AI Assistance
AI can help in all sorts of ways – going to your meetings, fighting your wars. What sort of world might we be creating if humans are freed from these tasks?
Tag: 2026
Safe havens & self-reliance
When oil shortages loom it makes sense to want our country to be more self-reliant. It seems obvious our country should rapidly install solar power and wind turbines at scale. Or does it? What makes sense for a home may not make sense for a country.
Take the wins
Sometimes I find it hard to see our wins through our losses. I obviously need to channel Donald Trump more often – he has already won the Iran war, however long it goes on for.
The road to hell…
…in our case was paved with good neighbours. Or, more specifically, razed by neighbours trying to be good.
No Yips for Donald
Why does Donald Trump keep referring to the yips, as in “I don’t have the yips about boots on the ground?” Is he worried he might be getting yippy? Or is it just because he loves golf?
Limits to Everything
There are limits to everything, including life, and energy and materials on a finite planet. This week we helped our cat die and I wondered about the sanity of the government’s LNG plant plans.
Waterloo & Haiku
Is Greenland a route to Trump’s Waterloo? Let’s hope it invokes sufficient masses to unite against him. And, as a diversion from Trump, here’s some haiku inspired by snowy Japan.
Overton Windows
Is Trump smashing Overton Windows, in his attack on general world order, including proposing to take over Greenland? And what is an Overton Window?
Barrels of oil
Chris looking at a ‘nodding donkey’ in Utah – a pump used to bring oil to the surface on land I felt […]
Kakapo and Grommets
When do you have to choose between saving a kakapo and inserting a grommet in a child’s ear? When you are a government.