If you still have money to donate before midnight 12/31/22 A deep dive on how to use financial leverage to solve the environmental destruction problem is still on deck for (hopefully) January. …

Totally Digestible by Addled Holiday Brains First, thank all of you who read this. Without you there would be little point in writing it other than hoping for some possible posterity value. This is my last post of 2022 (“thank goodness!” …

Musings on Physics, Time, Nature and What’s Really Important This newsletter is a little different than others I’ve posted. This time I’ll share some short-form comments in response to a few things I’ve been reading. I hope you like it. I’m loving my subscription to Scribd and my library account! …

A chance referral prompts a look at mental health privacy online. And it’s not good. I had one of those naked nightmares a few nights ago. In it, standing on a brightly lit stage I can make out a crowd filling a very large stadium. I see the white of lab coats, the glint of stethoscopes. Some very serious looking business-clad types. …

You Too Can Combat Extremist Social Media Manipulation Sorry this post is so late but my regular readers will remember that I’ve been away. I was in other countries looking for an evacuation zone. I hope we won’t need one. If you care about reality and a livable civil society but feel powerless right now, why not join…

Divestment has been a powerful symbolic statement, but a climate damage countermeasure? Not so much — it’s time to change the model. Before We Start I usually don’t ask for anything, as I write these blog posts in order to voice things that need to be said. But your support…

To celebrate Labor Day, I thought I would share with you a blog post that was created (almost) entirely by “AI” technology. — Except for the introduction sections, this blog post was created by “AI.” Including the title. I was having a hard time coming up with one, thankfully the computer came up with one for me. Even the illustration. I’m nowhere near that good an artist. Our technology leaders have put vast…

Investing and divesting as tools for mitigating climate destruction We know all the cliches: Money talks, BS walks. Money makes the world go round. Put your money where your mouth is. Follow the money. Yes, cliches are overused and trite, but that’s because they capture an essential truth. …