. . . @wion@writing.exchange

‘We’re in the sh**. We have to face it and learn to live with it. That’s a basic idea in #DarkEcology, which Timothy Morton outlines in his book. Dark ecology has a realistic take on the human state without resorting to false optimism or fatalistic tones of apocalypse. It also requires people to take control, and not lay down in the mud with blind faith of staying above the surface without ever drowning.’

Ecology Without Nature

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674034853&content=reviews

‘The logistics of agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired dangerous ideas about life-forms into the human mind. #DarkEcology puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge, illuminating our place in the #biosphere and our belonging to a species in a sense that is far less obvious than we like to think.’

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

https://cup.columbia.edu/dark-ecology/9780231177528

Meanwhile, in France, the gilet jaunes are blocking roads throughout the country and at least one person is dead from the conflict, not because of #climate change, but because gas prices were hiked.

Boy, we’ll raise hell for our right to keep fucking up the world, but not accept any steps to save it.

‘Our failure to prevent or even to respond significantly to #Climate change, Jamieson argues, reflects the impoverishment of our systems of practical reason, the paralysis of our politics, and the limits of our cognitive and affective capacities. The climate change that is underway is remaking the world in such a way that familiar comforts, places, and ways of life will disappear in years or decades rather than centuries.’

Reason in a Dark Time

https://www.amazon.fr/dp/0199337667/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_u7f8BbXYMJBK3

#DarkEcology

#Protonmail isn’t buying the hacking claim. Calling it extortion. Probably right.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/9xovso/dont_believe_everything_you_read_online_about/

So this is getting interesting. Not.

The hackers in that Pastebin post say they've been working on #Protonmail for months and solicited help from other groups. And while they had Protonmail distracted, managed to install a backdoor undetected.

That comes on the heels of this from Protonmail earlier this month, about a bad dude with the 'Aphosis Squad' getting arrested and pleading guilty to regular attacks on Protonmail...

https://protonmail.com/blog/apophis-squad-arrest/

*sigh* Looks like I'm changing again.

What?!?

'If you have used #Protonmail in the past several months it is probable we have your Username/Password and your decrypted emails recorded on our own private server. We also have names, addresses (If entered), contact lists, IP addresses, and much more. We would not have been able to do this if Protonmail did not deliberately mis-configure their code to harm their own users.'

https://pastebin.com/bwvqHhbA

The typical climate/society discussion now:

It's not me, it's my neighbor.
It's not our country it's their countries.
It's not we poor, it's those rich monsters.
It's not we middle-class, it's the uneducated.
It's not us voters, it's the politicians.
It's not the left, it's the right.
It's not country folk, it's city slickers.
It's not the greens, it's the reds.
Etc, etc, etc.

This is the root of the problem, nobody accepts that 'we' is collective, that enviro is undivided.

We never will.

Nothing like reading a couple hundred comments on a sensible climate/society article to write off the future.

But I do notice a big diff in the nature of discussion from just five years ago, which was dominated by the usual denialists and cheap shots, etc. Denialists are fewer now and trounced quickly. More people speak intelligently and face up to the fact there's little to be done in time at scale needed. We're too comfortable to try.

It's all about who to blame... who will change first...

Ugh. This thing that sites are doing now... throwing the ToS in your face instead of the article you want when you click Reader View is really annoying. They force you to endure the ads now. Not surprising.

Example...

https://www.livescience.com/64090-ancient-greek-city-uncovered.html

'Rich experience' ... 'make our site a richer experience' ...

Ugh! website makers need to stop with the capitalistic terms and experiences NOBODY WANTS.

An honest good experience would be NO TRACKING and NO POPUP/CLICK-TO-CLOSE shit in my face at nearly every fucking website I try to visit.

It's really getting tiring. I don't even like using the web anymore. A necessary evil.

Where is the the wardrobe door to the Narnia web, where no tracking, cookies, marketing, boolsheet exists!?

'Two tasks need to be performed simultaneously: throwing ourselves at the possibility of averting collapse . . . slight though this possibility may appear; and preparing ourselves for the likely failure of these efforts... Both tasks require a complete revision of our relationship with the living planet.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/14/earth-death-spiral-radical-action-climate-breakdown

I'd say three tasks simultaneously: First being our species needs a birth cap. If this isn't done immediately, all other efforts are for naught.

Not likely.