"I read an article in Mondo 2000 about the problem of marketing to people under 25 these days – it was so funny... he wants to buy the Spin Doctors, and then goes and buys Janet Jackson. They said that kids switch at the last minute so that they don’t get tricked into buying something that they want

Trump denies report that golfing buddy is carving up Venezuela for himself in frantic post www.rawstory.com/trump-venezu...

'Major tension' in White House as airspace botch triggers 'intense blame game': report www.rawstory.com/el-paso-2675...

?!?!

seen on fbook this morning

seen on fbook this morning

LOUDER!

== A BIFURCATION IN REALITY == “All of a sudden, I became intensely aware that...exactly right beside me was another universe that was internally self-consistent, in which I had a history, and a path..” R.U. Investigates Reality with VR pioneer Mark Pesce:

gosh he might be concerned

on fbook this morning in case you haven't heard this one yet

stop ya damn doomscrolling and get with the OD Original Doomscroller. Gimme Helter by MONDO Vanilli with video by odysee.com/@RUSirius:9/...

Another definition came to me from my mentor Owen Rowley: "Reality is that which will kill you if ignored long enough." Between those two there's a lot of room to play Heraclitus: “The Aeon is a child at play with coloured balls." I reckon most of reality is that sort of play —Mark Pesce

== A NEW MULTI-SENSORY LANGUAGE == " ‘Reality is the spot where rival gangs of shamans fought to a standstill.’ That's as good a definition of consensus reality as any I've encountered.” R.U. Investigates Reality with VR pioneer Mark Pesce: magazine.mindplex.ai/post/investi...

== THE PROS AND CONS (AND CONS) OF THE ‘AI’ AGE == R.U. Sirius interviewed by Fort Wayne, Indiana’s ‘The Styxxoplix Show’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QKd...

I'm grateful that Kyle surfaced all these extraordinary opinions slamming the Trump administration for the illegal detention of immigrants. This one leaps out in part because the judge is warning us that abuses being inflicted on immigrants now are a preview of what could be unleashed on citizens.

whatever

buh-bye

capital is hallucinatory

“Terrorist”: How ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter theintercept.com/2026/02/06/s...

A Dave Alvin Interview From 2020 open.substack.com/pub/burninga... Alvin is brilliant. I interviewed him for Mondo 2000 which appeared in issue #2

substack.com/@unseeninter... woot!

Turning Point USA to Air Alternative Super Bowl Where Patriots Win thehardtimes.net/culture/turn...

Nice Doors quote

Pollan? Pollan!!? The clueless guy we would see on a rare hangout at Chez Pannisse? who wouldn't have known our partly psychedelic magazines if we blew DMT smoke in his face? THAT guy?

i've long believed the same thing

Cloned BMW tools available soon … Most impressive are Ferraris that brick themselves if they detect unauthorized work. Read about one that couldn’t find a cell or WiFi signal in an underground garage & ‘timed out’, another brick.

ICE’s Private Prison Contractors Spent Millions Lobbying to Force Banks to Give Them Loans theintercept.com/2026/02/05/p...