LINK: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/16/california-openai-protester-wynd-kaufman
THE GRAB is a jaw-dropping global thriller combining hard-hitting journalism from The Center for Investigative Reporting with the compelling character-driven storytelling of director Gabriela Cowperthwaite (BLACKFISH), taking you around the globe from Arizona to Zambia, to reveal one of the world’s biggest and least known threats.
Scientists working on synthetic “mirror life” have come to realize that, if created, it could pose an existential threat to life on Earth.
Seasoned bioethicist Laurie Zoloth has a trick she likes to play in her seminars at the University of Chicago. She tells each student to pick up a pencil, then she gives them a series of instructions about how to maneuver it in their hands. At some point, nearly everyone drops the pencil. And that’s the point she’s trying to illuminate: “Humans always make errors,” Zoloth told me over Zoom. We drop things, we forget to switch things off, we lose our focus, we get tired. “Being human is like driving in a snowstorm, all the time,” she said, the hint of a smile emanating from beneath her round glasses.
The Los Angeles suspect was lonely and angry and felt “enslaved” by rich people, prosecutors say. After being romantically spurned, they say, he went into the mountains and lit a fire.
About 40 percent of American adults believe that we are living in the “end times,” according to a 2022 poll. Where did that idea come from?
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.
The rapid retreat in one region is unexplainable, scientists said.
Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new research.
Glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine, used satellite images from the last three decades to measure the retreat of ice sheets over the Antarctic continent.
Justin Robertson’s debut novel is a trans-dimensional trip into the mysterious knot of nature; a journey into the ‘brilliant darkness’ where the timeless divine spirit of the ‘Tangle’ weaves its spell and all mankind’s hubris is rendered insignificant by the radically non-human force of phantom ecology. Salvation, revelation and a terrible reckoning dwell in the ancient roots.
A time travelling account of what occurs when unknowable frontiers are breached and humanity finds itself, once again, lost in the woods, The Tangle invites us into a grotesque world of eco-horror, echoing with the spirit of writers such as Saki, Ballard, M R James, Ursula Le Guin, Brian Catling and Thomas Ligotti.
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Download PDF here: 325#13 -‘Back to Basics’ – 2025
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Originally released in March 2025, the PDF online version of 325 #13 is out now. 76 pages of anarchist, anti-capitalist and anti-civilisation writings, coverage and news. Continues the focus on high-technologies whilst providing space for critical anti-state perspectives and a restatement of principles. DIY print and distribution. For the next generation of international struggle.
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