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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…
3 months, 3 weeks 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…
3 months, 4 weeks 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…
4 months 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…
4 months 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…
4 months, 2 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…
4 months, 2 weeks 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…
4 months, 3 weeks 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…
4 months, 3 weeks 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. …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Serving Generic Masters - Why Complexity Resists Control
Every story is a negotiation with invisible kings. We call them generic masters - the personified demands of different genres, each insisting that th…
4 months, 4 weeks ago