Seen in → No.65
- Greta Thunberg, 16, urges leaders to act on climate. She is also on 🔥, telling truth to power and not flinching. Good work but I’m also wondering what might be the actual impact… Adults keep saying: “We owe it to the young people to give them hope.” But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.
- The Big Here and Long Now. We don’t yet, however, live in The Long Now. Our empathy doesn’t extend far forward in time. We need now to start thinking of our great-grandchildren, and their great-grandchildren, as other fellow-humans who are going to live in a real world which we are incessantly, though only semi-consciously, building. But can we accept that our actions and decisions have distant consequences, and yet still dare do anything?
- I Cut Google Out Of My Life. It Screwed Up Everything
- AI, the law, and our future
- Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Package and Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones
- Green New Deal: Why Democrats Will Struggle to Pass It.
- Denmark to build 9 renewable energy-producing islands south of Copenhagen.
- Biodiversity thrives in Ethiopia’s church forests. “Ecologists are working with the nation’s Tewahedo churches to preserve these pockets of lush, wild habitat.”
- What an interesting mix of people and topics! The event Hours Beirut is organized by people from Beirut, Athens, Malmö, and Stockholm. “An intimate three-day conference exploring how maintenance and the act of maintaining can be understood in the context of innovation and creativity.“
- The 25 Most Influential Movie Scenes of the Last 25 Years. I’m not enough of a movie buff to judge the selection but certainly lots of iconic scenes and memories.
- Sunshine Considered Harmful? Perhaps Not. Vitamin D now looks like the tip of the solar iceberg. Sunlight triggers the release of a number of other important compounds in the body, not only nitric oxide but also serotonin and endorphins. It reduces the risk of prostate, breast, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers. It improves circadian rhythms. It reduces inflammation and dampens autoimmune responses. It improves virtually every mental condition you can think of.