The world as we know it is ending, and the indifference by Americans, politicians and mainstream press is maddening
The AI Apocalypse Is Already Here | Compact
Americans do not care for artificial intelligence. Recent polling shows that their attitudes mostly range from ambivalence to horror.
The Future History of America and the World to 2050
The introduction to a positive and plausible scenario about how we could solve our many challenges and transform our world for the better
The Joy of Becoming Worthless…except to each other — Douglas Rushkoff
My last piece, The Intentional Collapse, seems to have agitated a few people. I know it came off a bit dark. I talked about how the Uber wealthy believe the world as we know it is ending and that there won’t be enough essential resources to go around, so they need to take control of as much money and stuff and land as possible in order to position themselves for the end of days.
Pluralistic: An end to the climate emergency is in our grasp (12 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The problem with good news in the real world is that it's messy. Neat happy endings are for novels, not the real world, and that goes double for the climate emergency. But even though good climate news is complicated and nuanced, that doesn't mean it shouldn't buoy our spirits and fill our hearts with hope.
Could this be the beginning of the end for the billionaire-owned media propaganda blitz?
A campaign to free our national press from foreign billionaires like Rupert Murdoch is gaining momentum and attracting big-name support
Welcome to the Millennial Midlife Crisis
As we enter our 40s, we’re being forced to confront something awful — not our mortality. Our finances.
Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News
I grew up believing that following the news makes you a better citizen. Eight years after having quit, that idea now seems ridiculous—that consuming a particularly unimaginative information produ...
We can’t leave it to billionaires like Bezos and Bloomberg to solve the world’s problems | Simon Jenkins
It’s up to government to tax and spend for the good of all, and not the mega-rich seeking a warm glow, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
Americans Have One Very Strange Cognitive Bias
Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love The People.
This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit
The story of how one metric has changed the way you see the world
Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Fisher/Jameson said "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism". And yet, that act of imagining alternatives is urgent; if AI tells us nothing else, it tells us that capitalism is actively imagining the end of us.— danmcquillan (@danmcquillan@kolektiva.social) (@danmcquillan) August 30, 2026
Pluralistic: America and “national capitalism” (18 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Thomas Piketty's 2013 unexpected bestseller (a 750 page economics book translated from French!) Capital in the 21st Century, offers a very convincing explanation of our political decay, and it continues to serve this purpose as the decay undergoes alarming acceleration:
Hello I'm an American living in a red state. I wrote a little thing for Europeans explaining the current the moment in the US. It's important that people understand why this is happening, because a similar thing is coming for most democracies. docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRPrDiXk2…
