"Games Suck Nowadays"

The looming threat of El Niño

On this episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip and Scooter discuss the looming threat of El Niño and the need to build communal climate resilience. See time stamps below: * 1:20: Defining El Niño and discussing recent updates * 4:00: Should we be scared? * 8:20: All the (climate) solutions are already here * 11:10: Discussing Dip’s the essay * 15:10: What about the AMOC collapse? * 17:25: Dip shares some inspiring community responses * 24:55: What folks often miss when calling for communal climate resilience This conversation is adapted from an essay linked here [https://chaos-and-conviviality.ghost.io/how-to-prepare-for-el-nino/].  Highlighted show notes (for full references/links, see the essay [https://chaos-and-conviviality.ghost.io/how-to-prepare-for-el-nino/]): * El Nino set to return as early as May, impacting global weather patterns, UN weather agency says [https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/el-nino-set-return-early-may-impacting-global-weather-patterns-un-weather-agency-2026-04-24/?ref=chaos-and-conviviality.ghost.io] * The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution from Below [https://archive.org/details/TheSolutionsareAlreadyHere] * A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster  [https://ia800701.us.archive.org/12/items/a-paradise-built-in-hell/A%20Paradise%20Built%20in%20Hell%20The%20Extraordinary%20Communities%20That%20Arise%20in%20Disaster%20by%20Rebecca%20Solnit%20%28z-lib.org%29.pdf?ref=chaos-and-conviviality.ghost.io] * Super El Niño: What it could mean for US weather, global heat and daily life [https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/super-el-ni%c3%b1o-what-it-could-mean-for-us-weather-global-heat-and-daily-life/1880544?ref=chaos-and-conviviality.ghost.io#:~:text=A%20super%20or%20very%20strong%20El%20Ni%C3%B1o%20is%20defined%20when%20those%20temperature%20anomalies%20exceed%202.0%20degrees%20Celsius] * World enters era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ [https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166800?ref=chaos-and-conviviality.ghost.io]

A Libertarian Socialist Response to the Enclosure of the Internet (and Digital Technology in General)

On this episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip and Scooter discuss the re-emerging wave of “bad internet bills” across the United States and the world. Dip explores what organizing against these restrictive internet policies might look like. See time stamps below: 00:00: Introduction to Bad Internet Bills 25:50: The need for popular power in fighting these bills 30:00: Hot Take: Concern around social media addiction is a moral panic 43:15: Technology being used to manipulate genuine social grievances is not new 54:05: How to relate to tech in a helpful/positive direction 1:18:53: With popular power, what could a strategy to push bad on these bills look like? 1:23:00: The importance of genuine accountability in building popular power This conversation is adapted from an essay linked here [https://chaos-and-conviviality.ghost.io/a-libertarian-socialist-response-to-the-enclosure-of-the-internet-and-digital-technology-in-general/].  Highlighted show notes (for full references/links, see the essay [https://chaos-and-conviviality.ghost.io/a-libertarian-socialist-response-to-the-enclosure-of-the-internet-and-digital-technology-in-general/]): * Bad Internet Bills [https://www.badinternetbills.com/] * Blood in My Eye by George Jackson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_in_My_Eye_(book)] * Seeing like a State by James C. Scott [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State] * Low Tech Magazine [https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/] * Egoism and Cooperation [https://medium.com/@dipperdesperado/egoism-and-cooperation-2219f2566782]

Google and Elon Musk Want to Put Data Centers in Orbit. Will that Solve AI’s Contradictions?

On this episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip and Scooter discuss current proposals to put data centers in space, an idea which would seem to be a win-win for communities and data center developers. They analyze the push to adopt "artificial development," what it means for our communities, and how to fight back. See time stamps below: * 16:17: Are there any benefits of AI? * 24:20: Indigeneity and space * 27:38: Data centers in space: good for communities? * 34:00: What might organizing in space look like? * 55:35: AI bubble? Highlighted show notes (for full show notes, see the webpage [https://chaos-and-conviviality.ghost.io/podcast-google-and-elon-musk-want-to-put-data-centers-in-orbit-will-that-solve-ais-contradictions]): * Meet Project Suncatcher, Google’s plan to put AI data centers in space [https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/11/meet-project-suncatcher-googles-plan-to-put-ai-data-centers-in-space/] * In Kenya’s slums, they’re doing our digital dirty work [https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/the-hidden-workers-who-train-ai-from-kenyas-slums/] * How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed [https://washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/how-elon-musks-sci-fi-hyperloop-failed/] * Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, by Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O'Brien [https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/everything-for-everyone?srsltid=AfmBOoqgllD3afyZ-wwAbx4lpbbtIQt1OXww90NZaSVIUbl0oEvPU8Gg] * Circular Vendor Financing in the AI Sector [https://hansenvalueinvesting.medium.com/circular-vendor-financing-in-the-ai-sector-54caba29a6df] (includes graphic mentioned in conversation) * Building the Structure of the New Society Within the Shell of the Old  [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kevin-carson-building-the-structure-of-the-new-society-within-the-shell-of-the-old]

"Games Suck Nowadays"

On this episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip details GamerGate 1.0, and 2.0 and discusses the the linkages between "core gamer" culture and fascism. Dip shares some suggestions on how to combat right-wing influence in gaming through a four-point framework: build, fight, empower, and inspire. This framework, paired with values that see the importance in ending domination, oppression, and other forms of social hierarchy, have the chance to both create better art and steward better communities around that art.  See time stamps below: 10:00: GamerGate 1.0 and 2.0 29:25: Getting past "nostalgia" in gaming 45:10: A framework to move gaming forward Highlighted show notes (for full references/links, see the podcast webpage [https://chaos-and-conviviality.ghost.io/p/b064a5d0-bf7e-4391-acbe-f0c79a088e0d/?member_status=free]): * They Fought for Diversity in Gaming. Then the Abuse Began [https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/video-game-diversity-winning-abuse-1234662368/] * How The Games Industry Failed Black Women [https://youtu.be/7P8vuSw8y3Q] * 'Blood, Sweat, And Pixels': For Designers Of Video Games, It's Always Crunch Time [https://www.npr.org/2017/09/05/547367445/-blood-sweat-and-pixels-review] * The Combahee River Collective Statement [https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Keyword%20Coalition_Readings.pdf]

Trump Delivered A Killing Blow to the Rules-Based Order. Was it Ever Alive to Begin With?

On this episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip analyzes the US government’s move from a mostly “rules-based”, “rational” “management” posture in international policy to something more forceful, using the Trump admin’s “peace plans” for Palestine, Sudan, Western Sahara, and Ukraine, alongside the strong-arming of Venezuela. Dip concludes that liberalism vs. fascism is not a battle between the forces of “good” and “evil”; it is reactionary, statist infighting. Dip wraps up by offering guidance on how our movements can move forward.  See time stamps below: 1:55: Host intros 3:20: Overview 4:00 Palestine 10:00: Sudan  15:45: Western Sahara 21:45: Ukraine 27:10 : Venezuela  29:40: Analysis 39:15: The role of spectacle in fascism    42:20: What does this mean for us? 50:15: Deliberation 52:00: Stigmergy 57:00: Enmeshment 58:45: Why these three things? and reading recommendations  1:05:10: What else? 1:10:45: Dip takes us home This conversation is adapted from an essay linked here [http://chaos-and-conviviality.ghost.io/the-rules-based-order-is-rotting].  Highlighted show notes (for full references/links, see the https://chaos-and-conviviality.ghost.io/sewer-socialism-is-making-a-comeback-but-will-it-save-us/essay [http://chaos-and-conviviality.ghost.io/the-rules-based-order-is-rotting]): * Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown [https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/emergent-strategy/] * Stigmergic Revolution [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kevin-carson-the-stigmergic-revolution] * Intimate Direct Democracy by Modibo Kadalie [https://www.sankofa.com/blank-2/intimate-direct-democracy] * Move Like Mycorrhizae [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarkata-move-like-mycorrhizae]