A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
No.404 — Le mal du siècle, bis ⊗ AI Resist List and the Luddite Lab ⊗ Microcosm Industries ⊗ Narrative inheritance ⊗ Books in an age of AI ⊗ The near-term future of climate adaptation ⊗ The Neanderthal dentist
No.403 — Being harvested by the future ⊗ The impact of AI-generated text ⊗ Paris staged a huge stress test for extreme heat ⊗ Mesmerizing cat-5 super typhoon
No.402 — AI learns language from skewed sources ⊗ We can always do something about the future ⊗ The hidden Sungemite archipelago ⊗ Where Europe’s population is shrinking ⊗ Rogue One: The Andor Cut
No.401 — Why are London’s top galleries full of laptops? ⊗ This is how we get moral AI companies ⊗ Space to Breathe ⊗ The zero-days are numbered ⊗ A complete guide to the AMOC ⊗ The GDT Nature Photographer of the Year
No.400 — Extrapolated futures archive ⊗ The dissonance is expanding ⊗ South Korea to spur a renewables revolution ⊗ Eye contact with a humpback whale
No.399 — The term “AGI” is almost useless at this point ⊗ Frugal AI ⊗ Design futures in infrastructure ⊗ The AI revolution in math has arrived ⊗ First Indigenous Group to ban data centers from its land ⊗ A macro array of colorful slime molds
No.398 — A scathing LLM YouTuber ⊗ “We ran a business LARP” ⊗ Making Sense of Slow AI ⊗ Solar power and chili peppers ⊗ Skeleton of Three Musketeers hero d’Artagnan
No.397 — Ending the AI arms race ⊗ Insight and future-fit decisions ⊗ Better AI creative collaborators ⊗ Progressive Paris ⊗ The asteroid ryugu and the building blocks of life
No.396 — Tough week for Zuck ⊗ Learning in Motion ⊗ The people pushing back on AI ⊗ A wind-powered tumbleweed ⊗ Books, plants and playgrounds
No.395 — Possibilities literacy ⊗ Proof ⊗ Energy falling below $100 ⊗ Roots and the meaning of life
No.394 — Jobs below the AI ⊗ Seneca Falls Convention · 2048 ⊗ Manufacturing + AI ⊗ The psychological distance to climate disaster ⊗ GPS jamming
No.393 — The future belongs to the creative generalists ⊗ Media’s bad idea with Kalshi ⊗ Reimagining realism ⊗ Labor market impacts of AI ⊗ World record for fusion plasma ⊗ Apocalypse no
No.392 — We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate ⊗ Our emerging planetary nervous system ⊗ A handbook for strategic foresight ⊗ A Cookie for Dario? ⊗ This city turned its rooftops into a climate shield ⊗ “Viking” was a job description
