Garden Phantoms

I almost didn’t watch this because of the AI-looking content, but I am glad I did. This is some fine short-form storytelling.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mBWZn6afG_8

Il post-umanesimo andrebbe studiato a scuola, per ricordarci che non siamo i padroni del mondo ma viviamo assieme ad esso. Siamo tra le specie più a rischio poiché abbiamo alterato in maniera irreversibile la nostra ecologia e, quindi, le nostre interazioni con il dominio minerale, vegetale, e animale. Va da se che questo squilibrio generi conflitto, e la natura vince sempre.

#climatechange #posthumanism

The Maker or The Clay — An Arrow in the Void

The Maker or The Clay — An Arrow in the Void
by Stewart Stafford

A flatline sermon on cardiac arrhythmia,
Pulsing tone-beings, evolving past instinct.
A Tower of Babel of elevated thought
Or foundational hubris of divine architecture?

The sole creature knowingly stalked by time —
A trap witnessed, endured, then subverted,
Painfully lucid throughout the procedure,
To cast off the sentient, earthly millstone.

Jousting with transience via lanced invention,
Only what is conceived survives as legacy.
All fleshly matter dies, withers, and recycles;
Doing is being; the remnant is the void.

Synthetic progeny sired in silicon —
The technocrat archer reaims into the infinite.

© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.

"Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures"

https://paulopinto.xyz/wiki/mycology/entangled-life-merlin-sheldrake/

#mycology
#merlin-sheldrake
#philosophy
#ecology
#posthumanism
#distributed-cognition
#symbiosis
#psychedelics
#multispecies
#new-materialism

Technology and dominance in the recent
First Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas, 15 May 2026

* Chapter 3: TECHNOLOGY AND DOMINANCE
Some of the topics discussed are:
Automation, dignity of work
Protecting freedom against dependencies and commercialization
Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery
The normalization of war
Force without limits
The military-industrial complex
Weapons and artificial intelligence
The crisis of multilateralism
The need to disarm words
Justice >>
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html#CHAPTER_THREE

* Existential risk from artificial intelligence >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_intelligence

* Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, 1954 >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology
#humanism #human #performance #enhancement #RemainingHuman #transhumanism #PostHumanism #AI #algorithms #machines #governance #regulation #humanity #fallibility #automation #commercialisation #transformation #dehumanisation #slavery #CommonGood #war #multilateralism #justice #TechnologyAssessment #TA #TechnologicalWorldview #techne #technologies #ScientificConsensus #PublicSphere #FLI #risks #existence #nature #RawMaterials

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/489976/ai-successionism-transhumanism-posthumanism

#HackerNews #AI #Replacement #Transhumanism #Posthumanism #FutureTech #Humanity

Mycology in Contemporary Social, Political, and Philosophical Practices

https://paulopinto.xyz/wiki/mycology/mycology-in-the-contemporary-social-political-and-philosophical-practices/

#mycology #philosophy #politics #ecology #multispecies
#posthumanism #socialmovements
#environmentaljustice