Newsletter — the Jonah Mailing List#

Subscribing here is one way to become a Sojourner: someone who travels with this work along the narrow path — following the deep-water questions of how to avert accidental nuclear winter — whether or not you ever buy in financially. Walking along costs nothing.

One honest caution up front: for now this is one person writing when there is something worth saying. There is no staff, no budget, and no marketing team. If the work gets funded, one of the first hires will be someone who can help communicate far better. Until then, updates will be rare, brief, and honest — which beats polished and frequent.

Subscribe to the Jonah Mailing List#

If you want to follow only the most pivotal news, you can subscribe to the Jonah Mailing List by sending an email to:

Subscribe: Jonah-mailinglist+subscribe@balospe.com

To leave the list, one click:

Unsubscribe: Jonah-mailinglist+unsubscribe@balospe.com

What to expect:

  • Frequency: Whenever LLoL has something worth saying momentous enough to send an email. Could be weekly, could be months between updates. Depends entirely on capacity and how things evolve.

  • Content: Progress on the site, new formal results, funding milestones, calls for help, the outcome of the live auction, and honest reports on what is working and what is not.

  • Format: Plain text emails. No tracking pixels, no fancy templates.

For comments, questions, or other feedback about the Jonah Mailing List:

Jonah-mailinglist+FF@balospe.com

Three ways to take part#

Subscribing is the Sojourner lane — traveling with the work. Actually joining the 2nd Exodus, that big Walk-About at the end of time to find out who we humans really are, that is the biggest thing you can do. It doesn’t matter whether you’re subscribed to some mailing list. This Jonah-mailing list is merely one of countless offers for serious Sojourners. So, you’re invited to follow along here as well.

If you suffer from a broken email inbox inundated with stuff you can’t process (like I do), then you may wish to support that part of ResearchCity, which aims to find a sustainable solution to the “email problem”, which is merely a microcosm of the BABL confusion “Datageddon” that is also destroying the world elsewhere.

To this end you can become more active by joining any one of these roles:

  • Backer. The voluntary ~$8-per-year Buy-In sustains the review — capped against influence-shopping, with half given away to causes in urgent need. If ~$8 is nothing to you and you can do more, the capped All-Stadia route is explained in the Buy-In page’s cap section.

  • Audit it. Audit the math — a well-grounded true refutation is more useful to this work than a polite agreement.

  • Tell one person who might care. That is often worth more than the money.

Not sure where to start? The Action page collects ideas for what you can do — including ways that need no money.

With sufficient buy in the newsletter becomes a proper communication channel; without it, it stays one person typing when he can.

See also:

  • Buy In — how your ~$8 helps and what it funds

  • Take Action — all the ways you can take part

  • News — the news blog (the latest direct ask lives here)