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The COMPLEAT Broadcasts: Final Thoughts and Credits

The COMPLEAT Broadcasts: Final Thoughts and Credits
The COMPLEAT Broadcasts
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This is the final segment of the free podcast/post series of Ong’s Hat: COMPLEAT

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SUPERSTORY: La Virgen de Guadalupe en el Inframundo - Sacred Protection in High-Risk Worlds

More at: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidmetcalfe_how-do-sacred-symbols-function-inside-high-risk-activity-7490775977598423041-Am3u

Synthesizing research from Kendall Haven (DARPA’s Narrative Networks project), Carl Jung’s theory of synchronicity, Jeffrey Kripal’s concept of the Super Story, and Joseph Matheny’s transmedia ARG experiment (Ong’s Hat), Jose explored how human attention is hardwired by story structure. A powerful narrative environment organizes human perception, expectation, and search behavior so effectively that meaningful coincidences and anomalous events become active, trajectory-shaping realities for the participant.

Jose Herrera
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Chapel Perilous Audiobook Kickstarter Relaunched Today

Same rewards, updated target and timeline!! Help us get across the finish line.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chapelperilous/chapel-perilous-the-robert-anton-wilson-biography-audiobook


The Unseen Internet 💫
The Hacker that Wasn't
This month, allow me to offer you another questionable tale about Mondo 2000, the infamous 1990s magazine and scene that launched a specific brand of cyber-counterculture. For reasons that aren’t always clear to me, I am co-authoring a history of Mondo…
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Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment

Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/remembering-the-pre-google-web-when-search-was-an-experiment/


The first anti-AI protester to be jailed has a message for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta: ‘Regain your humanity’

The first anti-AI protester to be jailed has a message for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta: ‘Regain your humanity’

Wynd Kaufmyn, 69, chained and locked the front doors of OpenAI’s headquarters last year with members of StopAI

LINK: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/16/california-openai-protester-wynd-kaufman


Silicon Valley Dreams of Authoritarianism

Gil Durán’s new book, The Nerd Reich, catalogs how tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel took over America.

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images, Florencia Tan Jun/Web Summit via Sportsfile via Getty Images and Marco Bello/Getty Images.

LINK: https://slate.com/culture/2026/08/tech-silicon-valley-elon-musk-peter-thiel-trump-politics-fascism-gil-duran.html


Ed Zitron killed the god of AGI


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