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Aug 15 2025
from “Losing Earth” by Nathaniel Rich
from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news “The climate scientist James Hansen has called two-degree warming “a prescription for long-term disaster.” Long-term disaster is now the best-case scenario. Three-degree warming is a prescription for short-term disaster: forests in the Arctic and the loss of most coastal cities. Robert Watson, a former director of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
Aug 05 2025
John Kerry on Trump (on Bill Maher)
“Trump responds more to his Twitter ‘likes’ than his briefing books and the Constitution of the United States.” (And that was about his first term.) “He has the maturity of an 8-year-old boy and the insecurity of a teenage girl.”
Aug 04 2025
a few bits from John Scalzi’s Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
(a collection of pieces from his “Whatever” website at https://whatever.scalzi.com/) “They don’t really advertise that they kill people,” said marine reservist Stephen Funk, about why he refused to report for active duty. “I didn’t really realize the full implications of what I was doing.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4/2/03 responding to that, Scalzi says “You have to …
Aug 03 2025
Mania, Lionel Shriver – VERY HIGH RECOMMENDED
This is a brilliant novel. And not at all an exaggerated prediction for a near-future. The whole Mental Parity thing (no one is smarter than anyone else) is in line with the whole trans thing (sex is a social construct, not a biological reality; I’m female if I think I am), faith-based science, postmodernism (there …
Jul 31 2025
from New Model Army, Adam Roberts
“… none of the so-called democracies in the world today are properly democratic. They are, rather, rigid hierarchies, whose oligarchs consent, every few years, to punctuate their routine with a single mass reality-TV-show-style plebiscite. That’s not what democracy means.” p3 or, said better, in my opinion, “We don’t have democracy, in the world of politics …
Jul 29 2025
These fires brought to you by …
Watching the weather network, with the ads: the fires in Turkey brought to you by Mitsubishi’s new crossover SUV, the Outlander. Literally brought to you by. It’s exactly like an ad for guns showing right after news of a school shooting. See the problem? How can they, the people behind the weather network, can be …
Jul 28 2025
Nietzsche on natural death
“Under certain conditions, it is improper to live any longer. Continued vegetation in cowardly dependence upon physicians and prescription, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, should entail the profound contempt of humanity.” Nietzsche “Natural death is death under the most contemptible conditions. It is involuntary death, death at the …
Jul 27 2025
This Changes Everything changed nothing.
This Changes Everything is the most important book ever written. Because it changed nothing. You need to read the book in order to understand my point. And therein lies the problem: people don’t read anymore. Almost half (48.5%) of Americans haven’t read a single book in the past year. And, surprising to me, the U.S. …
Jul 26 2025
Hacks (feat. Jean Smart) – highly recommended
If you’re not into it, at least watch episode 8 of season 1. (on Crave TV)
Jul 26 2025
A brilliant observation by Kierkegaard from 1838
“People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of expression as compensation.” Kierkegaard (1838)
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