Oh… just the VP, SECDEF, DNI, CIA, NSA, DoS, etc. exchanging messages on a civilian app regarding an upcoming military strike while also having accidentally added a civilian reporter…

A fucking leak?

Agreed

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/20/microplastics-human-testicles-study-sperm-counts

“We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we do know that it was us that scorched the sky.”

The Matrix (1999), spoken by Morpheus

Maybe that’s why we’re so hell bent on destroying ourselves.

Big oil…

According to the article, over 75 percent of Earth’s land has become drier over the past 30 years. Drylands now cover 40.6 percent of global land, excluding Antarctica. The population living in drylands has doubled to 2.3 billion and could reach 5 billion by 2100 under a worst case climate scenario. The expansion is driven by climate change, poor land management, overgrazing, deforestation, urbanization, and groundwater overuse. Desertification is a permanent loss of fertile land, distinct from temporary drought. Impacts include reduced food and water security, increased poverty, biodiversity loss, dust storms, wildfires, and more carbon emissions. Restoration is possible with large-scale efforts, as shown in China’s Loess Plateau.

So now they’ll protect everyone from reading…

Viva!

For sure. 70s sci-fi art is pretty bitchin, too.

The sun is best.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Bigfoot might share some anti-tech views but I’d like to think he would recognize the futility of trying to blow up the system and focus instead on cultivating top shelf weed deep in the forest. Stay off the grid and tune into the trees.

Keeps a copy of “Industrial Society and Its Future” under his moss pillow.

Check out Against Civilization it argues we’ve just industrialized our self-destruction

Fantastic book and a pretty quick read. Pick up a copy at bookshop.org because fuck Bezos.

If the Department of Education goes away, rich states can still spend lots of money on schools, but poor states might not have enough. That means some kids get great teachers, new books, and nice schools, while others don’t. The government helps make sure all kids have a fair chance, no matter where they live. Without it, some schools might get worse, and some kids might not get the help they need to learn.

So it seems

I mean, duh