Month: December 2025

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The Politics Of Superintelligence

Fernando Kaskais

Andreion De Castro for Noema Magazine Today’s tech “prophets” push a narrative that God-like artificial superintelligence is inevitable, and only they can ensure humanity’s safety from their creations. By James O’Sullivan – lectures in the School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork, where his work explores the intersection of technology and culture. The machines are coming for us, or so we’re told. Not today, but soon enough that we must seemingly reorganize civilization around their arrival. In boardrooms, lecture theatres, parliamentary hearings and breathless tech journalism, the specter of superintelligence increasingly haunts our discourse. It’s often framed as … Continue reading The Politics Of Superintelligence

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Europe Is Dying

Fernando Kaskais

By J.B. Shurk European civilization is dying.  The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy makes this clear.  It has squandered its post-WWII economic and military assistance from the United States by investing in centralized, socialist bureaucracies and expansive welfare States.  By chasing the “climate change” con as a means for European governments to justify total control over the drivers of economic growth, European nations have forsaken cheap energy exploration, private entrepreneurship, and technological innovation.  By depending upon the United States to defend its territorial interests, European nations have destroyed their military capabilities.   In an effort to “juice” their economies with cheap labor and artificial demographic growth, European … Continue reading Europe Is Dying

Brain, Curiositys, Living, Media&Culture, PsychologyLeave a comment

Why are we curious about some things and indifferent to others?

Fernando Kaskais

Photo by Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Many of us crave trivial details while ignoring much of the world around us. Research helps explain this selective curiosity by Tommy Blanchard is a cognitive scientist based in Massachusetts, US. He writes Cognitive Wonderland, a newsletter about the mind, science and philosophy. We are curious creatures. Not (just) strange, but eager for knowledge. We spend much of our waking lives seeking out and consuming information in some form or another: watching television, listening to podcasts, reading books or online articles, or prying the latest office gossip out of a co-worker. While some of this information is no doubt … Continue reading Why are we curious about some things and indifferent to others?

Bizarre, Freak U.S.A, Military, Politics, WarLeave a comment

Trump’s Aggression Toward Venezuela Should Be Setting Off Alarm Bells

Fernando Kaskais

Shutterstock It’s looking a lot like the run-up to the Iraq war — only this time, the allegations are even more bogus and easily disproven. By Farrah Hassen  President Trump promised “no new wars,” but his aggression against Venezuela is the exact opposite. The U.S. military has been blowing up alleged “drug boats” near Venezuela that have killed at least 83 people. The UN has condemned these unprovoked strikes as unlawful extrajudicial executions. Yet President Trump has said the U.S. may “very soon” expand this campaign to Venezuelan territory. Meanwhile, the USS Gerald R. Ford is stationed off the coast of Venezuela and Trump has ordered the … Continue reading Trump’s Aggression Toward Venezuela Should Be Setting Off Alarm Bells

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Verbo

Fernando Kaskais

FERNANDO KASKAIS Talvez devesse mudar de perspectiva; olhar para os humanos não como “substantivos”, mas como “verbos”, constantemente conjugados. Eventos em movimento, como uma brisa, uma chama ou uma onda, que não precisam de ser definidos. As personalidades não são fixas, mas uma mistura fervilhante de corpo e respiração, memória e humor, pensamentos e percepções em constante transformação, entrelaçadas com o resto do mundo num padrão irrepetível. https://kaskaisphotos.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/verbo/ F. Kaskais Web Guru Continue reading Verbo

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How to Ruin a Generation: Give Everyone Smartphones

Fernando Kaskais

Image Credit: Ellionn – Adobe Stock What is all of this digital content doing to the souls of kids? To everyone? Peter Biles  We tend to associate heavy smartphone and internet use with negative mental health outcomes, as we should, but what about the spiritual side effects of the technology? What is social media, pornography, and the litanies of short-form content doing to the souls of kids? To everyone? Jonathan Haidt, the social psychologist at New York University, offered us a frightening proposition to the question in a new essay at The Free Press, later published at his Substack, After Babel. Haidt references a trend to ask … Continue reading How to Ruin a Generation: Give Everyone Smartphones

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Did the Draconian Lockdowns Kill More People than Covid-19?

Fernando Kaskais

By Peter C. Gøtzsche   People familiar with respiratory viruses know it is impossible to lock out such viruses by locking down the society. Yet, in virtually all countries, the politicians panicked to such an extent that, two months into the COVID-19 pandemic, I dubbed it the COVID-19 panic.1 The lockdowns were foolish and illogical. Denmark closed its borders with Germany and Sweden when we had more coronavirus than they had. Golf was forbidden, which led to the absurdity that you were allowed to walk on the fairways if you didn’t look like a golfer. Tennis courts were closed, although gatherings of four people … Continue reading Did the Draconian Lockdowns Kill More People than Covid-19?

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The existential balm of seeing yourself as a verb, not a noun

Fernando Kaskais

Photo by HumanizerAV/Getty bY Eric Jannazzo, clinical psychologist, is a licensed clinical psychologist working in private practice in Seattle, US. He writes a Substack newsletter on death, selfhood, meaning, and the weird task of being a person. In the therapy room, I’ve seen how rethinking what we are – and what it means to ‘be dead’ – can lighten our fears I try to keep the initial chat brief. If someone’s interested in working with me, and I have room to bring someone into my therapy practice, I suggest we connect by phone and do a preliminary exploration of the fit. After … Continue reading The existential balm of seeing yourself as a verb, not a noun

Big Banks, Manipulation, Money, Politics, ZionismLeave a comment

Overlords: How the Rothschilds and BlackRock Control the World Around Us

Fernando Kaskais

How the Banking Industry and Investment Owns Global Influence Over Nations, Markets, and Morality By JD Hall Modern men think governments run the world. They are wrong. The real throne sits in the shadows, built not of marble or gold, but of algorithms, capital flows, and a moral code enforced through markets instead of laws. BlackRock, the largest asset manager in human history, has quietly constructed a global system that shapes nations, disciplines corporations, and governs the economic lives of ordinary people with the same cold efficiency Scripture warned would one day define the final empire. If you want to … Continue reading Overlords: How the Rothschilds and BlackRock Control the World Around Us

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How DMT Converted Terence McKenna Into a Psychedelic Edge Runner

Fernando Kaskais

Strange Attractor by Martin Kondwani After a mind-bending trip at nineteen, McKenna spent his adult life transforming a molecule into a cultural sacrament. By: Graham St John It is a cold, damp evening on Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, in February 1966. A strange young man in a little black suit buttoned up to the throat mounts the steps and raps on the door at 2894. A wiry freak bids him entry. Held by his host as his great inspiration, the visitor is cast as “always the one to get there first, whatever it was, to do it, to reject it, and … Continue reading How DMT Converted Terence McKenna Into a Psychedelic Edge Runner