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Anna Branten
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Exploring the end of business as usual - and what might grow from its ruins.
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Want to microdose something?

Microdose speaking what is true for you in the places where you usually hide.

- Xavier Dagba on Substack.
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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A sustainable future will not be created by individuals in isolation. It will be built by groups who remember what it means to be alive together.

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We were never individuals: On the group that disappeared
What if the story of the independent self was never true? On how we lost the flock, why difference is vital for survival, and what it would mean to build groups as living ecosystems. Part 2/3.
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September 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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August 30, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Are we perhaps witnessing the accidental death of consumer capitalism - and the beginning of a climate solution?

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The Drug That Mutes Craving — and Could Crash the Consumption Economy
Are we witnessing the biochemical tipping point of late capitalism?
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August 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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A personal reflection on AI and how I gave away more than I realized - one question at a time.

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The Creeping Cost of Convenience: My Quiet Relationship with AI
A personal reflection on how I gave away more than I realized – one question at a time.
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June 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Tech-feudalism or magical resistance? When Bill Gates buys farmland and nature becomes an investment, what happens to the living world? This text is about the clash between power and magic.

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Clashing Visions: Tech Feudalism and the Fight for the Future
As Bill Gates and other giants buy up land, resistance movements question the future of food and freedom.
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March 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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If we are in the techno-feudalist era, then the consumer is the new revolutionary force.

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When the Consumer Becomes a Revolutionary Force
The Tesla protests and the market's transformation into a new battlefield for democracy
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March 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Kokar ner var ”regenerativt” egentligen är i Impact Loop: www.impactloop.se/artikel/darf...
Därför växer intresset för regenerativt företagande – så vad handlar det om? │ Impact Loop
www.impactloop.se
March 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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What if Trump’s climate policies aren’t about ignorance but about strategy? Id fossil fuels, border walls and military budgets aren’t random, but tools for controlling a world in crisis?

open.substack.com/pub/thestart...
Trump and the New Climate Feudalism: A Strategy for Dominance in a Collapsing World
A systemic shift - but not the one we hoped for
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March 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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someone once asked me why I was so worried about the environment

I just said "I live there"

and they looked at me as if that fact had never once occurred to them
February 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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So this is how I became a conspiracy theorist. A piece on information overload as a strategy.

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When collective chock becomes a business model
How governments and corporations use information overload as a strategy for takeover
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February 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Alla ni som börjar nosa på AI i det dagliga arbetet - använder ni nu tiden ni sparar på reflektion/vila/fritid eller fyller ni tiden med att prestera ännu mer, maximera er kapacitet och bli ännu bättre?

Där någonstans tror jag att vi har lite svar på hur framtiden kommer att gestalta sig.
December 6, 2024 at 5:43 AM