On the plus side, more Americans are now #learning the fundamentals about how not to govern — especially how not to craft & impose economic #policies.
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“If you want to be part of what’s next, leave your nostalgia at the door" - Futurist Jim Carroll
You need to commit.
Yesterday, or tomorrow?
I know where I'm going. It's in my job description.
Think about it - at this very moment, we’re witnessing a battle playing out everywhere—across boardrooms, governments, industries, at parties and sports events and family get togethers. The battle is being driven by a vainglorious and ill-fated desire to try to take things back to where they were - not to where they are going.
And one of the most important things you need. to do is make your decision - and stick to it - as to where you are headed.
It's a battle of vision vs. nostalgia.
Of strategy vs. sentimentality.
Of building what’s next vs. longing for what was.
It's really not a fair fight.
We’ve reached a point where the familiar is failing - old industries are dying, old skills are becoming irrelevant, old knowledge is going out of date, old jobs are disappearing. In the context of that? New industries, skills, knowledge, jobs - and new opportunities.
It's called disruptive change, and it is very real. The new rule is that older stable ideas aren’t stable. Playbooks that were once reliable aren’t playable. Assumptions and strategies that served the past no longer serve the future. The fact is, the world’s moving faster than our old systems were designed to handle.
And yet—some still cling to the comfort of past success like it’s a security blanket.
But nostalgia is not a strategy. It’s a sedative.
Recessions and disruptions are not the time to shrink your ambition.
They’re a time to reshape it.
So ask yourself: Are you holding onto what used to work—or reaching for what could?
The future doesn’t wait for comfort.
It rewards courage.
#Nostalgia #Future #Change #Innovation #Adaptation #Leadership #Disruption #Vision #Strategy #Reinvention
"Maybe they won't remember our #plundering of their life savings," the kakistocrats are likely thinking.
Cui Bono? Good thing we are going to rollback #ClimateChange work/ improvement
" At least 19 dead after flash flood emergencies across storm-weary South, Midwest
At least 19 weather-related deaths have been reported since the start of the storms, including at least 10 in #Tennessee and others across #Missouri, #Indiana, #Kentucky and #Arkansas."
#Environment #Science #Health #Disaster #Disruption #News #Weather
Current administration priorities, to be nuanced, might not be intended *specifically* to kill a huge number of us and our families, but that is absolutely the consequence of MAGA. #dismantlement #disruption #plunder #privatization #democide #publichealth #health #healthNews #kakistocracy #plutocracy #publicResourcesArePublicGoods #publicGoods #theftOfPublicGoods #theftOfPublicGoodsIsTheirPoint
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NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/06/nih-firings-cancer-immunotherapy-treatment/
China’s not flinching—tariffs hit, they prep stimulus. This isn’t defense, it’s opportunism. A world-changing shift is underway, and Beijing’s on offense. While others react, China rewires the game. Trump plays tic-tac-toe, China plays chess. 
#Geopolitics #Stimulus #Disruption #ChinaMoves #EV
China Discusses Accelerating S...
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@benni
Kann sein dass ich noch immer nicht gross genug denke.
Als die russischen #Oligarchie entstand, war es eine quasi Naturkatastrophe.
Dass man so eine Katastrophe mal eben selbst erzeugt, wäre ich von alleine gar nicht drauf gekommen.
Aber als #Milliardäre kommt man vielleicht auch auf sowas.
BYD’s unstoppable growth continues in Q1 2025 with 990,711 NEVs sold 
️—up 59% YoY! BEVs surged 39% to 416,388 
, PHEVs skyrocketed 76% to 569,710 
, and exports hit a record 206,084 
(+111%!). While Tesla braces for a 10%+ drop 
, BYD keeps charging ahead like a boss 
#BYD #EVs #Disruption #Tesla
BYD sold nearly million passen...
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China’s largest oil company, Sinopec, warns that EVs are set to crash oil demand. China’s oil use already fell in 2024, marking its first decline in two decades. With gasoline demand peaking & EVs surging, fossil fuels are fading faster than expected. The future clearly is electric. #EV #Disruption
China’s EV boom set to push ga...
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Trump’s tariffs were meant to save gas cars—but they might bury them instead. Rising ICE prices, Tesla’s U.S. expansion, and a rush to local EV production could make this the biggest backfire in auto history. The EV revolution just got a boost. Buckle up. #ElectricVehicles #Lithium #BEV #Disruption
Trump’s Tariff Trap: How EVs C...
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Ah, it seems that #Resecurity wished #BlackLock aka #ElDorado a belated Merry Xmas and season's greetings by intruding into their infrastructure.
It's an interesting read.
www.resecurity.comResecurity | Blacklock Ransomware: A Late Holiday Gift with Intrusion into the Threat Actor's Infrastructure
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@kim_harding Yesterday I had a conversation about it and we concluded with the same result: We live in a world now, where the same thing brings us at the same time to hysterical laughter and horror (such guys are sitting at the nuclear weapons).
But it's exactly such a #disruption the fascists want to provoke in other situations: The moment we are stunned, we no longer act. When a red line is dropped, the next, more serious, breach follows.
"You need a vision bigger than you've been told is possible!" - Kat Abughazaleh
That's her phrase, not mine! She's 26-year-old Kat bAbughazaleh, and she's running for Congress. In the middle of her announcement video, she stated: "You need a vision bigger than you've been told is possible!"
I'm always a sucker for a good inspirational phrase - and I can also spot the nascent signs of what might be a major trend early on. This might be one of those moments.
Look, I swear to god I'm not working to turn my daily post into a political journal, but the timing of this video yesterday was just too perfect in light of my post earlier that day about the need for the system to get 'youthanized.'
So what's this post about? It's about what might happen when the social media/influencer generation gets aggressively involved in politics. Later in the video, she said this: “I say it’s time to drop the excuses and grow a fucking spine," And then, "We're focused on meeting constituent needs with one simple rule: What if we didn't suck?"
Talk about message clarity!
Watch the video for yourself, and try and tell me that this might not be the early sign of something happening in US politics right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7OhclGO3CY
And since US politics has a huge impact on whether the future unfolds or not, well, it's in the territory of this daily post. Yesterday, I was listening to The Daily podcast from the New York Times, and one political expert said that the Democrats might be having their own Tea Party moment, what with the anger at aging politicians and all. Maybe this was the moment stuff was thrown in the harbor.
The video is blowing up on social media right now - and no wonder. What we might be seeing right now is the first of a sudden groundswell of today's 20 and 30-year-olds launching themselves into a system that has become geriatric by design
**#Vision** **#Youth** **#Politics** **#Change** **#Influence** **#Future** **#Generation** **#Disruption** **#Leadership** **#Momentum**
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Two #posties deployed to Harray amid delivery disruption - The #Orcadian Online
Two postal workers have been deployed to Harray to “return deliveries to normal” after some residents reported not receiving any letters or parcels for over ten days.
#RoyalMail shared this update with The Orcadian today (Tuesday), amid serious concerns around a lack of #deliveries — and communication regarding the #disruption.
https://orcadian.co.uk/two-posties-deployed-to-harray-amid-delivery-disruption/
The Orcadian Online · Two posties deployed to Harray amid delivery disruption - The Orcadian OnlineTwo postal workers have been deployed to Harray to “return deliveries to normal” after some residents reported not receiving any letters or parcels for over ten days. Royal Mail shared this update with The Orcadian today (Tuesday), amid serious concerns around a lack of deliveries — and communication regarding the disruption. Orkney MSP Liam McArthur […]
""It’s the unknown unknowns that will get you every time!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
On February 12, 2002, United States Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld answered a question at a U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) news briefing about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups. His answer has since answered the lexicon of lore, as many people thought that it was fully intended to shield the department from any sort of criticism.
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones."
His answer, though, was based on what is known as the "Awareness-understanding matrix", which provides that there are known knowns, known unknowns, unknown knows, and unknown unknowns. Complicated but helpful - when you study it, it makes sense. Things we are aware of and understand; things we are aware of but don't understand; things we are not aware of but understand or know implicitly; and then, the things we are neither aware of nor understand.
In that context, later this morning I'll speak to a room full of insurance CEOs and other senior executives from the industry at a major insurance conference. To get ready for the event, I grabbed about 1,500 articles about the latest trends impacting the insurance industry and used Google Notebook to analyze these articles for key bits of insight.
I will be speaking, among many other issues, about the future of insurance risk, and in that context, will impress upon them that it's the "unknown unknowns" they should worry about - the things they are neither aware of nor understand.
What are those unknown unknowns? In a brief moment of inspiration, I fed it this prompt, in effect asking the AI to analyze these 1500 articles and summarize them.
This is what it came back with, which I worked into my slide deck:
"The insurance industry is caught in a whirlwind: climate volatility, liability inflation, data chaos, talent scarcity, and relentless regulatory pressures, all while battling public mistrust and the nagging fear that tomorrow's risks are growing faster than our capacity to cover them”
That pretty much summarizes my slide deck!
Futurist Jim Carroll has spoken at over 200 insurance and risk-related events throughout the years.
**#Uncertainty** **#Risk** **#Insurance** **#Future** **#Unknown** **#Innovation** **#Technology** **#Preparedness** **#Disruption** **#Awareness**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/03/daily-inspiration-the-future-of-insurance-its-the-unknown-unknowns-that-will-get-you-every-time/
In case you missed the great piece on turning the tables on the parasites who are using #disruption to run this whole shooting match, from @pluralistic
“The US companies that could be disrupted thanks to the Trump tariffs are directly implicated in the rise of Trumpism...”
[A SUPER list of #counterdisruption tactics linked out, there]
"That's how you hurt Musk – not by being performatively aghast at his Nazi salutes. You kick that guy right in the dongle...”
pluralistic.netPluralistic: Gandersauce (08 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
L'intelligenza artificiale sta fagocitando il mondo dei content creator, ma nessuno vuole ammetterlo. Non è un'ipotesi, è realtà documentata. Su YouTube i canali AI pubblicano decine di video al giorno, nell'editoria libri generati in 72 ore sbaragliano le vendite degli autori umani, nell'arte le opere sintetiche vincono concorsi. Competiamo contro un'intelligenza che non dorme, non si stanca e migliora esponenzialmente.
#Creatività #Disruption #Futuroprossimo
https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2025/03/content-creator-siete-gia-morti-ma-non-lo-sapete-ancora/
#Tesla unter #Feuer +++ #Corona #Covid19 im #Zweifel | Der #Politicker #TeslaTakedown #TeslaStockCrash #Wuhan #China #Ursache der #Pandemie #BND #Merkel #Scholz #Trump #Teslaboycott #Coronaursache #EU #Customers as #Enemies #TrumpCrash #Disruption
https://derwahlberliner.com/2025/03/12/tesla-unter-feuer-corona-covid19-im-zweifel-der-politicker/