The LA fires aren’t raging as they were last week, but we are in the “disaster after the disaster”: the air & ash. They contain harmful, potentially lethal pollutants that AQI doesn’t measure.

If you or loved ones are in LA, please listen to this & share it.
www.realitystudies.co/p/los-angele...

Fun to be called 'legendary polymath' by anyone as fun & astute as Jesse Damiani of @urgentfutures.bsky.social podcast - especially since early in my career, polymaths were not in vogue at all. Lab tutors covered my reports with red ink: 'too many adjectives.' www.realitystudies.co/p/phoebe-bar...

We talked about Overshoot with @jessedamiani.bsky.social over at the Urgent Futures podcast before Christmas - and the episode is now online. I enjoyed this one - thanks for having us on Jesse!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV0u...

An immense privilege to speak with @wimcarton.bsky.social & Andreas Malm on the latest @urgentfutures.bsky.social!

We dive into their superb, devastating recent book, 'Overshoot,' which charts the political philosophy that is driving us toward collapse.
www.realitystudies.co/p/overshoot-...

What are we breathing? There remains a lot of anxiety & confusion about the air in LA County, the “disaster after the disaster.” 😷
Exec. Director of CCAT spells it all out to @jessedamiani.bsky.social in the latest @urgentfutures.bsky.social episode www.realitystudies.co/p/los-angele...

The winds are picking up in LA again today. Please, please listen to/watch/read this @urgentfutures.bsky.social interview with Jane Williams, and share it with friends & family. The stuff in the air is truly horrific.

go.bsky.app/So5vwTn

How information spreads—& who shapes it—remains a vital issue for democracy.

@ninajankowicz.com has been helping make sense of all this for years, & continues to do so through the American Sunlight Project. We get into all of it in this episode of @urgentfutures.bsky.social
youtu.be/REU_-PX-W9Y?...

"[M]ost democracies nowadays...don’t fail because of a coup d’état ... What usually happens is that an elected, legitimate leader enters office w a goal of taking over the state, of changing the nature of its institutions...so that he doesn’t lose the election next time" - @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Given *gestures at everything,* it seems like the perfect time to listen to this interview with @noupside.bsky.social, where we dig into her vital book ‘Invisible Rulers,’ the evolution of propaganda, and more.

youtu.be/3w6w-mr8OKY?...

Status quo economics is breaking down.

I made a Starter Pack of folks who are progressing ideas, philosophies, & strategies for systems change, including ecological economics, degrowth, post-growth, post-/anti-capitalism, ecosocialism, Modern Monetary Theory, Doughnut Economics
go.bsky.app/So5vwTn

"When you’re optimizing for efficiency, you’re getting rid of redundancies. But when patients’ lives are at stake, you actually want redundancy. You want extra slack in the system. You want multiple sets of eyes on a patient in a hospital."

www.codastory.com/stayonthesto...

“Elon Musk’s super PAC spent around $200 million to help elect Donald Trump … The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO provided the vast majority of the money to America PAC, which focused on low-propensity and first-time voters.”

apnews.com/article/elon...