Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened

Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened

“A Dutch laboratory just proved what many of us feared: the rot is in the architecture. Researchers built a social platform stripped to bare essentials – 500 AI agents, no algorithms, no surveillance apparatus. Just the fundamental mechanics: post, follow, amplify.
The bots fractured into warring tribes within hours. A narrow elite captured all attention. Extremism flourished.
They tested remedies – chronological feeds, hidden metrics, deliberate bridges between groups. Every intervention failed. Some accelerated the decay. They changed the AI models entirely. The pattern STILL held.
It’s beyond content moderation or algorithm tweaking. What we’re witnessing is structural violence embedded in the foundation itself. These platforms were architected to exploit attention as raw material for profit.
Outrage generates engagement. Engagement generates data. Data generates revenue.
The dopamine pathways they manipulate don’t simply waste our time – I think they reconstitute our capacity for collective reasoning. In healthcare, where truth can mean the difference between life and death, this architecture is catastrophic.
The question before us is no longer “how do we fix social media?” It is: “who decides the terms of our digital existence, and in whose interests?”

LINK:: https://futurism.com/social-network-ai-intervention-echo-chamber

ICE is stockpiling arms

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we’ve ever seen in the agency – a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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— Senator Chris Larson (@senchrislarson.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM

A 47-Year-Old Disappearance Finally Solved! The Story Of Steven Kubacki

This video covers the disappearance, search, and eventual return of Steven Kubacki from Holland, Michigan. The mystery behind this incident will finally be revealed. Links To Steven’s Book – Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/Disappearance-… Barnes & Noble – https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-…

A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls

An ad campaign for a wearable A.I. companion has blanketed New York City, starting conversations and inspiring vandalism.

A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls

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.

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AI Companion Ads for Friendcom Flood NYC Subway, Fueling Backlash and Vandalism

 

Schizo Gladiator Luigi Mangione

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?

Schizo Gladiator Luigi Mangione

https://cuckfucius.substack.com/p/schizo-gladiator-luigi-mangione

The Schizo/Psycho War Table of Contents:

  1. The Schizo/Psycho War Part 1: An Overview
  2. Schizo Gladiator Luigi Mangione
  3. Why Didn’t Van Gogh Sell Anything?

It’s Revolution or DeathPart 3: Reclaiming the World Wherever We Stand

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.

Karen Hao on AI tech bosses: ‘Many choose not to have children because they don’t think the world is going to be around much longer’

The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good

Karen Hao on AI tech bosses: ‘Many choose not to have children because they don’t think the world is going to be around much longer’
Author Karen Hao’s book tells the story of OpenAI and the company’s founder Sam Altman. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

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Zombie Time

Zombie Time Modern day addictions — drugs and screens

Modern day addictions — drugs and screens

Many people seem to be mesmerized by small, portable screens and can’t take their eyes from them for long. Yesterday, in less than a two-block radius from where I live, I saw three bodies, still breathing, but pretty obvious ODs. Out cold, each missing a shoe, lying in the street.

LINK: https://eugeneweekly.com/2025/08/07/zombie-time/