By over-promising on vaccines and under-delivering, Western elites have imperiled public health for generations

A reading list of how I deprogrammed it myself

On mental health and material conditions.

Everybody’s got COVID and we've just gotten used to it.

Climate change is a planetary reckoning. We have obviously fucked around with the wrong gods and found out.

As illustrated with 25 Economist covers

We should quit, but even slowing down gives us the shakes

The neoliberal logic that destroys public goods

It’s just a little bit of history repeating

Not planning our economies is just planning to fail

Property is winning.

Sri Lanka is a systemic collapse, and you live in the same system too

Sri Lanka was the first South Asian country to neoliberalize, and the first to fall

How America’s military actually sucks

My experience in a visa line

And why we need to tear liberal democracy down

COVID forever, COVID all the time

China is only 10% of Sri Lanka debt. Where do you think the rest is from?

The experience of Sri Lanka’s interregnum, and thoughts on sortition

Fiction, I hope obviously

The powerful protests of July 9th, 2022

How White Empire is overthrowing itself in 14 ways

I never wanted to be some scribe of collapse, least of all for my own country

To satisfy the inflation gods, there must be blood

It’s Weimar time

These terrible years are actually better than what’s to come. Sorry to harsh your buzz

How I’ve learned to over-react as Sri Lanka collapses

‘Food insecurity’ is just a fancy word for famine

My country has (involuntarily) stopped importing fossil fuels

And how it’s coming for you

What transport tells you about a culture

Lol I don't know

GDP is a dead end. We’ve got to go back and start over

Democrats blame Russians, Republicans blame Mexicans, and they both blame China

Most of what he’s selling is self-gratification

Bitcoin got so mainstream that it’s drowning in it

Watching ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’

Yuval Noah Hariri has written the White Man’s Burden for atheist tech fuckbois

Just fine, thank you

Leaving my country as it collapses.

I've been writing too much so this is the first summary email.

Having a drink while it all goes down

From slavery to wage-slavery to fast fashion

There is no free press. It’s very expensive

I didn’t think it possible, but Biden is worse

A Blade Runner future, Metaverse, and eating Soylent should all be terrifying. Instead, they’re cool.

Look at Magritte instead

Toddlers of the world unite

Beggars at my doorstep, bowing before the wrong person

It’s chickens coming home to roost