on resisting authoritarianism and the flaws in contemporary realism
Our dreams are birds, they pluck fruit from high branches we cannot reach with our hands. They carry the fruit down to us, and we choose what to do with it. Some dreams are totally alien and need to be examined, while others are easier to digest. Some dreamers cannot recognize their fruits and toss them aside. Others examine them closely. Whatever kind of dreamer you are, these dreams are speaking to you. They hold meaning no matter how strange or insipid they seem. At some point in life, we all experience a dream so striking and bizarre that we are haunted by it into the next day, even if it was completely abstract and not a conscious fear. This is the essential language of dreams, and the font of surrealism’s power.
Tag: crime
The Rise of Neo-Kaczynskiism
Altman got Molotoved. Warehouses are burning. The ruling class brought this on itself — ad still won’t tap the release valve.
For years, we’ve been bearing witness to the rise in what some call neo-Kaczynskiism – a swell that’s going to crash harder and harder into the ultra-wealthy and their bottom lines. Last week, multiple attempts were made on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s life. The 20-year-old from Spring, Texas who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s home published a lengthy diatribe beforehand on his Substack arguing that artificial intelligence is a threat to human existence. Not 48 hours later, shots were fired at Altman’s same residence in San Francisco.
Ted Kaczynski – the “Unabomber” – authored a manifesto that offered a hauntingly accurate critique of industrial society before ultimately resorting to random acts of violence, murdering 3 people and injuring 23 others in a nationwide mail bombing campaign between 1978 and 1995 targeting those he believed were advancing modern technology and destroying the natural environment.
Neo-Kaczynskiism is an apt term for the rise in lone acts of violence and destruction we’ve been witnessing – including the 7 warehouse fires (and counting) that have cropped up across the country in the last week. Like Luigi Mangione, accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024 and currently held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, these seemingly random acts of violence don’t occur in a vacuum. They’re connected.
The targeting of billionaire tech oligarchs and millionaire health insurance CEOs, the employees setting their workplaces ablaze, the surge in individual acts of violence against the rich – it’s all a symptom of the economic regime we’re living under. And it’s going to escalate.
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Man facing federal charges for allegedly setting massive fire that destroyed warehouse: DOJ
Abdulkarim allegedly said in the video, “If you’re not going to pay us enough to [expletive] live or afford to live, at least pay us enough not to do this [expletive],” the DOJ said in a statement.
A man is facing federal charges for allegedly purposely setting the fire that destroyed a massive warehouse in Southern California, prosecutors said.
Chamel Abdulkarim, 29, is charged with arson of a building used in interstate and foreign commerce and used in activities affecting interstate and foreign commerce, the Department of Justice said on Friday.
On April 7, Abdulkarim allegedly took video of himself setting fire to paper goods in the Ontario, California, distribution center, prosecutors said.
“A World Governed by Force”
The Attack on Venezuela and the Conflicts to Come
“We live in a world that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” Stephen Miller told CNN host Jake Tapper, on January 5, 2026, spelling out the fascist program as he justified seizing Greenland by force. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
Art is War: Fear and Loathing on the Internet
Current work in process. Expected release date, late 2026.
An art manifesto for our changing times.
Watch my Substack for release announcements.
What’s really happening in the ocean’s “dark zones”
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.
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
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.