When technology, capitalism, and loneliness, er, romance and capitalism meet there's a huge opportunity for secondary services. Here's one company stepping boldly into the future! @david-batty.bsky.social @sam-apple.bsky.social @bcmerchant.bsky.social

For everyone up in arms about #Disney and ABC's decision to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air: Why would we expect corporate capitalists to put free speech above profits when they won't put a livable planet for trillions of beings above their next quarterly earnings?

What from 2025 would you put in the post #collapse museum of 2125 to best capture late stage consumer #capitalism? Our picks: Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytownWB Check out links to our objects (SPOILER ALERT): www.resilience.org/stories/2025... youtube.com/shorts/Y4Vfz...

Which is the bigger testament to living in #CrazyTown: - That EV adoption might be held back by the fact that Americans have too much crap in their garages to put in a charger OR - That John #@%% Bolton would elicit any sympathy whatsoever? arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08...

Instead of an exponential acceleration of knowledge and intelligence, #AI should be seen as a force of rapid wealth and power consolidation, resource drawdown, and the further destruction of critical thinking, cooperation, and creativity just when we need them most. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

One thing not discussed enough about the post #collapse future is how many blackberries there will be.

We need a new term for when Trump waves a shiny bauble to his anti-woke mob, like the Commanders story: An Epstein Whistle.

In my 17 years with @postcarbon.org we've produced a dozen books, I don't know how many reports, dozens and dozens of online events, thousands of articles, hundreds of podcast episodes, etc. But the thing that might have given me most joy was this from 14 years ago: youtu.be/Jjk0iIoXNek?...

Can you just imagine the kinds of conspiracy theories we’re going to get when Trump dies?

Loved the convo between @jvl.bsky.social and ‪@timmiller.bsky.social‬ on the douchiest of douchebags, Marc Andreesen. They almost had as much fun as we did when we eviscerated Andreesen's Techno-optimist Manifesto: www.resilience.org/stories/2023...

"He said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size of Manhattan (59.1 sq km/22.8 sq miles)." Someone might want to consider unplugging and then replugging our economy, if this is how it behaves "rationally."

@sanders.senate.gov perpetually looks like he can't believe he has to put up with this shit. And I feel that 💯.

60 years later and how much better (or worse) would such an experiment go?

This is what #resistance looks like?

Classic whistling past the graveyard @nytimes.com and @housedemocrats.bsky.social.

You know things are bad when debating which elements of the Cruel Capitalist Crapsandwich (AKA Trump's BBB) is worst feels like betting on which of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse will win the Kentucky Derby.

Any claim of being the pro-life party should now and forever be received with howls of derision. Among many, many horrors this bill is essentially a gigantic fuck you to today's and future children -- human and non-human. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

Latest episode of @postcarbon.org 's Crazy Town podcast takes us to one of the weirdest spots in the U.S. to explore the renewable energy transition. Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytown Listen/read transcript: lnkd.in/gqaNEYFM

I guess the thinking is that with #AI and #climate breakdown, there won't be future generations?

Is widespread AI deployment the most extreme example of anti- precautionary principle practice? Would you say Manhattan Project? CRISPR?

Speaking of #polycrisis, Trump and other dark triad forces sure know how to use (sometimes manufactured) crises to achieve their goals.

Episode 105 of Crazy Town: Our surprising "solution" to the housing crisis. Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytownWB Read the transcript: lnkd.in/gXT6fPhZ Featuring a very different challenge to @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social 's "abundance" vision than typically found on the political left.

Signs of a healthy economy.

Alex Leff does a fantastic job exploring an enormous topic -- where our ideologies and the left/right political axis come from -- with skill, humor, insights, and great soundscaping. I'm a huge fan of @mikeduncan.bsky.social and @dancarlin.bsky.social, but Alex is giving them a run for their money.

The world has gone bunking mad. Jason, Rob, and I have some fun at the expense of the bunker builders before examining the positive aspects of peasanthood and stressing the need to build community. @postcarbon.org #CrazyTown www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

You know, I thought Idiocracy was the most apt dystopian film to capture the moment we live in, but maybe it's actually The Running Man? www.imdb.com/title/tt0093... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

Friends in #environmental #law may not find some of this conversation easy to hear. But it's serious food for thought at a time when questions about the sanctity of the rule of law, the Constitution, and the rights of people and communities are more important than ever.

Put this in the evidence bucket for the theory that we're all living in Elon's glitchy simulation. #musk #AI #trump www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/t...

Hannah Arendt famously wrote of the “banality of evil” in the Nazi regime. I’m afraid the 21st century update on the Trump regime will have to feature the “stupidity of evil.”

Can we just agree that the President of the United States can no longer be called the leader of the free world?

For #earthday the #CrazyTown team @postcarbon.org wonked out on leaf cutter ants, cities as dissipative structures, the human superorganism, and how to build with composting in mind. Listen on your favorite app here: lnk.to/crazytownWB

How's everyone in the enviro/climate NGO space doing today? 😬

They had me at "compound surrounded by a moat that can be lit on fire." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is perhaps the best encapsulation of late stage, tech capitalism I can imagine. #AI #ChatGPT #openAI #capitalism #energy

Pope Francis is going to have some words for Saint Peter about needing to spend his last day on Earth with JD Vance.

What does it mean that our president's only ally is President Bukkake?

"Within the deteriorating circumstances of a world seemingly on the verge of environmental ruin and global conflict, eco-localist strategies are looking more and more sensible."

The U.S. circa 2025, in a nutshell. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This seems both kind and smart. apnews.com/article/weat...

Calling on all DC businesses to publicly refuse service to anyone like the Dept of Justice lawyer Ensign who is actively collaborating with the Regime to break the law.

If thoughts were food, this piece would fill you up for a week. The old Upton Sinclair quote ("It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it") came to mind when reading this great piece. @postcarbon.org

Trumpistan is exploring the edges of Peak Outrage.

I think this must be the freedom Republicans keep talking about: Freedom to grift out in the open. www.npr.org/2025/04/09/n...

Everyone says the Trump Regime are anti-science. Not true. They are embracing quantum physics: If there is no observer of greenhouse gas emissions, they didn't happen. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

At least the stupid is in the less bad direction.

I’ve never seen a single person troll the entire global economy before. And he’s too stupid to even realize that’s what he’s doing.

Seeing the world through #polycrisis and Limits to Growth glasses is bizarre - finding myself strongly agreeing and disagreeing with people on both ends of the political spectrum, like Trump, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, @sanders.senate.gov, and RFK, Jr. Only 100% no is Elon.

Look, we knew the Great Unraveling was underway. But this is ridiculous. www.postcarbon.org/publications...

I had a lovely conversation with the writer and tech critic @bcmerchant.bsky.social about the history of the #Luddites and the rise of the new Luddites, in a time when #AI and automation are being shoved down our collective throats. Catch it here: www.resilience.org/stories/2025... @postcarbon.org

The Signal group fiasco is obviously problematic and warrants outrage. But the amount of attention the media and Congressional Dems have spent on this compared to sudden cuts for programs that literally save millions of lives is a recriminating story about our priorities. apnews.com/article/gavi...