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Is complex society on the brink of collapse?
\nSpoiler: probably.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/CrispinB/289586","date_published":"2018-01-24T00:21:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-24 00:21","date_timestamp":1516753296,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"289403","content_html":"@hisaac I shall embarrass myself by popping it up on github when I have it working.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/CrispinB/289213","date_published":"2018-01-23T21:03:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-23 21:03","date_timestamp":1516741381,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"289124","content_html":"@patrickrhone It’s done so by becoming little more than a modern etiquette and celebrity gossip rag though. Very sad decline for a once- serious newspaper.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/CrispinB/276861","date_published":"2018-01-16T23:45:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-16 23:45","date_timestamp":1516146323,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"276764","content_html":"@tones Very doubtful of figures given for Australia. 65% cash payments seems inflated in a country where shop assistants barely remember what cash is. Though the report is from 2014, using 2009-11 data.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/CrispinB/276764","date_published":"2018-01-16T22:47:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-16 22:47","date_timestamp":1516142846,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"275067","content_html":"@Dizzymcfable What Australia's citizens may want and what its corporate owners permit often diverge more than a tad
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/CrispinB/265345","date_published":"2018-01-11T00:40:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-11 00:40","date_timestamp":1515631205,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"263564","content_html":"@rgigger One downside is that although it does get fixes, the pace is slow (p/t project I think). But the simple & well-documented json file format makes it feasible to reuse data elsewhere (eg. I have my own crude Android app for it)
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/CrispinB/263564","date_published":"2018-01-10T02:48:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-10 02:48","date_timestamp":1515552516,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"263249","content_html":"@manton Seems a bit ad hoc & doesn't generalize well should you add further topics. Really a minor usability issue but ultimately some sort of quick ref (with emoji-copy) or picker would be ideal perhaps?
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/CrispinB/263229","date_published":"2018-01-09T22:18:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-09 22:18","date_timestamp":1515536286,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"263223","content_html":"@belle You're right, the iOS app is a tad half-hearted. I have enough notes in Quiver that I've considered writing a React Native iOS/Android version myself
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/CrispinB/263223","date_published":"2018-01-09T22:13:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-09 22:13","date_timestamp":1515536034,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"263217","content_html":"@belle Quiver handles code well (even offering vim/emacs shortcut options).
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Spruiking an endless series of artisanal polishing cloths with which to shine up our ‘selves’ is how consumerist hypergrowth ideology keeps gazes averted from its consequence: planetary ecosystem breakdown.
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","summary":"","url":"https://unsuited.org/102-2/","date_published":"2018-01-05T23:38:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-05 23:38","date_timestamp":1515195505,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"254646","content_html":"Insist on a 6 figure salary? This is who pays for your bloated existence:
\nGuardian – Bangladesh’s climate refugees
Technological society organised around growth-fundamentalism is clearly incompatible with the continuing existence of a living planet. “Capitalism” isn’t so much the root problem as it is the most effective implementation of this world-destroying hypergrowth ideology.
","summary":"","url":"https://unsuited.org/86-2/","date_published":"2018-01-03T06:46:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-03 06:46","date_timestamp":1514961969,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"247628","content_html":"It is time to abandon the profoundly misleading term ‘economic growth’. There is no ‘growth’, but only an increase in entropy. Matter and energy are transferred out of high-quality, sustainable, advanced ecosystems evolved over billions of years, into crude early-stage technol... unsuited.org","summary":"","url":"https://unsuited.org/82-2/","date_published":"2018-01-01T22:27:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-01 22:27","date_timestamp":1514845629,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"229381","content_html":"A tricky area though it clearly is, Micro.blog may be casting too wide a net by disallowing all activity “in furtherance of illegal activities”. What about (for example) activism? Australia may see the largest environmental protests in our history over the Adani’s attempt to o... unsuited.org","summary":"","url":"https://unsuited.org/48-2/","date_published":"2017-12-19T23:04:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2017-12-19 23:04","date_timestamp":1513724669,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"228428","content_html":"Eventually one of these posts will contain something other than a test.
","summary":"","url":"https://unsuited.org/40-2/","date_published":"2017-12-19T04:56:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2017-12-19 04:56","date_timestamp":1513659398,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"215618","content_html":"@schuth Apologies if what I wrote seemed to belittle the grief you raising. Not my intention. I may indeed lack empathy on the point, having no real place attachment.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/CrispinB/215618","date_published":"2017-12-06T22:32:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Crispin Bennett","url":"http://unsuited.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F68a49f7bbe84e82920eaed38cc7f1b7d%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"CrispinB"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2017-12-06 22:32","date_timestamp":1512599537,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"215615","content_html":"@schuth For sure, the interdependence of these issues is crucial and salient (and too little understood). I'm not saying such concernts are insignificant. But they will lose salience.
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