Some thoughts on clearing out the fridge

On “The Flat Share”

Travel at the end of the fossil fuel era

What do we leave as our monuments? Garbage and landfills

How Hollywood violently defends the status quo

According to John Mearsheimer, who predicted the war in the first place

Differences in parenting between Sri Lanka and the UK

Corporations are AI and they’ve been fucking up the world for centuries

Any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic

Genital mutilation vs. the mutilation of the planet. What’s more gruesome?

They had communication technology so powerful it reaches us still

Minerals are also non-renewable resources

Strange lessons from the Netflix show ‘How To Get Rich’

We can’t just ‘go green’. We have to go down on our knees

We know that consumer goods degrade, but the place they come from supposedly doesn’t

Economists believe the equivalent of the sun going around the Earth, with far worse consequences

How individualism hurts the individual

One of the first bloggers I followed has passed away

Basic science ground to a halt last century

Space can’t save us from ourselves

How can you help the problem?

If you believe in the Buddhist concept of not-self, rebirth follows

Exponential growth on a finite planet does not end well, whatever form it takes

How individuals can feel a higher consciousness, and be utterly incompetent to act on it

Ideas from the Mahabharata and dates from the Kali Yuga

Growth is the problem, not how we grow

Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be paid

We’re making asteroids of ourselves

More proof that writing is immune to Venture Capital

How Empire is using our last fossil fuels for war

What a textbook shows about peak everything

A review of a seminal collapse textbook.

Google is now noticeably worse than AI for many questions

White Empire is just diversifying a dumpster fire

What we call collapse is also creation

China, Russia, Iran, etc are not your enemies

Death by proxy war

Why ChatGPT and Midjourney et al are worth the hype

We blotted out the night sky

Donald Trump flashed the world and we can’t unsee it now

The west, the G7, the ‘international community’, the Empire we live under hides under so many names

This time by the Americans and the IMF

The economic equivalent of blood-letting

It’s the money

Our ignorant relationship with the energy we use

Homo Sleepians

Hubris didn’t work out well for Icarus

For our beloved uncle, who was murdered on December 15th

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

The best things in life are free