272: Jim Crow for All
While I’ve been employing the 1930s Germany analogy, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it didn’t fit right. Perhaps a better way to understand contemporary America is via the lens of slavery. open.substack.com/pub/metaview...
While I’ve been employing the 1930s Germany analogy, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it didn’t fit right. Perhaps a better way to understand contemporary America is via the lens of slavery. open.substack.com/pub/metaview...
272: Jim Crow for All
Understanding The Trump Confederacy
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January 18, 2026 at 10:38 AM
272: Jim Crow for All
While I’ve been employing the 1930s Germany analogy, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it didn’t fit right. Perhaps a better way to understand contemporary America is via the lens of slavery. open.substack.com/pub/metaview...
While I’ve been employing the 1930s Germany analogy, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it didn’t fit right. Perhaps a better way to understand contemporary America is via the lens of slavery. open.substack.com/pub/metaview...
271: Will Greenland Be Thiel's Moment?
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271: Will Greenland Be Thiel's Moment?
Are we missing the significance of this seismic shift?
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January 17, 2026 at 11:33 AM
271: Will Greenland Be Thiel's Moment?
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This is the second part in a series conceptualizing how the Canadian auto industry could act like a Phoenix and rise from US existential threats to create a new kind of transportation system fueled by participatory policy…
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270: The Algorithm Is the Road
Avoiding Another Avro Arrow
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January 16, 2026 at 10:51 AM
This is the second part in a series conceptualizing how the Canadian auto industry could act like a Phoenix and rise from US existential threats to create a new kind of transportation system fueled by participatory policy…
open.substack.com/pub/metaview...
open.substack.com/pub/metaview...
Reposted by Jesse Hirsh
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As always, @jessehirsch.bsky.social encourages broad thinking. “What we need to keep, what we need to build, is the capacity to make vehicles without asking for permission.”
As always, @jessehirsch.bsky.social encourages broad thinking. “What we need to keep, what we need to build, is the capacity to make vehicles without asking for permission.”
269: The Future of the Canadian Auto Industry is in the Commons
The Commons of Autonomy
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January 14, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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As always, @jessehirsch.bsky.social encourages broad thinking. “What we need to keep, what we need to build, is the capacity to make vehicles without asking for permission.”
As always, @jessehirsch.bsky.social encourages broad thinking. “What we need to keep, what we need to build, is the capacity to make vehicles without asking for permission.”
269: The Future of the Canadian Auto Industry is in the Commons
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269: The Future of the Canadian Auto Industry is in the Commons
The Commons of Autonomy
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January 14, 2026 at 10:53 AM
269: The Future of the Canadian Auto Industry is in the Commons
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260: Brampton: The Slur That Sums Up 2025
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260: Brampton: The Slur That Sums Up 2025
The Not So Subtle Sign of Canada's Growing Conflict
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December 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
260: Brampton: The Slur That Sums Up 2025
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Further unpacking the hybrid civil war hypothesis by comparing the takeover of Crimea with the political climate in the Canadian prairies…
258: The Soft Annexation of the Prairies
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258: The Soft Annexation of the Prairies
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258: The Soft Annexation of the Prairies
A Crimean Playbook for North America
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December 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Further unpacking the hybrid civil war hypothesis by comparing the takeover of Crimea with the political climate in the Canadian prairies…
258: The Soft Annexation of the Prairies
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258: The Soft Annexation of the Prairies
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253: Why Food Should Be Free and Profitable
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253: Why Food Should Be Free and Profitable
Designing Food Power — Part I
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December 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
253: Why Food Should Be Free and Profitable
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250: The Curious Case of @yvesengler.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/metaview...
250: The Curious Case of Yves Engler
And The Inherent Insularity of Party Politics
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December 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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248: Solving the Productivity Paradox
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248: Solving the Productivity Paradox
The Missing Variable Is Care
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November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
248: Solving the Productivity Paradox
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Reposted by Jesse Hirsh
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“If there is one domain where participation matters—not symbolically but structurally—it is food.”
straightforward read by @jessehirsh.com
#FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty
“If there is one domain where participation matters—not symbolically but structurally—it is food.”
straightforward read by @jessehirsh.com
#FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty
247: Attention, Appetite, and Power
A Country That Doesn’t Understand Its Food Has No Future
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November 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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“If there is one domain where participation matters—not symbolically but structurally—it is food.”
straightforward read by @jessehirsh.com
#FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty
“If there is one domain where participation matters—not symbolically but structurally—it is food.”
straightforward read by @jessehirsh.com
#FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty
Reposted by Jesse Hirsh
245: Are Today’s Militaries Able to Fight Today’s Wars?
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245: Are Today’s Militaries Able to Fight Today’s Wars?
Not without new leadership, culture, and structure
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November 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
245: Are Today’s Militaries Able to Fight Today’s Wars?
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I continue with my usual statement that the French would have turned Paris to ashes by now.
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I continue with my usual statement that the French would have turned Paris to ashes by now.
Reposted by Jesse Hirsh
Read this. No really read this if you’re Canadian (Americans in the trenches won’t be disappointed either). 👇👇👇
What is unfolding across North America is a hybrid civil war, distributed across jurisdictions, layered through institutions, fought not just for territory but for control of meaning and legitimacy. The appearance of order is the weapon. Chaos is the policy.
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242: The US Civil War of 2025
Understanding Hybrid Civil War
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October 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Read this. No really read this if you’re Canadian (Americans in the trenches won’t be disappointed either). 👇👇👇
What is unfolding across North America is a hybrid civil war, distributed across jurisdictions, layered through institutions, fought not just for territory but for control of meaning and legitimacy. The appearance of order is the weapon. Chaos is the policy.
open.substack.com/pub/metaview...
open.substack.com/pub/metaview...
242: The US Civil War of 2025
Understanding Hybrid Civil War
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
What is unfolding across North America is a hybrid civil war, distributed across jurisdictions, layered through institutions, fought not just for territory but for control of meaning and legitimacy. The appearance of order is the weapon. Chaos is the policy.
open.substack.com/pub/metaview...
open.substack.com/pub/metaview...
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If you needed more proof that the coup in the US has Russian fingerprints all over it: cybersecurity trainings are now officially too woke for real warriors.
"Mandatory Department training will be directly linked to warfighting or otherwise be consolidated, reduced in frequency, or eliminated."
"Mandatory Department training will be directly linked to warfighting or otherwise be consolidated, reduced in frequency, or eliminated."
Pentagon relaxes military cybersecurity training
: Beards, body fat, and cyber refreshers now frowned upon
www.theregister.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
If you needed more proof that the coup in the US has Russian fingerprints all over it: cybersecurity trainings are now officially too woke for real warriors.
"Mandatory Department training will be directly linked to warfighting or otherwise be consolidated, reduced in frequency, or eliminated."
"Mandatory Department training will be directly linked to warfighting or otherwise be consolidated, reduced in frequency, or eliminated."
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"This class struggle against big capital has the potential to push agroecology and food sovereignty further along at the same time. It’s time for all of us in these movements to engage in and expand this struggle and to take it on where we live." thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/democratic...
Democratic Supermarketism
Food processors and retailers hoard profits and power in the food and farming system. Across the world a challenge to this supermarket dominance is growing in the form of state-owned alternatives.
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September 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"This class struggle against big capital has the potential to push agroecology and food sovereignty further along at the same time. It’s time for all of us in these movements to engage in and expand this struggle and to take it on where we live." thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/democratic...
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e239 roundtable – imagining in public e2 - artist perspectives on social impact
conscient-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/e23...
This roundtable is presented by the Public Imagination Network about how artists contribute to social change and how the evaluation of art can shape public life.
conscient-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/e23...
This roundtable is presented by the Public Imagination Network about how artists contribute to social change and how the evaluation of art can shape public life.
August 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
e239 roundtable – imagining in public e2 - artist perspectives on social impact
conscient-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/e23...
This roundtable is presented by the Public Imagination Network about how artists contribute to social change and how the evaluation of art can shape public life.
conscient-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/e23...
This roundtable is presented by the Public Imagination Network about how artists contribute to social change and how the evaluation of art can shape public life.
Climate change and wealth concentration are intrinsically linked. They cannot be addressed, understood, or responded to independently.
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223: The Labour Party is Dead
Centrism will kill us all if it continues
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July 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Climate change and wealth concentration are intrinsically linked. They cannot be addressed, understood, or responded to independently.
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It's all fraud framed as innovation.
July 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It's all fraud framed as innovation.
Don't trust AI and don't trust the people who believe AI can and should be trusted. Applying this concept to your use of AI is potent and powerful.
July 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Don't trust AI and don't trust the people who believe AI can and should be trusted. Applying this concept to your use of AI is potent and powerful.