Beauty is the medicinal response to ugliness. Canyon above Ophir, Colorado

Where is Woodward? Where is Bernstein? Where is Ellsberg? Where is deep throat when we need them?

Pop a chocks

Find the beauty that humanity delivers as a reminder of our honor to the universe

Mount Monk

Matchmaker matchmaker make me a match

Our cultural participation is being dictated by currency. If you have little currency, you can't participate. UBI allows all of us to participate in our culture, to find our own purpose, contribute in our own way, deliver with our own strengths. It's civil stewardship. #Civilution

My brain is here. I wish my body was too.

Denver Water billboard. Colorado is in a severe drought right now.

Nothing scarier to think of than hundreds of thousands of micro drones controlled by AI.

Corporate primary fiduciary responsibility is shareholder profit growth. Scale and market control is the key to growth, fueled by cheap, abundant, transportable oil. But when oil stops flowing, scale will collapse. The key is replication that uses much less oil, not scale. @natehagens.bsky.social

Has anyone noticed that the name of billionaire Peter Thiel's AI company is Palantir, which is also the name of the Eye of Sauron in Lord Of The Rings?

The economic, political, and environmental consequences from our insatiable thirst for oil are accelerating. It's the hidden malice that will reek havoc on humanity if we continue to ignore it. It can be degrowth by disaster or ReGrowth by Design. The choice is ours. It's time for a civilution.

This installment explores how modern society has been built on the assumption of cheap and abundant energy, and what happens when that assumption breaks down. www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...

This week’s Frankly is the first in a three-part series on the role oil plays in modern civilization, prompted by the recent flow disruptions and geopolitical conflict surrounding the Strait of Hormuz. www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...

Original thinking is like going to the cognitive exercise gym. AI usurps that and we lose strength. We become cognitively fat, lazy, and dumb. Then where does AI draw its knowledge from? It creates its own - a self evolving master.

I used to blame capitalism but it's just a machine fueled by cheap, abundant, transportable fossil energy. We started it but it is now self evolving, feeding off our greed with no regard for resource depletion and ecosystem toxicity. Growth at all cost while destroying it's host - humanity cancer

1. I want everyone to receive an annual checklist that identifies which programs they want tax money spent on. 2. I want taxes to be automatic, unconditional, unavoidable, and 98% lower. We are facing a choice: degrowth by disaster or... ReGrowth by Design - A Civilution

2 good friends called us today to say they've had enough of the U.S. and are moving to Portugal. The contempt I have for Washington driving away good people knows no bounds.

Corporate boards are the problem. Their fiduciary responsibility is to shareholder passive profit. Their tool is scale and market control, regardless of the destructive environmental and cultural externalities from their decisions. Growth at all costs to make money from money. Time for a #civilution

"[It's] easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." That sentence really struck me in "The Ministry For The Future" by Kim Stanly Robinson

Misinformation researcher John Cook shares the main things to look out for to avoid being misled, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Vee too vant peace... of Ukraine

Hanging flume above the Dolores River near Uravan, SW Colorado. Built during the gold rush for placer mining. Seven miles along shear cliff. Can you imagine building that! Yikes. #JustBeColorado

In this week’s Frankly, Nate looks at how aggregate human behavior changes as groups scale from small tribes to large and complex societies. www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...

@hickenlooper.senate.gov You should boycott the State of the Union. Or break with decorum because Trump will react terribly and the world will see it.

Replication v.s. Scale Scale is a rock - immovable - inflexible - invariable - monotony - non-adaptive - self perpetuating - self motivated Replication is sand. Same material but... - flexible - adaptive - resilient - diverse - fluid - communal @natehagens.bsky.social

Neighborhood owned and governed lower and stable cost, economically self sustaining, renewable energy and healthy food - replicated everywhere.

Flipping thru late 1800's, early 1900's newspapers at the history museum is a real kick.

Peace and Strength to your family and your cause #JesseJackson

Watch 2 of my favorite Robert Duvall movies yesterday: Phenomenon Second Hand Lions

33 senate seats and all representative seats are up for election in 2026. Spines are a terrible thing to waste. You know what to do.

I said this a year ago. You think that's why they did it?

Tumblr cracks me up sometimes. It's a wonderful break from the noise, tho.

Denver tech company laying off hundreds, cited AI-driven efficiency | 9news.com share.google/A8HE74ox8NJb...

I'm done replying. Replying to "Be the rock" with something as innocent as... "Sometimes be the sand: - flexible - adaptive - resilient - diverse - fluid - communal" draws a block. I have better things to do like civil stewardship initiatives and community. #civilution

Peace in our time.

I have a question that is over my head. Can a legit military branch be used to enforce court orders? Seems that right now, a court delivers an order but it's ignored. "What are you gonna do about it?" from the perps. No teeth to enforce the order. And ICE outnumbers the police in MN by 6 to 1

Wait! Reflected light transports heat??

Sticks and stones may... Oh, never mind.

Avalanche on Magnolia Chute just outside of Ophir, Colo. Yes, we name our avalanche chutes in Colorado. Standing on the other side of the road where it's safe and the cloud of snow that envelops us carries an incredible pine smell. #justbecolorado

My favorite entrepreneurial phrase - "If they say you can't, then you have to".

In time, even the persistent gentle flow of water can cut through the hardest rock. Nature always shows us a way.

Decisions, decisions

Mist rising in the dead calm. The exhale of nature in the cold air. #justbecolorado

"Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass"

Our culture is succumbing to technology addiction. I'm moving toward being a born again luddite. #civilution