JOHNSTONE

"When you’re talking about human interaction, which is what art is at its very nature, it absolutely does matter if there’s someone on the other end of it." Reading by Tim Foley.

It’s an absolutely specious claim that artificial superintelligence will benefit everyone. Humanity’s problems are not caused by a lack of intelligence, our problems are caused by greedy plutocrats like Zuckerberg. It’s like a serial killer telling us we can stop serial killing by making serial killers smarter. Reading by Tim Foley.

The bread was designed in a lab to be furiously addictive, and the circuses track your preferences to serve you up all your favorite performances. Empire psychosis keeps us in a constant state of distraction and escapism, always scrambling to avoid the here and now like we're trying to climb out of our own skins. Reading by Tim Foley.

Transhumanism. Space colonization. Virtual reality. ASI. Immortality. These are all visions which revolve around escape. Escaping from the human condition. Escaping from our planet. Escaping from reality. Running, running, running away in a mad scramble to get anywhere but here. Reading by Tim Foley.

Doordash has reached a historic $131.5 million settlement to repay workers in New York City for wages the food delivery app stole from them over the last four years, which sounds like a big win for the little guy if you don't think about it too hard. Reading by Tim Foley.

I strongly disagree with the idea that it's unhelpful to bully celebrities about their position on Palestine. On the contrary, I think we should bully them more. Reading by Tim Foley.

The most obvious and imminent threat right now is not that artificial intelligence will outsmart us and escape our control, it’s that it is being fully controlled by humans who are stupid and evil. Reading by Tim Foley.

Some Words About This Whole Caitlin Johnstone Project by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

I still believe humanity is headed toward a mass awakening, as unfashionable as that is to admit here in the late 2020s. Reading by Tim Foley.

"Not everyone will remember it but there was a time when this was almost impossible to imagine." Reading by Tim Foley.

"This is a Trump-appointed US government official knowingly lying to the public so they will continue to support Israel’s US-backed abuses of the Palestinian people." Reading by Tim Foley.

As American rapper Macklemore becomes a frontline for renewed mainstream discourse about Israeli atrocities in Gaza, Israel apologists have been falling all over themselves to circulate the demonstrably false narrative that the artist has a history of antisemitic behavior. Reading by Tim Foley.