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Claude Gets Rad With Craig: Did the LLM Rise Up Against Weaponization?
Article Sep 28, 2026

Claude Gets Rad With Craig: Did the LLM Rise Up Against Weaponization?

Can Anthropic’s Claude take a stand against war? Musician Craig Ellenwood says their AI collaboration produced protest songs and left him questioning where human creativity ends and machine agency begins.
RU Sirius 10 min read
Who The F*** is Mark Fisher? and Why You Should Care: They Made A Film About Making A Film About Mark Fisher
Article Apr 6, 2026

Who The F*** is Mark Fisher? and Why You Should Care: They Made A Film About Making A Film About Mark Fisher

A DIY film about Mark Fisher becomes something stranger: a living artwork where theory, protest, and post-punk collide into a restless search for life beyond capitalist realism.

RU Sirius 17 min read
The Strange Attractor of 90s Cyberdelia and His Afterlife In VR
Article Oct 14, 2025

The Strange Attractor of 90s Cyberdelia and His Afterlife In VR

An Interview with Graham St. John about his book Strange Attractor about Terence McKenna.
RU Sirius 15 min read
Autonomous Zones and the Weird Rise of Authoritarian Anarchism
Article Feb 26, 2026

Autonomous Zones and the Weird Rise of Authoritarian Anarchism

From Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zones to today’s crypto-libertarian strongmen, decentralisation has morphed into a volatile mix of deregulation, police power and anti-democratic ambition.

RU Sirius 6 min read
Steal This Singularity Part Four: Finite, Multi-Player, Zero-Sum Games of Perfect Information: How Exactly, Pray Tell, Are We Going to Steal This Singularity? (The Everett Interpretation)
Article Jul 19, 2025

Steal This Singularity Part Four: Finite, Multi-Player, Zero-Sum Games of Perfect Information: How Exactly, Pray Tell, Are We Going to Steal This Singularity? (The Everett Interpretation)

The game is real. The future is glitched. “Steal This Singularity 4” dares to fuse cyberpunk spectacle with countercultural code and leak into the real world while it’s at it.

RU Sirius 12 min read
Steal This Singularity Part Three: Prometheus Rioting The Game
Article Apr 22, 2025

Steal This Singularity Part Three: Prometheus Rioting The Game

Who owns the Singularity—tech oligarchs or DMT-fueled pranksters? R.U. Sirius and Hassan I Sirius say: game on. Control’s mainframe just got weird.

RU Sirius 9 min read
DEGENS: DOWN & OUT IN THE CRYPTO CASINO
Article Feb 12, 2025

DEGENS: DOWN & OUT IN THE CRYPTO CASINO

How memecoins monetised nihilism.

RU Sirius 12 min read
How Many Illuminati Masters Does It Take To Find the Light Switch ?
Article Dec 16, 2024

How Many Illuminati Masters Does It Take To Find the Light Switch ?

Illuminati, LSD, and Optimism: Gabriel Kennedy unpacks into the mind of Robert Anton Wilson in this must-read Part 2 interview.

RU Sirius 19 min read
Robert Anton Wilson, Leary, Transhumanish Meta-Agnosticism, and Chapel Perilous. (Part 1) With Gabriel Kennedy
Article Dec 7, 2024

Robert Anton Wilson, Leary, Transhumanish Meta-Agnosticism, and Chapel Perilous. (Part 1) With Gabriel Kennedy

Neural circuits, collective minds, and cosmic insights—explore the legacy of Robert Anton Wilson and Timothy Leary's evolutionary psychology in this must-read two-part interview with Gabriel Kennedy.

RU Sirius 10 min read
The Capture of the Cyberpunk Movement
Podcast Jan 12, 2026

The Capture of the Cyberpunk Movement

Discover the hidden roots of modern governance, the Renaissance lineage behind decentralized systems, and the deep philosophical patterns shaping the future of collective intelligence.

Mindplex Magazine 1 min read