2025-12-10 14:14:35
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
Sigh had to unfollow yet another Internet-person I’ve looked up to because they got completely weird about AI and it’s suddenly the only thing they can talk about.
It’s basically a cult. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Crush of Souls:
🎵 Cult of Two
#CrushofSouls
https://crushofsouls.bandcamp.com/track/cult-of-two
https://open.spotify.com/track/0oMLJz9FuxOvQGyyB1DSXZ
""Elements might endure, but the MAGA movement is at heart a cult of personality unlikely to outlast its singular leader for very long in its existing form. "
MAGA warned it has an expiration date: 'Trumpism will not last' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-maga-2675255750/
For a vibes-based cult of personality, it’s the kiss of death for a thought like “Trump killed Epstein” to become a mainstream refrain.
It’s an exit ramp from Trumpism.
4/
Statcounter: four months after its release, iOS 26 is in use by only about 15% of iPhone users; in January 2025, about 63% of users were on iOS 18 (Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac)
https://www.cultofmac.com/news/ios-26-adoption-struggles-with-iphone-users
I share much of these feelings. But unfortunately some loved ones have been sucked into the Trump Cult. It is a Cult. And when a loved one is sucked into a cult you do need to try to get them out.
But if they won't leave after showing every angle of how they are being lied to and brainwashed and they still want to follow the cult and support fascism, racism, misogyny and war crimes, then they can no longer be loved ones. And maybe need to be puched since they have become a Nazi (though I’m not a very good puncher) https://todon.eu/@PaulDitz/115832636818580869
New : French Judiciary Targets OKC Cult Leader Robert Spatz
https://chardonsbleus.org/en/french-judiciary-targets-okc-cult-leader-robert-spatz/#
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DebGrant
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam:
🎵 I Wonder If I Take You Home (feat. Full Force)
#LisaLisa #CultJam
https://deejaycuda.bandcamp.com/track/lisa-lisa-cult-jam-i-wonder-if-i-take-you-home-cuda-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3T2EHbivF5iEO9C9I2tDAJ
"No group in America has fallen further, faster than young men. When I began talking about this several years ago, that was a controversial statement, especially on the left, where many pathologize masculinity.
While the right has suggested the solution is to take women and non-white people back to the 1950s, the left’s view is that young men don’t have problems, they are the problem.
Neither attitude helps."
The political empire of Trump has always been built on vibes, not facts. He was never a successful businessman — he sucked at it, actually — but he •played• one on TV. People voted for the character on The Apprentice, the character in the QAnon posts, the collectively imagined Second Coming cult leader with ripped muscles, the generic racist whose granting of permission to indulge in collective cruelty offered a kind of euphoric bonding.
The facts are never what gave him power.
3/
‘A cult of death’ — Former Soviet dissident on Russia and authoritarianism's global rise: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/a-cult-of-death-former.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Living Colour:
🎵 Cult of Personality
#LivingColour
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/living-colour-cult-of-personality-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/1E4r8aMHDP3j2tq8atKzzt
Michail Chkhikvishvili,
a self-described cult leader who called himself “Commander Butcher”,
did not look like a Hollywood vision of a contemporary terrorist,
despite the bizarre, almost made-for-TV extremist actions he planned,
such as having people dressed as Santa Claus hand out poison candies on the streets of New York.
Chkhikvishvili appeared in a Brooklyn court last week as one might find an office IT tech:
close-cropped hair and black-rimmed glasses…
Capitalism is a death cult, and it's gone full mask off with the "AI" suicide cult.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=W1dIC287Zz0
Is This Crypto's Fimbulwinter? -- Political power may not be enough to save the crypto cult (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-this-cryptos-fimbulwinter
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p40#a260205p40
The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru
You know it’s a cult when it’s hard to leave//
#Cult
Den här studien skrivs det om i en stor andel av alla populärvetenskapliga böcker kring psykologi.
“Alarm Bells Went Off”: New Research Takes a Critical Look at the Landmark UFO Cult Study 'When Prophecy Fails' - https://thedebrief…
Funded by Omni Consumer Products (OCP), no doubt...
#RoboCop
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
Chiesa is a deserved cult hero.
#LFC
Before we walked over to the bar to ring in the new year last night, I polished off MASTERS OF ATLANTIS as my last book of 2025. I'd put it on my to-read list after this review ... whew, back in 2020?
https://slate.com/culture/2020/12/master…
The Tuesday Review
Join hosts James Josipovic, Callum Berry and Nathan Berry as they review all the latest films, discuss classic and cult favourites, as well as TV shows, video games, comicbooks, and more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/tuesda
Why Dan Campbell, Lions are still upset about 'The Dan Skipper Game' vs. Cowboys https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47182024/detroit-lions-2023-game-dallas-cowboys-dan-skipper-dan-campbell-tnf-thur…
New : French Judiciary Targets OKC Cult Leader Robert Spatz
https://chardonsbleus.org/en/french-judiciary-targets-okc-cult-leader-robert-spatz/#
Is MAGA a cult?
Ok, so here's something I don't talk about much. My high school girlfriend, who I married at 18, was a member of the LDS church. She got me involved in it because that was the only way that we could be together. I've been out for years now, but the experience set my life and my maturity back by a lot.
One of my favorite television moments of all time is when Stan asks his Mormon friend incredulously, "You mean you people know this story and you ST…
It’s ridiculously funny how much the Right is convinced that there’s a personality cult around Bill Fucking Clinton.
There wasn’t a personality cult around Bill Fucking Clinton in 1993. There sure as hell isn’t one NOW. Most living Democrats are probably not old enough to have ever voted for him. Millennials definitively didn’t.
I would bet money that Clinton was technically prosecutable. @…
Been playing Roots Devour (#Steam via CrossOver on #macOS
BE THE ELDRITCH HORROR YOU ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE
It's pretty great, put in 8 hours so far.
The general gist of the game is strategic, puzzle-like reveal of map levels - capturing cards of creatures and humans, wrapping them in your blood sucking vines, and generally conquering all.
When you get stuck, spend some of the blood to open a card pack and get random helper tools, effects, and critters.
Sounds are superb and visuals are very 𝒜𝐸𝒮𝒯𝐻𝐸𝒯𝐼𝒞 - if you dig Cult of the Lamb or Darkest Dungeon, you'll probably enjoy it.
Only downside is that there's an occasional indicator that English is not the primary language of the game developers. Very rarely you can see untranslated Chinese text on-screen, one or two oddities (uncapitalized, punctuation slightly off). This is unfortunately probably why they're getting a little beat up in the Steam reviews.
Honestly, in my 8 hours so far, I've noticed it like 3? 4? times tops so far. The game is so very much my jam, it really hasn't bothered me.
Some people are also reviewing it as "too linear" - they definitely gave up way too early. There are SECRETS, side areas, choices you can make, intentionally difficult areas that will take some thinking to unlock, etc.
Currently 10% off right now, give it a shot!
A UK court finds three men guilty of harassing BBC journalist Catrin Nye, who presented the 2023 podcast and doc A Very British Cult on the Lighthouse group (Neil Henderson/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86vg999g1zo
Preach @…, preach. Besides his toxic vanity, Fat Putin thought his own cult followers killed Rob Reiner.
▶️ He Doesn't Care About You.
https://youtube.com/watch?…
By now you’ve seen Trump’s big speech at Davos.
The slurring,
the confusing of Greenland and Iceland,
the nonsense about wind power,
and the racist smearing of Somalis before the whole world
—it was an unmitigated disaster.
But things got worse when Trump’s propagandists spun it all as a world-historical triumph:
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt unleashed an extraordinary stream of obsequious praise,
absurdly declaring that
…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Living Colour:
🎵 Cult of Personality
#LivingColour
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/living-colour-cult-of-personality-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/1E4r8aMHDP3j2tq8atKzzt
Fediverse Punk Month — We can grow something better!
We invest too much of our culture in centralized, for-profit, corporate social media platforms. These platforms enrich billionaires, expand surveillance, and fund the cult of capitalist war, all while trapping us with addictive algorithms that feed us mindless content. […]
— by @…<…
New : French Judiciary Targets OKC Cult Leader Robert Spatz
https://chardonsbleus.org/en/french-judiciary-targets-okc-cult-leader-robert-spatz/#
Alleged leader of cultlike 'Zizian' group pleads not guilty to federal gun charge (Justin Fenton/The Banner)
https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/zizian-group-cult-leader-not-guilty-plea-HNG2KNZIGVBLBN2X3XP3MEAXPE/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p128#a251125p128
A statement I have read today in a newspaper that is sooooo true: " Nobody joins a cult willingly. You think you’re joining a great movement".
""On paper, it was a Star Trek parody. It turned into a cult classic so beloved it was voted in 2013 by Trekers as the seventh greatest #StarTrek film ever made.
But what makes #GalaxyQuest brilliant isn't just the premise or the jokes or how well it respects the genre…
Just watched the film "Nuremberg" via Amazon last night.
Although set in the context of the Nuremberg trials of the Nazi leaders, it was definitely about Trump and Maga and the cult of "American Exceptionalism".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29567915/
The Crazed Love Of A Prehistoric Giant For A Ravishing Teen-Age Girl! - Eegah, The Giant 1962 - 4K - Cult Cinema Classics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMLrygdEqIw
Day two introduced again by Mad bitcoins .
Then the history of art on bitcoin includes satoshi and his original logo, ASCII art in the Blockchain, Cassius coins with scratch off keys, these pictured images of fake satoshi and 200 logos.
Exploded from there, trading cards, the rare Pepe's.
What makes it bitcoin art?
Symbology. The logo. Religious symbology. Is it a cult?
Memes. Memes catch and go in a fashion which is unpredictable and fits the whole history to a timeline.
Art builds culture and heros proliferate bitcoin culture for all.
Art traditionally goes up in value but none of it seems to outpace bitcoin itself.
Some is for sale in the gallery but it'll unlikely be a better but then 30 percent discount bitcoin today 😆
#bitfest #art #bitcoin
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam:
🎵 Head to Toe
#LisaLisaandCultJam
https://djmickeyknox.bandcamp.com/track/lisa-lisa-cult-jam-head-to-toe
https://open.spotify.com/track/5VzqFMyPERPObMOzZdELuK
Aggressive traders on Robinhood, whose stock has more than tripled in 2025, are central to the company's success, as critics liken the environment to a casino (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/robinhood-ceo-vlad-tenev-04e3ab28?st=r…
The best description of Brown University, from Bess Kalb. (And to be clear, the heirs and star's kids are invariably also in that carton.)
https://besskalb.substack.com/p/brown-america
I just found out that Uncle Floyd passed and now i'm supposed to sleep??
RIP Legend.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/floyd-vivino-dies-uncle-floyd-172616352.html
NOTHING is forever...
Here are tips for how to stop the latest MacOS upgrade now, and if you want, until the end of support comes years later.
Apple is good at supporting old stuff, but they're bound to get worse at it. Everything's changing faster and faster, and nefarious bad guys make security harder and harder.
#Security
Boot camp definitely had some cult-like brain washing elements. But for most of us those shattered months after entering the fleet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5m-RHS1fU0
The atmosphere of fear surrounding Trump’s cult of personality has kept Republicans from criticizing him
even when they think he’s wrong.
But consider the list of issues on which notable Republican officeholders and influencers are now breaking with Trump,
or at the very least fighting amongst themselves in ways that weaken his movement:
After months of resisting the release of the Epstein files, Trump faced a revolt from his own party in Congress,
where both ho…
I was just thinking about how the fact that #Musk named his AI "Grok" is evidence that he "reads sci-fi" in the same way he "plays video games." Like, he claims to do it but when it comes time to show the evidence it's clear he does not actually "grok" it.
Like... To grok something is to have a layer deeper than simply knowledge, but mathematically encoding statistical relationships between words is pretty obviously not even understanding much less qualifying as "groking" it. In the book, the ability to grok something is also the ability to annihilate that thing with a thought. Just pretending that an LLM actually *was* something that could become AGI (which it's not), this name would imply the AI would have the power to annihilate reality. That's bad. That's a bad name for an AI.
And why would a greedy fascist name something of his after something an anarchist communist space Jesus taught to the hippie cult he started? There are so many layers of facepalm to this. It's some kind of php-esque fractal of incompetence.
Like, there's no reason to talk about this but my brain does this to me sometimes and now it's your problem.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 Death Cult Zombie
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
Ricardo Mendes, born and raised within the Buddhist cult-like community Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), describes in his testimony how this community, initially founded on ideals of spirituality, communal living, and alternatives to Western society, gradually became a sectarian organization
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
Tibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam:
🎵 I Wonder If I Take You Home (feat. Full Force)
#LisaLisa #CultJam
https://deejaycuda.bandcamp.com/track/lisa-lisa-cult-jam-i-wonder-if-i-take-you-home-cuda-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3T2EHbivF5iEO9C9I2tDAJ
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Cult:
🎵 She Sells Sanctuary
#TheCult
https://djjorgearaujo.bandcamp.com/track/the-cult-she-sells-sanctuary-jorge-araujo-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qLZ866ZfaK0B0R5FIqXLG
Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
Ricardo Mendes, born and raised within the Buddhist cult-like community Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), describes in his testimony how this community, initially founded on ideals of spirituality, communal living, and alternatives to Western society, gradually became a sectarian organization
Tibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam:
🎵 I Wonder If I Take You Home (feat. Full Force)
#LisaLisa #CultJam
https://butterfactory.bandcamp.com/track/lisa-lisa-the-cult-jam-i-wonder-if-i-take-you-home-butter-factory-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3T2EHbivF5iEO9C9I2tDAJ
Ricardo Mendes, born and raised within the Buddhist cult-like community Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), describes in his testimony how this community, initially founded on ideals of spirituality, communal living, and alternatives to Western society, gradually became a sectarian organization
Tibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Cloud Cult:
🎵 Good Friend
#CloudCult
https://cloudcult.bandcamp.com/track/good-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/2G8RxpSbfGwhFhpSJYlw4U
The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Particle & Klinical & Orwell:
🎵 Cult Process (Orwell Bootleg)
#Particle #Klinical #Orwell
https://open.spotify.com/track/2b2FDH2l1jZjO0dB1dr9Jw
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Cloud Cult:
🎵 Good Friend
#CloudCult
https://cloudcult.bandcamp.com/track/good-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/2G8RxpSbfGwhFhpSJYlw4U
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam:
🎵 Let the Beat Hit 'Em
#LisaLisa #CultJam
https://eddieboom.bandcamp.com/track/let-the-beat-hitem-eddies-hot-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/41ujf14Vmg5aYK0kPiV50m