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Explaining Polycrisis and Metacrisis
Framing humanity's interconnected crises, existential risk, the prospect of collapse, and differentiating polycrisis vs. metacrisis
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Jesse Damiani
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Trump’s Bitcoin Reserve & Crypto Stockpile: Innovation or the Ultimate Grift? What are the Long-Term Implications?
Is President Trump’s pro-crypto play a fast-path to corruption or an overdue embrace of a maligned technology? Here's a full breakdown, including…
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Jesse Damiani
The Los Angeles Fires, Polycrisis, & How to Live in Collapse | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #2
Time to get real about our futures—which are "already here, just not evenly distributed."
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Jesse Damiani
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What Ted Chiang’s New Yorker Essay Gets Wrong About Art and AI—and Why It Matters
3 responses to the legendary writer's recent claim that AI will never make art.
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Jesse Damiani
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What You Need to Know About Trump's 'U.S. Crypto Reserve'
Why Trump announced this reserve, why he chose the cryptocurrencies he did, and what that means for the global economy (and everyday people).
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Jesse Damiani
More Liquid, More Solid: Generative AI and The Future of Genre Under Postreality
Through generative AI, the role of genre in creative canon(s) is simultaneously liquifying and solidifying—softening genre boundaries while reasserting…
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Jesse Damiani
Hot Planet Update: Trump Tariffs, Scientist SOS, Insurer Reports Grave Risk, Renewables Surge in Africa, Central Asian Heatwave Supercharged…
A roundup of what happened, why it matters, and key context for climate change news during the week of March 30-April 5.
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Jesse Damiani
Hot Planet Update: NOAA Firings, U.S. Blocks Scientists from IPCC, IRA Methane Fee Repeal, $200B Nature Finance Deal, Wells Fargo Dumps…
A roundup of what happened, why it matters, and key context for climate change news during the week of Feb. 23 - March 1.
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Jesse Damiani
Hot Planet Update: US Quits UN Relief Fund, 1.59°C Above Pre-Industrial Levels in February, China Bets on Renewables and Coal, Cyclone…
A roundup of what happened, why it matters, and key context for climate change news during the week of March 2-8.
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Jesse Damiani
Hot Planet Update: EPA Deregulates, Farmer Sues RWE, Air Quality Standard Failures, World Cities Flip from Wet to Dry, Cyclone Jude, & More
A roundup of what happened, why it matters, and key context for climate change news during the week of March 9-15.
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Jesse Damiani
"The Disaster After the Disaster": LA Air Quality & Public Health - Jane Williams | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #3
Listen now | I sat down with California Communities Against Toxics Executive Director to discuss the extremely toxic pollutants still in the air…
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Jesse Damiani
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Hot Planet Update: Marine Heatwaves Tripling in Length, Climate Change Threatens Rice and Blood Supplies, Trump Halts Offshore Wind, AI…
A roundup of what happened, why it matters, and key context for climate change news during the week of April 12-18.
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Jesse Damiani
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