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The Tuesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!

How psychedelics might rewire the brain to treat PTSD, how TikTok 2.0 became a surveillance weapon for ICE, how the Epstein files turned everyone into conspiracists, and much more:

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News Briefs 10-02-2026
Thanks Glen for your generous support of the Daily Grail! Thanks to @kayorchison.bsky.social. Quote of the Day The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like humans, but that humans wi...
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February 10, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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Apart from the difference in art (the kids stuff radiates joy a life and the ai stuff is just dead on arrival) the kids experience something while doing it. That experience is communicated in the art too. Art isn’t just the end result.
The kids actually made animals that don't exist. The AI just put a bunch of stuff that already exists together into a polished slop blender. You can't get a better illustration of why AI can't create anything new while human creativity is bottomless.
February 10, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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Don't think I've ever seen this level of backlash from Joe Rogan fans. Pretty much the entire YouTube comments section is this:
February 10, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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February 9, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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A new discovery has led to suggestions that Tutankhamun's tomb might have originally been filled with jars of opium.

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Drugs in Ancient Egypt: Was King Tut an opium user?
From the ‘cocaine mummies‘ to the blue water lily, the use of drugs in ancient Egypt has been a topic of much discussion – although often based on controversial evidence or folklore and hearsay. A rec...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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As promised yesterday, here's what I'd been cooking: An 'animatic' video based on Dean Radin's experience with 'spoon-bending'

#PSI

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Dean Radin and His Spoon Bending Experience
YouTube video by Daily Grail
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February 9, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Researchers are inceptioning lucid dreamers with brain teasers.

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Researchers Are Basically Inceptioning Lucid Dreamers With Brain Teasers
A nifty experimental study hints at the potential of dreams to help us solve creative problems.
gizmodo.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I once had to cut about 2 square metres of sugar cane for sampling. It was...not fun.

Blows me away that was the first job my uncles did after moving *from Northern Ireland to northern Australia* in the 1950s - but they did whole paddocks! They must have thought they'd moved to hell.
Researchers estimate that the life expectancy for people forced to work in cane fields was mid 20s.

They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations.

That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
February 9, 2026 at 1:46 PM
A new discovery has led to suggestions that Tutankhamun's tomb might have originally been filled with jars of opium.

www.dailygrail.com/2026/02/drug...
Drugs in Ancient Egypt: Was King Tut an opium user?
From the ‘cocaine mummies‘ to the blue water lily, the use of drugs in ancient Egypt has been a topic of much discussion – although often based on controversial evidence or folklore and hearsay. A rec...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:31 PM
The Monday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!

RFK Jr's bizarre trip hunting dinosaurs with Jeffrey Epstein, dream engineering could help you solve problems in your sleep, was Tutankhamun's tomb filled with opium, and much more:

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News Briefs 09-02-2026
Thanks to Belle W. for your support of the Daily Grail! Thanks Kat. Quote of the Day A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision. 1979 IBM manu...
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February 9, 2026 at 12:58 PM
An interesting read on minds and consciousness:

www.noemamag.com/what-counts-...
What Counts As A Mind? | NOEMA
From chatbots to climbing beans, new research challenges our deepest assumptions about intelligence and consciousness.
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February 7, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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New article on the TESCREAL ideologies and ongoing race to build a Digital Deity. I discuss my recent Oxford Research Encyclopedia article on the topic, as well as my forthcoming book: "Digital Deities: Silicon Valley’s Quest to Replace Humanity with AI." Like and subscribe. :-)
TESCREALism and the Race to Build an AI God
(1,500 words)
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January 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Looks like there's a good chance we won't be sending a crewed mission to Mars by 2025 like Elon said!
"SpaceX has put off a mission to Mars planned for this year, shifting its focus to a long-promised lunar voyage for NASA."

"Last year, Musk called the moon 'a distraction' and said SpaceX is going 'straight to Mars.'"
SpaceX Delays Mars Plans To Focus on Moon
Elon Musk’s rocket company had aimed to reach the red planet in 2026
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February 7, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Epstein calendar clashes are nightmare fuel.
double booking alarms for "sperm" and "king of saudi" is absolutely crazy work
February 7, 2026 at 1:29 AM
The Washington Post covers a recent debate in the field of near-death experiences.

(Plenty of comments from people asking if WaPo is ready for its own NDE, given the recent lay-offs 😂)

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These patients saw what comes after death. Should we believe them?
Researchers have developed a model to explain the science of near-death experiences. Others have challenged it.
wapo.st
February 7, 2026 at 1:23 AM
This is the way. Thiel and Palantir are poison, the public hate both.

Point out how Palantir's surveillance databases are driving ICE, and could one day come for ordinary citizens.

Point out how Thiel is JD Vance's sugar-daddy, and has heaps of minions in Trump's administration.
Make Peter Thiel into the villain, Democrats.

It's all there.

He is the node that connects Trump, Vance, Palantir, Musk, Epstein, and so many other terrible players.

Just expose it and make him and Musk the face of these psychopathic billionaires ruining our lives.
February 6, 2026 at 1:17 PM
The Friday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!

These patients saw what comes after death, researchers are inceptioning lucid dreamers with brain teasers, the new Epstein files are reopening the Pizzagate box, and much more:

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News Briefs 06-02-2026
If you haven’t watched our interview with parapsychologist Dean Radin yet, be sure to check it out over the weekend! Quote of the Day The state of the art of skepticism is getting worse and worse, all...
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February 6, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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Also note this related suggestion from Bill Gates-employed scientist Lowell Wood to create the 'Archipelago of Jeffrey Epstein' by buying a dozen deep-sea drilling platforms and putting them in a line across a major shipping channel, and charging for passage through.

Absolute galaxy brain stuff.
February 6, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Australia's official national floral emblem may provide the next generation of psychedelics, researchers say.

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Australian researchers believe wattle may contain the ‘next gen’ of psychedelics
Studies into Australia’s floral emblem aim to discover psychedelic properties that may be used to treat mental health conditions like depression and anxiety.
www.theage.com.au
February 5, 2026 at 1:10 PM
The Wednesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!

Remembering a rare California Bigfoot sighting, Palantir touts billions in revenue for being enablers of fascism, what happens if science finally explains consciousness, and much more:

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News Briefs 04-02-2026
The Wednesday news briefs have plenty of interest to get you past hump day! Quote of the Day The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people w...
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February 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM
It's kinda funny how Elon Musk is always "Do you know how much money the government would save if we cut all these programs saving children from starvation?!" and the amount is usually less than 0.1% of his personal wealth.
February 4, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Parapsychologist Dr Dean Radin recounts his personal spoon bending experience to us.

Link to full interview below!
February 3, 2026 at 11:05 PM
New from the Daily Grail: Our interview with parapsychologist Dr Dean Radin!

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The Science of Magic: Learning How to Unlock Our Psychic Powers, with Dr Dean Radin
YouTube video by Daily Grail
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February 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
The Tuesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!

Artemis II Moon mission delayed, the mushrooms that make you see miniature people, Neanderthals spent centuries collecting skulls in a cave, and much more:

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News Briefs 03-02-2026
Another exclusive preview of our interview with Dr Dean Radin is now available for our Patreon supporters, in which Dean discusses the differing psychic talents of meditators vs magicians. Check it ou...
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February 3, 2026 at 12:46 PM