Liz at Vital Futures
@vitalfutures.bsky.social
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We’d like your help to find out about the different ways that AI has affected your job. Has the technology been positive or negative in your experience?
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www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We’d like your help to find out about the different ways that AI has affected your job. Has the technology been positive or negative in your experience?
Share with us below:
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While I know that people place outsized hope in adaptive tech...I also would very much like a tour of an amphibious city. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Can floating homes make coastal communities resilient to climate risks?
Building sustainable settlements on the water is a feasible option for climate adaptation, as long as people and ecosystems are protected.
www.nature.com
February 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
While I know that people place outsized hope in adaptive tech...I also would very much like a tour of an amphibious city. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Elise Granata: "for rebuilding civic life...It takes a willingness to go to something...and, if it’s not perfect...feel some discomfort....be able to fight with people, have awkwardness in friendships, and keep showing back up anyway." open.substack.com/pub/connecti...
The mysterious, magical, unpredictable human funk of being in community
A Q&A with Elise Granata, creator of the GROUP HUG newsletter and local community steward
open.substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Elise Granata: "for rebuilding civic life...It takes a willingness to go to something...and, if it’s not perfect...feel some discomfort....be able to fight with people, have awkwardness in friendships, and keep showing back up anyway." open.substack.com/pub/connecti...
On the happier side of things, just completed training in Causal Layered Analysis by the creator of it, Sohail Inayatullah. It was awesome.
February 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
On the happier side of things, just completed training in Causal Layered Analysis by the creator of it, Sohail Inayatullah. It was awesome.
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Folks have been asking me for resources to deal with Thanksgiving this year.
I come from a progressive Dem family and I tend to be a fck the facists no quarter type, but if you have to cope with Trumpers this year, the great Priya Parker has some good advice.
www.priyaparker.com/art-of-gathe...
I come from a progressive Dem family and I tend to be a fck the facists no quarter type, but if you have to cope with Trumpers this year, the great Priya Parker has some good advice.
www.priyaparker.com/art-of-gathe...
How to cool down this year’s family gatherings — Priya Parker
If you, like millions of Americans, are traveling to spend time with an extended circle, you may be thinking more than usual about how to help the group connect (or just not blow up). Conflict resolut...
www.priyaparker.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Folks have been asking me for resources to deal with Thanksgiving this year.
I come from a progressive Dem family and I tend to be a fck the facists no quarter type, but if you have to cope with Trumpers this year, the great Priya Parker has some good advice.
www.priyaparker.com/art-of-gathe...
I come from a progressive Dem family and I tend to be a fck the facists no quarter type, but if you have to cope with Trumpers this year, the great Priya Parker has some good advice.
www.priyaparker.com/art-of-gathe...
Huh! I didn't even know that I wanted to track apportionments today. openomb.org?utm_source=s...
OpenOMB | Tracking apportionments just got easier
OpenOMB is the easiest way to find and track apportionments. Apportionments are legally binding plans issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget that set the pace at which federal agenc...
openomb.org
January 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Huh! I didn't even know that I wanted to track apportionments today. openomb.org?utm_source=s...
Investors advocating for climate action: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘I love the smell of success more than petrol’: investors break with tradition in world-leading climate campaign
Investors say climate change poses biggest risk to their assets, and urge Albanese government to see the economic dangers of a slow path to net zero
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Investors advocating for climate action: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Got a lot out of @alexsteffen.bsky.social's Ruggedization course. Is there such a thing as mandatory education for fully-launched adults?
January 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Got a lot out of @alexsteffen.bsky.social's Ruggedization course. Is there such a thing as mandatory education for fully-launched adults?
Getting closer to a renewable grid that delivers energy when it's needed: Northwestern researchers create a battery using an industrial by-product. www.renewableinstitute.org/new-battery-....
New Battery Technology Could Boost The Energy Transition And Reduce Waste - The Renewable Energy Institute
Researchers at Northwestern University, Illinois, have successfully converted an industrial waste product into battery components in a breakthrough that could support the renewable energy transition a...
www.renewableinstitute.org
January 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Getting closer to a renewable grid that delivers energy when it's needed: Northwestern researchers create a battery using an industrial by-product. www.renewableinstitute.org/new-battery-....
Ursula Le Guin's book Always Coming Home might be the most realistic utopia I've ever read. Different beliefs sit in conflict, and people either find ways to work out differences, or try to get rid of the differences (the less utopian part!), or just continue to be puzzled by them.
January 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Ursula Le Guin's book Always Coming Home might be the most realistic utopia I've ever read. Different beliefs sit in conflict, and people either find ways to work out differences, or try to get rid of the differences (the less utopian part!), or just continue to be puzzled by them.
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We have already reached peak social media. Market is fragmenting, growth rates slowing, and a new technology has entered the market. A hostile environment will simply accelerate the decline of individual platforms. Re: meta’s content moderation decision
January 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
We have already reached peak social media. Market is fragmenting, growth rates slowing, and a new technology has entered the market. A hostile environment will simply accelerate the decline of individual platforms. Re: meta’s content moderation decision
No-cost, low-cost, and higher cost climate adaptation options from the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation. They're also just great examples of how well-crafted resources make it easier for people to apply good research to their own lives. www.intactcentreclimateadaptation.ca/climate-read...
December 30, 2024 at 7:32 PM
No-cost, low-cost, and higher cost climate adaptation options from the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation. They're also just great examples of how well-crafted resources make it easier for people to apply good research to their own lives. www.intactcentreclimateadaptation.ca/climate-read...
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Electronic tattoos that could replace EEGs. They use special liquid ink composed of conductive polymers that detect brain signals like a traditional eeg but much cheaper/simpler. We could also be looking at the future of brain computer interfaces. Fascinating paper www.cell.com/cell-biomate...
December 8, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Electronic tattoos that could replace EEGs. They use special liquid ink composed of conductive polymers that detect brain signals like a traditional eeg but much cheaper/simpler. We could also be looking at the future of brain computer interfaces. Fascinating paper www.cell.com/cell-biomate...
Having a big grain of salt at the ready just keeps getting more important. I'm expecting bot comments to shift towards warmer versions of "Well, why shouldn't the US annex Canada?"
December 6, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Having a big grain of salt at the ready just keeps getting more important. I'm expecting bot comments to shift towards warmer versions of "Well, why shouldn't the US annex Canada?"
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Video from Joseph Gordon-Levitt came up in my recommendations. It’s about craving attention versus paying attention - and how collaboration & listening will make you a better creative
I feel like twitter is all about craving attention - Bluesky has potential to be about collaboration & connection
I feel like twitter is all about craving attention - Bluesky has potential to be about collaboration & connection
How craving attention makes you less creative | Joseph Gordon-Levitt
YouTube video by TED
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December 4, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Video from Joseph Gordon-Levitt came up in my recommendations. It’s about craving attention versus paying attention - and how collaboration & listening will make you a better creative
I feel like twitter is all about craving attention - Bluesky has potential to be about collaboration & connection
I feel like twitter is all about craving attention - Bluesky has potential to be about collaboration & connection
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Care about the planetary crisis? Want to fight climate change, ecological destruction?
Support rapid and massive rebuilding of our cities.
Support rapid and massive rebuilding of our cities.
December 3, 2024 at 8:43 AM
Care about the planetary crisis? Want to fight climate change, ecological destruction?
Support rapid and massive rebuilding of our cities.
Support rapid and massive rebuilding of our cities.
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"One concern is that one big catastrophe could overwhelm the new fund."
Italy to Require Companies Buy Insurance for Climate Risks
As the fastest-warming continent, Europe’s climate losses have increased by 2.9% a year from 2009 to 2023.
www.bloomberg.com
December 3, 2024 at 1:14 PM
"One concern is that one big catastrophe could overwhelm the new fund."
