Censorship
Banning/Burning Books
Never in the history of the world have the people burning or banning books turned out to be the good guys.
Censorship
Censorship
Fascism
Fascism begins …
Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege. – Tommy Douglas
Some Thoughts
Trump’s Climate Disaster
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.
Some Thoughts
Rogue AI
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
Some Thoughts
This Friday, Buy Nothing.
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
Some Thoughts
The top 1% generate more than double the CO2…
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.