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Trump is alienating nearly every group in the unlikely coalition that voted him into office, even white voters without college degrees. “A new CBS News/YouGov poll found Trump's approval among white voters without college degrees — the backbone of his movement — has swung from +36 early in his term to underwater at -4, a 40-point collapse.”

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/cstross/statuses/116413274889109111https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/cstross/statuses/116413274889109111Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:46:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:44:55 GMT]]>@graydon @mitch @lasagne @pluralistic Your options 2-4 look like a mix-and-match bundle to me. Option 1 is the least likely, given the way the west's power structures have doubled down on repression since 2008.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/cstross/statuses/116413267699775246https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/cstross/statuses/116413267699775246Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:44:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:52:45 GMT]]>@graydon @danielmunoz @cstross @mitch @lasagne @pluralistic
Diesel is already in short supply for South Africa's Winter grain sowing. Buckle up.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/users/mikro2nd/statuses/116413062542353880https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/users/mikro2nd/statuses/116413062542353880Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:52:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:28:33 GMT]]>@mitch

Private equity built a rentier economy.

What happens when the rentiers "turn off the lights and walk away from their obligations"?

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For example, the petrostate despots funding the AI bubble & laundering their money in the USA...

...what happens when those nations realize how they were scammed?

They'll likely do like Musk, walk away, leaving others to face consequences & clean up a mess
https://archive.is/cZuhP
https://archive.is/c1yv4

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116412495558526033https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116412495558526033Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:28:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:11:12 GMT]]>@mitch @pluralistic This is quite a true reading by Cory of what thousands of people around the world are recognizing. Yet so many people are blithely ignorant. They just don’t pay any attention to “the News” and are even proud to tell people this. Then there are those supporting the Capitalists, the Oligarches, the Trump followers, the MAGA crowd, those profiting with the sales on military spending, politicians who get so much money from certain donors, and the general Republicans who no matter what, support the new status quo their leaders created.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/cobalt123/statuses/116411719534449947https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/cobalt123/statuses/116411719534449947Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:11:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:29:04 GMT]]>@mitch They're all possible.

It's not a question of TACO; it's a question of the maritime order, American power as the Oil Empire, and the degree to which some combination of industrial capacity and existing stockpiles permit them to exercise military power despite what is shaping up to be a major economic constriction.

Plus two generations of American elite consensus about an appropriate fate for the Islamic Republic.

@cstross @lasagne @pluralistic

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon/statuses/116411081949227184https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon/statuses/116411081949227184Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:29:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:17:41 GMT]]>@graydon @cstross @lasagne @pluralistic #3 is possible. TACO.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/mitch/statuses/116411037244123246https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/mitch/statuses/116411037244123246Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:17:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:28:40 GMT]]>@stingraz Solarpunk outcomes are a best case for #4, yeah.

Not especially likely without an active effort to abolish fossil carbon extraction, which takes a lot of cohesion because the famine risk is not so much a risk as a certainty without a lot of collective effort to produce fertilizer by other means (and all that implies and entails), but anything, even the Fatal Slump, that abolishes fossil carbon is preferable to an End Permian 2.0 Atmosphere.

@cstross @mitch @lasagne @pluralistic

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon/statuses/116410844447089315https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon/statuses/116410844447089315Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:28:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:24:07 GMT]]>@graydon @cstross @mitch @lasagne @pluralistic so 3 or 4 then. Because LOL not 1, and please Eris not 2.
Can we at least pretend there's a possibility for some solarpunk utopia in there? Or is that the best-case version of 4?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sueden.social/users/stingraz/statuses/116410826602735936https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sueden.social/users/stingraz/statuses/116410826602735936Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:24:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:22:38 GMT]]>@danielmunoz Politically, this is more to keep Bibi out of jail than to distract from Epstein. (The first US mistake was the B-2 attack last year, which gave the Israelis the ability to commit the US to a conflict with Iran.)

Fertilizer, fuel, and spares are will be short or unavailable for the northern hemisphere spring planting season. Throw in consequent disruptions on top of existing food insecurity and 1848-but-more is possible.

@cstross @mitch @lasagne @pluralistic

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon/statuses/116410820762186219https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon/statuses/116410820762186219Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:22:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:18:23 GMT]]>@glyph @pluralistic @cstross @mitch @lasagne if folks in the USA only offer "thoughts and prayers" instead of anything meaningful over their own dead, why would anyone expect more for dead people outside the borders?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glasgow.social/users/craignicol/statuses/116410804044013899https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glasgow.social/users/craignicol/statuses/116410804044013899Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:18:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:07:52 GMT]]>@graydon @cstross @mitch @lasagne @pluralistic Global famine because of a 'convenient' war to distract from the Epstein files sounds like too much punishing for people who do not have anything to do with Trump or the imperialist USA.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://maly.io/users/danielmunoz/statuses/116410762664040306https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://maly.io/users/danielmunoz/statuses/116410762664040306Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:07:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:53:01 GMT]]>@Sine_Nomine That's #4, famine-driven new world order.

@cstross @mitch @lasagne @pluralistic

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon/statuses/116410704291370109https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon/statuses/116410704291370109Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:53:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:51:00 GMT]]>@graydon @cstross @mitch @lasagne @pluralistic
Or
No one agrees peace is good, not a ceasefire, but, not a war, just lobbing drones, missiles, airstrikes at each other. Slowly dragging more into the maelstrom, involve the bab el mandab & red sea, involve china, Pakistan, India, escorting their tankers, more friction, eventually something will happen, too many variables, far too few cool heads. A wider conflict opening up before we know what's happening. Then...then, we're on the road to hell

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Sine_Nomine/statuses/116410696384519326https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Sine_Nomine/statuses/116410696384519326Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:51:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:44:51 GMT]]>@mitch 'eclectic' really isnt how we describe a seditious coup of nazis and abusers.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://thecanadian.social/ap/users/116277706632326484/statuses/116410672166105913https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://thecanadian.social/ap/users/116277706632326484/statuses/116410672166105913Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:44:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:38:05 GMT]]>@hakona @pluralistic @glyph @cstross @mitch @lasagne As a model, it has the significant merit of being much simpler than Allan Lichtman's.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/martinvermeer/statuses/116410645600572270https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/martinvermeer/statuses/116410645600572270Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:38:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:34:45 GMT]]>@cstross @mitch @lasagne @pluralistic So, Trump doing something for the planet after all. Destroying oil demand 🤗

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ati1/statuses/116410632465896616https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ati1/statuses/116410632465896616Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:34:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:33:49 GMT]]>@cstross There are four ways out of this.

1. everyone in power in Iran and the US agrees that peace is more important than their personal futures, and make peace.
2. the US genocides Iran to the point there cannot be an Iranian industrial economy; the Strait opens as a victory for maritime power and freedom of navigation. (Takes years or nukes.)
3. The US undergoes collapse/gives up; Iran taxes tanker traffic.
4. Famine-driven new world order.

@mitch @lasagne @pluralistic

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon/statuses/116410628805745987https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon/statuses/116410628805745987Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:33:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:27:43 GMT]]>@cstross @acsawdey @glyph @hakona @pluralistic @mitch @lasagne

Weren't you the guy who was complaining a few years ago (in the run-up to Brexit, IIRC) that you weren't writing •instruction manuals• please & thank you?

Sorry, love ya to bits, but I have zero confidence in your estimations of the relevant safety margins, lolsob

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/cavyherd/statuses/116410604805237163https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/cavyherd/statuses/116410604805237163Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:27:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:27:24 GMT]]>@daburudar @acsawdey @glyph @hakona @pluralistic @mitch @lasagne Naah, they'll just get OpenAI to pirate a cracked copy off the web and digest it for them.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/cstross/statuses/116410603577223227https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/cstross/statuses/116410603577223227Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:27:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:26:18 GMT]]>@cstross @acsawdey @glyph @hakona @pluralistic @mitch @lasagne Luckily also, it's a book, so the current crop of tyrants won't read it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/daburudar/statuses/116410599260942692https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/daburudar/statuses/116410599260942692Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:26:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:04:04 GMT]]>@BilldeWorde7a @cstross @mitch @lasagne @pluralistic but, to reframe it more positively: I would never cause a crisis if given the choice, but in my activism and fundraising I am sure as shit not going to let a crisis like this go to waste

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/glyph/statuses/116410511806365593https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/glyph/statuses/116410511806365593Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:04:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:03:15 GMT]]>@BilldeWorde7a @cstross @mitch @lasagne @pluralistic I'm definitely glad that I'm not in a decision-making capacity that could actually affect this. idle thoughts do not have a moral valence and we shouldn't judge ourselves or others for them. still: same

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/glyph/statuses/116410508631505576https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/glyph/statuses/116410508631505576Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:03:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Link list: Articles and other links of interest on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:00:20 GMT]]>@glyph @cstross @mitch @lasagne @pluralistic the current moment creates a perverse dynamic where it appears that a short term increase in aggregate suffering will lead to lower overall suffering, but “hoping” for increased suffering even in the short term feels pretty gross.

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