The idea that “humanity is separate from nature” is better read as an ongoing civil war inside nature itself. We should admit that ideas, techniques, and institutions are themselves ecological forces. Nature vs. nature plus ideas, a feedback system where symbolic forms steer matter.

Politics can be understood as an evolutionary adaptation: a behavioral strategy that leverages rhetoric and self-deception to secure resources under the guise of public service.

The Westphalian order, eroded by its own historical contradictions and rooted in selectively appropriated ideals, continues its genocide of innocent communities trapped between collapsing norms.

Riding the crest of the planet’s fragile energy gradient — billions of years in the making — and with symbolic technology in hand, we carve in to the surfboard the biosphere has shaped through countless cycles, on which we balance. When did we lose our footing? How did we sever ourselves from the waves that gave us life? Why are we so distracted by the thrill of the ride that we mistake it for progress, while the grave depths below loom closer?

As ecological degradation erodes the material preconditions of life, the ascent of AI threatens to remove the need for human cognitive labour. Thank you for your attention on this matter🙏

If you have to get paid to do the right thing are you still a good person?

The ones who do the right thing when no one’s watching. The ones who stay diligent when no one’s checking. The ones who work hard even when no one’s paying.

Pattern matchers need to train their focus; scientists need to widen their lens. Between chaos and clarity lies structured potential. Meme comes from @ADHDForReal on X

Many creative thinkers using AI need to learn how to turn the temperature down.

# Infinite Monkeys — Act III, Scene II (Draft) (Outside the East Side Gallery, Berlin.) [Enter the Orator, addressing a restless crowd before the app launch of “Utopia Beta”] Orator: Consumers, Shareholders, and Migrant Offspring— Give me an unsecured loan on your precious ears. I come to bury Capitalism, not to praise it. Proletarier 1: The revolution doesn’t scale! Proletarier 2: Yeah! No more free riots! Proletarier 3: I say we baut die Zahlmauer! Proletarier 4: Warum Englisch?! VOICE (from a glowing speaker embedded in the Wall): Thy free speech quota hath been exceeded. Upgrade to Premium Revolution+ to continue. Proletarier 5: Says, page can't be found! Prompt engineer @wassimulacrum on X

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How do “core” regions of this planet act as a topological sinks for people, matter and technological devices?

A “solution,” whether chemical or conceptual, is not the vanishing of parts but their redistribution into an energetically and entropically favourable phase.

This century calls not for more force, but more discernment. Not for more explosions, but more co-presence. If physics taught us how to break the world, chemistry may teach us how to reassemble it.

Living with the Internet means living in a library. If your NFT were truly valuable, you wouldn’t need Bitcoin’s blockchain to store it. People would preserve it willingly because it would be worth keeping around.

Every act bears moral weight and thus entails guilt. To live is to trespass. Only within a community can this guilt be borne and forgiven. The sovereign, in maturity, diffuses his power of pardon, allowing the community to forgive itself.

It’s a full time job being a social animal. To surrender that for money, an abstraction born of distrust and scarcity, is to risk trading relation for transaction.

We are hunter gatherers again, this time scavenging in latent space.

As we sit on the brink of AI and automation at scale, we fear joblessness not because we lack work to do, but because we’ve built a world that devalues the most essential work which care giving.

Some parts of this planet don’t want to be occupied.

Be more suspicious or your own motivations.