Climate

A climate conference’s startling, self-defeating contradictions

The many ironies of this year’s United Nations climate meeting have not been lost on anyone. The world’s seventh-largest oil-producing country, the United Arab Emirates, is hosting it. That country’s top oil executive is presiding over it. It’s happening at the end of the hottest year on record, during which the United States alone faced

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