By Denis Saklakov - with a view toward the horizon There is a moment in deep meditation - anyone who has practiced seriously will recognize it - when attention stops flickering and something else takes over. Not sleep. Not distraction. A kind of settled, persistent clarity in which the body,...

Вместо предисловия Недавно в русскоязычном сегменте Facebook (см ссылку https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ca6cJn6zA/) произошёл примечательный эпизод. Предприниматель Алекс Крол опубликовал сатирический пост, в котором с раздражением высмеял «истерию вокруг Эпштейна» и морализаторский тон меди...

"I cannot but conclude ... the most pernicious race of little odious vermin." (Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, 1726) Imagine you are building a very capable AI system that runs important operations. You also keep an off switch, not because you plan to use it, but because you want a last...

Preword I have just completed five days of full-time immersion at the Google Breakthrough Agency Workshop, Introduction to Agents. Let me say this first and without reservation: it was a brilliantly crafted venue. My sincere respect to the scientists and engineers who organized it. Their...

Preface: Lately I have seen a strange scene in the middle of New York. A cluster of men who looked alike. All white. Speaking recognizable prison slang. They stood by a subway entrance looking alien and lost. One stepped up and asked me for six dollars. I asked why. He seemed confused, then...

Preface Living in New York these days is not yet a challenge for me, but I already see the signs I once saw in a country where freedoms failed and which today resembles a medieval monarchy, still descending without a bottom in sight. That country will cease to exist the moment the regime that...

Introduction: A Personal Encounter with a Ghost Teacher I first heard the story in Paris, over coffee with an old friend. She spoke of a mysterious online language teacher who had enchanted her cousin’s family. For years, a tutor claiming ties to a prestigious Moscow university held weekly...

Предисловие После публикации моей предыдущей статьи, условно, "10 шагов фашизации США" https://www.saklakov.com/blog/c2442154daa Михаил Трипольский- редактор Нью Йоркского печатного издания и блоггер, справедливо указал, что в ней подробно разобраны угрозы, но не дан ответ на главный вопрос: чт...

Вместо предисловия. Когда я слышу планы некоторых либеральных комментаторов «выиграть промежуточные выборы 2026 года», у меня возникает невесёлая улыбка. В Москве, которая захватила власть в США, учли опыт промежуточных выборов 2018 года при первой каденции Трампа и больше ничего подобного не до...

Вступление История Джеффри Эпштейна давно превратилась из судебного детектива в глобальный медийный сериал, где каждая «утечка» отыгрывает собственную геополитическую роль. Россия научилась пользоваться этим сериалом как многоразовым инструментом: дозирует компромат, поджигает им американскую п...

Preface The opening report, jeffrey-epstein-s-rise-from-coney-island-to-high-society-and-the-barr , followed a college-dropout who barely lasted a year at Dalton before spinning that faint glimmer of prestige into a Wall Street persona. Its sequel, jeffrey-epstein-s-unbelievable-rise-and...

Preface Leslie Wexner and Leon Black were not incidental benefactors of Jeffrey Epstein. They were his treasury. Between 1991 and 2013 more than $1.4 billion in Wexner-controlled stock sales and at least $158 million in direct “consulting” fees from Black moved through Epstein-managed entities,...

Preface In recent years, the deep connections between Jeffrey Epstein and powerful figures in politics, finance, and international intrigue have come under intense scrutiny. As shocking revelations continue to surface, from his ties to ultra-wealthy patrons like Leslie Wexner and Leon Black to...

Preword If you still claim the Mueller Report found no Russian connection, you clearly haven’t read it. I did. I spent over a week combing through its redacted pages, each blackout a reminder of what was deliberately hidden. Even what remained was damning enough to support multiple felony...

Предисловие Многие американцы возлагают свои надежды на выборы 2026 года, полагая, что обычные институциональные системы сдержек и противовесов остановят нынешнее сползание США к авторитаризму. Широкомасштабные манипуляции с бюллетенями в Соединенных Штатах по-прежнему затруднены, и даже р...

Preface Many Americans place their hope in the 2026 elections, trusting that ordinary institutional checks will halt the present slide toward authoritarianism. Large-scale ballot manipulation remains difficult in the United States, and even a determined administration cannot simply manufacture...

Preface Very recently, at the end of June 2025, I attended the Akash Accelerate conference in New York-organized by Akash Network, a prominent DePIN (decentralized physical infrastructure networks) initiative aimed at democratizing AI computation through horizontally distributed compute and...

Abstract Robots and artificial intelligences (AIs) do not possess human-like emotions or dopamine-driven rewards, yet advanced AI agents can still exhibit goal-driven behaviors that resemble “motivation” for power or domination. This paper explores how an AI might attempt world domination not...

«Завывает Оренбург, жадно ловит Инбер клич его, ни Москва, ни Петербург не заменит им Бердичева» Александр Кайранский, 1917 В качестве вступления. На Радио Свобода опубликована статья Ефима Фиштейна «Большая тайна Дональда Трампа»* - текст, который претендует на глубокий анализ совреме...

Abstract The United States Gilded Age (c. 1870–1913) was characterized by high protective tariffs as the federal government’s primary revenue source and by unprecedented concentrations of wealth. This article examines how tariff-driven industrial growth fostered monopolistic markets and...