Jeremy Cohen
@jeremyfcohen.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ McMaster University.
Anthropologist of religion. Immortality, transhumanism, conspiracy theories and technology.
Vegan. Dad. ADHD haver. TalkDeath.com co-founder.
Anthropologist of religion. Immortality, transhumanism, conspiracy theories and technology.
Vegan. Dad. ADHD haver. TalkDeath.com co-founder.
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Punktendo, a set of punk-themed NES ROM hacks playable on your phone. Fun stuff!
Now You're Playing With Punk Power -
punktendo.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Punktendo, a set of punk-themed NES ROM hacks playable on your phone. Fun stuff!
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1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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Join TalkDeath’s Book Club as we discuss Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics. I know sometimes reading “theory” or “academic writing” can be intimidating but it does not have to be! We can read and learn together ❤️
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Join TalkDeath’s Book Club as we discuss Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics. I know sometimes reading “theory” or “academic writing” can be intimidating but it does not have to be! We can read and learn together ❤️
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If you are an academic—instructor or grad student—please sign this letter of solidarity for Professor Farhana Sultana who has been vilified by the right for calling CK what he was.
They are trying to come for her job.
This is the time for solidarity.
forms.gle/8MayBcCmtYg1...
They are trying to come for her job.
This is the time for solidarity.
forms.gle/8MayBcCmtYg1...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
forms.gle
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If you are an academic—instructor or grad student—please sign this letter of solidarity for Professor Farhana Sultana who has been vilified by the right for calling CK what he was.
They are trying to come for her job.
This is the time for solidarity.
forms.gle/8MayBcCmtYg1...
They are trying to come for her job.
This is the time for solidarity.
forms.gle/8MayBcCmtYg1...
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Think about these contrasting storylines of the last week:
Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems
Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans
Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems
Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Think about these contrasting storylines of the last week:
Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems
Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans
Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems
Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans
Can't wait for my family members to suddenly declare that they won't visit New York for no apparent reason.
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Can't wait for my family members to suddenly declare that they won't visit New York for no apparent reason.
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I believe in Kirk
November 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I believe in Kirk
I'm stress eating over here
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I'm stress eating over here
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I had a long conversation with MIT Tech Review’s @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social about AGI; it fed into this very good read on the rise of AGI orthodoxy
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...
www.technologyreview.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I had a long conversation with MIT Tech Review’s @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social about AGI; it fed into this very good read on the rise of AGI orthodoxy
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ICYMI, I wrote a feature for the MIT Technology Review on my journey of surviving the Eaton Fire while also reporting on and dealing with its myriad scams and conspiracy theories.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert)
Mike Rothschild has spent years studying the rise of QAnon and antivaccine conspiracism. After his house in Altadena, California, burned down, he found himself mired in similarly sticky webs of misinf...
www.technologyreview.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
ICYMI, I wrote a feature for the MIT Technology Review on my journey of surviving the Eaton Fire while also reporting on and dealing with its myriad scams and conspiracy theories.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
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The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
I was interviewed for this great piece in MIT Technology Review on the shared mythologies and imaginaries between our search for AGI and conspiracy theories
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth reminiscent of more explicitly outlandish and fantastical...
www.technologyreview.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I was interviewed for this great piece in MIT Technology Review on the shared mythologies and imaginaries between our search for AGI and conspiracy theories
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Great to see some of the work of my colleague, Jeremy Cohen, highlighted here! #HamOnt
@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Who's up for a scavenger hunt... at a cemetery? 'Talk Death' aims to make dying less scary | CBC News
During Halloween season, Talk Death — a group founded by two Hamiltonians which aims to make people more comfortable around death and dying — has been organizing scavenger hunts in cemeteries across...
www.cbc.ca
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Great to see some of the work of my colleague, Jeremy Cohen, highlighted here! #HamOnt
@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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NEW: Whether you measure it by number of supporters, fundraising ability, or by the size of its militant groups, the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger or more of a threat.
White Nationalism in Canada: Organized, Emboldened, and Growing
Canada’s white nationalist movement has consolidated into a network that includes three key branches: Diagolon, the propaganda arm; the Dominion Society of Canada, an incorporated political arm; and S...
www.antihate.ca
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
NEW: Whether you measure it by number of supporters, fundraising ability, or by the size of its militant groups, the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger or more of a threat.
What is happening?!! 3 pitches and 2 home runs. Wow.
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
What is happening?!! 3 pitches and 2 home runs. Wow.
This morning while walking the dog I ran into 5 Blue Jays hanging out together on the ground and I have to imagine that that is a sign.
October 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This morning while walking the dog I ran into 5 Blue Jays hanging out together on the ground and I have to imagine that that is a sign.
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One of the worst catastrophes in the world. “At least 260,000 civilians trapped in El Fasher face a dire choice: risk being starved or bombed if they stay…, or killed if they flee…Rape is commonplace. The [last standing, bombed-over-30x] hospital treats about 40 sexual assault victims every week.”
Starving Children Eat Animal Feed in Besieged Sudanese City
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
One of the worst catastrophes in the world. “At least 260,000 civilians trapped in El Fasher face a dire choice: risk being starved or bombed if they stay…, or killed if they flee…Rape is commonplace. The [last standing, bombed-over-30x] hospital treats about 40 sexual assault victims every week.”
I knew the game was going long when the Fox Sports announcers started doing a deep dive on the fruit platter that Guerrero Jr was eating
October 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I knew the game was going long when the Fox Sports announcers started doing a deep dive on the fruit platter that Guerrero Jr was eating
I just want to go to bed.
October 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I just want to go to bed.
Took all of 2min of me posting screenshots from Grokipedia and making fun of it for my IP address to get blocked. Cancel culture is real. Lol.
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Took all of 2min of me posting screenshots from Grokipedia and making fun of it for my IP address to get blocked. Cancel culture is real. Lol.
Here is the Grokipedia entry on "University"
![Text from Grokipedia article on universities that reads: "Defining characteristics include academic freedom, peer-reviewed scholarship, and tenure systems intended to protect inquiry from external pressures, yet contemporary Western universities face controversies over ideological conformity, with faculty political affiliations skewing heavily leftward—often at ratios exceeding 10:1 in humanities and social sciences—fostering environments where dissenting views encounter suppression or self-censorship, as evidenced by surveys of professor ideologies and campus climate studies.[6][7] This homogeneity, amplified by hiring practices and institutional incentives, contrasts with the first-principles commitment to evidence-based debate that defined their origins, raising causal concerns about diminished intellectual diversity and the reliability of outputs from fields prone to groupthink."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rc3djr7oiu3g77grat4jhzpa/bafkreihwnko3uodmkivabcrkxwi4jncrvxobi2b3yflgnqhbuu7d2ra5y4@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Here is the Grokipedia entry on "University"
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I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.
Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Welcome to Decoherence Media!
We're an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
decoherence.media
October 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.
That Reagan ad is still playing.
October 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
That Reagan ad is still playing.