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A thoughtful, inquisitive, off the beaten path weekly newsletter. Focused on technology in society, signals of changes, and prospective futures. (by @inevernu)
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A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
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No.213 —Why Christopher Alexander Still Matters ⊗ The Future of Sustainability ⊗ The Cleanest Way to Address the Crisis ⊗ Belonging, care and repair ⊗ The miserable lives of cyborg truck drivers ⊗ Peek into the future ⊗ Solar 3.0
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🇮🇩 🚲 👏🏼 Jakarta’s Transit Miracle. “Cycling is up 500% across Jakarta (2019 to 2020), and in certain parts of the city, a whopping 1,000%. In late 2019 Transjakarta—the city’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system—hit a landmark 1M riders per day1”
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🇹🇷 🇬🇷 🤩 “Thanks in part to their work, most historians now believe that the city uncovered at Hisarlik is the Troy Homer wrote about, and that a war or series of wars did in fact play out between the Mycenaean Greeks and Anatolians here around 1180 B.C.”
smithsonianmag.com
It wasn’t just a legend. Archaeologists are getting to the bottom of the city celebrated by Homer nearly 3,000 years ago
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😍 📸 🔬 🍄 Macro Photos by Barry Webb highlight the spectacular diversity of slime molds. “...the often imperceptible details of small slime molds, capturing the specimen’s unique characteristics with striking detail.”
thisiscolossal.com
South Bucks, U.K.-based photographer Barry Webb favors the shimmering, gelatinous, and iridescent growths that sprout from decaying wood and plant material. His macro shots magnify the often imperc...
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😍🤩🇨🇭🏔🗺 “Experts in shaded relief, a technique for illustrating a mountain so that it appears three-dimensional. Their skills and creativity also help them capture consequences of the thawing permafrost, like landslides, shifting crevasses, new lakes…”
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No.212 — Not soon enough ⊗ On floating upstream ⊗ This is the reason Demis Hassabis started DeepMind ⊗ @tomcritchlow, @undermanager, and some promising long reads
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😍 🇳🇱 🎨 Vermeer Scenius FTW! “Contrary to popular belief, Johannes Vermeer was not a genius working in isolation. He was one of a network of Dutch artists who excelled in painting scenes of everyday life and drew inspiration from each other’s work.”
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🤩 🌊 🦪 “Ropes of seaweed, kelp, and other sea vegetables are first strung close to the surface, where they can suck up the sunlight needed to fuel their rapid growth…” (An Aside from No.211, @freethinkmedia)
freethink.com
These simple seafood farms are on their way to healing 1,000,000 acres of damaged oceans by 2030 - while creating food and jobs.
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No.211 — This issue ended up being about futures, futures, futures with articles by @audreywatters, @teresainescruz and @alexandra4casts, and @thejaymo for @solarpunklitmag.
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No.210 — Featuring articles on world-building, imagining other futures, solarpunk, and the astonishingly hyperconnected. By @Alex_Danco, @Chiaradileone, @andrewdhudson interviewed by @solarpunklitmag, and @maureenmkearney.
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No.209 — Featuring articles on ambiguity, complexity, cybernetics, and more by @aworkinglibrary, @simonsarris, @DarkMatter_Labs, @bryanboyer interviewing Molly Wright Steenson, and @neilredding.
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No.208 — AI & the future of civilization ⊗ Rethinking labels: the origins of Metalabel ⊗ Of pods, squads, crews & gangs ⊗ Magic carpets ⊗ From cyberpunk to solarpunk ⊗ False futurism
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No.207 — How to develop a planetary consciousness ⊗ Why you can’t rebuild Wikipedia with crypto ⊗ Because your algorithm says so ⊗ Okorafor, Palmer, and Gibson
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To understand what we are—and should be—building, we need to look beyond Snow Crash: "The metaverse is a new word for an old idea," from @feraldata in @techreview via @sentiers (Plus- the Teddy Bear)
roughlydaily.com
metaverse, virtual reality, Second Life, Genevieve Bell, technology, philosophy, history, history of ideas, history of technology, Great Exhibition, Worlds Fair, White City, midway, Coney Island,...
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No.158 — Future Schlock ⊗ Solarpunk is a Tumblr vibe. It’s also a practical movement. ⊗ Earth at a cute angle ⊗ Towards the Orthogonal Technology Lab ⊗ Luther and the roots of Nordic welfare states
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No.157 — Other species are essential workers, whose economies enfold our own ⊗ Capitalism is over, if you want it ⊗ After climate alarmism ⊗ Find something to hide as soon as possible; interview with Anne Boyer ⊗ The internet didn’t kill counterculture
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No.156 — Camera obscura: Beyond the lens of user-centered design ⊗ Make way for the ‘one-minute city’ ⊗ Neofeudalism and the digital manor ⊗ Playing chess is an essential life lesson in concentration ⊗ ‘Sci-fi writers on how they build their worlds
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