Jeff Loeb
@jdloeb.bsky.social
Designer of practices. Chemical Engineer. Changing the conversation in construction.
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The Singularitarian fantasists who want us to elevate machines to consciousness are not interested in the happiness of all beings.
They want to degrade the biological body to a mere vessel, one they can discard. It's bunk theology for men who believe they're too smart and special to die.
They want to degrade the biological body to a mere vessel, one they can discard. It's bunk theology for men who believe they're too smart and special to die.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The Singularitarian fantasists who want us to elevate machines to consciousness are not interested in the happiness of all beings.
They want to degrade the biological body to a mere vessel, one they can discard. It's bunk theology for men who believe they're too smart and special to die.
They want to degrade the biological body to a mere vessel, one they can discard. It's bunk theology for men who believe they're too smart and special to die.
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"We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists." - James Baldwin, 1970.
(The year the US EPA was created.)
(The year the US EPA was created.)
Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists." - James Baldwin, 1970.
(The year the US EPA was created.)
(The year the US EPA was created.)
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Andrew Harvey: The #Antichrist's plan "is to rubble the #divine image in #humanity & inaugurate a worldwide #authoritarian empire of lies & cruelty that has been exposed in #Project2025." bit.ly/3Tz8mQW
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Andrew Harvey: The #Antichrist's plan "is to rubble the #divine image in #humanity & inaugurate a worldwide #authoritarian empire of lies & cruelty that has been exposed in #Project2025." bit.ly/3Tz8mQW
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The sooner the better.
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The sooner the better.
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Most average working Americans abide by laws and norms. Most are kind and decent. But there is growing rot at the top of our system. And its stench can no longer be ignored. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-732
Sunday thought
The rot at the top
robertreich.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Most average working Americans abide by laws and norms. Most are kind and decent. But there is growing rot at the top of our system. And its stench can no longer be ignored. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-732
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Radical hope is the commitment that, despite the hardships and uncertainties of the future, we will do everything in our power to pass on a better world. ~Jonathan Lear
September 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Radical hope is the commitment that, despite the hardships and uncertainties of the future, we will do everything in our power to pass on a better world. ~Jonathan Lear
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“When Miller’s bald head started to glow red from the hatred he was spitting out, you could feel the air shift in the room, a quiet recognition that cruelty wasn’t just policy for him, it was personal. It’s the exact look you see on TV today, the same venom disguised as conviction.”
Chicago isn’t a battlefield. But Trump is making it one.
Now he’s threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, to use the U.S. military against Americans. This isn’t about immigrants or crime. It’s about power. And once fear becomes law, it never stops where it starts.
Now he’s threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, to use the U.S. military against Americans. This isn’t about immigrants or crime. It’s about power. And once fear becomes law, it never stops where it starts.
The Insurrection Act and the War at Home
Fear, force, and the line America has crossed.
www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“When Miller’s bald head started to glow red from the hatred he was spitting out, you could feel the air shift in the room, a quiet recognition that cruelty wasn’t just policy for him, it was personal. It’s the exact look you see on TV today, the same venom disguised as conviction.”
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Based on your writing I’d guess that you are acquainted with Flores’ work and the Language Action Perspective. LAP draws upon the Cybersyn experiment in Chile. Plus Maturana’s biology, Heidegger’s phenomenology, and Searle’s speech acts. New life for the virtues of cybernetics.
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Based on your writing I’d guess that you are acquainted with Flores’ work and the Language Action Perspective. LAP draws upon the Cybersyn experiment in Chile. Plus Maturana’s biology, Heidegger’s phenomenology, and Searle’s speech acts. New life for the virtues of cybernetics.
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Oh, and, Computers and Cognition, a new Foundation for Design, by Flores and Winograd
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Oh, and, Computers and Cognition, a new Foundation for Design, by Flores and Winograd
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Rich vein. Conversations for Action and Collected Essays is a book by Fernando. Learning to Learn and the Navigation of Moods is a book by Gloria, his daughter. Tony Fry’s work in ontological design. Also, Anne-Marie Wills. Disclosing new Worlds, a book by Flores and Spinosa.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Rich vein. Conversations for Action and Collected Essays is a book by Fernando. Learning to Learn and the Navigation of Moods is a book by Gloria, his daughter. Tony Fry’s work in ontological design. Also, Anne-Marie Wills. Disclosing new Worlds, a book by Flores and Spinosa.
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People dunk on cybernetics for a bunch of good reasons.
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
People dunk on cybernetics for a bunch of good reasons.
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“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
- Doris Lessing
- Doris Lessing
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
- Doris Lessing
- Doris Lessing
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I truly do not believe either trust and safety or regulatory and public policy regimes will be able to stop these companies from knowingly releasing harmful products as long as the business models and social culture of executive decision-making remain as they are.
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I truly do not believe either trust and safety or regulatory and public policy regimes will be able to stop these companies from knowingly releasing harmful products as long as the business models and social culture of executive decision-making remain as they are.
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I can’t tell you how important it is to see people standing up for others.
This is the only thing differentiating us from 1930’s Germany.
This is the only thing differentiating us from 1930’s Germany.
Since ICE invaded Raleigh, NC, walkouts and protests have broken out, and more than 600 volunteers have signed up to help keep residents safe in the city.
November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I can’t tell you how important it is to see people standing up for others.
This is the only thing differentiating us from 1930’s Germany.
This is the only thing differentiating us from 1930’s Germany.
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Every single word of this. Read it, repeat it, scream it, live it, insist on it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Every single word of this. Read it, repeat it, scream it, live it, insist on it.
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Anyone posted this one yet?
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Anyone posted this one yet?
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So, for instance, I am a mom, a lawyer, a professor, a woman, a child of immigrants, among many identities I have. Depending on which on is triggered, I may interpret and evaluate the same situation in different ways -- in other words, the lens through which I see the world can change 2/
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
So, for instance, I am a mom, a lawyer, a professor, a woman, a child of immigrants, among many identities I have. Depending on which on is triggered, I may interpret and evaluate the same situation in different ways -- in other words, the lens through which I see the world can change 2/
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“I want their morale as low as possible, because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter, patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe, and makes federal agents uncomfortable.
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter, patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe, and makes federal agents uncomfortable.
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“I want their morale as low as possible, because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter, patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe, and makes federal agents uncomfortable.
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter, patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe, and makes federal agents uncomfortable.
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Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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A plutocratic accomodationist.
Tim Cook, of Apple, is at this dinner.
The likes of Musk and Schwarzman—sure, that's who they are.
But Cook has been groveling more than strictly necessary.
The likes of Musk and Schwarzman—sure, that's who they are.
But Cook has been groveling more than strictly necessary.
everlasting shame on all these people
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A plutocratic accomodationist.
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The war on America is a war on complexity.
They simulate Simple Chaos through propaganda.
They collapse Complex Order through violence & systemic stress.
They sell you Simple Order to “solve” it.
A theory on how Trump and broligarchs weaponize systems.
www.mind-war.com/p/open-adapt...
They simulate Simple Chaos through propaganda.
They collapse Complex Order through violence & systemic stress.
They sell you Simple Order to “solve” it.
A theory on how Trump and broligarchs weaponize systems.
www.mind-war.com/p/open-adapt...
Open Adaptive Systems Theory & the War on Complexity
One simple trick for healing minds — or collapsing societies.
www.mind-war.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The war on America is a war on complexity.
They simulate Simple Chaos through propaganda.
They collapse Complex Order through violence & systemic stress.
They sell you Simple Order to “solve” it.
A theory on how Trump and broligarchs weaponize systems.
www.mind-war.com/p/open-adapt...
They simulate Simple Chaos through propaganda.
They collapse Complex Order through violence & systemic stress.
They sell you Simple Order to “solve” it.
A theory on how Trump and broligarchs weaponize systems.
www.mind-war.com/p/open-adapt...
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For a fun time at Thanksgiving, read these out one by one, and give all your MAGA relatives time to refute—and if they want to defend, to defend.
"All the enablers of the current ruling party need to resign. This includes his vice president, the most ridiculous, reviled, mean-spirited, mendacious little prick ever to hold that office—and that office was held for eight years by Richard Nixon."
Cast Him Out: No More MAGAmazement
I come to break the Orange Enchanter's spell and liberate you from his rough magic, so you can see things as they really are...and join me in demanding his immediate resignation.
gregolear.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
For a fun time at Thanksgiving, read these out one by one, and give all your MAGA relatives time to refute—and if they want to defend, to defend.
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I really just think we should take away all the money from the very bad men.
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I really just think we should take away all the money from the very bad men.