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rare masahiro sakurai fail...

There's a lot of competition for distilled dystopia these days but I kinda can't believe how many connected current crises - from climate to geopolitics to ultra-exploitation to fantasy futurism to just about everything - are congealed in this absolutely mind boggling insanity

Recreating this thread here.

Scenes from a decade of the "fascism debate"...

Osi Atikpoh (while facing 0% fire containment at the far side of his LA neighborhood) had me on his show Thursday to talk about the Exhausted of the Earth in the context of the California wildfires, and more. It was a grimly funny conversation and an honor; link in next post...

market-based solutions

Don't quite have the time to do a full take on the Tooze piece now (although in large agreement) but floored by the 'how to understand this in terms of Marxism' debate which is answered by Xiongfei in the very first question!

Still hard to believe that relatively obscure Tolkien references are now a regular feature in the most deadly serious business news

Missed this brilliant bit on the return of liberalism's internal fascism in the post 89 world from Jenny Turner's @londonreview.bsky.social piece on Gillian Rose

Although these are theoretical points, my critiques of Phillips, Huber, Climate Lysenkoists in general are largely empirical. And egregious. And unanswered. No one should rely on them as they are unreliable. But the reactionary simpatico is exactly as described here:

Look what's now an actual, physical commodity...