A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
No.381 — Large language mistake ⊗ The world lost the climate gamble ⊗ 2026 Trend File ⊗ Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence ⊗ A dam removal and a river’s rebirth ⊗ Lo—TEK Water
No.380 — Decelerationism ⊗ Seeing the unseen ⊗ AI eats the world (again) ⊗ A black fungus healing Chernobyl ⊗ Hidden antibiotic 100x stronger
No.379 — Future of Trust ⊗ VibeThinker outperforms DeepSeek-R1 ⊗ Silos for Sunshine ⊗ Fleshy underbellies of fungi
No.378 — Reimagining the way the world works ⊗ Refusing generative AI in writing studies ⊗ World’s largest Indigenous-led conservation project ⊗ The Mighty Nein
No.377 — The abundance movement’s blind spot ⊗ New Horizons, Common Ground ⊗ We’re doing AI all wrong ⊗ Peatlands as climate regulator ⊗ Narrative String Theory
No.376 — Fungi as your Futurist ⊗ Offshoring automation ⊗ Solid state batteries for electric vehicles ⊗ Fast and tiny probes for interstellar travel
No.375 — Future Risks Report ⊗ AI for scientific discovery is a social problem ⊗ Mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution ⊗ Codex Atlanticus
No.374 — Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble ⊗ Invest in your expeditionary teams ⊗ Young people in China are embracing AI therapy ⊗ The Evolving Doughnut
No.373 — At The Edge of Here ⊗ The Next Four Years ⊗ There will always only be one Jane Goodall ⊗ The cross-section king
No.372 — What’s guiding our Regenerative Futures? ⊗ The way we think about the future needs to change ⊗ AlphaEarth tracks Earth’s changes ⊗ England’s ice-age ghost ponds
How we research, write, and read with AI—or not. Some tricks and recommended apps and services to leverage AI as a thinking assistant.
No.371 — Why 95% of AI commentary fails ⊗ Designing futures you can live in ⊗ AI water usage at data centers ⊗ “Solarize everything we possibly can” ⊗ Warsaw opens metro station “express” library
No.370 — It’s time to work different ⊗ Paths to better thinking ⊗ The Weight of Time ⊗ The hot air factory ⊗ The first evidence of a take-off in solar in Africa
