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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

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

Authoritarianism of the kind that Americans are used to condemning abroad has become increasingly normal in the United States.
The cult of personality was apparent as Donald Trump’s cabinet convened on Wednesday in a marathon session that could have embarrassed even a seasoned strongman, providing for three hours and 17 minutes of fawning television coverage.
There was Steve Witkoff, the president’s top envoy and negotiator, standing up in the increasingly gilded Cabinet Room, of…

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

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…

People who would never pay an iota of attention to horoscopes are asking AI to describe their personality and sharing these texts with a straight face saying it’s so spot on… 🤷

The cult vibes are strong.

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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