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Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · 14d

Yes, and it was part of an effort to push out the non-loyalists across the entire government.

Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · 22d

When technology, capitalism, and loneliness, er, romance and capitalism meet there's a huge opportunity for secondary services. Here's one company stepping boldly into the future! @david-batty.bsky.social
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@bcmerchant.bsky.social

Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · 26d

For everyone up in arms about #Disney and ABC's decision to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air: Why would we expect corporate capitalists to put free speech above profits when they won't put a livable planet for trillions of beings above their next quarterly earnings?

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Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Aug 27

What from 2025 would you put in the post #collapse museum of 2125 to best capture late stage consumer #capitalism?

Our picks:

Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytownWB
Check out links to our objects (SPOILER ALERT): www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

youtube.com/shorts/Y4Vfz...

Relics of Modern Society: Crazy Town Clip

YouTube video by Post Carbon Institute

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Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Aug 22

Which is the bigger testament to living in #CrazyTown:

- That EV adoption might be held back by the fact that Americans have too much crap in their garages to put in a charger OR
- That John #@%% Bolton would elicit any sympathy whatsoever?

arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08...

Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

A new report looks at barriers to EV charging.

arstechnica.com

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Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Aug 20

Instead of an exponential acceleration of knowledge and intelligence, #AI should be seen as a force of rapid wealth and power consolidation, resource drawdown, and the further destruction of critical thinking, cooperation, and creativity just when we need them most.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

Opinion | A.I. May Just Be Kind of Ordinary

www.nytimes.com

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Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Aug 16

One thing not discussed enough about the post #collapse future is how many blackberries there will be.

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Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 21

We need a new term for when Trump waves a shiny bauble to his anti-woke mob, like the Commanders story: An Epstein Whistle.

Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 20

In my 17 years with @postcarbon.org we've produced a dozen books, I don't know how many reports, dozens and dozens of online events, thousands of articles, hundreds of podcast episodes, etc. But the thing that might have given me most joy was this from 14 years ago:

youtu.be/Jjk0iIoXNek?...

Oprah Winfrey SAVES CHRISTMAS!!! OMG!!

YouTube video by Post Carbon Institute

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Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 16

Can you just imagine the kinds of conspiracy theories we’re going to get when Trump dies?

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Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 15

Loved the convo between @jvl.bsky.social and ‪@timmiller.bsky.social‬ on the douchiest of douchebags, Marc Andreesen. They almost had as much fun as we did when we eviscerated Andreesen's Techno-optimist Manifesto: www.resilience.org/stories/2023...

Crazy Town Bonus Riff: Vanilla Andreessen, Pygmy Marmosets, and Hi-Tech Delusions

The most vomit-inducing document of 2023 has to be the "Techno-Optimist Manifesto," written (oh so obviously) by a billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Join Jason, Rob, and Asher if you feel...

www.resilience.org

Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 15

"He said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size of Manhattan (59.1 sq km/22.8 sq miles)."

Someone might want to consider unplugging and then replugging our economy, if this is how it behaves "rationally."

Meta to spend hundreds of billions on AI data centres, says Mark Zuckerberg

The founder of the social media giant said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size of Manhattan.

www.bbc.com

Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 15

@sanders.senate.gov perpetually looks like he can't believe he has to put up with this shit. And I feel that 💯.

Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 14

60 years later and how much better (or worse) would such an experiment go?

When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers

In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.

www.npr.org

Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 14

There's lots of talk about the negative impacts of declining capacity for attention, hardly any about the crisis of purpose. That is already on red alert after generations of being told our purpose is to produce and consume. Take away the produce part?

Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 14

Absolute insanity, though as current constituted the energy transition is a continuation of the narrative of progress, which sees no biophysical limits to increasing material consumption and human domination/destruction of the rest of the natural world.

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Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 3

This is what #resistance looks like?

Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 3

Classic whistling past the graveyard @nytimes.com and @housedemocrats.bsky.social.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 3

Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, spent hours assailing President Trump's domestic policy bill as he made his way through a thick binder of stories about Medicaid. He broke the record for the longest House floor speech before the final vote. Follow live. nyti.ms/3TUA61X

Hakeem Jeffries, in a suit and red tie, smiles while speaking from the House chamber. A headline reads: "Hakeem Jeffries Breaks House Speech Record Opposing Trump's Bill" Photo by Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 3

You know things are bad when debating which elements of the Cruel Capitalist Crapsandwich (AKA Trump's BBB) is worst feels like betting on which of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse will win the Kentucky Derby.

Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 1

Any claim of being the pro-life party should now and forever be received with howls of derision. Among many, many horrors this bill is essentially a gigantic fuck you to today's and future children -- human and non-human.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

Senate Narrowly Passes Trump’s Policy Bill Amid Deep G.O.P. Divisions

www.nytimes.com

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Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jun 19

Google Earth view of Ivanpah concentrated solar, massive solar PV farms, the local golf course, and casinos... all in the middle of the desert.

Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jun 18

Latest episode of @postcarbon.org 's Crazy Town podcast takes us to one of the weirdest spots in the U.S. to explore the renewable energy transition.

Listen on your favorite app: lnk.to/crazytown
Listen/read transcript: lnkd.in/gqaNEYFM

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Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jun 17

I guess the thinking is that with #AI and #climate breakdown, there won't be future generations?

2 million+ acres of public land sales in Senate budget rec package: “a betrayal of future generations”

Budget reconciliation bill text released by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee includes a mandate for the sale of over 2 million acres of public lands.

www.wilderness.org

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Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jun 11

Is widespread AI deployment the most extreme example of anti- precautionary principle practice?

Would you say Manhattan Project? CRISPR?