Jesse Damiani
@jessedamiani.bsky.social
🎙️Urgent Futures youtube.com/@UrgentFutures. Follow for big ideas in overshoot/climate, tech, philosophy, postgrowth ➡️ YT, Spotify, Apple Pods @urgentfutures.bsky.social
🧑🏫 Adjunct Prof, NYU
✍️ realitystudies.co + NBC News, The Verge, WIRED
🧑🏫 Adjunct Prof, NYU
✍️ realitystudies.co + NBC News, The Verge, WIRED
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Jesse Damiani
@jessedamiani.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Status quo economics is breaking down.
I made a Starter Pack of folks who are progressing ideas, philosophies, & strategies for systems change, including ecological economics, degrowth, post-growth, post-/anti-capitalism, ecosocialism, Modern Monetary Theory, Doughnut Economics
go.bsky.app/So5vwTn
I made a Starter Pack of folks who are progressing ideas, philosophies, & strategies for systems change, including ecological economics, degrowth, post-growth, post-/anti-capitalism, ecosocialism, Modern Monetary Theory, Doughnut Economics
go.bsky.app/So5vwTn
Hm wonder why
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Hm wonder why
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The scam, the scheme is just 'doing business' evidently
Latest from the “Law & Order party.”
"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."
"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The scam, the scheme is just 'doing business' evidently
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Effective Altruists sort of sell themselves as empirical ninjas with an absolute mastery of the math but as Émile points out here very little of it stands up to scrutiny - perhaps nothing more so than when they try and do Climate Stuff -->>>>
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Effective Altruists sort of sell themselves as empirical ninjas with an absolute mastery of the math but as Émile points out here very little of it stands up to scrutiny - perhaps nothing more so than when they try and do Climate Stuff -->>>>
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This week I reach back to the 1990s and the concept of “interpassivity,” a critique of the widespread idea that “interaction” was inherently liberating for an audience. But to think in nuanced and critical ways about creativity with generative AI, the “gesture of disappearance” has new salience.
From Interactive to Interpassive
Where AI Art Meets Cognitive Offloading
There is the joke about AI: we wanted robots to do our dishes so we could have time to make art, but we got robots that make art while we do the dishes. We can...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This week I reach back to the 1990s and the concept of “interpassivity,” a critique of the widespread idea that “interaction” was inherently liberating for an audience. But to think in nuanced and critical ways about creativity with generative AI, the “gesture of disappearance” has new salience.
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The uninsured rate of 6% in West Virginia will “creep back up to 18-20% over the next couple of years” if the subsidies lapse.”
www.ft.com/content/beec...
A man “who paid $18 a month for the cheapest insurance plan this year will have to fork out $1,041 a month for it next year”
www.ft.com/content/beec...
A man “who paid $18 a month for the cheapest insurance plan this year will have to fork out $1,041 a month for it next year”
‘A full-blown crisis’: Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs
West Virginia is at the epicentre of a looming disaster over rising insurance premiums as affordability concerns soar
www.ft.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The uninsured rate of 6% in West Virginia will “creep back up to 18-20% over the next couple of years” if the subsidies lapse.”
www.ft.com/content/beec...
A man “who paid $18 a month for the cheapest insurance plan this year will have to fork out $1,041 a month for it next year”
www.ft.com/content/beec...
A man “who paid $18 a month for the cheapest insurance plan this year will have to fork out $1,041 a month for it next year”
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Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE.
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
In the genocide in Sudan, Canada has a hand in the violence ⋆ The Breach
The massacres of civilians in Sudan are being fuelled by Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee restrictions. It’s time for Canada to end its complicity
breachmedia.ca
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE.
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
Latest from the “Law & Order party.”
"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."
"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Latest from the “Law & Order party.”
"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."
"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."
“Republican-led committees in the Senate and the House say they will amplify their scrutiny of the Pentagon after a…report revealing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea several weeks ago.”
Congressional committees to scrutinize U.S. killing of boat strike survivors — The Washington Post
The Senate and House armed services committees’ pledge followed a Washington Post report revealing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered that a U.S. strike leave no survivors.
apple.news
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“Republican-led committees in the Senate and the House say they will amplify their scrutiny of the Pentagon after a…report revealing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea several weeks ago.”
“The United States on Friday halted all decisions relating to asylum claims and paused visa issuances for Afghan nationals, a day after President Donald Trump posted an anti-immigration screed in which he vowed to ‘permanently pause’ migration from nations he described as ‘Third World Countries.’”
U.S. halts all asylum decisions, pauses visas for Afghan nationals — The Washington Post
The decisions come a day after President Donald Trump vowed to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” among other threats.
apple.news
November 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“The United States on Friday halted all decisions relating to asylum claims and paused visa issuances for Afghan nationals, a day after President Donald Trump posted an anti-immigration screed in which he vowed to ‘permanently pause’ migration from nations he described as ‘Third World Countries.’”
“Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight ‘would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,’ said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law.”
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight ‘would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,’ said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law.”
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Climate breakdown is a public health emergency - in slow motion.
"The climate now is the least extreme climate you will experience in your lifetime"
@HayleyFowler
We are all victims, can you name the perpetrators?
"The climate now is the least extreme climate you will experience in your lifetime"
@HayleyFowler
We are all victims, can you name the perpetrators?
“Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by the Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg, according to U.S. tax records reviewed by DeSmog.”
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Climate breakdown is a public health emergency - in slow motion.
"The climate now is the least extreme climate you will experience in your lifetime"
@HayleyFowler
We are all victims, can you name the perpetrators?
"The climate now is the least extreme climate you will experience in your lifetime"
@HayleyFowler
We are all victims, can you name the perpetrators?
Quantum Fascism. Context via @realitystudies.bsky.social:
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Quantum Fascism. Context via @realitystudies.bsky.social:
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“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
“This isn’t about choosing between the economy and the environment. It’s about recognising that the economy is embedded within the environment, and that the health of the nation depends on the living systems that sustain us.” —Nathalie Seddon
Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security
Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“This isn’t about choosing between the economy and the environment. It’s about recognising that the economy is embedded within the environment, and that the health of the nation depends on the living systems that sustain us.” —Nathalie Seddon
“Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by the Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg, according to U.S. tax records reviewed by DeSmog.”
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
“Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by the Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg, according to U.S. tax records reviewed by DeSmog.”
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Passionate about climate science & extreme weather? Join our team at Reading. Apply by 4 January 2026:
@uor-research.bsky.social
ncas.ac.uk/job-opportun...
@uor-research.bsky.social
ncas.ac.uk/job-opportun...
Job Opportunity: Research Scientist (Extreme Weather Events) - NCAS
We are seeking to appoint a Research Scientist in Extreme Weather Events to join our team at the University of Reading.
ncas.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Passionate about climate science & extreme weather? Join our team at Reading. Apply by 4 January 2026:
@uor-research.bsky.social
ncas.ac.uk/job-opportun...
@uor-research.bsky.social
ncas.ac.uk/job-opportun...
“Residents of the housing complex that was engulfed in Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in seven decades were told by authorities last year that they faced ‘relatively low fire risks’ after complaining repeatedly about fire hazards posed by ongoing renovation works.”
Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades followed a year of safety complaints
Residents of the housing complex that was engulfed in Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in seven decades were told by authorities last year that they faced "relatively low fire risks" after complaining repe...
www.reuters.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“Residents of the housing complex that was engulfed in Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in seven decades were told by authorities last year that they faced ‘relatively low fire risks’ after complaining repeatedly about fire hazards posed by ongoing renovation works.”
“It shouldn’t surprise any of us that the CIA backed paramilitary Zero Force members have been implicated in war-crimes … The entire purpose of a CIA-led paramilitary is to create a layer of separation & deniability…to protect the US government from backlash against the atrocities [they commit]”
D.C. Shooter Served on CIA Assassination Team in Afghanistan
I want to dive into the rabbit hole of these secretive CIA-lead kill squads known as “Zero Units” in Afghanistan.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“It shouldn’t surprise any of us that the CIA backed paramilitary Zero Force members have been implicated in war-crimes … The entire purpose of a CIA-led paramilitary is to create a layer of separation & deniability…to protect the US government from backlash against the atrocities [they commit]”
“In a statement, Caracas said the carriers had ‘joined actions of state terrorism promoted by the United States’ by ‘unilaterally’ halting commercial flights.”
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Venezuela revokes flight rights for six airlines amid escalating US tensions
Venezuela has revoked operating rights for six major international airlines which suspended flights to the country following a warning from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“In a statement, Caracas said the carriers had ‘joined actions of state terrorism promoted by the United States’ by ‘unilaterally’ halting commercial flights.”
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
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Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
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I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
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Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem
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Great article from @felipedlh.bsky.social about a rarely-acknowledged vibe among recent immigrants: disappointment in the United States. Especially among people who believed they could succeed here by working hard. Only on Flaming Hydra!
TODAY: @felipedlh.bsky.social tracks a sad trend; “a deep-seated regret, among immigrants, for having come to the United States at all.” flaminghydra.com/r/fc898c29?m... r
Bill of goods / Feline fame
Felipe De La Hoz on immigrants’ regrets; Ace and Jack on Hollywood cats
flaminghydra.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Great article from @felipedlh.bsky.social about a rarely-acknowledged vibe among recent immigrants: disappointment in the United States. Especially among people who believed they could succeed here by working hard. Only on Flaming Hydra!