Doesn’t ⁦MSNBC⁩ know better than to put FOUR white dudes on screen at the same time?

Before one makes a decision to escalate a conflict, it's crucial to have a clear picture of what the minimum conditions of victory are. Without that, one runs the severe risk of getting embroiled in something with no clear way out.

'Humans are not Earth’s chief occupants. Trees are. There are three trillion of them, with a collective biomass thousands of times that of humanity.' theguardian.com/environment/20…

Planetary challenges are not identical to global ones, and require a new institutional approach to governance x.com/berggruenInst/…

The polycrisis is prefigured in Arrighi’s theory of hegemonic transition. Systemic cycles of accumulation culminate in chaos as conflict escalates & new & old rules compete.

Our new open access paper links the accumulation process & chaos using a logistic map. 🧶
Giorgos Galanis

Elmo 'comes across as someone you would really not want to put in charge of your hunter-gatherer band. Yes, he’s in some ways smart and capable. But he’s also a selfish asshole who believes the rules shouldn’t apply to him.' - Matthew Yglesias open.substack.com/pub/matthewygl…

deviant product substitution
no industry is safe from China
nytimes.com/2024/04/28/wor…

The real Havana Syndrome

Someone recently labeled me a 'dystopian-aware techno-optimist' — and I accept the fit of that shoe.

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'The true test of a government is how it ends.' nytimes.com/2024/04/27/mag…

“So, you’re voting for someone who you believe tried to subvert the peaceful transfer of power, that can’t even achieve his own policies, that lied about the election even after his attorney general told him that the election wasn’t stolen?
“The answer to the question is yes.'

Long Now Foundation Nils Gilman Jonathan Blake Berggruen Institute CHILDREN OF A MODEST STAR presents a whole new way of thinking about how we might govern the planet from top to bottom, revamp institutions, create new ones designed to deal with planetary phenomenon, and break from endemic problems in today's systems. #G7Italy #SpecialMeeting24

Irredentist claims based on prior ethnic occupation of the land are to me always dubious, but for sure the half life decay rate of their legitimacy is measured in decades, not centuries.

In a world that is completely without rituals and wholly profane, all that is left are consumption and the satisfaction of needs.

Politically, the centralized nation-state is in steep decline, spurring severe political crises in many countries; Economically, growth has slowed and become imbalanced, leading to the return of entrenched inequalities and expansion of illicit economies. 2/