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Partial archive of back issues of the weekly newsletter. After a couple of platform changes I’m slowly adding older issues.

Positive sum worlds: remaking public goods ⊗ Everyone should decide how their digital data are used ⊗ Lithium landscapes

Positive sum worlds: remaking public goods ⊗ Everyone should decide how their digital data are used ⊗ Lithium landscapes

The limits of optimization ⊗ How ancient societies reimagined what cities could be ⊗ Parliaments of the Earth

The limits of optimization ⊗ How ancient societies reimagined what cities could be ⊗ Parliaments of the Earth

How to think beyond ourselves ⊗ A messy Utopia is all we might get ⊗ Storytelling and narrative anthropology

How to think beyond ourselves ⊗ A messy Utopia is all we might get ⊗ Storytelling and narrative anthropology

Planetary sapience ⊗ One billion seconds from now ⊗ A lifetime of systems thinking

Planetary sapience ⊗ One billion seconds from now ⊗ A lifetime of systems thinking

Theses on techno-optimism ⊗ Minimal maintenance ⊗ Ecological crises and equitable futures

Theses on techno-optimism ⊗ Minimal maintenance ⊗ Ecological crises and equitable futures

The Ghostchain ⊗ Future Myopia ⊗ The thrilling, dangerous world of language AI

The Ghostchain ⊗ Future Myopia ⊗ The thrilling, dangerous world of language AI

Green Utopias ⊗ The worlds to come ⊗ The NFT funhouse mirror

Green Utopias ⊗ The worlds to come ⊗ The NFT funhouse mirror

Protopia futures framework ⊗ The art of negativity ⊗ We’ll radically transform our cities

Protopia futures framework ⊗ The art of negativity ⊗ We’ll radically transform our cities

Superhistory, not superintelligence ⊗ Think about the future’s past ⊗ Why Generation X will save the web

Superhistory, not superintelligence ⊗ Think about the future’s past ⊗ Why Generation X will save the web

Left alone, together ⊗ The new frontier of belonging ⊗ Can speculative fiction teach us anything in a world this crazy?

Left alone, together ⊗ The new frontier of belonging ⊗ Can speculative fiction teach us anything in a world this crazy?

Appropriate measures ⊗ Stop talking about AI ethics, time to talk about power. ⊗ Tech for superheroes and spacecraft

Appropriate measures ⊗ Stop talking about AI ethics, time to talk about power. ⊗ Tech for superheroes and spacecraft

Robots are animals, not humans ⊗ Democracy, sovereignty, technology, and so called Canada ⊗ The infrastructural power beneath the Internet

Robots are animals, not humans ⊗ Democracy, sovereignty, technology, and so called Canada ⊗ The infrastructural power beneath the Internet