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The Substack Shitshow

More 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)…

Substack

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The Substack Shitshow
The Substack Shitshow
Substack

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2 days ago

The Energy Trap

How 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…

War

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The Energy Trap
The Energy Trap
War

5 min read


4 days ago

Fossil Fuels Were A One-Time Inheritance And We Blew ‘Em

What 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 Fuels

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Fossil Fuels Were A One-Time Inheritance And We Blew ‘Em
Fossil Fuels Were A One-Time Inheritance And We Blew ‘Em
Fossil Fuels

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Mar 24

How, Precisely, We’re Fucked

A 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 Change

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How, Precisely, We’re Fucked
How, Precisely, We’re Fucked
Climate Change

7 min read


Mar 24

How Google Search Is Falling Behind

Google 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…

Google

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How Google Search Is Falling Behind
How Google Search Is Falling Behind
Google

4 min read


Mar 20

How Inclusion Is Imperialism

White 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…

Inclusion

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How Inclusion Is Imperialism
How Inclusion Is Imperialism
Inclusion

5 min read


Mar 17

දිනේෂ් ෂාෆ්ටර් සමාදානයෙන් සැතපෙන්න

මිනිසෙකුගේ 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 Lanka

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දිනේෂ් ෂාෆ්ටර් සමාදානයෙන් සැතපෙන්න
දිනේෂ් ෂාෆ්ටර් සමාදානයෙන් සැතපෙන්න
Sri Lanka

4 min read


Mar 15

The Natural World Is Dying While The Artificial World Is Being Born

What 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 …

Biology

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The Natural World Is Dying While The Artificial World Is Being Born
The Natural World Is Dying While The Artificial World Is Being Born
Biology

4 min read


Mar 14

Know Your Enemy

China, 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…

War

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Know Your Enemy
Know Your Enemy
War

5 min read


Mar 13

The US Is Not Helping Ukraine Or Taiwan

Death 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…

War

7 min read

The US Is Not Helping Ukraine Or Taiwan
The US Is Not Helping Ukraine Or Taiwan
War

7 min read

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Indrajit Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Newsletter at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.

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