I shared this piece with @jemgilbert.bsky.social after listening to an excellent recent episode of ACFM. There’s a great opportunity to better connect critical and political theory as well as cultural studies with futures studies and applied foresight.
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Decomputing as a response to AI and to the underlying conditions that make AI seem inevitable.

NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out.

Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.

Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

From “Everything everywhere all at once” to “some things somewhere eventually” in the span of a week. #tariffs #ArtOfTheDeal

3 alternatives to new years resolutions for seeding and steering change in your life/world/organization/community/family, a 🧵

This is a good documentary about prosperity without growth, including debates around degrowth and green growth. I would’ve left out the sufficiency “experiment” with the family for many reasons. Otherwise, it’s a good overview of a central issue of our times.

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An artifact from the present that somehow feels like both an artifact from the future and an artifact from the past.

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To paraphrase or, rather, hijack that great phrase by Tom Atlee, I've come to believe that things will get worse and worse, faster and faster before they get better and better, slower and slower.

The present is not here anymore — it’s just disappearing unevenly.

Newsflash: Country responsible for 13% of global CO2 emissions and 25% of global cumulative emissions celebrates growing richer while reducing emissions at a rate that is 3x slower than needed to meet their internationally agreed mitigation targets.

To paraphrase or, rather, hijack that great phrase by Tom Atlee, I've come to believe that things will get worse and worse, faster and faster before they get better and better, slower and slower.

This is such a great, speculative, hyper-quotable, essay by @vgr.bsky.social conceptualizing Modern AI as a kind of discovery, a camera that allows to peer into “computational reality” (or, perhaps, I’d say, computational possibility?).

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This is the best critique I’ve read so far of Andreessen’s techno-optimist manifesto. It nails something I’ve thought about since I read the original e/acc pieces that inspired Andreessen, which is that…

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Marc Andreessen, who runs one of the biggest Silicon Valley venture capital firms, wrote a "manifesto" today labeling “social responsibility" and "tech ethics" teams "the enemy."

His firm, a16z, recently pivoted from crypto/NFTs/Web3 to American military and defense contractor technology.

Sigh… Tech bros are cosplaying the Italian futurists now.

Significant paper.

Having said that, I wish those efficiency and quality gains would be leveraged to advance a semi-automated/augmented, cyborgian-centaurian four-day workweek instead of the workload rebound effect to which they will probably be deployed.

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