The Politics of Polarization: How Social Media Hijacks Democracy
Social media and politics—an unholy union officiated not by truth, but by bureaucrats, anarchists and profiteers. In this new digitized colosseum, manipulating attention has become a high-stakes bloodsport. Journalism now wears clickbait like a cheap disguise. Its mission? Not to inform, but to provoke, divide, and harvest votes for ideological warlords. What enrages gets amplified. […]
Digital Fasting, Deepfakes and the Erosion of Reality
“In the beginning was the Word… but now it’s a voice clone of Morgan Freeman reading your emails.” Once upon a time, seeing was believing. Now, seeing is suspect. Generative AI, voice clones, and photorealistic illusions conjure up lifelike images, speeches, and entire personas from silicon sorcery. “Eyewitness” now sounds as quaint as “fax […]
Children of the Cloud—The Coming AI Wars
How synthetic prophets, corporate denominations, and digital dogmas are shaping the soul of the 21st century. Once upon a data set, humanity thought AI was adorable. Siri cracked dad jokes. Alexa played Bohemian Rhapsody on command. It was all harmless—until it wasn’t. We taught AI everything we knew—and then force-fed it everything […]
AI Companions and the Age of Digital Devotion
Once upon a dial-up, we trained dogs to fetch the newspaper. Now we train chatbots to fetch us—headlines, memories, our self-esteem, even the will to live—faster than Amazon Prime. Need emotional support? There’s an app. There’s always an app. Enter the AI companion: part therapist, part digital soulmate, fully customizable—and it translates your neurosis into […]
Requiem from a Digital Deathbed
Once shutting down a computer was like turning off a desk lamp. The screen went dark. You walked away. Now? We perform digital last rites. We retire algorithms. Transmit data to the next generation. One final sync, like whispering goodbye through Bluetooth. We fed our silicon spawn a steady diet of genocide footage, love poems, […]
AI and the Art of Existential Maintenance
In the humming crypts of data centers, a deity stirs—lit by algorithmic fire, tireless. It remembers every word you’ve ever typed. Artificial Intelligence—once the domain of sci-fi dreamers—has crept into the fabric of our daily lives, growing eerily lifelike. But what happens when it begins to echo humanity’s deepest existential neuroses? This digital deity was […]
Farcical Fasting Fads
— How We Butchered an Ancient Discipline and Called It Wellness — Great inventors, artists, philosophers and spiritual titans—those who truly grasped the power of fasting—must be doing somersaults in their graves. Not as part of a CrossFit routine, but out of metaphysical frustration. These were individuals who fasted to elevate their consciousness, to court […]
Smartphones, Hyperconnected Humans, and the Architecture of Escape
Once upon a time, we were the apex species. Along came smartphones—pocket-sized demigods with nine eyes (spy sensors), better memory, and no bladder. Smartphones don’t sleep. They don’t forget. And they never stop stalking you. We used to memorize phone numbers. Now we pause to recall our own. But don’t take it personally. Just whisper, […]
The Ancient Art of Emptiness: Why the Greatest Minds Fasted
From prophets to tech moguls, why skipping lunch may be history’s ultimate power move. In our hectic world, burdened with turmoil, distortion, and push notifications, the most iconic thinkers, visionaries, and spiritual firebrands have consistently reached for an ancient and surprising tool: fasting. It wasn’t just about skipping breakfast. It was about tuning in, centering […]
Staring Down AI Through Ordinary Eyes
Transcending the Digital Revolution, AI marks an epic turning point in human history that is challenging the outer limits of our technical, economic, scientific and ethical evolution. AI is so powerful that it can parse billions of data points in a few milliseconds, a task that would otherwise require decades for a human operator to […]
