0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, June 24 2026 in Portland, Oregon where the high today is 86f/30c and the high in the U.K. was 97f/36.1c, and yesterday 40 drowning deaths were reported in France over the past week1. So it’s time to re-read Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, or rather the book’s first chapter. Which I intend to never read again anyway, for the right reasons. Events are on hiatus until I get scheduling sorted out. In the meantime, let’s get on with it. 1.0 Things...

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