NEW: President Trump mentioned over 1,000 times in Epstein files, more than anyone else. (gift) www.miamiherald.com/article31290...

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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

"[AMOC collapse] is a direct threat to national resilience and security" the Icelandic Climate Minister said "It's the first time a specific climate-related phenomenon has been brought to the National Security Council as a potential existential threat" Significant www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

"HISTORY DOESN'T REPEAT ITSELF BUT IT OFTEN RHYMES . . . " POST REALITY 2025 QUANTUM FASCISM www.realitystudies.co/p/quantum-fa...

For months I’ve been feeling like the particular brand of American authoritarianism needs a new containing concept. “Quantum Fascism” is my attempt: www.realitystudies.co/p/quantum-fa...

Like séances surging after the Civil War and Spanish Flu, today's AI promises—eternal life, superintelligence, climate solutions—emerge from the conditions of collective grief and fear.

In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

Deleted this because the quotes were spiraling. I’m not hoping for an angry mob. I’m worried about it and I’m worried about leaders who aren’t.

A rousing message from the “born yesterday” department.

Time to register as independent. I mean it. No more “lesser of two evils” voter alignment. It’s a small thing you can do to send the DNC a message.

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

Your experience on Instagram is about to get worse. More on @realitystudies.bsky.social: www.realitystudies.co/p/instagram-...

The hardening Beltway conventional wisdom about the tolerability of 3°C of warming (leaving aside the possibility of carbon cycle feedbacks kicking that up to around 4°C) is crazy. thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...

substack.com/@damiani/not... Platforms change policies constantly, and generally, we can choose to adapt or not (I left X entirely because no adaptation could salvage the content sewer it had become). @jessedamiani.bsky.social focuses here on Instagram/Meta’s latest move:

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."

"An American-Israeli geoengineering startup seeking US government contracts to [dim the sun] has quietly begun lobbying on Capitol Hill." Yet Holland & Knight, the law firm they hired for that purpose, "didn't disclose its lobbying 'due to a clerical error'." Shady in multiple senses of the word!

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

poor guy

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The far right want you to believe that immigration causes an explosion of crime. It's simply untrue. Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.

GOOD MORNING AMERICA

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

hell yeah lol

"I don't know who he is," Trump said when asked on CBS's "60 Minutes" why he pardoned him. “I can only tell you this. My sons are into it … I’m glad they are, because it’s probably a great industry, crypto. I think it’s good.” “I know nothing about the guy,” Trump said again when pressed.

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hi. wtaf.

Fascist fitness?! It’s a thing - come and check it out on this substack live substack.com/@damiani/not...

a huge part of the gen ai project is to create the mythic past that is central to the fascist narrative: the non-existent golden age that needs to be restored and the supposed fallen present that must be overturned. if these things are lies then reality itself must be altered to make them true

Last night, the National Guard chased children who were out enjoying Halloween in Navy Yard. There is no valid reason for armed soldiers to terrorize children like this. End Trump’s occupation of DC. National Guard out NOW.

if you believe that a better world is possible, you may be tarred as a doomer, because achieving a better world involves calling attention to what is wrong with this one. your very optimism is called pessimism, particularly by people for whom the current world is more than comfortable.

Garamendi: If you look at the negotiations, there was a winner — it was China — and there was a loser — it was Trump… Trump went into that as a loser, and he came out of it as an even bigger loser. The fact of the matter is that China dominated that discussion.

In 2018, MIT did a study showing a 34% failure rate when detecting dark-skinned faces with characteristics typically considered feminine. A lot can change in a product in seven years, but not the white supremacy embedded in the way it was conceived.

Great coverage from @emorwee.bsky.social of the first entire unit to be let go at CBS News under new management: the climate team 🙃 heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

Grateful as always for Dr Sascha Luccioni’s research into the energy discrepancies between image, text, & now video generation: “Creating [one] AI video uses approximately 90 Watt-hours, compared to the 2.9Wh needed for image generation and 0.047Wh for text generation.” www.cnet.com/tech/service...

17-18% of the entire state of Louisiana is on SNAP. This’ll go well for him.

Continually astounded by the complete ease with which they lie through their teeth

Hi, OpenAI’s Atlas browser is a privacy/security nightmare. I write about why below on @realitystudies.bsky.social. Proceed with the utmost caution. open.substack.com/pub/damiani/...

Just love @jessedamiani.bsky.social’s pithy, deeply humble style: “(Bryan Johnson is) a mirror of the system that produced him—a world that demands endless growth, endless self-optimization, endless extraction...the capitalist death drive disguised as vitality.” open.substack.com/pub/damiani/...

Trump, famed peacemaker, is about to get us in a forever war in this hemisphere, for the same reason America always gets in forever wars. Oil.

To understand the climate connection to Hurricane Melissa, check out our real-time attribution page at @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc... "Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."

"Let’s not forget that there are those to hold accountable for disasters like this: the policymakers and fossil fuel companies who have long obstructed climate action, lied about climate science, and left communities to face the destruction of extreme disasters."

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.' We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them. Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse. Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped? www.theguardian.com/environment/...