List: Environment, Social, Technology & Doomerism | Curated by Patrick Metzger

Jan 14, 2025
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Environment, Social, Technology & DoomerismRants mostly
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The Bad Influence
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Patrick Metzger
AI and the Hardcoding of MediocrityAI may be the first technology to go from annoying novelty to existential threat without any intervening period of utility
Jan 14
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Jan 14
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The Bad Influence
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Patrick Metzger
Dear America: Your President is An AssholeAnd he bullies Canada at his peril
Dec 27, 2024
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Dec 27, 2024
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The Bad Influence
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Patrick Metzger
Nowhere is Safe From The Climate CrisisClimate change is coming to your house
Aug 25, 2024
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Aug 25, 2024
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Contemplate
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Patrick Metzger
My Teenage Prediction About AI Was Terrifyingly AccurateI wrote a poem as I was failing typing class and now it’s coming true
Oct 1, 2024
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Oct 1, 2024
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The Bad Influence
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Patrick Metzger
Why Doomsday Prepping is a Waste of TimeThe apocalypse won’t be as much fun as Hollywood promised
Jul 21, 2024
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Jul 21, 2024
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The Haven
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Patrick Metzger
How AI Ruined Star Wars For MeWhat are all those people doing on the Death Star anyway, shovelling coal into the boilers?
Jul 13, 2024
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Jul 13, 2024
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Blow Your Stack
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Patrick Metzger
Dammit America, You’re Better Than ThisTime to look for a new Democratic candidate
Jun 28, 2024
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Jun 28, 2024
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The Bad Influence
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Patrick Metzger
Fashionable Trump Followers Are Packing Branded SwitchbladesOrder now and own the libs by this time next week
Apr 15, 2024
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Apr 15, 2024
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The Bad Influence
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Patrick Metzger
Biden’s Doing a Good Job and He’s Still Going to Lose To a LunaticPerception is everything
Mar 9, 2024
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Mar 9, 2024
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The Narrative Arc
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Patrick Metzger
My Customer Experience Is That I’ve Been on Hold for Fifty-Seven MinutesI don’t think they value my call
Feb 23, 2024
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Feb 23, 2024
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The Bad Influence
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Patrick Metzger
A Second Trump Presidency Would Mean the End of CivilizationRight-wing plan would sabotage any attempts to combat the climate crisis
Feb 11, 2024
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Feb 11, 2024
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The Bad Influence
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Patrick Metzger
Trump, Billionaires, Climate Disaster, and Aliens: This is No Run-of-the-Mill DystopiaWe’re in a Kurt Vonnegut satire and here’s how it ends
Jan 12, 2024
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Jan 12, 2024
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The Bad Influence
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Patrick Metzger
Some Larcenous Prick Stole My Credit Cards at the Gym and It’s Part of a Bigger ProblemHow long can a society function if we’ve lost our will to thwart pervasive antisocial behaviour?
Dec 26, 2023
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Dec 26, 2023
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The Bad Influence
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Patrick Metzger
What I’ve Learned From the Insane Sponsors On Glenn Beck’s News SiteSecret government warning goes viral! They are coming for your assets!
Dec 11, 2023
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Dec 11, 2023
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The Bad Influence
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Patrick Metzger
New Studies Say the Climate Crisis is Worse Than We ThoughtWe’re venturing into uncharted territory
Nov 14, 2023
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Nov 14, 2023
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𝐀𝐈 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐬.𝐢𝐨
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Patrick Metzger
Sorry, Writers, AI Training On Your Work Isn’t PlagiarismIt’s much worse than that
Oct 23, 2023
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Oct 23, 2023
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The Bad Influence
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Patrick Metzger
Top Ten Songs To Listen To While The World Is EndingToe-tapping anthems celebrating the collapse of everything
Oct 8, 2021
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Oct 8, 2021
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The Narrative Arc
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Patrick Metzger
If Women Are Wary of Men, There’s Good Reason For ItWe can’t go backwards
Sep 28, 2023
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Sep 28, 2023
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Blow Your Stack
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Patrick Metzger
Rupert Murdoch Steps Down, Complains Unironically About Elites Trying to Silence HimMedia mogul accuses non-Fox media of being too political
Sep 24, 2023
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Sep 24, 2023
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Contemplate
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Patrick Metzger
Has Science Discovered God?We may all be part of a living, thinking, creative universe
Jul 18, 2023
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Jul 18, 2023
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