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cybernetics

Pop goes the Diesel: Energy Market Shock

Energy markets do not merely price fuel. They encode the recurrence structure of civilisation’s dependency on energy. Refinery cycles, shipping delays, seasonal demand, storage constraints, geopolitical tension, and futures speculation appear as price movement, but price is only the visible signal. Beneath it sits a temporal field of repeated dependence. Energy markets are not merely […]

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environment

Heat Dome

Context: The Guardian view on the heat dome – burning through the models These events are truly worrying. What we often do not see, and perhaps by the very nature of cognition and the language(s) through which we reason and communicate, is that there is a unified, globally-integrated system of autocatalytic feedback at work here. […]