(4) Europe’s Geo-Strategic Desperation: Takeaways from the Stubb-Store Call to Putin

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Accelerationism - Wikipedia

"Accelerationism is a range of ideologies that call for the use of capitalism and associated processes to create radical social transformations.[1] Broadly, accelerationism engages with antihumanism,[2][3] as well as posthumanism,[4] and seeks to accelerate desired tendencies within capitalism at the expense of negative ones, though variants differ greatly on which tendencies and if this will lead beyond capitalism or further into it."

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TESCREAL - Wikipedia

"According to critics of these philosophies, TESCREAL describes overlapping movements endorsed by prominent people in the tech industry to provide intellectual backing to pursue and prioritize projects including artificial general intelligence (AGI), life extension, and space colonization.[1][4][6] Science fiction author Charles Stross, using the example of space colonization, argued that the ideologies allow billionaires to pursue massive personal projects driven by a right-wing interpretation of science fiction by arguing that not to pursue such projects poses an existential risk to society.[7] Gebru and Torres write that, using the threat of extinction, TESCREALists can justify "attempts to build unscoped systems which are inherently unsafe".[1] Media scholar Ethan Zuckerman argues that by only considering goals that are valuable to the TESCREAL movement, futuristic projects with more immediate drawbacks, such as racial inequity, algorithmic bias, and environmental degradation, can be justified.[8]

Philosopher Yogi Hale Hendlin has argued that by both ignoring the human causes of societal problems and over-engineering solutions, TESCREALists ignore the context in which many problems arise.[9] Camille Sojit Pejcha wrote in Document Journal that TESCREAL is a tool for tech elites to concentrate power.[6] In The Washington Spectator, Dave Troy called TESCREAL an "ends justifies the means" movement that is antithetical to "democratic, inclusive, fair, patient, and just governance".[4] Gil Duran wrote that "TESCREAL", "authoritarian technocracy", and "techno-optimism" were phrases used in early 2024 to describe a new ideology emerging in the tech industry.[10]

Gebru, Torres, and others have likened TESCREAL to a secular religion due to its parallels to Christian theology and eschatology.[1][3][11][7][12] Writers in Current Affairs compared these philosophies and the ensuing techno-optimism to "any other monomaniacal faith... in which doubters are seen as enemies and beliefs are accepted without evidence". They argue pursuing TESCREAL would prevent an actual equitable shared[clarification needed] future.[1"

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Émile P. Torres - Wikipedia

"Émile P. Torres (born 2 July 1982), formerly known as Phil Torres, is an American philosopher, intellectual historian, activist, and podcast host. Their research focuses on eschatology, existential risk, and human extinction. Along with computer scientist Timnit Gebru, Torres coined the neologism "TESCREAL" to criticize what they see as a group of related philosophies: transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, and longtermism"

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I am a decelerationist and you are too

"I am a decelerationist and you are too
Posted on October 20, 2026"

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John Heron’s critique of the integrative spirituality initiative | P2P Foundation

"My critical commentary on the above:

We are, I believe, in the very earliest stage of an emerging global spiritual commons consisting of nodes of relatively emancipated spiritual belief and practice. OSIS with its own Source Code 1 is one such node in San Francisco. Our Centre here with its own Source Code 1 is another such node in New Zealand. And there are many others.

First point: If the OSIS node uses its own Source Codes 1 and 2 “to set up independent, open source integrative spirituality groups all over the world”, then it will simply create an OSIS empire, not an authentic global spiritual commons. The OSIS hierarchy of Codes 1 and 2 is so busy defining the basic parameters for the emergence of autonomous human spirituality that there is not much chance that such spirituality can arise in a really uncompromised form within those parameters, and OSIS will feed off the projected autonomy coming its way. It is as though OSIS is trying to second guess what the creativity of the ever-present origin (TEPO) will get up to, and then do its work for it. Get out of way I say and let TEPO get on co-creating the global spiritual commons in its own unpredictable way. The one thing that TEPO, with its love of innovation and variety, is least likely to do is to co-create the commons through Code 1 of just one node.

The challenge of the commons, it seems to me, is for the different Code 1s of the different nodes to learn to dialogue with each other. And this is a challenge not to be underestimated. The OSIS plan for the global spiritual commons is as if Linux code writers wanted to create a global operating system with Mac and Windows code writers but entirely in Linux terms.

Second point: One big problem with OSIS Source Code 1 is the inclusion of spiral dynamics. The theory is in considerable disarray."

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The Antichrist Has a Balance Sheet - by Chor Pharn

"A government may formally retain the right to make decisions while becoming increasingly dependent on private systems to assemble the information, identify the options and execute the resulting choices.

The machinery does not need to command. It can structure what commanding means.

And when a state becomes dependent on systems it cannot easily reproduce, the boundary between public authority and private technological capability begins to blur.

Thiel worries about a political leader who captures the machinery of civilisation.

But what if the machinery has already captured important parts of political life?

What if the state increasingly exercises sovereignty through systems it does not fully own, understand or control?

The Antichrist may not need to nationalise Silicon Valley.

He may simply negotiate a very attractive service agreement."

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The historical evolution of translocal civilizational infrastructures

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Papers | Seeds of Renaissance

"The papers set out one thesis in four steps: the crises we face, their shared root, why renewal is possible, and the path. Papers 1 and 2 give the overview; each of the others goes deep on one step, or brings the thesis to one field or idea."

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Announcing Seeds of Renaissance: the evolution of Second Renaissance | Seeds of Renaissance

"Seeds of Renaissance was created by the founders of Life Itself. Its stewards are Sylvie Shiwei Barbier, a ritual artist and co-founder of Life Itself, and Rufus Pollock, a researcher, writer and entrepreneur. Their commitment to seeding a renaissance is fused in love and a shared commitment to act with wisdom and care to bequeath a better world to the next generations, including their own children. "

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