@lenabl.bsky.social
„Die Geschichte wiederholt sich nicht, aber sie reimt sich oft“ – Mark Twain
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Your 'doom quote' for today:
"The core of the problem of the climate crisis is not CO₂ emissions, but the deeper system that caused the need to drill into the Earth, slaughter indigenous populations, and enslave people in the first place..."
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"The core of the problem of the climate crisis is not CO₂ emissions, but the deeper system that caused the need to drill into the Earth, slaughter indigenous populations, and enslave people in the first place..."
thenewpress.org/books/the-en...
The End of Ice - The New Press
Finalist for the 2020 PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Acclaimed on its hardcover publication, a global journey that reminds us "of how magical the planet we're about to lose really is...
thenewpress.org
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Your 'doom quote' for today:
"The core of the problem of the climate crisis is not CO₂ emissions, but the deeper system that caused the need to drill into the Earth, slaughter indigenous populations, and enslave people in the first place..."
thenewpress.org/books/the-en...
"The core of the problem of the climate crisis is not CO₂ emissions, but the deeper system that caused the need to drill into the Earth, slaughter indigenous populations, and enslave people in the first place..."
thenewpress.org/books/the-en...
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Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.
A groundbreaking experiment to gauge the potency of Elon Musk’s social platform to increase political division found that when posts expressing anti-democratic attitudes and partisan animosity were boosted, even barely perceptibly, in the feeds of Democrat and Republican supporters there was a large change in their unfavourable feelings towards the other side. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
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ELON MUSK – PART 3: THE DEATH STAR
We watch in horror as the Empire of The Dark Enlightenment grows
compossible.blog/2025/11/15/e...
We watch in horror as the Empire of The Dark Enlightenment grows
compossible.blog/2025/11/15/e...
Elon Musk – Part 3: The Death Star
We watch in horror as the Empire of The Dark Enlightenment grows
compossible.blog
November 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
ELON MUSK – PART 3: THE DEATH STAR
We watch in horror as the Empire of The Dark Enlightenment grows
compossible.blog/2025/11/15/e...
We watch in horror as the Empire of The Dark Enlightenment grows
compossible.blog/2025/11/15/e...
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Elon Musk – Part 2: The Limits of Free Speech & The Paradox of Tolerance – Compossible – that which can live together
Elon Musk – Part 2: The Limits of Free Speech & The Paradox of Tolerance
We look at the dark wizard’s takeover of the public forum and his techno-Stalinist tendencies
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November 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Elon Musk – Part 2: The Limits of Free Speech & The Paradox of Tolerance – Compossible – that which can live together
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AI Companies Are Encouraging Users To Believe Chatbots Are People, And It's Insanely Creepy
They’re trying to manipulate us into believing we are much, much less than what we are, just so they can become billionaires and trillionaires.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/ai-compani...
They’re trying to manipulate us into believing we are much, much less than what we are, just so they can become billionaires and trillionaires.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/ai-compani...
AI Companies Are Encouraging Users To Believe Chatbots Are People, And It's Insanely Creepy
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
AI Companies Are Encouraging Users To Believe Chatbots Are People, And It's Insanely Creepy
They’re trying to manipulate us into believing we are much, much less than what we are, just so they can become billionaires and trillionaires.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/ai-compani...
They’re trying to manipulate us into believing we are much, much less than what we are, just so they can become billionaires and trillionaires.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/ai-compani...
Wonders of nature!😍🤩
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Wonders of nature!😍🤩
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Introducing ADX Florence, the Network State for billionaires who want to overthrow democracy.
New units coming online in 2028 and beyond.
(If the billionaires can imagine eternal life, Mars colonies and a post-democracy world, we can imagine this. "Meme it and we will be it.")
New units coming online in 2028 and beyond.
(If the billionaires can imagine eternal life, Mars colonies and a post-democracy world, we can imagine this. "Meme it and we will be it.")
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Introducing ADX Florence, the Network State for billionaires who want to overthrow democracy.
New units coming online in 2028 and beyond.
(If the billionaires can imagine eternal life, Mars colonies and a post-democracy world, we can imagine this. "Meme it and we will be it.")
New units coming online in 2028 and beyond.
(If the billionaires can imagine eternal life, Mars colonies and a post-democracy world, we can imagine this. "Meme it and we will be it.")
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Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
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La economista de la innovación @francescabria.bsky.social describe en este artículo que publicamos hoy en @lavanguadia un proceso de privatización de la soberanía americana y europea que dentro de poco puede ser irreversible.
www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...
www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...
El golpe de Estado de los tecnoautoritarios: de la América postdemocrática a la Europa que viene, por Francesca Bria
A finales de julio de 2025, en lo más profundo de la maquinaria burocrática del Pentágono en Arlington, Virginia, el Ejército de EE.UU. firmó discretamente la
www.lavanguardia.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
La economista de la innovación @francescabria.bsky.social describe en este artículo que publicamos hoy en @lavanguadia un proceso de privatización de la soberanía americana y europea que dentro de poco puede ser irreversible.
www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...
www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...
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“The Wizard of Oz was terrifying only until the curtain drew back and revealed the man with the microphone—small, ordinary, and afraid. Every autocrat is the same. The show of grandeur is a projection of fear: the fear of being seen as he is, of being small…”
open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
The Theater of Power: Trump and the Tradition of Deliberate Decadence
November 3, 2025 | By Steven A. Cash
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“The Wizard of Oz was terrifying only until the curtain drew back and revealed the man with the microphone—small, ordinary, and afraid. Every autocrat is the same. The show of grandeur is a projection of fear: the fear of being seen as he is, of being small…”
open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
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Despite the bad news, I'm proud to be a coauthor on this paper warning about the intersecting crises we face.
🚨 Earth's vital signs are flashing red.
🌡️ 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history.
Read the latest Climate report from @williamripple.bsky.social and Christopher Wolf's team, published in BioScience.
oxford.ly/47i6K5j
🌡️ 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history.
Read the latest Climate report from @williamripple.bsky.social and Christopher Wolf's team, published in BioScience.
oxford.ly/47i6K5j
November 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Despite the bad news, I'm proud to be a coauthor on this paper warning about the intersecting crises we face.
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“Here’s the thing, Bill Gates: There is no “patch” for the climate crisis. And there is no way to reboot the planet if you crash it. The only safe and reliable way out when you find yourself in a climate hole is to stop digging—and burning—fossil fuels.”
You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Here’s the thing, Bill Gates: There is no “patch” for the climate crisis. And there is no way to reboot the planet if you crash it. The only safe and reliable way out when you find yourself in a climate hole is to stop digging—and burning—fossil fuels.”
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A Center for Biological Diversity report details how fossil fuel-powered data centers for the artificial intelligence industry in the United States are "threatening to sabotage the country's already faltering climate goals."
Report Details How 'Gas-Fed AI Boom' Set to Blow Up US Climate Goals
A Center for Biological Diversity report details how fossil fuel-powered data centers for the artificial intelligence industry in the United States are "threatening to sabotage the country's already faltering climate goals."
www.commondreams.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A Center for Biological Diversity report details how fossil fuel-powered data centers for the artificial intelligence industry in the United States are "threatening to sabotage the country's already faltering climate goals."
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Thanks Tom. Never thought I’d pine for the “mutually assured destruction” days.
Ps, a gift version for those who may need it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Ps, a gift version for those who may need it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Kathryn Bigelow’s Warning to America
The threat of apocalypse never ended. We just chose to forget about it.
www.theatlantic.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Thanks Tom. Never thought I’d pine for the “mutually assured destruction” days.
Ps, a gift version for those who may need it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Ps, a gift version for those who may need it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
www.youtube.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
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📄 EXCLUSIVE: Epstein was close with Vitaly Churkin, a Russian Ambassador with close ties to KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov. Kryuchkov and Churkin brought Trump to Moscow in 1987, and may be the link to Robert Maxwell. New, original reporting.
america2.news/part-four-ma...
america2.news/part-four-ma...
Part Four: Making Sense of Epstein's Russia Ties
Was Jeffrey Epstein part of Russia's broader war on the West? In this multi-part series we examine his obsession with nuclear scientists, eugenics, transhumanism, and influence. What we found will lik...
america2.news
September 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
📄 EXCLUSIVE: Epstein was close with Vitaly Churkin, a Russian Ambassador with close ties to KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov. Kryuchkov and Churkin brought Trump to Moscow in 1987, and may be the link to Robert Maxwell. New, original reporting.
america2.news/part-four-ma...
america2.news/part-four-ma...
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This week: The Network State conference in Singapore.
Watch as radicalized tech billionaires and authoritarian governments openly plot a post-democracy, post-USA crypto future.
The Network State is an extremist tech cult based on the work of Curtis Yarvin. It calls for a program of "tech zionism."
Watch as radicalized tech billionaires and authoritarian governments openly plot a post-democracy, post-USA crypto future.
The Network State is an extremist tech cult based on the work of Curtis Yarvin. It calls for a program of "tech zionism."
September 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This week: The Network State conference in Singapore.
Watch as radicalized tech billionaires and authoritarian governments openly plot a post-democracy, post-USA crypto future.
The Network State is an extremist tech cult based on the work of Curtis Yarvin. It calls for a program of "tech zionism."
Watch as radicalized tech billionaires and authoritarian governments openly plot a post-democracy, post-USA crypto future.
The Network State is an extremist tech cult based on the work of Curtis Yarvin. It calls for a program of "tech zionism."
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Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not in science. 🧵1/
November 19, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not in science. 🧵1/
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“The Next Terrorist Attack,” which I published in April. Please have a look.
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The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After
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September 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“The Next Terrorist Attack,” which I published in April. Please have a look.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
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#Oligarchy: The Looming Threat to Humanity's Future
Explore how extreme wealth concentration undermines #democracy and the promise of technological progress. Read now to understand the urgent need for #wealthtax and #limitarianism.
#Trump #Musk #plutocracy #AI #Future #hope
Check it out here ⬇️
Explore how extreme wealth concentration undermines #democracy and the promise of technological progress. Read now to understand the urgent need for #wealthtax and #limitarianism.
#Trump #Musk #plutocracy #AI #Future #hope
Check it out here ⬇️
Oligarchy: The Looming Threat to Humanity's Future
How Extreme Wealth Concentration Undermines Democracy and the Promise of Technological Progress
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December 6, 2024 at 6:13 PM
#Oligarchy: The Looming Threat to Humanity's Future
Explore how extreme wealth concentration undermines #democracy and the promise of technological progress. Read now to understand the urgent need for #wealthtax and #limitarianism.
#Trump #Musk #plutocracy #AI #Future #hope
Check it out here ⬇️
Explore how extreme wealth concentration undermines #democracy and the promise of technological progress. Read now to understand the urgent need for #wealthtax and #limitarianism.
#Trump #Musk #plutocracy #AI #Future #hope
Check it out here ⬇️
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ICYMI... My new talk from TEDxBerlin asks the question few are willing to face: why is democracy in retreat globally, and what can we do about it? Here's one possible way forward, and we should consider it — before it's too late.
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america2.news/is-democracy...
Is democracy dying? Here's why — and what to do about it.
In the 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, democracy has been in retreat around the world. Can we build new designs that help it flourish?
america2.news
August 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
ICYMI... My new talk from TEDxBerlin asks the question few are willing to face: why is democracy in retreat globally, and what can we do about it? Here's one possible way forward, and we should consider it — before it's too late.
america2.news/is-democracy...
america2.news/is-democracy...
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Trump is practicing the art of the non-deal deal with his disastrous, universally despised, reckless, tariff lunacy. So why are world leaders going along with it? Because they have all decided the best way to handle Trump is to treat him like a kidney stone. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-qui...
Trump Is Quickly Becoming the World’s Kidney Stone
The painful truth is that world leaders are being forced to go through the motions of making nonsense ‘trade agreements’ with the United States.
www.thedailybeast.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Trump is practicing the art of the non-deal deal with his disastrous, universally despised, reckless, tariff lunacy. So why are world leaders going along with it? Because they have all decided the best way to handle Trump is to treat him like a kidney stone. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-qui...