If you’ve been waiting since last September for Mr. Robot to return, your patience is about to be richly rewarded. USA has added two more episodes to the second season, which kicks off next month, and added a Talking Dead-style aftershow so you can keep the good times going even longer. Oh, and as if all that weren’t enough to get you excited, there’s also a new season 2 trailer for you to pore over. 

As reported by THR, the two additional installments bring Mr. Robot‘s season two episode count up to twelve. That’s two more than the first season, which had ten episodes. Season two will kick off Wednesday, July 13 at 10 PM on USA with two back-to-back episodes presented with limited commercials. Series creator Sam Esmail is directing the entire second season. The two-hour premiere will be followed by a live hourlong aftershow called Hacking Robot. Aliyah Silverstein is executive producing, but no host has been named yet. It’s not yet clear whether Hacking Robot will be a one-off special, or a weekly series.

It’s no surprise USA is doubling down on Mr. Robot. The hacker drama was a huge hit for the network — not just in terms of ratings and awards (though it did just fine on both those fronts), but in establishing the network as a home for edgy, prestigious fare. That trend continues with shows like Colony and tonight’s Queen of the South, but Mr. Robot remains the flagship series of the new, darker USA.

Oh, and speaking of darkness: if you had any doubt at all that Mr. Robot would continue its spiral into intrigue, corruption, and general madness next season, the latest trailer should put those fears to rest. We don’t have an embeddable video, unfortunately, but you can click over to Buzzfeed to soak it in.

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We cannot predict, because we do not know exactly whether this earth is finished or if there is still some potential left. The third world war is not going to depend on the Soviet Union or Ronald Reagan; these are just puppets in the hands of an unknown force which I call existence. But if existence decides that the earth is exhausted and now man will remain stuck and evolution will not be happening here, then it is better to let this earth be destroyed – and men can move, according to their stages of evolution, to different planets.

Anyway, this time is very precious. Those who really want to evolve cannot find more precious a time. Evolve more and more towards consciousness. If you can become awakened, then there is no need for you to be born in any womb. If you cannot, then too you will be on the way, on some higher plane. And if you are born, you will be born on a planet where a higher plane of consciousness already exists and which is common there.

And it seems that this earth is in a hopeless situation. But everything in this world begins and ends; nothing can remain forever. Perhaps this earth, this planet, has come to its end. Then any excuse will do.

Science has discovered black holes in existence. You cannot see them; there is nothing to see. You can see only one thing: if some planet comes close to black holes, it is simply sucked in, and it disappears out of existence. That is the death of the planet. Because of the black holes, some scientists have assumed there must be white holes which give birth to new planets. That seems to be logical because in existence there is always a polarity. Black holes are almost certain. White holes are still a hypothesis. Even if a nuclear third world war does happen on the earth, and if man is stuck and cannot evolve more, then some black hole will simply suck it up.

Black holes are one of the most mysterious things in physics. We don’t know anything yet, and perhaps we may not ever know anything, because we cannot go inside them. Once you are gone, then you are gone forever. You cannot return.

Those black holes are meant to decreate – and they are doing their work. Every day some planet, some sun, dies, and the way it dies is by being sucked up by a black hole. It is just like death: death is a black hole into which you are sucked. But you are born into another womb. Perhaps there are white holes; perhaps on the other side of the black hole, there is a white hole. So on this side the old is dismantled, destroyed, and on the other side a new planet, with new potential, with new hopes, with new aspirations, is born.

Osho, The Path of the Mystic, Ch 20, Q 2

Entering any of the mostly faceless supermarkets that have infested our globe (forgive me, but I love mom and pop stores), one feels overwhelmed by what seems like an incredible variety of consumer goods crammed into shelves, enticing the consumer to choose and spend – but here’s something you might not know: this is an illusion!

Oxfam International published the infographic below as part of a report on the environmental and social responsibility of the ‘Big 10’ food and beverage companies. In 2013 they said, “The “Big 10” food and beverage companies – that together make $1 billion-a-day – are failing millions of people in developing countries who supply land, labour, water and commodities needed to make their products.”

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The ten largest multinational corporations own almost everything people buy in supermarkets around the world. By creating chains of smaller brands that produce different products, it appears that there are many more companies involved offering consumer goods. However, all money spent by consumers ends up with the top ten corporations.

Want to express your more unique and independent lifestyle and support the local producers?  – buy fresh goods at markets (also healthier) and prepare more of your food from scratch!

Bhagawati is a regular contributor to Osho News

Tom Warren, The Verge:

Continuum is really the star of the show, however. It lets the phone transform into a low-powered PC, with a few catches. In addition to the phone, you’ll need Microsoft’s $99 Display Dock (or a Miracast adapter), a mouse and keyboard (Bluetooth or USB), and a monitor or TV. You plug the Lumia 950 XL into the dock or connect wirelessly, and the phone simply beams itself to the display. It looks very similar to a Windows 10 desktop PC, minus a few features like app snapping and full multitasking.

Microsoft designed this with universal apps in mind, but most of them don’t support Continuum yet. Microsoft’s own apps all work fine, but third-party ones need to be updated to support the feature, and the vast majority haven’t yet.

Continuum feels like a glimpse into the future, though. Every app developer is focusing their efforts on smartphones right now, not tablets or desktop PCs. If we arrive at a future where phones can be a single computing device, then Microsoft is well positioned to offer this. If Microsoft builds an Intel-powered phone with true desktop apps, Continuum could get very interesting. But that’s not where the 950 XL is at, and it’s little more than a parlor trick in its current state.

I’ve seen Continuum demoed, and technically it is impressive. I’m not sure though that it’s something anyone wants or needs. Philip [Philip Greenspun predicted something like this 10 years ago, ago][pg], but one of the things that was hard to foresee before the iPhone was just how good the phone by itself could be as a computer. Why bother plugging it in to a desktop display and keyboard when the phone’s own display and on-screen keyboard are good enough? I could be wrong, because Continuum is so new, but my hunch is that Microsoft has built something technically impressive that very few people have any desire to use.

The rest of Warren’s review is pretty scathing. The dearth of native apps is suffocating the platform.

on canvas stretched
tight on freshly
cut bamboo
we bear
her wrapped
and flowered body
to the burning ghats

a mad
procession of
singers and dancers

gasp collectively as
the white robed guardian
thrusts his long lit rod
precisely into the heart
of that funeral pyre

flames burst up

28 years
10 days from onset.

she was our first to die.

we who bowed
to the full moon
faithful to our night
yearnings, relishing
the pleasure body

we knew nothing of death.

our voices rose in song
higher than the fire
that cancelled out night stars

louder than the raucous crackling

itself a conversation
none of us wanted
to hear

it muted the sight
of our friend, hair
ablaze, melting flesh
crumbling bones

I never knew
how much wood it takes
to burn just one human body

we peeled away
when embers turned ashes
when dark turned light
to wash every mortal part
pitch our clothes, turn from
some unnamable discomfort

a fierce determination
burning us to forget

what we saw
what we heard

what we now
know.

Poem by Priya Huffman, from her second book of poetry ‘of Bone and Breath’ – priyahuffman.com

David is a self-taught artist with a degree in Creative Writing and English Language from the Residential College of the University of Michigan, USA. He has been creating original artwork in and around Ann Arbor since 1987, serving all manner of commercial clients from small shops to major municipalities while simultaneously sneaking “pointless” art into the world at large.

David’s temporary street art is composed entirely of chalk, charcoal and found objects, and is always improvised on location. Most of these joyful drawings have appeared on sidewalks in Ann Arbor and elsewhere in Michigan, but some have surfaced as far away as subway platforms in Manhattan and construction debris in the Sonoran Desert. His most frequent characters are Sluggo, a bright green monster with stalk eyes and irreverent habits, and Philomena, a phlegmatic flying pig. As of 2013, there have been a lot of mice as well.

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