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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.

The interstitium but not the interstitium. Made with Midjourney.

Invisible Landscapes ⊗ Freeing Ourselves From the Clutches of Big Tech ⊗ Deep in the Wilderness

Francisco de Burgoa Library in Oaxaca, Mexico? By Rafael M. on Unsplash.

AI and Trust ⊗ This Is Your Brain on Books ⊗ Should Synthetic Biology Be the Next Decade’s Big Bet to Tackle Climate Change?

Gray and blue shoreline, Vik, Iceland. By Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash.

Positive climate tipping points ⊗ The battle for AI’s future ⊗ The ‘Georgists’ are out there

Chemin de l’Île-Grandbois, Saint-Casimir, by Mériol Lehmann.

The dangers of our net zero obsession ⊗ The origins of AI’s ideological divide ⊗ Don’t call me an “urbanist”

‘Is your soul missing too?’ Shanghai, China, by Katherine Gu on Unsplash.

Rapid urbanisation and paranormal anxieties in China ⊗ The dragonfly journey ⊗ Sorry we created the Torment Nexus

Person in a space suit and helmet looking out at the moon Europa. Vintage science fiction illustration. With Midjourney.

Space Is Dead ⊗ Work, Life, and Perennials ⊗ Sculpting Consciousness

African political activists & performance artists focused on climate change, with Midjourney.

Seawater’s teeming life may change our own ⊗ Youth Boom in Africa changes the world ⊗ Think computationally about AI

Watercolor illustrations of mushrooms by amateur mycologist Hans Walty.

Unbundling AI ⊗ Why we need utopias ⊗ Freedom from work

The Daniel-Johnson Dam, located 214 km north of Baie-Comeau, Quebec.

Ode to living on the grid ⊗ Can’t tech billionaires learn anything new? ⊗ The polycrisis, explained

Fear of oozification ⊗ Is the web eating itself? ⊗ Why culture has come to a standstill

Fear of oozification ⊗ Is the web eating itself? ⊗ Why culture has come to a standstill

Apocalypse-proof, 33 Thomas Street in New York City.

Against scale ⊗ AI data training companies hiring poets ⊗ Daniel Schmachtenberger on the Metacrisis

Movie still photo of a spacecraft, made with Midjourney.

AI, hardware, and virtual reality ⊗ From synthetic biology to AI ⊗ Capitalism is dead