A podcast for animal advocates and other campaigner about focusing on the right things– and not focusing on the wrong things. Audio readings of essays by Aidan Kankyoku. <br/><br/><a href="https://sandcastlesblog.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">sandcastlesblog.substack.com</a>
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A podcast for animal advocates and other campaigner about focusing on the right things– and not focusing on the wrong things. Audio readings of essays by Aidan Kankyoku. <br/><br/><a href="https://sandcastlesblog.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">sandcastlesblog.substack.com</a>
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June 9, 2026
The Winners’ Charter
<p>Five principles from the faction that stopped fighting and started winning.</p><p>“The golden carp has escaped the net. What will he feed on now?” - The Blue Cliff Record, case 49</p><p>The animal rights movement spent a decade tearing itself apart—abolitionists versus welfarists, open rescue versus underground, endless fights over who to cancel. That war is finally ending, and a new faction is rising from its ashes: Team Win, defined by a single commitment to winning for animals by any means short of violence. Drawing on the Grassroots Animal Rights Summit in DC, Anima International's brutally honest internal culture, the Ridglan beagle rescue, and a board-game-obsessed Polish campaigner who plays to win, I lay out the five principles of the Winners' Charter. Plus: a time-traveling dialogue about why short-term wins and long-term power were never really at odds, and why whatever you're most confident about today is probably what you'll be most embarrassed about in eight years.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://sandcastlesblog.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">sandcastlesblog.substack.com</a>
May 13, 2026
It’s Everybody’s Fault
<p>Imploring animal advocates to stop confusing moral and strategic questions</p><p>At one moment in Humane Hancock's new documentary The Dying Trade, two characters debate who is really to blame for factory farming — corporations or consumers? I use it as a jumping-off point to argue that the whole debate is a distraction. Whether responsibility falls on CEOs, workers, consumers, or regulators, the more important question is always: what actually works? From DxE's compassionate disruption tactics to the chaotic, salsa-flinging foie gras campaigns of AAC and CAFT, the animal movement too often dresses up moral preferences as strategic arguments — and that the cure is to think like a strategist first, not a philosopher. Also featuring Adolf Eichmann, Gary Francione, and Temple Grandin's wardrobe.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://sandcastlesblog.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">sandcastlesblog.substack.com</a>
May 5, 2026
Yes, You. Move to San Francisco.
<p>A guest essay by Itsi Weinstock, introduced by Aidan. The case for why animal advocates — yes, you specifically — need to get to San Francisco right now, why the AI revolution makes this the most important city on earth for the movement, and what you can do this week from wherever you are to steer AI positively for animals.</p><p><strong>Links mentioned in this episode:</strong></p><p>Subscribe to Itsi's newsletter: <a target="_blank" href="https://frontieranimals.substack.com/">Frontier Animals</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYHcW2FZ8UsFU2cxxHNfL-KTyxjSc2C0Y6mgnYIhYNekTnvQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor">Use this form</a> to tell Itsi and Aidan how they can help you move to SF.</p><p>Sentient Futures subsidized residency in SF — <a target="_blank" href="https://airtable.com/appH8q9zNviH79aXk/pagKMMWKdy2UaIaVM/form">details and application here</a>.</p><p>For Aidan's first post on AI, see the earliest episode on this podcast feed, The Tsunami is Coming.</p><p>Finally, please enter the <a target="_blank" href="https://hyperstition.sentientfutures.ai/">Hyperstition for Good writing competition</a> (sponsored by Sentient Futures x Compassion in Machine Learning)</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://sandcastlesblog.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">sandcastlesblog.substack.com</a>
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