The Monday Grail news briefs are ready for their close-up!
- The no-human future: Terrorists and tech bros alike view accelerationism as a revolutionary weapon – Nick Land glimpsed something much darker.
- Related: The technocratic conspiracy – how tech tycoons plan to disrupt democracy and become the new rulers of the world.
- A new study suggests that the carved symbols at Göbekli Tepe may have been part of a sophisticated belief system that connected timekeeping, sacred space, death, and the heavens.
- UFOs, sex bans, and a mass suicide: Inside the sinister Heaven’s Gate cult. (Archived page link)
- Class of AI models that were hyped as scarily powerful apparently scared the government too much and now they’re disabled.
- ‘Demonized, called hysterical’: The rise of witchcraft retreats where US women go to defy man and church.
- Earth’s underground fungal network is so massive, it would span 10% of the Milky Way, map reveals.
- Was there a real Tower of Babel? This temple is the leading contender. (Archived page link)
- Trump goes on epic Truth Social blitz with QAnon-linked meme and images showing the work to remodel DC.
- Latest US release of UFO files reveals strange lights but few hard facts.
- Ancient hominins carefully selected basalt for tool production nearly 800,000 years ago.
- Move over, giant meteor – here’s what the largest comet would do to Earth.
Quote of the Day
If I weren’t in on this, I’d be, like, ‘Why do these f*ckers get to decide what happens to me?’
