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Weather Predicting

December 11, 2024

The intrusion of AI into weather prognostication is a fairly accurate measure of just how stupid our supposed created intelligence is. I know you’ve seen the results.

Shortcut Brains

Tom Murphy, Do the Math

December 11, 2024

Brains. What are they good for? Why do we—and loads of other animals—have them? What is the point of evolving increased neural complexity?

Ray Kurzweil, Evangelist of Techno-Immortality

Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee

December 10, 2024

As John Gray has written, utopian visions, whether fascism, communism, globalism or the Singularity, invariably promise “dreams of collective deliverance.” But in waking life, they “are found to be nightmares.”

‘Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way’: How a Young Virginian Kept the Farm in the Family

Brooks Lamb, Barn Raiser

December 10, 2024

For those like Watson who hold the land and its meaning dear—and who would benefit from an influx of cash without having to sell off acreage, livestock or equipment—agricultural conservation easements can be an effective strategy. As with other farms throughout the country, this tool enabled Long Acre to survive.

Some thoughts on Richard Heinberg’s ”Envisioning a Livable Future”

Ted Trainer, Resilience.org

December 10, 2024

Few in recent years have made a more significant contribution to our ecological salvation than Richard, and in my dogmatic opinion his most recent essay is stating many of the lessons we need to learn fast if we are going to get through to a satisfactory world.

CDRCs: A proposal concerning work, resilience, and the repopulation of the countryside

Manuel Casal Lodeiro, 15/15\15

December 10, 2024

The proposed model, Community Development and Resilience Cooperatives (CDRCs[1]), relies on three fundamental pillars to articulate its strategy: direct democracy, cooperativism, and agroecology.

Review: Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore

Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press

December 10, 2024

With its brilliant blend of epic scope, dark comedy, goofiness, sharp irony and a multilayered, eerily prescient narrative, Greener Than You Think remains a wildly successful and thoroughly entertaining work of satire.

Odyssey: Hopes and dreams

Gus Speth, Democracy Collective

December 10, 2024

Societies around the globe face multiple crises. In this context, is marshaling hope and dreaming up beautiful futures—imagining a world that could be—a useful response, or is it escapism?

Nature-based solutions carbon myopia

Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

December 9, 2024

Preferably, researchers should come down to earth and get their hands and feet dirty, instead of sitting in their skylabs. I have some spare shovels.

Czech Republic | Fifty Years To Pay For A Farm

Terezie Daňková, ARC2020

December 9, 2024

The conclusion is frighteningly simple: either we create financial instruments to buy farms that are accessible to young people who choose to farm, or global capital buys the farms that are freed up on the market.

North Carolina town sues Duke Energy for climate ‘deception’

Mario Alejandro Ariza, Floodlight

December 9, 2024

A small town in North Carolina has taken a bold step, filing the first climate “deception” lawsuit against an electric utility in the United States.

The view from Washington: Part 2

Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

December 9, 2024

Capitol Hill Republicans and the Trump administration are under great pressure to produce significant, observable progress on the incoming president’s America First agenda. Although Trump will be free to issue executive orders, much of the agenda depends upon congressional action.

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Weather Predicting

Shortcut Brains

Ray Kurzweil, Evangelist of Techno-Immortality

‘Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way’: How a Young Virginian Kept the Farm in the Family

Some thoughts on Richard Heinberg’s ”Envisioning a Livable Future”

CDRCs: A proposal concerning work, resilience, and the repopulation of the countryside

Review: Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore

Odyssey: Hopes and dreams

Nature-based solutions carbon myopia

Czech Republic | Fifty Years To Pay For A Farm

North Carolina town sues Duke Energy for climate ‘deception’

The view from Washington: Part 2