#limits #growth #obsant #effondrement
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« Limits to Growth » avait raison au sujet de l’effondrement
Andrew Curry
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"J’ai l’habitude de voir les écologistes et les futurologues parler des limites de la croissance (« The Limits to Growth »). Je suis moins habitué à voir des spécialistes de l’investissement mentionner des recherches liées aux limites de la croissance... " :
https://obsant.eu/blog/2025/05/22/limits-to-growth-avait-raison-au-sujet-de-leffondrement/
I’m used to environmentalists and futurists writing about The Limits to Growth. I’m less used to seeing investment writers mention research that’s linked to The Limits of Growth. But that’s what Joachim Klement did in his daily newsletter recently. ...
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https://obsant.eu/blog/2025/05/21/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-collapse/
@igd_news Any dialecticians? The imagination doesn’t tend to 0! #LogiciansAreConfused #Limits #FormalAbstractions #Schism #EmpiricalPsychology #WokeJedi #ResistanceIsNotFutile
The "Computing within Limits" (LIMITS'2025) deadline is extended to April 30th, 2025 AOE. Submit those papers and spread the word!
LIMITS'2025 welcomes scholarship from a wide range of perspectives that engages with computing and its pressing ecological and social issues and crises including planetary boundaries. CfP:
https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/
Hace unas semanas empecé a usar @atuin, pero sin una cuenta que sincronizara la historia. Ayer me dio por hacerlo y ahora esto peleándome con los límites de atuin: parece ser que tengo muchos comandos en mi historial (+15000) o son muy largos en la línea de comandos, pero cada cada vez que intento sincronizar... ```There was an error with the atuin sync service: Status 413.```
"The U.S. president is not an irrational being nor a crazed man who has lost his compass, as he is often portrayed by both progressive and conservative analysts in Europe. Trump has a plan for his country that combines a sharpening of imperialism with a trade war against the world. The question is: Will it work?"
Alberto Garzón follows Michael Roberts analysis here, adding an ecological warning.
https://agarzon.substack.com/p/when-tariffs-and-cannons-go-hand
Within Bounds: Limiting AI's environmental impact (Joint statement)
https://greenscreen.network/en/blog/within-bounds-limiting-ai-environmental-impact/#introduction
*Do I actually *want* to see (or maybe own) industrially-designed artifacts that were created on shrooms or acid, I don't know, maybe I do #weirdness #limits
'Sufficiency is a whole-of-government approach that aims to create the structural change needed for societies to consume less overall. It also seeks to ensure wellbeing for all people, not just the affluent'.
Less is more
Unlike efficiency, sufficiency calls for reducing demand & tackling overconsumption & living responsibly on Earth
Millions Have #Amnesia About the #Worst of #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump’s #presidency. #Memory #Experts Explain #Why.
How the wannabe #dictator is benefiting from the #limits of our #memory.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/trump-pandemic-amnesia/?s=09
One of the generic problems is that "effectively" only applies to one perspective, excluding all others. This has become a norm, across many parts of society.
Like nonstop auto playing videos of 99% worthless content, jacking up worthless searches by creating autosearching #AI bots that inhabit every possible onramp device/interface is just not energetically sustainable.
So maybe not having the learning curve + novelty bubble multiplied by 8 billion would be prudent?
I'd say that most things that survive (locally) for long periods of time make the same #evolutionary adjustment.
High efficiency is not #sustainable, unless periodic catastrophic crashes (in number) are tolerable.
OTOH, most systems do not come to this accord on their own, the environment in which it lives constrains optimal #efficiency attainable.
"We have thrust Earth into a new geological period, destroyed the majority of the world’s #wildlife , razed her #forests , and rendered innumerable species extinct. We are expert consumers with no #limits to our appetite, it seems."
This is really bad! But we can change it. 
Listen to the podcast "Overshooting Earth's Boundaries | Bill Rees" at Planet: Critical!
Episode webpage: https://www.planetcritical.com/p/overshooting-earth-boundaries
Media file: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/135112248/aca99bf5c61e74feaf3598b07303bc14.mp3
Biden to announce plans to reform US supreme court – report
The US president also will seek constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and various officeholders
Joe Biden will announce plans to reform the US supreme court on Monday, Politico reported,
citing two people familiar with the matter,
adding that the US president was likely to back #term #limits for justices and an enforceable #code #of #ethics.
Mr. Biden said earlier this week during an Oval Office address that he would call for reform of the court.
He is also expected to seek a #constitutional #amendment to limit #immunity for presidents and some other officeholders, in the aftermath of a July supreme court ruling that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution.
Biden will make the announcement in Texas on Monday and the specific proposals could change, the report added.
Justice Elena #Kagan on Thursday became the first member of the supreme court to call publicly for beefing up its new ethics code by adding a way to #enforce it.
“The thing that can be criticized is, you know, rules usually have enforcement mechanisms attached to them, and this one
– this set of rules
– does not,” Kagan said at an annual judicial conference held by the ninth circuit.
More than 150 judges, attorneys, court personnel and others attended.
The court had been considering adopting an ethics code for several years,
but the effort took on added urgency after it was reported last year that Justice Clarence #Thomas did not disclose luxury trips he accepted from a major Republican donor.
Public #confidence in the court has slipped sharply in recent years.
In June, a survey for the Associated Press-Norc Center for Public Affairs Research found that
four in 10 US adults have hardly any confidence in the justices
and 70% believe they are more likely to be guided by their own ideology rather than serving as neutral arbiters.
Canada’s Supreme court says government can be liable for unconstitutional laws
Majority finds a limited liability for laws that are found to violate the Charter of Rights
Fantastic summer school for those in Europe working on 'sustainable ICT' and are willing to ask the really difficult questions. #sustainability #summerschool #phdlife #limits
