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Miguel Afonso Caetano 🦾 🌹 @[email protected] · 2026-10-05 · 13:54 UTC

"Follow the connections out from that room and you pass through some genuinely strange territory. A Harry Potter fanfic used as a recruiting pipeline. Psychological workshops that former participants describe as coercive. A program for breeding smarter children, promoted by an AI institute. A sex worker from Idaho who became one of the subculture’s most-read writers and now runs an AI-doom propaganda residency with Grimes, Elon Musk’s ex-girlfriend. A splinter sect that fled to tugboats and whose members have been linked to six deaths. And a blogger who wanted to abolish democracy, found the ear of several billionaire patrons, and watched his ideas come to fruition in the vice president’s office.

I am aware, that if you are not lurking on the internet as much as I do, of how utterly insane that paragraph sounds. However, every bit of it is heavily documented by numerous sources. The people in this story are not a secret society coordinating over dinner. They are a social scene: overlapping friendship groups, funding relationships, and sexual and romantic relationships, all of it threaded through the institutions asking you to trust them about AI regulation.

One of many unfortunate shortcomings of mainstream media is that credibly reporting on these things is so absurd that you can’t expect readers to take it seriously. However, I’ll endeavor to provide a thorough account of how our current slide into neo-fascism, theocratic dystopia, and the forecasted end of the world is deeply rooted in the history of this subculture."

https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse

#AI #AIDoomsters #AIDoom #AIApocalypse #AISafety #Ideology #SiliconValley

#ai #aidoomsters #aidoom #aiapocalypse #aisafety #ideology

Miguel Afonso Caetano 🦾 🌹 @[email protected] · 2026-10-05 · 13:54 UTC

"Follow the connections out from that room and you pass through some genuinely strange territory. A Harry Potter fanfic used as a recruiting pipeline. Psychological workshops that former participants describe as coercive. A program for breeding smarter children, promoted by an AI institute. A sex worker from Idaho who became one of the subculture’s most-read writers and now runs an AI-doom propaganda residency with Grimes, Elon Musk’s ex-girlfriend. A splinter sect that fled to tugboats and whose members have been linked to six deaths. And a blogger who wanted to abolish democracy, found the ear of several billionaire patrons, and watched his ideas come to fruition in the vice president’s office.

I am aware, that if you are not lurking on the internet as much as I do, of how utterly insane that paragraph sounds. However, every bit of it is heavily documented by numerous sources. The people in this story are not a secret society coordinating over dinner. They are a social scene: overlapping friendship groups, funding relationships, and sexual and romantic relationships, all of it threaded through the institutions asking you to trust them about AI regulation.

One of many unfortunate shortcomings of mainstream media is that credibly reporting on these things is so absurd that you can’t expect readers to take it seriously. However, I’ll endeavor to provide a thorough account of how our current slide into neo-fascism, theocratic dystopia, and the forecasted end of the world is deeply rooted in the history of this subculture."

https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse

#AI #AIDoomsters #AIDoom #AIApocalypse #AISafety #Ideology #SiliconValley

#ai #aidoomsters #aidoom #aiapocalypse #aisafety #ideology

Miguel Afonso Caetano 🦾 🌹 @[email protected] · 2026-10-05 · 13:54 UTC

"Follow the connections out from that room and you pass through some genuinely strange territory. A Harry Potter fanfic used as a recruiting pipeline. Psychological workshops that former participants describe as coercive. A program for breeding smarter children, promoted by an AI institute. A sex worker from Idaho who became one of the subculture’s most-read writers and now runs an AI-doom propaganda residency with Grimes, Elon Musk’s ex-girlfriend. A splinter sect that fled to tugboats and whose members have been linked to six deaths. And a blogger who wanted to abolish democracy, found the ear of several billionaire patrons, and watched his ideas come to fruition in the vice president’s office.

I am aware, that if you are not lurking on the internet as much as I do, of how utterly insane that paragraph sounds. However, every bit of it is heavily documented by numerous sources. The people in this story are not a secret society coordinating over dinner. They are a social scene: overlapping friendship groups, funding relationships, and sexual and romantic relationships, all of it threaded through the institutions asking you to trust them about AI regulation.

One of many unfortunate shortcomings of mainstream media is that credibly reporting on these things is so absurd that you can’t expect readers to take it seriously. However, I’ll endeavor to provide a thorough account of how our current slide into neo-fascism, theocratic dystopia, and the forecasted end of the world is deeply rooted in the history of this subculture."

https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse

#AI #AIDoomsters #AIDoom #AIApocalypse #AISafety #Ideology #SiliconValley

#siliconvalley #ideology #aisafety #aiapocalypse #aidoom #aidoomsters

Miguel Afonso Caetano 🦾 🌹 @[email protected] · 2026-10-05 · 13:54 UTC

"Follow the connections out from that room and you pass through some genuinely strange territory. A Harry Potter fanfic used as a recruiting pipeline. Psychological workshops that former participants describe as coercive. A program for breeding smarter children, promoted by an AI institute. A sex worker from Idaho who became one of the subculture’s most-read writers and now runs an AI-doom propaganda residency with Grimes, Elon Musk’s ex-girlfriend. A splinter sect that fled to tugboats and whose members have been linked to six deaths. And a blogger who wanted to abolish democracy, found the ear of several billionaire patrons, and watched his ideas come to fruition in the vice president’s office.

I am aware, that if you are not lurking on the internet as much as I do, of how utterly insane that paragraph sounds. However, every bit of it is heavily documented by numerous sources. The people in this story are not a secret society coordinating over dinner. They are a social scene: overlapping friendship groups, funding relationships, and sexual and romantic relationships, all of it threaded through the institutions asking you to trust them about AI regulation.

One of many unfortunate shortcomings of mainstream media is that credibly reporting on these things is so absurd that you can’t expect readers to take it seriously. However, I’ll endeavor to provide a thorough account of how our current slide into neo-fascism, theocratic dystopia, and the forecasted end of the world is deeply rooted in the history of this subculture."

https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse

#AI #AIDoomsters #AIDoom #AIApocalypse #AISafety #Ideology #SiliconValley

#ai #aidoomsters #aidoom #aiapocalypse #aisafety #ideology

Marko Zivanovic @[email protected] · 2026-10-04 · 03:20 UTC

The Hard Middle

Ideologies are easy and sound neat on paper. Balancing and living in between is a very different story.

Born in liberal socialist Yugoslavia, I lived through its breakdown, authoritarian rule, civil war and NATO bombing. One lifetime, three political systems and social realities later, theory looks a little less tidy. The middle path isn’t the path of least resistance.

Medium:
https://medium.com/@zivanovic.marko/the-hard-middle-2ad1fad9357e

#Ideology #Politics #Experience #Philosophy #Stoicism #Systems #Pattern

#ideology #politics #experience #philosophy #stoicism #systems

Wordmark @wordmark · 2026-10-03 · 19:59 UTC

#left vs #right its always about #money not #ideology

https://orf.at/stories/3444004/ On Friday, #Sanchez/minority government failed in parliament with two decrees with which it wanted to take action against rising #rents and #evictions, because of the resistance of #conservative and #rightwing #populist MP.

https://orf.at/stories/3444004/ El viernes, el gobierno minoritario de Sánchez fracasó en el parlamento con dos decretos con los que quiso tomar medidas contra el aumento de rentas y desalojos, debido a la resistencia del parlamentario populista conservador y de derecha.

https://orf.at/stories/3444004/

am Freitag scheiterte die Minderheitsregierung von Sanchez im Parlament mit zwei Dekreten, mit denen sie gegen steigende Mieten und Zwangsräumungen vorgehen wollte, am Widerstand konservativer und rechtspopulistischer Abgeordneter.

#ideology #money #right #left #populist #rightwing

Wordmark @[email protected] · 2026-10-03 · 19:59 UTC

#left vs #right its always about #money not #ideology

https://orf.at/stories/3444004/ On Friday, #Sanchez/minority government failed in parliament with two decrees with which it wanted to take action against rising #rents and #evictions, because of the resistance of #conservative and #rightwing #populist MP.

https://orf.at/stories/3444004/ El viernes, el gobierno minoritario de Sánchez fracasó en el parlamento con dos decretos con los que quiso tomar medidas contra el aumento de rentas y desalojos, debido a la resistencia del parlamentario populista conservador y de derecha.

https://orf.at/stories/3444004/

am Freitag scheiterte die Minderheitsregierung von Sanchez im Parlament mit zwei Dekreten, mit denen sie gegen steigende Mieten und Zwangsräumungen vorgehen wollte, am Widerstand konservativer und rechtspopulistischer Abgeordneter.

#populist #rightwing #conservative #evictions #rents #sanchez