One of the two main subjects of this article on so-called executive protection specialists “felt called to service” after 9/11 and so ended up a bodyguard to “ultra-high-net-worth individuals” for a minimum of $1k a day. Checks out nytimes.com/2024/04/07/bus…

Been reflecting on this. Illustrates that the assumption that Northern climates will still be congenial to industrial agricultural production in many climate predictions is utterly false. Redistribution of water and heating is potentially fatal overall. theguardian.com/environment/20…

I think you have to reckon with the fact that America makes people miserable even if they are reasonably well off and not just talk about per capita income all the damn time

Check out this lineup for real

In the essay I’ll never get around to writing on David Berman’s lyrics I want to esp. emphasize his hatred of bright artificial colors

“History decays into images, not into stories.”

— Walter Benjamin (The Arcades Project, tr. Eiland et al.)

In the forthcoming number of Granta, I draw attention to a neglected rodent, the prairie dog

Industrial animal agriculture cannot be justified. It is horrifyingly unethical & utterly irresponsible, in addition to being an ecological nightmare. There’s no good reason to treat life this way, and we are continually paying the price for that failure

this has never happened before

'A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard'

‘The 2023 temperature anomaly has come out of the blue. If the anomaly does not stabilize by August, it could imply that a warming planet is already fundamentally altering how the climate system operates, much sooner than scientists had anticipated’ nature.com/articles/d4158…

‘Once it becomes fully established that extracting coal or oil or gas to make money actually kills multitudes, mass casualties become an ideologically and mentally processed, de facto accepted result of capital accumulation’—Andreas Malm versobooks.com/blogs/news/the…

“A survey published last year by Filip Reyntjens, a Belgian professor and outspoken Kagame critic, found that 82% of 199 top government positions were held by ethnic Tutsi [who make up about 15% of the population]— and nearly 100% in Mr. Kagame’s office”nytimes.com/2024/04/06/wor…

“Researchers released the most complete accounting so far of how the river’s water is used. They found that alfalfa — used as feed for beef and dairy cows — sucks up more water than all the cities and industries in the enormous Colorado River Basin.” coloradosun.com/2024/04/04/res…