X has the best information on the internet and the worst incentives & culture.
meet noscroll — the AI that doomscrolls it for you and texts you just the things that matter.
no feed. no brainrot. no ragebait. just signal.
try it for free → https://t.co/XqdExWR13j 🙅🏼♂️
How can we rethink material agency in the context of Synthetic Biological Intelligence, where living and artificial substrates are materially integrated within biohybrid computational systems?
Following the figure of the alchemical homunculus, Substrates Unbound traces a genealogy of “substrate agency,” proposing that matter is not a passive support but an active participant in the production of technical functions. The inherited paradigms of “biomimesis” and “technomorphism” impose a hierarchy between technical and natural reality; yet, both fail to account for material agency, framing substrates as either immutable or indifferent. Such hierarchical frameworks are ill-suited to address the substrate-specific properties of SBI and related technologies. Focusing on the interface as a material site of co-construction, Substrates Unbound reframes the relation between organisms and machines through the lens of agential materialism, recognizing substrates as active partners of invention rather than passive supports of universal functions.
Read Substrates Unbound in Antikythera Journal at https://t.co/0UoN1eyarL
Author @TripaldiLaura
Graphic Design @regretware
Annotations @lukas_likavcan
Frank Drake originally proposed the Drake Equation to estimate the number of radio-communicating extra-terrestrial civilisations in our galaxy, thus establishing the formal framework for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The Long L takes the discussion of the parameters of this equation as its starting point, with special emphasis on the last parameter L—the average communicative lifetime of technological civilizations—which brings together questions of technological evolution and planetary habitability.
In this essay, substrate agnostic ecology describes the generic communion of agents that can populate a wide variety of planetary ecologies hospitable to distinct genres of biospheres and intelligences, hence advertising an unapologetically cosmic perspective: no planetary without the extra-planetary.
Read The Long L: Habitability in Substrate-Agnostic Ecologies in Antikythera Journal at https://t.co/yxW8beq0DO
Author @lukas_likavcan
Graphic Design and Development @regretware
The private-equity owned BlueTriton Brands took out billions in debt to buy out Poland Spring, Arrowhead and other well-known brands from Nestle in 2021. Now it's pumping more water from springs around the US. A thread on my investigation: https://t.co/vFSPUZagDE