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Anthropic said no to the Pentagon's classified AI contract — too many loopholes for mass surveillance & autonomous weapons. OpenAI stepped in within hours to take the deal.

This is what choosing profit over principles looks like in the AI arms race.

#QuitGPT

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Joe Briefcase watches not because he's broken, but because television has become the default mode of western leisure, the unquestioned background radiation of domestic life.

Joe Briefcase represents the statistical norm, not the pathological case, yet his viewing habits reveal something profound about Western consciousness.

"Joe Briefcase" is Wallace's term for the prototypical American TV viewer — average, relatively unlonely, adjusted, married with 2.5 children, returning home from work at 5:30 to spend six hours in front of the television.

Your weather app is a surveillance device.

How do I care for the part of me that is convinced it will never be full?

I believe I have a hole inside of me so deep and so empty that no amount of love in the whole world could ever fill it.

Meaning is not given; it is made, and remade, in the act of attention. To choose what to worship is to choose what to notice, what to honor, what to make real.

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Meaning is not given; it is made, and remade, in the act of attention. To choose what to worship is to choose what to notice, what to honor, what to make real.

The “default setting” is the myth of separation, the trance of self-centeredness. We are conditioned to see ourselves as the center, but what if the center is everywhere, and the circumference nowhere?

In 2014, Margaret Atwood wrote a new novel that none of us will get to read. The manuscript of Scribbler Moon is locked in a building in Oslo and will be published in 2114.

"Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening"

- Chico Mendes

"The history of humanity is the 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 of a few trying to live at the expense of the many."

- Jorge Wagensberg

reference: www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailin...

The UN body known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) bases Earth Climate Sensitivity almost exclusively on climate models, and continues erroneously to claim that Earth Climate Sensitivity is 3.0 C for a doubling of CO2.

99% certainty that 4.5 C will be a reality soon

YouTube video by Nate Hagens In the game of energy musical chairs, the "less developed" nations always face constraints first.

In the game of energy musical chairs, the "less developed" nations always loose. youtube.com/shorts/H0swj...

all the living beings in my home are my brothers and sisters.

my nationality is Nature and my home is the planet Earth

human dignity comes before national sovereignty. The world is on fire because our inner worlds are on fire.

Social media platforms should be closed every night at 8 PM, like a library.

I want to live in peace 🇵🇸

YouTube video by Nate Hagens How Facing Grief Can Help Us Navigate a World in Crisis | Reality Roundtable #17

youtu.be/IFpnY-ooQhw?...

There is no future for human culture if it remains stuck in the pre-tragic or tragic view of the meta-crisis. The second shock of existence must be metabolized by human culture, and especially by those in the wisdom lineages of religious and philosophical thought.

Country Overshoot Day 2025 calendar The Country Overshoot Day 2025 calendar shows the dates by which humanity would have used up everything Earth can renew for that year, if all people consumed at the level of that country.

Portugal’s “ecological overshoot day” arrived 23 days earlier than last year, mainly due to food consumption patterns, highlighting unsustainable resource use.

ref: overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/cou...

late-stage capitalism creates scarcity to profit: break housing, sell rent. poison water, sell bottles. gut healthcare, sell insurance. we fund the system, then pay to access it. crisis isn’t failure. it’s the business model. and the rich? always winning. funny how that works.