Israel is just levelling Gaza, collectively punishing millions of civilians, most of them childrenIn Israel, the comically corrupt Benjamin Netanyahu was on the verge of losing his job, but now he has a national government. One doesn’t change horses mid-pogrom. In America, the chicken-hawk Joe Biden was about to obviously lose in Ukraine, but now he has a new war. ...
If you wondered how you would react during a slave rebellion or anti-colonial struggle, well, this is how you’d react. It’s happening right now, in front of you in this cursed panopticon. Israel is a literal settler colony and they’re slaughtering the natives that dared rebel against them. And the other colonizers are piling into help. This is why colonial ...
The original ‘atrocity propaganda’ the British used against the Irish, still being used against Palestine todayI wake up to news that ‘“Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents… There will be no buildings,” an Israeli security official tells Israel’s Channel 13’ (via). This is after the Israeli War Minister saying they were fighting “human animals” and vowing to ...
The Israel War Minitser, saying the quiet part out loudEverybody’s being told to hate Hamas because you can’t just openly say ‘hate Palestinians’. I mean, the Israelis do, they’re openly saying “We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly” (War Minister) and “they are savages” (Prime Minister). Meanwhile successful genocide colonies (Europe, US, Canada, Australia) are saying, “for sure ...
The cat, Pippi, and the dog, LillyThey say ‘fighting like cats and dogs’, so the creatures presumably know a lot about conflict. We have a dog and recently got a cat and spent about a month getting them to not fight. It’s been Mashallah, successful so far. Right now, they’re play-fighting under my sarong, which is quite unpleasant for me, ...
From The Princess BrideIn The Princess Bride, a man playing a deadly game said, “Ha-ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia.’” I thought this was received wisdom, but apparently not. Today America is involved in not one, not two, but ...
Hanging out with my 99 year old Achchi and her dog. The dog was originally named Satan because nobody liked her (besides Achchi), but she’s actually a very nice dog (and has been renamed Kalu [Black])I spend most of my time with children, animals, or dying/dead people. These neglected philosophers don’t say much about the ‘important stuff’, which tells you ...
“Marcel Duchamp Fountain, 1917, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz at 291 art gallery following the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibit, with entry tag visible. “Right now, I have a cat on my chest so it’s somewhat obvious that I’m not alone in this world, let alone supreme. Then my son comes in and wants help going to the bathroom. He’s ...
Via the NYTimesUkraine has somehow lost ground in its counter-offensive. The NYTimes buries it under a false headline, but Russia has actually gained territory (a net 188 miles²) since January 1st. Given that attackers usually take higher casualties, hideous amounts of Ukrainians have died for less than nothing.All of this carnage is incomprehensible unless you follow the cash. As Caitlin ...
Oedipus and the Sphinx of Thebes, Red Figure Kylix, c. 470 BC, from Vulci. ViaHumans place great stock on intelligence — even looking for it on other planets — but our living family, nobody else is that impressed. Our animal family is more scared by what we’ve done to Mother Earth, which is not the same thing at all. Going ...
Illustration by Mark Garlick, Science Source (via)The dinosaurs dealt with much worse climate change than us (the air was literally on fire) and somehow survived. The terrible lizards got shrunk down to rotisserie size, but they were still alive. After thousands of years, they even thrived, coming back as ‘terror birds’ in time. As I’ve written, we should be so ...
Poverty’s increase in the heart of White Empire, via Stephen SemmlerIn both America and its capital colony Sri Lanka, economists point to numbers to say people are doing fine. Reduced inflation, etc. As the old medical joke goes, “the operation was a success, but the patient died.” Here’s some numbers to tell you why the conventional statistics are lies. Poverty ...
A cemetery in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Photo by meInfinite growth on a finite planet is cancer, and this cancer is terminal now. Has been for a while. I hate to be the one to tell ‘ya. Climate change is just a symptom of the all consuming rot. All the ‘renewable’ cures just move the cancerous growth to different organs. The ...
Baby Yinliang, the dinosaur. “We were surprised to see this embryo beautifully preserved inside a dinosaur egg, lying in a bird-like posture.” — Dr. Waisum MaWill we end up like the dinosaurs? We should be so lucky. The dinosaurs actually survived much worse than us. They were dealing with climate change and got hit by an asteroid and somehow made ...
My daughter at a now empty graveI haven’t worn color since Dinesh Anna died. It’s only supposed to be for a few months, but I haven’t stopped. The mourning period presumably starts with a death certificate, and we haven’t even got that yet. He’s not even buried. They exhumed the body and now — nine months later — there’s just ...
From the Blues Brothers (1980)For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.I was at my Achchi’s house where everybody’s slowly dying. I remember when her road was a dirt road and my Seeya would walk me down it, or maybe that’s a photograph, either way I remember. Now the ...
Thanos having a literal strawman argument when he became a farmerWhen I watch Hollywood movies, I root for the villains. They’re the only ones trying to change anything. They’re certainly the only ones thinking big enough to change something on the scale of ‘the climate’. We don’t need superheroes to ‘stop’ climate change. We’d need supervillains.You Don’t Want ThisSpeaking as ...
Sri Lanka’s 2022 protests failed and things have become even worseSince Sri Lanka defaulted on its debt we have been colonized again. This time by the IMF, with policy run out of the American Embassy with Indians as enforcers. Same colonial shit, different capitalist day. This is marketed as ‘stabilization’ but it’s really just the rich standing on the backs ...
Image of thermodynamics via Granta MagazineIn physics, ‘work’ is the energy transferred to (or from) an object. Not all energy can be transferred to an object, some is necessarily lost as heat. If we keep doubling the work we do every generation (a 2.3% growth rate), the waste heat boils the oceans in 400 years. Work is thus not something ...
The only spirtual machine I’ve seen. Jaffna, Sri Lanka 2010.In 1999, Ray Kurzweil published The Age Of Spiritual Machines. As a teenager, the book had a great influence on me. I actually believed in what he called ‘the singularity’ and I was looking forward to it. This singularity was a point of exponential growth that would be awesome. Evolution of ...
