Kestrel

Remember those headlines about "90% of snow crabs mysteriously vanish" from a while back?

:desolate:

tl;dr water was too warm which requires more energy (food) for them to sustain themselves, plus too many of them from a previous population boom

What do people hear when they cautiously pop that CD in? What's written on it?

I'm thinking something either seemingly benign like a season of Blowback, or an increasingly provocative mixtape interspersed with Parenti clips

I'll be in town but wasn't planning on going. Don't dox yourself but someone should pepper the convention with Hexbear stickers to promote the site lol

Try to think of something advanced but theoretically possible that would rapidly proliferate. No weapons.

My first thought was some kind of farm tech leading to a second agricultural revolution, allowing AES countries to thrive despite sanctions. Some leap forward in permaculture or vertical farms or whatever.

Another idea was a breakthrough in cryptography makings comms be completely anonymous, giving insurgent movements a more even playing field.

Bringing about international socialism by selling school for chiapas coffee to rich old people

Just learned that one of my partner's coworkers has a kid named Atlas