Jamaica Psychedelic Tourism Ifetayo Harvey — People of Color Psychedelic Collective The psychedelic industry, which purports to value healing and wellness, needs to build an infrastructure around reciprocity and reparations to live true to its values of wellness and healing in Jamaic...

"Is the aim of these retreats to make money, to heal people, or both? But to whom are these people being marketed, since the average Jamaican citizen cannot afford these high-priced retreats? Do they not deserve access to healing spaces as well?"

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You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why. YouTube video by Harvard Business Review

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We're Not Ready for Superintelligence YouTube video by AI In Context

We really aren't

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WHO Says Over 460 People Reportedly Killed At A Hospital Taken By Sudanese Paramilitary Forces The head of the U.N. health agency says more than 460 people were reportedly killed in a hospital in Sudan's western Darfur region.

More than 460 people were reportedly killed in a North Darfur hospital that was overrun by Sudanese paramilitary forces, the WHO said

As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow

'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

A Brief History of Halloween Isn’t Fun Anymore

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Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“

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Nine things you should know before entering the psychedelic industry On psychedelic gatekeepers, and other challenges

“Then imagine a fortified medieval town in the middle of the plain, called The Psychedelic Village. This is a very small group of people who have declared themselves the Elders and Gatekeepers of psychedelic culture.”

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Queer as Fungi: What Mushrooms Can Teach Us About Resistance and Community For powerful lessons about organizing and queer community, let’s look beneath our feet.

"Lichens—which are part fungi, part photosynthetic microorganisms—are best understood as living, interdependent communities... They teach us that our fixation on individualism is not only inaccurate biologically, it’s a dead end."
-Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
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Little Simz - Free (Official Audio) YouTube video by Little Simz

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Psychedelic therapy shows promise for trauma, but for communities of colour, it recalls a legacy of exploitation, leaving mistrust around racialized risks.

Register below to learn more about what happened in Lexington, Kentucky from the 40s to the 70s!

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During the Cold War, the CIA sponsored unethical drug experiments—often on incarcerated Black men—in pursuit of "mind control."

Fifty years later, we’re uncovering this hidden history and its lasting harm. Learn more through our website here: shorturl.at/U5g7Y

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Building a History: Uncovering Unethical Mind Control Research in Kentucky, Tue, May 27, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup Did you know that incarcerated Black men were experimented on for decades? From 1947 to 1974, the CIA used and exploited Black men in studies to test psychotropic drugs for

Did you know that incarcerated Black men were experimented on for decades? From 1947 to 1974, the CIA used and exploited Black men in studies to test psychedelic drugs for mind control.

Want to learn more about our research project attempting to uncover the truth? Sign up below!

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Ranking the Myths of the System YouTube video by Andrewism

The only tier list that I'm actually considering. @andrewsage.bsky.social

Prefigurite politics is a solid recommendation offered at the end of the video. I'm definitely going to learn more about it. How can we build a new society within the shell of the old?

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Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen | Nesrine Malik The more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

"Gaza has been deported to another dimension in which no rules apply." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why Psychedelic Healing is Bigger Than the Self Indigenous plant medicine is rooted in community, but Western retreats often turn it into an

How do we centre community in this work?

"As the use of plant medicines has developed within the wellness space, psychedelics have inevitably become commodified, because we cannot escape capitalism. We’re embedded in it."

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How Afro-Culinary Futurism Impacts the Food on Our Plates | The Social YouTube video by The Social CTV

Very proud of my brother Chef Bashir Munye for developing the first ever African Food Studies Centre in Canada! & introducing Afro-Culinary Futurism, a tool for cultural reclamation, economic empowerment, and sustainability. Learn more about it below

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I help people die – here’s what they’ve taught me about living | Alua Arthur YouTube video by Big Think

Gentle reminder that we're all going to die!... so what do you want to do before it happens?

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The importance of still showing up for life even when it feels like the world is crashing out. YouTube video by Dasia Sade

Another banger from @dasiasade.bsky.social reminding us to dance in the rain even when the world feels like it's coming to an end

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Notes on Psychedelic Nihilism When everything is a game, it's possible you might get played

"The tech industry likewise runs on a narrative that AI is merely revealing or passively promoting a natural "weirdness" or malleability in reality, in which AI acceleration is inevitable and evolutionary. In fact, this instability is being deliberately engineered"

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Beyond Stereotypes: Black Muslim Representation During this Black History Month and every day of the year, let's celebrate Black identities, including voices that bravely stand at the intersection of multiple vulnerabilities.

“The media’s the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power.” — Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)

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"This utopian discourse provides insight into the ways that global tech elites are instrumentalizing both psychedelics and artificial intelligence (AI) as tools in a broader world-building project that justifies increasing material inequality."

Essential read discussing the intersections of psychedelics, AI, and billionaire dystopian fantasies.

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Who Gets to Be Mentally Ill YouTube video by Foreign Man in a Foreign Land

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Exhausted Palestinians arrive in Gaza City to no homes, killed family Thousands of Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza for the second day, walking kilometres to reach home.

"In the crowds is a man with a white beard walking with determination alongside his family. In one hand, he carries a blanket and a few meagre possessions. In the other, he holds onto his adult son, who has Down Syndrome."

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You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What? For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...