Brian White
@brianjwhite.bsky.social
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Cost of LA fires ~$100bn
Cost of Carolina floods ~ $110bn.
Two events, one country, one year.
But... "Financial firms JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock, pulled out of groups focused on risks from climate change this week."
Regression all over the place. Utter wimps:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cost of Carolina floods ~ $110bn.
Two events, one country, one year.
But... "Financial firms JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock, pulled out of groups focused on risks from climate change this week."
Regression all over the place. Utter wimps:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Meta and Amazon axe DEI programmes joining corporate rollback
The companies are among the latest major corporations to alter their diversity programmes since Trump's re-election.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Cost of LA fires ~$100bn
Cost of Carolina floods ~ $110bn.
Two events, one country, one year.
But... "Financial firms JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock, pulled out of groups focused on risks from climate change this week."
Regression all over the place. Utter wimps:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cost of Carolina floods ~ $110bn.
Two events, one country, one year.
But... "Financial firms JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock, pulled out of groups focused on risks from climate change this week."
Regression all over the place. Utter wimps:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
My reading this year so far. I’ll wrap up a couple more before the year’s end
December 16, 2024 at 5:28 AM
My reading this year so far. I’ll wrap up a couple more before the year’s end
My goal is to begin writing again. I’m scared to write because I don’t want to make a mistake, but that’s bullshit, so I’m writing. Here’s my latest open.substack.com/pub/brianwhi...
December 11, 2024 at 7:16 PM
My goal is to begin writing again. I’m scared to write because I don’t want to make a mistake, but that’s bullshit, so I’m writing. Here’s my latest open.substack.com/pub/brianwhi...
Morning study: Production, Enlarged Reproduction, Theories of Productive and Unproductive Labor
December 11, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Morning study: Production, Enlarged Reproduction, Theories of Productive and Unproductive Labor
December 10, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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Made a new video! About how atheists can still appreciate theology and religion!
Check it out.
youtu.be/WXE7QQxNPUQ?...
Check it out.
youtu.be/WXE7QQxNPUQ?...
Why Atheists Should Take Religion Seriously
YouTube video by Michael Burns
youtu.be
December 7, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Made a new video! About how atheists can still appreciate theology and religion!
Check it out.
youtu.be/WXE7QQxNPUQ?...
Check it out.
youtu.be/WXE7QQxNPUQ?...
Book #56 of 2024 ✅
December 9, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Book #56 of 2024 ✅
This essay in @foreignaffairs.com is just ground work to go to war with China, Russia, and Iran. Absolute suicidal shit.
December 3, 2024 at 11:07 PM
This essay in @foreignaffairs.com is just ground work to go to war with China, Russia, and Iran. Absolute suicidal shit.
Wrapped up this reading and I can’t recommend it enough. Lenin was a visionary of equality and democracy. These last notes from 1922 are powerfully insightful
December 3, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Wrapped up this reading and I can’t recommend it enough. Lenin was a visionary of equality and democracy. These last notes from 1922 are powerfully insightful
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Socrates Would HATE Self-Help Culture (And You Should Too)
YouTube video by Michael Burns
youtu.be
November 24, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Vol 4 Part 1 of Capital
November 21, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Vol 4 Part 1 of Capital
Haven’t read Vol. 4 yet. That is next year’s goal. Along with Rosa’s “The Accumulation of Capital.”
November 21, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Haven’t read Vol. 4 yet. That is next year’s goal. Along with Rosa’s “The Accumulation of Capital.”
Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure in the third decade of the millennium represented not merely moral madness: it was madness without qualifier; madness in the original, clinical sense of the term.
- Malm & Carton
- Malm & Carton
November 20, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure in the third decade of the millennium represented not merely moral madness: it was madness without qualifier; madness in the original, clinical sense of the term.
- Malm & Carton
- Malm & Carton
Thanks @taddelay.bsky.social for the heads up. Can’t wait to read it. Found out a solid year of reading about climate.
November 20, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Thanks @taddelay.bsky.social for the heads up. Can’t wait to read it. Found out a solid year of reading about climate.
Pretty excited to read this
November 18, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Pretty excited to read this
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In my classroom, property is publicly shared; everyone contributes based on their ability, and they receive instruction/help/support from myself and other students based on their needs.
a man is sitting in the driver 's seat of a car looking out the window .
ALT: a man is sitting in the driver 's seat of a car looking out the window .
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:22 PM
In my classroom, property is publicly shared; everyone contributes based on their ability, and they receive instruction/help/support from myself and other students based on their needs.
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I'm in The Guardian today - I like the focus on the likely social ruptures between those who believe themselves to have emotional connections with AI companions and those who believe this is a delusion. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI could cause ‘social ruptures’ between people who disagree on its sentience
Leading philosopher says issue is ‘no longer one for sci-fi’ as dawn of AI consciousness is predicted for 2035
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:39 PM
I'm in The Guardian today - I like the focus on the likely social ruptures between those who believe themselves to have emotional connections with AI companions and those who believe this is a delusion. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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How Jesus Turned Me Into A Marxist
YouTube video by Michael Burns
youtu.be
November 17, 2024 at 9:31 PM
FAUST PART TWO ACT TWO IS THE WILDEST READ. LIKE WHERE DID I JUST GO 🤯
November 16, 2024 at 4:42 PM
FAUST PART TWO ACT TWO IS THE WILDEST READ. LIKE WHERE DID I JUST GO 🤯
Proteus to Homunculus:
A real virgin’s son, I see —
He’s here before he out to be
(Faust)
A real virgin’s son, I see —
He’s here before he out to be
(Faust)
November 16, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Proteus to Homunculus:
A real virgin’s son, I see —
He’s here before he out to be
(Faust)
A real virgin’s son, I see —
He’s here before he out to be
(Faust)
