On Google Earth, the world’s oceans look like endless blue pixels — but AIS tracking reveals tens of thousands of ships moving across them in real time. Many of these vessels can vanish from view with the push of a button, hiding a global fishing industry that operates in the dark and traps laborers in brutal conditions. I teamed up with my colleague Christophe to understand what ships do when they disappear.
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Nutrition, SNAP & Why We Need A Food Revolution
Episode Description
Food policy expert and nutritionist Marion Nestle’s 2006 book, ‘What to Eat,’ became a consumer bible of sorts when it came out, guiding readers through the supermarket while exposing how industry marketing and policy steer our food choices. Now, two decades later, she’s back with ‘What to Eat Now,’ a revised field guide for the supermarket of 2025.
LINK: https://pca.st/h0ojxhr5
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
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
The future that the Trump administration envisions for public schools is more patriotic, more Christian and less “woke.” Want to know how that might play out? Look to Oklahoma.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.
— Senator Chris Larson (@senchrislarson.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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?
https://cuckfucius.substack.com/p/schizo-gladiator-luigi-mangione
The Schizo/Psycho War Table of Contents:
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.
Abundance, Or How To Sell Tech Fascism To Liberals
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.
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
What is cognitive security?
This issue should be approached from two directions.
- How can you protect yourself from cognitive exploitation?
- How can you use these techniques to penetrate enemy organizations?
The Big Idea
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- Human Behavior is Central to Cybersecurity Risks: Over 60% of data breaches involve human elements such as phishing, policy non-compliance, and cognitive overload. Traditional security measures often overlook or under address these behavioral factors, leaving organizations vulnerable.
- Cognitive Security is A Behavior-Centric Defense Approach: Cognitive security integrates principles from psychology and neuroscience to protect against manipulation and risky decision-making. It focuses on guiding user behavior in real-time as a behavioral control, transforming security from a reactive process to proactive behavior reinforcement.
- Security Culture Must Move from Blame to Empowerment: Instead of penalizing users for security lapses, cognitive security emphasizes understanding and supporting human decision-making processes. This fosters a security culture where safe practices become intuitive and integral to daily operations.