10 hours agoMember-onlyHow, Precisely, We’re FuckedEnergy and human ambitions on a finite planet, a sorta review — 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
21 hours agoMember-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
5 days agoMember-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 billion years ago, they ‘shit’…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
Mar 12Member-onlyThree Ways I Actually Use AIWhy ChatGPT and Midjourney et al are worth the hype — After years of bullshit, the new crop of AI is worth the hype. Text and image generations actually save time (ergo money) and effectively pass the Turing Test. Servers have finally become servants, capable of taking orders. These are 3 ways I have used AI to actually save time and…AI4 min readAI4 min read
Mar 10Member-onlyHow Humanity Went BlindWhen we blotted out the stars — Our ancestors understood the universe much better than us. They simply saw it more. Modern technology has completely whited out the night sky. Satellites and background interference are making observatories on Earth useless. We might have the exact gas composition of the universe written down somewhere, but we can’t see…Universe5 min readUniverse5 min read
Mar 7Member-onlySri Lanka Is Colonized AgainThis time by the Americans and the IMF — In the old days, squabbling feudal elites sold Sri Lanka out to the colonizers. We call the colonizers Dutch, Portuguese, and British, but in truth it was private companies who paid protection money to the crown. One feudal lord would feud with another, and then ask the white men with…Sri Lanka4 min readSri Lanka4 min read
