Justin

Trying to make sense of our social metamorphosis. I also tweet at if you want something to meditate upon.

[Justin @epistemick]

@zerohedge Which war? I’ve lost count.

[Justin @epistemick]

@MarioNawfal The Trump Administration abducted the President of Venezuela. Can’t cry foul when you’re interfering in other countries.

[Rudolf Steiner @rudolfsteiner]

Ethical Individualism and the Great Paths to Freedom

The ancient paths to freedom—Stoicism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Christianity—have remained compelling because they provide a complete way of life consisting of a coherent set of principles, recognized practices, a developmental path, and an ideal human type. Stoicism has its virtues and disciplines, Taoism its principles of the Tao and cultivation of Wu-wei, Buddhism its Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path, and Christianity its teachings of Christ and spiritual growth.

Many modern nonreligious movements, such as Existentialism, Humanism, Positive Psychology, and Secular Mindfulness, offer valuable insights into freedom, authenticity, and human flourishing. Yet they generally lack the features that gave the ancient paths their enduring power: a unified set of principles, a recognized practitioner identity, a clear ideal person, and a systematic path of development.

The path of Ethical Individualism, derived from Rudolf Steiner's The Philosophy of Freedom, meets these same standards. It possesses a foundational text, a coherent body of Principles of Freedom, a developmental sequence of Steps to Freedom, a central Practice of Pure Thinking, a recognized practitioner identity—the Ethical Individualist—and an ideal human type, the Free Spirit. In this respect, it stands alongside the great paths of the past as a complete path to freedom.

Yet The Philosophy of Freedom is especially suited to the modern age of science. Unlike the older paths, which arose in religious or pre-scientific cultures, it does not require faith in revelation, adherence to tradition, or metaphysical assumptions. It begins with simple but rigorous observations of thinking itself and seeks to understand freedom through the same disciplined attention to experience that characterizes science. Its foundation is not authority, dogma, or inherited belief, but conscious observation of the activity of thought.

For an age that seeks knowledge rather than belief and individual validation rather than external authority, The Philosophy of Freedom offers a path to freedom that is at once modern, scientific, and deeply human. It preserves the completeness of the ancient paths while grounding freedom in the self-conscious activity of thinking appropriate to the age of individuality and science.
https://t.co/0z0Hj4hJka

#EthicalIndividualism
#PhilosophyOfFreedom
#Freedom
#FreeSpirit
#RudolfSteiner

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

⚠️ Between April 2024 and April 2025, U.S. beekeepers lost 55.6% of all managed colonies, the highest annual loss rate ever documented... So naturally, the Trump administration is shutting down the lab that studies why. It makes no sense.

That’s not policy. That’s sabotage.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Cops are monitoring people critical of data centers.

The FBI is monitoring people critical of data centers.

Congress is monitoring people critical of data centers.

I'm starting to think they really don't want us to be asking what all these data centers are actually for.

[Mind Prison @M1ndPrison]

It is probably a good idea to say everything that is on your mind right now, because the trajectory of civilization is such that you probably won't be able to much longer.

[Justin @epistemick]

Being against an environmental catastrophe does not equal being a luddite or either against AI. It means you care about the environment you live in.

[Justin @epistemick]

RIP freedom of speech and peaceful protest. If you dissent, you are an extremist.

What’s the definition of fascism again? 🤔

[Justin @epistemick]

What if the real issue is environmental destruction rather than being anti-tech?

I’m guessing the truth is irrelevant if rather than dialogue the default position taken by government is to label those with dissenting views as ‘extremists’.

[Justin @epistemick]

What if the real issue is environmental destruction rather than being anti-tech?

I’m guessing the truth is irrelevant if rather than dialogue the default position taken by government is to label those with dissenting views as ‘extremists’.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: FBI & DHS begin surveillance of domestic “anti-tech violent extremism” — including activists protesting data center construction & AI development.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

So true☹️

📹 vetoshkin.evgeniy

[Michael Krieger @LibertyBlitz]

They keeping admitting AI will make humans less necessary while at the same time forcing massive data centers everywhere which take electricity and water from humans.

And we aren’t supposed to find all of this the least bit suspicious?

[Michael Krieger @LibertyBlitz]

I guess it turns out “Making America Great Again” actually means bulldozing people’s homes for data centers to fuel the surveillance panopticon, spraying pesticides all over national forests and losing a war of choice in Iran.

[Justin @epistemick]

Did people actually think Trump was serious?

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Numerous people are now questioning the authenticity of the recently unclassified UFO material released under Donald Trump, with critics alleging portions may have been manipulated using CGI or visual effects. Others are calling the release a deliberate distraction aimed at diverting public attention from other major issues and events.

[Joe Allen @JOEBOTxyz]

Aliens are less of a threat than data-consuming, dehumanizing algorithms.

One is an obscure abstraction.

The other is a tangible imposition.

[Justin @epistemick]

They held a public meeting to ignore the public when there are still unanswered questions. There was a lack of push back on obviously dubious responses from project leaders. This was a done deal weeks ago.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 The AI gold rush just claimed 40,000 acres of Utah.

Box Elder County just approved a massive AI data center next to the already shrinking Great Salt Lake. Hundreds showed up to fight it. Commissioners walked into a back room and approved it on a livestream anyway.

The project is backed by Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary and would burn through more than double the energy the entire state of Utah uses in a year.

Locals have filed to put it to a vote in November, but need 5,000+ signatures to get the referendum on the ballot.

O'Leary on environmental concerns about the lake?

"Ridiculous."

They watched it get approved on a screen.

Source: CNN

[Justin @epistemick]

The meeting was a waste of time and an insult to the local community. If he had been there - and he wasn’t - he’d know these folk weren’t professionals, just pissed off locals who don’t want that ecological disaster in their back yard. Build it next to Kevin’s house.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Yes Kevin, everyone opposed to increased air pollution, light pollution, rising power bills, PFAS-tainted water, and military-backed broligarch land grabs disguised as “national security” is obviously just a “professional protester,” right?

Read the room, you tone-deaf clown.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

FWIW: ‘parsec’ is a measure of distance, not time, but that doesn’t make the Millennium Falcon’s Kessel Run any less impressive.

[The Architect. @TheMarcitect]

All these tech bro's telling us how great the future is going to be while simultaneously building the control grid that will eventually enslave humanity is surreal.
People are just lapping it up.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

“If we don’t build a surveillance panopticon, China will and we’ll all end up under their control”

Is a false choice predicated on fear, guarantees expanded internal authority, and demands Americans trade away their freedoms for a lose/lose scenario.

Reject the argument. ✋

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

A company funded by the CIA, used for predictive policing, mass data fusion, overseas targeting ops, and founded by Jeffrey Epstein's "great friend," is now responsible for keeping America’s food “safe.”

Totally normal. Nothing to see here.