- A fun “rap battle” video of bitcoin against fiat
- Venezuela’s oil capital collapses into chaos
- Fuck.
- “Free” media undermined good writing. That’s why you should pay writers you like
- The first windmills
- SoulCycle’s users are boycotting its Trump-supporting founder — and succeeding
- “What if we stopped pretending the climate apocalypse can be stopped?” lines up almost exactly with what I’ve been thinking in recent years, i.e., that we’re not making any serious dent in GHG emissions and that it’s better to focus on local community and resiliency. One ironic manifestation of this thinking is that property values in Amsterdam (a city in a region that will be underwater in 50-500 years — the timing will be difficult) may rise rather than fall, as people crowd into a place that’s well run relative to other places that are physically safer but institutionally dysfunctional. How will your future play out?
- Photos with impact
- The fall of the US might be good for the world, in the same way as the fall of Rome was
- This cool showreel provokes your imagination