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David Korowicz

@davidkorowicz.bsky.social
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Physicist and human systems ecologist working on global systemic and catastrophic risk, integrated risk and preparedness. Cheerier in person. Website: www.korowiczhumansystems.com

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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This was a opening slide to a presentation I gave this morning. We are in existential trouble.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Free piece just released. Marco Rubio called on tolerant, democratic, liberal Europe to destroy itself and embrace a Trump-like future. He received a standing ovation and we are told some people are reassured. If so, Europe will deserve everything coming its way. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Rubio Calls For The End Of A Tolerant, Democratic Europe And The Crowd Goes Wild
Just over an hour ago, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for the end of a tolerant, democratic Europe and its break-up into a disparate group of smaller, Trumpist states, and the Europeans in t...
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
There are real issues with US admin retaliation with EU taking on X. But giving in only re-enforces the stated Social media/US admin wish to undermine the EU. The only real response is a collective one, and it shouldn't triangulate, it needs to go hard. Fair play to Sanchez.
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Worthwhile wisdom from Richard Heinberg
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Interested in systemic risk/ polycrisis/ collapse, and how to respond/prepare? This is the place to be! Glad to be making a contribution. @thinkorswim.bsky.social worldadaptationforum.org
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World Adaptation Forum 2026 - Facing Polycrisis
Conference on Our Future Clearly and Without Illusions - 23-24. April 2026 / Budapest
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“The scenario is not so far from that deservedly famous line of Margaret Atwood’s: men fear women laughing at them. Women fear men killing them, because she dared to laugh at him.”
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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
All you ever wanted to know about emergency planning. On new #RTEBrainstorm @researchireland.ie podcast, Ronan Kelly talks to Caroline McMullan @dublincityuni.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social & Mark Maguire @maynoothuniversity.ie about how you plan for the unplannable www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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All you ever wanted to know about emergency planning
From pandemics and cyberattacks to terrorism and power blackouts, the A to Z on planning for the unplannable
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Really looking forward to reading this!
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Congratulations, John! Well deserved,
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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk @cser.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
📢 7 days to go! A reminder that the funding deadline for the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience is 2nd December 2025. Find out more about the different funding options available on our website: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...
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Funding - CSER
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
"For a decade, Russia has been seeking to divide Europe and America, to undermine NATO and weaken the transatlantic alliance. This peace plan, if accepted, will achieve that goal."
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I haven't seen such a clear and direct articulation of where the US is going from sitting senator (though she's just in the door). www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUO...
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Senator Slotkin Delivers Speech on Trump's Authoritarian Playbook
YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thank you, Elaine.
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
No surprise here, The Line 'undone by the laws of physics and finance", which is pretty similar to what will undo our civilization.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Euractiv's @claudiemoreau.bsky.social on our complaint to the European Commission against Ireland's appointing ex-Meta lobbyist as its new Data Protection Commissioner www.euractiv.com/news/complai...
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Complaint targeting Ireland over privacy watchdog's independence sent to Commission | Euractiv
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties takes formal action questioning the process that led to an ex-Meta lobbyist landing a top privacy oversight job
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The question of this moment is whether Europe will be a bastion of democratic resilience or a vassal. My piece in Tech Policy Press. www.techpolicy.press/europe-isnt-...
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Europe Isn’t Weak—It Just Pretends To Be. Here’s How to Fix That. | TechPolicy.Press
Europe must reclaim digital sovereignty through three levers: politics, policing, and procurement, writes Johnny Ryan.
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Looking forward to reading this.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This is the third story in the past week detailing how natural carbon sinks are starting to falter. We don’t know nearly enough about how these tipping points could play out, but the potential for genuinely terrifying outcomes should be obvious by now. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds
Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
NEW systemic risk tool STEER launches today! STEER is a guidance framework that helps you ask the right questions about #SystemicRisks and spot gaps in current approaches, especially as tipping points are a plausible near-term reality. Great work by my @asranetwork colleagues. steer.asranetwork.org
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STEER - Systemic Tool to Explore and Evaluate Risks
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2025
President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
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French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Reminding me of Turkmenbasy (Saparmurat Niyazov), the post-soviet dictator, with a deep love for himself and gold!!
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
This is a thing we need!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/09/2025
"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too." Read Gisela Salim-Peyer: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t
Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Resilience @resilience.org · 23/09/2025
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Peak Oil for Gen Z: Seven Questions and Answers for a New Generation
Peak oil calls on us to imagine a lower-energy future and to start adapting now. It’s a game-changer, and a life-changer.
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
l'économie, C'est Moi!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/09/2025
On modern autocracies. With Brad Carr youtu.be/mqXOLNnqoeA?...
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How Dictators Really Control the World I Anne Applebaum
YouTube video by Brad Carr
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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
There's plenty of blame to go around, incl. the failing EPA licensing system which failed to prevent the repeated pollution events which would undoubtedly have weakened the resilience of any wildlife in the river,making them more vulnerable to whatever pollutant ultimately caused the huge fish kill.
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Cos Finland is a serious country. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Finland is ready for the next crisis, with stockpiled food and 72-hour kits – Europe should be too | Miika Ilomäki
The next pandemic or geopolitical shock could be close at hand. To look after our people, we’re looking after our supply chains, agriculture and fuel reserves, says Miika Ilomäki of Finland’s National...
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The intensification and interaction of global crises, and their impact on economic stability and function means that it's very unlikely that these passengers will ever materialize (irrespective of any climate policy.) Better putting efforts into national resilience and preparedness.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Precisely the question I keep asking myself: 'It begs the question: what on earth is the point of the EPA licensing regime if companies – in broad daylight, visible to us all – repeatedly breach the rules meant to protect our fragile rivers?' www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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EPA licensing rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached
Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I'm sure he's up to no good, but would be very curious to know who he's up to no good with.
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Well done, John! Have begun the excellent book- got me reflecting on Irish agricultural change over the last 60 years (and summers with my farmer godfather in Kildare in the 70's). Thanks also for the opportunity to re-connect with said crowd.
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
If they did, Bragg would be paired with an unfunny comedian to help the medicine go down.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Looking forward to visiting Limerick next Wednesday evening to take part in a public interview in O’Mahony’s Bookstore to mark the launch of my new book - copies on display already!
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
My be of interest in the wider context of the polycrisis- Brexit, Systemic Risk, and a Warning for a Changing World (2019) www.resilience.org/stories/2019...
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Brexit: Systemic Risk and a Warning
Seen from this perspective, it is likely that we are severely underestimating the potential for large-scale systemic risks.
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Pleased to share our new @ASRA Network paper in Nature Communications. Focuses on 2 past food-energy crises 2 show how existing RM approaches need an upgrade for our global polycrisis. We present a new framework to assess interconnected risks and crises. Read the paper: www.doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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A systemic risk assessment methodological framework for the global polycrisis - Nature Communications
This paper proposes a framework to assess systemic risks that compound and cascade within and between systems. This emphasizes political economy and transformations, as well as trans-disciplinarity an...
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Space! Nuclear! Moon! As the integration and continuity of civilisation begins to de-stabilize, such grand projects are the unconscious stories we tell of our own starry greatness to protect us from confronting the chasm opening beneath our feet. However, it's a particularly f**king stupid example.
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social Nice people doing great work on global systemic risk, if your looking for an interesting job! However, i suspect an outbreak of worrying optimism "solutions for a healthy, just, and resilient world. "😉
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
EU: launches new integrative Stockpiling & Medical Countermeasures Strategies, as part of the Preparedness Union Strategy, "ensuring continuity of essential goods & lifesaving medical supplies at all times..." #societalresilience civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories...
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EU Stockpiling and Medical Countermeasures Strategies to strengthen crisis readiness and health security
The European Commission launches today two initiatives under its Preparedness Union agenda: an EU Stockpiling Strategy and a Medical Countermeasures Strategy. Both are designed to improve access to es...
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Back from @ASRA Symposium on systemic risk. Ran a workshop- "Can We Prepare for Catastrophic Systemic Failure? An Interactive Exercise." Hard to imagine another symposium running such a topic (irreversible fast collapse of civilization) coupled with such high-level, policy-relevant participants.
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It's been a great to give a workshop/scenario/exercise at the #ASRA Currents of Change Symposium near Paris. Can't imagine another forum that would host such a topic, and bring together such informed + relevant participants: Can We Prepare for Catastrophic Systemic Failure? An interactive exercise.
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I’m looking forward to @ASRA Network’s Currents of Change symposium, the first transdisciplinary, global symposium dedicated to action on systemic risk. More here: www.asranetwork.org/news/current...
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JUNE 2025: Currents of Change: New Horizons in Systemic Risk
ASRA presents Currents of Change: New Horizons in Systemic Risk—the first transdisciplinary, global symposium dedicated to action on systemic risk.
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David Korowicz @davidkorowicz.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I'd bet euro28 billion of my own money that this penalty will never have to be paid. Reasonable likelihood the global economy will have been so destabilized by then that anthropogenic emissions will have collapsed.
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