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Becoming Machines While We're Still Blinking: A Kaleidoscopic Pattern Recognition

Quantum Craft as insurgent methodology against systematic domestication

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Samar Younes | SAMARITUAL
Sep 30, 2025
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My body performed disciplinary apophasis before I could write about it. Frozen shoulder made typing impossible for weeks, then infected thumb finished the job. Embodied intelligence refusing optimization into productivity. Consider this piece arriving exactly when it needed to, not when calendars demanded…

What does domestication look like when it’s voluntary? Palantir launched athletic shorts with “PLTR-TECH” running down the right butt cheek. Same week, pharmaceutical appetite suppression went mainstream… even one of our greatest athlete Serena Williams promoted the pharmaceutical appetite suppression through Ro, the weight-loss company where her husband Alexis Ohanian is an investor. Same month, I visited Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris and watched their new ‘Le mystère Cléopâtre’ exhibit video simulating ancient Alexandria… showing Egyptians and Cleopatra herself as fair-skinned, European-looking figures. In 2025. At an Arab cultural institution.

Three signals. Same pattern refracting.

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