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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.

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

Glitched Scottish landscape made with Midjourney.

Liberty machines and dark tech ⊗ Tomorrow’s democracy is open source ⊗ The living things that feast on plastic

Simulating history with ChatGPT ⊗ We should all be Luddites now ⊗ Taking business personally

Simulating history with ChatGPT ⊗ We should all be Luddites now ⊗ Taking business personally

Emergencies, frameshifts and what they tell us about our place in the world ⊗ What was Barbara McClintock’s “mysticism”? ⊗ Finding hope in the dark power of fungus

Emergencies, frameshifts and what they tell us about our place in the world ⊗ What was Barbara McClintock’s “mysticism”? ⊗ Finding hope in the dark power of fungus