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  • The Architecture of Delusion: The Digital Dam and the Camouflage of Material Decay

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  • its crazy how fast the end of the internet has accelerated. It got to the point i started learning to code last september now that i can get taught directly by AI. Hopefully i can build some useful tools for keeping a wild west alive in cyberspace. Have to use the AI tools available now because they are already leaning towards a 2 tiered system where good coding AI is no longer available to the plebians and i suspect the "subsidized by investor" plans will not last much longer. there are open source models that can do syntax well but they still have crazy hardware requirements. so best to use the shit out of it for making the software we need now before it becomes cost prohibitive or outright removed from public access. the new anthropic model is fully incapable of coding now without triggering the government mandated shutdown. can't get it to even do a code review without triggering the terrorist suspect shutdown. the screeching about 4 horseman of the infocalypse are upon us again.

  • Are we on the road to civilisation collapse?

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  • Rain barrels have very little water compared to any substantial garden needs. An acre needs like 8000 gallons a day.

  • An Urgent Message: Learn How to Do Something

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  • "I didn’t want to waste another minute of my life writing academic articles that nobody, not even the peer reviewers, really wanted to read. I didn’t want to spend another minute writing reports for deans who would rather go to wine tastings in the middle of the afternoon. I didn’t want to spend another Friday stuck in an endless department meeting, talking about problems nobody was ever going to do anything about. I didn’t want to spend another weekend grading papers that students didn’t want to write, and I didn’t want to read. Not because they were bad papers. Because there were other things we needed to be doing. There were other things my students needed to be learning."

    This is probably like 80% of all jobs. its all just a boondoggle hierarchy of cruelty and waste.

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    Local Observations Thread: September 2025 to Present

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  • Scramble for biofuel as oil prices rise ‘could push world closer to food crisis’

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  • There will be world food price crisis regardless of the biofuel part of the problem. We already have the inflation pushing through to food in a big way , its just about what percent of the economically marginal population get pushed below the threshold from the input costs rising and lots of production being fuel/fertilizer constrained in this growing season

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    Local Observations Thread: September 2025 to Present

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  • Im not banned so far as i can tell. let me know if you see this

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    Local Observations Thread: September 2025 to Present

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  • Corpus got some big rains so lake back up to 20% right from the edge of doom

  • AI Data Centers: The Real Reason They’re Going Up Everywhere

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  • There is shitloads of demand, the companies like anthropic were so compute constrained their models turned retarded for a couple months until Elon let them use his data centers.

    The companies with functional models are maxed out and growing extremely fast.

    Just the latent demand for coding alone could probably support the entire current build out globally and outstrip it soon enough.

    Tons of white collar work is demanding AI to stay competitive with other firms using it to increase productivity.

    I've done easily a years worth of coding in the last two weeks alone .

    With each gens capability increase it opens up more things where AI can take over. I wouldn't call this lack of demand for at least the next 5 years when the build out capacity for chip production and other infrastructure makes a glut, though even that may be a byproduct of energy limitations more than limitations in the demand for AI

  • The Search for a Living Myth | Art Berman

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  • there was some RAND corp reports about truth decay periods in history and their effects that you might like. goes along with your observation about new media and teh masses being frenzied into full retardation

  • Exxon warns of record low oil inventory from the war

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  • AKA recession time

  • collapse @lemmy.zip
    Anarchitect

    Exxon warns of record low oil inventory from the war

    www.cnbc.com

    Exxon warns oil inventories will hit dangerously low levels in weeks, forcing prices to shoot higher

    The price of physical Brent oil cargoes will spike to $150 to $160 per barrel once inventories hit all-time lows, Exxon executive Neil Chapman said.

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    Local Observations Thread: September 2025 to Present

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  • Thanks for this report , I would be interested in more compare and contrast with China.

  • As tick bites surge, conspiracy theories follow

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  • I'm glad my digital hygiene is good enough that I didn't even know about tick conspiracies.

    These stats tho 😱

    Positive tests for alpha-gal syndrome have increased 100-fold since 2013; nearly half a million people in the U.S. now carry an allergy to red meat. Cases of anaplasmosis, a disease carried by black-legged ticks that hospitalizes roughly 30 percent of the people who contract it, increased 16-fold between 2000 and 2017. Babesiosis, a malaria-like illness also carried by black-legged ticks, has risen roughly 10 percent year-over-year since 2015. It’s not uncommon now for a single tick to carry two or more diseases.

    I'm in tick country now, not as bad as ozarks but I got a permethrin coated tyvek jumpsuit with permethrin coated tyvek overboots.

    If you get the 10% animal dip you can make suit spray down to .5% then let it dry before wearing. Doesn't smell great but I think that's more from whatever petroleum distillates carrier and emulsifiers more than the permethrin itself . Gross they use this on animals we eat though. Better than catching permanent diseases .

    Need to figure out extraction from pyrethrum daisies

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    Local Observations Thread: September 2025 to Present

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  • To come back to this lowest expected wheat yield since the 70s and lowest planted acreage since 1917

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    Local Observations Thread: September 2025 to Present

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  • "there are specific lubricants that manufacturers require to meet spec for their cars. Those oils can only be made with group III base oil. We make almost 0 group iii base oil domestically. The plant that makes nearly 40% of all group iii base oil was blown up and has been offline for months"

    Hearing chatter of Shortages of many lubricants hitting stores.

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    Local Observations Thread: September 2025 to Present

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  • I'm friends with a miller and he's been having lots of trouble getting grains to the point where he is alarmed about it. He only does organic though but he said even the big corporate sources are turning up empty. Worth noting because he said he's never seen anything like this

  • Malthus was right

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  • Strong sauce compared to your broken argumentation.

  • Malthus was right

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  • There is a solution to overshoot if humans voluntarily or semi voluntarily reducing population by sub replacement birth rates and then hoping we coast over the next 200 years without catastrophe until population is back to sustainable level . Africa still hasn't hit demographic transition to sub replacement yet though and may just bang straight into the malthusian limits. It's not entirely out of the question though that we could have enough resources to taper down global population in a controlled manner. We already damaged earth and will keep damaging it over those 200 years though and affluence chasing can nullify the population decline benefits to environmental impact.

  • Malthus was right

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  • Actually some of them didn't have the crash they were just very unrealistic scenarios however business as usual scenarios were a bit to pessimistic on their resource availability assumptions but reality tracks closer to the higher availability scenarios which , if I recall correctly, actually crash steeper after holding off a bit longer.

  • Malthus was right

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  • Your argument is a masterclass in Critical Theory , but from a formal logic perspective, it relies heavily on attacking the origin and context of ideas rather than the ideas themselves. Here is a systematic breakdown of the logical fallacies and factual errors in the text.

    1. The Genetic Fallacy & Anachronism

    Quote: "It wasn’t possible for anything Malthus said or did to be objective... because he knew that the crown would use any such analysis to justify fascistic genocidal policies..."

    • Refutation: This is a Genetic Fallacy, which occurs when someone judges an idea based on its history or origin rather than its current merit. Even if Malthus had personal biases, those biases do not automatically invalidate the mathematical concept of resource scarcity (arithmetic vs. exponential growth).
    • Factual Error: It is an anachronism to claim Malthus "knew" his work would justify "fascistic" policies. Fascism as a political ideology did not exist until the 20th century, over 100 years after Malthus’s death.

    2. Ad Hominem (Circumstantial)

    Quote: "We are left to assume she is a native English speaker living in the Western European sphere... and therefore part of a society that is fundamentally organized around structural racism... and the oppression of indigenous populations..."

    • Refutation: This is a classic Ad Hominem (Circumstantial) fallacy. Instead of addressing the article’s data or logic, the argument attacks the author’s presumed identity and location. It assumes that an individual’s geographic location or language makes their work "fundamentally" incapable of objectivity, which is a logical leap that ignores the specific content of their writing.

    3. Guilt by Association

    Quote: "The history of Malthusianism is ecofascistic... attempts at redeeming Malthus and analysis of overpopulation mechanics are inextricable from the oppression..."

    • Refutation: This is Guilt by Association. It asserts that because bad actors have historically misused Malthusian concepts to justify cruelty, any modern use of those concepts—even purely scientific or ecological ones—is "inextricable" from that cruelty. By this logic, the study of genetics is "inextricable" from eugenics, and the study of physics is "inextricable" from nuclear war.

    4. Hasty Generalization / Sweeping Generalization

    Quote: "Not a single attempt at objectivity has escaped the university without somehow fueling the mass murdering globe spanning Eurocentric patriarchy."

    • Refutation: This is a Hasty Generalization. It makes an absolute, all-encompassing claim about every single piece of objective research produced by the university system over centuries. It ignores countless advancements in medicine, human rights, environmental protection, and technology that have saved lives or challenged the "patriarchy" within that same system.

    5. False Dilemma (Bifurcation)

    Quote: "It never has and it never will until that hegemonic system is dismantled, and it will only be dismantled through the struggle of the subaltern..."

    • Refutation: This presents a False Dilemma. It suggests there are only two possibilities: either the entire global hegemonic system is dismantled, or no objective analysis is possible. This excludes a vast "middle ground" where incremental progress, objective scientific discovery, and internal reform can and do occur within existing systems.

    6. Begging the Question (Circular Reasoning)

    Quote: "The overarching social context determines not just what gets studied but how it gets studied and how those studies are interpreted and applied."

    • Refutation: This is Circular Reasoning. The argument assumes its conclusion (that the system is fundamentally oppressive) to prove that anything produced within the system (the study) must also be oppressive. If you start with the premise that objectivity is impossible, you will always conclude that a specific article isn't objective, regardless of its data.

    7. Category Error

    Quote: "analysis of overpopulation mechanics are inextricable from the oppression that such logic will necessarily participate in."

    • Refutation: This is a Category Error. It conflates a descriptive observation (the study of carrying capacity and population dynamics) with a prescriptive policy (genocide or oppression). A scientist observing that a petri dish has a maximum capacity for bacteria is not "participating in oppression"; they are describing a physical limit. The logic of a "limit" is distinct from the ethics of how humans respond to that limit.
  • collapse @lemmy.zip
    Anarchitect
    theconversation.com

    What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague

    Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.

  • Malthus was right

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  • If you had to rewrite that to some standard of basic communication would you be able to? It's word salad

    Claim: The main thesis or assertion you want the audience to accept. It answers the question: "What is the point I am trying to prove?".

    Evidence / Grounds / Data: The foundation of hard facts, statistics, or primary source material that supports the claim. It answers the question: "What factual information do I have to go on?".

    Warrant / Reasoning: The logical bridge or unspoken assumption that explains how and why the evidence directly leads to the claim. It answers the question: "How does this data connect to and prove my thesis?".

  • collapse @lemmy.zip
    Anarchitect
    zenodo.org

    CO2 Rise Directly Impairs Crop Nutritional Quality

    This repository includes the files created and used in 'CO2 Rise Directly Impairs Crop Nutritional Quality'. Three additional files are uploaded as Supplementary Information and are not included here....