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Month: February 2025

  • easy solutions to problems of unfathomable scale

    Offered without comment: The modern condition consists of a constant self-infantilization, of any number of “non-adulting” activities. The main being, of course, plugging into a dopamine casino right before going to sleep and right upon waking up. At least a morning cigarette habit in 1976 gave one time to look at the world in front…

  • the truth will out

    “N-th verse / same as the first”

  • drill, baby, drill

    Things may be pretty messy all over, but at least renewable energy is winning the game, right? What’s particularly surprising is that the IEA’s electricity report is absolutely devastating to the project of decarbonization, but few in the climate community seem alarmed by it, so far. Cold Eye Earth offers the following reason why: the…

  • the myopia of futurism

    If you think that “AI” is going to put futurists out of work, then your idea of what a futurist does is centered on the regurgitation of cliches and truisms… and you’re probably right.

  • global village people

    “The isle is full of voices…”