Revolt Against AI - A Conversation

I had a great, wide ranging talk about technology with Yasha on Friday. He has it up his channel, Revolt Against AI. Enjoy

The Physical Reality of Artificial Intelligence

"Perhaps I may clarify the historical background of the present situation if I say that the first industrial revolution, the revolution of the “dark satanic mills,” was the devaluation of the human arm by the competition of machinery. There is no rate of pay at which a United States

Political Atrophy

“The mechanical brain does not secrete thought ‘as the liver does bile,’ as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can

That's Elec-tric-tric-tric

Let's get electrified, Let's get electrified The past has gotta stop, the future's gotta rock The world is on fire, can I take you hire Z-U-L-U that's the way we spell ZULU The NYT ran a big Tech propaganda

Oil Lessons With Miss J

A gallon of gas can’t be purchased anywhere for any amount of cash A couple weeks after American bombs started dropping on Iran, I received a text from a long ago colleague and old friend, Miss J. She wrote, “I think you should dust off that Energy/Oil slide

Production Addendum

In these times of contention it's not my intention to make things plain It's the aim of existence to offer resistance to the flow of time I believe in the elixir of youth And I believe in the absolute truth I believe in, yes, I believe

Desecrating the Production Fetish

Introductory Note - Unless otherwise noted, sources: Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty (1955), a collection of her writings from the 1930s; Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958); Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine (1970); Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1964). These are all thinkers and insights largely lost to contemporary

Production and This and That

All ya gotta do is start I've been trying to put together a long piece on production as industrial fetish, but its distressingly slow. In these times of contention, as an always recovering news addict, my mind's a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading

Sunday Morning Talk

Evgenia and Yasha put up the book talk we did recently in New York City. I enjoyed very much. Michelle Shocked led off the evening with two great songs; Steve Goodman's City of New Orleans and her song Pompeii. Michelle's on the road playing - highly recommend.

Oil Addendum

I just wanted to add a couple oil numbers that are important. The United States is not oil self-sufficient. We still import, using EIA numbers from 2023, take them for what you will, 8 million barrels a day. Only ten percent comes from the Persian Gulf, while half comes

2nd Wave of Work for Home

Hey all you city-fucks it's a prairies man world It's wide 0pen I have a Twilight Zone sense of things these days. A person walking around a world changed, but no one sees it. To this point, the US reaction to Trump's Idiocy

Restoring We the People

A few months ago did the above interview with long and dear friend, ecologist, historian, and Tree Media founder Leila Conners. Video is on Tree+. Leila knew Gorbachev. Gorbachev allowed the peaceful dismantling of the Soviet empire, doesn't look like any lesson learned. The US seems determined to