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How to save the world's title: how to save the world | Dave Pollard's chronicle of civilization's collapse, creative works and essays on our culture. A trail of crumbs, runes and exclamations along my path in search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works.
It hardly needs to be said, but one of the most nefarious activities of the corporate oligarchs and their fellow Epstein Class tech bros is trying to get us all to use ‘apps’ for everything online, instead of the open World Wide Web.
Apps are simply a covert attempt at privatization of the commons of the internet. When corporations put stuff on the web...
For more than 20 years, I have been writing about civilizational collapse. I’m not an expert in the subject, just someone who’s read a lot about anthropology, the history of civilizations, human nature, and how complex systems work.
My fundamental thesis has remained basically unchanged over this time:
Our now-global industria...
Last month I presented a bit of research on how our bodies’ chemicals appear to drive, direct, and dictate (ie ‘condition’) our behaviour by trying to maximize the body’s feelings of pleasure and minimize its ...
image by Mike Licht on flickr, CC BY 2.0
Facebook and Xwitter are dying. Their membership is shrinking, their usage is dropping, and satisfactio...
(photo from U. Berkeley, with the caption: “New study reveals the brain mechanism that makes rats feel empathy for other rats, yet refrain from helping rats they deem to be ‘outsiders’. Photo by Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal”)
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