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Dr. Ralph Mercer
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Feral Futurist, Writer, CLA user, Dyslexic, Digital Animist, Plant-Based, Managing Editor of World Futures Review, Canadian
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India moves to regulate AI-generated content (deepfakes)! 🤖 New draft rules mandate clear labeling (min. 10% of visual/audio) for synthetic info to curb misinformation, fraud & election manipulation. 🇮🇳 #DeepfakeRegulation #AI #IndiaTech
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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the intention of unveiling the intrinsic #possibilities and relations among them. See how different outcomes involving knowledge hierarchy and #uncertainty and multiple #scenarios are presented. #futuresstudies #futuresliteracy @rem59.bsky.social @sohailfutures.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The Future of the human species is tied to how we understand our relationship with technology, and technology is one of the dominant cultural codes of our time. The codes embedded in our technology, like our words, narratives, and stories, have the power to worldbuild.

#futures #technology
June 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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June 19, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Two weeks from today, I embark on my Cross-Canada adventure.
I will be spending 55 days car and tent camping with the goal of reaching St. John's and back. Along the way, I will share stories of Canada's history and interview Canadians for a new project.
Will visit BC in Sept.
June 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
@gandersocial.bsky.social any update on when access will expand?
June 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Call for Papers

A Special Edition of the Neohumanist Review

Submissions by 1 December 2025 • Publication: March 2026

We seek contributions from, the following themes:

Sadvipra's Journey
Social Order
Dialogues Between Neohumanism and Emergent Philosophies

Details: lnkd.in/eUCTKrW8
June 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-2... Have a quick read of Ralph Mercer, PhD's review of Ivana Milojević's 'The Hesitant Feminist's Guide to the Future'. Get an overview of the key themes discussed in the book regarding #feminism and the modern #feministmovement as well as its historical origins, touching
Book Review: The Hesitant Feminist’s Guide to the Future by Ivana Milojević * Journal of Futures Studies
“The Hesitant Feminist’s Guide to the Future” is a fast-paced journey through 20 short sections of 2-5 pages. It builds from a historical vantage point by exploring how language defines feminism and v...
jfsdigital.org
June 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
@gandersocial.bsky.social can’t wait for access, thanks
May 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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voice of love and care for all, the WILD Feminine Futurist serves as a Futures #Doula, guiding the transition towards more #equitable, interconnected and #regenerativefutures. @sohailfutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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March 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-2... Join the amazing dialogue as we move beyond hesitancy and reflect on hopeful #feministfutures in this introduction to the Journal of Futures Studies special issue with the one and only Ivana Milojević! See how the enduring necessity of #feminist thought and action in
Beyond Hesitancy: Dialogues and Reflections on Feminist Futures * Journal of Futures Studies
This Symposium response builds on the themes of The Hesitant Feminist’s Guide to the Future (2024) and the contributions of thirty authors that emerged from it. The Symposium itself arose from a year-...
jfsdigital.org
March 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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We all need to wake up.
Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.

That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
March 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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The amazing (and worldwide distributed) magazine @philosophynow.bsky.social syndicates our stories in their magazine. The most recent issue included "The Smart Shoppers" by Joe R.R. Angelitis

You can read it online here. buff.ly/41zOD84
March 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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On this day in 1909, the Silver Dart took to the air at Baddeck, Nova Scotia.
Designed by the Aerial Experiment Association, under the guidance of Alexander Graham Bell, it was Canada's first controlled powered flight.
Let's learn more about it :)

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February 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Call For Papers

A Special Edition of the Neohumanist Review

ENLIGHTENED LEADERSHIP
Neohumanist Review 6
Publication date: March 2026
#neohumanism #neohumanist #posthumanism

theneohumanist.com/call-for-pap...
Call For Papers - Neohumanist Review
A Special Edition of the Neohumanist Review ENLIGHTENED LEADERSHIPNeohumanist Review 6Publication date: March 2026 The Neohumanist Review invites a diverse range of explorations into the role of enlig...
theneohumanist.com
February 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The importance of taking action. Small groups of people can effect tremendous change.
February 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The unknown future represents freedom; we colonize it by centering the human in the image of possible futures, ensuring the dominate present replicates and survives. New Futures are the product of new forms of measurement
February 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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My @aeon.co article on Mary Midgley ‘So many unmarried men’ is out now - aeon.co/essays/for-m...

#philsk #philosophy
For Mary Midgley, philosophy must be entangled in daily life | Aeon Essays
For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors
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February 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The intersection of Technology and spirituality is not a contradiction but an opportunity to evolve human meaning-making.
barnabyrivercottage.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...
Thoughts on The Spirituality of Technology: Myth, Transcendence, and Digital Animist
The intersection of Technology and spirituality is not a contradiction but an opportunity to evolve human meaning-making.
barnabyrivercottage.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM