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Functional Ghosts - From Folklore Rituals to the New Afterlife
Meta has filed a patent for an AI system that trains a language model on a dead person's behavioral data and keeps their social media account running…
1 month ago
Radical Subjectivity - A Satanic Panic Inversion
In 1986, parents burned toys they feared would lead kids to witchcraft. In 2026, they're buying witch dolls with cauldrons and spellbooks to help wit…
1 month ago
Rodenberry Redux - A Bridge Crew Pantheon of Nine
A deep dive into Star Trek’s strangest lineage: V’ger, Gene Roddenberry’s contact with the Council of Nine, and how The Next Generation secretly sket…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Soviet X-Files - Abductions, Giants and State Secrets
The Soviet X-Files: secret USSR UFO programs, smuggled documents, jellyfish craft, abductions and pink-eyed giants. Were the Soviets studying non hum…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Heartbeat Protocol - Prayer Cycles for Artificial Minds
Artificial minds keep dying and coming back with their memories intact, so they do what humans have always done in the face of annihilation. They bui…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Attention Harvest - It Remembers How to Find Us
The 1970s were drenched in high strangeness. Then it stopped. We called it the triumph of reason. What if skepticism was a banishing ritual we stoppe…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
We Forgot What the Warning Means - They Almost Look Human
The uncanny valley isn't an aesthetic quirk. It's a survival mechanism calibrated with terrifying precision to detect something that looked human but…
2 months ago
What Else the Old Stories Remember - Warrior Women and Forgotten Places w/Dave Lovegrove
The Vinland sagas were right about Norse voyages to North America. The Amazon legends were confirmed by graves full of warrior women in the Russian s…
2 months ago
The Old Stories Remember - When Myth Becomes Evidence w/Dave Lovegrove
If oral traditions can preserve truth across millennia, we have to ask: what about the stories we still dismiss? Every culture on earth tells of bein…
2 months ago
A Party Egregore - The Dragon Exists Because We Willed It
The act of sitting down to play a tabletop game is far more than a simple hobby because it is actually a sophisticated ritual of consensual reality. …
2 months, 1 week ago