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AI, Psychedelics, and the New Illusion of Liberation: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/07/13/ai-psychedelics-and-the-new.html

Stalin’s 50th birthday celebration, in 1929, is considered the kickoff of his cult of personality.
Hitler’s 50th birthday military parade, in April 1939, was organized by the propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels for maximum grandeur, including a motorcade of 50 white limousines.
Five months later, Germany invaded Poland.
Kim Jong-un changed Loyalty Oath Day from 1 January to his birthday, 8 January.
This February, the Republican US representative Claudia Tenney of Ne…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Living Colour:
🎵 Cult of Personality
#LivingColour
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/living-colour-cult-of-personality-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/4WG7Z3bNM3iE4vCYcXsxNx

Some performances can be rewatched, this is a good example, Cult of Personality, Living Colour, live in Auburn, 1988. Unbelievably good. Also a fitting anthem in the Trump era.
https://youtu.be/cwwJkaT2PHM?si=wDU1gGhkf-U-ac_a

Perversely, this most unconventional of presidents
who ruined the party brand
reverted to "Republican Original",
taking the kind of action that would meet approval from George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Bolton and John McCain.
The America First wing, meanwhile, was mostly muted and subdued:
Trump’s cult of personality typically trumps differences over policy
– and that is not likely to change over a military operation that took plac…

I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.
- Albert Einstein, My Credo, 1932
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9nRbyxVx3o0&si=hFh2vIVO_wqKkydM