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Many conservatives likely have not seen the evidence or don't believe it if they have.
For instance, this is how Fox and CBS are covering it.
When I've talked about this to relatives they've diverted to Clinton.
For instance, this is how Fox and CBS are covering it.
When I've talked about this to relatives they've diverted to Clinton.
February 1, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Many conservatives likely have not seen the evidence or don't believe it if they have.
For instance, this is how Fox and CBS are covering it.
When I've talked about this to relatives they've diverted to Clinton.
For instance, this is how Fox and CBS are covering it.
When I've talked about this to relatives they've diverted to Clinton.
To make this less technical, I'm sneaking the Vampire level adjustment onto your character sheet.
February 1, 2026 at 7:46 PM
To make this less technical, I'm sneaking the Vampire level adjustment onto your character sheet.
I'm enabling Fullbright (but only on the parts of you that hypnotize)
February 1, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I'm enabling Fullbright (but only on the parts of you that hypnotize)
Your Saturation is now 50%.
(Except your eyes, they're 300%.)
(Except your eyes, they're 300%.)
February 1, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Your Saturation is now 50%.
(Except your eyes, they're 300%.)
(Except your eyes, they're 300%.)
It's got to be less funny if this is happening to you, though. The cheap thrill of pretending to be a genius is apparently pretty alluring, but, categorically, people who look at something they don't understand and pretend that they do are severing their own connections to reality.
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
It's got to be less funny if this is happening to you, though. The cheap thrill of pretending to be a genius is apparently pretty alluring, but, categorically, people who look at something they don't understand and pretend that they do are severing their own connections to reality.
There's not that much information and most of the info that does exist is from a couple of highly weird people, so the fact that it's being telephone gamed gives you a very specific trace of what happened.
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
There's not that much information and most of the info that does exist is from a couple of highly weird people, so the fact that it's being telephone gamed gives you a very specific trace of what happened.
In the case of the Voynich manuscript, it's interesting because the source comments for these bizarre LLM theories are findable.
Like, here's one based on the "semitic languages" thing. This is a confusion of the claims in 4.6 on voynich.nu, which are that it resembles a language without vowels.
Like, here's one based on the "semitic languages" thing. This is a confusion of the claims in 4.6 on voynich.nu, which are that it resembles a language without vowels.
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
In the case of the Voynich manuscript, it's interesting because the source comments for these bizarre LLM theories are findable.
Like, here's one based on the "semitic languages" thing. This is a confusion of the claims in 4.6 on voynich.nu, which are that it resembles a language without vowels.
Like, here's one based on the "semitic languages" thing. This is a confusion of the claims in 4.6 on voynich.nu, which are that it resembles a language without vowels.
Not that this is surprising. Across most of the domains I'm in, people who don't know what they're doing have started rushing to an LLM which will profess to know the answer.
r/cryptography is nearly this bad.
r/cryptography is nearly this bad.
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Not that this is surprising. Across most of the domains I'm in, people who don't know what they're doing have started rushing to an LLM which will profess to know the answer.
r/cryptography is nearly this bad.
r/cryptography is nearly this bad.
There's also just quite a lot of "I asked ChatGPT and it said [...]" I only included a few fairly representative examples, there's way more.
It's gotten to the point where René Zandbergen (operator of voynich.nu) had to add this to his website.
It's gotten to the point where René Zandbergen (operator of voynich.nu) had to add this to his website.
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
There's also just quite a lot of "I asked ChatGPT and it said [...]" I only included a few fairly representative examples, there's way more.
It's gotten to the point where René Zandbergen (operator of voynich.nu) had to add this to his website.
It's gotten to the point where René Zandbergen (operator of voynich.nu) had to add this to his website.
My favorite was a Slovenian-speaking Slovenian guy claiming it was Slovenian in its standard pre-Latin alphabet but that he couldn't read it.
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
My favorite was a Slovenian-speaking Slovenian guy claiming it was Slovenian in its standard pre-Latin alphabet but that he couldn't read it.
I'm tired of screenshotting these, so as an exercise for the reader, find (many) examples of this solve:
> It's Etruscan! It's Aramaic! It's Tagalog! It's Irish! It's Vietnamese!
> It's Etruscan! It's Aramaic! It's Tagalog! It's Irish! It's Vietnamese!
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I'm tired of screenshotting these, so as an exercise for the reader, find (many) examples of this solve:
> It's Etruscan! It's Aramaic! It's Tagalog! It's Irish! It's Vietnamese!
> It's Etruscan! It's Aramaic! It's Tagalog! It's Irish! It's Vietnamese!
Some random unexplained solves:
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Some random unexplained solves:
User Padaz posts ChatGPT-generated sonnets:
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
User Padaz posts ChatGPT-generated sonnets:
One guy who just keeps posting (Worldmaster777) is more forthright about his willingness to ignore it, posting entire "translations" based only on the pictures or occasionally one word that he particularly likes.
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
One guy who just keeps posting (Worldmaster777) is more forthright about his willingness to ignore it, posting entire "translations" based only on the pictures or occasionally one word that he particularly likes.
Lately a loud popular proponent of this is tiktoker blesst_butt, who thinks that French-Italian author Christine de Pisan wrote it in Irish.
Her system for interpreting the text is basically to ignore it
Her system for interpreting the text is basically to ignore it
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Lately a loud popular proponent of this is tiktoker blesst_butt, who thinks that French-Italian author Christine de Pisan wrote it in Irish.
Her system for interpreting the text is basically to ignore it
Her system for interpreting the text is basically to ignore it
A greater number of the posts are just mundanely wrong, because they think it's a character substitution cipher. No real language has letter pair data similar to Voynichese, so it's not a one-for-one substitution.
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
A greater number of the posts are just mundanely wrong, because they think it's a character substitution cipher. No real language has letter pair data similar to Voynichese, so it's not a one-for-one substitution.
(Sidenote, I'm skipping discussion of the Naibbe cipher, one of the less bad Voynich response attempts. I don't really like it and the press coverage exaggerates what the author argues -- it is basically an example in response to specific doubts about the "cipher" theory. It's not a decipherment.)
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
(Sidenote, I'm skipping discussion of the Naibbe cipher, one of the less bad Voynich response attempts. I don't really like it and the press coverage exaggerates what the author argues -- it is basically an example in response to specific doubts about the "cipher" theory. It's not a decipherment.)
This isn't even the only person who thinks it's some bird-related cipher. This person thinks it is the Language of the Birds, which is not a real language you can learn.
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
This isn't even the only person who thinks it's some bird-related cipher. This person thinks it is the Language of the Birds, which is not a real language you can learn.
Anyway, Reddit has been theorizing and their theories are... not that?
There's a lot to take in here. I'll single out the thing that really annoyed me which is that those glyphs aren't Voynich-like at all, but that's AI, I guess.
There's a lot to take in here. I'll single out the thing that really annoyed me which is that those glyphs aren't Voynich-like at all, but that's AI, I guess.
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Anyway, Reddit has been theorizing and their theories are... not that?
There's a lot to take in here. I'll single out the thing that really annoyed me which is that those glyphs aren't Voynich-like at all, but that's AI, I guess.
There's a lot to take in here. I'll single out the thing that really annoyed me which is that those glyphs aren't Voynich-like at all, but that's AI, I guess.
Of course, it's also possible that it's just random text from a group of authors who committed to some digram statistics fairly early by staring at each other's example words, and who tend to repeat themselves a lot from there.
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Of course, it's also possible that it's just random text from a group of authors who committed to some digram statistics fairly early by staring at each other's example words, and who tend to repeat themselves a lot from there.
So, to me, this makes a few things seem likely:
- It's probably a cipher of natural language text.
- The cipher makes text longer. (perhaps multiple characters of output for one character of input)
- The underlying text is probably repetitive. (perhaps it contains a lot of digit sequences?)
- It's probably a cipher of natural language text.
- The cipher makes text longer. (perhaps multiple characters of output for one character of input)
- The underlying text is probably repetitive. (perhaps it contains a lot of digit sequences?)
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
So, to me, this makes a few things seem likely:
- It's probably a cipher of natural language text.
- The cipher makes text longer. (perhaps multiple characters of output for one character of input)
- The underlying text is probably repetitive. (perhaps it contains a lot of digit sequences?)
- It's probably a cipher of natural language text.
- The cipher makes text longer. (perhaps multiple characters of output for one character of input)
- The underlying text is probably repetitive. (perhaps it contains a lot of digit sequences?)
Programmers writing about the letter pair thing would say "oh, the text is highly explained by a Markov distribution."
But not _completely_:
- Different pages have different "topics" (favorite long words)
- Many words repeat several times in a row.
- Some letters start paragraphs.
But not _completely_:
- Different pages have different "topics" (favorite long words)
- Many words repeat several times in a row.
- Some letters start paragraphs.
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Programmers writing about the letter pair thing would say "oh, the text is highly explained by a Markov distribution."
But not _completely_:
- Different pages have different "topics" (favorite long words)
- Many words repeat several times in a row.
- Some letters start paragraphs.
But not _completely_:
- Different pages have different "topics" (favorite long words)
- Many words repeat several times in a row.
- Some letters start paragraphs.
Like, to clarify the "languages" thing: if you were to compare English and (for instance) German, you'd notice that certain letters (like ü) only appear in German and also that certain letter pairs (like sh) are unique to English.
February 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Like, to clarify the "languages" thing: if you were to compare English and (for instance) German, you'd notice that certain letters (like ü) only appear in German and also that certain letter pairs (like sh) are unique to English.