“The green energy infrastructure positioned at the center of the abundance movement, no matter how vast, accelerated & carbon-free, will not alone deliver the necessary physical & economic resilience to the climate-driven disruptions we face.” —Brian Stone Jr. www.noemamag.com/the-abundanc...

“Trump’s trade policy bypasses multilateralism, instead compelling each country to negotiate bilaterally — on America’s terms. In doing so, Trump is not merely reacting to a broken global order. He is forcing others into an entirely new one.” —Hui Huang

“The path to tyranny is often paved by individuals who ‘obey in advance,’ anticipating what authoritarian leaders want & preemptively meeting them halfway to avoid conflict. In the age of AI, this phenomenon appears poised to occur at an algorithmic scale.” —Andrew Sorota

“Chemical systems that do not meet our criteria for what it means to be ‘alive’ exhibit a surprising array of behaviors we usually only attribute to things we think of as living.” — @conorfeehly.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-surprisi...

End the year with some great reading — take a look at our team's favorite pieces of 2025. www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...

“It turns out playing God is neither difficult nor expensive. For about $2,000, I can go online & order a decent microscope, a precision injection rig, & a vial of enough CRISPR-Cas9 — an enzyme-based genome-editing tool — to genetically edit a few thousand fish embryos.” —Aryn Baker

Europe needs to stop pretending it's a neutral market in a world where digital infrastructure is geopolitical, @francescabria.bsky.social writes. It should act like what it is: a political project with a democratic mission.

“Emmanuel Macron, J.D. Vance & Berlin artist collectives may seem like unlikely allies, but they all agree that Europe’s ‘regulate first, build later (maybe)’ approach to AI is not working.” —Benjamin Bratton www.noemamag.com/is-european-...

“Instead of offering easy answers, thinking historically provides the intellectual equipment to engage with hard questions, a skill indispensable for navigating a future that will surely be as unpredictable as the past.” —Francis Gavin

Wishing you a very merry holiday season ✨🎄✨

“The integration of AI into education is no longer hypothetical — it is well underway.” Let’s use it to shape students for the better, Greg Easley argues. www.noemamag.com/reimagining-...

Settle in with some fantastic reading 📚 www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...

“All our scientific stories — & the technologies we build from them — must always include us & our place within the tapestries of life.” — @adamfrank4.bsky.social

“In a surprisingly literal sense, we are indeed all made of light, as is everything we perceive or understand.” —Swami Sarvapriyananda, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Carlo Rovelli www.noemamag.com/consciousnes...

"Green technologies such as solar panels, wind turbines & EVs have major thermodynamic advantages over fossil fuels, the drilling, extraction, refining & transportation of which result in expensive energy losses at every distribution & conversion point." — @bentleyallan.bsky.social

Great conversation with @mariannedhe.bsky.social about their @noemamag.com article on the history of air conditioning in the Gulf States. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Remigration is word of the year, says @stephenkb.bsky.social in the FT. If you want to see the shape of things to come, check out our @noemamag.com longread on Denmark, where remigration is now in the political mainstream. www.noemamag.com/inside-denma...

May this season find you surrounded by light 🕎

My article, From Statecraft to Soulcraft, was selected by @noemamag.com as one of its Top Ten Reads of 2025. I’m proud of this piece. It’s onto something big: post-liberal states today—from China to Hungary to MAGA—make the Good Life core state business. www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...

Check out our favorite artwork from the past year, created by artists from all around the world 🗺️

In a world where power is misused, public morality has become slippery and dishonesty lurches sickeningly through public speech, animals can offer vital lessons for human ethics, political wisdom and social health [ @jay-griffiths.bsky.social @noemamag.com ] www.noemamag.com/the-moral-au...

“These are the last days of social media, not because we lack content, but because the attention economy has neared its limit — we have exhausted the capacity to care. There is more to watch, read, click & react to than ever before — an endless buffet of stimulation." — @jamesosullivan.bsky.social

Check out our best longform journalism & essays of the year, with stories covering everything from the last days of social media to the unseen fury of solar storms. #reading #longform

“Vietnam’s third stack is more than a hedge against platform dependence: it is a rehearsal for a future in which AI agents — trained locally, governed modularly — enact a worldview not defined by Silicon Valley or Beijing.” — @digitaldang.bsky.social

“If spires & arches & ancient cavern churches no longer give shape to our worship, what does? Can we still build a temple worthy of God?” — @johnwlast.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-vanishin...

“We [must] figure out how our contemporary communication system can strengthen democracy, rather than myopically focus on correcting falsehoods.” — @zevesanderson.com & Scott Babwah Brennen

“Like others who think differently & come from outside the insider establishment, Frank Gehry rebelled against the custodians of proper & hallowed ways.” —Nathan Gardels #frankgehry #architecture

Highlighting Best of 2025 stories from @orionmagazine.bsky.social, @emergencemagazine.bsky.social, @atmosmag.bsky.social, @aeon.co, @bittersouth.bsky.social, @thebeliever.net, @noemamag.com, and @frankchimero.com.

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“If we misunderstand what science is, mistaking automation of method for the human project of collectively constructing, debating & refining the symbolic representations through which we make sense of reality, AI may foretell the death of science.” — @saraimari.bsky.social #science #ai

“A growing ecological movement sees the solution in bioregionalism: the idea of reorganizing social and economic life around the natural boundaries of the ecosystems that host and sustain us.” Recommended read by @dougbierend.bsky.social for @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/inside-the-p...

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A future filled with many AI personas — from the bad boy to the brown-noser — isn’t a mistake; it’s the best way to work with the technology, Phil Nolan argues.

“AI companies use the future to justify the present, as though speculative benefits should outweigh actual, ongoing damages. This temporal shell game, destroying the world to save it, would be comedic if the consequences weren’t so severe.” — @jamesosullivan.bsky.social #agi #superintelligence #ai

My latest essay, 'The Politics of Superintelligence', has just been published by @noemamag.com. Read it here: www.noemamag.com/the-politics... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #GenerativeAI #politics #Superintelligence

“A growing ecological movement sees the solution in bioregionalism: the idea of reorganizing social and economic life around the natural boundaries of the ecosystems that host and sustain us.” By @dougbierend.bsky.social for @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/inside-the-p...

“The origins of virtue, egalitarianism and morality are more ancient than our own species.” www.noemamag.com/the-moral-au... @noemamag.com

“With the U.N. calling for an overhaul of food systems, insects — as reluctant as I am to imagine a future where my chicken is replaced with cicadas — could be a part of that transformation.” —Rebecca Root

“Human agency & volition are becoming more & more difficult to locate, as people’s tastes & desires dissolve into the algorithm & its authoritarian prophecies.” — @mikesmariani.bsky.social

“The Gulf’s delicate social contract, which has kept royal families in power since the end of the colonial era, is under threat as the globe teeters on the brink of climate disaster.” — @mariannedhe.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-gulf-wor...

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“History has repeatedly demonstrated that societies with inclusive political & economic institutions thrive & sustain themselves, while extractive societies, where wealth & power are concentrated at the top, ultimately fragment & fail.” —Nathan Gardels #democracy #politics

“A growing ecological movement sees the solution [to the climate crisis] in bioregionalism: the idea of reorganizing social & economic life around the natural boundaries of the ecosystems that host & sustain us.” — @dougbierend.bsky.social #climatecrisis #bioregionalism #esg

What happens to a progressive social democracy when it normalises the worldview of the far right? My latest longform journalism piece, co-authored with Helle Malmvig, in Noema magazine.

“The Danish case is less a model than a warning about what happens to democratic politics when politicians from the center & center-left move to the right to regain or retain power, rather than deliberating, informing & modeling responsibility & respect.” —Helle Malmvig & Fabrizio Tassinari

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Glad to commission this from @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social on his long-term study of the techniques journalists can (and now must) use to counter authoritarian propaganda. — @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/journalism-i...

“Conflating intelligence & technology is an assumption worth challenging. True intelligence may know not to use the technologies we so dearly cling to as we plumb our planet’s riches to exhaustion.” — @miquai.bsky.social

“Our willingness to surrender health information so freely not only jeopardizes individual privacy & autonomy but also poses significant risks to societal health.” —Júlia Keserű www.noemamag.com/the-future-o...

“The great surprise of the first quarter of the 21st century has been the endurance of Africa’s colonial borders.” —Alden Young