This is the heart of the matter: Social media content creators ape corporate media but dispense with the decades of policies, practices, and procedures that protect employees and audiences alike. They are amateurs in every sense and are replacing professional content with unsafe, half-assed slop.
David Wilcock, former star of "Ancient Aliens" and an early proponent of Pizzagate and QAnon, took his own life after a "mental health crisis," according to social media posts by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Corey Goode, and a Boulder County Sheriff's Dept. media statement. He was 53.
Seems weird for Architectural Digest to run a photo spread of James Dean's life, given that Dean is not a building, did not build one, and his L.A. house burned down with nothing to show. Doubly strange that the spread had no buildings in it. www.architecturaldigest.com/story/james-...
I have added to my page on al-Masudi's account of ancient Egypt his subsequent chapter on the founding and history of Alexandria, which contains stories from the Alexander Romance as well as legends about Shaddad bin 'Ad, supposed builder of the pyramids. www.jasoncolavito.com/al-masudi-on...
Today is my 45th birthday and the 25th anniversary of my writing about "alternative archaeology" and pseudohistory on the internet.
It's not that "humanity" has forgotten this--almost everyone understands this instinctively--but rather tech bro elites and corporate capitalism intentionally try to destroy tradition to sell us a commodified, degraded copy and purge potential counterweights to their own power and control.
It's a mistake to posit that progress and tradition are mutually incompatible, just as it is a mistake to define "progress" solely by conformity to 1960s-era utopian ideas. Most people want stability and continuity with steady improvements to their lives. Too much unnecessary change causes unrest.
I'm mentioned in this Skeptic (UK) article about the life and legacy of Erich Von Däniken. www.skeptic.org.uk/2026/04/the-...
The Atlantic is meeting the moment with hard-hitting reporting.
New in my Library: Zhao Rukuo's description of Egypt and its legends from 1225 CE, the oldest surviving account of Egypt in Chinese literature, and one including a unique legend about a Nile river god. www.jasoncolavito.com/zhao-rukuo-o...
Fun fact: Evil-Lyn was originally going to be named "Sultra" and was intended to be a sexy vamp modeled on Sophia Loren before cooler heads prevailed and realized you couldn't have a seductress in a toy line aimed at 6-year-olds. See the original concept drawing below.
New in my Library: I have added translations of three versions of the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius, including the Latin version and two Syriac versions. www.jasoncolavito.com/the-apocalyp...
As horrific as it is, there is worse to come: Trump is limited by his own incompetence, but he laid bare that the only constraint on power in America is the president's own restraint. No one will stop the next, more competent, and more villainous dictator either.
Researching the Alexander Romance, I was surprised that the Greek version wasn't translated into English until the 20th century and many versions haven't been. I collected some public domain translations and translated the Coptic so they will be online. www.jasoncolavito.com/the-alexande...
This gives me flashbacks to middle school. An astronaut spoke at our school, and the principal chose me for a local TV news interview. The reporter asked me about a dozen topics, including the space toilet, and edited me down to one humiliating sentence making it sound like I loved toilets.
A 19th century illustration of the partially buried entrance to an Egyptian tomb at Giza, used as an illustration of ancient Egypt to evoke a sense of antiquity and mystery.
If you are interested in following the breadcrumbs to the origins of medieval literature's mythic first pharaoh "Phanophis," I've written up an account of my investigation and its surprising results. www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/who-was...
So bizarre to argue that conversion therapy, which is supposedly a medical/mental health treatment, is a free speech issue with an audience of one. It feels like establishing a "right to quackery" and relying on the free market to sort it out will only end in tragedy.
Looks like we're back to forced conversion trauma nationwide. Even when framed as being about the therapists' "right" to perform conversions, this seems to be part of the Court's evolving theory that minors are parental property who do not have inherent rights.
I just found out today that Italy changed its citizenship law last year so that most descendants of Italian immigrants no longer qualify for automatic citizenship as they always had. I'm not sure I ever would really have gone, but losing that dream makes me sad.
Never was there a more appropriate title to publish a UFO report than "Weird Science-Fantasy."
According to this review, I am apparently discussed in Daniel Lavelle's forthcoming book on America's rural UFO conspiracy culture, "Chasing Aliens," out in April. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
Bill Maher came out as a believer in alien visitation in the "New Rules" segment on "Real Time" because "serious people" and "military pilots" see things they can't understand. He repeated the usual ufology claims with little critical thought but unwarranted trust in politicians.
Reprints of his Uncle Scrooge comics were some of my favorites as a kid.
A nineteenth-century engraving of the ruins of an Egyptian temple and three men in traditional Arab-Egyptian clothing reclining amidst the ruins.
This week, I discovered the overlooked medieval text that solved the riddle behind Alfonso X's bizarre history of Ancient Egypt in the "General Estoria." Now I have written up an analysis of what we know and what it proves. www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/ibn-abd...
If you enjoyed this translation and want to see more ancient texts made available, considering sponsoring my research and translation efforts through my Patreon. www.patreon.com/c/jasoncolav...
I am happy to present the first-ever English translation of the legendary history of Ancient Egypt given by ibn 'Abd al-Hakam in the oldest-surviving Arabic history of Egypt www.jasoncolavito.com/ibn-abd-al-h...
It was darkly funny, though, to see the influencers complaining that women get a free ride in life for being "beautiful" while being completely unaware that their influencing careers made them millions of dollars only because they are handsome, muscular young men who show off their muscles.
It seems like you should be able to be supportive of young men, offer advice on living a good life, and even complain about the unfairness of late capitalism without calling women dimwitted housekeepers or blaming all life's problems on the Jews.
A promotional image featuring a muscular male arm placing Louis Theroux in a headlock with the title "Inside the Manoshpere" beside him.
After watching Louis Theroux's "Inside the Manosphere," it's weird how personable and engaging the manosphere influencers seem right up until they lurch into wild misogyny, homophobia, and antisemitism. It seems like some influencer should be able to offer the support without the hate.
In youth, everyone gets one high school TV show where the characters are exactly where you are at the same time as you. For me, it was "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." So sad to hear about Nicholas Brendon's passing. This one hit a little harder than usual. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/n...