Asher Miller
@ashermiller.bsky.social
When technology, capitalism, and loneliness, er, romance and capitalism meet there's a huge opportunity for secondary services. Here's one company stepping boldly into the future! @david-batty.bsky.social
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September 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
When technology, capitalism, and loneliness, er, romance and capitalism meet there's a huge opportunity for secondary services. Here's one company stepping boldly into the future! @david-batty.bsky.social
@sam-apple.bsky.social
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
@sam-apple.bsky.social
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
For everyone up in arms about #Disney and ABC's decision to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air: Why would we expect corporate capitalists to put free speech above profits when they won't put a livable planet for trillions of beings above their next quarterly earnings?
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
For everyone up in arms about #Disney and ABC's decision to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air: Why would we expect corporate capitalists to put free speech above profits when they won't put a livable planet for trillions of beings above their next quarterly earnings?
What from 2025 would you put in the post #collapse museum of 2125 to best capture late stage consumer #capitalism?
Our picks:
Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytownWB
Check out links to our objects (SPOILER ALERT): www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
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Our picks:
Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytownWB
Check out links to our objects (SPOILER ALERT): www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
youtube.com/shorts/Y4Vfz...
Relics of Modern Society: Crazy Town Clip
YouTube video by Post Carbon Institute
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August 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
What from 2025 would you put in the post #collapse museum of 2125 to best capture late stage consumer #capitalism?
Our picks:
Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytownWB
Check out links to our objects (SPOILER ALERT): www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
youtube.com/shorts/Y4Vfz...
Our picks:
Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytownWB
Check out links to our objects (SPOILER ALERT): www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
youtube.com/shorts/Y4Vfz...
Which is the bigger testament to living in #CrazyTown:
- That EV adoption might be held back by the fact that Americans have too much crap in their garages to put in a charger OR
- That John #@%% Bolton would elicit any sympathy whatsoever?
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08...
- That EV adoption might be held back by the fact that Americans have too much crap in their garages to put in a charger OR
- That John #@%% Bolton would elicit any sympathy whatsoever?
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08...
Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says
A new report looks at barriers to EV charging.
arstechnica.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Which is the bigger testament to living in #CrazyTown:
- That EV adoption might be held back by the fact that Americans have too much crap in their garages to put in a charger OR
- That John #@%% Bolton would elicit any sympathy whatsoever?
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08...
- That EV adoption might be held back by the fact that Americans have too much crap in their garages to put in a charger OR
- That John #@%% Bolton would elicit any sympathy whatsoever?
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08...
Instead of an exponential acceleration of knowledge and intelligence, #AI should be seen as a force of rapid wealth and power consolidation, resource drawdown, and the further destruction of critical thinking, cooperation, and creativity just when we need them most.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
Opinion | A.I. May Just Be Kind of Ordinary
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Instead of an exponential acceleration of knowledge and intelligence, #AI should be seen as a force of rapid wealth and power consolidation, resource drawdown, and the further destruction of critical thinking, cooperation, and creativity just when we need them most.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
We need a new term for when Trump waves a shiny bauble to his anti-woke mob, like the Commanders story: An Epstein Whistle.
July 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We need a new term for when Trump waves a shiny bauble to his anti-woke mob, like the Commanders story: An Epstein Whistle.
In my 17 years with @postcarbon.org we've produced a dozen books, I don't know how many reports, dozens and dozens of online events, thousands of articles, hundreds of podcast episodes, etc. But the thing that might have given me most joy was this from 14 years ago:
youtu.be/Jjk0iIoXNek?...
youtu.be/Jjk0iIoXNek?...
Oprah Winfrey SAVES CHRISTMAS!!! OMG!!
YouTube video by Post Carbon Institute
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July 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
In my 17 years with @postcarbon.org we've produced a dozen books, I don't know how many reports, dozens and dozens of online events, thousands of articles, hundreds of podcast episodes, etc. But the thing that might have given me most joy was this from 14 years ago:
youtu.be/Jjk0iIoXNek?...
youtu.be/Jjk0iIoXNek?...
Can you just imagine the kinds of conspiracy theories we’re going to get when Trump dies?
July 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Can you just imagine the kinds of conspiracy theories we’re going to get when Trump dies?
Loved the convo between @jvl.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social on the douchiest of douchebags, Marc Andreesen. They almost had as much fun as we did when we eviscerated Andreesen's Techno-optimist Manifesto: www.resilience.org/stories/2023...
Crazy Town Bonus Riff: Vanilla Andreessen, Pygmy Marmosets, and Hi-Tech Delusions
The most vomit-inducing document of 2023 has to be the "Techno-Optimist Manifesto," written (oh so obviously) by a billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Join Jason, Rob, and Asher if you feel...
www.resilience.org
July 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Loved the convo between @jvl.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social on the douchiest of douchebags, Marc Andreesen. They almost had as much fun as we did when we eviscerated Andreesen's Techno-optimist Manifesto: www.resilience.org/stories/2023...
"He said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size of Manhattan (59.1 sq km/22.8 sq miles)."
Someone might want to consider unplugging and then replugging our economy, if this is how it behaves "rationally."
Someone might want to consider unplugging and then replugging our economy, if this is how it behaves "rationally."
Meta to spend hundreds of billions on AI data centres, says Mark Zuckerberg
The founder of the social media giant said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size of Manhattan.
www.bbc.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"He said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size of Manhattan (59.1 sq km/22.8 sq miles)."
Someone might want to consider unplugging and then replugging our economy, if this is how it behaves "rationally."
Someone might want to consider unplugging and then replugging our economy, if this is how it behaves "rationally."
@sanders.senate.gov perpetually looks like he can't believe he has to put up with this shit. And I feel that 💯.
July 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
@sanders.senate.gov perpetually looks like he can't believe he has to put up with this shit. And I feel that 💯.
60 years later and how much better (or worse) would such an experiment go?
When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.
www.npr.org
July 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
60 years later and how much better (or worse) would such an experiment go?
Classic whistling past the graveyard @nytimes.com and @housedemocrats.bsky.social.
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, spent hours assailing President Trump's domestic policy bill as he made his way through a thick binder of stories about Medicaid. He broke the record for the longest House floor speech before the final vote. Follow live. nyti.ms/3TUA61X
July 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Classic whistling past the graveyard @nytimes.com and @housedemocrats.bsky.social.
You know things are bad when debating which elements of the Cruel Capitalist Crapsandwich (AKA Trump's BBB) is worst feels like betting on which of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse will win the Kentucky Derby.
July 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
You know things are bad when debating which elements of the Cruel Capitalist Crapsandwich (AKA Trump's BBB) is worst feels like betting on which of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse will win the Kentucky Derby.
Any claim of being the pro-life party should now and forever be received with howls of derision. Among many, many horrors this bill is essentially a gigantic fuck you to today's and future children -- human and non-human.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
Senate Narrowly Passes Trump’s Policy Bill Amid Deep G.O.P. Divisions
www.nytimes.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Any claim of being the pro-life party should now and forever be received with howls of derision. Among many, many horrors this bill is essentially a gigantic fuck you to today's and future children -- human and non-human.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
Latest episode of @postcarbon.org 's Crazy Town podcast takes us to one of the weirdest spots in the U.S. to explore the renewable energy transition.
Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytown
Listen/read transcript: lnkd.in/gqaNEYFM
Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytown
Listen/read transcript: lnkd.in/gqaNEYFM
June 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Latest episode of @postcarbon.org 's Crazy Town podcast takes us to one of the weirdest spots in the U.S. to explore the renewable energy transition.
Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytown
Listen/read transcript: lnkd.in/gqaNEYFM
Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytown
Listen/read transcript: lnkd.in/gqaNEYFM
Is widespread AI deployment the most extreme example of anti- precautionary principle practice?
Would you say Manhattan Project? CRISPR?
Would you say Manhattan Project? CRISPR?
June 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Is widespread AI deployment the most extreme example of anti- precautionary principle practice?
Would you say Manhattan Project? CRISPR?
Would you say Manhattan Project? CRISPR?
Speaking of #polycrisis, Trump and other dark triad forces sure know how to use (sometimes manufactured) crises to achieve their goals.
June 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Speaking of #polycrisis, Trump and other dark triad forces sure know how to use (sometimes manufactured) crises to achieve their goals.
Episode 105 of Crazy Town: Our surprising "solution" to the housing crisis.
Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytownWB
Read the transcript: lnkd.in/gXT6fPhZ
Featuring a very different challenge to @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social 's "abundance" vision than typically found on the political left.
Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytownWB
Read the transcript: lnkd.in/gXT6fPhZ
Featuring a very different challenge to @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social 's "abundance" vision than typically found on the political left.
June 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Episode 105 of Crazy Town: Our surprising "solution" to the housing crisis.
Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytownWB
Read the transcript: lnkd.in/gXT6fPhZ
Featuring a very different challenge to @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social 's "abundance" vision than typically found on the political left.
Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytownWB
Read the transcript: lnkd.in/gXT6fPhZ
Featuring a very different challenge to @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social 's "abundance" vision than typically found on the political left.
Signs of a healthy economy.
June 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Signs of a healthy economy.
Alex Leff does a fantastic job exploring an enormous topic -- where our ideologies and the left/right political axis come from -- with skill, humor, insights, and great soundscaping. I'm a huge fan of @mikeduncan.bsky.social and @dancarlin.bsky.social, but Alex is giving them a run for their money.
Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 12. The King Is Dead, Now What? The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy (Part 1)
Across the world, politics is often framed as left vs. right. But where did that divide begin? This episode traces the roots back to the French Revolution and the centuries-long struggle over liberty,...
www.resilience.org
May 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Alex Leff does a fantastic job exploring an enormous topic -- where our ideologies and the left/right political axis come from -- with skill, humor, insights, and great soundscaping. I'm a huge fan of @mikeduncan.bsky.social and @dancarlin.bsky.social, but Alex is giving them a run for their money.
The world has gone bunking mad. Jason, Rob, and I have some fun at the expense of the bunker builders before examining the positive aspects of peasanthood and stressing the need to build community. @postcarbon.org #CrazyTown
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Crazy Town: Episode 104. Bunkers, Bazookas, and Bespoke Moats: How to Be Safe in an Unsafe World
The world has gone bunking mad. The bespoke security industry is burying bunkers stocked with arsenals of automatic rifles and surrounded by flaming moats. Is there a better way to prepare for the pol...
www.resilience.org
May 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The world has gone bunking mad. Jason, Rob, and I have some fun at the expense of the bunker builders before examining the positive aspects of peasanthood and stressing the need to build community. @postcarbon.org #CrazyTown
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...