GitHub account and 72 repos deleted; GitLab migration; Swift / Gulliver Mars dossier and site index updates

March 30, 2026 — Paradigm Threat

While the book and timeline work continues, one thread worth surfacing early: Swift — Mars, scale beings, and how Gulliver was sold to readers — Laputan “two lesser stars” around Mars, travel-hoax framing, and why re-shelving as satire does not settle provenance. The Swift investigation hub links the full cluster (Tartary mirrors, debate rails, corpus indices).

What happened on GitHub

GitHub deleted the account and all 72 repositories. The timing lined up with the release of a recent podcast where I asked listeners for help on the book — same window as the takedown, which reads as more than coincidence.

Documentation with screenshots and context: GitHub account ban — 72 repositories deleted.

Migration: Moving mirrors and workflows to GitLab took on the order of half an hour once the decision was made. Hosting and remotes are being pointed at GitLab Pages and GitLab-origin URLs so the public site does not depend on GitHub for file or timeline delivery.

If this class of shutdown happens again: the next step is Linode (or equivalent bare metal / VPS you control) and no more cloud dependency for the project’s canonical hosting story — fewer intermediaries that can flip a switch on dozens of repos at once.

paradigm-threat-files

This repo absorbed the censorship dossier, the Swift / Gulliver investigation tree, hub fixes so folder contents are not hidden behind page.md, and index metadata improvements.

Censorship and hosting

GitHub account ban — 72 repositories deleted — account and repos deleted, screenshots, GitLab migration note.
CI / hosting: GitLab Pages pipeline (.gitlab-ci.yml); GitHub Pages workflow removed; branch main treated as canonical alongside prior master history.

Swift and predictive programming

Swift — Mars, giants, publication stance — Martian satellites passage vs Hall (1877), scale worlds, hoax memoir frame.
Swift — Tartary / Rus timeline mirrors — Brobdingnag, gunpowder dating, parallels only.
Swift — Debate rails and drift — content vs form, managed disclosure posture.
Jonathan Swift — Investigation hub — corpus indices, TL;DRs, AutoIndex at bottom so siblings stay visible.

Site UX — folder hubs

page.md + AutoIndex — new instruction doc: when a directory uses page.md, the automatic file list disappears unless you append <AutoIndex sort="name-asc" /> at the bottom; linked from Linking and site paths.
Hub pages updated across predictive programming, conspiracy, controlled opposition, stolen credit, war investigations, book, root page.md, and others so sibling files stay listed.

Index pipeline

generate-index.py — _updated for non-blog files prefers last Git commit touching each path (single git log pass), with mtime fallback; blog/YYYY-MM-DD-*.md still uses the filename date at 12:00 UTC per BLOG rules.

paradigm-threat-timeline

1726 CE: Gulliver’s Travels — travel testimony and the satire shell — timeline event tying the 1726 memoir frame to Mars / Tartary-scale parallels and cross-links to the files investigations.
Mars literature as reclassified nonfiction and Predictive programming — literature appendix — Swift pointers added where the appendix TL;DR was filled in.
generate-index.py — same Git-based _updated pattern as files (plus mtime fallback) for the timeline file browser index.json.
Hosting: GitLab Pages CI; GitHub Pages workflow removed; export / validation hooks unchanged in intent.

paradigm-threat-site

lib/indexUpdated.ts — comment updated so the reader knows _updated comes from Git commit time (files + timeline index generators) with blog filename exception on the files repo.
Defaults and UX — static / remote defaults skewed to GitLab origins where relevant; 404 / remote article messaging updated for GitLab-hosted assets; earlier work in this window includes remote index timeout, retry, and blob branch defaults for file links.

Commits referenced above fall on and after March 28, 2026, across paradigm-threat-files, paradigm-threat-timeline, and paradigm-threat-site; this entry follows the blog process of summarizing changes since the prior dated post.

Topics: #influence · #censorship · #predictive_programming · #history

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