There is often talk of a looming takeover by artificial intelligence. But ask anyone who’s ridden the New York City subway recently, and they’ll probably tell you it’s already here. Well, kind of.
The odds are you’re reading this on your phone. You may have come here via social media, the CNN app, an email or a good old-fashioned browser. The chances are you did not open your smartphone with the intention to load this story, but here you are.
A necessity, a habit or an addiction, call it what you like: we’re all on our phones. The research and data around smartphone addiction and its negative impact on sleep, mental performance and mental health is alarming. Studies have found even when we’re not using them, if we’re in the same room as our smartphone it’s affecting our brains. Yet in less than a generation, they have become an indispensable part of our lives.
Nevertheless, plenty of people are finding ways to disconnect. Some want a digital detox to boost performance and wellbeing; some are concerned parents; others cite data privacy fears, or are choosing to wall themselves off from the attention economy. At the extreme end, some youths are turning their backs on technology and proudly defining themselves as Luddites.
The Schizo/Psycho War: Part 2
Cuckfucius here—welcome back to the Cyber Ascetics Collective; the breedable sissy femboy’s choice for forbidden insights into the bleeding edge intersection of philosophy, spirituality, and shitposter culture.
BTW, why do people riot over, for example, police brutality – but not over the broken healthcare?
https://cuckfucius.substack.com/p/schizo-gladiator-luigi-mangione
The Schizo/Psycho War Table of Contents:
The third and final installment of the series seeks to bring the lessons learned in the first two episodes home. This segment features an interview with Peter Gelderloos in which he describes his experience working to build transformative infrastructure in Catalunya.
Not all of us are so lucky to live near a large and organized movement like those described in part two, and that’s ok. For us to be truly organized as a global community, we need do work wherever we are. As Neto reminds us in part two, “We need to start from where we’re standing and from a reality that we recognize.” There are no answers, only strategies. This video seeks to provide guidance to anarchists just getting started organizing around the climate crisis. Different strategies work in different locales, social conditions and contexts.
Peter shares three urgent suggestions for those looking to organize around these issues:
Urgent Suggestion #1: A complete and Total Rejection of All the Institutions Responsible for This Disaster
Relying on those responsible for this crisis to save us is the worst thing we can do. It’s time to act collectively outside of the state and capital’s stranglehold over our lives to try to carve out spaces and networks that will give us the best possible chances of survival. Relying on nonprofits, elections, or authoritarian left movements has failed time and time again. We cannot afford to continue to misplace our trust in institutions that will not save us.
Urgent Suggestion #2: Pick a Project of Transformative Survival
The hour is seriously late. The sooner we get involved in organizing for survival, the better. If people in the territories you reside in are already working towards similar goals, it may be better to join them than to try and build a movement from the ground up. Sometimes we need to create new projects where there is a need for them and people willing to get them going. Building our collective autonomy may not appear to be directly related to our chances at surviving the climate crises, but it is! Any time we build our collective power outside of the state and capital we build power that is combative to the institutions that created this disaster, and that gives us the means to survive it.
Urgent Suggestion #3: Connect your project to a revolutionary web of solidarity
The climate crisis is a worldwide issue. We need to have a global response. Networks of people organizing around these issues exist all over around the world. We need to build an international web of solidarity and the more connections a web has, the stronger it will be.
Over pints of Guinness in Mark Boyle’s self-built off-grid cabin, we discuss technological creep, FOMO, FOBI, living without money or electricity, screen life versus intimacy, and precisely where we sit on the Uncle Ted Spectrum.
Paul Kingsnorth’s book ‘Against the Machine’ is published on 23rd September 2025. Pre-order details and special offers here: https://www.paulkingsnorth.net/agains…
More on Mark’s books can be found here: / 903838.mark_boyle
‘No place is spared’
When John McPhee and his ragtag crew first kayaked into the pristine Alaskan wilderness in 1975, they were awestruck.
The author, who chronicled his reconnaissance trip in the literary classic “Coming into the Country,” was surrounded by an abundance of untouched flora and fauna. Beneath them, Arctic grayling, chum salmon and Dolly Varden swam in “the clearest, purest water” they had ever seen.
LINK: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/pristine-arctic-rivers-orange-scientists-worried-21039210.php
Mia talks about the new Abundance movement, its ideas and how it operates as a Trojan horse for its funders Peter Thiel and the Koch Brothers.
Hidden magma chambers, rising heat, and global climate implications are now under intense scrutiny. The stakes go far beyond the American West — and the timeline may be shorter than expected.
A detailed geophysical study published in Nature in by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has refined our understanding of the Yellowstone supervolcano, uncovering new insights into its subsurface magma dynamics. Concurrently, climatological assessments by researchers such as Markus Stoffel (University of Geneva) have renewed discourse around the global systemic risks posed by a potential super-eruption — not only at Yellowstone, but at several other active volcanic complexes worldwide.
A lot of this is not the kind of stuff I would expect coming from Glenn Greenwald. This is not an endorsement of this media shill, just curious.
