Lawrence Wilkinson
@lhwilkinson.bsky.social
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Serial entrepreneur, turned advisor/investor, mostly to not-for-profit and social ventures
On the quintessentially-American fowl: "Turkey"
@swordsjew.bsky.social
(Plus- the actual first Thanksgiving) Gobble:
roughlydaily.com/2026/05/13/t...
9 days ago
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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:
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“Sex and death are the only things that can interest a serious mind”*…
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)
https://roughlydaily.com/2026/05/12/sex-and-death-are-the-only-things-that-can-interest-a-serious-mind/
10 days ago
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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...
11 days ago
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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...
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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...
13 days ago
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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...
15 days ago
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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...
16 days ago
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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...
17 days ago
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"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...
18 days ago
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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...
19 days ago
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Learning from "The Ignorant Art Historian" (Plus- The Second of May 1808) Appreciate art:
roughlydaily.com/2026/05/02/t...
20 days ago
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What is it like to be an idea? "Ideas are Alive and You are Dead,"
@theseedsofscience.skystack.xyz
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@mastroianni.bsky.social
(Plus- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin) Pondering panpsychism:
roughlydaily.com/2026/05/01/b...
21 days ago
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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...
22 days ago
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Lawrence Wilkinson
The Long Now Foundation
23 days ago
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/
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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...
23 days ago
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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...
24 days ago
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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...
25 days ago
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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...
26 days ago
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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
27 days ago
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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...
28 days ago
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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...
29 days ago
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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...
30 days ago
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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...
about 1 month ago
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The lessons in "Richard Feynman's Notes For Self-Education" (Plus- Jeremy Bernstein) Light that fire:
roughlydaily.com/2026/04/20/t...
about 1 month ago
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"The Hermitage of Saint Neophytos"
@unesco.bsky.social
(Plus- Ælfheah of Canterbury) Get away/go deep:
roughlydaily.com/2026/04/19/i...
about 1 month ago
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The backstory of the Bill of Rights (Plus- the day that there was no news) Ponder precedent:
roughlydaily.com/2026/04/18/a...
about 1 month ago
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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...
about 1 month ago
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A visualization of governance around the globe: "The Civic Atlas" (Plus- Alexis de Tocqueville) Compare and contrast:
roughlydaily.com/2026/04/16/w...
about 1 month ago
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All about the most important meal of the day: "Mr. Breakfast" (Plus- Heloise) Set your timers:
roughlydaily.com/2026/04/15/t...
about 1 month ago
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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...
about 1 month ago
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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...
about 1 month ago
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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...
about 1 month ago
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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...
about 1 month ago
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Tricky news for our online security : "New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever"
@walkingthedot.bsky.social
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@quantamagazine.bsky.social
(Plus- COBOL) Preparation is prudent:
roughlydaily.com/2026/04/08/q...
about 1 month ago
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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...
about 1 month ago
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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...
about 2 months ago
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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...
about 2 months ago
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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...
about 2 months ago
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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...
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about 2 months ago
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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...
about 2 months ago
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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...
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“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”*…
As Stephen Hawking said, life would be tragic if it weren’t funny: “Today in Tabs” @rusty.todayintabs.com (Plus- the spaghetti trees)
https://roughlydaily.com/2026/04/01/lord-what-fools-these-mortals-be/
about 2 months ago
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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...
about 2 months ago
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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...
about 2 months ago
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From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions: "The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers"
@lionelpage.bsky.social
(Plus- Ludwig BĂĽchner) Lingering over legacies:
roughlydaily.com/2026/03/29/u...
about 2 months ago
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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...
about 2 months ago
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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...
about 2 months ago
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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...
about 2 months ago
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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...
about 2 months ago
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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...
about 2 months ago
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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...
about 2 months ago
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