#cults — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cults, aggregated by home.social.
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an old one i made sometime back. i dont idolize this guy or his beliefs. just thought this would make a cool vaporwave and i like being creative
#vaporwave #vhs #vhsaesthetic #vaporwaveaesthetic #aesthetic #retro #glitch #glitchart #artist #artistsonmastodon #MarshallApplewhite #HeavensGate #90s #cults #cult
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#AI #cults #California #ClimateChange
"AI Is The Latest And Best-Financed Cult To Emerge From California
Had the historian of California, Mike Davis, lived long enough to take in the spectacle of the AI boom, he very well may have seen a through line to earlier hybrids of unvarnished hype, greed, military research, science fiction, and techno-millenarianism, all perduring elements of a unique California ecosystem that has evolved some of the nation’s more distinctive cultural formations. If you think Peter Thiel’s itinerant, closed-door lectures on the Antichrist, Elon Musk’s high-volume procreation, or Sam Altman’s fascination with Napoleon and his notion of founding a company like you’re founding a religion were each a bit unusual, you have not read the history of California’s Church of Scientology.
Scientology – which has the same number of letters as 'Singularity'- came into the world in the setting of a Pasadena club for Satan-worshipping libertines presided over by Caltech rocket scientist, sci-fi enthusiast and later founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, John Parsons. As Davis tells the tale in his classic City of Quartz.
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On the terrestrial level of reality, AI’s colonial dynamic is embodied in the surreptitious construction of enormously expensive, climate-damaging and resource-intensive data centers world-wide, often with disregard for strong local opposition. It is embodied in xAI’s Colossus data center outside Memphis, Tennessee, and another near Southaven, Mississippi, which both run on unpermitted and polluting gas turbines situated near poor Black communities. It is embodied in Musk’s vision of a cyborg and robot-filled future, which is now contractually tied to his corporate compensation, and anchored in what is planned to be the largest semiconductor factory in the world, Terafab, also powered 100% on natural gas. If Sam Altman expects AI to 'solve climate change' some day, he had better get to it, because everything that is being done to accelerate AI is turning up the heat on planet Earth.
Two macroeconomic factors are at play in the breakneck speed with which AI infrastructure has been financed and built out since the release of Chat GPT in November of 2022. They have little to do with the intrinsic commercial potential of AI-related products or services, nor any particular innovation in computer engineering. The first, to put it simply, is the availability of lots of money. More than ever before, giant pots of money are sloshing around the planet, motivated by historically low interest rates over a relatively long period to search out the Next Big Thing. This money is mostly exempt from national regimes of control or taxation, is managed outside the traditional banking system, and is therefore more free to move around. The second is the chronic and by now widely acknowledged slow-down of economic growth in the advanced economies, dating back nearly half a century. What the hype typically fails to register is that investors don’t seek out technology and AI firms because they are the best bets on future returns – they seek them out because they are the only bets around."
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Ah, yes, the pinnacle of modern journalism: an #article about #cults and #scams that itself feels like a scam to read! 🧐 Just enable JavaScript and cookies, and BAM! You're in a digital cult of your own making. 🤡✨
https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-about-cults-scams-and-schemes #modernjournalism #digitalcult #HackerNews #ngated -
My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes
https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-about-cults-scams-and-schemes
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A drone view shows followers of the Universal White Brotherhood, an esoteric society that combines Christianity and Indian mysticism set up by Bulgarian Peter Deunov, performing a dance-like ritual called "paneurhythmy" on Rila Mountain, Bulgaria. REUTERS/Spasiyana Sergieva
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The toxicity of religious crackpotism: "The posts were widely reposted on social media, triggering condemnation from Balinese residents who considered them disrespectful. Authorities tracked him down following public complaints, and he was arrested at a villa in Legian, a popular tourist spot near Kuta Beach."
#Indonesia #religion #legal #cults #civilization #laws #blasphemy
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/swiss-tourist-sentenced-to-a-year-in-jail-for-insulting-bali-s-sacred-day-of-silence/ar-AA2aymLY -
Faith, falsehood and biblical bullshit...
#religion #cults #religiousextremism #evangelicalpsychosis #delusion #religiousbeliefisamentalillness
https://amberbateman.substack.com/p/biblical-bullshit-lies-the-church -
Well, I am just fascinated with cults. I don't know why. I can't explain it, but books about cults almost always pull me right in. This has been sitting on my shelf since it released. I picked it up randomly and got sucked right in. I usually am not into celebrity memoirs, but add a cult? Count me in! Overall, 4.25 stars. It was a super quick read and had me at the edge of my seat, turning pages as quickly as possible.
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It’s Getting Kind of Culty: Must-Read Books About Cults
These must-read books about cults include fictional takes on real cults, a survivor's memoir, and a look at the language of fanaticism.
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I've been saying for years that #SiliconValley operates as a massive #cult - but #PeterThiel (#Palentir) forgot the #1 rule of #cults: don't ever claim to be one.
But here we are faced with a #VentureCapital cult that wants to destroy #democracy, because they want all the power and money.
For how much #antigovernment rhetoric you get from these guys, they sure love colluding with #governments, #despots and #autocrats.
#PeterThiel's Anti-Human Plan Is Pure Evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onphky37vik -
Idea for a story. Dude contacts counter-cult charity because he wants out. We eventually learn that he's a cult *leader* with thousands of fanatical followers.
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#ConspiracyTheorists #cults #Canada #Qanon
"THE RISE AND FALL OF THE QANON QUEEN OF CANADA
Romana Didulo became one of North America’s most dangerous conspiracy figures, leading followers who believed she could erase debt and cure cancer. By the time the government raided their compound, it was almost too late.
hen it was over in 2025, officials toured the dimly lit building in rural Saskatchewan. Tarps covered the windows and doors, blocking the sun. The air was so foul that an officer ran outside gagging.
For the previous two years, about 20 members of a group known as the Kingdom of Canada had been living inside the decommissioned school, claiming they had taken over the country. They operated under their own principles, issued their own laws, and threatened the surrounding village with 'publicly broadcast executions.' They slept in classrooms and, without running water, used five-gallon buckets as toilets.
Their leader — a woman known as the 'Queen of Canada' — had been sleeping in a primary classroom, where her purse and water jugs labeled with her name still sat. A hole had been cut through a concrete wall and concealed with a cabinet that opened like a secret door. On the other side was the queen’s private bathroom with an elaborate shower.
There were more tarps on the roof that covered stashes of firewood and fuel containers. The fire chief, Gene Perreault, who was there during the walk-through, tells me the piles puzzled investigators.
'Where these fire caches are, it makes absolutely no sense,' he says as we sit in the firehouse looking at photos of the caches. 'Maybe this was part of their last stand or some fucking thing.'
One theory, according to Perreault, was that the Kingdom had been planning to burn the building down, Waco-style, if the government intervened.
The queen was Romana Didulo. Born in the Philippines in 1974, she later claimed that her social class was the 'modern equivalent of [the] Royal Family' — a claim that hasn’t been confirmed. Like much of Didulo’s story, the details of her upbringing are fuzzy."
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That thing you've been wondering about for years that seems to have no answer? That niggling contradiction about reality that sometimes bubbles to the surface? That fact about the world that just doesn't make sense but everyone else seems ok with it? But there isn't anyone offering up alternative answers, so you just assume you're nuts and push it back down?
Go with that, see where it leads. Tug at it when you can. Be willing to test your most solid assumptions to try on another way.
That's where you'll find your answers. That's where you'll break out of the cult.
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*Yes I have, but I don't believe there's just one unified cult of "Spiralism," any more than there's a Gospel of QAnon
*I'm also a bit surprised that China can simply shut-down everybody's AI boyfriend and AI girlfriend, and the Chinese just shrug, instead of getting all Falun Gong about it #cults
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e7adoz546m5uygs2k4f76dq6/post/3mskqjcjbys2d -
Olurinatti knows where it's at #iPhone #Apple #Cults #Android #OwnYourShit (https://www.youtube.com/@olurinatti) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUDHrPpO0GU
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Cult survivors fearful after inquiry accidentally shares email addresses
By Bec Symons and Jonathon KendallCult survivors say they have been left fearful after an "unacceptable privacy breach" where their identities were potentially shared with groups they have been hiding from.
#Cults #Government #StateandTerritoryGovernment #InformationTechnologyIndustry #BecSymons #JonathonKendall
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Cult inquiry recommends outlawing coercive control in groups
By Bec Symons and Jonathon KendallA Victorian inquiry into the recruitment methods and impacts of cults and organised fringe groups is recommending world-leading laws against group coercive control.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-29/cult-inquiry-recommendations-victoria-fringe-groups/106971052
#Cults #ParliamentaryCommittees #StateandTerritoryGovernment #SocialProblems #BecSymons #JonathonKendall