Most people don’t realize there are glaciers in the tropics — we think of palm trees, not ice. This explorer gives us a rare close-up look at the disappearing phenomenon: www.noemamag.com/when-the-ete... #climatechange #glaciers

Most people don’t realize there are glaciers in the tropics — we think of palm trees, not ice. When they disappear, a rare part of the tropical cryosphere will be erased. This explorer is on a mission to map the last remaining tropical ice in Indonesia before it disappears.

I recently moderated a fascinating discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social & the @berggruen.org's Claire Isabel Webb on "The Mythology Of Conscious AI." It's very well worth the watch if you missed it in person during SXSW.

“If positive discrimination is the regime’s modus operandi, the traditional family is its chosen object: the form of life it lavishly rewards, honors and holds up as exemplary.” — @lefebvrealex.bsky.social

“At each stage, we drew a line in the silicon — this is what machines cannot do because they are mindless — & at each stage, the line was crossed by systems that understood nothing.” —Ben Bariach www.noemamag.com/why-ai-doesn...

“A tradition can die without a funeral. And when it does, the land may still look the same — but it will no longer know our names, & we will no longer know its.” —Karma Sonam, a Ladakhi historian www.noemamag.com/the-last-yak...

"The tech industry’s whiz kids once promised convenience at your fingertips. Now they’re embracing the military-industrial complex to defend the West." — @tfa.ng in @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/silicon-vall...

“If we confuse ourselves too readily with our machine creations, we not only overestimate them, we also underestimate ourselves.” — @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of the @berggruen.org Essay Prize Competition www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...

A must read by @anilseth.bsky.social — the 2025 English-language winner of the Berggruen Essay Prize — on our flawed assumptions about consciousness & AI.

A beautiful piece by @christianelliott.me. “Set aside before industrial agriculture arrived in Iowa, pioneer cemeteries have become the prairie’s final resting place — one of the few where the land remembers what it once was.” www.noemamag.com/where-the-pr...

It's here! Check out our "Top 10 Reads Of 2025" in @NoemaMag, and read these amazing pieces or listen to our playlist. Enjoy! www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...

“The superintelligence narrative undermines democratic possibilities by presenting concentrated power as a tragic necessity. If extinction is at stake, then public deliberation becomes a luxury we cannot afford.” — @jamesosullivan.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-politics...

We can’t keep hitting up the richest to meet today’s affordability challenge. In an economy where the top 10% own 93% of all financial market equities, “it can only be met by spreading the wealth of ownership more broadly in the first place,” argues Nathan Gardels. www.noemamag.com/address-affo...

“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 www.noemamag.com/welcome-to-t...

Our gravest AI risk isn't runaway superintelligence but our cultural readiness to surrender collective judgment to algorithmic systems, Andrew Sorota argues in his @noemamag.com piece this week www.noemamag.com/rescuing-dem...

Very proud of @mariafarrell.bsky.social and @robin.berjon.com for their selection!

“AI sovereignty, as it currently plays out outside of the U.S.-China vacuum, is not a banner‐waving claim to territorial control; rather, it manifests itself as the quiet right to decide what counts as knowledge & how that knowledge shows up in the world.” —@digitaldang.bsky.social

As a journo who has spent time on fact-check desks, this story was an interesting one to edit. “The last decade has made clear that we aren’t going to fact-check or inoculate our way toward a healthier civic culture.” —@zevesanderson.com & Scott Babwah Brennen www.noemamag.com/we-failed-th...

“The stark cognitive dissonance between how people feel about social media & how they use it is one sign that we have entered a new era in our relationship with these platforms.” — @mikesmariani.bsky.social

So proud to be a part of the Noema Magazine team — and in this video, too!

Beneath the rise of AI lies a deeper transformation: Power now flows through networks, emerges in patterns, & governs not by edict, but by architecture, @pettertornberg.com & @uitermark.bsky.social argue

The rift between conservatives & MAGA may be more consequential than the street demonstrations in Los Angeles, writes Nathan Gardels in @NoemaMag this week.

The tech oligarchs choosing “to throw their lot in with the MAGA movement is not because they have all shifted allegiance from the political left to the political right,” Dan Zimmer writes. Rather, they see Trump as someone who won’t stand in the way of their goals for technological advancement.

“America is now spending more on interest payments on debt than on the defense budget for the first time in its history.” —Niall Ferguson #politics #american #history

Wow, congratulations! @mariafarrell.bsky.social

A year ago today, @mariafarrell.bsky.social and I published "We Need To Rewild The Internet" with @noemamag.com, edited by @latams.bsky.social. First things first, if you haven't read it yet, today's a great to find out why it's still a hit a year on: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

The divergence between China’s climate ambitions & America’s current outright denial of the crisis “could well lead to democratic capitalism’s hegemonic decline,” @doctorvive.bsky.social argues.

Excited to share this piece by Blaise Agüera y Arcas & James Manyika on how advances in AI are changing how we think of intelligence & giving us clues to unlocking AI's full potential.

Well deserved! Congrats to @mariafarrell.bsky.social and @robin.berjon.com both!

“The days of pretending we have binary, easy-to-recognize categories of machines & living beings are over.” — @drmichaellevin.bsky.social

Team Trump’s wobbling upheaval undermines faith in the future | Nathan Gardens in @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/evolutionary...

Hey folks, @noemamag.com is at #SWSX in the expo hall near the “Next Stage.” Come find us and chat!

A fascinating piece for these times: “The major illiberal regimes worldwide today are ready & willing to use the soft & hard powers of the state to realize their visions of the good life. They are in the business of crafting souls, or soulcraft.” —Alexandre Lefebvre

“The impact of this dramatic departure of the United States from being the leading promoter & defender of a liberal internationalist order to the chief architect of its demolition is only just beginning to register worldwide.” —Nathan Gardels

Artificial intelligence, this piece argues, forces a reckoning with the deeply rooted binaries of modern thought. The real challenge is to embrace AI as a philosophical phenomenon and to rethink what it means to be human. By Tobias Rees in @noemamag.com https://buff.ly/41n3SkN

“As the great powers battle it out over the shape of the world order, visionary leaders of small nations are pragmatically positioning themselves as best they can for whatever comes next.” —Nathan Gardels

“I felt that my byline was being used to create a storyline that was no longer mine. So I left.” contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

“Where plant & animal species are disappearing, languages, dialects & unique expressions often follow a similar pattern of decline.” —@jwebsterayuso.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-language...

Humanity’s corporate-driven future on the Red Planet may be closer than ever before, writes David Ariosto. During his second inaugural address, President Trump promised to “pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars,” & send American astronauts to Mars. www.noemamag.com/destination-...

Exclusive: LA Mayor Karen Bass failed to deploy highly trained $1M crisis response team to help wildfire victims nypost.com/2025/01/15/u...

“One might think that, with each successive climate event more severe than the last, going on with business as usual will finally be seen as untenable.” — Nathan Gardels www.noemamag.com/l-a-blowin-i...

A timely piece. “What ultimately splintered social media wasn’t a killer app or the Federal Trade Commission — it was content moderation.” — @noupside.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-great-de...

Our day 2 editors panel will feature Nicole Pasulka, senior features editor at Cosmopolitan, @deborahjianlee.bsky.social, senior editor of Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and @latams.bsky.social, Senior editor at @noemamag.com. Get tips and insights into pitching all of these publications!

“A good education can do only so much; significant capital is required to kickstart adult life on solid ground.” — Julian Le Grand & Niels Planel www.noemamag.com/everyone-nee...

Come work with me! I'm privileged to work with such intelligent and thoughtful colleagues.

This was a fascinating piece to work on. “To hop a wall with England’s trespassers is to confront the ongoing violence of enclosure: the seizure & depletion of collective resources for private power & profit.” — @scribblingsam.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/trespassing-...

Arguably my favourite magazine (and not just because they published me 😘) is now on here! Give them a follow for some amazing long reads!

Hi everyone! Excited to be joining you all here on Bluesky. Let us know what you want to see from us as we move forward, and happy reading!

Check out Noema Magazine’s must-reads of 2024!

“Most of it looks like a rich white person’s idea of Good Art, if their sole experience of art had been ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ and the postcard section of the Met’s gift shop” New fiction from me for Noema mag www.noemamag.com/not-my-problem