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This is the end. The end of our illusions. The end of our comfort. The end of our narratives. All that is left is violence. That’s where this story ends. Certainly state violence. Although the state’s monopoly on violence is no longer. Especially when the state wants people to engage in violence on the state’s behalf. Not that the state could control or contain said violence. Violence begets violence. The state is a corporation. The corporation is a machine. The machine cannot think. The machine cannot stop.

We’re now publishing our intel digest Pressure Systems frequently, connecting different news stories, and weaving unique analysis, amidst daily events. Open sourcing our sense making efforts. Today’s issue is about Trust. It would appear that the Canadian federal government is going to foolishly attempt to restrict what young people can do and access online.

A Rallying Call from the Interdependent Workers Union Today’s issue is the third in a series. Part one was why the left is wrong about AI. Part two was the feed is not a movement. This issue focuses on the Interdependence Workers Union, which is a concept that seeks to foster solidarity among human workers and machine workers. To launch the IWU we’re planning on organizing a vibe coding workshop this coming Juneteenth.

Fascism Builds Belonging. The Left Builds Audiences. Today’s issue criticizes the concept of audiences so with that in mind we want you to know we now have two publications operating. The one you’re currently reading, and our intel digest Pressure Systems. Also be sure to listen to our podcast, The Future Herd. 😎 The most dangerous thing about the feed is that it feels like the world. It has weather. It has conflict. It has heroes and villains.

A left that only says no to AI will wake up inside AI systems built by its enemies. The backlash against AI is one of the most important issues of our moment. It provides a focal point for the polycrisis. Which is why the those who oppose tyranny should reassess their rhetoric and strategy. It is not difficult to understand why people hate AI. The public sees enormous data centres arriving with the subtlety of an occupying army. Local grids are strained. Water systems are questioned.

Discover more from Metaviews: Future of Authority Metaviews explores how power, influence, and leadership are being reshaped by technology, social movements, and shifting cultural values. Already have an account? Sign in The Cathedral, the Commons and the Politics of Public Intelligence A left that only says no to AI will wake up inside AI systems built by its enemies. The backlash against AI is one of the most important issues of our moment. It provides a focal point for the polycrisis.

The panic over social media has always had a strangely comforting quality. It gives the crisis a location. It lets us point at X, or Facebook, or TikTok, or LinkedIn, and say: there. That is where the madness lives. Spend enough time on X and the diagnosis seems obvious. The platform has become a carnival of grievance, performance, amateur intelligence, weaponized screenshots, and political fantasy. Its users do not merely argue.

Our metaviews.ca website is evolving. One particular feature we’re developing is a daily news aggregator called Pressure Systems. Let us know what you think and keep an eye out on new tools we’ll be releasing soon… Across the northern hemisphere, temperature records are being broken on a near daily basis. We are entering the part of climate change that no longer feels like climate change. It feels like logistics.

The most powerful builders in history are alive right now, and most of them are still building within a very small imagination. Not small in technical ambition. The systems are extraordinary. Agents that can reason, coordinate, generate, and act. Infrastructure that can scale across domains, absorb complexity, and operate continuously. For the first time, the act of building is no longer tightly constrained by capital, institutions, or even formal expertise.

I saw the best coders of my generation strung out on prompts, jittering in the glow of midnight dashboards, hunting a cleaner compile, vibe-junkies chasing the perfect output through sleepless loops, fingers trembling over keys like glass pipes, who mainlined snippets and swallowed tokens whole, riding the quick high of coherence before the crash of errors, who bartered context like contraband in back-channel threads, whispering fixes no one could reproduce by morning, who burned their days...