Travel agents took 10 years to collapse, developers are three years in
https://martinalderson.com/posts/travel-agents-developers/
#HackerNews #TravelAgents #Collapse #Developers #Future #TechIndustry #Innovation
Collapse doesn’t announce itself. It piles up. It accumulates in places people don’t look. And right now it’s sitting in stacks behind rural churches and volunteer fire departments. It’s measured in cords, not policy briefs. Every log is evidence of a system that stopped working.
https://newrepublic.com/article/204051/firewood-banks-heating-bill-winter
Chewie
boosted
You're Not Crazy. The Bugs Are Disappearing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYWk7dh40VI&t=1s
You’re not crazy. There really aren’t as many bugs as there used to be. And it’s kind-of a big problem. Is it an apocalypse? Let’s take a look.
#Insects #Disappearing #ClimateCrisis #BugApocalypse #Collapse #ClimateAction
You're Not Crazy. The Bugs Are Disappearing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYWk7dh40VI&t=1s
You’re not crazy. There really aren’t as many bugs as there used to be. And it’s kind-of a big problem. Is it an apocalypse? Let’s take a look.
#Insects #Disappearing #ClimateCrisis #BugApocalypse #Collapse #ClimateAction
Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwygqqll9k2o
#HackerNews #Trains #cancelled #over #fake #bridge #collapse #image #Trains #BridgeCollapse #FakeNews #Transportation #HackerNews
Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".
@stefan Remember that time when the US built all those data centers for AI and then realized that LLMs didn’t work after all?
Cory Doctorow
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@pluralistic on billionaire preppers:
"If your contribution to society consists of “allocating capital” and/or giving people orders, what, exactly, is the disaster that fulfills your fantasy of a world where your unique skills are the only thing that can save us all? What kind of disaster needs a boss?”
@pluralistic on billionaire preppers:
"If your contribution to society consists of “allocating capital” and/or giving people orders, what, exactly, is the disaster that fulfills your fantasy of a world where your unique skills are the only thing that can save us all? What kind of disaster needs a boss?”
[Thread] #ItsGoingDown announcement (includes valuable resources, linked in thread)
Oct 18, 25
IGD: 2015 – 2025
Filed under: Featured, IGD — It's Going Down
"About a year ago, we announced a hiatus on this project. Due to an outpouring of support, we pushed ourselves to continue, and over the last year, we’re proud of the interviews and roundups we’ve been able to produce.
"But as events in the United States have continued to escalate and conditions have grown more dire, it’s clear that IGD does not have the capacity to meet the moment as a hub for grassroots reporting and journalism. In the face of this reality, we feel its important to be clear about our inability to continue, in the hopes that more people can push themselves to build and grow media projects and platforms.
"We should all have a sober and clear-eyed view of what is happening. The current administration is attempting to consolidate extreme authoritarian power. People are being silenced and working-class people are being attacked. A police state is being constructed. Conditions are worsening. Inflation and prices are exploding and the entire country feels like it is slipping into dictatorship and economic collapse, as most people struggle to put food on the table.
"While this reality is bleak, we are excited about the flood of new media projects taking off and reporting from the ground level and covering evolving social movements. We want to take a moment to shout out some of these projects and encourage you to support and follow them... [Links in thread]
"As corporations and the State consolidate news into fewer hands and the far-Right pushes to silence those who speak out, the need for dynamic and vibrant grassroots media that amplifies working-class voices and gives a platform to social movements is needed now more than ever. We hope those that enjoyed IGD over the years can help in constructing new infrastructure that can help meet our present moment."
Source:
https://itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/
#Antifa #Antifascism #GrassrootsMedia #FarRight #USPol #WorldPol #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship
"Remember when the world didn’t feel like it was coming apart?
Neither do we.
Cool Zone Media doesn’t mince words: we are living through the collapse of the known, and the birth of a new unknown.
Every week we chronicle that collapse, and provide advice and access to vital voices trying to build a better future.
Cool Zone Media is a podcast network helmed by investigative journalist Robert Evans (@IwriteOK) and executive producer Sophie Lichterman (@why_sophie_why)."
https://www.coolzonemedia.com/
#ACAB #USPol #WorldPol #Resistance #Collapse #Resistance #Podcasts #Fascism #Corporatism
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
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Looking back at my life,
so I can look forward to my life…
“Personal as Political:
Early CyberFeminism &
Internet of Humans
during breakup of Yugoslavia”
Or
"In the Footnotes of History"
at
(GRADE) conference, on 14. March 2025, Belgrade / online
"Grassroots of Digital Europe: from Historic to Contemporary Cultures of Creative Computing"
The slides :
https://wiki.techinc.nl/images/6/65/Vesna-grade-2025-slides-with-notes-xs.pdf.pdf
#belonging #community
#overcoming #oppression
#rebellion #recovery
#collapse #regeneration
Looking back at my life,
so I can look forward to my life…
“Personal as Political:
Early CyberFeminism &
Internet of Humans
during breakup of Yugoslavia”
Or
"In the Footnotes of History"
at
(GRADE) conference, on 14. March 2025, Belgrade / online
"Grassroots of Digital Europe: from Historic to Contemporary Cultures of Creative Computing"
The slides :
https://wiki.techinc.nl/images/6/65/Vesna-grade-2025-slides-with-notes-xs.pdf.pdf
#belonging #community
#overcoming #oppression
#rebellion #recovery
#collapse #regeneration
Christian Meesters
and 1 other
boosted
#Iceland’s relatively mild #climate is shaped by a crucial network of currents that winds its away around the #Atlantic Ocean transporting heat northward — without it, the island would be much icier & stormier. As evidence mounts these currents could be on course for #collapse, Iceland’s govt has designated the risk a #NationalSecurity threat, prompting a a high-level response into how to prepare for this “ #existential threat.”
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/climate/iceland-warming-current-amoc-collapse-threat?cid=ios_app
#Iceland’s relatively mild #climate is shaped by a crucial network of currents that winds its away around the #Atlantic Ocean transporting heat northward — without it, the island would be much icier & stormier. As evidence mounts these currents could be on course for #collapse, Iceland’s govt has designated the risk a #NationalSecurity threat, prompting a a high-level response into how to prepare for this “ #existential threat.”
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/climate/iceland-warming-current-amoc-collapse-threat?cid=ios_app
Found a new favorite subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/OptimistsUnite/top/
Never fails to cheer me up. I've been saving some quotes, but honestly there are too many good ones. I'll post some of my favorites.
#collapse #optimism #renewables #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Posting mostly to have this here.
#trump #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA #OvalOffice #WhiteHouse #collapse #psychopath #MalignantNarcissist
A thought that occurred to me early in reading this take-down of NASA's Orion capsule is that NASA is now 67 years old, and we shaved apes are *terrible* at building institutions that function for more than an average human life expectancy, on the order of 70-80 years.
Even before Trump, NASA was probably likely to wither and die before 2050. Now I think it'll be lucky it make it to 2030.
https://spacey.space/@nyrath/115485574021179202
I predicted (guessed!) in 2005 that civilization-as-we-know-it would collapse by 2030, and unfortunately I may be right. I was thinking that #ClimateChange, peak oil, and democratic decay would do us in. We found more oil, but that turned out to be a bad thing.
"NASA is now 67 years old, and we shaved apes are *terrible* at building institutions that function for more than an average human life expectancy, on the order of 70-80 years."