SUNDAY DEVOTION

 The hits on my www.sift.co.nz blog are varying up and down each day from lows of around 500, to highs of over 2000. Much as I like to try to work out the patterns of things, this has got me totally stumped. I'm starting to think it has bugger all to do with what I post and may be the result of larger forces beyond my understanding.

 
Sort of like religion. So is God is determining how many hits my blog gets?. I wonder if God likes lolpics? It's Sunday today, so as an act of religious devotion directed towards the deity of blogs, I'll post some spiritual lolpics. 

BIGTIME AGAIN

 Back around 2018 on my old www.frot.co.nz blog I used to get over 1000 hits most days, and would get up over 2000 hits on good days too. 

But since the start of the covidhoax in 2020, when I began regularly calling out the whole scam, it's safe to say that my www.frot.co.nz  blog hits took a hammering and never recovered.

For the past two years I've wondered if my new www.sift.co.nz blog would ever get up over 2000 hits a day.

The hits this year have been gradually increasing, and yesterday they finally exceeded 2000 for the first time.

So that's pretty cool. And it's not like I've stopped calling out the covidhoax or the death jabs or anything.

 

 

LAST DAY

It seems like yesterday I wrote ”Holy cow, today is the last day of October”. And it seemed like only a week earlier I was freaking out that the previous month had gone by in two weeks. Today it feels like the entire month of November has whizzed by even faster. Is time accelerating?.

Yes, time, for me at least, is definitely accelerating, but I have no idea if it is for everybody else because I’m mostly avoiding everybody else.

Sometimes around this time of the year I like to mention that I started blogging in this month (November) back in 1998. So 27 years ago – sort of hard to believe really, even with time acceleration that still feels like a long time ago. 

They weren't even called “blogs” or “posts” back then, but thanks to the wonders of Wayback Machine all my all old web-pages are still there to be seen, including the very first incarnation of www.frot.co.nz from November 11 1998.

Wayback Machine doesn't save any of the images, so it’s really not it’s full original self, but it is at least purple. Pretty much every blog post and web page I’ve done for the past 27 years has either been purple or black. And that is how I like it.

But for a few years I did websites for paying customers, and had to give them whatever colours they wanted. I never really got over the psychological impact of having to design a beige website. That was a nasty hit to my delicate sensibilities...

ASOCIAL MEDIA

 

If anyone on Facebook would like to see more of my content, most of it is on my www.sift.co.nz blog. The ever increasing use of AI online, has really trashed the entire internet this year, with the past few months crossing my line in the sand for being bombarded with lame AI crap.

So from December 2025 on I want to do my best to stay focused on using the internet as a productive tool. Social media is an addictive distraction that I want to keep to a minimum.

I’m decidedly not a big fan of most social media anyway, and have already essentially stopped using all platforms apart from Facebook, along with watching some videos on Toutube.

I don’t post or comment on Youtube, but do post on Facebook, and up until early 2025 my Facebook accounts were constantly being suspended, which is why I ran multiple accounts, and swapped between them.

Surprisingly, from March 2025 onwards Facebook pretty much seemed to quit giving a toss about censoring most posts. In fact I even did a month long experiment in August to see just what I could get away with, and then compiled those posts into a blog page called FACEBOOK UNCENSORED

I’ve never looked at any platform controlled by algorithms, or seen any ads, but I get the impression that is how most people view all social media, including Facebook and YouTube. Screw that for a joke! If that was the only option I would have quit them long ago.

A major reason I still look at those last two platforms is because they are the only windows I have into what narratives the normies are being programmed with. I don’t watch TV or look at “news”, or even use a smart phone.

Lately, even with carefully selected feeds, I feel like I’m being exposed to a never ending feed of “end is nigh” fudporn. Yes a lot of it may well be true, but there is a theory that whatever we focus on attracts more of the same. The law of attraction.

It’s a really hard call to decide how best to deal with a society that appears to be collapsing under the massive weight of corruption, deception, conspiracies and lies.

My approach has always been to expose it as much as possible. But we are being spoon fed deep-state propaganda by alt-media gatekeeper shills, as well as the mainstream media.

For example, telling people that the economy is collapsing in dozens of ways every day, even when it is, creates more expectation of collapse, and leads to the crash being even bigger.

On the other hand, “vaccines” are toxic injections designed specifically to make normies sick or kill them, so possibly exposing that may have save some lives.

I don’t think being constantly told that everything is totally screwed is helping me, so I’m going to reduce the amount of that stuff that I look at.

Thanks to all the real people online posting original content, keep up the good work!

GREAT SITES THAT LOOK A BIT CRAP

There seems to be an unwritten rule that if you have a huge website with masses of amazing "conspiracy" content going right back to the 90's, you have to leave the site looking like it did in 1998 and never update it's appearance or organise it properly. Here are some classic examples of must see sites that look like something the cat dragged in:

BIG LIES

 

WHALE

 

MILES MATHIS

 

EDUCATE YOURSELF

 

 

 ANCIENT CELTIC NEW ZEALAND

 NUKE LIES

 

STARTING OVER AGAIN

SIFT LINUX PAGE UPDATE

 

 To help people making the switch to Linux I started compiling my Linux posts into a SIFT LINUX PAGE back in 2024, but it became a jumbled mess and needed a tidy up. So I decided to start over again and make it all as simple as possible. 

One way to simplify things is to have a list of links back to original posts rather than trying to copy and paste them all into one big page.

LINUX POSTS ON THIS BLOG (newest at top) 

 AM I AN IDIOT? - Self doubts about my geek skills 

BTW I USE ARCH - Some memes to troll Linux Arch geeks

WHICH LINUX DISTRO? - I really only recommend two, either Mint or Zorin

ONLINE PRIVACY - A few ways to keep hold of a bit of privacy

TESTING OUT FOSS - There is masses of Free Open Source Software (FOSS)

LINUX NEEDS MORE FILE BROWSERS - My issues with Linux file browsers

RETURNING TO LINUX - Why I quit Windows & moved to Linux

LINUX MISINFORMATION -  Yes, even Linux reviews are full of lies 

 

My Linux info is not aimed at geeks, it's for people who have been using Windows or Apple computers, and want to move to Linux in search of privacy and security, or for ethical reasons.

As with most subjects, with Linux there is far too much complexity and misinformation online, and that is often just confusing rather than helpful.

An ever increasing number of people are now asking about Linux. In the past this was mainly just an idle curiosity, but now they are seriously looking for an alternative to Windows or Apple. 

Linux was originally aimed mainly at geeks and was fairly difficult for regular computer users to come to terms with. When I first tried Linux Ubuntu in 2010, after about a month I gave up and went back to Windows XP.

Back in 2010 I did a page about Linux "LINUX A n00b goes for a test drive" which is still online, but despite having had a quick update in 2016, it's mostly out of date now.

With the benefit of hindsight, Windows XP was actually a pretty good operating system, as were Windows 2000 and Windows 7. But things have really changed since those days, and Microsoft are no longer even trying to hide their evil intentions.

For me Windows ended with Windows 7. Windows 11 is full on spyware and Microsoft is clearly aiming to build an AI operating system monitoring everything you do, meanwhile Apple is moving in the same direction, so sooner or later I think anyone who wants any privacy on a computer will have to move to Linux 

These days, some of the Linux Operating systems (Distros) are pretty good, as they have been slowly progressing, while Windows has been relentlessly going backwards since Windows 7.  

Like many people I had been complaining for years about Microsoft, but there reached a point where I had to admit that I had no future with Microsoft, so would need to do whatever it took to move on. 

(This is a screenshot of my desktop, and it's pretty cool really - It's Linux Mint which is my favourite Linux distro)

Microsoft ended support for Windows 10 in October 2025, and ramped up their efforts to push the even more appalling Windows 11, with its built in advertising, and full blown spyware (Recall) taking constant screenshots of your desktop and sending them back to Microsoft. 

I'm expecting that even non security minded Windows users are finally going to start having issues with this level of spying.

SOME HANDY LINUX LINKS (sorted alphabetically) 

 A n00b goes for a test drive - My own original page about Linux from 2010

Distrowatch - A great introduction and overview of Linux distros

Libre Office - My pick for best replacement for Microsoft Office 

Linux Mint - My own daily driver & favourite distro

Linux Zorin - A stylish & highly recommended distro

TECMINT - Information about Linux stuff

FOR ME OR FOR YOU?

Holy cow, today is the last day of October. It seems like only last week I was freaking out that another month had gone by in two weeks. But that was actually the last day of September. Today it feels like the entire month of October has whizzed by in just seven days. Is time accelerating?.

An ongoing question that I've never really come to a firm conclusion about is "Who am I actually writing blog posts for, myself or a possibly imaginary audience?".

Something that threw me a bit this year was finding that if I didn't do any posts for a month, my daily hits appeared to increase, and if I did more posts than my usual one each day, my hits appeared to decrease. That is really quite perplexing, and I have ruminated about it from time to time...

Looking at which posts consistently get the most hits, the clear leader is the one about the book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Weston A. Price

I'm really pleased to be publicizing and sharing this amazing book from 1939, which I rate as both the best nutrition and the best anthropological book of all time.

But beyond that, my most popular posts are usually just collections of random memes that I tend to slap together when I feel like a lol and can't be arsed writing anything long winded. 

Maybe 10 years ago about half of all internet traffic was still actual real people, living humans surfing the internet, including the people reading blog posts. But here in 2025 I'm convinced that is no longer the case, and now I suspect something like 90% of all internet traffic is AI.

So I seem to be claiming here that time is accelerating and nearly everybody online is a bot. That all sounds totally fruit-loops doesn't it? I can't prove either of those claims are true, but I know I'm not the only person thinking along those lines, because I've seen other people voicing similar thoughts. At least I think they were people, but they actually could have been bots too.

To stir things up a bit I like to make some changes each month, especially to my blog. For November I'm going to try making the following three changes to this blog: 

1. To post whatever I feel like, long or short, anything from full length posts with references, down to single memes with no words at all. 

2. To post whenever I feel like posting something, so if I feel like doing a heap of posts on one day I will, but if I can't be arsed posting anything at all for a few days, so be it.

3. To post for the primary audience of myself, not giving a toss what anyone else might think, or caring whether or not any of my posts are likely to draw in "hits" or not. 

At the moment this blog is literally jumping up and down each day from around 250 daily hits lows, up to occasional 1400 hits on one day highs.  That makes no sense to me, but if it's all meaningless, why do I give a toss anyway?.

 

A QUARTER CENTURY

I find it a bit daunting to get my head around this, but in one form or another I've been blogging since the start of 1999. Back then we seriously thought there was going to be a massive computer crash on the last day of the year/century, and took care to save decent backups of everything offline.

This particular incarnation of the Sift blog only goes back two years, but my "Sift" blog has been around for over a quarter of a century, and the logo was a remix of the Shift motocross clothing brand from the from the 90's.

For most of that time my posts have been totally random, and I averaged only about two posts a week for 25 years, but for some reason I became more anal at the start of 2024 and decided to start aiming to do a post of some sort every day.

I'm not trying to make them all great masterpieces or anything, some are just stuff like one liners with a meme, but it has been a strange ambition at the back of my mind to match the number of blog posts with the number of days each month. Why?, I have no idea...

So the two months this year (May & July) where I skipped posting for the month were actually unusual breaks in a very long running habit. Those months off were experiments to test two things:

Firstly I wanted to see if I missed blogging? - Yes, I did, and by the end of a month I was definitely hanging out to post something.

And secondly I wanted to see if not posting had any effect on the number of "hits" my blog got. I expected that not posting would reduce the number of hits, so was quite surprised in May when they went up. And that was why I repeated the experiment again in July. Again, the hits went up when I stopped posting. Odd.

This post: "MY AI AUDIENCE" goes on about that subject further.
 

My best theory about what is going on is that most internet traffic is now AI, and traffic flows are being used to shape the entire internet. If I'm not posting anything on my Blogger blog, Google (who own Blogger) want to encourage me to keep the blog alive, so they increase my traffic to make posting seem more worthwhile. 

But if I am regularly posting, Google, who I'm sure would actively dislike my content, might reduce their AI hits, in the hope of either driving me away altogether, or in a misguided attempt to motivate me to post more approved content. Neither option seems to have worked out for them, but yes, that really is all I came up with...

Now when I look over my posts for the year, those two months with only one post are blots on my blogging landscape, and I have an urge to go back and fill them out. It's very unlikely that many actual people will ever look at anything I retrospectively post way back in May or July, so this will be entirely just for my own anal perfectionism.

I'm going to look back over my old posts, attempting to find some that I haven't already updated or re-posted here on this current Sift blog, that I still think are relevant and interesting in 2025.  And if I find any, I'll stick them into the empty days of July first. 

If it doesn't all work out well, that may be the end of this somewhat odd plan, but if I do find heaps of suitable posts, I'll fill out July, and then maybe even go back further and do May as well.
 

BACK IN 2003

 

Wayback Machine is Fully Going Off

Using Wayback Machine  I can check out my websites from more than 20 years ago! This is what my original Sift homepage looked like 22 years ago

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I Sift, therefore I am sifty Sifting can potentially cultivate a much more aware state of mind than, say, mindless consuming and generalised believing. Hidden underneath all the worthless misinformation that flows freely out to us everyday, are some rare gems of truth. But you have to sift for them. Sifting about on the net, I’ve found myself drawn to some seemingly diverse subjects such as nutrition, health, marijuana, hemp, consumerism, capitalism, chaos theory, organics, censorship, drugs, doctors, warez, hacking, advertising, corporations, chemicals, GE, computers, free trade, and of course the USA and it’s uncontrolled world domination fetish. That’s a wide range of subjects and I’m too lazy to get into all of it, so a lot of the stuff on this site relates to health issues, as lately I’ve been spending a lot of my time working on my health, and researching diet and nutrition, But the thing I have found repeatedly, is that once you start digging around, everything starts to follow a similar pattern. Basically, it seems that if something is widely reported, it is probably false, whether it’s about healthy food, or terrorist attacks. The way these things tend to interlink, and the patterns they each repeat, open up a clearer way of looking at things. An alternative perspective, distilled through sifting. A bigger picture. There are many people on the Internet who are trying to distribute quality information. But most punters are not ready or willing to even consider it – they are too thoroughly indoctrinated. So it stays submerged. One of my friends responded to this site with “I just maintain a state of apathetic cynicism and avoid thinking about all this stuff” And that’s a reasonable reaction, there’s no point getting stressed about it all. But on the other hand, we are getting shafted and lied to so frequently that it’s hard to just ignore it. And I think that right now there are enough people becoming aware of what’s going on to start fighting back. Knowledge is power. For example, if enough people are aware of the real reasons that America attacked Iraq, or of America’s history of world domination and how taking over Iraq fits into that, or that the “war on terrorism”, like the “war on drugs” is a complete scam, intended only to increase America’s power, then maybe that will help to make the actions of the US backfire on them. Every aware person is only a drop in the ocean, but every drop can help dilute the tide of oppression that’s coming from the likes of the US government, and the overbearing evil of multinationals such as Monsanto. The Internet is still a place where the individual can fight back. Let’s keep it that way. As I find interesting new stuff, I’ll post some bits of it along the way, and make a sort of documented sifting scrapbook. Siftings from the sifterhood. As a rough guide, the text in red is generally stuff I have slapped together myself, while the blue text is stuff I have shamelessly ripped off wholesale from other sites and books, with as little editing as possible. I am a firm believer in the motto “information wants to be free” Once something is posted on the net it’s like tossing a bottle in the sea – who knows where it will end up… So feel free to recycle anything on this site – if it’s in red it may even be original and a credit to www.sift.co.nz would be much appreciated. Wherever possible I have left in credits for the sources of all the material I have ripped off, and that to me is cool – I realise not everyone agrees with that, but as I am trying to show on this website, there are generally two sides to most arguments. (And the other side are generally a bunch of idiots!) Much of this site contains personal opinion. But I believe the factual content is accurate. If you have clear evidence that would dispute or add to any of the statements on this site, feel free to send it to me. I have just added a feedback page for responses to the site. The most popular page on this site has been the Coca-Cola one. It’s my theory that is was getting the most hits because I had put the link to it as “coke”. That’s now been changed to Coca-Cola, so if it becomes less popular, I’ll take it as a sign that people really want to read about drugs. That they want to read about Colombian drug dealers hoovering up mountains of coke off glass top tables in expensive nightclubs. Maybe they want to look at porn and read about coke. There’s certainly some good sifting material in those subjects, so who knows… People keep paying me to do stuff for them. It takes time and interferes with my sifting. Sometimes it’s a problem. Sometimes I just sift anyway, and things I was going to do remain undone. This site still hasn’t got much stuff on it yet…. But it’s on my list. It’s number 186. I’ll be back.
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