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This Is Technopoly

Embedded into every tool is an ideological bias, and unless we continually re-evaluate new technologies, we may end up within a technopoly.

Just as apocalypse means revelation, so can fire be medicine and poison. “Fire medicine” confers benefits on individuals and communities.

If the universe is conducive to sentience rather than consciousness, then a scientific model for some even more fascinating phenomena emerges.

(Emre Öztürk)

Fears halted research on psychotropic compounds in the 60s. The Second Psychedelic Renaissance is now validating their psychological benefits.

To address rising atomization and alienation, we must account for radical inadequacy and experiment with more totalizing communities.

(Zach Vessels)

Emotional labor is common to historically underpaid jobs held mostly by women. How will the rise of automation change the way it’s valued?