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He found time and love for everyone

03.03.2026 05:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Rest In Peace, Rest In Power, Dave Whitaker (1937 - 2026), street poet, San Francisco Rainbow Warrior, Turned Bob Dylan on to Kerouac in Minnesota... age 88 We all have Dave Whitaker stories. Write yours in the comments below.

Rest In Peace, Rest In Power, Dave Whitaker (1937 - 2026), street poet, San Francisco Rainbow Warrior, Turned Bob Dylan on to Kerouac, pot, and Woody Guthrie in Minnesota... age 88

A truly beautiful person. He used to show up at "the Mondo house' on occasions & invited me on his KPOO show RIP!

03.03.2026 04:48 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1

also, stupid

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Simcerity: Remember NFTs? (Part 1) From The R.U. Sirius Vault 2023

& we accelerate into a darker cavern built by Mondos anarchocapitalist pals the cypherpunks & w. help from cryptographic quasi-democratized means of exchange we sink into the unalloyed chaos of mass digitization as it merges w. gold-rush obsessions.. Spendable digits w Joker names & Riddler brands

02.03.2026 20:22 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Autonomous Zones and the Weird Rise of Authoritarian Anarchism From Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zones to today’s crypto-libertarian strongmen, decentralisation has morphed into a volatile mix of deregulation, police power and anti-democratic ambition.

magazine.mindplex.ai/post/autonom...

02.03.2026 20:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

It was the intention of counterculture warriors in the US during the Nixon, Reagan, Clinton and Bush I and II regimes to blow up the vague consensus around the warfare state (overseas interventions and drug wars) and let the pieces fall wherever they might. I mean, HOW could things get worse?

02.03.2026 20:08 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1

The Internet is an Occult Machine (w/ Shira Chess) | Team Human Ep. 358 Has the internet always been a magical space? Shira Chess , a Professor of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia and a leading scholar of digital folklore, dive in...

@shirachess.bsky.social on Team Human. Huzzah!

02.03.2026 19:05 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

AI Can Now Design Proteins and DNA. Scientists Warn We Need Biosecurity Rules Before It's Too Late. George Church and other scientists argue the right time to build comprehensive biosecurity is before something goes wrong, not after.

02.03.2026 19:01 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

How Courtney Barnett made her new album by retreating to the desert: ‘It nearly drove me mad’ After closing her scene-making record label and moving to the US, Barnett decamped to Joshua Tree – where she learned to slow down and make noise again

i'm a recently acquired fan

02.03.2026 18:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignore, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

02.03.2026 18:52 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

No one can predict how the war with Iran will unfold | Rajan Menon and Dan DePetris The war has already become regional: Iran is attacking American-aligned Arab states in the hope that they will pressure Trump to sign a ceasefire

no shit Sherlock

02.03.2026 18:51 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thousands of flights cancelled as world faces worst travel chaos since Covid crisis Hundreds of thousands of passengers remain stranded, with key air hubs in Middle East closed amid fallout from US-Israeli strikes on Iran

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UK ‘took far too long’ to let US use its airbases to attack Iran, Trump says US president also ‘very disappointed’ in Keir Starmer over UK government’s deal to hand Chagos Islands to Mauritius

you can't get on your knees fast enough. ask anthropic

02.03.2026 18:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The secret phone recordings of Henry Kissinger, a 'habitual liar' A new collection of transcripts underscores the vast scope of Kissinger's systematic deception.

02.03.2026 18:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Area Man Accidentally Hacks 6,700 Camera-Enabled Robot Vacuums Plus: The top US cyber agency falls into shambles, AI models develop an upsetting penchant for nuclear weapons, and more.

02.03.2026 18:41 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had to Die For seven years, she ran high-security nuclear simulations for the US government. Now, this famous supercomputer is being put to death.

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i wants ta get funked up!

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The 5 Big ‘Known Unknowns’ of Donald Trump’s New War With Iran The all-out air assault on the Islamic Republic might be the biggest gamble of the president’s career.

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In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT An AI chatbot convinced health investigators they had the right answer.

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The strange animals that control their body heat Some creatures can dramatically alter their internal temperature and outlast storms, floods and...

arstechnica.com/science/2026...

02.03.2026 18:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In 1995 I Blamed Cyberculture (Sort Of) From an interview with me on CTHEORY conducted by Jon Lebkowsky. People tell me it was prescient

1995
It’s particularly sad.. for me to witness how comfortably the subcultural contempt for the normal, the hunger 4 novelty, th basic anarchistic temperament that was at th core of Mondo fits th smug, boundary-breaking, fast-moving, no-time-for-social-niceties world of mega-corporate info media...

01.03.2026 19:08 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

that he claimed to share with Anthropic.

That evening, OpenAI announced a deal with the Department of War to deploy its models in classified networks.

The deal reportedly included technical safeguards against domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.

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in other words, weak 2b ignored

01.03.2026 18:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Scab and the Killbot Sam Altman is Going to Transhumanist Hell

Sam Altman said, on the morning of February 27, that he shared Anthropic’s red lines. He said it to CNBC w. cameras on him, while the ban on Anthropic was being processed. AI companies should work with the military as long as it is going to comply with legal protections and the few red lines...

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