Albert Bates
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Sometimes, you can detect a scent in the wind, like an approaching storm. Some days you can smell Sardinia in Palestine or the Pacific Ocean in Colorado.
That is the scent I am getting lately from the last days of the Brologarchs. www.patreon.com/posts/147194...
That is the scent I am getting lately from the last days of the Brologarchs. www.patreon.com/posts/147194...
Gaming the Algo | Albert Bates
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January 2, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Sometimes, you can detect a scent in the wind, like an approaching storm. Some days you can smell Sardinia in Palestine or the Pacific Ocean in Colorado.
That is the scent I am getting lately from the last days of the Brologarchs. www.patreon.com/posts/147194...
That is the scent I am getting lately from the last days of the Brologarchs. www.patreon.com/posts/147194...
Jack Smith, climate hero? Strange times require stranger solutions open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
December 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Jack Smith, climate hero? Strange times require stranger solutions open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Everyone complains about social media A.I. algorithms, but nobody does anything. Apart from B.F. Skinner and Edward Bernays, that is. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Gaming the Algo
The Return of Jack Smith: Episode Five
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December 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Everyone complains about social media A.I. algorithms, but nobody does anything. Apart from B.F. Skinner and Edward Bernays, that is. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Ever so slowly, the worm turns. The mass formation psychosis moves from HRC and Sleepy Joe to the tech bro billionaires, who find it impossible to acknowledge that they got basic numbers describing reality wrong. Can you feel it in the air? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/12/deat...
Death to Broligarchs
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.
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December 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Ever so slowly, the worm turns. The mass formation psychosis moves from HRC and Sleepy Joe to the tech bro billionaires, who find it impossible to acknowledge that they got basic numbers describing reality wrong. Can you feel it in the air? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/12/deat...
December 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Whether you buy their billions of memecoins at an obscene price, they know they can buy a preemptory pardon with Saudi kushnercrypto. It is all upside, right? open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Death to Broligarchs
Whether you buy their billions of memecoins at an obscene price, you can buy a preemptory pardon now with crypto
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December 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Whether you buy their billions of memecoins at an obscene price, they know they can buy a preemptory pardon with Saudi kushnercrypto. It is all upside, right? open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Allison Gill of Mueller, She Wrote commented: “Had Bari Weiss just ran the story, it would have been seen by a couple million people tops. The bootleg has now gone viral, and may end up being the most-watched 60 Minutes segment ever.” #CECOT #60minutes #Barigate @hcrichardson.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Allison Gill of Mueller, She Wrote commented: “Had Bari Weiss just ran the story, it would have been seen by a couple million people tops. The bootleg has now gone viral, and may end up being the most-watched 60 Minutes segment ever.” #CECOT #60minutes #Barigate @hcrichardson.bsky.social
This is just one company. It will remove 1 million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually by 2027. It requires no taxpayer or energy subsidies — it shows profits every month. A climate solution that ticks more than half of the UN Sustainable Development Goals www.linkedin.com/posts/exomad...
#cdr #biochar #carbonremoval #green #exomadgreen | Exomad Green
🚀🌍 December Updates: Scaling Carbon Removal at Speed
As we close the year, here’s a quick snapshot of what’s happening at Exomad Green:
✅ Concepción
Expansion completed in November, increasing capac...
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December 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is just one company. It will remove 1 million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually by 2027. It requires no taxpayer or energy subsidies — it shows profits every month. A climate solution that ticks more than half of the UN Sustainable Development Goals www.linkedin.com/posts/exomad...
Smith is like the Energizer bunny, Wiley Coyote, or Dudley Do-Right. He never gives up. He is the quixotic nemesis. Just when you thought Aileen Cannon had Smith boxed in by an injunction, here he was, taking 8 hours of questions and demonstrating he had the goods www.patreon.com/posts/bustin...
Busting the Kleptocrats | Albert Bates
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December 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Smith is like the Energizer bunny, Wiley Coyote, or Dudley Do-Right. He never gives up. He is the quixotic nemesis. Just when you thought Aileen Cannon had Smith boxed in by an injunction, here he was, taking 8 hours of questions and demonstrating he had the goods www.patreon.com/posts/bustin...
Immoluments, bribes, Pay to Play, untraceable crypto for pardons, golf resorts, bag men, ballrooms… For Mitch, it started with tobacco, then guns, but really it came to full flower on climate… making that a partisan issue open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Busting the Kleptocrats
The Return of Jack Smith, Episode Three
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December 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Immoluments, bribes, Pay to Play, untraceable crypto for pardons, golf resorts, bag men, ballrooms… For Mitch, it started with tobacco, then guns, but really it came to full flower on climate… making that a partisan issue open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Intuitive foresight persists as a genomic trait despite outbreeding through religion and dogma. Today, shamans & seers are most at risk from smartphones. My post to The Great Change @boilingfrogsblog.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/12/bond...
December 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Intuitive foresight persists as a genomic trait despite outbreeding through religion and dogma. Today, shamans & seers are most at risk from smartphones. My post to The Great Change @boilingfrogsblog.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/12/bond...
Going through the National Security Strategy 2025, I detect JD Vance's fingerprints, and behind that, Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin. US policy is now transactional rather than confrontational. Confronted, it will always back down. Offered money, it will always take it. patreon.com/posts/bond-v...
Bond Villains Capture Artificial Intelligence | Albert Bates
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December 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Going through the National Security Strategy 2025, I detect JD Vance's fingerprints, and behind that, Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin. US policy is now transactional rather than confrontational. Confronted, it will always back down. Offered money, it will always take it. patreon.com/posts/bond-v...
A few among us possess superior Bayesian inference in their brains, integrating data subsets like micro-expressions, environmental shifts, statistical irregularities in social dynamics, and history to forecast the future. A.I. may breed them out.
cooldesign.substack.com/p/bond-villa...
cooldesign.substack.com/p/bond-villa...
Bond Villains Capture Artificial Intelligence
We’ve seen this movie before
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December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A few among us possess superior Bayesian inference in their brains, integrating data subsets like micro-expressions, environmental shifts, statistical irregularities in social dynamics, and history to forecast the future. A.I. may breed them out.
cooldesign.substack.com/p/bond-villa...
cooldesign.substack.com/p/bond-villa...
The king-like immunity trail of the POTUS crime tsunami traces from MAGA's 6-3 SCOTUS through to an ex-Majority Leader from Kentucky bought by Texas oil. He's The Fixer. Any showrunners? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-fixer.html
December 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The king-like immunity trail of the POTUS crime tsunami traces from MAGA's 6-3 SCOTUS through to an ex-Majority Leader from Kentucky bought by Texas oil. He's The Fixer. Any showrunners? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-fixer.html
@meidasjordy.bsky.social Why hasn’t MTN mentioned the lawsuit filed by the family of the Colombian fisherman killed during the Sep double-tap war crime? It is on HuffPo.
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
@meidasjordy.bsky.social Why hasn’t MTN mentioned the lawsuit filed by the family of the Colombian fisherman killed during the Sep double-tap war crime? It is on HuffPo.
Every story must have an origin. This one traces back to an ambitious but unscrupulous Senator from Kentucky. cooldesign.medium.com/the-fixer-e7...
The Fixer
The Return of Jack Smith: Chapter Two
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December 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Every story must have an origin. This one traces back to an ambitious but unscrupulous Senator from Kentucky. cooldesign.medium.com/the-fixer-e7...
Every story must have an origin. This one traces back to an ambitious but unscrupulous Senator from Kentucky.
open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
The Fixer
The Return of Jack Smith: Chapter Two. A trillion-dollar arms race. The winners control not just markets but data, policy, and trust,
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December 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Every story must have an origin. This one traces back to an ambitious but unscrupulous Senator from Kentucky.
open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
In early 2019, I published a satirical post featuring Donald Trump as The Penguin, the DC Comics Batman villain. The comparison may have seemed obscure to many. I suspect it is less so now. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
In early 2019, I published a satirical post featuring Donald Trump as The Penguin, the DC Comics Batman villain. The comparison may have seemed obscure to many. I suspect it is less so now. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago at dawn Saturday, photographed by Pablo Porciúncula/AFP, and reimagined by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1810), revived by artificial intelligence (Dzine and Affinity). www.patreon.com/posts/return...
The Return of Jack Smith | Albert Bates
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November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago at dawn Saturday, photographed by Pablo Porciúncula/AFP, and reimagined by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1810), revived by artificial intelligence (Dzine and Affinity). www.patreon.com/posts/return...
I'm back at it with the comic books. cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-return...
The Return of Jack Smith
Democracy may die in darkness, yet a Dark Knight lurks in the shadows
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November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I'm back at it with the comic books. cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-return...
COP30 delivered a turkey. Can Turkey deliver thanksgiving? #COP30 #UNFCCC #Belem #ClimateAction peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/11/can-...
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
COP30 delivered a turkey. Can Turkey deliver thanksgiving? #COP30 #UNFCCC #Belem #ClimateAction peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/11/can-...
This is highly recommended for watching. Not just a great wrap-up of #COP30 but of all the COPs since the start. #ClimateCrisis @Revkin @KevinClimate @CFigueres @algore x.com/i/broadcasts...
Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️
#CliFi Author Kim Stanley Robinson on #COP30 and the Role of Fiction Facing Inconvenient Facts
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November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This is highly recommended for watching. Not just a great wrap-up of #COP30 but of all the COPs since the start. #ClimateCrisis @Revkin @KevinClimate @CFigueres @algore x.com/i/broadcasts...
The amount of carbon expected to cause one death over 80 years: 4,434 tons, equivalent to the average lifetime emissions of 3.5 Americans or 146.2 Nigerians. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds
Fallout from increased emissions linked to president’s ‘America First’ policies expected to most affect those in poor, hot countries
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November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The amount of carbon expected to cause one death over 80 years: 4,434 tons, equivalent to the average lifetime emissions of 3.5 Americans or 146.2 Nigerians. www.theguardian.com/environment/...