fresh audio product: some of the best of 2025: Emile Torres, Quinn Slobodian, Femi Taiwo, Kristin Du Mez, Anatol Lieven, Laleh Khalili, Susannah Glickman www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

Big thanks to @xriskology.bsky.social for this fascinating snapshot of AGI apocalypticism in 2025. Brings home the impact this tech is having on people’s lives. (FYI, IMO, the Singularity is a Silicon Valley myth sustained by those who can't see how inherently fragile and vulnerable digital tech is)

Cool -- this article of mine on digital eugenics was the 12th most-read piece published by Tech Policy Press in 2025. Check it out: www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...

Cool -- this article of mine on digital eugenics was the 12th most-read piece published by Tech Policy Press in 2025. Check it out: www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...

New article on the fascinating ways that true believers are preparing for the Singularity. Check it out, and leave a comment if you feel so inclined! www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/preparing-...

New article!! www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/this-year-...

CBS Boss’ ‘60 Minutes’ Intervention Backfires as Episode Leaks

60 minutes cecot video 4 of 5 from the Global-TV app in Canada, recording by Jason Paris

Been feeling burned out. When that happens, I often turn to music. This is what I recorded over the past two weeks. Lots of fun little musical tricks and secrets contained within: wonderfulsome.bandcamp.com/album/timbre...

Been feeling burned out. When that happens, I often turn to music. This is what I recorded over the past two weeks. Lots of fun little musical tricks and secrets contained within: wonderfulsome.bandcamp.com/album/timbre...

And may every day be another wonderful secret.

I think the Epstein files release encapsulates the entire first year of Trump. Fuck you make me. They will break laws, shatter norms and trample rights until there exists the collective will to stop all of it.

When an AI tool tries to identify cancer cells in Black patients, it often fumbles because it will only compare test results with those of other Black patients. Medical racism lives on in our algorithms.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

New article explains why Effective Altruism is a cult. I'll post a long thread about this tomorrow. Here's the article, which is about 8,400 words long! I hope you find it interesting and useful. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/effective-...

When I led local 'EA' groups, I used to half-jokingly say that effective altruism is a cult. I still like many of the well-intentioned people there. But I've left. Over time, I've come to understand how it's actually a cult. My forum bio now says this:

This is obviously more bad news re: the AI bubble and coming bailouts, stated or unstated. The more personally invested Trump is in the hype cycle, the more he will use public money to delay truth time. But for now he has a notional technology saving his failed media company. Good times!

New article explains why Effective Altruism is a cult. I'll post a long thread about this tomorrow. Here's the article, which is about 8,400 words long! I hope you find it interesting and useful. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/effective-...

Any attack targeted at people just because they are Jewish is as barbaric and evil as any attack on people just because they are Palestinian, or whatever other nationality. I will not accept any justification or relativization for this horrifying act of antisemitism in my mentions. Evil, period.

"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

Rule one: listen to Alice Crary

New Dystopia Now episode on Jeffrey Epstein's transhumanist views (it's worse than you think): www.patreon.com/posts/epstei...

CNN description: "Bannon is pictured with an unidentified man." LOLOLOL.

Since the House Democrats just released a photo of Chomsky hanging out and laughing with Steve Bannon, here's an article I recently wrote detailing everything we know about Chomsky's relationship with Epstein. Take a look if you have the time: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/noam-choms...

New Realtime Techpocalypse article! I explore a number of predictions that people made about what would happen in, or before the end of, 2025. Most missed the mark by a wide margin. There are some survey questions at the end--what do you think 2026 has in store for us? 👇

New interview with the amazing philosopher Alice Crary on the "toxic ideologies of Effective Altruism and longtermism," with my friend Nandita Bajaj (@popnbalance.bsky.social). Give it a listen, if you have the time! :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXsO...

"The Myth of the Constitutional Sheriff" While ICE is the face of Trump's lawlessness masquerading as law, ICE isn't the key to how got here. Sheriffs are. Sheriffs empowered by myths. 3 Experts help unravel their deep roots & bitter fruits. 1/ barnraisingmedia.com/the-myth-of-...

Elon Musk has said that we'll have AGI BY THE END OF THIS YEAR. He's also said that people will be living on Mars before January 1, 2026. Surprise: THE HABITUAL LIAR WAS LYING. I cover this and the push to create designer babies in a new Realtime Techpocalypse article:

CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves

Trump has issued 1500+ pardons and counting…a who’s who of drug kingpins, crypto scammers, violent insurrectionists, terrorism financiers & corrupt politicians. In Trump’s oligarchy, the rich and powerful can pay their way to reside above the law.

tfw you’ve got the Wall Street Journal a little worried

Murderers. How is Cotton any different from Ted Bundy? Why do we think of Bundy (accurately) as a profoundly evil person, but not Cotton? This is no different.

"When I mentioned some of these threats [...] someone I’ll call “Tim” contacted me to say that I should take them seriously [...] Why? Because Tim had attended an “AI safety” workshop in Berkeley in which violence was discussed as a strategy for ensuring that humanity attains its cosmic potential."

Bingo. @xriskology.bsky.social knocks it out of the park yet again. Seeing someone say many of the same things I’ve been bitching about with these weirdos to anyone who will listen for over a goddamn decade is cathartic.

Loved this by @xriskology.bsky.social. “What if our existential predicament is no less precarious than that of other species? How does one psychologically deal with this dreadful realization and still find meaning in life?”

I just listened to this excellent piece on Substack. It’s a good reminder to never engage in hero worship. Even people who make great contributions to society can be deeply flawed. That certainly seems to be the case with Noam Chomsky.

Effective Altruists sort of sell themselves as empirical ninjas with an absolute mastery of the math but as Émile points out here very little of it stands up to scrutiny - perhaps nothing more so than when they try and do Climate Stuff -->>>>

Here’s the original, exhaustive-ish thread from @xriskology.bsky.social, who’s had one helluva reckoning with ~yet another~ of their former intellectual heroes of late. Worth reading on substack for comments. Flashbacks to a 5th grade flubbed spelling bee: “disillusion.” bsky.app/profile/xris...

They're pro human extinction. What they propose is so insane that people won't believe that's their openly stated goal If this was coming from a religious cult we'd regard them as dangerous terrorists but because their ideas are in scientific language we think it's rational bsky.app/profile/xris...

Reading an @xriskology.bsky.social article about Thiel and his Armageddon fetish. This lead to an article about eschatology in general an a realisation that people like AtomWaffen are just ethnonationalist applied eschatology terrorists. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-politi...

Must-reads: The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence by @timnitgebru.bsky.social and @xriskology.bsky.social Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI by Rua M Williams link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

If you're wondering how the resurgence of race science ties in to our current moment of fascism and Ai, this is the article to read. Also, keep an eye out for new Dystopia Now with @xriskology.bsky.social & @katewillett.bsky.social - we're talking about this torment nexus

New article on how we discovered -- and are discovering -- the idea of human extinction. I consider this to constitute a revolution with implications no less profound than the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions, as I explain below. If you have the time, take a look!

Another one of my little sound paintings: wonderfulsome.bandcamp.com/track/oublie...

New article on how we discovered -- and are discovering -- the idea of human extinction. I consider this to constitute a revolution with implications no less profound than the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions, as I explain below. If you have the time, take a look!

Well this is absolutely f*cking terrifying. Worth watching to the end: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXtD...

Why is AI likely to make the disinformation situation immeasurably worse? Not just because of its worryingly realistic deep fakes. It’s because it has no conception of reality. It’s just as good as making false things - of which there are an infinity - as truths - of which there is only one.

New article is out! Link is below. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/joe-rogan-...

New article inspired by the recent hoopla surrounding Karen Hao's book (re: water use). I argue that "no one should look to the EA community as exemplifying good habits of epistemic and moral conduct." Here's why: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/how-effect...

New article inspired by the recent hoopla surrounding Karen Hao's book (re: water use). I argue that "no one should look to the EA community as exemplifying good habits of epistemic and moral conduct." Here's why: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/how-effect...