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How Humans Are Scavengers
[free post]
Some thoughts on clearing out the fridge
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Rom-Coms Are Getting Dystopian Now
On “The Flat Share”
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Flying On A Dinosaur
[free post]
Travel at the end of the fossil fuel era
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This Garbage Civilization
What do we leave as our monuments? Garbage and landfills
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The Subtle Propaganda Of Hollywood
How Hollywood violently defends the status quo
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Why Russia Is Going To Win
According to John Mearsheimer, who predicted the war in the first place
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Two Parents Is Too Little
Differences in parenting between Sri Lanka and the UK
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The Worst Case Scenario For AI Is Already Here
Corporations are AI and they’ve been fucking up the world for centuries
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How Science Played With Magic And Got Burnt
Any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic
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What The Blood Sacrifice Of The Maya Can Teach Us About Today
Genital mutilation vs. the mutilation of the planet. What’s more gruesome?
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How The Ancients Had Better Technology Than Us
They had communication technology so powerful it reaches us still
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How Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us
Minerals are also non-renewable resources
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The Poor Rich
Strange lessons from the Netflix show ‘How To Get Rich’
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How Can We Fight Climate Change Without Sacrifice?
We can’t just ‘go green’. We have to go down on our knees
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The Lie At The Heart Of Consumer Society
We know that consumer goods degrade, but the place they come from supposedly doesn’t
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How, Economically, We’re Fucked
Economists believe the equivalent of the sun going around the Earth, with far worse consequences
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No Brain Is An Island
[free post]
How individualism hurts the individual
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Dear Dooce, RIP
[free post]
One of the first bloggers I followed has passed away
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How Science Is Dead
[free post]
Basic science ground to a halt last century
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How Space Is Not Going To Save Us
[free post]
Space can’t save us from ourselves
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How The Self-Help Industry Is Built Around A Lie
[free post]
How can you help the problem?
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How I Believe In Rebirth
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If you believe in the Buddhist concept of not-self, rebirth follows
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How, Mathematically, We’re Fucked
[free post]
Exponential growth on a finite planet does not end well, whatever form it takes
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Higher Consciousness, and The Incompetence To Do Anything About It
[free post]
How individuals can feel a higher consciousness, and be utterly incompetent to act on it
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What Should An Individual Do In The Face Of Collapse?
[free post]
Ideas from the Mahabharata and dates from the Kali Yuga
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Why Solar Won’t Save Us
[free post]
Growth is the problem, not how we grow
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How, Financially, We’re Fucked
[free post]
Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be paid
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The Folly Of Progress
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We’re making asteroids of ourselves
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The Substack Shitshow
[free post]
More proof that writing is immune to Venture Capital
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The Energy Trap
[free post]
How Empire is using our last fossil fuels for war
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Fossil Fuels Were A One-Time Inheritance And We Blew It
[free post]
What a textbook shows about peak everything
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How, Precisely, We’re Fucked
[free post]
A review of a seminal collapse textbook.
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How Google Search Is Falling Behind
[free post]
Google is now noticeably worse than AI for many questions
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How Inclusion Is Imperialism
[free post]
White Empire is just diversifying a dumpster fire
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The Natural World Is Dying While The Artificial World Is Being Born
[free post]
What we call collapse is also creation
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Know Your Enemy
[free post]
China, Russia, Iran, etc are not your enemies
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The US Is Not Helping Ukraine Or Taiwan
[free post]
Death by proxy war
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Three Ways I Actually Use AI
[free post]
Why ChatGPT and Midjourney et al are worth the hype
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How Humanity Went Blind To The Stars
We blotted out the night sky
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How The White Empire Has No Clothes
Donald Trump flashed the world and we can’t unsee it now
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The Many Names Of White Empire
The west, the G7, the ‘international community’, the Empire we live under hides under so many names
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Sri Lanka Is Colonized Again
This time by the Americans and the IMF
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Raising Interest Rates Is Just The Rich Stealing From The Poor
The economic equivalent of blood-letting
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Why The Media Loves War
It’s the money
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We Don’t Just Burn Fossil Fuels, We Eat And Fuck Them
Our ignorant relationship with the energy we use
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Until We Understand Sleep, We’re Half-Asleep
Homo Sleepians
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Progress Is An Insult To Our Ancestors
Hubris didn’t work out well for Icarus
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Dinesh Schaffter, RIP
For our beloved uncle, who was murdered on December 15th
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Westerners Need To Shut Up About Ukraine
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
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How We Don’t Live Under Capitalism
The best things in life are free