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U.S. Policy Implications of Global Peak Oil Demand
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Back in the beginning of the century James Kuntsler published the book The Long Emergency which warned about societal collapse due to declining oil production combined with “climate change, resurgent diseases, water scarcity, global economic instability and warfare to cause major trouble for...
14h ago
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Constitutional crisis update 2/10/2025 3:53 pm
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Even a (so-far) nonviolent constitutional crisis moves swiftly. So far today there have been significant developments in two ongoing lawsuits to check the unlawful, unconstitutional conduct of the Trump regime. Both bring us closer to the inevitable face-off between the federal judiciary and...
4h ago
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Capitalism Is Enclosing On Everyone And Everything
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We see it every day and don’t notice it. In our digital lives, where Twitter Blue offers to artificially inflate your reach, for a monthly fee. On vacation with our families, where theme parks allow you to skip long lines, for a price. In our political lives, where bad
12h ago
From ghost.io
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More recently the cats have been sleeping closer to each other. For a while they preferred having their own spots on the couch, or slept in different rooms. Silly guys. 😺
#blog #cats #photography #BlackAndWhite
23h ago
From ghost.io
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If the project of capitalism ends up later this century with no-one being able to do the materially advanced civilisation it aspires to, will it have been a success? There will have been lots of meetings, for sure.
12h ago
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To The Point But What's The Point?
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I'm experiencing the same panic I always do about social media, about content. What, how, where, when—WHY. Every part of that list confuses me, but the why is where all motivation evaporates. Especially when the chase—for likes, shares, engagement, and ultimately, money—is so bad for me. Maybe
19h ago
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Flexible Technologies, Inflexible Routines?
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Open source adoption in the public sector / Taking notes with Docs / UN OS Week
21h ago
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First impressions of the Ghost editor experience
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I’ve been a long time getting here, but now I’m here, the Ghost Admin interface is impressively minimal. Keeping things simple takes real discipline, in service of what John O’Nolan calls “making the product great”. And Ghost does a great job of making good choices. Up to
15h ago
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The newsletter resurrected; thoughts on Creation Lake
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I’ve decided to take a crack at having a newsletter again. I’ve migrated from Substack to Ghost for the obvious reasons, though I don’t feel any rancor towards people who haven’t made the same move. Life online in 2025 is the process of choosing from an
3h ago
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Welcome to Meditations in an Emergency
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We are very clearly in a lot of emergencies right now. They demand action. But action demands thought and thoughtfulness: who are we, what are our values, our goals, our allies, our possibilities, and our powers? What can we learn from those who've faced similar crises, what's distinct about this
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DEI, Segregation, And The Bad Faith That Explains It All
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Those on the right should not be allowed to sit behind the DEI shield any longer. If they won’t say what they mean, people should be told what they mean.
#dei #news #black #cable #color #facts #lgbtq #media #trump #women
6h ago
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CFPB Is Suspended & We Are All at Risk
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What shutting down the CFPB means for working Americans and the billionaire class Subscribe to Let's Address This A quick story to start. Before jumping full time into human rights law, my first job out of law school was at a major bank. My team worked to ensure it complied
1h ago
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The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with Political Scientist Erica Chenoweth
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"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone." That's what
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