@seva.bsky.social is pulling no punches: "In 1991, the United States had a reason to fight; in 2003 it manufactured one; in 2026 it didn’t bother"

“As the territory of Mind gets taken over by the AI giants, Deep Humanity becomes the new product for the refugees. You are pushed to find this new commodity within yourself, and to haul it out like felled logs drawn from your inner, hidden rainforest.” My latest essay www.asomo.co/p/humanity-a...

432.81 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 31-Mar-2026 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Really interesting figure putting present and future climate change in context with paleoclimate data Read the details on his substack here: open.substack.com/pub/justdean...

A survey of California’s Sierra Nevada today found 18% of average statewide snowpack, with no measurable snow at Lake Tahoe, during what should be the peak season for the “frozen reservoir” that provides almost 1/3rd of the state’s annual water supply. (water.ca.gov/News/News-Re...) 🧵⬇️

And there we have it.

That’s one hell of a cover…..

How cultural history becomes climate history...

Indonesia saw deforestation hit an eight-year high last year, a surge driven in part by a sprawling effort to turn rainforest into rice and sugarcane plantations.

'Believe it or not, there is still plenty of slack in the system. I’m not suggesting that it will be pleasant—civilizational decline rarely is. But honestly, what did we expect? That fossil fuels and minerals will last forever? Or that there won’t come a day when empire ends?'

Since 2007, the payoff from a degree in Britain has quietly gone backwards. Postgraduate median salaries are down 17% in real terms. Undergraduate pay is down 12%. Non-graduates saw only a 3% decline. Factor in rising student debt and the gap widens further: buff.ly/8Uu0WpQ

Extractivism

"Great News"

Tom Morello opening speech in Minneapolis 🔥

Longitudinal oil prices: every price spike was followed by a recession. Every big spike als had a name: 1864: Civil War 1973: Arab Oil Embargo 1979: Iranian Revolution 1990: Gulf War 2008: Financial Crisis 2026: tbc (but my money is on “Trump Spike”)

Hit me that we've now been talking about bold climate action as the duty of "this generation" for three generations. We've missed the chance at an orderly transition, and live now in an era of urgent harm reduction, irreversible discontinuity and massive ruggedization. The slogans remain the same.

Globally, wild grasslands and wetlands are being destroyed for agriculture 4x faster even than forests, with 67% of that for livestock. We can't keep ignoring the elephant in the room: animal farming is killing our living planet. share.google/3ZRoI47pYd76...

The more you read about the terrible miscalculation of bombing Iran, the more you understand the unintended consequences. Fertilizer plants being forced to shut down, leads to lower yields, higher food prices, and will quite literally kill people due to hunger.

This is the situation we find ourselves in

The fact is, methane has caused about 30% of the warming we have seen to date. And all non-CO2 warming pollution, taken together, has caused about half of the warming so far. And of the CO2 warming we have seen, a big chunk of that has been caused by deforestation.

How hot is too hot for humans? Not 35C wet-bulb, as long assumed A new study finds: Survival limits vary with age & exposure Sun + dry heat can be just as dangerous as humidity Heatwaves already crossing critical thresholds We’re closer to the edge than we thought www.nature.com/articles/s41...

'Chips depreciate rapidly…so the physical assets backing all this debt lose value on a schedule.Token pricing…is deflationary' 'Even the optimistic scenario,where AI revenues keep growing,implies years before profitability and millions of job losses along the way' www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

haha how silly… oh (from @twonks.bsky.social)

If you ever wondered where Musk’s distorted understanding of humans as computers and politics as code comes from 👇👇👇

"[E]conomies need to be weaned off insecure sources of energy .... It is a fantasy to think that this transition can be achieved if governments keep mindlessly absorbing the costs of the present system, while limiting rewards for those offering more robust alternatives." The Economist, 26th March

The head scarf is a nice touch Can we please issue some for every part of the kill chain

"The political message of private equity is: do what you want, because no one’s going to hold you accountable." Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel 👇 or listen wherever you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HOm...

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

A drought in Russia sparked bread riots in Egypt. Fires in Canada fueled deadly pollution in Spain. Extreme weather can have ripple effects in faraway places that are rarely considered in planning, a new paper warns.

Quinn and I chatted with John Guida at the NYT about Iran, Musk, Hegel, sovereignty, mind viruses, and social contracts

"That's one small step for a small man, one giant leap backwards for mankind"

Fig. 1 for the ages

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

We should all be asking questions 1 and 2.

As is everything else. 'Money is turning the natural world into more money as fast as it can' –the late Stuart Scott

Our comicbook on #biodiversity credits / #offsets is finally available in print! You can order a copy for the price of $10 here: twn.my/title2/books... And you can still download the pdf for free here: greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u... Happy reading!

China may be the world leader in renewable energy, but its heavy reliance on coal has kept its emissions stubbornly high. Its latest five-year plan offers little hope that China will halt its coal power buildout, putting its climate goals at serious risk.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, China $9tn. As a whole the cheapest and in so many other ways the best option would be to get rid of fossil fuels quickly. Right now would be a good time to really do it and save money .......and the planet.

A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.

From today's @financialtimes.com #trump #iran #exit

My latest:

"Conservationists are trained to notice what most people do not see: a reef that has lost its vibrancy and color, a forest that no longer holds the same birds, a river that carries less life each season.." www.butlernature.com/2026/03/22/t... poignant artcle by @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social

On 21 March 2026 almost the entire US is recorded at or near record maximum temperature for this date in the 30-year record. Source: buff.ly/z2LC20Y

Swedish researchers found that freedom of expression in the US “is now at its lowest level since the end of WWII.” www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/m...

Scenes from the Canadian Arctic - Carlos Osorio, a photojournalist with Reuters, recently traveled to Canada’s northern reaches to document military exercises, daily life, robotic testing, wildlife, and more. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

this is a huge deal and a sign of the changing legal tides for big tech. the plaintiffs attorneys here were early adopters of a novel legal strategy that uses product liability law to sidestep tech companies' go-to defense (section 230) and hold them accountable for defective or negligent design

431.59 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 24-Mar-2026 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu