On the quintessentially-American fowl: "Turkey" @swordsjew.bsky.social (Plus- the actual first Thanksgiving) Gobble: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/13/t...

A classic "mirror of princes" and what it offers us today: "The Epic of the Fear of Death" @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social (Plus- the world's oldest seat of learning) Reach back: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/12/s...

The future of Western forests depends on professionals slowly being starved out of existence: "The plight of the pinecone cowboy" @highcountrynews.org (Plus- Glacier National Park) Treasure trees: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/11/t...

Fewer and fewer winners take more and more of the pot. The new mechanics of concentration: "AI is Eating Markets" @paulkedrosky.com (Plus- Mother's Day: the rest of the story) Contemplating concentration: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/10/g...

On gray literature, Webster’s Timeline History books, and computerized curation: "The First Tomato to Know Everything" @sosallyo.bsky.social @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social (Plus- Mother's Day proclaimed) Hold on to the human: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/09/e...

The Socratic Method and the importance of recognizing and responding to the times in which we live: "Socrates is Mortal" (Plus- David Hume) Inhabiting our moment: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/07/i...

How does one become a person? "We" before "I": "To be is to participate" @aeon.co (Plus- Kenneth Spence) Get together: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/06/t...

An optimistic look at what AI could mean: "Hooray! Post-Fordism Is Finally Here!" (Plus- Andrew Meikle) Resolving to remain rosy: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/05/a...

"Ultrafinitism" rejects the infinite. Long dismissed as mathematical heresy, it nonetheless produces new insights: "What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?" @gregbarber.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social (Plus- Isaac Barrow) Engaging the endless: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/04/s...

Mapping real-world scenarios to the science fiction stories that explored them first: the Extrapolated Futures Archive (Plus- Charles Fort) Ponder prescience: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/03/t...

Learning from "The Ignorant Art Historian" (Plus- The Second of May 1808) Appreciate art: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/02/t...

What is it like to be an idea? "Ideas are Alive and You are Dead," @theseedsofscience.skystack.xyz via @mastroianni.bsky.social (Plus- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin) Pondering panpsychism: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/01/b...

On the brutal, unrelenting decline of a signature business: "Who Killed the Florida Orange?" @alexsammon.bsky.social @slate.com (Plus- National Raisin Day) Contemplate the consequences of climate change and contagion: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/30/d...

What does long-term thinking look like in practice? Introducing Long Now Labs, a collaborative space to test, prototype, and build long-term tools. If you're a designer, researcher, or technologist interested in the deep future, we want to hear from you. Submissions are open: longnow.org/labs/001/

Early automatons in the US evolved from symbols of revolt into racialized figures tied to labor and the legacy of slavery: "How America Racialized the Robot" @jstordaily.bsky.social (Plus- Respect) Move on: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/29/t...

What DOGE coulda, shoulda been: "A Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform" @pahlkadot.bsky.social (Plus- Nixon invades Cambodia) Face forward: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/28/t...

Is China "pulling up the ladder" in high-tech manufacturing? @thebenedictevans.bsky.social (Plus- the mouse) Dissecting the dynamics of dominance: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/27/t...

Mix matters: "Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future" @johndparker.bsky.social @us.theconversation.com (Plus- John James Audubon) See the forest: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/26/t...

Who's buying our personal information, what they're using it for, and how the system works: "So What if They Have My Data?" (Plus- Do you Yahoo?) Reinforce your rights: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/25/p... @kareneed.bsky.social

An acute analysis: "Scenario Planning for AI and the 'Jobless Future'" @timoreilly.bsky.social (Plus- Mark Pinsker) Take the long view: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/24/t...

Beauty in unexpected places: "Barry Webb Documents a Marvelous, Macro Array of Colorful Slime Molds" @thisiscolossal.com (Plus- W.I.B. Beveridge... and Shakespeare) Get small: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/23/t...

AI and the (irreducible) need for humans: "The Social Edge of Intelligence" and "What Will Be Scarce" (Plus- Mosaic) Take the long view: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/22/d...

When public oratory was a defining feature of civic life: "The Golden Age of the American Soapbox" @amelia-soth.bsky.social @jstordaily.bsky.social (Plus- Geraldo and Al Capone's vault) Speaking out: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/21/g...

The lessons in "Richard Feynman's Notes For Self-Education" (Plus- Jeremy Bernstein) Light that fire: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/20/t...

"The Hermitage of Saint Neophytos" @unesco.bsky.social (Plus- Ælfheah of Canterbury) Get away/go deep: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/19/i...

The backstory of the Bill of Rights (Plus- the day that there was no news) Ponder precedent: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/18/a...

A long (and illuminating) scroll from the surface to the "bottom" of the ocean- 10,924 meters down: "The Deep Sea" @neal.fun (Plus- Clarence Mackay) Dive: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/17/d...

A visualization of governance around the globe: "The Civic Atlas" (Plus- Alexis de Tocqueville) Compare and contrast: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/16/w...

All about the most important meal of the day: "Mr. Breakfast" (Plus- Heloise) Set your timers: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/15/t...

Our ever-evolving language" "Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy" (Plus- Webster and the American Dictionary of the English Language) Choosing our words: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/14/o...

Wikipedia has over 300 language editions. Each one picks its own images to illustrate the same topic-- see them: "In Every Language" (Plus- Strangers in the Night) Visualize: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/11/h...

Social media, AI, quantum computing-- on being clear as to the real issues: "Geist in the machine & The prospect of Butlerian Jihad" @inevernu.bsky.social (Plus- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin) Keeping our eyes on the prize: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/10/i...

Unless we act, it's "Endgame for the Open Web" @anildash.com (Plus- J. Presper Eckert) Protect what's precious: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/09/t...

Tricky news for our online security : "New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever" @walkingthedot.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social (Plus- COBOL) Preparation is prudent: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/08/q...

Paying the bills: "Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)" @mathildegm.bsky.social @publicdomainrev.bsky.social (Plus- Peter Fluck and Spitting Image) Cherishing cartoons: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/07/t...

As the U.S. curdles and Ukraine twists in the wind, a look back: "Who Goes Nazi?" @harpers.bsky.social And: @rusty.todayintabs.com (Plus- Over There) Cast your eyes around: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/06/i...

The evolution of fermentation: "A Brief and Essential History of the Most Important Food Ever Invented: The Pickle" @lithub.com.web.brid.gy (Plus- André Tchelistcheff) Break out the brine: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/05/i...

The Iran War is interrupting global fertilizer supply, but a revolutionary sourcing alternative has emerged: "Pulling Nitrogen From the Air" @dkruzman.bsky.social (Plus- William Rose) Counting on creativity: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/04/t...

Locating any given date in the flow of history: "Another day closer to the end" @mattmuir.bsky.social (Plus- the Crucifixion) Musing on mutability (and mortality): roughlydaily.com/2026/04/03/m... (

The latest developments in the “forever war” over string theory: "Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?" @nattyover.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social (Plus- Hermann Rorschach) Grappling with Godel: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/02/f...

As Stephen Hawking said, life would be tragic if it weren’t funny: "Today in Tabs" @rusty.todayintabs.com (Plus- the spaghetti trees) Smirk: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/01/l...

The early history of e-gaming-- when telegraph cables let chess clubs stage matches across continents: "The First E-Sports? Chess by Telegraph" @inverting-vision.bsky.social @jstordaily.bsky.social (Plus- Johnny B. Goode) What's old is new again: roughlydaily.com/2026/03/31/i...

On the critical importance of what we share-- the commons (of so many important sorts)-- and the painful price of their privatization: "The Enclosure of the Human Psyche" @lmsacasas.bsky.social (Plus- Alaska, purchased) Cherish commons: roughlydaily.com/2026/03/30/t...

From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions: "The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers" @lionelpage.bsky.social (Plus- Ludwig Büchner) Lingering over legacies: roughlydaily.com/2026/03/29/u...

On technologies and paradigmatic change: "Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did" (Plus- Sir Joseph William Bazalgette) Musing on metamorphosis: roughlydaily.com/2026/03/28/t...

The Louvre has the Mona Lisa. but what is the "most treasured" holding of other museums? "It’s Their Mona Lisa" @ironicsans.com (Plus- Tiepolo) Hitting the highlights: roughlydaily.com/2026/03/27/t...

Our democracies depend on our picking up the pace of learning: "Can Democracy be Rehabilitated?" (Plus- Beethoven erases Napoleon) Devoting ourselves to democracy: roughlydaily.com/2026/03/26/y...

From 18th century bar trick to scientific staple: "The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere" @quantamagazine.bsky.social (Plus- Norman Borlaug) Noodling on the normal distribution: roughlydaily.com/2026/03/25/i...

Comparing and contrasting wealth and expenses: "$Billions" (and "$Trillions") @infobeautiful.bsky.social (Plus- the Exxon Valdez spill) Pondering the pecuniary: roughlydaily.com/2026/03/24/a...

Printed comics as a genre long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages:"'Lost Literacies' Strips Down the Dawn of Comics" @jstordaily.bsky.social (Plus- TMNT) Tell *and* show: roughlydaily.com/2026/03/23/i...