Since there are a lot of new folks around these parts, I thought I would mention where you can find me besides YouTube, since my uploads are pretty infrequent.
2) Substack - For my last video, I posted the entirety of the script in written form, broken into chunks, in the weeks leading up. I will also do shorter writing/reporting type stuff on current events/news and things that don't necessarily have a place a video essay. windblowncuriosities.substack.com/
3) Patreon - exclusives like playlists, podcast recs, movie/book roundups, full interviews from video essays, early/ad free access to videos, etc. patreon.com/TheStoriesWeTell303
4) Discord - got some lovely people in here; I check in every so often discord.gg/tzxsdx55qv
5) YouTube community page - posting longer updates, things that need more eyeballs
6) Instagram - mostly stories at this point; I don't really have the bandwidth to do short-form video right now, but maybe in the future. www.instagram.com/thestorieswetell303/
You can also email me; I read all of them, no guarantees on a reply though TheStoriesWeTell303@proton.me.
In 2026 I might try to do some more live-streaming and shorter videos, may even start a second channel to host these sorts of things (accepting suggestions on what to call it).
One of my favorite book publishers, Haymarket Books, is offering three e-books on immigration for FREE, check em out here and educate yourself! www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-free-ebooks-aboli… While you're at it consider purchasing another title to support a great indie publisher.
I recently read Unbuild Walls as research for my next video(s) and am going to check out one of the other two, although not sure which one. Anyone read either and have a recommendation?? // EDIT: update: I went with Border & Rule and she is already cooking
Btw - they also have an excellent (also free) collection of lectures/talks on their YouTube channel (@HaymarketBooks - livestream section) which I watch from time to time.
URGENT❗: We only have until FRIDAY to shut down the ICE funding bill in the Senate. We need their phones ringing off the hook: 813-213-3989, fftf.link/ICEFunding
Solidarity with all the Minnesotans organizing and participating in today's general strike. We talked about it in Chicago, y'all are actually doing it. The fascists wanted to make an example of you, and instead you're showing them that the power in collective action will always defeat the fragile tyranny of state-enforced violence. Repression begets resistance, and increased repression will bring even greater resistance. That's dialectics, baby.
Yeah, just wanted to shout out the inspiring stories from the twin cities. If you haven't been following, check out the articles linked below. So cheers to Minnesota, y'all are making the Midwest proud and providing some much-needed light in dark times. I hope every other city in the US takes notice.
As promised, here is my (a bit late) 2025 wrap-up playlist, "The Songs We Bumped in 2025". It's a bit all over the place and not organized to be listened to in order, but I think you'll find something you like. You can see the original on Spotify, or use the second link to view the playlist on other streaming platforms. Enjoy :)
This has been my biggest, most ambitious project to date. It is about religion and technology and eugenics and fraudsters and death cults and storytelling and the future and the past and utopia and dystopia and US-topia and interdependence and nature and imagination and the ineffability of the human experience.
What does the future hold for humanity? The question weighs heavy on many of our minds. In a moment of political turmoil, cultural nihilism, and increasingly isolating work, many of us are grasping for explanations; something, anything, to make sense of our world. To convince us that everything is going to be okay.
For most of human history, this vacuum has been filled with religious stories. Stories of eternal salvation or damnation. Stories of annihilation of the ego and nirvana and samsara. Stories that taught us what was right, what was wrong. Stories that tapped into the great cosmic mystery of life.
But as the Enlightenment era brought greater understanding of science and a focus on reason and facts, religious stories became harder to justify. This led Nietzsche to famously proclaimed, “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” Nietzsche was not celebrating our secularization, but rather mourning for the crisis of meaning and purpose that resulted from a declining belief in grand cosmic stories and rituals. “What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? … Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of [having killed God]?”
Digital technology, in a way, has always been a quasi-religious story. Founders like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were looked upon as messiahs of the information revolution. The internet and smartphones were worshipped as magical inventions that would connect humanity and allow us to communicate across difference. At its peak, Silicon Valley convinced us that the future was not something to fear, but something wondrous and imaginative, something the wackiest sci fi stories of the 20th century never predicted.
But the next generation of founders and the technologies they’ve ushered in have not lived up to the hype. Social media & wearable technology have become new forms of surveillance, the metaverse was a spectacular failure, artificial intelligence is used to enable genocide & develop autonomous killer robots, cryptocurrency enables frictionless corruption, LLMs are trained without permission on countless hours of human thought, art, labor & writing, in the process poisoning the environment and oppressing the disempowered.
The cracks in what venture capitalist Marc Andreessen lovingly called “the techno-capital machine” have widened into chasms, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that there is a limit to growth on our finite planet. The machine cannot, much to the chagrin of Andreessen, “spiral continuously upwards.”
Longtermism is a very silly philosophy that comes to bizarre conclusions, like claiming the destruction of the biosphere is actually a good thing, because wild animal lives are "worse than nothing on average."
By focusing on measurable "value," it is literally missing the forest for the trees.
In this post I analyze William MacAskill's book 'What We Owe The Future,' which is full of vague fears of values being "locked in" via unaligned AGI. But he doesn't seem to grasp that billionaires like Elon Musk are ALREADY "locking in" their regressive and misogynistic values
Not only is his analysis of problems facing humanity's future lazy and conspiratorial, his solutions are also unimaginably naive and dishonest.
There's a lot more to say on longtermism. I hope you'll read and enjoy the full piece! This is part 4 of 5 in my series on TESCREAL.
Sexual misconduct, fraud, utilitarianism, and a religious worship of AI. Join me in dissecting the dogma masquerading as morality of Silicon Valley's wealthiest men: effective altruism.
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Since there are a lot of new folks around these parts, I thought I would mention where you can find me besides YouTube, since my uploads are pretty infrequent.
1) Bluesky - a big part of how I stay informed and find trusted reporting on stories that I eventually cover in videos. bsky.app/profile/storieswetell303.bsky.social
2) Substack - For my last video, I posted the entirety of the script in written form, broken into chunks, in the weeks leading up. I will also do shorter writing/reporting type stuff on current events/news and things that don't necessarily have a place a video essay. windblowncuriosities.substack.com/
3) Patreon - exclusives like playlists, podcast recs, movie/book roundups, full interviews from video essays, early/ad free access to videos, etc. patreon.com/TheStoriesWeTell303
4) Discord - got some lovely people in here; I check in every so often discord.gg/tzxsdx55qv
5) YouTube community page - posting longer updates, things that need more eyeballs
6) Instagram - mostly stories at this point; I don't really have the bandwidth to do short-form video right now, but maybe in the future. www.instagram.com/thestorieswetell303/
You can also email me; I read all of them, no guarantees on a reply though TheStoriesWeTell303@proton.me.
In 2026 I might try to do some more live-streaming and shorter videos, may even start a second channel to host these sorts of things (accepting suggestions on what to call it).
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One of my favorite book publishers, Haymarket Books, is offering three e-books on immigration for FREE, check em out here and educate yourself! www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-free-ebooks-aboli… While you're at it consider purchasing another title to support a great indie publisher.
I recently read Unbuild Walls as research for my next video(s) and am going to check out one of the other two, although not sure which one. Anyone read either and have a recommendation?? // EDIT: update: I went with Border & Rule and she is already cooking
Btw - they also have an excellent (also free) collection of lectures/talks on their YouTube channel (@HaymarketBooks - livestream section) which I watch from time to time.
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URGENT❗: We only have until FRIDAY to shut down the ICE funding bill in the Senate. We need their phones ringing off the hook: 813-213-3989, fftf.link/ICEFunding
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Solidarity with all the Minnesotans organizing and participating in today's general strike. We talked about it in Chicago, y'all are actually doing it. The fascists wanted to make an example of you, and instead you're showing them that the power in collective action will always defeat the fragile tyranny of state-enforced violence. Repression begets resistance, and increased repression will bring even greater resistance. That's dialectics, baby.
Yeah, just wanted to shout out the inspiring stories from the twin cities. If you haven't been following, check out the articles linked below. So cheers to Minnesota, y'all are making the Midwest proud and providing some much-needed light in dark times. I hope every other city in the US takes notice.
inthesetimes.com/article/working-people-minnesota-…
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/from-minneapolis-iv…
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ice-vs…
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Which came first, the chicken or Marc Andreesen's head?
New vid is live. enjoy
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As promised, here is my (a bit late) 2025 wrap-up playlist, "The Songs We Bumped in 2025". It's a bit all over the place and not organized to be listened to in order, but I think you'll find something you like. You can see the original on Spotify, or use the second link to view the playlist on other streaming platforms. Enjoy :)
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/0voE0MChxwK010um753oVv?s…
Other: www.tunemymusic.com/share/4TZWMTfMvt
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Next video, out of context.
This has been my biggest, most ambitious project to date. It is about religion and technology and eugenics and fraudsters and death cults and storytelling and the future and the past and utopia and dystopia and US-topia and interdependence and nature and imagination and the ineffability of the human experience.
Watch it now on Patreon at any tier level: www.patreon.com/posts/bizarre-techno-148683828?utm…
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What does the future hold for humanity? The question weighs heavy on many of our minds. In a moment of political turmoil, cultural nihilism, and increasingly isolating work, many of us are grasping for explanations; something, anything, to make sense of our world. To convince us that everything is going to be okay.
For most of human history, this vacuum has been filled with religious stories. Stories of eternal salvation or damnation. Stories of annihilation of the ego and nirvana and samsara. Stories that taught us what was right, what was wrong. Stories that tapped into the great cosmic mystery of life.
But as the Enlightenment era brought greater understanding of science and a focus on reason and facts, religious stories became harder to justify. This led Nietzsche to famously proclaimed, “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” Nietzsche was not celebrating our secularization, but rather mourning for the crisis of meaning and purpose that resulted from a declining belief in grand cosmic stories and rituals. “What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? … Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of [having killed God]?”
Digital technology, in a way, has always been a quasi-religious story. Founders like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were looked upon as messiahs of the information revolution. The internet and smartphones were worshipped as magical inventions that would connect humanity and allow us to communicate across difference. At its peak, Silicon Valley convinced us that the future was not something to fear, but something wondrous and imaginative, something the wackiest sci fi stories of the 20th century never predicted.
But the next generation of founders and the technologies they’ve ushered in have not lived up to the hype. Social media & wearable technology have become new forms of surveillance, the metaverse was a spectacular failure, artificial intelligence is used to enable genocide & develop autonomous killer robots, cryptocurrency enables frictionless corruption, LLMs are trained without permission on countless hours of human thought, art, labor & writing, in the process poisoning the environment and oppressing the disempowered.
The cracks in what venture capitalist Marc Andreessen lovingly called “the techno-capital machine” have widened into chasms, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that there is a limit to growth on our finite planet. The machine cannot, much to the chagrin of Andreessen, “spiral continuously upwards.”
Or… can it?
Check out the full piece: windblowncuriosities.substack.com/p/divine-founder…
Also preview the first 8 minutes of the video essay on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/intro-for-video-148249842?ut…
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Longtermism is a very silly philosophy that comes to bizarre conclusions, like claiming the destruction of the biosphere is actually a good thing, because wild animal lives are "worse than nothing on average."
By focusing on measurable "value," it is literally missing the forest for the trees.
In this post I analyze William MacAskill's book 'What We Owe The Future,' which is full of vague fears of values being "locked in" via unaligned AGI. But he doesn't seem to grasp that billionaires like Elon Musk are ALREADY "locking in" their regressive and misogynistic values
Not only is his analysis of problems facing humanity's future lazy and conspiratorial, his solutions are also unimaginably naive and dishonest.
There's a lot more to say on longtermism. I hope you'll read and enjoy the full piece! This is part 4 of 5 in my series on TESCREAL.
windblowncuriosities.substack.com/p/longtermism-mi…
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Sexual misconduct, fraud, utilitarianism, and a religious worship of AI. Join me in dissecting the dogma masquerading as morality of Silicon Valley's wealthiest men: effective altruism.
open.substack.com/pub/windblowncuriosities/p/effec…
Note: the full post is available for paid subscribers only. It will eventually be included in my upcoming video, though.
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