Internet Oddities

Axel Vasa — aka “West Coast Wizard,” aka a dozen other recycled X/Twitter handles — is the gift that keeps on grifting. One day he’s a...

For five years, I’ve been documenting how Gematrix.org and its orbit of self-proclaimed prophets, messiahs, and “Bride of Christ”...

Everyone thinks Gematrix.org is just a “silly calculator.” That’s the cover story. Punch in a phrase, get a number, and maybe giggle at...

There’s a reason the conspiracy corners of the internet feel like a board game from hell. Numbers, names, secret codes — all shuffled...

Clonaid’s 2002 claim — “We cloned Eve, the first human baby clone” — wasn’t just about science. It was wrapped in Raëlian cult branding,...

A Monument Born of Mystery In the sleepy granite capital of Elbert County, Georgia, a stranger calling himself R.C. Christian waltzed...

If Borges and a quantum computer had a baby, it’d look suspiciously like https://libraryofbabel.info/ Here’s the story and the science...

If Reddit is the bustling town square, Godlike Productions (GLP) is the flickering neon dive bar at the end of a dirt road—equal parts...

Profile: Cnaan Aviv, Gematrix.org, and Unit 8200 Executive Summary Cnaan Aviv is an Israeli software developer and entrepreneur, best...

If you’ve ever played around with Gematrix.org, you know it’s more than just a quirky word-to-number calculator—it’s a portal into...