A few thoughts from Chicago.

Ross Douthat’s fascinating interview with Paul Kingsnorth on technology, human nature and spirituality

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

OPEN GROUND

nikbeeson.substack.com/p/open-ground

There’s an opening
somewhere
where
everything’s
tumbling
crumbling
disintegrating
decaying
shattering
collapsing
crashing
down....

The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Important initiative in my home town of Toronto.

Join me and @toenviro.bsky.social‬ and @stand.earth‬ in calling on Toronto's leaders to make sure our city's buildings are ready to take on climate change:
act.stand.earth/page/88238/d...

#emissions #urban #climatechange #sustainability

Open Soledad

Relaxed improv recorded while living in a small cabin in N.Ontario last winter.

soundcloud.com/nikbeeson/op...

My first post on Substack: 'Addiction, Tyranny, Ruin & the Wild'.

The article, with personal reflections on severe addiction, finds parallels between severe addiction and totalitarianism.

nikbeeson.substack.com/p/addiction-...

#addiction #tyranny #totalitarianism #wilderness #apocalypse

Metro Library, Toronto

"Art is a way of survival." - Yoko Ono

Thanks Yoko!
@yokoono.bsky.social

Let's celebrate YouTube's launch of an AI music feature with a video about how to potentially destroy it. youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA

“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.”

-Maya Angelou

Happy birthday, Maya Angelou.

The river dropped
leaving a hard carapace of ice
frozen floating over its fast flow.
Forsaken by its source
it melts,
crackling, popping, cracking,
collapsing into the river in shards,
carried away over the waterfall downstream.

Ice melt. N.Ontario.

Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social just blew my mind.
Insightful, frightening, and inspiring interview w/Jon Stewart

Deep dive - democracy-toppling pre-designed overtake/mass mind-control executed by avaricious social media techbros and authoritarian extremists.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsHo...