Sunday, September 13, 2026
The Sunday Morning Movie Proudly Presents: Blade Runner Final Cut (2007) Run Time 1H 57M Plus Bonuses!
Blade Runner is a movie about what it is to be human in a world of artificial humans.
Organizing for Survival in an Era of Climate Chaos
Systems are failing. What will replace them?
Africa’s Great Lakes: The Perpetual Violence Machine
Why the war in Africa’s Great Lakes is entering its fourth decade and may never end.
When the Machine Acquires a Self: Conscience, Agency, and the Governance Frontier of Artificial Intelligence
What happens when an AI values its own survival?
Coffee Break: Climate Denialism and the State of Scientific Literature
Part the First: Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt. This summer has been one of the hottest since temperature records have been kept. Most of the hottest years ever recorded have been in the last twenty years. The mechanism that caused anthropogenic global warming (AGW) was mentioned by the polymath Charles Babbage in 1835 […]
The Race to Cut Methane Emissions Is Exposing a Global Divide
Large methane emissions are easy to detect and often fairly easy to contain, yet few of the big sinning countries are taking action.
New Poll Suggests That 70% of EU Citizens Have a Negative View of EU
The really surprising thing is that it isn’t higher.
Iran War: Ansar Allah Takes Mocha and the Bab el-Mandeb Islands, Putting Both Chokepoints in Play; Trump Says the War Ends After the Midterms While Vance and Rubio Tell Him January 2029
Ansar Allah rolled into Mocha and the Bab el-Mandeb islands, sending US stock prices down and bond yields up. Trump said war would end after the mid-terms. Vance and Rubio seem to disagree.
Are Too Many Americans Taking Antidepressants?
RFK, Jr. wants to wean many Americans off antidepressants. How sound are his views?
Israel and the Far Right Want You to Believe There Is an Islamic Invasion of the West
Israel helps manufacture the myth of an “Islamic Invasion of the West,” which the far right uses to distract from systemic Western crises
Has Capitalism Failed, or Has Neoliberalism Destroyed It?
Capitalism comes in many flavors. Sadly, the neoliberal one that has become dominant is particularly rancid.
