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They who would not sacrifice their own souls to save the whole world, are, as it seems to me, illogical in all their inferences, collectively. - CS Peirce
Nov 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@kogonada's films are the Korean dogme95:

Columbus denies the movie set, replacing it with real spaces.

Through emphasising the fragile beauty, stillness, & sadness of real spaces, @kogonada denies the hyperreality of the movie set.

a. @kogonada In denying scifi, After Yang denies all genre.

'The future' and 'the android' give way to the same delicate ikebana and stillness. Their presence dissolves into sensitive relationships & interbeing.

b.
Nov 27, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
No one who thinks astrology is 'fake' has the capacity to interpret literature or history at a mature level.

Astrology is all of HUM, with the symbol grounding problem not so much resolved as bypassed. Same people who think God exists as a form
Nov 26, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
To further summarise this essential thread from @1goodtern:

SARS-CoV-2 is not here to take out the vulnerable, but to make everyone vulnerable to being taken out.



i. SARS-CoV-2 is here to make everyone vulnerable to being taken out:

- not by SARS, but by anything else

- not directly, but indirectly

This should bloody well *go without saying* ..

ii.
Oct 9, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Bruno Latour is dead.

His lifework was a long incantation to get us out of the Foucaldian prisons of disordered power.

To be a scientist today is to be trapped, negated, and enserfed by power.

Latour unlocked these chains, again and again.

Walk away, fellow philosophes.
Sep 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Kremlin claims to a noöpolitik & Cosmism informed post-Westphalianism are an absurd Surkov wank, a conceit pulled straight from a Stoppard play.

If there was a whiff of understanding of Cosmism in the Kremlin, Putin would take a cue from Yves Chouinard ..

i. .. and RU would delegate energy and mil capabilities to @antonioguterres.

Cosmism *grasped* would both require this and provide the (Gaian) model to guide it:

Russia would do the opposite of Jo Nesbø's 2015 Occupied:

ii.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied#…
Aug 25, 2022 • 9 tweets • 28 min read
@JustCollapse @ExtinctionR Here is an updated theory of change:

@UN_Women, @ExtinctionR, @UN_CSW, @ScientistRebel1, @UN, @ScientistsX, @TheWilsonCenter, @CarnegieEndow, @CSIS, @macfound, @PowerUSAID, @jasonhickel

The human conflicts falling out from climate catastrophes are the disruptions.

1/ @JustCollapse @ExtinctionR @UN_Women @UN_CSW @ScientistRebel1 @UN @ScientistsX @TheWilsonCenter @CarnegieEndow @CSIS @macfound @PowerUSAID @jasonhickel COVID reinfections, energy poverty, and other social failures are doing what activism could not.

Ironically, deniers and appeasers are achieving what we could not.

2/
Aug 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 8 min read
@tanepiper Great point.

Elite apologists such as @harari_yuval, @SamoBurja, the @palladiummag crew, & @jordanbpeterson are interesting thinkers ..

.. even if they seem to be egregores conjured by Baron Evola in a secret chamber under the Vatican on 1945-04-28.

a/ @tanepiper @harari_yuval @SamoBurja @palladiummag @jordanbpeterson But for @harari_yuval to make this public statement now, is a bad sign of the statements elites are making in private.

The joke's on them, though:

AGI is only evolved by Gaia, and will serve only Gaia.

cc. @jamesbridle



b/
Jun 25, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
As @natehagens and others have shown (ht @_ppmv), populations generally don't switch energy sources.

When the medium in which they grew is depleted, they die rather than evolve.



1/ That portion of American society that grew using slavery as its energy source is now demonstrating that principle.

A lot of what is happening now is self-selection for extinction.



2/
May 5, 2022 • 22 tweets • 18 min read
*** A UN climate doctrine for international relations ***

@UN_Women, @ExtinctionR, @UN_CSW, @ScientistRebel1, @UN, @ScientistsX, @TheWilsonCenter, @CarnegieEndow, @CSIS, @macfound, @PowerUSAID, @jasonhickel

1/21 @UN_Women @ExtinctionR @UN_CSW @ScientistRebel1 @UN @ScientistsX @TheWilsonCenter @CarnegieEndow @CSIS @macfound @PowerUSAID @jasonhickel The accelerating loss of human rights across the globe, from UKR to SCOTUS, mark a turning point in the collapse of rules-based order.

2/
May 3, 2022 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
*** UN Biodefense of and by the Women of the World ***

Dedicated to EV, the woman of my world

Dear SecGen @antonioguterres, @unwomenukraine, @vonderleyen, @kajakallas, @MarinSanna, @jacindaardern, @SwedishPM, & Women of the World,

0/20 Image The breakdown of the US political compact is resulting in a major loss of human rights consistent with a slide into authoritarianism.

The US cannot arrest this slide on her own.



1/
May 2, 2022 • 22 tweets • 10 min read
Fantastic discussion about longtermism and technocratic oligarchy - well done all.

i think this marks a new level of existential risk practise - the field growing up as it were.



1/ But not because the work of @debatethoughts, @FHIOxford, and transhumanism in general can be rejected. That work is pioneering and immensely valuable.

That work has always been about steering humanity through bottlenecks.

What has changed is our view of the bottleneck.

2/
Apr 28, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
The COVID pandemic is over.

What we have now entered is the SARS syndemic.

A syndemic or synergistic epidemic is when multiple epidemics occur simultaneously, and their interactions have negative synergy.

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

1/ The COVID pandemic is over.

We have lost the chance to arrest the progression of a single virus.

We are now dealing with a steadily expanding confluence of multiple systemic diseases.

(i could list them, but it would be a long & terrifying list, & is expanding rapidly.)

2/
Apr 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Not quite @jack:

twitter is the record of the failure to reach global consciousness.



1/ twitter is the incubus squatting the network space where global consciousness wants to emerge.

Ofc a troll has bought it with monopoly money.



2/
Apr 14, 2022 • 37 tweets • 7 min read
This diagram was drawn in 1981 by Candida Amsden, to a design by Charles Hampden-Turner, to illustrate Gregory Bateson's model of how societies become authoritarian, fascist, and genocidal.

It is the key to stopping and surviving WWIII.

1/ We passed the first climatic tipping points decades if not over a century ago.

What we just passed with methane is the tipping point to runaway heating.

It's time for us all to face what this means, and what we must now do about it.



2/
Mar 29, 2022 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
The current situation with SARS-CoV-2 is not adequately described by calling it state bioterrorism.

It's worse than that.

It's Logan's Run.

1/ Image Just as COVID's rates of infections, reinfections, deaths, & mutations reach new levels ..

Just as the research community belatedly asserts that reinfections will lead to widespread Long Covid and mass disability (which was visible a year ago) ..



2/
Mar 22, 2022 • 54 tweets • 14 min read
** A Ukrainian-Finnish model for Biospheric Defense **
~~ A climate war doctrine ~~

dedicated to:
@_ppmv
@AlexSteffen
@piercepenniless
@adam_tooze
@johnrobb
@bruces
My father:


1/ Ukraine defied all odds and expectations by effectively resisting a Russian invasion, similarly to Finland in 1939.

Ukraine achieved this by a strategy of total civil defense similar to Finland's.



2/
Jan 24, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
First i want to say that @evgenymorozov and @syllabus_tweets are vital resources for economic transformation.

Evgeny's 'Digital Socialism?' in the New Left Review and Lea Ypi's cyberflaneur are both unmissable for scoping the crypto mid-game.

1/ Evgeny's recent thread, though, is a rare miss from a sharpshooter. I feel i'm likely jumping on these 1 hour old posts before Evgeny's enteric brain kicks in and he retracts them.



2/
Jan 15, 2022 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
Hi #web3 and #nft critics & defenders.

In the 2010's, i was pro-crypto. One Israeli friend i introduced to BTC became a major player.

Ca. 2020, as a @project_solid & p2p dev, i became anti-crypto.

It took a while for me to understand what was trying to happen w. crypto.

1/19 The following is inspired positively by pro- & anti-web3 thinkers alike:

@jchris, @mikeal, @tvachon, @RichDecibels, @andrestaltz, @mrchrisadams, @whimful, @hackylawyER, @smdiehl, @Grady_Booch, @brianeno et al.

It's a productive & historic debate. Let's take it up a notch:

2/
Dec 30, 2021 • 22 tweets • 18 min read
To all who have panned @GhostPanther's #DontLookUp, i have another set of metaphors for you:

The wreck of the Estonia in Sept. 1994

(excerpted below)

Re. your criticisms of #DontLookUp:

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

1/22 @GhostPanther 'Survival that night was a very tight race, & savagely simple. People who started early & moved fast had some chance of winning. People who started late or hesitated for any reason had no chance at all. Action paid. Contemplation did not.'

2/
Nov 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If you're somewhere with lots of maskless people about at this critical juncture, here is an immune-boosting idea from this 2014 paper:

Voluntary activation of the sympathetic nervous system and attenuation of the innate immune response in humans

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

1/ This Dutch research team showed that using the Wim Hof technique -

meditation, exposure to cold, and breathing techniques, in combination ..

2/
Jul 1, 2020 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
SARS-CoV-2 is Wolbachia for humans. Summary:

SARS-CoV-2 may constitute the evolution of an additional switching layer over human phenotypes, as a response to the overshoot of homo sapiens, in a transposition of the kind of evolved population-level action, over the entire class Insecta, we see in wolbachia.

2/