By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Northern Mockingbird, 350 South Madison Avenue, Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States. With droning airplane. * * * Patient readers, I am in the process of wrestling the latest HICPAC...
Lambert here: “There is no such thing as civil society.” –Maggie Thatcher (apocryphal) By Samuel Bowles, Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at Santa Fe Institute, Wendy Carlin, Scientific Council at Paris School of Economics (PSE), External...
This post endeavors, at a very high level, to discuss how the US/NATO shortcomings against Russia and the so-called West’s geostrategic competitors, are more foundational than most commentators recognize. This is due at least in part to an onslaught of...
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Yves here. Even allowing for the fact that this post appeared in OilPrice, there is perilous little concern (beyond occasional hand-wringing) about exploding energy demands driven in particular by AI….and why should we accelerate global warming and biosphere for that?!?!...
Conor here: worth it to clear cut 30% of the amazon https://t.co/YkrMvSEiKv — Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) November 23, 2024 By Irina Slav, a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry. Originally...
Overthinking what you said? It’s your ‘lizard brain’ talking to newer, advanced parts of your brain Medical Xpress If MMT is wrong, why is it so much better at predicting the economy – and economic disaster? Dougald Lamont’s Substack 2,000-Year-Old...
I always appreciated techno-feudal lord Peter Thiel’s obsession with the blood of the young being used in pursuit of eternal life for himself. It seems a perfectly upfront metaphor for our late-stage capitalism in which the pursuit of profit drains...
Conor here: As this news broke I was reading an argument from Canadian environmentalist Tzeporah Berman that treaties to wind down fossil fuels could be hashed out among major emitters the same way the Cold War foes tried to limit...
Dear patient readers, I hope you can provide input on some iPhone anomalies. 1. I bought a Faraday bag for my phone since I have long known that switching it to Airplane Mode and then off is still less than...
