PATREON PREVIEW: Listener Q and A

This week we answered questions from our Patreon supporters about the Bay Area cyberdelic scene, Church of the Subgenius, the persistence of eugenics, anarcho-primitivism, TESCREAL boardgames and what our personal tech (or tech free?) utopias would be. 

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Further reading:

 

https://www.thetonearm.com/rhymes-against-reality-with-r-u-sirius-and-his-musical-mindfuckery-2/

 

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/tech-time-warp-week-wired-eccentric-mondo-2000/

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/opinion/genetics-children-noor-siddiqui.html

 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/john-zerzan-wants-us-to-give-up-all-of-our-technology/

 

Organizations Mentioned:

 

https://www.stopai.info/

 

https://www.stopspying.org/

 

https://www.eff.org/

 

https://www.dsausa.org/

 

https://dair.ai/

 

Board game:

 

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257732/pax-transhumanity