#PolyCrisis
The Persian Polycrisis Unfolds
One cannot hit a hole this big on global trade and expect to get away with it

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The Persian Polycrisis Unfolds
One cannot hit a hole this big on global trade and expect to get away with it
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com
November 1, 2026 at 8:46 AM
World temperature anomalies 01.11.2026

Arctic SUPERSTAR today
Central 🇺🇸
NW 🇨🇦
Scandinavia + West Russia
Central Australia

Deep 🥶🥶
East & FE Russia
NE China

#ClimateCrisis
November 1, 2026 at 8:27 AM
The war on Iran is a war on global energy and food production, and while a flare-up in hostilities could certainly make the crisis much, much worse, the slow grind is already working ‘as it should.’

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The Persian Polycrisis Unfolds
One cannot hit a hole this big on global trade and expect to get away with it
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com
November 1, 2026 at 7:30 AM
in general, I think basic musicianship for an elective class is relatively insulated from The Tech Polycrisis, because the people who tend to take it for easy credits aren't smart or clever enough to fabricate the work without being coerced to follow your bullshit
November 1, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I don't like framing the polycrisis as a cluster of "wicked problems" because most are relatively straightforward, or at least 95% of them are. For the last 5% we're very clever when motivated. Eg framing the climate crisis as a wicked problem is a fossil carbon industry disinformation tactic.
October 31, 2026 at 11:41 PM
6. Sigue el lento desgaste.

El Hechizero Honesto sigue analizando la crisis energética o, como en esta ocasión la «policrisis» generada por la situación en Asia Occidental.
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The Persian Polycrisis Unfolds
One cannot hit a hole this big on global trade and expect to get away with it
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com
October 31, 2026 at 1:05 PM
“Once a climate project, electrification is now a geopolitical insurance policy.”

Dawn of the Electric World Order
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Dawn of the Electric World Order | The Polycrisis
Global shockwaves from the war on Iran
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October 31, 2026 at 12:58 PM
October 31, 2026 at 11:35 AM
been a bit slow with polycrisis and coding but after tomorrow i'll feel a bit less burnt out from drawtober i think (it's been really fun and good practical experimentation but yeah kinda feeling the burnout now lol).

Funds are pretty thin rn, esp considering the van's insurance comes out in a […]
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October 31, 2026 at 1:59 AM
It's the same everywhere. The liberal party that is better at administering the economy is also better at wrecking the climate because it's a growth problem, not a regulatory problem.

I see the polycrisis solving itself through collapse. I plan for that future.
October 30, 2026 at 9:13 PM
What Will Chicago Look Like in 100 Years? Planning Agency Plots Out Region's Water, Energy, Infrastructure Needs
Northeastern Illinois is facing mounting challenges as the region sees an uptick in severe weather, an aging population and evolving technological needs. That trifecta is what the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) calls the “polycrisis.” In response, the group has created a roadmap in an effort to help Chicago and the surrounding area prepare for those problems for the next 100 years. The Century Plan, which is still in the preview phase, is akin to the 1909 Plan of Chicago that sought to preserve public assets like the lakefronts and forest preserves. CMAP intends to have a final plan by October 2027. The agency has identified five grand challenges it seeks to address: transportation, water, the electric grid, housing and open space. “The problems that we’re seeing today aren’t problems that one community or multiple communities can solve on their own,” said Erin Aleman, executive director of CMAP. “It’s really the collective impact that I think we’re going to need to be thinking about in order to address the systems that are going to set us up for success for the next century.” Among the concerns outlined by the agency are the region’s future water supply and growing demands...
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October 30, 2026 at 8:10 PM
The Persian Polycrisis Unfolds: One cannot hit a hole this big on global trade and expect to get away with it thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-persia...
The Persian Polycrisis Unfolds
One cannot hit a hole this big on global trade and expect to get away with it
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com
October 30, 2026 at 5:27 PM
NEXT WEEK IN #DC:
Writing Lyric Instability in an Age of Polycrisis, a workshop exploring writing with overwhelm that comes with living in a time with overlapping crises. Led by A.D. Lauren-Abunassar on 11/5 at American Poetry Museum. Take $10 off tickets with code LYRICINSTABILITY: bit.ly/4xswE04
The Crooked Witness: Writing Lyric Instability in an Age of Polycrisis with A.D. Lauren-Abunassar
ABOUT THE IN-PERSON WORKSHOPThe Crooked Witness: Writing Lyric Instability in an Age of PolycrisisFrench philosopher Edgar Morin and Anne-Brigitte Kern coined…
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October 30, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Macro context for AI:
- The new space race (basically Musk vs. China)
- The polycrisis (I'm waiting for DC Comics to use this as a crossover title)
- Cold War 2.0 (US vs. China, and the AI race within)
- Climate change ("weirdly, not talking about it doesn't slow it down")

#AACUAI
October 30, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Well I can recommend his videos on AI and financialization. He talks also about how bad incentive structures led to the current situation and how it's all turning into a Polycrisis of capitalism.
October 30, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Ships take a little bit of time to construct. Economists look at the situation and call it an opportunity for GDP growth because that’s the way they think.

https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-persian-polycrisis-unfolds
The Persian Polycrisis Unfolds
One cannot hit a hole this big on global trade and expect to get away with it
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com
October 30, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Polycrisis means fully embracing the contradictions of liberalism: I demand fully metric, solar time
October 30, 2026 at 3:31 PM
"Just a few examples of where community is a big part of a meaningful response to the polycrisis. I find it hard to think of any problem where community isn't an important part of the answer."

My latest article at Thrivable Scotland.
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Let's stockpile care, not cans
Why "build community" is probably the best answer to most of the problems we face in the polycrisis.
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October 30, 2026 at 2:29 PM
‘Polycrisis—Polyopportunities? Mobilizing Knowledge’

Video is now available from the 22 October Holberg Prize panel discussion at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (@knaw-nl.bsky.social).

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Holberg Prize Panel Discussion: ‘Polycrisis—Polyopportunities? Mobilizing Knowledge’
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October 30, 2026 at 10:13 AM
This commentary presents an overview of the elements that are necessary for a Green New Deal 2.0 in the era of the Polycrisis.

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What Is the Green New Deal 2.0? - Labor Network for Sustainability
The Green New Deal 2.0, like earlier Green New Deals, is a project to abolish the extraction and burning of fossil fuels while rapidly expanding equality, justice, and wellbeing. To do that it will ha...
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October 30, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Really, never saw the word polycrisis considered. Misaligned AI - which is what we have now - is part of the polycrisis. A solution to the polycrisis must be build with AI, as we are talking about planetary coordination, but a different kind of AI and architecture
October 30, 2026 at 4:09 AM
"gen z are lazy" mfs when you ask them how we are supposed to deal with the polycrisis of capitalism including climate change, the rise of global fascism, an eternally awful neoliberal economy, political geriontocracy preventing us from making change mentally other than becoming burnt out and sad:
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October 30, 2026 at 1:13 AM