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  • How Humans Are Scavengers [free post] - 2023/06/10
    Some thoughts on clearing out the fridge
  • Rom-Coms Are Getting Dystopian Now - 2023/06/09
    On “The Flat Share”
  • Flying On A Dinosaur [free post] - 2023/06/08
    Travel at the end of the fossil fuel era
  • This Garbage Civilization - 2023/06/06
    What do we leave as our monuments? Garbage and landfills
  • The Subtle Propaganda Of Hollywood - 2023/06/04
    How Hollywood violently defends the status quo
  • Why Russia Is Going To Win - 2023/06/03
    According to John Mearsheimer, who predicted the war in the first place
  • Two Parents Is Too Little - 2023/06/02
    Differences in parenting between Sri Lanka and the UK
  • The Worst Case Scenario For AI Is Already Here - 2023/05/31
    Corporations are AI and they’ve been fucking up the world for centuries
  • How Science Played With Magic And Got Burnt - 2023/05/30
    Any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic
  • What The Blood Sacrifice Of The Maya Can Teach Us About Today - 2023/05/28
    Genital mutilation vs. the mutilation of the planet. What’s more gruesome?
  • How The Ancients Had Better Technology Than Us - 2023/05/26
    They had communication technology so powerful it reaches us still
  • How Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us - 2023/05/25
    Minerals are also non-renewable resources
  • The Poor Rich - 2023/05/23
    Strange lessons from the Netflix show ‘How To Get Rich’
  • How Can We Fight Climate Change Without Sacrifice? - 2023/05/20
    We can’t just ‘go green’. We have to go down on our knees
  • The Lie At The Heart Of Consumer Society - 2023/05/19
    We know that consumer goods degrade, but the place they come from supposedly doesn’t
  • How, Economically, We’re Fucked - 2023/05/18
    Economists believe the equivalent of the sun going around the Earth, with far worse consequences
  • No Brain Is An Island [free post] - 2023/05/16
    How individualism hurts the individual
  • Dear Dooce, RIP [free post] - 2023/05/15
    One of the first bloggers I followed has passed away
  • How Science Is Dead [free post] - 2023/05/10
    Basic science ground to a halt last century
  • How Space Is Not Going To Save Us [free post] - 2023/05/08
    Space can’t save us from ourselves
  • How The Self-Help Industry Is Built Around A Lie [free post] - 2023/05/03
    How can you help the problem?
  • How I Believe In Rebirth [free post] - 2023/05/02
    If you believe in the Buddhist concept of not-self, rebirth follows
  • How, Mathematically, We’re Fucked [free post] - 2023/04/26
    Exponential growth on a finite planet does not end well, whatever form it takes
  • Higher Consciousness, and The Incompetence To Do Anything About It [free post] - 2023/04/25
    How individuals can feel a higher consciousness, and be utterly incompetent to act on it
  • What Should An Individual Do In The Face Of Collapse? [free post] - 2023/04/21
    Ideas from the Mahabharata and dates from the Kali Yuga
  • Why Solar Won’t Save Us [free post] - 2023/04/13
    Growth is the problem, not how we grow
  • How, Financially, We’re Fucked [free post] - 2023/04/12
    Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be paid
  • The Folly Of Progress [free post] - 2023/04/11
    We’re making asteroids of ourselves
  • The Substack Shitshow [free post] - 2023/04/07
    More proof that writing is immune to Venture Capital
  • The Energy Trap [free post] - 2023/04/06
    How Empire is using our last fossil fuels for war
  • Fossil Fuels Were A One-Time Inheritance And We Blew It [free post] - 2023/04/05
    What a textbook shows about peak everything
  • How, Precisely, We’re Fucked [free post] - 2023/04/03
    A review of a seminal collapse textbook.
  • How Google Search Is Falling Behind [free post] - 2023/03/31
    Google is now noticeably worse than AI for many questions
  • How Inclusion Is Imperialism [free post] - 2023/03/30
    White Empire is just diversifying a dumpster fire
  • The Natural World Is Dying While The Artificial World Is Being Born [free post] - 2023/03/29
    What we call collapse is also creation
  • Know Your Enemy [free post] - 2023/03/28
    China, Russia, Iran, etc are not your enemies
  • The US Is Not Helping Ukraine Or Taiwan [free post] - 2023/03/24
    Death by proxy war
  • Three Ways I Actually Use AI [free post] - 2023/03/22
    Why ChatGPT and Midjourney et al are worth the hype
  • How Humanity Went Blind To The Stars - 2023/03/21
    We blotted out the night sky
  • How The White Empire Has No Clothes - 2023/03/17
    Donald Trump flashed the world and we can’t unsee it now
  • The Many Names Of White Empire - 2023/03/17
    The west, the G7, the ‘international community’, the Empire we live under hides under so many names
  • Sri Lanka Is Colonized Again - 2023/03/17
    This time by the Americans and the IMF
  • Raising Interest Rates Is Just The Rich Stealing From The Poor - 2023/03/16
    The economic equivalent of blood-letting
  • Why The Media Loves War - 2023/03/15
    It’s the money
  • We Don’t Just Burn Fossil Fuels, We Eat And Fuck Them - 2023/03/07
    Our ignorant relationship with the energy we use
  • Until We Understand Sleep, We’re Half-Asleep - 2023/03/01
    Homo Sleepians
  • Progress Is An Insult To Our Ancestors - 2023/02/24
    Hubris didn’t work out well for Icarus
  • Dinesh Schaffter, RIP - 2023/02/21
    For our beloved uncle, who was murdered on December 15th
  • Westerners Need To Shut Up About Ukraine - 2023/02/15
    With friends like these, who needs enemies?
  • How We Don’t Live Under Capitalism - 2023/02/13
    The best things in life are free
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