One of my favorite writers, Drew Magary: “All of these data centers aren’t being built to connect you, the normal person, to what matters most. They’re intended to connect you to big tech’s AI ecosystem, which itself was designed to cut you off from what matters most, namely other people and the collective intellectual, emotional and spiritual value that humans have provided one another throughout humankind’s existence. AI is, at its core, an evil product engineered to wean human beings off needing, not to mention loving, one another. Its implantation is the ultimate consolidation effort by a tech class that means to horde everything — every dollar you’ve saved, every minute of your time, every idea inside your head — for itself.”

George Tsakraklides calls it “Necrocapitalism” for good reason: they want us dead. Civilization is no longer run by humans, but by profit and algorithms. Humans carry too much drama, unpredictability, and unnecessary overheads. We’re enduring worldwide systemic collapse, given the reality of uninhabitable temperatures, stretched resources, and escalating violence. Humans are not in the plans for the next phase.

Being an Antarctic tour guide sounds like a dream job. You spend months among penguins, orcas and glaciers, helping visitors experience one of the world’s most extraordinary and unspoiled places. Yet some guides are leaving, unable to align their morals with the effects of tourism they were witnessing day after day.

Dept. of Climate Boundaries Blown Past: Oxygen is disappearing from the world’s aquatic ecosystems. Aquatic ecosystems need oxygen to function normally. Scientists warn that this human-driven, rapidly escalating crisis threatens to upend the biosphere.

We’ve posted plenty of articles about the incipient El Niño. Forecasts point to the ongoing El Niño rapidly strengthening to a likely all-time record in the coming months, fueling temperature rises and extreme weather. It could well bring unprecedented temperature extremes to an already-warming world.

Leave it to George Tsakraklides to find a metaphor, in even a family vacation: “It is incredible what happens to a human once you place them in a buffet situation: they will overfill their plate and leave behind piles of uneaten food. Greed, by definition, knows no measure. Excess is the rule, and waste is the outcome. This civilisation is eating through its buffet so quickly that the restaurant is going out of business.”

Fields of Ash, ‘Doomsday Skies’ Over Canada, US, Inconvenient Moment for Extreme Global Heatwave, Datacenters Add Billions in Costs in 13 States, Fastest Opinion Shift in American Politics, NY Calls Halt on Datacenters, Once-in-a-Century Floods: New Normal? A Blistering Bacteria Summer… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Build real off-grid solar power for under $1,000. Compare three practical setups, learn sizing basics, and avoid costly beginner mistakes.