Spoiler: in this episode of FBT I tell you the ending to Se7en, a film you should already know the ending to because it’s 30 years old ffs.
Maybe I’m a sharer
I follow threads when I’m trying to figure out what exactly my Freshly Brewed Thoughts are each week. Often I don’t know where I’m starting from let alone where I’ll end up, and that, friends, is why it’s called “Freshly Brewed Thoughts”. Well, the process and because I have this domain called “Zythepsary”, which is an antiquated word for brewery. Early in my career I thought that I should steer the “beer brewery” narrative towards coffee so folks wouldn’t think I’m an alcoholic.
Truth be told, I’m not sure any of my thoughts are all that freshly brewed. My thoughts feel more like stale coffee that I’m drinking anyway because why waste coffee when I know that at the end of the world finding stale coffee in an abandoned gas station is going to be a helluva good day. I don’t have much in my prepper cellar, but I do have a giant jar of coffee crystals because any coffee is better than no coffee. Recently the EU and some of the member countries, told their residents that we should have 3 days worth of supplies in our homes at all times. My brain remembered, however, “10 days” and now I have purchased entirely too much pasta, rice and a single can of carrots no-one is ever going to eat.
I wasn’t intending on writing about the “whole-of-society approach, which fosters an inclusive culture of material preparedness involving all relevant actors to security of supply, especially the private sector. It means also helping citizens to become actors of their own resilience, by having resources to ensure a minimum 72-hours self-sufficiency taking into account their specific needs, as underlined in the Preparedness Union Strategy.” But here we are, and I swear it started innocently enough.
A while back we talked to Adam Greenfield about a book he had coming out called “Lifehouses”. I recall having Thoughts™, so I guess thinking happens more often than I admit. Reciprocal care is not a given, nor should it be. Refusal to care (because you’re a selfish twat) is an education problem, a conditioning problem and a narrative problem.
Sharing is caring. Part of the whole-of-society approach to preparedness is being willing to share your coffee crystals with your neighbours when the shit hits the fan.
We need to know our neighbours. A lot of our neighbours. We need to know them because they are interesting specimens, those who chose to stay in the same neighbourhood you did. But also we need to know them because the narrative that we are separate or that we’ll be ok alone is absolute BS.
- Adam Greenfield on the Tao of WAO > https://soundcloud.com/tao-of-wao/s09-episode-4-adam-greenfield
- Lifehouse:Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire > https://www.versobooks.com/products/2536-lifehouse
- The surprising story behind the making of ‘Captain Planet’ > https://grist.org/culture/captain-planet-planeteers-real-story/
- Captain Planet and AI: Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and Heart > https://www.laurahilliger.com/leadership/captain-planet-and-ai-earth-fire-wind-water-and-heart/
- Tipping points > https://grist.org/climate-tipping-points-amazon-greenland-boreal-forest/
Maybe I’m sinning
the less famous “Ecce Homo” by Hieronymus Bosch, a painting in which lots of people at just saying “What the fuck?”
A good portion of my Catholic education comes from the fact that the movie Se7en came out in 1995. Now if you haven’t seen this film, you should know that it’s very dark as it follows a serial killer who murders based on the 7 deadly sins. I don’t just mean thematically dark, I mean I think they saved money on the lighting crew because you need to turn your brightness and contrast way tf up. Also, it has 90s Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow’s head ends up in a box.
Capital sins are the deadly sins and the sin of capital is that rich people are greedy bastards. Greed, fyi, is one of those sins.
“taxing billionaires worldwide at just 2% of their net worth could raise around $250 billion a year. That’s roughly ten times what’s needed to end extreme hunger. ” Kate Jgln
Yes, I did just take a leap from a 1995 serial killer film to taxing billionaires because that is how I roll 😂 But also, these few paragraphs led me all the way to the fact that Thomas Aquinas, responsible for calling them “capital” instead of deadly sins, has a Lesser Festival on the same day as Data Privacy Day! So next January 28th, let’s all celebrate good ol’ St Thomas Aquinas while also explaining to the German government that they probably shouldn’t process jackshit using Palantir because, like, your 20th century service agreement contracts are meaningless to Peter Thiel and the CIA. Jesus.
- Survival of the Greediest > https://thenoosphere.substack.com/p/survival-of-the-greediest
- The Politics of Humiliation > https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
- (how it started) Germany raises red flags about Palantir’s big data dragnet > https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/germany-raises-red-flags-about-palantirs-big-data-dragnet/
- (how it’s going) Constitutional complaint against Palantir deployment in Bavaria > https://www.heise.de/en/news/Constitutional-complaint-against-Palantir-deployment-in-Bavaria-10497712.html
- International Civil Society’s Tech Stack is in Extreme Danger > https://www.thedissident.news/international-civil-societys-tech-stack-is-in-extreme-danger/
Maybe I need help
My god. Some of it is SO STUPID isn’t it!? I swear my eyes about rolled out of my head multiple times this week.
What’s been happening in your brain lately? What are you working on? What are you doing today? Hit reply, tell me some stuff, and if you haven’t watched Jon Stewart’s response to Stephen Colbert’s show being canceled, do that too.
featured image is the Seven Deadly Sins and the Last Four Things, also by Bosch.