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.Bunkers, Vaults & Biospheres
Can humanity be bottled to survive the apocalypse? Let’s look at a real-life biosphere, a fictional generation ship, the Fallout vaults, and the Silo series to find out. Nothing could possibly go wrong!!
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
For the Divine Mother of the Universe (Remixed and Reissued)
Episode Description
There’s a lot of cultural clutter these days around ‘The Goddess.’ She appears everywhere, her many names are invoked free of context in a hundred thousand ways. She’s what? An empowerment tool. An archetype. A self-help course. A political symbol. Something that is invoked to bring more creative energy or material abundance into our lives. Something that, in an individualistic modern world, always seems to have a whole lot to do with us. Yet the goddess, traditionally, is much more than this. She is the animating power of the universe itself, felt in bodies, realized in states of deep conjunctive rapture, accessed through ritual protocols, alive in trees and stones and living geography, alive in song, alive in the myths and stories of her, alive in sound, alive in longing, alive in trance, alive in the states of consciousness realized by those who feel her. This devotional episode honors the goddess as the animating power of creation, drawing on her texts, her myths, her songs, and on personal experiences of journey to her sacred seats to evoke her as a living presence rather than as a conceptual abstraction. With songs and slokas from special guest Nivedita Gunturi.
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.
Mark Boyle: The Butlerian Jihad
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