“…those “stories” don’t have to be prose. They can be prototypes, experiences, systems. Whatever form shapes our understanding and opens our imagination.” nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/2025/09... #designfiction

"…remembered less for technical mastery than for the sensibility that guides their decisions. Taste shows in whom they hire, the work they create, details they insist upon. These may seem minor on their own, together they shape culture and identity." theintelligencefield.substack.com/p/taste-is-n...

"You’re not living as a witness to the rise of superintelligence. You’re living as an agent being augmented by supertime. You are living at the end of history, and entering a superhistory being created by machines." contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/superhisto... #artificialtime

“…a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.” www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

“There are human rights limitations to the search for profit in markets, but these have all been ignored. Pakistani people are paying the highest price.” www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

“A building is more than a physical collection of materials. It is a cloud coalesced out of a planetary network of flows and forces, material supply chains, cultures, and systems.” l-a-v-a.com/articles/des...

"Polycrisis is a descriptor that the establishment can agree on without challenging itself. It abstracts the causes of crises, making them appear as natural convergences rather than the systemic outcomes of extractive and exclusionary orders." www.theideasletter.org/essay/polytu...

“This is an unjustifiable attack on the civilian population. Sixty thousand dead, two million displaced, half of them children. This is not self-defence … it is the extermination of a defenceless people.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

"We live to capture this world to give life to countless others. We capture the world so you can create your own." www.sum.si/journal-arti...

"Choose augmentation, not automation. Don’t just ship. Protect what makes us human. Center the vulnerable, seen and unseen. Build as citizens, not just coders." technicallyoptimistic.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

"…civilians made up a greater proportion of the dead only in the genocides in Srebrenica and Rwanda, and during Russia’s three-month siege of Mariupol." www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

“Taste is born of human discretion—of growing up in particular places, being exposed to particular cultural references, developing a point of view that is inseparable from personality. In other words, taste is the human fingerprint on decision making.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

“I don’t really pursue a destination… I pursue a direction.” joincolossus.com/article/flou...

"…a haunting, visually arresting road drama set against the raw beauty of Bradford and the Yorkshire Dales." www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCxZ...

"…blanket surveillance allows Israel to find potentially incriminating information on virtually any Palestinian, which can be used for all manner of purposes — including blackmail, administrative detention, or retroactively justifying killings. " www.972mag.com/microsoft-82...

"…we get the best preparation, not from stories of specific technologies or social structures, but from rich exploration of how things can change." reactormag.com/beyond-the-t...

100% Apartheid-free… atmos.earth/meet-the-pal...

"Gaza is birthing a new kind of masculinity: … Men who weep in public, who change diapers in tents, who share grief with strangers — these men are forging a new kind of masculinity, one that rejects domination and embraces care." www.972mag.com/gaza-men-mas...

"A seed bank; a hyper-dense vertical permaculture farm engineered for carbon fixing; a massive, low-maintenance desalination system; a space elevator… connected pockets of vibrancy and resistance amidst a larger world of decline and oppression." medium.com/solarpunks/o...

“…this isn’t about forecasting or predicting what will happen. It’s about cultivating the ability to sense, question, and reshape what could happen — and to do so with intention, care, and curiosity.” enaeva.substack.com/p/the-future...

“Just as the Creative Commons licenses helped build the open web, we believe CC signals will help shape an open AI ecosystem grounded in reciprocity.” creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-c...

“Capture your subconscious in ultra-low definition. Wake up, speak your dream aloud in any language, and watch it come to life as a dreamscape in the aesthetic of your choice.” modemworks.com/projects/dre...

"Websites can be resistance, aesthetic, technical and political. They can reflect our values, our histories, our futures. The platforms we choose, the code we write, the companies we support – it all carries political weight. There’s no neutral ground…" www.protein.xyz/the-internet...

Next Weds Rob Eagle will hosting a *Meet the Technologists* event as part of *The Big Thing*, a gathering of the immersive art community where technologists can share their work and collaborations they're seeking. Join us on 12th June, from 12:30-2pm. sites.google.com/carbonimagin... #BDArtsLab

"…I’m thinking about the courage of the hungry… I’m thinking about how contagious that courage is among hearts that are open, how much they can hold when they do not beat alone." atmos.earth/the-palestin...

“No signals in. No signals out. No WiFi. No cell service. No S-band emanations. No PrompNet. No Bluetooth. No nothing,” nearfuturelaboratory.com/dispatches/a...

"There are patterns of the world that repeat at scale—look at ferns, crowns of broccoli, look at the way water moves through deltas and the way blood moves through our bodies, look at our brains with their synapses like galaxies." atmos.earth/adrienne-mar...

"…from a paradigm of exploitation to one of coexistence and kinship. This requires a global awakening, a recognition of our interconnectedness with all living beings." atmos.earth/a-descendant...

"…the Nubbin allows you to enter a new world, where climate anxiety doesn’t exist." tckrsystems.tech

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

We're lurching from: "The attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed", to… "Somehow, Palpatine returned", to… "Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes is in dispute."

"Every dollar that flows through Silicon Valley's toll booths is a policy failure." www.joanwestenberg.com/the-great-te...

“One thing I’m grateful for, and it’s a strength of my generation, is we weren’t promised anything… I was prepared to struggle.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us." www.themarginalian.org/2025/03/25/s...

“My data is a living essence, it tells the story genetically about where I’ve come from, who I am – that’s telling a story of me, a story about my whakapapa, right down to my belief.” www.temanararaunga.maori.nz

”…the same effect that engendered a class of people putting on neurodivergence is cultivating a new bent toward biblical altruism.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

"Nowhere else are immersive technologies being used to capture historical records as they are being destroyed… We started this project trying to defy the colonial impositions on us," atmos.earth/pioneering-v...

“Community ownership is central to Tainá. The data are stored locally—not on the cloud—and the community decides which parts get shared with the world. It’s a far cry from the status quo of “Big Tech lords deciding what to do with our data…” atmos.earth/indigenous-g...

"…a defining factor of the fourth space is the conscious architecting of a certain kind of experience or connection – an engineered third space with a shared objective." www.protein.xyz/fourth-spaces/

Almost read it as a piece of design fiction, but it's real enough… "Real neurons are cultivated inside a nutrient rich solution, supplying them with everything they need to be healthy. They grow across a silicon chip…" corticallabs.com/cl1.html

"…active procrastinators had great control of their time, coping mechanisms, and overall performance. Not too bad for people often labelled as lazy." nesslabs.com/benefits-of-...

"I want to carve my own space on the web, away from the corporations". I think this is a radical act" localghost.dev/blog/this-pa...

"…Planetary systems invite us to think beyond borders and invoke the indivisible relationship between the human, more-than-human and the natural world." www.planetarycivics.net#why

"…a personal cultural intelligence that can move seamlessly between pattern recognition and pattern breaking, between rule-following and rule-bending." thenew.igorschwarzmann.com/p/haltung-on...

"Our creative process needs both the feast of input and the fast of silence." zoescaman.substack.com/p/the-noetic...

"Ancestral Intelligence includes everything from: the ways our minds process information through story, our spiritual and religious practices, our many systems of governance over the course of human history, from democracies to seasonal hierarchies." commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/8yizm9w0...

"…this decoupling of agency from life and from interiority, is a powerful invitation to see the world — and ourselves — differently." www.noemamag.com/why-ai-is-a-...

“In every way, a ‘human’ seems to be a collaboration between many organisms that have cooperated to form a superintelligence.” www.noemamag.com/a-radical-ne...

“In Pakistan, while having a valid visa, we are treated like criminals. In Afghanistan, we're not even allowed to dream.” globalvoices.org/2025/02/12/f...

“…beyond the faux humility of Patagonia vests and Allbirds. They are dressing like titans, strongmen, and emperors” www.wired.com/story/power-...