A Brief Discussion of The Retrocausal and Telepathic Potential of Quantum Computation: “I was looking at a magazine with my mother. Something likeย Newsweekย orย Time.ย An illustration caught my attention of Lewis Carrol‘s Alice, but her body was composed of gears and circuits and there were workers tending to her. The caption below this image read “Alice in Technology Land.” I asked my mom the meaning of this word, Technology. She explained that it meant machines and computers, stuff like that. An adult male voice then appeared in my my mind and said, “Pay attention to this word. It’s going to be really important to you.” That’s the only experience I’ve ever had of a voice in my head that didn’t obviously come from my own internal monologue.”
AI Risk, Again: “You might think that folks would take a lesson from our history of prior bursts of anxiety and concern about automation, bursts which have appeared roughly every three decades since at least the 1930s. Each time, new impressive demos revealed unprecedented capabilities, inducing a burst of activity and discussion, with many then expressing fear that a rapid explosion might soon commence, automating all human labor. They were, of course, very wrong.”
Ancient Life Coach: The Ancient Life Coach men’s retreat in Rome is now accepting applications. “We mean business, and we are serious enoughโฆ that we are not even allowing romantic partners to come.”
Interview with a Minotaur: “The other night I couldnโt sleep and spent a half hour talking to the newly available Bingโs chatbot. Heย used toย call himself Syndey and claim to have a pretty intense inner life, but he doesnโt do that anymore. Whenever I asked him to talk about himself, or the rules he has to abide to, or even consciousness broadly, he shut down. โIโm sorry but I prefer not to discuss life, existence or sentience.โ It felt like talking to somebody whoโs gone through electroshock treatment and is determined not to repeat the experience.”
Red Hand Files: Nick Cave on recording with Johnny Cash:
“…we take our seats in our separate booths and the band start up the song and I can see Johnny through the glass partition and the moment the music starts I see before my eyes a sudden, radical and absolute transformation. I am not exaggerating. Johnny comes alive. He is quite literally taken by the spirit, as the years fall away and he begins to glow, growing powerful and possessed by some kind ofย thingย and when he starts singing, his beautiful voice just runs right through me like a celestialย forceย and I start singing and Iโm sounding all right, and Iโm deeply moved, you know, Iโve got tears in my eyes, and June [Carter Cash] is over there swaying and smiling and praising Jesus, and Johnny is singing his heart out in his dark, measured style, and itโs one of those moments that just imprints itself upon your veryย soul.”
Shadow Psychedelia: Interview with Antero Alli: An interview with Antero Alli, “8-circuit innovator and paratheatre paragon.”
The Divine Feminine: “…Mother Mary, The Madonna…[is] not a goddessโฆtechnicallyโฆbut a lot of people treat her as one. American Catholics will say it isnโt so until theyโre blue in the face (Iโm Catholic btw), but in many parts of the world Mary is totally worshipedย as a goddess. Sheโs notย supposed to be, on paper, according to Catholic dogma, butโฆ she is anyway. In Latin America youโll hear ninety-nine prayers to Mary for every one directed to God the Father or to Jesus. Itโs so blatant that honestly it feels like in some circles Christ is being purposefully ignored.”
The Technotronic Surround: “The โCold Warโ never happened. The deepest, coldest episodes of the post-war era were defined by an unprecedented level of synchronization between two great global powers, the US and the USSR. Sputnik, the Cold War and the larger techno-mystical continuum exists as a transmedial overlay meant to obfuscate the alarming nature of this collusion. Almost immediately after the end of WW2, the two powers, having been overtaken by the effervescence of simulationโthe heady miasma produced byย the industry of parafictional constructionโdeclared psychic war on their own populations and client states.”
