Efforts to avoid the pain and uncertainty of this moment sets up the dominant society for more pain and uncertainty in the future. It slows reaction time while the momentum of exponential growth pushes us further beyond ecological limits.

Imagine if you couldn't feel pain of your hand on a hot stove, how much worse your burn would be.

In living systems pain is information that activates a response.

Helping each other take in the evidence and respond to it is adaptive.

Fed raising rates won't do anything to solve this. Gotta switch to renewables, with their predictable, steady costs.

RT @[email protected]

“By one estimate, fossil fuel price increases drove 41 percent of inflation in the United States.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/25/opinion/gas-prices-crisis-climate-change.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dwallacewells/status/1607051504808075264

Hacking on the Mastodon source to add a Hard Mode setting.

- No backspace in toot box.
- Toots automatically submit on close.
- "Delete" resets your joined date.

RT @[email protected]

If you let any story cut through all the Twitter noise today, please let it be this:

At least six local news websites across Alabama and Florida have been secretly taking payments from power companies to run stories attacking clean energy + other policies
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/emorwee/status/1604866859018473474

“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”

I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)

Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.

This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.

My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.

#RSS #Podcasts #ProtocolsNotProducts