Everywhere you look right now there’s one buzzword: AI. Movies have been made about it. TV cop shows use it to solve crimes. Artificial Intelligence is the latest tool that is supposed to cure society’s ills and give us more free time, but is that promise achievable today? What is AI? Artificial Intelligence is […]
this piece was originally a cornerstone commission for the C2 conference in Montreal The world, it is a-changing. We believe that influence is shifting away from the corporate few and into the countless hands of savvy consumers, nimble entrepreneurs, and those bold organizations who dare to collaborate, even with their competitors. We believe that […]
December 11, 2019
I took a controversial and largely feared hallucinogen to understand more about Near-Death Experiences. ongrief.fireside.fm and patreon.com/ongriefpod Earlier this year, I began podcasting. The subject of choice for my initial limited series podcast was something I had been interested in for years: cults and thought reform. I loved working on it, and one of the […]
September 19, 2019
On Legal Threats On Belief: A Podcast About Cults Episode 6: Large Group Awareness Training launches today Since March, I’ve been working on a limited series podcast called On Belief: A Podcast About Cults. It has been uniquely rewarding as a project: I have learned new things every day, I’ve been the recipient of endless generosity, […]
June 11, 2019
https://www.patreon.com/karengeier I have been deeply interested in cults and coercive mind control for years. To me, there is no greater violation than to take the very essence of someone’s mind from them, unless you’re doing it for the money. So, after years of trying to come up with an idea for a podcast that I […]
May 7, 2019
Some people can’t seem to help themselves when it comes to being assholes. One of those people is Australian Senator Fraser Anning, who in addition to blaming the Christchurch mass shooting on immigration, is a proud anti-gay, far-right Queensland politician who once invoked the “final solution” while discussing immigration. But the real reason Anning is […]
March 29, 2019
If you’ve watched the past three-plus years of the Donald Trump circus looking for some glimmer of hope he’ll get owned, some sign he’ll finally be proven to be an amoral con man and a fraud, I am here to disabuse you of that notion. Because no one with power or authority seems to understand […]
February 13, 2019
I Think About This a Lot is a series dedicated to private memes: images, videos, and other random trivia we are doomed to play forever on loop in our minds. My brain, perhaps like yours, has been permanently broken by the internet. So it should come as no surprise that one thing I can’t stop thinking […]
December 3, 2018
If someone said you could take a simple drug that in five hour’s time would not only reset your brain, erasing years of depressive and anxious feelings, but also generally lift your mood, seemingly permanently, would you do it? I did. I suffered from anxiety and resultant depression on and off for years, ever since […]
May 29, 2018
Mitch D. is the only good and pure thing in this world since you all started being assholes on the internet Listen up, dipshits: Barely any of you can review food. Sorry, but it’s true. No one cares that you got a 96 one time on an English test in your final year of High School. […]
March 8, 2018