1 day agoMember-onlyThe Substack ShitshowMore proof that writing is immune to Venture Capital — Venture Capitalists keep discovering that there’s no money in writing in different ways. Photos, videos—fine—but writing is immune to VC. Blogger, BuzzFeed, Twitter, Medium; Substack is just the latest example. Having failed to raise $100 million from investors who are better off investing in higher interest rates (the God-tier scam)…Substack3 min readSubstack3 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyThe Energy TrapHow Empire is using our last fossil fuels for war — Fossil fuels are, by our definition, not renewable. While we won’t technically run out for a long time, economically we will. The last veins simply won’t be profitable to tap. This leaves us with a choice. Use our last fossil fuels to transition, or fight over them. Given that the…War5 min readWar5 min read
4 days agoMember-onlyFossil Fuels Were A One-Time Inheritance And We Blew ‘EmWhat a textbook shows about peak everything — Fossil fuels are—by popular definition—not renewable. We don’t have 100 million years and 100 trillion plants to bury solar energy in liquid batteries under solid rock. Fossil fuels were a one-time inheritance from our dead ancestors, and we’ve blown them all in a few generations, on coke and Ferraris. It…Fossil Fuels6 min readFossil Fuels6 min read
Mar 24Member-onlyHow, Precisely, We’re FuckedA review of a seminal collapse textbook — Energy and Human Ambition on a Finite Planet is a fantastic (and free) textbook. It teaches physics in the most fascinating way, describing how, precisely, we’re fucked. I’ll get to how fossil fuels are bad, but for now I’ll talk about how they’re good.Climate Change7 min readClimate Change7 min read
Mar 24Member-onlyHow Google Search Is Falling BehindGoogle is now noticeably worse than AI for many questions — The point of search is finding, and Google increasingly fails at its core job. I increasingly use AI for questions I used to go to Google for, threatening their very foundation of organizing the world’s information. For example, I was reading this lovely textbook about how, precisely, we’re fucked, and…Google4 min readGoogle4 min read
Mar 20Member-onlyHow Inclusion Is ImperialismWhite Empire is just diversifying a dumpster fire — Include us in what? Colored people and women have always been included in the White Empire at the level of slave and brood mare, and now they are the level of Prime Minister and CEO. But this is merely moving up within the White Empire, not moving out. Diversity, equity…Inclusion5 min readInclusion5 min read
Mar 17Member-onlyදිනේෂ් ෂාෆ්ටර් සමාදානයෙන් සැතපෙන්නමිනිසෙකුගේ ජීවිතය වෙනුවෙන් නොව ඔහුගේ මරණය වෙනුවෙන් සටන් කිරීමට සිදුවීම අරුම පුදුම මෙන්ම භයානක තත්වයකි. මගේ බිරිඳගේ ආදරණීය මාමා, මගේ ආදරණීය මාමා, දිනේෂ් ෂාෆ්ටර් දෙසැම්බර් 15 වැනිදා කිසිවෙකු විසින් ඝාතනය කළා. මාස තුනක් ගියත් තවමත් අපට උත්තරයක් නැහැ. ඒ වෙනුවට ඔහු විසින් සියදිවි නසා ගත් බවට ඔප්පු කිරීමේ සංවිධානාත්මක උත්සාහයක්…Sri Lanka4 min readSri Lanka4 min read
Mar 15Member-onlyThe Natural World Is Dying While The Artificial World Is Being BornWhat we call collapse is also creation — The natural and artificial worlds are literally two different worlds, created in the way different worlds are created. Through a climate shift. Sometimes this shift just happens, and sometimes it’s literally the new world taking a shit on the old. When photosynthetic lifeforms emerged 3.5 …Biology4 min readBiology4 min read
Mar 14Member-onlyKnow Your EnemyChina, Russia, Iran, etc are not your enemies — Well-meaning people reflexively denounce countries like China, Russia, and Iran. They are autocratic, they are dangerous, they are human rights violators. But where does this reflex come from? What do people within the White Empire really know about these places at all? Only what they’re told, and they’re told to…War5 min readWar5 min read
Mar 13Member-onlyThe US Is Not Helping Ukraine Or TaiwanDeath by proxy war — As US President Ronald Reagan said, “The top 9 most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the [US] government, and I’m here to help.” As US Secretary of State (effectively Secretary of War) Henry Kissinger said, “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be…War7 min readWar7 min read
