Fascinating. If you need a reminder of just how connected everything is, watching this video data visualisation on global ocean currents and their impacts is a good place to start aeon.co/videos/a-stu...

Saw the last weekend of the Ithell Colquhoun exhibition in St. Ives. Well worth a visit when it comes to London over the summer if you can make it

On moving beyond the consumeristic obsession with the product over process.

An example from @floridi.bsky.social 👇

“it is not just the content and style of a diary page that may count, but also… above all, who wrote it, why and how…”

#AI #GenAI #LLMs

imagining an alternate history where Sir James Dyson is rampaging round Whitehall sacking civil servants and PM Liz Truss gets on TV outside No 10 to tell us all that his new hoovers are like really really great

Well worth listening to this frank assessment by @kevinclimate.bsky.social on the mismatch between remaining carbon budgets and our stated climate goals—why 1.5°C looks effectively gone, and even 2°C requires radical change. No fake techno-fixes, just the maths.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=barR...

We've spent a lot of time looking at the first-order impacts of Brexit, but not necessarily the second-order ones - including the fact that lack of exposure to a wider range of opinions has had a narrowing effect on policymaking. I think that's had a material impact on UK tech policy.

My new piece in @theguardian.com

Techno-optimism is human pessimism.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'There is fire here but never warmth; appetite but never food. If conviviality has an opposite, it is this: anti-vivial, anti-genial and, in its treatment of the future, anti-generative.' From 2017: aeon.co/essays/the-m...

'Zen is everything. Fundamentally, it's about not dividing.' I had the pleasure of staying with Yodo and his family in Beppu a few years ago. Glad to see his teachings making an impact here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2oV...

'We are extracting Earth’s history to serve a split second of technological time, in order to build devices that are often designed to be used for no more than a few years.' Fascinating and revealing map of the human labour, data and planetary resources that go into A.I. systems anatomyof.ai

One job they should give A.I. where I’m confident it could be more creative is naming new planets and stars