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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

The Worm in Our Brain

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

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The Worm in Our Brain

15h ago

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

A Downhill Racing Strategy to Stop Climate Change

Seventeen years is all it would take subatomic nanocarbon wavesurfing to arrest glacial melting

Apr 16

A Downhill Racing Strategy to Stop Climate Change

Apr 16

Batman & Penguin: The Dark Night Lifts

A rash of billionaire bankruptcies lead us to a great reveal

Apr 9

Batman & Penguin: The Dark Night Lifts

Apr 9

Salad Days for Con Men

How long can a grift go on before the mark catches on?

Apr 2

Salad Days for Con Men

Apr 2

Our Man in Moscow

… this has all been going on for a while

Mar 26

Our Man in Moscow

Mar 26

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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