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Miss Hottest September Ever

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — Dickens

Oct 14, 2023

Miss Hottest September Ever

Oct 14, 2023

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Superorganism Intelligence, Nuclear Power and the Metacrisis of Wisdom

Are we at the Fermi Paradox filter moment?

May 31, 2023

Superorganism Intelligence, Nuclear Power and the Metacrisis of Wisdom

May 31, 2023

Zombie Musknukonomics

Just look behind that bank of servers. Somewhere there is a plug going into a socket in the wall

3d ago

Zombie Musknukonomics

3d ago

The Sunset of Musknukonomics

He came to Washington with a chain saw and left with a black eye

Jun 4

The Sunset of Musknukonomics

Jun 4

Transporting us beyond Seas: Le Grand Dérangement

In 1774, the Colonial response to Crown deportation policies went beyond mere opposition to inconvenient regulations.

May 28

Transporting us beyond Seas: Le Grand Dérangement

May 28

Hakeem takes the oath

A ChatGPT Sci Fi Fantasy

May 21

Hakeem takes the oath

May 21

The Worm in Our Brain

We are roughly 20 years into the Facebook Era of consensus by neotribal eyeball tally.

May 14

The Worm in Our Brain

May 14

Sophie Mousseau (1859–1936)

A lot of history in a single image

May 7

Sophie Mousseau (1859–1936)

May 7

Slouching Towards Idiocracy

Our children may remember when “being verifiably human” was still a thing. Their children may not.

Apr 30

Slouching Towards Idiocracy

Apr 30

The Once and Future Nuke

Zombie reactors are being reanimated

Apr 23

The Once and Future Nuke

Apr 23

Albert Bates

Albert Bates

Emergency Planetary Technician and Climate Science Wonk — using naturopathic remedies to recover the Holocene without geoengineering or ponzinomics.

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