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R.U. Sirius

@rusirius.bsky.social
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Writer, Editor, Musician/Lyricist, Big DADA You remember MONDO 2000 so do I rusirius.bandcamp.com better still

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 1h
All around me people were puking up shit Put it on youtube — it could be a hit They cried and tugged and gouged at their eyes Pluck them out was not that surprising! But back to the operatic scene at hand The long and boring road from madness to bland ...
rusirius.bandcamp.com
Enlightenment Entitlement The Virtual Pretenderers, by R.U. Sirius & Various Bands
from the album Gimme Helter
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 1h
got the word from the Bolshevik shaman Who thinks he’s also a Hindu Brahmin Drank Iboga from a patented cup I just shrugged and said “Cool what’s for supper”
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 3h
Gimme Helter references Gimme Shelter Helter Skelter (Beatles) Helter Skelter (Manson fam) Helter Stupid Negativland.. mondo piece Mondo Vanilli (w. Leary) meet Reznor at 10050 Cielo Drive Nothing Records pays for studio recording of "Gimme Helter" +album Only Marilyn Manson survives Nothing cut
lennyflatley.substack.com
The Uses of Manson
Murder, acid, and black magic in the sixties and today
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 3h
Mondo house by @bartnagel.bsky.social
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Shatter 🅅 𓅃⭐ @shatter.bsky.social · 3h
Cyber goth are better known as Rivetheads. It's a sub group of industrial, not traditional Goth. I'm fairly well versed in the culture. My old club
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 3h
"...as spearheaded by magazines like mondo 2000, not just a fan of cyberpunk fiction, that has some origins with cybergoth." I love our cybergoth rep. the house helped
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 3h
September 2025 The Deliria Kingdom begins its reign thank you for your attention to this mess
rusirius.bandcamp.com
Remastered The Smarter Kings Of Deliria R.U. Sirius & Phriendz, by R.U. Sirius & Various Bands
13 track album
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 3h
So there i was (here I still am) competing against the smothering kudzu-like slop, not to mention war, fascism and the president daydreaming out loud about a couple of Democratic Party voting USA cities getting nuked (LIVE TELEVISED EXECUTIONS! The Deliria will be televised
substack.com
SCP-3125 Eats My Soul
There is no Mondoid antimemetics division. Part 1 of a 3 part series
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 3h
... In a definite misunderstanding Yoginini contacts me I tell her I can't help you dear — maybe try Flea Flea invites her up to his place for wine and brie But he just won't get behind the branded tantric pee
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 3h
... "Unenlightened wretch you make me tired I live in perfect peace and you're fucking fired" The next thing you know Yoginini's giving lectures On how to stay positive -- her bodyguard is Hector Hector is a killer microdosing PCP And Yoginini Jones is selling branded tantric pee
rusirius.bandcamp.com
Gimme Helter, by R.U. Sirius & Various Bands
11 track album
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 3h
Enlightenment Entitlement Yoginini Jones has a private shaman She screams “don’t interrupt me” at her maid called Carmen Who's polishing the Paltrow vagina candle When Yoginini Jones flies off the handle Shouting "don't touch that talisman It awaits the sacred phallusman ...
rusirius.bandcamp.com
Enlightenment Entitlement The Virtual Pretenderers, by R.U. Sirius & Various Bands
from the album Gimme Helter
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 3h
To be is a verb to cum is a present To love in the ‘70s was a decadent peasant
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 4h
wired.com
Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 4h
boingboing.net
The FBI's online gallery of stolen art
The FBI National Stolen Art File lists more than 8,000 paintings, sculptures and other "culturally-significant property" that has found its way out of galleries, museums and private collections and in...
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 4h
fuck
arstechnica.com
HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service”
A combined service could lead to higher prices.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 4h
arstechnica.com
Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns
In renewed policy, pediatricians review the benefits of heating milk to kill germs.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 4h
arstechnica.com
Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand
Altering molecular handedness has implications for the origins of life.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 4h
arstechnica.com
TP-Link problems in US grow amid FCC router ban and four state lawsuits
TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US, still needs exemption from FCC ban.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 4h
arstechnica.com
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 4h
arstechnica.com
An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light
Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 4h
I Made It: Notes From Inside the Singularity shalashashka.substack.com/p/i-made-it-... I always find these "Culture Victory" pieces worth a read.
shalashashka.substack.com
I Made It: Notes From Inside the Singularity
On being wrong about AI, being right about abundance, and the future I was promised as a girl in Appalachia
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
MONDO Fruit Squeezers mimicked the Mondo logo
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lilly McKenna Shulgin Marlene Dobkin de Rios Eduardo Luna, Brand, Megatripolis... lots in here
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Worth a read "..Mondo 2000 gave the conjunction its most concentrated visual & editorial form... placed psychedelics, cyberpunk, hackers, music.. digital art & VR inside a single New Edge. Saturated collage & information overload recoded psychedelic print. The hacker became trickster or technoshaman
entheocene.com
Archaic Futures: Psychedelic Shamanism, Pangaean Entheobotany and the Cybernetic Counterculture, c. 1970–2000 | Pharmakon
During the 1980s and 1990s, a dispersed Euro-American counterculture reactivated the psychedelic project through the languages of shamanism, entheogen, Gaia…
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Masked or not it’s a work-in-progress Exquisite corpse was just a stage set Afterbirth of tragedy love under stress And the 1 percents’ “Hail fellow well met” listen to rusirius.bandcamp.com/album/the-de...
rusirius.bandcamp.com
The Debasement Tapes, by R.U. Sirius & Various Bands
8 track album
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A bag of dicks he makes that offer His father calls him a fuckin’ tosser Their Guy Fawkes masks have come undone Girlfriend’s shouting HERE COMES EVERYONE! rusirius.bandcamp.com/track/candys...
rusirius.bandcamp.com
Candy's Splattered On Chaos Street. The Virtual Pretenderers, by R.U. Sirius & Various Bands
from the album The Debasement Tapes
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
SCP-3125 Eats My Soul rusirius1.substack.com/p/scp-3125-e... Hey, I got a surrealist papal self-indulgence
rusirius1.substack.com
SCP-3125 Eats My Soul
There is no Mondoid antimemetics division. Part 1 of a 3 part series
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"AI agents don’t go rogue. That’s something only humans do. Nevertheless, a New York Times article—representative of much news coverage of—described an OpenAI hacking as 'AI bots going rogue and independently spearheading a cyberattack.'"
singularityhub.com
The ‘WarGames’ Problem: Computer Science Has Long Understood What It Takes to Keep AI Under Control
The AI hacking events involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google underscore lessons that draw on years of computer science research.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
theguardian.com
‘Cancer is tripling and will keep increasing’: first African to lead global action against disease ready for battle
With cancer cases rising fastest in poorer countries, Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, president-elect of the Union for International Cancer Control, says Africa needs investment in research, diagnosis and pre...
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
theguardian.com
Why Arturo Béjar left Meta – and blew the whistle: ‘I don’t recall Mark ever being empathetic’
Béjar’s daughter was 14 when she told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe. So when he became part of Meta’s ‘wellbeing team’, he knew he had to speak out – and his testimony cost it billions
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
theguardian.com
LA officials document first case of a rabid raccoon in more than 50 years
Four people and a dog may have been exposed to rabies from the animal, Los Angeles public health officials say
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
qntm.org/braid
qntm.org
Time travel in Braid
I bought Braid on the promise of lavish visuals and neat puzzles with temporal mechanics, and on this basis I was rewarded. I found some frustration with the controls, which I eventually traced to dod...
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
seen on fbook this morning
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Being an Alchemical Formula to Rip a Hole in the Fabric of Reality). Metzger had previously used the phrase on record; in a 1996 Mondo interview, he noted that "Disinformation is my little spell, my alchemical formula to rip a hole in the fabric of reality." hole ripped. scary monsters emerged
ieeexplore.ieee.org
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Long before glossy tech journalism degenerated into an endless parade of press releases for venture capitalists and valuation charts, Mondo 2000 stood as the glitter-drenched, drug-dusted lighthouse of 1990s cyber-counterculture. The magazine was actually the third iteration of a chaotic..."
hellacliques.com
How Mondo 2000 Predicted the Cyberpunk Dystopia It Fell Victim To - Creative Blog
Back to Cyberpunk Articles Back to the Cyberpunk Clique How Mondo 2000 Predicted the Cyberpunk Dystopia It Fell Victim To by Hella CliquesOctober 7, 2026 Long before glossy tech journalism […]
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
blog.google
EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model optimized for privacy-first use cases
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh yeah.... thanks
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
cedana.com
Tokens to GPUs Calculator | Cedana
Convert a token volume into a GPU count. Enter tokens per day, month, or year and pick a model; the calculator returns how many A100, H100, or B200 GPUs that works out to, with a sourced uncertainty r...
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
ambrook.com/offrange/sup...
ambrook.com
Southern Olive Oil
As climates shift and traditional growing regions suffer, the American South has potential to be the next global olive oil source.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shared by @rudyrucker.bsky.social this morning on fbook he writes "This is the weirdest thing I've seen in quite a while. The world is going crazy. Claude 5.5 made a video attacking the idea of AI. It's incredibly slick, all internally generated. What the f*ck?"
youtube.com
Claude Opus 5.5 Made a Music Video About AI Taking Over | The End Of The Show
YouTube video by Imaginative Prompting
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Rage against the scrying fools Ragged mobs rhapsodize drool Posthumous works fondling his navel Explore the edifice then set the table Listen to...
rusirius.bandcamp.com
The Debasement Tapes, by R.U. Sirius & Various Bands
8 track album
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"r.u. sirius got the editor-in-chief job by showing his interviewer a web site featuring an interview with charles manson's webmaster. the money behind gettingit was webpower, a florida company known for interactive porn." I am coded in sin! (not sure why I'm seeing this today
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Gettingit.com (1999 - 2000) :: rip.so
r.u. sirius got the editor-in-chief job by showing his interviewer a web site featuring an interview with charles manson's webmaster. the money behind gettingit was webpower, a florida company known f...
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
TDK demonstrates the world’s first direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror ... umm... wow? yikes? which Black Mirror episode?
tdk.com
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
could come in handy
flattensf.com
Flatten SF
The flattest walking or cycling route between any two places in San Francisco, and every route between it and the shortest one.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
gizmodo.com
The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting a Major Upgrade. But What Would Actually Surprise Physicists?
Some were disappointed at the lack of "new physics" from the LHC. Could forthcoming updates be the accelerator's redemption arc—assuming it needs one?
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
wired.com
Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead
In an era of increasingly sophisticated AI-fueled scams, a retro threat may be lurking in your mailbox.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
very acceptable
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm skeptical. Does the internet run? Is it not suffocating? Do tell
wired.com
The Internet Runs on Cats and Porn. It’s About to Get Cattier and Pornier
Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
boingboing.net
Ad for Huel meal replacement shakes banned in UK
A social media ad for "nutritionally complete" meal replacement shakes was banned by the UK's advertising watchdog over a suggestion the shakes can replace conventional food. Huel's ad, which ran…
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