Too many people
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CDdpCGDn1/
#overpopulation #scarcity #resources #reproduction
#scarcity
Part 2 of a triptych modern parable on a divided culture no longer divided by geography.
#philosophy #culture #modernity #Enlightenment #property #markets #economics #blog #podcast #parable #humancondition #surplus #abundancy #scarcity #critique #reason #writing
Je m'accuse. I grievously squandered a Saturday, rendering a parable about communication.
⛰️ https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/01/two-valleys-diverged-in-a-mountain-range/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
Claude did the heavy lifting after extensive dialogue and goading. Even worse, the dialogue continued, extending the story and generating more content.
#philosophy #language #communication #writing #claudeai #ai #stories #biomes #abundance #scarcity #worlds #words #risk #growth #perspective #parable #moral #difference #cooperation #psychology #empathy #blog #podcast #video
"Cooperative enterprises address market failure: provide rural electricity or other utilities in sparsely populated areas; affordable healthy and organic foods; access to credit and banking services; access to affordable housing; access to quality affordable child or elder care; access to markets for culturally sensitive goods & arts."
Across #advanced #economies, a new axis of #politics is emerging: #scarcity #versus #abundance. Rising prices, stalled infrastructure, and eroding industrial competitiveness reflect constraints on building and innovation. Trade disruptions and inadequate state capacity compound the challenge. In response, a cross-partisan abundance movement offers a path ... responding to voters’ growing affordability concerns.
Prepare, the winter of technology is coming.
- DRAM supply shortening
- GPU shortage
- High-end SSD shortage
- HDD shortage
https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/nvidia-plans-heavy-cuts-to-gpu-supply-in-early-2026/
If you have a computer in mind today, buy now. Get financing if needed.
#Technology #PC #PCHardware #Hardware #Laptop #Laptops #Computer #Computers #RAM #GPU #GraphicsCard #GraphicsCards #SSD #Storage #HDD #HardDrives #SolidStateDrives #AI #AIScarcity #AIHardwareScarcity #Scarcity
Weeping Sores – The Convalescence Agonies [Things You Might Have Missed 2025]
By Creeping Ivy
Pleasure—as Judas Priest, sadomasochists, and Flagellants teach us—can be found in pain. Doug Moore and Stephen Schwegler, the guitar/drum duo behind Weeping Sores, also teach this lesson with The Convalescence Agonies. As its title suggests, the sophomore Weeping Sores album chronicles Moore’s recovery from a shoulder injury that, quite unfortunately, prevented him from playing guitar.1 Quite fortunately for us, Moore sublimates his agony into the listener’s ecstasy with The Convalescence Agonies. Debut False Confession received high praise here, making the 2019 lists of Saunders (Honorable Mention), Cherd of Doom (#8), and Ferrous Beuller (#4). On its follow-up, Weeping Sores deliver a leaner, lusher, and eminently listable slab of death-doom.
On The Convalescence Agonies, Weeping Sores level up by scaling back. False Confession established that Moore and Schwegler of Pyrrhon fame could successfully craft a more plodding, brooding death metal, sounding like Morbid Angel making proclamations to My Dying Bride. At 56 minutes with multiple 9- and 10-minute songs, however, the album definitely fatigues. In comparison, The Convalescence Agonies clocks in at 43 minutes, energizing the listener by lurking towards its epic compositions. Moore’s climbing guitar and anguished screams in “Arctic Summer” segue into “Empty Vessel Hymn,” a heater showcasing Schwegler’s jazzy hands. The mid-album climax, “Sprawl in the City of Sorrow,” spreads chunky, blasty, and militaristic riffs across 9 breezy minutes. “Pleading for the Scythe” mixes delicate chords, lumbering beatdowns, and off-kilter shredding, setting the stage for the title track. “The Convalescence Agonies,” a 14-minute monster, boasts the stankiest, dumpiest chuggery on the entire album. Without compromising the scope of its songwriting, Weeping Sores have crafted a tighter, better-paced album than the debut.
False Confession stans might weep when learning that the violin of Gina Hendrika Eygenhuysen does not appear on The Convalescence Agonies. In its place is the cello of Annie Blythe, which directs a broader ensemble of ancillary instrumentation. Like Eygenhuysen’s violin, Blythe’s cello often occupies center stage, dramatizing sparse verses (“Arctic Summer”) and blasty tremolos (“The Convalescence Agonies”). Arguably, the deeper tone of the cello better suits the music, feeling like an extension of the scooped guitar tone. Weeping Sores also incorporate keyboards from Brendon Randall-Myers (Scarcity), which add a refined, almost proggy aura to caveman breakdowns and hyperspeed chugging (“Pleading for the Scythe”). There’s even banjo in “Sprawl…,” commingling with Blythe’s percussive cello to make a demented guitar lead far more unsettling.2 Some listeners will miss the brighter, more melodically commanding presence of the violin. The Convalescence Agonies more than makes up for Eygenhuysen’s absence, however, with its wider array of sonic textures.
As Moore howls on the title track, the body’s pain ‘teaches nothing…no gift / But the passion of transfiguration.’3 Pain may not teach anything to the suffering speaker or Moore himself, but The Convalescence Agonies teaches us that Weepings Sores is one of the most promising contemporary death-doom projects. Moore and Schwegler have transfigured False Confession into something more beautiful without sacrificing their disgustingly awesome death metal core. Sadly, this TYMHM treatment may not arrive in time to register during Listurnalia. Consider, then, The Convalescence Agonies an honorary Honorable Mention for me (and several others around here, I suspect).
Tracks to Check Out: “Arctic Summer,” “Sprawl in the City of Sorrow,” “The Convalescence Agonies”
#2025 #DeathDoom #DeathMetal #DoomMetal #IVoidhangerRecords #MorbidAngel #MyDyingBride #Pyrrhon #Scarcity #TheConvalescenceAgonies #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed2025 #TYMHM #USMetal #WeepingSores
Joel Valenzuela ha elencato gli standard minimi per il "denaro della libertà".
Non è un elenco di desideri.
È una lista di requisiti. ✅
#Decentralized #Scarcity #Scalability #NearZeroFees #Privacy #Security #ContactList #Username #DeterministicFinality #AddressBook #GlobalAdoption #Metadata
E Dash è l'unico progetto che li soddisfa tutti.
Il percorso più rapido è già tracciato.
#Dash #DigitalCash #FinancialSovereignty
"Why is it that the left of politics is so frightened of modern monetary theory?"
The left chooses to administer scarcity under the guise of prudence.
They prefer to treat the country as a "household with a flag".
Original affluent society: Anthropologist's view that hunter-gatherer societies were affluent, that people had everything they needed to live well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society
#huntergatherer #anthropology #scarcity #society #history #sahlins #graeber #+
Mike Brandly, Auctioneer Blogmikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com@mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com
2025-11-27All genuine, scarce … but clearly not?
It is always entertaining when an auction company proudly proclaims that genuineness, scarcity, and quality are what they sell, while the terms quietly suggest none of those things should actually be relied upon. Bidders are invited to chase treasures and rare finds, yet the fine print politely explains that nothing said about the items is guaranteed. The thrill comes with a subtle warning: buyer beware. The irony is thick because bidders are enticed by promises of exceptional items, yet the […]https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/all-genuine-scarce-but-clearly-not/
One big problem facing us as we could choose to move into a post #scarcity world (i.e. we could do it tomorrow if we wanted) is lots of #wealth hoarders who agree w/ #MrPotter. I'm not sanguine about enough #JimmyStewart types popping up to save us.
@garyseconomics.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
#WealthTax
Mr. Potter - Wikipedia
Too Many Inputs, Not Enough Attention
This week we’ll take a look at the scarcity that too much of a good things brings, why the productivity system you imported from an influencer doesn’t work, and then some book recommendations.
Too many inputs bring scarcity
Think of those challenge games where a ball runs through a metal track — like a miniature roller coaster — and a participant must grab the ball as it exits a chute and reintroduce it into the track. The participant, who has one hand tied behind his back, loses the game if he drops a ball. A new ball is introduced into the track every few minutes, making the challenge increasingly difficult. One ball is easy to manage. A second complicates the game a bit. A third requires concentration. A fourth… there’s always a breaking point. One ball too many ensures that all the balls fall to the ground. Now imagine the balls don’t get introduced on a predictable schedule. And instead of falling out of one chute, they can fall out of one of several and often at the same time. This is the world we find ourselves in, a challenge game that is impossible to manage, much less win. – Inputs and the Information Firing Squad
Jeremy is talking about scarcity, specifically the idea that scarcity captures the mind1. When we’re captured by scarcity our attention is captured. The benefit to this is the focus on a particular problem, but when we’re captured by a bunch of shit being thrown at us all the time there is no good to be found. If there is monetary scarcity, it’s good to focus on it and resolve the problem, even if it does cost us in a broad sense2. Once the problem is resolved we can focus on the balls that got dropped.
When we have a scarcity of attention, rest, breaks, downtime, there is nothing but cost. Though a firehose of information is a tactic used to keep us off base so that we can’t deal with the real problems happening in society. To those pushing the firehose, our lack of focus and increase in scarcity might just be what they’re hoping for.
Complexity and Simplicity
A system should be a minimal viable product when you start it. You add only the parts you need to get it going and then nothing more. You don’t add 6 things some influencer says you must have in your task manager, because you don’t need them.
I don’t remember hearing about Gall’s law, but thanks to Jamie I’ve been reminded and turns out I did have a note on it already thanks to Nick. To quote my note directly:
Every functional complex system emerges out of a simpler system that worked first.
In other words, go with something simple instead of trying for the best end complex system that’s being recommended by someone online that’s not living your life.
This is where many people fall down with their notes or their productivity systems. They purchase a book or watch a bunch of videos on someone’s complex system that they built up from something simple. Then the watcher replicates the complex system whole cloth on top of their life, but they never start with the simple version they jump directly to the complex version.
No wonder it fails, but given influencer productivity/notes culture we can always blame the watcher for not doing it right. It’s their fault so they look around for another hot system and repeat the pattern.
While I don’t do many Obsidian videos anymore, I always say that you should take what I do and keep what works…toss the rest. I can only tell you what works for me.
Book Recommendations
Lou had two good posts recommending books. First he recommended a set of books the hijacking of American Christianity. Second he recommended a set of books talking about economics and kleptocracy.
I have nothing to add to the first list, but I’d add a few to the second list.
- Autocracy Inc (this month’s book club book)
- The Big Fix (takes a look at Canada’s monopoly laws)
- The Bill Gates Problem (Bill Gates is an oligarch who creates problems in many fields)
- Corporate Control (another book that looks at how corporations run Canada)
- Democracy at Work (what if we really did democracy instead of just rich people running things)
Do you have more recommendations?
- Scarcity Pg 7 ↩︎
- Scarcity Pg 14-15 ↩︎
Too Many Inputs, Not Enough Attention
This week we'll take a look at the scarcity that too much of a good things brings, why the productivity system you imported from an influencer doesn't work, and then some book recommendations.
Too many inputs bring scarcity
Think of those challenge games where a ball runs through a metal track — like a miniature roller coaster — and a par
https://curtismchale.ca/2025/11/22/too-many-inputs-not-enough-attention/
#3Threads #productivity #scarcity
"The earth generates enough food and enough resources for everyone. But the powerful and the wealthy want to profit off this abundance, so they make food scarce for most people around the globe so they can charge money for it. It’s important to remember that hunger is “man-made.” Hunger is caused by inequality, discrimination, greed, and hoarding. I’m not the first to say this — scholars have been making this claim for over 100 years. They explain that the wealthy want to pay low wages to keep their profits high. So, they pay people just enough to keep people desperate where they will take the minimum amount of salary just so they can buy bread and feed their kids. This dynamic keeps people poor and hungry and fattens the pockets of the wealthy."
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/hunger-isnt-about-food-its-about-power/
#article #scarcity #foodinequity #thewealthy #wealth #hunger #greed #hierarchy
Isto está absolutamente certo. Um modo de produção que até poderia fazer sentido no século XVIII, com o início da globalização da economia e a absorção das colónias no circuito económico mundial, tornou-se hoje um empecilho ao desenvolvimento das capacidades da espécie humana. Sendo totalmente irracional, está destinado à obsolescência.
💯👉"If scarcity is a necessary precondition for making profit (since things that are abundant cannot properly embody much exchange value), this has profound implications for economics (...) For socialists, our entire vision of the future is based on expanding public goods to encompass all aspects of life, from food to housing to entertainment and science. For the modern capitalist class, their vision is of a world in which private wealth (capital) structures our entire lives—a world of austerity, privatisation, and systemic violence.
(...)
In essence, private riches can only really come about because of scarcity; if something is abundant, then you cannot really make money from it. In order for something to have an exchange value with anything else, there must be a degree of scarcity in its availability. If you have a well in the middle of a village that everyone can use, that is public wealth, a public good. But if a man comes and puts a grate on it and charges people to get the water, he can get rich. Getting rich under capitalism is a good thing, right? But it happens at the expense of public goods, which is bad? This is the paradox.
This is at the heart of one of the basic contradictions of the capitalist system: that what appears irrational to us is completely rational from the point of view of the capitalist class. What is good for us is not what is good for the ruling class. This is why so much energy and effort have to be put into complex regimes of propaganda and social control to ensure compliance with a system that is (...) against the interests of the majority."
https://anticapitalistresistance.org/capital-is-scarcity/
#Capitalism #Scarcity #Abundance
But I guess living in a world where you hand your body over to production for the time you are employed (because you cannot act as if you felt yourself in most workplaces) makes it easy to also hand over your body to obtain superficial pleasure
But I guess living in a world where you hand your body over to production for the time you are employed (because you cannot act as if you felt yourself in most workplaces) makes it easy to also hand over your body to obtain superficial pleasure
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