John FitzGiraffe Kennedy
@jgiraffekennedy.bsky.social
Giraffe. Not the President. Autistic. Survivor of coercive control/domestic violence. SARS-CoV-2 is not over. Proud #AnimalCaucus member. Collapse‑positive anti‑civilisational structuralist. Luddite. Love and kindness for nature.
It's GENUINELY like this: You cannot "solve" intractability with heuristics. Trust me. I devoted 20 years to this, and really, if you squeeze out intractability in one spot it'll pop up in another. It may look different on the surface, but in essence you're still facing the same epistemic problem.
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if somebody is behaving in narcissistic ways, sadly common academia — regardless of any diagnosis, which is orthogonal to my point here — it may be useful to read about gray rocking... > In the gray rock method, a person does not respond emotionally to any of a narcissist's manipulation attempts.
When Dealing With a Narcissist, the “Gray Rock” Approach Might Help
Is dealing with a narcissist becoming too difficult? This method may help.
psychologytoday.com
I’m a corporate gymnast and learned today that even my job is not safe from automation.
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2mo agoQuick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.
Oh, I know all about it. Bab al‑Mandab is a traditional sweet almond pie from the southern Red Sea coast. Dense pastry, lightly spiced syrup, usually served warm.
A former colleague invented this Reflecting Pool cocktail for his July 4th celebrations, and the really genius thing he did was include a bit of blueberry skin to honor the floating bits of American Flag Blue paint.
Billionaires are a critical component of civilisational catabolic collapse.
so he wants a piece of putting college students into unbelievable debt over sports gambling, too
rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 3mo agomore news: Mark Zuckerberg is telling lieutenants to pursue partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi with Meta's new prediction market app called Arena, per sources Meta is targeting 18-34 year old users with a goal of 100 million regular "predictors" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/t...
Mechanism and updated prediction for the epic fail of Lincoln Memorial Bioreactor's polyurea coating! First chemistry, then physics It was sprayed in big sections. In addition to pool edges, failure will concentrate at the OVERLAP SEAMS between sections because they likely barely bonded at all. 1/x
My neighbor told me the British political system keeps eating his PMs so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the Right Sort Of Chaps and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to the British political system and then his daughter started crying.
"A technological revolution is not being allowed to take place in the west, or at least in the US -- and that's because of politics" @70sbachchan.bsky.social in our new bonus podcast episode pod.link/1884213852/e...
07 | Demand Destruction | Techno-optimism?
Listen to 07 | Demand Destruction | Techno-optimism? from The Polycrisis wherever you get your podcasts!
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I don’t understand why almost nobody is talking/writing about the collapse of cognition. Everything everywhere is completely stupid and “how did we get there” is barely scratched. It’s not just the death of expertise or whatever. It’s complete cognitive catabolic collapse at the societal level.
“Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learning, the country's prime minister said on Friday." @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learni...
reuters.com
Trump is mostly defeated by single cell organisms, like Covid and algae. Occasionally, he is defeated by more complex systems like hundred dollar mines and drones. Life is hard.
Happy Capitulation Day to all who celebrate.
"The United States draws its SPR; the world prices off the suppressed signal. When Cushing hits its operational floor — a matter of weeks at current trajectories — the self-correcting mechanism arrives not gradually but abruptly." Sounds bad. www.carlyle.com/carlyle-comp...
The abundance illusion
Jeff Currie suggests that markets are mistaking temporary relief from Chinese demand flexibility and strategic inventory drawdowns for a lasting improvement in global energy supply, which is underpric...
carlyle.com
"The money for the new coal plants would come from funds that Congress originally designated for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from polluting industries." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/c...
Trump Offers Funds for First New U.S. Coal Plants in 13 Years
nytimes.com
W/ my colleague Martha Kenney, new piece on what we call “AI centrism” — a position that claims to split the difference btw genAI boosterism and detraction, but still leads to its acceptance and use. E.g.: - “We will use AI ethically/responsibly/thoughtfully” - “We will keep a human in the loop”
Some thoughts on the Trump-specific aspects of the last 24hrs, stipulating that structural, national, and domestic interests in the Middle East are the most important factors, not Trump. But the U.S. has so much power and leverage, worth thinking about. 1/
