$5 RAVE: Pasadena Summer Solstice (6/20)

Does Pasadena know how to throw a rave? It did in Project X "Pursuit of Happiness" (music video)

On the Summer Solstice of Saturday, June 20, 2026, from 7:00 to 10:00 pm the LAist is holding a rave at Remainders Creative Reuse. Total price of entry? $5.00 (five USD and 49 cent service fee).

Break out the rave gear and join Remainders Creative Reuse and LAist.com for a night of wild dancing, crafting, and community.

ALISON WONDERLAND trap, hip hop and bass DJ set in The Lab LA

(Maskevito) Rave Music + footage (mainly early 1990s house mix)

DJ Tekfor will be on hand all night bumping the 90’s rave jams and all the other hits. And there will be not one, not two, but three crafting stations with instructors:

1. Make Your Own Junk Journal with Sarena
2. Circle Weaving with Courtney
3. Paper Mâché Sculptures with Aspen

• TICKETS: Craft Rave at Remainders w/ LAist
• LOCATION:
• Remainders Creative Reuse
• 787 E. Washington Blvd.
• Pasadena (LA), CA 91104

Shop — Remainders Creative Reuse - Creative Space & Thrift Store

Classes — Remainders Creative Reuse - Creative Space Thrift Store

Tove Lo "Habits (Stay High)" - Hippie Sabotage Rave Remix

Can I sew my own outfit for EDC '27?

Already have a project in progress? Bring it along! Or if still looking for a spark, we’ll have a pop-up crafting table ready for everyone.

Whether a raver knits, collages, beads, sketches, or basketweaves, this is the perfect excuse to make something while soaking up the ravey 90’s vibes! Come as you are. (Bonus points will be awarded for 1990s-inspired outfits).

• PLAYLIST: Trip-Hop Vol. 2: Portishead/Massive Attack inspired mix [The Lounge Palace]

So get ready for a night of dancing, crafting, and fun. All ages. Families welcome. BYON (bring your own Narcan lol).

• Source: LAist.com

(Pepito Tequila) Trip Hop Meditation? When the DJ spins Portishead's "Wandering Star"

COMMENTS

• Is this serious?!?! How...for only FIVE bucks?!
• We wouldn't put anything past Larry Mantle or Pasadena's KPCC 89.3 FM and its long-running battle to seem more relevant than Madeleine Brand and Santa Monica's KCRW 88.9 FM.
• C'mon, everyone knows Larry is a [bleep]!
• That doesn't mean he doesn't put on a good show, what he claims is "the largest conversation in Los Angeles." Maybe NPR reporter Josie Huang wants to outdo science journalist... [Science bowl: Can NoHo… | KCRW]
• Who, Doualy Xaykaothao of NPR via KUNC?
• No, remember there was that Asian science journalist at KPCC and like the LA and Pasadena Weekly? She used to go to all sorts of parties, festivals, events, write about it, be on the radio all the time. Then KPCC booted her, KCRW picked her up? She lived in a small house in NoHo, the value of which kept going up, trapping her in LA.
• You mean Cary Harrison? He's over at KPFK (90.7 FM) on Friday morning, unless you mean Emily Kwong or these folks Honor Roll - Asian American Journalists Association? LMU on IG?
• Oh, you must mean radio turned sex star Sandra Tsing Loh!

Prostitution 'sexbot' doll factory, China

(Miracle Process) More than a doll, how Chinese craftsmanship is redefining intimacy

Industrial sexbot factory gives whole new meaning to "manufacturing consent"

I can't wait to make money for my daddy

Sex robots or "sexbots" are anthropomorphic [human-like] robotic sex dolls that have human-like movements or behaviors and some degree of artificial intelligence [1][2].

As of 2025, although elaborately instrumented sex dolls have been created by a number of inventors, no fully animated sex robots yet exist.

Simple devices have been created which can speak, make facial expressions, or respond to touch [3][4] and even carry babies to term if they get pregnant.

I blame myself...and Hollywood

There is controversy as to whether developing them would be morally justifiable [5][6].

In 2015, robot ethicist Kathleen Richardson called for a ban on the creation of anthropomorphic sex robots with concerns about normalizing relationships with machines and reinforcing female dehumanization [7][8][9].

Questions about their ethics, effects, and possible legal regulations have been discussed since then.

Lexicology

Elon Musk's Tesla is working on cheaper EBs (electric beings) and discount models for Mars. 

First robot pimp: prototype (Futurama)

Human people [as distinct from the nonhuman people/AI robots will one day no doubt be referred to] who are sexually attracted to sexbots are sometimes referred to as digisexuals [10] or robosexuals [11][12].

A person in "love" with a purchased vibrating phallic device is just called a nymphomaniac by the medical profession and a horndog or slamhound in the vernacular.

Sexbots with a male shape design may be referred to as malebots [13] or manbots [14]. Gender neutral terms for sex robots include pleasure bot [15] or sex droid [16].

Sexbots with a female shape design have been referred to as chick-bots [17] or fembots [18] or b*tchbots in some unsavory circles. More: sex robot

• Miracle Process; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Philippines gold artifacts, no mines

AI depictions should not be taken literally.

(Time forge Stories) BUTUAN, Philippines. This city served as the former capital of the Rajahnate of Butuan before 1001 until about 1521. The city used to be known during that time as the best in gold and boat manufacturing in the entire Philippine archipelago, having traded with places as far as Champa, Ming, Srivijaya, Majapahit, and the Bengali coasts. It is located at the northeastern part of the Agusan Valley, Mindanao, sprawling across the Agusan River. It is bounded to the north, west, and south by Agusan del Norte, to the east by Agusan del Sur, and to the northwest by Butuan Bay. More

FREE: Spring Festival Pasadena (5/24)

WHAT HAPPENED?

Flyer for the Village Spring Festival

It was a massive success with more than 2,000 guests. That means it will be back, and this may become its permanent location. It was formerly held biannually in Altadena behind Oh Happy Days Vegan Cafe and Rhythms of the Village by the secret pot shop that got raided. The Aztec Dancers dazzled as did the drum troop. There was a whole healing area with FREE massage, acupuncture, aromatherapy, reiki, yoga, an Aztec sound bath, and spiritual healing tents all in the service of healing the community. It is a very big campus, and the main stage was not the focus. There was a raw vegan chef (Henry Chukwurah of Lawndale at 310-628-8991) and various food trucks spread throughout, with lots of community service agencies and arts and crafts vendors. The dancing was all around the various music acts that followed a long jam by Onochie and Friends. This might be better as a multi-day event that goes deep into the evening like an Asian Night Market.

• Altadena Healing Hub: altadenahealinghub.janeapp.com
• 
  Winnie Chan Wang (heartcenter.la) did heart centered integrative wellness, which is available every Wednesday night at 7:00 pm (PT) in person and on Zoom. This is a FREE weekly gathering for healing, connection, and transformation. 2801 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91107 (in the back, down Wenger Alley).

Event details

FREE: Village Spring Festival (Muir High School, Pasadena) HEALING | JOY | UNITY | LET'S DANCE, EAT, AND SHOP TOGETHER.

The annual Spring Festival is back at a new location to support the Altadena, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, Foothills, and San Gabriel Valley community for a day of healing, joy, and unity.

• VILLAGE SPRING FESTIVAL
• SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2025, 1:00-7:00 PM
• JOHN MUIR HIGH SCHOOL
• 1905 LINCOLN AVE., PASADENA

✨ 50+ unique vendors: Explore a vibrant marketplace full of art, handmade crafts, clothes by local Altadena artisans

✨ Healing workshops

✨ Discover the magic of Rhythms Family Band led by the legendary Baba Onochie Chukwurah. Experience the magic as music, storytelling, and drama as they unite in a captivating performance

✨ Food vendors and food trucks

✨ Live multicultural performances

✨ Download flyer

RSVP FREE:

• (Disclosure Project) FREE: Village Spring Festival (Muir High School, Pasadena), Sat, May 24, 2025, 1:00 PM | Meetup
• (PasaDharma) FREE: Village Spring Festival (Muir High School, Pasadena), Sat, May 24, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
• (Nature Center) FREE: Village Spring Festival (Muir High School, Pasadena), Sat, May 24, 2025, 1:00 PM | Meetup
• VILLAGE MARKET & FESTIVAL — RHYTHMS OF THE VILLAGE

Harvest Festival Party, Los Angeles (free)

Mom, you're embarrassing me. Sit down already. I'm going home. They're laughing at you.

Fall is here, and everyone is invited to a be in and gathering at Rhythms of the Village, above Pasadena in Los Angeles. Join us for a multicultural festival of music, foods of all kinds (lots of vegan stuff), crafts, arts, dancing, healing, and more with over 50 vendors, ethnic traditions and kids' workshops. There's a big stage and thousands are expected for this biannual event.

Come cozy up and socialize as things cool, fall sets in, and it starts getting dark sooner. Ananda will lead a group meditation and healing near the main stage, Cody will perform, and Korean dance with vegan Sam (for her plantbasedtreaty.org) and food from the Cosmic Breezeway Cafe and trucks and food stalls, healer Janell, and doula Tori (flowwithtori.com) for yoga amid the massage tables.

• Village Fall Fest & Fashion Show
• Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024, noon-6:00 pm
• Rhythms of the Village (BACK LOT)
• 2279 N. Lake Ave., Altadena, LA 90001

DETAILS AND FREE TO RSVP:

• Disclosure Project: Dharma Buddhist Meditation
• Nature Center: Dharma Buddhist Meditation
• PasaDharma: Dharma Buddhist Meditation
• Vendors can sign up at rhythmsofthevillage.com @1rhythmsofthevillage
• Ameca and Anoche (rhythmsofthevillage.com); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen Bradshaw, Dhr. Seven, Keith (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Barabar Buddhist Caves archeological site

Barabar: The Archeological Site of the Future, narrated by Jahannah James

(Funny Olde World) July 7, 2024 #barabar #ancientindia #mystery. Hey Hunters, the latest documentary diving into the science and mystery around the ancient Barabar caves in India is here. It was made by the fantastic Jayan Films.

To support their channel and their continued research and work, please help support this work by purchasing a stream or donating here: RENT ALL CONTENT + BONUS: bam-eng.okast.tv. MAKE A DONATION: https://builders-of-the-ancient-myste... WEBSITE: https://builders-of-the-ancient-myste...- ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK: 📀🎧🔉 • BAM (original motion picture soundtrack) #barabar #ancientindia #mystery 

• This cave painting is 73,000-years-old
• The oldest known legal text in Scandinavia proves that Vikings were required to pay fines
• 25,000-year-old tools found in Pyrenean cave indicate early human occupation

The 36th Annual Elves’ Faire (11/18)

Elves-Faire.com; Ananda (Dharma Bu Meditation), Jen Bradford (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Raising kids to be mindful and creative in a big city is easier with the Waldorf system.

WHAT HAPPENED? Thousands attended under cloudy skies, it rained a small amount, and everyone enjoyed the multiple stages, games, booths, food trucks (cenavegan.com was especially yummy), gluten-free, vegan and other pastries, wandering minstrels, disaffected teens milling about in packs, face painting, socializing, and general elfin behavior. Cody lit up the rainbow stage, accompanied by Korean singer then followed by a Jewish-lute player with a guest vocalist, and more good cheer than is usually seen in LA County under misty mountains. Plan for next year.

Event

Cody takes rainbow stage at 1 pm

The Pasadena Waldorf School (PWS) Machris Mariposa Campus sees the return of the 36th Annual Elves’ Faire. Family friendly event.

Crafts for all ages, games for kids, live music and various stages of entertainment, delicious drinks, food trucks, homemade pastries, the Angel Room, and much more await an expected 4,000 guests.

I'll be there, too, with my friends

It takes a village to produce this special event. PWS parents and students volunteer to make the magic happen since it's the school's largest fundraising event every year.

• FREE, Elves' Faire
• Pasadena Waldorf School
• 209 E. Mariposa Street, Altadena
• Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023, 10:00 am-4:00 pm

FREE parking options. Street parking or at the parking lots of nearby Mountain View Cemetery (2400 N. Fair Oaks Ave.) and Mountain View Mausoleum (2300 Marengo Ave.) with a free shuttle to the gates of the event. If parking on available neighborhood streets, please be sure not to block neighbor’s driveways.

Taco Fest: Punk Rock at the Beach (Sabroso)

SabrosoTacoFest.com, 955klos.com; Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sabroso Craft Taco & Music Festival...

Vegan tacos and kombucha (WQ)

Sabroso [Spanish for "Delicious"] Craft Taco & Music Festival, headlined by The Offspring is a day filled with crafts, tasty gourmet tacos, Lucha Libre style wrestling, and live music!

 

This Sabroso Festival [by KLOS 95.5 FM, Los Angeles] date will feature up to four hours of crafts tastings featuring over 100 crafts, including some of the best local favorites. Festival hours are 1:00 PM-9:00 PM. (VIP entry is noon).

• The Offspring
• Pennywise
• The Vandals
• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
• Unwritten Law
• Los Kung Fu Monkeys.

Salad, chips, guacamole, mushroom tacos (WQ)

Top Lucha Libre style wrestling stars from across the globe will take to the ring battling for the title of "Sabroso Champion."

There will be multiple qualifying wrestling matches throughout each festival day and one final championship match! This event is for those 21 years and up.

GA and VIP tickets are available for purchase. All tickets include craft tasting and access to view the music stage. More

Doheny State Beach: 25300 Dana Point Harbor Drive, Dana Point (OC), CA 92629

Survivalist Training for the holidays: L.A.

Christopher Nyerges (School of Self-Reliance); Xochitl, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

Various useful plants in the Angeles National Forest above L.A. (Gwillhickers/wiki)

CRAFTS: Carry-all Bag and Quiver

Watertight gourds can be lifesaving.

$25 (Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016 11:30 am) When malls and freeways are jammed, enjoy this instead: Come into the mountains and work on traditional Native crafts and survival skills. Learn to make a continental African “man’s bag,” which is made from a single piece of leather. Also learn how a quiver is made from the super versatile local yucca plant.

• LOCATION: Switzer’s Camp, Angeles National Forest. From Foothill Blvd. in the City of La Canada, travel north about 11 miles up the Angeles Crest Highway. Turn right into Switzer’s Camp entrance. Meet in the parking lot. [Page 505, H2]. Location 3.

WILD PLANT WALK

Survivalist Christopher Nyerges addresses a group during a walk in Hahamongna.

 
$20 (Friday, Dec. 23, noon) We’ll learn about the many greens available in the winter, and we’ll collect some for salad and soup.

We’ll walk into the Upper Arroyo [Pasadena/Altadena's dry river bed], meeting at the west end of Altadena Drive. Location 1.

WILD FOOD OUTING
$20 (Saturday, Dec. 24, 10:00 am) This will be a short walk for those who want to get into nature and learn about plants and their many beneficial uses like wild food. We’ll meet at Hahamongna Watershed Park, Location 2, and explore the edges of the park with its riparian, chaparral, and exotic vegetation.

ACORN PROCESSING WORKSHOP

Acorns are the staff of lie (David Hill/wiki)

$20 (Tuesday, Dec. 27, 11:30 am) Learn how to process acorns from the beginning. You’ll get to try some acorn products when we’re done. Also, we’ll have a short lesson on natural paints and pigments, and we’ll have copies of Paul Campbell’s book available. Hahamongna Watershed Park, Location 2.

WATER SKILLS and WILD FOOD WALK

Before our artificial drought and heatwave, Los Angeles had snow, Jackson Lake (STZ)

This is the way we survive in the woods -- a warm fire, clean water, and edible plants.

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$20 (Thursday, Dec. 29, 11:30 am) In this afternoon class, we’ll address all the ways to find and purify water, including distillation and various devices on the market.

This is an essential bit of knowledge for emergency planning, especially in urban areas like Los Angeles County, where nearly all of our water comes from afar. We will also set up a transpiration bag, explore, and forage for local wild edibles. Location 2, Hahamongna Watershed Park.
 

SURVIVAL SKILLS SUMMARY

I learned so much about plants!

$25 (Saturday, Dec. 31, 10:00 am) Yes, it's New Year’s Eve, and for those not craving a crass social scene or a drunken dance party, consider joining us as we wander through nature.

We’ll do some walking, learn about shelters, weaving, primitive fire-making, survival kits, water purification, and so on. We’ll do some cooking and have a good discussion. Join us at Location 2, Hahamongna Watershed Park. More

Explaining the "Parable of the Raft"

Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ven. Karunananda, Ph.D., Wisdom Quarterly

Siddhartha was an ascetic under trees in search of freedom from samsara's seas (Hokusai)

 

Ascetic Sid, Mes Aynak (livescience.com)

According to the historical Buddha, the "Sage who came from the Shakya clan," if we want to cross over from this shore (samsara) full of danger to the further shore (nirvana) beyond all danger, we need to put together a "raft" (a sufficient understanding of the practice).
 

We gather just enough material then we strive diligently and consistently. We exert just enough effort (viriya), paddling with every limb we have, to cross over to nirvana.

• The Parable of the Raft

Persistent balanced-effort is the gradual path the Buddha taught, or we risk exhausting ourselves and giving up long before we reach the goal. Or we die trying by the legendary exertion that gets all the attention (in the story of the Buddha, of forest dwelling monastics, of patriarchs in later schools) in spite of the fact that it does not work to overdo it. Paradoxically, sometimes the "effort" required is allowing, that is, accepting, non-doing, abandoning the detrimental, letting go of clinging.

Under a sprawling Bodhi tree

Siddhartha persists but with ease and balance accessing the wealth of the jhanas.

 

Bodhi tree shrine, India (Themeplus)

Siddhartha did not succeed under the Bodhi tree because he tried so hard: So long as he was trying that hard, he could not succeed. He succeeded because he eased off, first accepting help from the maiden Sujata then realizing that jhanas (blissful and equanimous meditative absorptions) were the way. As an austere ascetic, he had been so afraid of pleasure and of becoming attached to it that he had avoided

A sufficient raft is all we need. Even a poorly fabricated raft is enough to get across over the flood (ogha), this sea of samsara. "Enough" concentration is enough, enough insight is enough. The goal exists.
 

Whether or not we achieve (patiently allow) absorption, access concentration may be enough. It becomes the route we take, the one now available to us. The Buddha's gradual path takes us from virtue to calm (samatha) to effortless-concentration (samma-samadhi). 

 

Even a flimsy foundation may be just enough support to successfully practice mindfulness (four foundations or bases) that support wisdom. Liberation depends on it.

The swirling, whirling, sucking sea

If there is time and a suitable teacher, a more stable platform is helpful. A human life is extraordinarily rare. It's a terrible thing to waste and a wonderful thing to utilize to finally see nirvana. If all one reaches is absorption (jhana), which is purifying by suppressing the defilements, that will lead to a very welcome rebirth.

But the end of all rebirth and suffering is the goal for those who have understood what the Buddha taught. So beyond calm, there is liberating-insight to strive for. This breakthrough is accomplished by practicing the factors of Dependent Origination. One thereby sees and undoes suffering. It is only by knowing-and-seeing the Path (magga-phala, "path-and-fruition" consciousnesses) that one awakens to unending peace.

The world is the world is the world

O, spirit, where shall I sit? - Try that tree (Deen406)

From this world, it is easy to see dukkha (suffering, disappointment, woe, lack of fulfillment from our many endeavors).

 

It is also visible from the lower Sensual-Sphere deva worlds, but on this plane we have drive due to there being reasons to strive constantly on our heels, urging and reminding us of the dangers: aging, sickness, ignominy, death, rebirth. The threat of defamation and infamy are very real as we face Eight Worldly Conditions:

• success and failure (gain and loss),
• fame and obscurity, 
• praise and blame, 
• pleasure and pain.

Who needs "the end of all suffering"? We all would IF we understood what the Buddha meant by dukkha. Some say, "All life is suffering." That is completely wrong -- unless one grasps what "suffering" means as a translation of dukkha. All the Buddha ever taught, according to him, was suffering and the end of suffering, disappointment and the end of disappointment, dukkha and nirvana. 

The way to nirvana is enlightenment (bodhi). And the way to enlightenment is mindfulness (as set up moment to moment and actively developed through contemplative themes outlined in the Maha Satipatthana Sutra). And the way to mindfulness is "meditation" (calm, zen, jhana, serenity, samatha, unification, singlemindedness, absorption, nondistraction, and samma-samadhi or "right concentration"). And the way to meditation is virtue (sila), which imparts peace of mind and non-remorse.

Samsara is impermanent (ever changing), unsatisfactory (disappointing), and impersonal. There is great danger inherent in it for the unenlightened. So we should get enlightened or into the stream certain to take us to enlightenment as soon as possible. Danger, what danger?

Until stream entry there is an ever-present danger of falling into unfortunate realms (rebirth destinations) for indeterminate periods of time. Then, during those times, one forgets the goal, forgets even the possibility of there being freedom from suffering, the possibility of awakening from this miserable dream with nightmare aspects. Continued: Who am I?

Who am I?

Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Ven. Karunananda, Ph.D., Wisdom Quarterly

But I am. I am this I am! "I think; therefore, I am"! I am my thinking, no, the Thinker, right?

 

Continued from Explaining the Parable of the Raft. All we see is an illusion, seeming to be what it is not: seeming to be stable, seeming to be able to satisfy/fulfill us, seeming to be a thing (when it is really a composite).

A composite? Things are not single-things but amalgamations of things. We can see it all around us, as things fall apart. So long as they seem solid, we repeatedly forget that they are something else.

 

But what we never see, never dream, are never told, are never taught except that a buddha rediscovers and teaches the world is that ALL things are impersonal. "I" is an aggregate-thing, "ego" is a thing, "self" ("soul") is a thing. What is it composed of?

 

Self/No-self (gingernutdesigns/flickr.com)

It is composed of FIVE HEAPS of things (and those things themselves are things, dharmas, composite-aggregates of other things). 

1. Forms, 2. sensations, 3. perceptions, 4. formations, and 5. consciousnesses are the categories of heaps, things, bundles of phenomena that keep giving rise to the illusion, "SELF," the idea or assumption that there is a "self" and, likewise, that there are others. And we never see, or more correctly, and never is seen. What is not known-and-seen? We never awaken to what is real. Nirvana is real.

Why do we neglect the highest good, the ultimate goal of knowing-and-seeing? There are many reasons, which seem private and idiosyncratic. But for all they come down to the defilements (āsavas, the inflows and outflows that swirl in samsara). So why are we surprised that we feel disappointed, empty, unfulfilled, desperate, miserable, alone, out of control? All of that is dukkha.
 

Budai (Hotei) hears, sees, speaks no harm.

The "defilements" are of different kinds: taints of [clinging to] sensuality, being, views, and delusion. The Buddhist scholar Isaline Horner translates the original terms kāmā-, bhavā-, diṭṭhā-, and avijja-āsava -- quoted by Padmasiri De Silva in An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology (2000) -- as the "cankers" of "sense-pleasure, becoming, false views, and ignorance." The word canker suggests something that corrodes or corrupts slowly. These figurative meanings perhap describe facets of the Buddha's conceptual teaching of āsava: kept long in storage, oozing out, [seeping in], taint, corroding, and so on.

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Could "gaming" save the world?

A female "World of Warcraft" character in the making -- but is her player male or female? (©2004-2009 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. The Burning Crusade is a trademark, and World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries).

VIDEO GAMES (On the Media)
(NPR, July 1) Take a one-hour look at the history, culture, and future of video games like WoW. Whether you know it or not you are likely a gamer and games are creeping into nearly every aspect of life. How far have video games come, and where are they going?

• The Future of Gaming
• The Influence of Gaming
• Tom Bissell keeps caring about videogame

WoW
howstuffworks.com

"World of Warcraft" has millions of active subscribers worldwide (Blizzard). While there's no publicly-available, comprehensive census of exactly who plays the game, there are several researchers who have studied WoW players extensively. More

Myth is the language of symbols. What does all the occult symbolism mean?

Saladin Al Kurdi sees an Illuminati conspiracy

Superstruct: Games predict our future
archive.superstructgame.net
Gamers’ scores will reflect personal role in humankind’s survival.

PALO ALTO, California — The Institute for the Future (IFTF) announced the [2008] launch of Superstruct, the world’s first Massively Multiplayer Forecasting Game (MMFG). Designed by renowned game designer Jane McGonigal, Ph.D., and IFTF lead forecaster Kathi Vian Ph.D., Superstruct invites players to imagine life in 2019 and to document and record how they, their families, local communities, or extended social networks might respond to a catastrophic population collapse. Global gameplay ran for six weeks.

Superstruct was played by more than 8,000 citizen "future-forecasters." Although the game is no longer in play, learn about it and explore some archived game content:

• Find out how the game was played
• Watch the scenario videos to preview the Superthreats
• Learn about the 8000+ players
• Read 1000+ stories they crafted
• Discover the 500+ superstructures they created.

Did superstruct gamers predict this economic collapse, the Amero solution, or the next one?