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hybrid designer+researcher working with #systems & #futures. Trying to figure out renewables at an energy company. atm, ai risk, disaster mitigation.
🏳️🌈 😷 clean air advocate; board: systemic design association, prev fjord, aho_oslo.
🏳️🌈 😷 clean air advocate; board: systemic design association, prev fjord, aho_oslo.
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uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough
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I finally watched Foundation this past week. I hadn’t read the Asimov stories before so the whole world building was incredible to experience.
During second rewatch it struck me that 2020s has a lot about it that feels like the second crisis.
During second rewatch it struck me that 2020s has a lot about it that feels like the second crisis.
September 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I finally watched Foundation this past week. I hadn’t read the Asimov stories before so the whole world building was incredible to experience.
During second rewatch it struck me that 2020s has a lot about it that feels like the second crisis.
During second rewatch it struck me that 2020s has a lot about it that feels like the second crisis.
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Oh, look at that. They finally found a business use case for AI.
August 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Oh, look at that. They finally found a business use case for AI.
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AI has enabled the trend of disciplines being overtaken by technologists and Big Tech, and making actual field specialists and the disciplines themselves a kind of side dish to the "innovation," as is evident in education and healthcare, for eg. A lot of irreparable damage will be done.
~fin~
~fin~
August 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
AI has enabled the trend of disciplines being overtaken by technologists and Big Tech, and making actual field specialists and the disciplines themselves a kind of side dish to the "innovation," as is evident in education and healthcare, for eg. A lot of irreparable damage will be done.
~fin~
~fin~
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things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
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Super cool how society just hands off the some of the most vulnerable to the most predatory.
Chatbots turned to for companionship
A chatbot is a computer program that uses artificial intelligence to simulate human conversation. For the lonely, a chatbot can be a companion, as Meg Oliver reports in tonight's "Eye on America."
www.cbsnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Super cool how society just hands off the some of the most vulnerable to the most predatory.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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UK users when the website asks them where they're posting from today.
July 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
UK users when the website asks them where they're posting from today.
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The Queen of Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms just once a year at night and only for a few hours.
July 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The Queen of Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms just once a year at night and only for a few hours.
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It's so hardcore at the beginning, yet obvious and subtle in the end? I had to modernize my house like that as well. Haus Susch, a regenerative 🌾 #deeprenovation by Atelier Werner Schmidt 👏 Photos: Lucia Degonda / AWS
www.atelierschmidt.ch/sanierung-su... #strawhouse #strawbuilding #carbonstorage
www.atelierschmidt.ch/sanierung-su... #strawhouse #strawbuilding #carbonstorage
January 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
It's so hardcore at the beginning, yet obvious and subtle in the end? I had to modernize my house like that as well. Haus Susch, a regenerative 🌾 #deeprenovation by Atelier Werner Schmidt 👏 Photos: Lucia Degonda / AWS
www.atelierschmidt.ch/sanierung-su... #strawhouse #strawbuilding #carbonstorage
www.atelierschmidt.ch/sanierung-su... #strawhouse #strawbuilding #carbonstorage
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Friends, let's visit the largest, most famous disability access ramp on Earth...
with a twist! About how our feelings about a bit of history can reverse completely based, not just on the historian’s POV, but what questions we ask 1/?
(Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
with a twist! About how our feelings about a bit of history can reverse completely based, not just on the historian’s POV, but what questions we ask 1/?
(Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer
In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.
www.adapalmer.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Friends, let's visit the largest, most famous disability access ramp on Earth...
with a twist! About how our feelings about a bit of history can reverse completely based, not just on the historian’s POV, but what questions we ask 1/?
(Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
with a twist! About how our feelings about a bit of history can reverse completely based, not just on the historian’s POV, but what questions we ask 1/?
(Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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Doing things you don't want to do is what family time is all about.
-my forever wisdom to the kids.
-my forever wisdom to the kids.
July 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Doing things you don't want to do is what family time is all about.
-my forever wisdom to the kids.
-my forever wisdom to the kids.
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Last night, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech at the Locus awards. You can view the speech and read the full text here.
stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/
stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/
Hammer Speech
Last night, I got to stand up in front of the audience at the Locus Awards ceremony. I wound up presenting the Locus Award for Best Short Story (congratulations, Isabel J. Kim!) – but first, I deliver...
stone-soup.ghost.io
June 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Last night, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech at the Locus awards. You can view the speech and read the full text here.
stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/
stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/
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The substantive point here is important too: underestimating the benefits of public spending should be considered an equally serious error as underestimating the costs.
June 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The substantive point here is important too: underestimating the benefits of public spending should be considered an equally serious error as underestimating the costs.
Pride month and filming of #IWTV starting, let’s gooo
a man in a suit and tie is holding a piece of paper in his hand
Alt: Leslut de Lyingwhore (played any Sam Reid as Lestat) in a glorious Anne Rice adaption show, with some of the most deliciously toxic queer vampires. The gif shows the first time Lestat meets Louis, here showing them competing over who can pay more for a prostitute. In the gif Lestat takes out a wad of cash and throws in his ornate ring to win the competition.
media.tenor.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Pride month and filming of #IWTV starting, let’s gooo
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"Europe and elsewhere will see more of this, for a while, until there’s no more ice to fall."
Swiss Glacier Collapse Buries Entire Town Just Days After Evacuation
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Europe and elsewhere will see more of this, for a while, until there’s no more ice to fall."
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My friend is in charge of the team that wrote the climate change adaptation plan for Switzerland and this is one of the things they expected.
Swiss village almost entirely destroyed after collapse of glacier buries it in mud
One person missing and Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated town
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
My friend is in charge of the team that wrote the climate change adaptation plan for Switzerland and this is one of the things they expected.