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Donald Trump has spent the past month openly courting fossil fuel money and mocking the very idea of climate change. This delusional and catastrophic posture has barely registered in the US news media.
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Possibly future rogue AIs will do evil things we can’t even comprehend for reasons of their own, but right now rogue AIs just do straightforward white-collar crime when they are stressed at work. The Future: We will program computers that are infinitely smarter than us, and they will look around and decide “you know what
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Black Friday is the perverse ritual of our failing civilization — a consumerist kabuki show that makes us feel like shit and kills the planet in the process. Let’s call this nonsense done, and start inventing new ways to live, love and celebrate. This Friday, Buy Nothing. Then ride the momentum of clear, brave thinking
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Twelve of the world’s wealthiest billionaires produce more greenhouse gas emissions from their yachts, private jets, mansions and financial investments than the annual energy emissions of 2m homes.
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Here’s a way to start a new life: This Black Friday, resist the itch to buy some dumb thing just for the novelty of it, the fleeting illusion of control. The urge to buy isn’t actually coming from inside you. It’s code laid down by every ad, email, commercial and celebrity you’ve ever encountered. Our minds are corrupted from a
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