Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

Good morning. How about 2000 words about the state of the US oil industry? "Hamm admitted the Bakken is 'tapped out.' The reason he is buying shale assets in other countries is because the reality is that the U.S. oil industry is tapped out."

These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking." It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.

There are 56,000 of them, the wealthiest 0.001% of the planet with at least €254 million in assets. Together, they now own three times more than the poorest half of humanity or 2.8 billion adults …Back in 1995, the 0.001% held "only" twice as much as the poorest half. www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

Bucks (school board) no longer sucks

Capitalism’s promise of prosperity has always been shadowed by ecological destruction and persistent exploitation. Our podcast of the week excavates capitalism's critics, many of whom anticipated crises now intensifying. With @johncassidysays.bsky.social on @climatepod.bsky.social buff.ly/x4otfzM

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I hope you all read this from me.

I want Democrats who understand that the goal is to lay waste to Trump, his toadies, his movement, and his party, and that after you’ve done that you can turn the country over to the survivors and they can quibble over how to fund the social safety net with less-than-existential stakes

I just goddamn hate that the argument against taking cell phones away from kids in school is mostly “but if someone breaks in and shoots at them, they won’t be able to tell their parents whether they’re ok”. As the framers intended, I guess.

This is so goddamn good. More people need to be talking like this. *Of course* Sam Altman wants basically all the money in the world. That’s how he creates his spacefaring race of AI agents who will conduct commerce at an infinitely rising rate. Yay, more money for Sam.

There was a nice conversation about this on Outrage and Optimism. www.outrageandoptimism.org/episodes/the...

My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

We heard the rumors. Maybe president panican will declare martial law, maybe he won’t. But do you think this clown car of incompetent sycophantic signal leakers can keep all 300 million of us down? Absolutely not. We will not comply. Here’s some advice from Oliver Kornetzke. Let’s get weird.

5/ You can listen to it on Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4... Truly, a must-listen.

I had a very intense revelation about social media, tech, and friendships thanks to a deeply personal moment in therapy, and I share it all with you this week in my newsletter. www.leahreich.com/the-great-va...

Love that capitalism is the best possible system that can never be replaced and that we're all going to suffer terrible hardship because the winners of capitalism asked an LLM how to do tariffs.

I’m at a massive trade deficit with the Girl Scouts. Curse them and their delicious cookies! Working on a tariff implementation plan now.

The future is a web of branching paths, and each choice opens up new possibilities as it closes others. This is as true for a civilization as it is for an individual. The more our collective intelligence can inform each choice, the better our chances of finding paths through to a beautiful future.

More and more people are saying this

”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"

Thank you! It worries me a great deal. I'm trying to keep my own kid on the pens and paper for as long as I possibly can. I did a little follow up to this strip, too. The whole situation makes me feel so sad and angry.

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

NEW: How Elon Musk’s SpaceX secretly allows investment from China. They are funneled through offshore secrecy havens, according to court documents. @justinelliott.bsky.social & @josh-kaplan.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Uh oh the Trump administration accidentally added us to their group chat

some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%

I love that @thebaffler.com review of the overhyped ABUNDANCE [®️] book politely and eloquently outs it as just the latest Third way style neo-neoliberalism rebrand ("less than the sum of its parts") and basically says skip the book and go read this cool paper from the 90's on solar communism. 😆

No genAI company is interested in the equitable distribution of resources; what they want is to be the sole provider of a system that every institution on earth depends on and collect exorbitant rents for that service

There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk) Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.

eBay have changed their terms of service and you're automatically opted-in for your personal data to be used for AI development and training. To turn this off, sign into your account click on the Hi (your name)! > My eBay > Account > AI training preferences and you can toggle off the permission.

"Any member over 70 should see the writing on the wall." Mmmhmmm. puck.news/democrats-co...

You have every reason to fear police action for even THINKING about having an abortion post-Roe. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

why is this not a gigantic fucking scandal that we're talking about 24/7. an unelected billionaire is fueling threats against federal judges and he just keeps on with his wanton destruction of the federal government

Exclusive: Six sources who worked for the Air Force or in Congress told ProPublica that they had heard about Sen. Joni Ernst’s relationship with a top military official and there had been concerns about it for years.

I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv

I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.

Stand with your backs to him for the first 10min. Then do a walk-out, and hold a press conference on the Capitol steps outlining his every abuse of the Constitution since inauguration, with at least one victim present for each to share their story.

I’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE. Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!? secured.heritage.org/the-heritage... Please share with a friend or a thousand :)

This short video on the false promise of using AI for climate is brilliant. The speaker worked years at Microsoft and resigned over the AI's broken promise. It's only 5 minutes, but a high quality 5 minutes:

Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn. www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

Despite the narrative there’s no popular resistance to Trump, protests are erupting at Tesla dealerships, in public squares, and beyond. @alexwinter.com joins the show to talk about the Tesla Takedown and the movement to fight DOGE and save democracy. Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote. — David Foster Wallace

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

It's extra wild considering that Mogensen was a pilot on SpaceX's Crew-7 mission

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.