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It won’t be lard-ass militias that matter if there is a civil implosion in the US. These things always come down to intra-elite splits and/or intra-military splits.
Terraform Industries is developing machines that create synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. It sounds like science fiction, but the technology is rooted in simple chemistry and powered by the rapidly advancing field of solar energy. https://www.freethink.com/series/the-freethink-interview/casey-handmer I like the frame work of tackling the problem. Whether it’s the solution, time will tell. An…
At some point in the future we’ll say “we were warned”… this was the first warning we got about feckin’ about with asteroids: When NASA deliberately smashed the asteroid Dimorphos with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft back in 2022, it was seen as a technological triumph because it demonstrated that humans have the ability to redirect a…
Stephen King triggers Elon Musk in a weird, ongoing social media battle. It is unclear why Musk thinks responding to one of the best-selling authors of all time’s legitimate observations with weird sexualized jokes is the right move. Still, it seems Musk is playing 92-dimensional chess here, but is he winning? King complains about real things,…
Our richest 40% should know the $10b of tax cuts they’ll get & save are being paid for by making poor, sick & disabled kids & nanas poorer, sicker & homeless, not by ‘cutting fat from the system’ https://thekaka.substack.com/p/what-austerity-actually-means-and
I’ll start this by stating that I hate Labour… but NZ needs an opposition with spine and heft. The minor parties have had the spine, but not the heft. This is very good news (and it’s also critical to adding a “find out” phase to the current governments “fuck about” approach). https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/526435/labour-refuses-to-commit-to-honouring-future-consents-under-coalition-s-fast-track-laws
Martin Bernklau is a German journalist who reported for decades on criminal trials. He looked himself up on Bing, which suggests you use its Copilot AI. Copilot then listed a string of crimes Bernklau had supposedly committed — saying that he was an abusive undertaker exploiting widows, a child abuser, an escaped criminal mental patient.
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