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

The movement of caste

When the world goes mad, only a crazy person stays sane

We keep looking for AI that looks like us and missing what’s right in front of our eyes

Reading Tolstoy in a Sri Lankan protest village

According to a global survey, “the countries considered most democratic by their citizens are China, Vietnam, and Taiwan”

Real collapse is just another on-screen dystopia

On losing a young friend

Polls and the polis

Extinctionist, Activist, or Humanist? Which doomer are you?

Guns and abortion are just tactics, and they work

We’re not getting thru all of these collapses without a plan

Can’t cram for this one

When bad guys try to change the world, heroes put them down

Selling western civilization short

People don’t have power. Elites do

A Marxist reading of Spiderman

Geologically speaking

We love violent movies but get dismayed at violent news

Competition incoming

When there’s blood on the streets, do philosophy

This is the saddest Vesak I remember

Electile dysfunction

But boy will it suck

And it’s a nightmare for human beings

The government got violent and got violence in return

Every artist paints a window to another world

In a rather stressful life

How economists are the worst

And how they’re both artificial life

It’s prosperity for the rich, austerity for the poor

What we should be feeling is grief, and rage