No Way Out But Through

Which 5 of us are the pretenders?

The longer I stare at this skeet the more levels it seems to work on.

Here's how Epstein broke the internet His meeting with the founder of 4chan and his quest to profit off the end of democracy

This is very good on the more Wikileaks-ish aspects of the latest Epstein files: www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

This is one of the strangest information environment's I've ever seen. Is anyone else also noticing the Epstein stuff is just a small fraction of the timeline here compared to its complete takeover of Twitter? Let alone the near-whitewash in legacy media.

As a Journalist, I’m Telling You to Stop Following The News Hear me out

As I’ve been saying since before the latest Epstein Files drop, you’re better off cultivating you’re own information diet, stop following “the news”:
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The Ones Who Saw it Coming My friends.

The meaning of all the riddles was: human folly is an eternal winter.

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But what to do when the governments are the ones actively undermining public understanding.

The Dilbert Afterlife Sixty-eight years of highly defective people

This was sweet:

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Aww useless username but your shitposts *do* speak truth to power. The power of my drowsiness after lunch in office on a Tuesday.

"We have maybe five years before gerontocratic lock-in becomes permanent." Writer and think tanker Jeff Giesea understands the significance of the demographic time bomb.

America wants to be young forever. Most of the rest of us are copying from the same playbook. So much denial of nature in the culture is almost enough to turn a young man conservative…

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The cavalry is not coming.

“If you’re in the middle of shit, you don’t actually know what the shit is that you’re in the middle of.”

—> And yet still we will try.

YouTube video by Goobie and Doobie Fellow Americans We Have A Problem And The Whole World Is Watching

I know many people on here must be feeling as much or more hurt as I am. I hope watching this brings you just a little comfort, some peace. It did for me: youtu.be/i8Fr2NiDXY8?...

"3. Decouple your survival from the Grid: Not because the grid is “political,” but because it is thermodynamically fragile. Energy independence is not a luxury; it is the only way to ensure the lights stay on when the physics deficit comes due." (4/4)

"2. Restore Functioning Ecosystems: You cannot eat currency. The ultimate substrate of any economy is the soil and water. Restoring local biodiversity and water retention is not “gardening”; it is repairing the life-support system that the macro-economy is actively liquidating." (3/4)

"1. Build High-Trust Community Networks: This is the primary redundancy. In a low-energy future, complexity cannot be maintained by individuals. The “Lone Wolf” dies; the pack survives. We must move from transaction-based relationships to trust-based obligations." (2/2)

I wonder how many people on the planet understand that this from Steven J. Newbury is the actual best advice anyone could give you right now:

"The Realist’s Protocol is not an act of mutiny. It is an act of insurance..."

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Capitalism Runs on Darker Magic Than Even Most Capitalists Realize Stick with me on this one

While I agree with this: "The predicaments we face today have much deeper roots than what could be explained away with ‘capitalism bad’ or ‘fossil fuels bad’."...

I still think you get a long way by looking at the combination of capitalism bad and fossil fuels bad: substack.com/@nwoubt/p-17...

Wetiko: The Psychosis Eating The World Alive The predicaments we face today have much deeper roots than what could be explained away with ‘capitalism bad’ or ‘fossil fuels bad’.

I don't want to dismiss it in its entirety because there's some good stuff for sure to reflect on, but this latest from The Honest Sorceror is a bit undercooked for me.

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Choose Your Own End-Times Adventure Part 2 It's less fun than it sounds

This is the one worse possible outcome: nowayoutbt.substack.com/p/choose-you...

New Year mood.

AI and the quiet rewiring of the open Internet How AI is changing the way we use the Internet

This really looks like where it’s headed, and there are few worse possible imaginable outcomes for younger Millenials who how the web used to be: isreasoned.substack.com/p/ai-and-the...

Just trying to stay sane in an office desk job with unlimited access to mid 2020s internet. Best I can come up with for a New Year’s resolution.

The case for denial In a darkening world, burying one’s head in the sand is a rational strategy

“I believed that people not immersed in the news were bad citizens. I now see that in fact a kind of genius is at work. Not thinking about things is the real mental feat.“

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Liberal Blindspots | Tim Sahay An interview with Chris Shaw on the class and the politics of climate.

They shut down the possibility of imagining something different in favor of a fantasy of more of the same, minus catastrophic climate change. With a better, shared understanding of the world we’re moving toward, we can better organize ourselves to live in that world."(2/2) @climatechr1s.bsky.social

Liberal Blindspots | Tim Sahay An interview with Chris Shaw on the class and the politics of climate.

"Societies cannot organize effectively to cope with the impacts of climate change without a shared understanding of the future that awaits. Currently, representations of the net-zero future don’t do that. They are a denial of the best of human nature... (1/2)
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Something my wife said to me recently, in the context of a clear deterioration in the ambient conditions of the city we live in:

“We used to think we’ll find answers for a future that looks difficult. That future has arrived and we need a plan.”

A Decade After Paris, Climate Diplomacy Is About Saving Itself The outcome of the COP30 summit in Brazil kept multilateralism alive while barely pushing forward the promise of combatting global warming.

The solutions will not come from above, 30 years of negotiations make clear:

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What is Radical? How about murdering defenders of an inhabitable planet?

"I have searched for the truth about climate change and overshoot our mainstream media won’t address with the detail, urgency, and consistency demanded for four years now. Rigorous journalism, the backbone of a free society is nearly dead."

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True Elders Have Become Vanishingly Rare With them goes a certain kind of magic

Then, consider whom to listen to, that can guide you towards a path of resistance: substack.com/@nwoubt/p-17... (2/2)