Self-appointed war and geopolitics expert David Sacks is starting to wonder if the man he helped get elected, the rule of law he helped break, and the massive corruption he facilitates might have downsides.
The evil that men do lives after them
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Wintery. Sunday. Reading.
In 2025, Jürgen Habermas—perhaps Europe’s most well-known living philosopher—spoke with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins about faith, reason, and the public sphere. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Remember the conspiracy theory about Trump being a Russian plant! Given everything that has gone on in the past 4 years, this now seems more plausible. The Russians plan for the long haul. They think in terms of decades. It makes sense to me.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
Poems for Lent (Day 21)
• Mary Oliver •
Ancient forests are not simply collections of trees.
They are centuries, sometimes millennia, of accumulated soils, fungi, nutrients, and relationships.
We can plant trees quickly.
Rebuilding ecological time is another matter entirely.
i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price
electricity water clean air knowledge
you name it
they should be treated like the common thieves they are
Solar does not care about the Strait of Hormuz.
Oil flows through chokepoints. Solar follows a learning curve.
Great piece @azeem.bsky.social
www.exponentialview.co/p/solar-supe...
Yup, spot on.
The problem with convenience is that it’s convenient.
The benefits are obvious.
The costs are concealed.
We fall for it every time.
Always ask what you are paying to take that short cut or save that half-hour.
#technology #productivity #humanintelligence #calm
Anthropic lost the Pentagon but won over America - The Washington Post
I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written.
Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do
“Can we pray for the moms as well? Or just the babies?”
Allie Phillips bravely told a pro-FAILED abortion death penalty bill group her story of fleeing Tennessee for a life-saving abortion
Men tried to intimidate/stop her. She persisted: www.instagram.com/reel/DVuUJfm...
#whiskerwednesday
This is Bo.
It's #WhiskerWednesday.
He was purring loudly (for him) when I snapped this...
Ancient forests aren't "resources"—they're living systems sustaining us all. Destroy them for short-term gain? That's planetary sabotage.
#Ecocide isn't abstract: it steals stable climate, clean air, future harvests from our children. Time to protect what remains. 🌳🛡️
#BiodiversityCrisis #ActNow
I like the way some countries have Crisis of Confidence procedures that automatically trigger a vote for new government. WE NEED THAT HERE! We'll never be safe from GOP majority in government.
