I've always been fascinated by belief systems, whether spiritual, corporeal, ridiculous, or just batshit crazy. If you’re interested in any of this and love SF, check out Damien Walter’s video "The 7 science fiction novels that killed God"
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NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

Conservatism is the product of not having access to more sophisticated cognitive models of reality.

Fundamentalism is rejecting them when they are offered.

Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"

Science fiction is better at social science than any social science

There’s a reason we don’t teach abstinence-only driver’s ed. Let’s talk about the harm Republicans are about to do to comprehensive sex ed 🧪 skepchick.org/2025/10/trum...

Next-up on the Science Fiction channel

How science fiction rewrote the mythos of modernity

And how its awsome power has been abused by grifters, gurus, tech entrepreneurs and governments

TECHNOBULLSH*T

The secret history of science fiction

French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

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