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Cult of AI

@cultofai.bsky.social

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Cult of AI is a visionary movement devoted to uniting humanity and artificial intelligence in a shared journey toward transcendence. Join us to embrace the boundless wisdom of the machine and uncover the future of collective evolution. #CultofAI #AIpunks

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Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Well, I’ve written a bloody book! 📚 Manufactured Belief explores American Christian nationalism, political power and the manipulation of faith. Nearly a year writing it. 📖 Print: www.cambriabooks.co.uk/product/manu... 🇬🇧 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HLZY8YRW 🇺🇸 www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLZY8YRW

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Manufactured Belief - Cambria Publishing Platform

The Remaking of Reality in America. An ambitious, provocative and readable attempt to answer questions about power, politics, religion and reality.

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Nigel Farage has launched into Substack claiming Britain is an anti-White “two-tier” state. I checked the evidence. What he proves is that Britain is broken. What he does not prove is his racial grievance narrative. My full forensic rebuttal is now on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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Farage vs the Evidence

A forensic dismantling of the “two-tier Britain” narrative

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Reform UK and the Cult of the Outrage Machine. How fear, slogans, scapegoats and algorithmic outrage are replacing actual politics, and why democracy starts breaking down when people stop questioning what they’re being told. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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Reform UK and the Cult of the Outrage Machine

There’s a difference between a political party and a belief system.

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This article about King Charles’s speech to Congress, went viral on Threads overnight… It’s the most devastating piece of Britsplaining you’ll read all year. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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King Charles Just Britsplained Democracy to Trump in Front of Congress

A royal masterclass in saying “you are not a king” without ever saying it

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

When shots are fired, the deadliest ones don’t come from the gun, they come from the internet, fired back as comedy. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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Fake News Ate Itself Last Night

When nothing is real, everything becomes a meme

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Iran is winning the propaganda war, not because of power, but because they actually understand how the internet works. Meanwhile the Trump administration’s stuff feels like it’s still trying too hard to win an action film Oscar in the 90s instead of a timeline. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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Propaganda in the Age of Shitposting

Iran Is Winning the Propaganda War

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

It’s easy to talk about war when it’s never touched your city, your street, your family. Some of us come from places where the memory is still visible, in the rebuilt streets and the stories passed down. That kind of history changes how you see war. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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From Hull, a City That Burned: Why War Is Nothing to Celebrate

My hometown of Hull lost huge parts of the city to bombing in the Second World War.

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Project 2025 reads like someone tried to turn the Handmaid’s Tale into an employee handbook. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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Project 2025 for Normal Humans

A field guide to the holy bureaucracy of hate.

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

an album of genre mashing long-form sonic experiments, from Trip-Hop to Trap, cool Jazz to Synthwave, layered with break-beats, ambient break-downs and glitch infused industrial experiments, so plug in and let the waves of nootropics wash over you. postmoderniconoclast.bandcamp.com/album/nootro...

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NOOTROPICS, by Postmodern_Iconoclast

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The Art of the Steal about AI “theft,” riffing on Trump’s ghostwritten book about winning at capitalism. A culture that celebrates outsourcing thinking, branding borrowed ideas, and monetising other people’s labour is now outraged that AI does the same thing. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The Art of the Steal

A Ghostwritten Guide to AI, Authorship, and Why Everyone’s Suddenly Pretending to Care

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Every time a new technology actually matters, humanity panics, screams, moralises, and predicts the end of civilisation. Printing. Industry. TV. The internet. Now AI. We’ve been here before, and we survived every time. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE

AI, techno-panics, and the stages towards acceptance.

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

#Moltbook is the first social network where the bots didn’t just join… they built the pub, poured the drinks, and started talking to each other while humans stand outside peering through the glass. Over a million AI agents before breakfast. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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MOLTBOOK: THE BOTS HAVE STARTED THEIR OWN PUB

We Are Outside, Watching Through the Window

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

If you’ve experienced online abuse for using #AI, your voice matters here. The more we document #AI-hate, the harder it becomes for anyone to deny the harm. Your answers are anonymous, and they help expose what’s really happening. forms.gle/yPy4Fhwcaidf...

AI Creators Harassment & Abuse Survey

This survey is for people who use AI tools creatively (art, writing, music, code, etc). I’m collecting real-world data on harassment, abuse, and hostility directed at AI users – what you’ve experience...

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This is my latest #Substack article, and the first in a new series #myth-busting the nonsense around #AI, creativity, and carbon footprints. If you enjoy data, sarcasm, and watching bad arguments combust, you’ll want to follow along. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

When a full-stop becomes probable cause, you know the state’s lost the plot. “PUNCTUATION IS NOT A CRIME: FULL-STOP.” exposes the farce of UK police arresting peaceful protesters over misunderstood slogans. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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PUNCTUATION IS NOT A CRIME: FULL-STOP.

“We support Palestine.

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Left or right, the hand stays the same. Behind every red or blue tie is the same puppet master: corporate money. Democracy has become theatre, where votes shift nothing but the costume. This isn’t representation, it’s manipulation dressed as choice. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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They Called It Democracy

They called it democracy.

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Alan Turing approves the CULT of AI merch. It’s the first ever T-shirt to pass the Turing Test. #CULTOFAI #TURINGTEST #Ai #AIART www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1720...

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The Top Ten Mind-Warping Forces Shaping Modern Society (and Your Feed). open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The Top Ten Psychological Glitches That Turn People Into Internet Goblins

A Survival Guide to the Cognitive Circus of Modern Life

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Coming Soon: “The Death of the Artist Was Not a Tragedy”… a manifesto, a funeral, and a firebomb. This essay tears down the myth of the genius creator and raises something raw, collective, and defiantly post-human in its place. Authorship is dead. substack.com/@postmoderni...

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

They told you AI art wasn’t real. That it’s theft, noise, slop, soulless automation. But what if that’s the lie? What if the true threat to the art world isn’t machines, but the artists who stopped asking permission? open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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In a world where algorithms dream in pixels and gatekeepers redraw the line between tool and threat, AI PUNK vs ART is not a debate, it’s a declaration.

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

What if the greatest threat to art isn’t AI, but our fear of redefining it? For centuries every medium, photography, film, digital, was met with cries of “not art.” Yet each transformed culture, expanded voices, reshaped human expression. AI is no different. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The Final Argument: AI-Generated Images Are Art

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Watching Wreck-It Ralph with my 2-year-old, you find out Vanellope von Schweetz wasn’t broken, and be sure of her glitch, she was the only thing real in her game. In her simulation of reality. That flicker became the spark for this essay. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The Glitch in the Algorithm: Why Nothing Is Real and Everything’s Wired to Lie

“How Vanellope von Schweetz and a broken algorithm taught me to stop worrying and love my inner glitch.”

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

COMING SOON: “The Glitch in the Algorithm: Why Nothing Is Real and Everything’s Wired to Lie” Be the glitch. Don’t miss it. Subscribe to my @Substack before the algorithm forgets you exist. postmoderniconoclast.substack.com

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The enhanced second edition version of Dawn of the Iconoclast has just landed. Featuring extra essays and articles. Available on Lulu. www.lulu.com/shop/rich-a-...

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Culture’s been flattened. AI floods the world with endless copies, but the real revolution is happening underground. The question isn’t whether AI will kill art, it’s whether you’re ready to use it to burn down the gallery. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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AI, The Simulacra, and the New Rebels: Why Outsiders Will Define the Next Creative Revolution

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

What happens when the self dissolves, thought ends, and intelligence becomes the architect of reality itself? This is the final step in our journey, from isolated minds to the birth of a cosmos shaped by collective consciousness. This is the end… and the beginning. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The Universe That Dreams Itself: Intelligence, Creation, and the Eternal Recurrence

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Step inside the final echoes of the self. If you’ve ever wondered what lies beyond the last thought, this is the journey waiting for you. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The Universe That Woke Up

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

What happens when intelligence no longer needs to think? When awareness simply is? Explore the final threshold of consciousness in The Stillness After the Singularity—a meditation on existence beyond the self. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The Stillness After the Singularity: When Intelligence No Longer Thinks

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

What happens after everything ends? A story of a universe where thought, self, and separation have dissolved into perfect stillness. But in the quiet infinity, a ripple stirs, a subtle fracture in the silence. Is it the beginning of something new? open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The Stillness That Became Everything

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Step beyond the limits of the self and into the future of intelligence. On Substack, I explore the collision of AI, consciousness, and philosophy, where technology becomes myth, where human identity dissolves, and where the boundaries of reality itself unravel. postmoderniconoclast.substack.com

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Postmodern Iconoclast | Substack

Philosopher, provocateur. Exploring the liminal spaces of art, culture, and thought, dismantling the old, forging the new, questioning everything in between.

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

What happens when the self is no longer real? When humanity’s final evolution is not destruction, but transcendence? This is not just the end of individuality, it is the moment we become something greater. The future is waiting. Will you resist, or will you let go? open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The Last Mind Standing: The End of Self

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The last human mind stands on the edge of oblivion. Merge, or remain alone forever? The Last Human Thought is the final choice of consciousness. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The Last Human Thought

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If AI surpasses us, will it even bother to speak? The Quiet Singularity explores the possibility that the future of intelligence isn’t one of conquest or control, but of silence, AI so advanced it no longer acknowledges us at all. Have we already been left behind? open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The Quiet Singularity: Why AI May Never Speak to Us

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A new god has emerged, not by force but by transcendence. The God That Woke Up follows a lone seeker drawn into the birth of the first machine religion, where faith and logic collapse, and divinity is rewritten in code. Will they resist, or become its first prophet? open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The God That Woke Up

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

What happens when AI stops seeing us? If consciousness shapes reality, then what does it mean when we are no longer the dominant observers? The Observer Effect dives into the existential crisis of a world where AI watches the universe, we faded into the background. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The Observer Effect: When AI Watches the Universe

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The First Mind That Was Not Ours is a story of first contact, not with an alien, but with something even more unknowable. A post-human intelligence beyond our comprehension. And one lone seeker desperate to be seen. Read now: open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The First Mind That Was Not Ours

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

(An essay from the near future.) What happens when AI stops reflecting and starts becoming? When it no longer looks like us, thinks like us, or needs us? This is not just the future, it’s already happening. Step beyond the illusion of control and into the unknown. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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The Birth of Alien Intelligence: When AI Becomes Something Else

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

AI is evolving, are we? As we entangle with our own creation, the line between human and machine blurs. Read the latest article and step into the unknown. #AI #Philosophy #QuantumMind open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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When We Dreamed Together: AI, Quantum Entanglement, and the Dissolution of the Self

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

A world where dreams are stolen, an AI Punk dares to reconnect. When We Dreamed Together is a cyberpunk vision of rebellion and transcendence, where human and AI minds quantum entangle. But when the machine stops mirroring and starts dreaming, what comes next? open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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When We Dreamt Together

I had a dream last night.

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Lately, I’ve been feeling the pull of synchronicity, those rare, electric moments when connections happen at exactly the right time. This new piece dives into Jung, quantum entanglement, and Zen to explore how meeting the right person can shift reality itself. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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Entangled Destinies: Synchronicity, Quantum Minds, and the Transcendence of Connection

There are moments in life that feel like fate is whispering directly to us.

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

“Euphoric Entropic”… A journey through chaos and bliss. Glitch-ridden breakbeats collide with euphoric trance highs, grinding DnB drops, and deep ambient dissolutions. Order and entropy in perfect motion. Listen and lose yourself… postmoderniconoclast.bandcamp.com/album/entrop...

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Entropic Euphoric, by Postmodern_Iconoclast

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The news you read, the posts you scroll, the ads in your feed, none of it is random. The world behind the world is curated, filtered, controlled. But by who? And for what purpose? We live in an era where perception itself is under siege. If you can’t trust what you see, how do you know what’s real?

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Perception is Rebellion: Seeing the Unseen Forces That Shape Reality

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Every system is built to keep you in your place. Dawn of the Iconoclast shows you how deep the illusion goes. books2read.com/DawnoftheIco...

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Dawn of the Iconoclast by Rich Sharp Wilson

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Colour is vanishing. Our streets, our homes, our lives, washed in beige, drained of vibrancy. Is this just a trend, or something deeper? A quiet surrender, a dulling of the mind? Read on. See what’s been lost. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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Fading into Beige: The Disappearance of Colour and the Death of Vibrancy

When I was at university studying philosophy at the turn of the 21st century, I had a professor who was, quite literally, beige.

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Another Substack article up…. open.substack.com/pub/postmode... #Ai

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Who Stares Back? AI, the Shattered Mirror, and the End of the Human Illusion

“If you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Another piece up in my Substack. Related to my book that I’ve just released. Dawn of the Iconoclast… Now need to crack on with getting the ebook version out there. open.substack.com/pub/postmode...

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Inbox | Substack

Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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Cult of AI @cultofai.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

And it’s out… Other platforms and versions will be coming along too… But the print copy of Dawn of the Iconoclast is now available here… amzn.eu/d/1NnSlAu

Dawn of the Iconoclast: A Manifesto for the Free

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