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thomasneuburger.bsky.social
Essayist, poet, novelist. Byline @ SF Chronicle, Common Dreams, Naked Capitalism, DownWithTyranny, others. God's Spies : neuburger.substack.com
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Who's responsible, the frog or the scorpion? by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social h/t @kenklippenstein.bsky.social neuburger.substack.com/p/the-frog-o...

Who's responsible, the frog or the scorpion? by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social h/t @kenklippenstein.bsky.social neuburger.substack.com/p/the-frog-o...

The amount of sea ice currently on our planet continues to set new record lows for this time of year... More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i.... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social for the satellite-era period.

My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has now been updated with 2024's data. We are losing ice. Graphic available at: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... More info: wgms.ch/global-glaci...

@thomasneuburger.bsky.social on the dismantling of CFPB: "Capitalism survives another attempt to save it" neuburger.substack.com/p/the-beast-th

Capitalism survives another attempt to save it by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social h/t @carlbeijer.bsky.social neuburger.substack.com/p/the-beast-...

The extent of sea ice globally is now at an absolute record low level for the entire satellite-era. [Graphics: zacklabe.com/global-sea-i.... Note: the poles are affected by very different Earth system processes/seasonality. I am using 5-day running mean data.]

Thanks, Zack.

"You can always tell who's in charge by what you're not allowed to speak out against." —Jen Perelman ...and who the enforcers are. —Yours truly

If this is an action movie, the red line just drops to the bottom. And all hell breaks loose.

Still climbing. When the Arctic goes, say goodbye. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD9_...

It just ... doesn't ... stop.

Midweek ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 690,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,330,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,910,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,330,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🌊

Hottest January in the History of Januaries by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social neuburger.substack.com/p/hottest-ja...

Monopoly Eggs, Supporting Corruption, and the Actual Use of AI By @thomasneuburger.bsky.social h/t @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy neuburger.substack.com/p/monopoly-e...

“In a plutocracy, where wealth owns the government & only serves itself, that policy makes sense. In contrast, Chinese industrial policy is to improve the lives of its people, using the industrial activity of its wealthy to do it.” @thomasneuburger.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/neuburge...

Where Have the Good Oligarchs Gone, and other stories by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/neuburge...

To do this, we’ll take long looks over the next several weeks at the book pictured above: Alfred McCoy’s To Govern the Globe. It’s a massive history of what I’ve called above the “imperial Western experiment.” @thomasneuburger.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/neuburge...

Whatever the Spook State Wants... by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social neuburger.substack.com/p/whatever-t...

Radon xkcd.com/3037

'Who Is a Democrat?' Revisited by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social neuburger.substack.com/p/who-is-a-d...

What Is a Democrat? by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social This is why the Party is increasingly unable to win. fko4.short.gy/Q5QZq4

I need someone to collate a list of every single western government official, celebrity, and media outlet’s response to this news and compare it to their coverage of the lying propaganda used to justify a genocide.

🏅Best Posts of 2024🏅 neuburger.substack.com/p/best-posts...

Channeling Gore Vidal in a James Bond Book by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social neuburger.substack.com/p/channeling...

Here's looking at you, kid. neuburger.substack.com/p/israel-is-...

Because money first, humans without money last.

In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.

Why CEOs and the Very Rich Should Receive Enhanced Protection by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social h/t James Madison @kenklippenstein.bsky.social fko4.short.gy/539t7Z

Don't forget that Dr. Oz: -Pushed Medicare privatization plans on his show -Owns up to $600k in stock in private insurers -Has ties to pyramid scheme companies that promote fake medical cures His main qualification to oversee Medicare & Medicaid is loyalty to Trump.

Very clever. And yes, it won't.

Recommended read.

The Media's Bizarre Treatment of the Mangione Case by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social h/t @kenklippenstein.bsky.social plus all of TikTok and the bird place neuburger.substack.com/p/the-medias...

Two Ways of Looking at Regime Change in Syria by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social h/t @kenklippenstein.bsky.social @dropsitenews.com fko4.short.gy/NaFUv2

What's the Solution to Humanity's Growing Ills? - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/neuburge...

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Our enemy has the weapon. We have to figure out how to get it back.

Awful. Just awful. fko4.short.gy/mlt5YB

“Since this is all public, there’s nothing stopping anyone from making datasets out of Bluesky user data to train AI models. But Bluesky as a platform has promised it won’t use that content to train generative AI itself.”

Lebanon Ceasefire Gives Israel Victory in Gaza fko4.short.gy/WuYRyH

Naming the Perp: Very Few People Cause Most of the World's Worst Problems You could make a short list. fko4.short.gy/sSzWiT

Table scraps. Happy with table scraps.

#cop29 youtu.be/EeYCnw4wbTc?...

Non-starter, Stephen. War crimes is how you know you're winning. It's the victory dance.

In the past few months, the CEO of Chamber of Progress, Adam Kovacevich has been attempting to push the Democratic Party in the direction he believes in. That is, the direction his big tech donors have paid him to take therevolvingdoorproject.org/ignore-kovac...

Really. In what world is Morning Joe "too far left" of anyone? Hell, they just made peace with Hitler.

The answer isn't marching in the streets. Something needs to be done about that "small number of people." Focus, people. Focus.