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Cambria Zeitgeist (Feb 2026) (2)

AI maggots feasting on social media slop hatching into AI mosquito drone swarms dispersing flubola.

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What's Happening? What's New? What's Evil?

Don't ask! Read below.

The AI Larval Mind Factory
AI maggots feed on social media slop. What will hatch?
The Evil Isn’t Coming; It’s Already Being Retweeted
Hannah Arendt went to Jerusalem in 1961 expecting to report on a monster. She found a middle manager instead—a bureaucrat who spoke in clichés, followed orders, and never thought about where the tr…
Stigmergy: the most important concept you’ve never heard of
Many of the concepts we rely on every day were once considered abstruse, technical, or even incomprehensible.

Stigmergism

'What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one.' — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

Although we are, thankfully, well out of the loop and have zero 'influence', out there are clever thoughtful writers and media shaping the new zeitgeist (see links below) well worth reading and following.

The People we actually read and follow:

Politics & World Affairs
Cory Doctorow, Shankar Narayan, Yascha Mounk,
The Free Press, Robert Reich, The Unreported Truth,
Racket News, Tina Brown, Will Hayward,
Nation.Cymru, The Daily Beast, Satirical Planet News,
Paul Murphy, Postmodern iconoclast,

Artificial Intelligence
Hybrid Horizons,
Enrique Dans,
Alberto Romero,

Worth Reading
Nasim Nicholas Taleb,
Scott Galloway,
Joan Westenberg,
The Writing Cooperative,
Wes O'Donnell.
Liminal Britain,

UFO's, Aliens and the Fairy Kingdom

The principal UFO and associated phenomena that have occurred in Celtic countries in the last 120 years. Of interest to those who are interested in a) Celtic history and folklore; b) increasing instances of UFO phenomena, especially those in Wales; c) evolving scientific and parapsychological research concerning the origins of such phenomena, in particular areas of research into fairy-lore and other associated mythology parallels.

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Check out the latest articles and curated lists below.

Read below our lists of articles by Medium writers we follow on topics of interest to our audience such as writing advice, politics, evil things happening in the world and more.

List: Artificial Intelligence AI | Curated by Cambria Stories | Medium
Artificial Intelligence AI · 114 stories on Medium

AI

List: Evil | Curated by Cambria Stories | Medium
Evil · 114 stories on Medium

Evil

List: Writing Advice | Curated by Cambria Stories | Medium
Writing Advice · 73 stories on Medium

Writing Advice

Editors note. The topics, content and opinions in linked articles are those of their authors. Read at your own discretion.

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