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We've Optimized Fragility, Failure, Denial, And... Rage
We've Optimized Fragility, Failure, Denial, And... Rage
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
What happens when optimization is itself the point of failure?
In today's zeitgeist, everything must be optimized or we'll fail: our time, productivity, fitness, diet, supplements, career, income, wealth--everything must be constantly optimized lest we fall behind or fail.
The grand irony is optimization generates fragility which generates failure which generates denial which eventually generates rage. We've optimized global supply chains for efficiency and cost, rendering them exquisitely vulnerable to disruption and collapse. We've optimized the global economy for "growth"...
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Jul 24, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Smokey Skies Does Not Mean Global Warming
Smokey Skies Does Not Mean Global Warming
Authored by Anthony Watts via American Thinker,
Every summer seems to follow the same predictable media script.
Wildfires ignite somewhere in North America. Smoke drifts hundreds or even thousands of miles. Air quality alerts are issued. Television stations fill the screen with hazy skylines. Then, before investigators have even determined how the fires started, headlines begin linking the smoke to climate change.
This year has been no different. As smoke from Canadian wildfires spread across parts of the Midwest and Northeast, much of the news coverage...
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Feb 13, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Amazon's Ring And Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal The Severity Of The U.S. Surveillance State
Amazon's Ring And Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal The Severity Of The U.S. Surveillance State
Authored by Glenn Greenwald via Substack,
That the U.S. Surveillance State is rapidly growing to the point of ubiquity has been demonstrated over the past week by seemingly benign events. While the picture that emerges is grim, to put it mildly, at least Americans are again confronted with crystal clarity over how severe this has become.
One of Google’s Nest surveillance cameras, whose recordings can be accessed by Google even if users don’t subscribe to the security firm’s...
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Jul 8, 2026 / Ludwig von Mises
Chapter 2: Liberal Economic Policy
The economic case for private property and the free market, including the impracticability of socialism, the failures of interventionism, and the problems of cartels, monopoly, and bureaucracy.
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