Feb 4, 2025
January, 2025, finished as the hottest January on record since 1940 and likely the hottest January in the last 120,000 years, at 1.745°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline.
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January, 2025, finished as the hottest January on record since 1940 and likely the hottest January in the last 120,000 years, at 1.745°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline.
AI-Driven Cyberattacks, Climate Change, and the Fragility of Modern Civilization
The weaponization of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems stands as one of the most plausible and catastrophic risks facing modern civilization. As AI capabilities accelerate, so too does their potential to destabilize the complex, interdependent systems that sustain our societies—namely, power grids, communication networks, and global supply chains. In a scenario increasingly discussed…
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Would You Rather...
A: Lead an ark fleet of 100,000 refugees fleeing a cataclysmic continential destruction in a low magic fantasy world (you have no magic among you) to an unhinhabited continent on your choice of 100 tamed members of a (capable of realistically being abundant on this world IE not like, the world turtle from discworld or something) fictional non-sentient flying species (with enough supplies and equipment to make it, but only if not too much goes wrong) (with renaissance era technology, though you keep your current knowledge), if you make it and set everything up for the refugees to survive you may choose to return to the real world at the time you left it.
B: Lead a non-FTL capable ark ship (that can move 1 lightyear every 25 years at top speed) of 2.5 million refugees fleeing a cataclysmic planatery biosphere collapse in search of a new world, the ship is equipped with enough stasis pods for everyone and enough supplies to last 10 years out of stasis, as well as enough equipment to start a colony, the ship uses fusion power and you have access to the technology of an approx 150 years in the future civilization, if you make it and set everything up for the refugees to survive you may choose to return to the real world at the time you left it. (poll under keep reading)
Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse by Sam Hall
12-month running average for global average air temperature has just surpassed 1.6C for the first time.
new y-axis coming soon
The Naked Apocalypse: How Industrial Civilization Made Human Extinction Thinkable—and Possible
Human Extinction: From Unthinkable to Imminent The possibility of human extinction—our complete disappearance as a species—has become a defining anxiety of the twenty-first century. This is not merely a product of scientific speculation or dystopian imagination, but a reflection of profound shifts in how we understand ourselves, our place in the cosmos, and our relationship to the biosphere. The…
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Homo economicus: evolution’s dead end.