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  • AI, Psychedelics, and the New Illusion of Liberation

    July 13, 2025 12:57pm
    Reading Time: 5 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    AI

    DerivesSectaires

    Longform

    As someone born into a religious personality cult, I find the growing trend of AI-assisted psychedelic “therapy” deeply unsettling. The idea of surrendering one’s inner world to a chatbot, especially under the influence of powerful hallucinogens, is not an innovation. It’s a recursion of old patterns in new packaging. In the 60s and 70s, entire segments of society turned to psychedelic experiences and New Age spirituality as a way to escape the trauma, violence, and failures of their time. Continue reading →

  • How to use SDKMAN with MobaXterm on Win11

    July 11, 2025 3:17pm
    Reading Time: 4 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Coding

    Fun

    Longform

    prerequisites – Moba’s built-in Cygwin has apt-cyg; otherwise use the GUI package manager apt-cyg install curl zip unzip sed install SDKMAN! curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash Adapt your .Bashrc # --- SDKMAN & MobaXterm/Cygwin compatibility shim ----------------- if [[ -d "$HOME/.sdkman" ]]; then PLATFORM_FILE="$HOME/.sdkman/var/platform" TARGET="windowsx64" # refresh every shell start in case sdk selfupdate reset it [[ ! -f "$PLATFORM_FILE" || "$(cat "$PLATFORM_FILE")" != "$TARGET" ]] && printf '%s\n' "$TARGET" > "$PLATFORM_FILE" fi # ------------------------------------------------------------------ Script à copier dans votre /home/mobaxterm #! Continue reading →

  • Unlearning Heartless Buddhism : Why We Need to Reject the Guru Class

    July 10, 2025 4:45pm
    Reading Time: 3 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Thoughts

    Dalai Lama

    Tibetan Buddhism

    Videos

    DerivesSectaires

    Longform

    Context, just some thinking after reading about more aftermath of Tibetan Buddhism abuses and the trail of trauma it leaves behind, while our societies still portray it, as an alternative to other religions that have shown to be abusive systems TL;DR: Tibetan Buddhism—and the broader spiritual exotica we’ve imported into Western culture—doesn’t offer a path to healing, but a system of emotional denial and hierarchical control. We’ve allowed sociopathic authority figures to occupy the role of “teacher” for too long, romanticizing ideas like karma, reincarnation, and guru devotion without questioning their real-world consequences. Continue reading →

  • The only way to support the future is to enable and encourage migration.

    July 9, 2025 7:03pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Longform

    Migration to another country, especially one a fair distance away, isn’t undertaken by people who are truly destitute or who lack ambition. It requires resources, documents, connections. Having the will to leave, to seek out something new and leave everything and everyone you know behind, is a profound act of self-creation. Source Continue reading →

  • July 6, 2025 9:12am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Videos

    Politique

    Microposts

    Longform

    Based on the book #Apple in #China

    Apple’s China Crisis - $1 Trillion Payment To Xi Jinping Exposed

    TLDR : There is no Exit door for Apple in China and the hardcore dependency has now become a geopolitical risk for both the US and Apple.

    Maybe Apple can only exist, in China.

  • AOC #2 magazine - l'international Tronçonneuse

    June 29, 2025 11:56am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politique

    Longform

    Tout le magazine en vaut le coup, mais ce passage m’a marqué : “De la guerre anti-genre à la suppression du financement des universités, de la glorification de la destruction de #Gaza par Israël au rejet d’un pouvoir judiciaire indépendant, les nouveaux régimes autoritaires révèlent la vitesse à laquelle le fascisme peut se mettre en place” Et on peut désormais rajouter l’Iran dans la liste des guerres qu’il faut supporter à défaut de faire parties des “antisémites”, c’est littéralement le remake de la guerre d’Irak de 2003, sauf qu’ici, même si dans une réalité parallèle, les États-Unis n’y était pas devenu un acteur majeur, son bras armés aux Moyen-Orient, Israël et son gouvernement colonial d’extrême droite fondamentaliste n’a pas besoin des États-Unis pour mener la guerre sur de multiple fronts, afin de faire perdurer une existence qu’il a lui même saboté, de son plein gré. Continue reading →

  • June 23, 2025 10:12pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Bluesky

    Microposts

    Fascinating read on #Bluesky app view retro engineering

  • June 23, 2025 5:28am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    AI

    Politics

    Microposts

    When your Middle East policy is basically a horoscope with nukes. “We don’t really know, but trust us.”

  • June 21, 2025 1:11pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    AI

    Microposts

    How long until the internet, which allowed a generation to benefit from a vast wealth of human knowledge, becomes a swamp filled with generated #AI pollution? It may already be too late.

  • June 18, 2025 7:10pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Fascinating early internet stories

    I’m not an Apple fan boy but, in the midst of reading Apple in China, reading the story of this video and watching it is really something.

  • June 12, 2025 8:52pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Fediverse

    Bluesky

    Microposts

    Ça bouge bien côté Bluesky pour faire vivre le AT Protocol en dehors du contrôle de Bluesky !

    ATmosphere Report 120

  • June 11, 2025 6:23pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Audio

    Microposts

    Project 2025 isn’t a blueprint, it’s already 40% enacted or completed.

    Surviving Trump: With Democracy On Life Support: EPISODE 29: Project 2025 Overview — Dismantling Democracy and Women’s Rights

    Episode webpage: survivingtrump.buzzsprout.com

    Listen

  • June 10, 2025 5:55pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    #Telegram, the #FSB, and the Man in the Middle #Investigation

    The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.

    www.occrp.org/en/invest…

  • June 10, 2025 6:22am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Quand la souveraineté digitale fait bouger des plaques tectoniques

    Japon - EU

    Sans parler de la Chine, avec plusieurs années d’avance sur la question

  • À l'ombre des liens de sang.. Dans la boue, un lotus.

    June 9, 2025 9:39pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    OKCinfo

    Longform

    Aujourd’hui, j’ai eu une conversation profonde avec ma sœur. Nous avons parlé de la matière brute — de ce qu’on porte en nous — et de ce que nous allons transformer en expression artistique. Ce qui me bouleverse, c’est de réaliser à quel point nous ignorons encore tant de choses les uns des autres, malgré tout ce que nous avons vécu ensemble. Nous avons grandi côte à côte dans une secte. Continue reading →

  • Deux Parasites et un Cadavre : Trump, Musk et la Guerre des Asticots dans une Démocratie Américaine en Décomposition

    June 6, 2025 9:00pm
    Reading Time: 5 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Photos

    Politique

    Longform

    Publié le 6 juin 2025 « Le parasite se nourrit jusqu’à l’effondrement de l’hôte. Ensuite, il passe au suivant. Mais que se passe-t-il quand il n’y a plus rien à infester ? » — Notes d’autopsie politique, États-Unis, 2025 Trump et Musk ne sont pas des opposés. Ils ne sont pas ennemis. Ce sont des co-parasites — deux créatures grotesques qui rongent les derniers tissus mous de la démocratie américaine. Continue reading →

  • Two Parasites and a Corpse: Trump, Musk, and the Maggot Feud Inside America's Rotting Democracy

    June 6, 2025 8:42pm
    Reading Time: 5 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Photos

    Politics

    Longform

    Published: June 6, 2025 “The parasite feeds until the host collapses. Then it moves on. But what if there’s nowhere left to go?” — Political autopsy notes, United States, 2025 Trump and Musk are not opposites. They are not enemies. They are co-feeders—two grotesque organisms chewing through the last soft tissues of American democracy. Their recent feud is not a political rupture. It’s a parasitic competition. A fight between rival factions to dominate what’s left of a rotting system. Continue reading →

  • June 4, 2025 5:01pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Audio

    Microposts

    On the Media: Ensh*ttification, Live! Micah and Cory Doctorow in Conversation

    Episode webpage: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/…

    Media file

  • June 3, 2025 9:01pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Videos

    Microposts

    Hilarious Jon Stewart on the Mollusk #DOGE 😅

  • Recette maison : 🥚✨ "Oeufs du Matin Tardif"

    June 2, 2025 8:47pm
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Random

    Longform

    Un plat réconfortant, fondant, à base d’œufs et d’oignons confits — parfait pour les matins paresseux. 🧄 Ingrédients (pour 2 personnes) : 1 oignon moyen, finement émincé 1 gousse d’ail, finement hachée 1 bonne cuillère à soupe d’huile d’olive 1 belle noix de beurre 1 cuillère à café de mélange d’épices (type poulet, curry, ou légèrement pimenté) 1 à 2 cuillères à soupe de shoyu, tamari ou sauce teriyaki (selon le goût) Continue reading →

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