Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress by Roy Scranton | Goodreads goodreads.com/book/show/2198…

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to ChatGPT for democratizing the creative process and freeing the written word from humanity’s limitations.

"Write what you know" was good advice for novelists when most of them had been drafted, or hitchhiked across the country with drug-addled degenerates, or worked as a migrant rancher. It’s bad advice for people who mostly just know how to turn in homework assignments.

Hey Chicago! I'm Seminary Co-op tonight at 4pm to talk about IMPASSE with Keith Makato Woodhouse. Come out! semcoop.com/event/roy-scra…

"A dune is never just a dune." Very pleased to have this piece about the Indiana dunes, nature writing, and metaphysics up Emergence Magazine. emergencemagazine.org/essay/strange-…

The time has come to put the philanthropic telescope away, realise you've wasted a decade feeling empathy for entirely unworthy causes, and start realising that your life, and that of those immediately proximate to you, matters a lot more, and always did.

At some point we should probably start caring about AI data centers consuming all of our energy and water

Hey Portland! I'll be Powell's Books tomorrow night talking about IMPASSE and climate change with Omar El Akkad . Come on out! powells.com/events/roy-scr…

"we're living through a literary golden age" just like the yobbos greet every performance with a standing ovation.

"Typhoon Halong was one of the region’s strongest storms on record, picking up extra fuel from a record-breaking marine heat wave spanning the North Pacific Ocean as it raced toward Alaska" washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/1…

The editorial board The Observer calls for AI-proofing core curriculum classes. University of Notre Dame ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025/1…

"The mushroom said to me once, it said this is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for the stars.... It's a fire in a madhouse." youtube.com/watch?v=P4EnRN…

how a spinozist sees the world

"The question is not how to avert the end, but how to live ethically through it." Great short review of IMPASSE in The TLS from Rhoda Feng. the-tls.com/regular-featur…

Hey San Francisco! Join me tomorrow night City Lights Books to talk about IMPASSE, civilizational collapse, climate change, and pessimism with Mark Greif. citylights.com/events/roy-scr…

Rhoda Feng: Making the case for ethical pessimism the-tls.com/regular-featur…

"It is too convenient to imagine that America’s present upheaval springs from one man’s head. It is also the result of a deeper process, of which Trump is merely a symptom: the ongoing transformation of the American state." yalereview.org/article/dasgup…

A random reply guy called the late poet Kenneth Koch, whose poem I posted yesterday, "another paid shill by the Koch brothers." 🤣

Indonesia record heat is unstoppable: Today 26 October it was the hottest night in history for any month at Tanjung Karang (Sumatra) with a minimum temperature of 26.0C