Imran Ali
@_imranx
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{Cofounder: @carbonimagineer + @LSx + @impacthubBD; Fellow of @theRSAorg; Writing, curating & scouting emerging tech; INTP} …formerly “@imran” before a SIMjack!
WeYo, UK
Joined February 2023
"In his vision, our endless seeking makes us human and therefore holy…"
yalereview.org
Bilge Ebiri explores filmmaker Terrence Malick’s vision of grace and his far-ranging influence on American cinema.
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"That we live within this system, and the system lives within us. We carry its iron in our blood and its stardust in our bones, and its strength is our strength because we are it."
themarginalian.org
“My foothold is tenon’d and mortis’d in granite… and I know the amplitude of time,” wrote Walt Whitman, knowing what stone teaches about trusting time. It tempers your sorrows to …
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"…the future of AI is a political field. It belongs not to those who warn most loudly of gods or monsters, but to publics that should have the moral right to democratically govern the technologies that shape their lives." https://t.co/QSI7E2dYyg
noemamag.com
Today’s tech “prophets” push a narrative that God-like artificial superintelligence is inevitable, and only they can ensure humanity’s safety from their creations.
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"…the internet encourages us to see the past as a soup of content that mixes an infinite variety of times and places; our immersion is so complete that it inhibits our historical sensibility and ability to maintain a strong sense of temporal difference."
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"…fragmented cultural system cannot satisfy the human demand for meaning, identity, belonging, and status."
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Thrilled to announce the launch of VEILED.Reality, our contribution to @bradford2025's Artist-Led Awards. An interactive design fiction on the future of hijabs - think smart veils + "shroud" computers ;) Download our preview episode at https://t.co/mngF5tYXPa
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"It is all so improbable, this wild and wondrous world, against all we know about the universe. And yet here it is, and here we are, set on it to know that we are dying and live anyway, and love anyway."
themarginalian.org
You wouldn’t have bet on it, this battered rock orbiting a star from the discount bin of the universe, you wouldn’t have bet that it would bloom mitochondria and music, that it would mu…
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"We are all made of stars. And once you start thinking in deep time, it's hard to see anything including yourself as separate. You start to realise that conscious life, you, me, all of us, is how the universe observes itself." https://t.co/v6tnd1FgjI
thegreatsimplification.com
In this episode, Nate weaves personal reflections into an exploration of the human predicament, unpacking a series of chronological insights that have reshaped his worldview. What began years ago as...
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“Data is now a sovereign substance, something over which and from which sovereignty is claimed. Cloud platforms take on roles traditionally performed by modern states, crossing national borders and oceans. Meanwhile, states morph into cloud platforms.”
noemamag.com
The emergence of virtual territories will reshape geopolitics.
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"…colonialism profoundly disrupted local knowledge systems – and the cultural and intellectual foundations upon which they were built – by severing ties to land, language, history and social structures."
aeon.co
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
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"Parking lots, parade floats, dead ends, second chances. We were always almost—almost boomers, almost millennials, almost grown up before the world caught fire."
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“I never expected it to start talking about asylum and asking for help almost whispering, like it was hiding from someone.” https://t.co/iarRX6MEU6
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“…we learn about the math and computing ideas they are embedding in their crafts, and create an interface that makes those available as “heritage algorithms.”
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"We probably won’t go back to DVDs on shelves, but the spirit’s the same: taking care of the media you love, trading files, building collections, sharing culture hand-to-hand (or URL-to-URL). The internet started as a place for that."
protein.xyz
How streaming’s failures reawakened digital rebellion – turning piracy from a crime into an act of self-defence.
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"…tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data…"
972mag.com
To secure Project Nimbus, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and tip Israel off if a foreign court demands its data.
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"With new cameras on the market like the Pohflepp Poptically Blind Camera BDR/X, travellers can now conjure images of exotic destinations without ever leaving their homes."
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"The web isn’t just a channel anymore; it’s a living thing. It hums, glitches, grows back — something fragile, vital, alive. It’s an ecosystem"
protein.xyz
Once an open ecosystem, the web has become overgrown with ads and algorithms. To survive, it needs care – not code.
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"From a simple mixture of silica, ash, and lime, they’ve somehow managed to breathe life into the inert— to magnify the animate wonders of our world, and to catalogue its variety and the diversity of its forms."
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“…those “stories” don’t have to be prose. They can be prototypes, experiences, systems. Whatever form shapes our understanding and opens our imagination.” https://t.co/1otY4A9k1z
#designfiction
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"…remembered less for technical mastery than for the sensibility that guides decisions. Taste shows up in whom they hire, the work they create, the details they insist upon. These may seem minor on their own, but together they shape culture and identity."
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