2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. Tonight (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” #15yrsago Peak Population: when will population growth stop, why, and how? https://www.alexsteffen.com/peak_population_and_sustainability #15yrsago James Boyle’s “The Public Domain” —…

How to break the climate insurance doom-loop. — Tomorrow (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” Conservatives may deride the “reality-based community” as a drag on progress and commercial expansion, but even the most noxious pump-and-dump capitalism is supposed…

2003, 2013, 2018, 2022. — Tomorrow (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” #20yrsago Big Mouth Billy Bass runs Linux, does impressions https://web.archive.org/web/20031123212606/http://bigmouth.here-n-there.com/ #10yrsago Pratchett’s “Raising Steam”: the magic of modernity https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/27/pratchetts-raising-steam-the-magic-of-modernity/

2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — Tomorrow (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” #15yrsago Canada’s Internet is crap https://web.archive.org/web/20081207154815/https://www.cbc.ca/searchengine/blog/2008/11/is_canada_becoming_a_digital_g.html #10yrsago Brainwashed: Neuroscience vs neurobollocks https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/28/brainwashed-neuroscience-vs-neurobollocks/

Effective Accellerationists and Effective Altruists are both in vigorous agreement about something genuinely stupid. — On Wednesday (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” Last week’s spectacular OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine…

2008, 2013, 2018. — Tomorrow night (November 27), I’m appearing at the Toronto Metro Reference Library with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. On Wednesday (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” #15yrsago Tony Benn’s War on Terror diaries — an inspirational look at the life of a princpled fighter https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/26/tony-benns-war-on-terror-diaries-an-inspirational-look-at-the-life-of-a-princpled-fighter/

I missed my mother’s funeral for this? — This Monday (November 27), I’m appearing at the Toronto Metro Reference Library with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. On November 29, I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” This week, I wrote about how…

2003, 2018. — On November 27, I’m appearing at the Toronto Metro Reference Library with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. On November 29, I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” #20yrsago Hilbert’s 16th problem solved by 22-year-old student https://web.archive.org/web/20031202154719/http://www.unstruct.org/archives/000186.html

Eggs, Teslas, airlines, turkeys, and the roof over your head. — On November 27, I’m appearing at the Toronto Metro Reference Library with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. On November 29, I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” Before the term “ecology” came along, people…