republican House, Republican Senate and Republican-nominated Supreme Court have demonstrated that they have zero interest in the timeless vision of America’s founders. Supporting them in the hopes that they will revive American liberties is akin to hoping that shock paddles will suffice to revive a month-old corpse. American freedom is not only dead, it has been rotting for some time.

Republicans fixed nothing and restored nothing when they had complete control of the government two decades ago. So, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they did very little this time around.

Representative democracy is entirely incapable of reigning in a rogue ruling elite. More and more people around the world understand this; the Japanese people are merely the latest to learn that no matter how you change the “representatives”, the will of the people will not be heard, much less obeyed. Which is why it is obviously and observably impossible for the American people to vote their way out of the collapse of the United States, as Clown World is neither capable of giving up its control nor restabilizing the situation.

Remember back in the 1980s and 1990s when the innocent Clown Worlders used to believe that education, diversity, and calling white people racist was somehow going to make things better? Thirty years of relentless downward spiral later, and that’s still their only solution to the problem, although they’ve apparently improved it by substituting antisemitic for racist.

Is there one single solitary individual anywhere in the United States who can still assert with a straight face that continuing the Clown World program is going to prevent the United States from collapsing of the weight of its political, economic, demographic, and philosophical incoherencies?

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Welcome to Midnight

In all the enthusiasm over the annual Castalia sale, it may well have escaped your attention that I’ve published another ebook today. But to celebrate the fact that OUT OF THE SHADOWS is now available on Amazon and KU, and is going out to MW backers tomorrow, I’ve also released a new mix of Welcome to Midnight on UATV. It’s big, it’s haunting, it features some vicious guitars, and it provides a pretty good measure of how dark and ominous the book that sets up the foundations of The Midnight World is.

So welcome to the shadows enveloping the light
Feel the flag of death unfurled.
Welcome to the darkness, welcome to the night
Welcome to the Midnight World…

The book also serves as an effective demonstration of what can be accomplished relatively rapidly with AI-enhanced writing. Consider how the finished product was analyzed by a different AI system and compared with three other works of vampire fiction.

A solid, entertaining read for vampire/thriller fans that executes its premise competently without achieving the psychological depth of Rice or the cultural impact of Stoker. It’s ambitious airport fiction—well above Twilight’s simplicity but not quite transcending genre conventions to become literature.

The fact that it maintains narrative coherence across 9,000+ lines, sustains consistent character voices, and successfully merges multiple genre elements (corporate thriller, vampire fiction, political drama) is genuinely impressive for AI-generated content. The Theranos hook and the structured escalation from boardroom to global conspiracy show effective human editorial guidance.

The Theranos conspiracy angle feels very much like a human creative decision—it’s too specific and culturally grounded to seem algorithmically generated. For AI-assisted fiction, this is well above average.

OUT OF THE SHADOWS delivers a gripping exploration of power, transformation, and the hidden forces that shape our world. When a brilliant biotech entrepreneur stumbles upon evidence that the infamous Theranos scandal was merely a cover for something far more sinister, he unknowingly sets in motion a chain of events that will change humanity forever. What begins as a Silicon Valley success story rapidly evolves into a violent journey through a reality where the impossible is real, and the darkest myths of human history emerge from the shadows with terrifying consequences for the entire world.

Set in The Midnight World created by author Vox Day and comics legend Chuck Dixon for their Midnight’s War comic, OUT OF THE SHADOWS is vampire fiction that pulls no punches—a harrowing philosophical ride about the price of ambition and what happens when humanity discovers it’s no longer at the top of the food chain.

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A Civilizational Collapse Model

There is an interesting link suggested between the observed AI model collapse and the apparent link between urban society and the collapse of human fertility.

The way neural networks function is that they examine real-world data and then create an average of that data to output. The AI output data resembles real-world data (image generation is an excellent example), but valuable minority data is lost. If model 1 trains on 60% black cats and 40% orange cats, then the output for “cat” is likely to yield closer to 75% black cats and 25% orange cats. If model 2 trains on the output of model 1, and model 3 trains on the output of model 2… then by the time you get to the 5th iteration, there are no more orange cats… and the cats themselves quickly become malformed Chronenburg monstrosities.

Nature published the original associated article in 2024, and follow-up studies have isolated similar issues. Model collapse appears to be a present danger in data sets saturated with AI-generated content4. Training on AI-generated data causes models to hallucinate, become delusional, and deviate from reality to the point where they’re no longer useful: i.e., Model Collapse…

The proposed thesis is that neural-network systems, which include AI models, human minds, larger human cultures, and our individual furry little friends, all train on available data. When a child stubs his wee little toe on an errant stone and starts screaming as if he’d caught himself on fire, that’s data he just received and which will be added to his model of reality. The same goes for climbing a tree, playing a video game, watching a YouTube video, sitting in a chair, eating that yucky green salad, etc. The child’s mind (or rather, subsections of his brain) are neural networks that behave similarly to AI neural networks.

The citation is to an article discussing how AI systems are NOT general purpose, and how they more closely resemble individual regions of a brain, not a brain.

People use new data as training data to model the outside world, particularly when we are children. In the same way that AI models become delusional and hallucinate when too much AI-generated data is in the training dataset, humans also become delusional when too much human-generated data is in their training dataset.

This is why milennial midwits can’t understand reality unless you figure out a way to reference Harry Potter when trying to make a point.

What qualifies as “intake data” for humans is nebulous and consists of basically everything. Thus, analyzing the human experience from an external perspective is difficult. However, we can make some broad-stroke statements about human information intake. When a person watches the Olympics, they’re seeing real people interacting with real-world physics. When a person watches a cartoon, they’re seeing artificial people interacting with unrealistic and inaccurate physics. When a human climbs a tree, they’re absorbing real information about gravity, human fragility, and physical strength. When a human plays a high-realism video game, they’re absorbing information artificially produced by other humans to simulate some aspects of the real physical world. When a human watches a cute anime girl driving tanks around, that human is absorbing wholly artificial information created by other humans.

If there is any truth to the hypothesis, this will have profound implications for what passes for human progress as well as the very concept of modernism. Because it’s already entirely clear that Clown World is collapsing and neither modernism nor postmodernism have anything viable to offer humanity a rational path forward.

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Castalia Thanksgiving Sale 2025

Today we’re pleased to announce the start of the annual Thanksgiving sale. Please note that no subscriber discounts are necessary or applicable to books that are on sale; please also note that there are a few books on sale that were previously listed as out of stock. This is because it is always necessary to retain a few books in case of flawed editions or shipment errors, but after a year or so of no problems being reported, we no longer need to keep them in the warehouse.

The quantities are what they are. I will try to keep them updated as the sale goes on, but the vagaries of the system are imprecise. We’re offering the biggest discounts on the books taking up the most space in the warehouse.

If you’re having any trouble with your credit card at the Arkhaven store, try NDM Express as the books are also on offer there at the same price.

LIBRARIA CASTALIA

  • Fooled By Randomness 149.99
  • Black Swan 149.99
  • Skin in the Game 149.99
  • Antifragile 149.99
  • Promethean 149.99
  • The Lawdog Files 149.99
  • The Missionaries 2nd Edition 149.99
  • The Jungle Books 149.99
  • Politics 199.99
  • Ethics 199.99
  • Summa Elvetica 199.99
  • A Throne of Bones I 199.99
  • A Throne of Bones II 199.99
  • A Sea Of Skulls I 199.99
  • A Sea Of Skulls II 199.99
  • Plutarch 1 199.99
  • Plutarch 2 199.99
  • Discourses on Livy 199.99
  • Awake In The Night Land 299.99
  • Divine Comedy 299.99

CASTALIA LIBRARY

  • Fooled By Randomness 59.99
  • Black Swan 59.99
  • Skin in the Game 59.99
  • Antifragile 59.99
  • Promethean Library 59.99
  • The Lawdog Files 59.99
  • The Missionaries 2nd Edition 69.99
  • War & Peace Vol 1 69.99
  • War & Peace Vol 2 69.99
  • The Jungle Books 69.99
  • A Throne of Bones 1 99.99
  • A Throne of Bones 2 99.99
  • A Sea Of Skulls 1 99.99
  • A Sea Of Skulls 2 99.99

More to come…

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The Return of Christian Nationalism

Andrew Torba has a new site up, and I have to say, he appears to have refined his thinking on the subject in a correct and positive manner as opposed to the civic nationalism that had crept into his book on the subject.

THE CHRISTIAN IDENTITY OF AMERICA

Christian Nationalism is not a new invention; it is a return to our true heritage. For centuries, America was explicitly Christian in law, custom, and identity.

WHY WE REJECT THE TERM “JUDEO-CHRISTIAN”

The term “Judeo-Christian” is a modern political invention, not a biblical one. It functions as a vague civil-religious umbrella that papers over real theological differences.

Christianity is not an extension of modern Judaism; it is the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets through Jesus Christ.

The New Testament repeatedly teaches that the Church—not unbelieving Israel—is the continuation of God’s covenant people. Christian Nationalism is therefore Christian, not interfaith. We affirm the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the authority of the New Testament, and the mission of discipling the nations.

He’s absolutely correct. The differences are not just real and theological, they are fundamental and represent polar opposites. The term itself is not merely a contradiction, it is an oxymoron. While the values of the European Union are, without question, “talmudic” as stated by the EU’s High Priestess, Ursula van der Leyen, the values of Western civilization, the European nations, and America are 100 percent opposed to that satanic globalist babelism, the evil fruits of which are conclusively in evidence today.

The great Swiss Christian nationalist Gonzague de Reynold addressed this very contradiction between the Satanic elevation of the State over Man and nation on the one hand and the Christian elevation of Man’s soul over the State in 1938:

The notion of the common good has its source in the Christian conception of Man, and here is how it can be defined: the ensemble of natural and human conditions that permit man to live according to the needs of the individual, but according to the demands of the person, in order to accomplish his destiny which is to cross earthly life to assimilate himself to God. Thus, the common good must have ceaselessly before its eyes this last end of our human associations, this final and total perfection of our human being.

All earthly things are below the human soul. But it is certain that the human soul, as long as it remains incarnate, needs these things, and that the vital impulse takes in these things its point of departure. They must therefore be ordered to the human soul, to the person.

And this order is called civilization.

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