A measure of a good idea is how many bad things can be done with it

A comment Doc Searls made on this Facebook post (by Dave Winer) on the topic of how the media talks about AI.: “A Clay Shirky student at NYU who was assigned to come up with a product idea said, "I have a good idea, but I can also think of so many bad things that can be done with it." Clay responded "That's great! A measure of a good idea is how many bad things can be done with it." ”

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Lifelong Military people sounding alarms about our insane military led by two insane, inept miscreants

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McKibben on Midterms, Trump, and Climate Crisis

Ahead of the midterm elections, activist and writer Bill McKibben says he has been traveling across the United States with Third Act, the environmental group he founded to harness the power of seniors who care about the climate and democracy. “These elections are also starting to set the groundwork for 2028,” says McKibben, who calls the next U.S. presidential vote “maybe the last election that happens in a timeframe when we still really have an opportunity to affect some of the outcomes of these things.” Source: “Politics Are Desperately Important at the Moment”: Bill McKibben on Midterms, Trump & Climate Crisis | Democracy Now!

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Let’s Play 1.5C

So it's not a "But"..."an analyst using a chatbot" is not "AI on it's own" but "an analyst", "using" it. I know you are making the same point, but I want us to focus on the way we talk about AI as having "a mind of its own". Just hasn't happened yet. We ARE "letting loose" our instructions without properly vetting their consequences and effects. Kind of like we did and keep doing with fossil fuels (although now we know and are just denying/lying about it). Taking the profits and running and leaving "others" to pick up the pieces.

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Political Crisis upon Ecological Crisis

Absolutely. Directly. They are very bit as bad as Trump was on Jan. 6 when he incited a riot at the capitol. The GOP has enabled a fascist takeover by their oligarch benefactors. Traitors. On top of the far worse abandonment of ecological responsibility that has been ongoing for 40+ years, which is when James Hansen told EVERYONE, because the government to which he entrusted his findings was doing nothing to pass on the warnings. (1988...38 years, but the warnings had been getting communicated from Climate scientists for previous 30 & earlier.)

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10 years of this SHIT, seeing article after article and post after post that says , in effect: "This is it! This is what will finally bring Trump down!" It will NEVER bring him down until we are rid of this criminal betrayal of the American people by this Republican cesspool of evil. If this were 1776 they would all be hung for treason.

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The Beast before us

Murderous thugs. Crimes aginst humanity. Evil people. And I'm referring to Netenyahu and his regime. Anti-Christ, Anti-Judaic, inhuman beasts that are the beasts depicted in their prophets. They incarnate the evil being depicted in the Apocalyptic literature. They are the exposed of "Apocalypse" (which means to "Unveil")

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Bill McKibben on Wendell Berry

Two Men by Bill McKibben One as great as America ever produced, and the other Elon Musk Read on Substack

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Everything but the most impactful thing of all

Lots of people are passing this graphic around on Social Media, and the list is long and infuriating as it is, but what I think infuriates me just as much is how it does not include a single mention of any of the Ecological destruction and Deadly delay and further, totally unneeccessary damage the Trump and GOP are doing to the ecosystem, as if this isn't going to end up killing billions of people and wiping out yet more species and rendering the earth mostly uninhabitable for humans and most every other present living thing.

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“End Times” Fascism

I hate the way "End Times" has been so totally turned around on its head from any sense of it pointing to an "End" as in a GOAL or DESTINATION or fulfillment of purpose. Its become focused on the other sense of END which is the ultimate death of everything. Opposite of "Apocalypse" by definition, which is focus on "Revealing" or "Unveiling", which is for thepurposes of seeing things for what they are, so that we can see how what has gone off the rails can be restored to its proper place along the way to the DESIRED "end".

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Mashable on X: on Fire HD10

Source: Mashable on X: "A tablet that punches above its weight class for an incredible price. / Twitter Also punches below the belt on compatibility issues, especially if one is not a little "side-load savy". I had to use Fire Toolbox ro get mine workiing somewhat consistently. Constant sync problems in Google PLay Store apps, and horrible Amaaon store current updates.

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‘Weather games’ will soon be in Kansas City’s past …….uh, sure

LOL. The denial of what they are going to be facing, along with the rest of us. The Climate Shocks will show them that it's more than just rain and heat and fans comfort. It's the collapsing of the society around them, rendering their business irrelevant and unaffordable. The Kansas City Chiefs are planning to build a new domed stadium that would eliminate weather as a factor for all home games. Source: ‘Weather games’ will soon be in Kansas City’s past

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Wendell Berry through the years

See photos of Wendell Berry, a prolific novelist, poet, essayist, philosopher, and farmer, who was one of Kentucky's greatest writers, through the years. Source: Wendell Berry, prolific Kentucky novelist and poet, through the years

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Serial Killers with Spreadsheets

The Zen of Zinn. Absolutely nails the exposure of the monstrous lies we are told "for our won good" they say. Theyre doing that to us as human inhabitants of this earth, persuading millions (perhaps biillions) to go along and allow the absolute dissolution of habitable life for humans and most of the rest of existinglife on Earth.

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A Doting Grand-Dad’s post

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The Least Apocalyptic Summer for the rest of our lives

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THE PANAMA PARADOX: Larger Vessels. Less Water.

The Panama Canal, one of the great engineering feats of the 20th century is a symbol of outdated infrastructure that is failing to stand up to the vastly different environmental conditions of the 21st...

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Satan’s work (the definition of blindness to embodying evil)

He has no clue what "God's work" could be. He is blinded by ideology and idolatry (he obviously idolizes his own power; he sold his sold to follow Trump). Someone he clearly despised, but offered the VP slot, he is denying he ever did that. Deceived, and thus DEMONIC. He has joined the minions. "God's work" for him looks more like Satan's. Wait, I do believe it is.

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Call out the culprits of “Environmental Change”

“the disaster underscores the connection between environmental change and human vulnerability. She urged Asian churches to renew their commitment to creation care, climate justice and disaster preparedness and to stand with communities whose lives and livelihoods are increasingly exposed to environmental change. ” — From United Methodist News Service Good to raise the issue of Climate Change. But go further. Speak the truth to power. We must reject and replace fossil fuels ASAP. But UM's still invest funds in fossil fuels, while other major denoms are divesting.

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Accelerating Solar

“In 2009, when installed solar capacity worldwide was 23 gigawatts, the International Energy Agency predicted that in the 20 years to 2030 it would increase to 244 gigawatts." In fact, it hit that mark six years later, and now we're installing 244 gigawatts every six months.” — Bill McKibben, "Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization" (W.W. Norton & Co. August 2025) , p. 56 Originally posted at 10:45 AM · Aug 31, 2025 by @dlature to Twitter/X 

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Distracted by inanities while the Ecological realities explode around us

Trump: "We're going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario effective immediately to Lake America. That's going to take place right now." Melanie D'Arrigo: "We've officially hit the dumbest point in U.S. history." — posted by McGill Media at BUT I'll have to stick with the dumbest point being when we decided to ignore all the knowledge about ecological health and act as if its "just someone's opinion" and proceed ever faster toward making it worse. Suicidal. Genocidal. On ourselves and life itself.This exposed the oblivious hypocrisy of the "Pro Life" movement.

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no unsacred places

“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” — Wendell Berry, in Given: Poems, Counterpoint, 2006.

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Two roads diverged….

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Economically practical renewables actually SAVE massively

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An Ecological Civilization that should best represent the “Kingdom of God”

The Medieval Church, being that one that preceded The Printing Press and industrialization and Reformation, did its major intercontinental "expansion" (aka "Conquest" via participation and their "blessing" upon those "Conquests" of other lands and their inhabitants). Thus began the drive to "develop" and "landscape" (aka "Tera-form" those lands both physically and culturally in the image of Europe and its varied cultures). The enslavement of human bodies to do the "man-power" work can be said to have "led to" to the employment of long-dead "Fossils" for fuels that replaced human "manpower" with "goods" pillaged from the earth, often and almost invariably by commandeering vast tracts of land around which these extractions took place, and "increasing" the GDP.

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Trump tells Al Jazeera ‘not in a hurry’ for Iran to return to talks | US-Israel war on Iran News | Al Jazeera

'I have no time schedule,' Trump says when asked when he expects Iran to return to the negotiating table. There's no "negotation" wherever this narcissist is involved. Countries around the world have been seeing this for coming up on a decade now. The U.S. people need a rescue. Source: Trump tells Al Jazeera ‘not in a hurry’ for Iran to return to talks | US-Israel war on Iran News | Al Jazeera

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Exercises in self-aggrandizement

Ankhtifi was buried in a lavishly decorated tomb, which portrays him as a great saviour during this period of instability. His autobiography was mainly an exercise in self-aggrandizement. Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (p. 13). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Remind you of anyone in particular, Americans of the you-know-who era?

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Ask the Beasts

Elizabeth A. Johnson Ask the Beasts Darwin and the God of Love by Elizabeth A. Johnson

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