#magicalthinking — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.world/@oldguycrusty/117050727717111676

...and a weird tribalism/cultism developing and being fostered by the same
#broligarchs driving the $2T

None have offered a legit revenue model but if the 'other guy' is spending all that $$$ - then 'we' must also spend even more $$$ in case they know something we dont , and we cant risk getting left out/behind.

#FOMO
#AI
#panic
#MagicalThinking
#lemmings

@sundogplanets

#powerBeaming

#FakeScience
#magicalthinking
#BigLies are easier to sell to the marks.

How do people function without a base reference of facts and reality?

#cognition #psychology #magicalthinking

@johncarlosbaez

"[Necromancy] is intended to summon a demon who will impart unsurpassed mastery of all the arts and sciences without any effort on the part of the necromancer." (Richard Kiekhefer, Magic in the Middle Ages)

Oh, this is brilliant. You are onto something fundamental here. I often talk about the "genAI craze" or "genAI madness". But as you suggest, this apparent madness really in part is the acting out of ancient urges. Deeply rooted and half-conscious cultural archetypes that explain much of current genAI obsessions.

#noLLM #necromancy #MagicalThinking #MasteryWithoutEffort #archetypes #RichardKiekhefer

@karlhigley

#Thinking is 'bad' for:

#fascism
#Theocracy
#Racism
#Misogyny
#patriarchy
#Jingoism
#WhiteChristianNationalism
#Zenophobia
#Autocracy
#totalitarianism
#MagicalThinking
#Cultism
#Theism
#Corruption

.....so yeah, fuck all that 'thinking'..

/s

"It's nothing, you LIBERALS are just exaggerating!"

https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2024851/it-s-nothing-you-liberals-are-just-exaggerating

They don't think Aliens, as in intelligent beings from other worlds, are real.....they think demons are real, and UFOs are demons.
It's not the reasonable position that it's a big old universe and we're not the centre of it, so there is the exciting possibility of other minds out there....nope, it's 'Demons'

These fanatics are going to get us all killed...

https://slate.com/life/2026/04/aliens-waffle-house-jd-vance-gregg-phillips-religion-christian.html

#JDVance #GreggPhillips #ReligiousFanaticism #MagicalThinking #Aliens

RE: https://hostux.social/@bmacDonald94/116233671144959056

The #Believers

#magicalThinking
#Cultists
#religiosity
#theology
#Theism
#Religion spoils everything

Take 1 part #Jingoism
1 part #ChristianNationalism
1 part #Fundamentalism
Add some #racism #misogyny and a pinch of #ignorance soaked for decades in
#oligarchy #patriarchy and #propaganda

And you get
#Fascism and #Nazis

I wrote up the devotional I gave for work this afternoon. It's on magical thinking. Treat it like a first draft written in about 15 mins because it is 😂

https://write.as/spaceraser/magical-thinking

#blog #writeAs #magicalThinking #christianity #acts #john #samuel #devotional

@paul @DemocracyMattersALot

#GodLess #Heathen

Yes, same.

#ChristianNationalism
#Evangelical #Fundamentalism #MagicalThinking
#Narcissism
#Theocracy
#Apocalypse

These fuckers think that this whole thing is just a 'practice'' session for the afterlife.

AI is not magic.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Magic #RoseColoredGlasses #magicalthinking

@McWabbit
🙏🏻 I feel this to be true: his ‘donors’ (self-selected on their propensity for corruption) want results; they want Greenland - not so far delivered. 😐

They might even be calling for their money back, or threatening to dump on him, if he doesn’t deliver.🤔

But that phrase “After this is over” feels like magical thinking, implies an imaginary hand… Maybe “in order to end this” can work better. 🤔

The trouble for us normal people (not trillionaires, not billionaires, not massively corrupt) is that it's hard to get into the mind of those others… and that can make us ineffective opponents.☹️

#USPol #corruption #magicalThinking #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@Strandjunker

If I just refresh my inbox one more time, I just know the email I've been waiting a month for will be there. I can FEEL it.

#magicalthinking

#Myths and #MagicalThinking: #American Civil #Religion, the #EstablishmentClause, and “Codified #Irrationality” in Anti- #CRT Measures

https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/jcred/vol37/iss2/6/

Misunderstanding as a commutator operator: https://johntinker.substack.com/p/misunderstanding-as-a-commutator
#ai #marketbubble #snakeoil #magicalthinking #criticalthinking #chatbots

I hope these liars making these projections aren't the reason Labour / TBI think AI must somehow be the magic key to productivity (because somehow the UK is destined to win?) #magicalThinking #AGI #superIntelligence bsky.app/profile/j2br...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tkbweudpy6tvzjqdiza4z3p5/post/3m4jusogu7k27

@CindyWeinstein

#Fascism runs on #ignorance and #magicalThinking

The upside- if there is one - might be that science doesn't stop just because the #Fascist #Theofascist #Oligarchy defunds it.

They tried/convicted Galileo for heresy - and he lived out his life under house arrest- but the earth is still orbiting the sun, not the other way around..

But wow, it sure is depressing to face retiring into the dark ages instead of the enlightenment...

Magical zygotes are only on a continuum of magical thinking, and given our unlimited imaginations anything is possible.

#MagicalThinking
#contraception

https://theconversation.com/3-years-after-abortion-rights-were-overturned-contraception-access-is-at-risk-258458

@jeffowski

Oh man. THIS.

#Religion spoils every human relationship.

#Brainwashing
#magicalThinking
All the isms

#sexism #Patriarchy #Racism #Narcissism
#Colonialism #Jingoism #Isolationism

Is MAGA magical thinking? #MAGA #MagicalThinking

The Most Absurd #Beliefs People Actually Follow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1DI5yN2B_8

#Atheism #ReligiousHistory #Philosophy

Why do so many people still cling to beliefs that defy #logic, #evidence, and basic #commonsense?

In this video, we dive deep into some of the most #bizarre, #irrational, and downright #absurd beliefs that millions around the world still take seriously — from ancient #superstitions and #magicalthinking to modern-day #religiousdoctrines that contradict #reality.

I realized I didn't wear #yubikey on chain on my neck for 8 days (because of circumstances). And this is absolutely record for me, it was never so long until now!
Does it mean I have a problem? :neofox_laugh_tears_256:

I have it on me now. I couldn't feel so... naked? without armor? anymore.

#nerd #MagicalThinking

@dr.andrealove

"Makary, RFK Jr., & MAHA want the appearance of science without the accountability."

Thats it right there..

#magicalThinking