How the Electric War Is Redrawing the Ukraine Map – In Black
Like so many things, the electric war has developed not necessarily to Ukraine’s advantage.
Read more...Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios
A Simple Desultory Analytic (Or How I Was Peter Turchin’d Into Perdition) by “I lost my harmonica albrt”
A discussion of Peter Turchin’s End Times: Elites Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration.
Read more...Devolution and the Decline in Operational Capacity and Elite/Managerial Competence
Has devolution, as in technologies that increase output at the cost of skill, contributed to the decline in operational capability?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Germany as Collateral Damage in America’s New Cold War
A reminder of how Germany has committed economic suicide rather than say “no” to the US.
Read more...Of Life and Lithium
A look at the implications of demand for lithium thanks to plans to increase electric vehicle sales.
Read more...Baltimore Bridge Crash: Risk Management Questions
Why it’s a mistake to think of the Baltimore bridge collapse as catastrophic bad luck.
Read more...A Weak Spot in Carbon Sequestration: Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells
Carbon stored underground could leak through old wells. How regulators plan to handle that is under scrutiny.
Read more...Draft UN Report Finds Israel Has Met Threshold for Genocide
“Israel’s genocide on the Palestinians in Gaza is an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler-colonial process of erasure.”
Read more...Monstrous Zionist Extermination in Gaza Continues as US Attempts Voter-Appeasing Headfakery
Some Gaza updates: carnage and starvation on the ground, cynical US machinations, and more signs of IDF weakness.
Read more...What Is Necessary for the Ukrainian “Sanitary Zone” to Be Sanitary?
Putin mentioned a sanitary zone as a possible solution to Russian security needs once the Ukraine war ends. What would that mean in practice?
Read more...Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now
The promise of artificial intelligence is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation.
Read more...What’s the Solution to Humanity’s Growing Ills?
Are space aliens the only creatures that might have a solution for the mess we are in? Any other deux ex machina candidates?
Read more...“We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy”
Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan for renewable energy could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.
Read more...The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement: Japanese American incarceration During WWII
As confirmed by a study of Japanese interment in World War II, the health impact of displacement is long-lived.
Read more...Global Warming Is Still Accelerating, in Three Graphs
While you were busy watching the wars, national elections or other distractions du jour, global warming keeps marching on.
Read more...