Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
All of US is poised to play matchmaker for these two groups – newly mobilized and seasoned activists on the one side and, on the other side, the organizations that could provide a constructive outlet for their energies. Many hundreds and thousands of matches will contribute to a critical guardrail against Trumpism.
In this week’s Frankly, Nate reflects on the increasingly wide variability in people’s ability to consume and metabolize information on the converging crises actively playing out in our world.
So yes, perhaps, with the Anthropocene, it is not something that will end—but something that will begin.
Local radio stations and digital networks of independents are keeping “human-driven, anti-algorithm expression” alive.
Aging, crumbling transportation and electrical infrastructure in America is exposing us to possible catastrophic, cascading failures.
Stronger democratic institutions go hand in hand with stronger environmental policy. Understood in this way, democracy is both a tool and solution to the climate crisis.
We need to find ways to inhabit place and meta-place differently to the present, ways that are equal to the challenges of our times and what they’re revealing to us.
I’m more concerned with the course and speed of the Titanic (or why there even is a Titanic) than with the proper arrangement of deck chairs. As in Ishmael Chapter 12, my chief aim is not fairness and equity within the prison, but in dismantling the prison altogether—arguing that we oughtn’t be on the Titanic in the first place.
Heroism and hope in these times are only possible against a backdrop of total relinquishment to the possibility that we won’t be able to control our own fate. But on a deeper level, this will be the way for us to reconnect with our origins, to become one again with the natural world.
As AI is “improved,” it has more “hallucinations.” When will the public and investors realize that reliability will always be a problem when there is no judgement based on lived experience?
Modernity’s inevitable failure need not be humanity’s ultimate failure. Modernity never could have worked in the long term, and represents only a small sliver of human existence.
Only by belonging to the world and living in the hands of the gods did we get to be humans.
