Jesse Hirsh

286: Democracy in the Age of Epistemic War Literacy, Freedom, and the Governance of Intelligence

286: Democracy in the Age of Epistemic War
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285: The Emperor Is Naked and the Machine Is Fluent Literacy as the Missing Prerequisite of Power

285: The Emperor Is Naked and the Machine Is Fluent
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284: Alto Sabotaged by Facebook NIMBYism? Is it even possible to build infrastructure anymore?

284: Alto Sabotaged by Facebook NIMBYism?
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283: OpenClaw and Authority in the Age of Agents Seize The Means of Coordination

283: OpenClaw and Authority in the Age of Agents
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281: Our Thought Dreams Can Now Be Seen Confer.to and Authority as a Design Problem

Talking about confer.to and the need to treat our thoughts as private, which I'm not sure they are anymore...
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280: We're Outside! Posture, Power, and the End of Seated Politics

No meaningful change comes from people sitting in chairs:
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Today's episode looks at the value of agricultural research and given the recent funding cuts and proposed closure of rural research facilities, this is a timely conversation.
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We've got a new podcast that launched this week. The Future Herd is about leadership through collaboration in the agri-food sector. We're on all the podcast platforms, YouTube, and our own website linked as a reply...

279: From Taxpayers to Caretakers Why the Canadian Prairies Are at War With a Fiction

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278: The Delusions of the Disgruntled Taxpayer Authority Is Not Customer Service

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Kevin Bacon and The Great Epstein Retcon Why Power Prefers Confusion to Control

Kevin Bacon and The Great Epstein Retcon
I feel a great unease at the way seemingly smart people have become enmeshed by the trappings of conspiracy while the theft of impending elections takes place for all to witness…
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275: Who Are Canada’s Tech Giants Aligned With? The Canadian Companies Inside America’s Intelligence Stack

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273: Idiot Wind, Capital Flight, and the Weather of Despair Our leaders speak to wealth while the rest of us freeze

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272: Jim Crow for All Understanding The Trump Confederacy

272: Jim Crow for All
While I’ve been employing the 1930s Germany analogy, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it didn’t fit right. Perhaps a better way to understand contemporary America is via the lens of slavery. open.substack.com/pub/metaview...

271: Will Greenland Be Thiel's Moment? Are we missing the significance of this seismic shift?

271: Will Greenland Be Thiel's Moment?
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270: The Algorithm Is the Road Avoiding Another Avro Arrow

This is the second part in a series conceptualizing how the Canadian auto industry could act like a Phoenix and rise from US existential threats to create a new kind of transportation system fueled by participatory policy…
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269: The Future of the Canadian Auto Industry is in the Commons The Commons of Autonomy

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As always, @jessehirsch.bsky.social encourages broad thinking. “What we need to keep, what we need to build, is the capacity to make vehicles without asking for permission.”

269: The Future of the Canadian Auto Industry is in the Commons The Commons of Autonomy

269: The Future of the Canadian Auto Industry is in the Commons
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260: Brampton: The Slur That Sums Up 2025 The Not So Subtle Sign of Canada's Growing Conflict

260: Brampton: The Slur That Sums Up 2025
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258: The Soft Annexation of the Prairies A Crimean Playbook for North America

Further unpacking the hybrid civil war hypothesis by comparing the takeover of Crimea with the political climate in the Canadian prairies…

258: The Soft Annexation of the Prairies
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253: Why Food Should Be Free and Profitable Designing Food Power — Part I

253: Why Food Should Be Free and Profitable
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252: The Collapse of Local Authority The Canary in the Rideau Lakes Council Chamber

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250: The Curious Case of Yves Engler And The Inherent Insularity of Party Politics

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248: Solving the Productivity Paradox The Missing Variable Is Care

248: Solving the Productivity Paradox
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247: Attention, Appetite, and Power A Country That Doesn’t Understand Its Food Has No Future

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“If there is one domain where participation matters—not symbolically but structurally—it is food.”

straightforward read by @jessehirsh.com

#FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty

246: Canada Has No Future Without a New Imagination The Current Failure of Canadian Leadership

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246: Canada Has No Future Without a New Imagination The Current Failure of Canadian Leadership

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245: Are Today’s Militaries Able to Fight Today’s Wars? Not without new leadership, culture, and structure

245: Are Today’s Militaries Able to Fight Today’s Wars?
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I continue with my usual statement that the French would have turned Paris to ashes by now.

Read this. No really read this if you’re Canadian (Americans in the trenches won’t be disappointed either). 👇👇👇