Thuletide

A 2010 paper found a high level of social mobility and meritocracy in Britain, with more intelligent people moving up the social ladder and vice versa.

Hard to believe this would be true today, given that the country is systemically anti-White to a degree that makes other Western countries look like White supremacist states.

https://doi.org/10.1348/000712603322503097

I'd like to believe that Elon will come to his senses regarding digital ID etc., he's evidently open to having his mind changed and seems to take the opinions of twitter anons seriously, but I'm skeptical.

Immigration is a less immediate and arguably less significant threat to the future of America and the West than online censorship/surveillance throttling the only quasi-free source of information and discourse available today.

Social credit systems loom on the horizon and people either don't care or actively facilitate and applaud the encroaching tyranny: "I support totaldox because I'm too dumb to spot Indian engagement farmers and AI bots on Twitter, and I'm too irresponsible of a parent to protect my kids from porn via the variety of tools that are already at my disposal."

If by some miracle, social credit systems do not materialize: In America the woke will still ruin your life for saying what needs to be said under your real name and face, and things are far worse in Western countries with intentionally nebulous "hate speech" laws; people are frequently jailed for voicing milquetoast opposition to leftist regimes.

X/Twitter worked on the Kids Online Safety Act, part of the KIDS Act (recently passed in the House). They are 100% on board with digital identity and deanonymization.

"X likely wants device fingerprints so they can track/deanonymize users" — turns out it was even worse than I imagined, they want your biometric data: face and actual fingerprints. https://t.me/thuletide/8200

Looks like 2022 Thuletide was correct about the first part. I hope I'm not vindicated on the second.
https://t.me/thuletide/2688

Digital Panopticon Update: New deanonymization feature on X/Twitter.

Mobile-based accounts are locked then forced to download the app and provide biometric data.

Web-based accounts are forced to "confirm they are human" by scanning a QR code with their mobile phones (leaking privacy-compromising device information), which begins the same biometric data harvesting process.

Digital Panopticon Update: The KIDS Act passed within the House and only 32 Republicans voted against it.

It includes 14 bills (e.g. the Kids Online Safety Act) aimed at throttling online freedom.

- Age verification for using websites that host porn or other sexual content (this includes every social media platform)
- Age verification to send private messages
- Age verification to use in-game chats
- Most web/app features disabled by default unless age verified
- Restrictions on encrypted messaging
- Restrictions on AI chatbots
- Government-directed moderation / restriction of lawful speech
- etc.

As I said, while the digital ID agenda has bipartisan support in America, it is primarily pushed by myopic GOP tradcuck retards who either don't understand or don't care that they are playing directly in the hands of the left. These people are a plague.

Sex bias in hiring does exist! Women are favored while men are discriminated against.

A meta analysis of real-world experiments spanning over four decades (1976-2020) found that all hiring bias against women has disappeared in the studied countries (mostly the West + China).

Since the 2000s, women have been favored for "female-type" and "gender-balanced" jobs, and since the 2010s, even "male-type" jobs have reached sex parity, meaning women are favored for "all jobs." [An odds ratio above 1 = male bias, below 1 = female bias].

The paper also surveyed US laymen and academics, who both overestimated sex bias in hiring practices to a significant degree — i.e. they hallucinated nonexistent discrimination against women.

Source: On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions (2023)

The most absurd aspect of this cuckservative push to "protect children" online is that the entirety of modern Western civilization is riddled with filth from top to bottom.

The shit kids see in the average city, the shit they see on TV, the shit they're taught in school, etc. can hardly be more harmful than the shit they see online.

To truly protect children, you'd have to take them off grid and live in the wilderness. Even then, you're likely to drive past a degenerate billboard or two.

Why don't they campaign to bring back modesty laws or something?

Digital ID in America is primarily pushed by cuckservative organizations and GOP lawmakers.

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, these bible-thumping busybodies needed a new flagship "save the kids" cause to virtue signal about: The total abolition of online anonymity.

They are playing directly into the hands of the left by further throttling the only relatively free source of information available today, while laying the foundations of European-style digital tyranny and a Chinese-style social credit system.

The Digital Childhood Alliance is funded by Meta btw.

Digital Panopticon Update: People who create a new Apple account in Texas will be asked to verify that they're over 18

"Apple will introduce age verification in the App Store for users in Texas starting on Thursday, June 4th. The move, as spotted by MacRumors, comes just days after a federal appeals court allowed Texas’ App Store Accountability Act to go into effect while a lawsuit against it proceeds."

"People in Texas who are creating a new Apple account will need to verify they’re over 18 using a credit card or government ID."

Source: Apple is bringing age verification to Texas this week

Early Medieval 'Slavic Period' (~600-900 AD) samples from southern Poland and northern Ukraine had variable levels of Germanic, Balkan, and Greco-Roman ancestry, as per the recent study on Slavic migrations (Gretzinger 2025). I think these early Slavs also had Scythian and minor Uralic ancestry.

It's currently unknown whether or not these samples represent the Proto-Slavic population, but I suspect that they don't.

They were found in close geographic proximity to the theorized Proto-Slavic homeland, but the Czechia_EarlySlav sample (also from the early Slavic Period) has significantly less Balkan, Germanic, and Scythian ancestry. I suspect that the Proto-Slavs were more similar to this sample — i.e. more Baltic-like — than those from Grodek and NW Ukraine.