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A thoughtful, inquisitive, off the beaten path weekly newsletter. Focused on technology in society, signals of changes, and prospective futures. (by @inevernu)

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@dvdwinden @Ghost I have to figure out the Memberful paid subscribers migration first.

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@dvdwinden Good thing then, since it’s soon to be hosted on @ghost 😉

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@aaronglewis Thanks Aaron! Great to know, it’s a section I often worry about, so happy to see you enjoy it.

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No.213 —Why Christopher Alexander Still Matters ⊗ The Future of Sustainability ⊗ The Cleanest Way to Address the Crisis ⊗ Belonging, care and repair ⊗ The miserable lives of cyborg truck drivers ⊗ Peek into the future ⊗ Solar 3.0 https://t.co/kYJwBR7PO1

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🇮🇩 🚲 👏🏼 Jakarta’s Transit Miracle. “Cycling is up 500% across Jakarta (2019 to 2020), and in certain parts of the city, a whopping 1,000%. In late 2019 Transjakarta—the city’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system—hit a landmark 1M riders per day1” https://t.co/gMXIgFwXed

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🇹🇷 🇬🇷 🤩 “Thanks in part to their work, most historians now believe that the city uncovered at Hisarlik is the Troy Homer wrote about, and that a war or series of wars did in fact play out between the Mycenaean Greeks and Anatolians here around 1180 B.C.” https://t.co/ll21yUNwaw

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😍 📸 🔬 🍄 Macro Photos by Barry Webb highlight the spectacular diversity of slime molds. “...the often imperceptible details of small slime molds, capturing the specimen’s unique characteristics with striking detail.” https://t.co/omWMSMFOW1

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😍🤩🇨🇭🏔🗺 “Experts in shaded relief, a technique for illustrating a mountain so that it appears three-dimensional. Their skills and creativity also help them capture consequences of the thawing permafrost, like landslides, shifting crevasses, new lakes…” https://t.co/lLy9LJrTmi

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No.212 — Not soon enough ⊗ On floating upstream ⊗ This is the reason Demis Hassabis started DeepMind ⊗ @tomcritchlow, @undermanager, and some promising long reads https://t.co/7fwg9QrGbA

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😍 🇳🇱 🎨 Vermeer Scenius FTW! “Contrary to popular belief, Johannes Vermeer was not a genius working in isolation. He was one of a network of Dutch artists who excelled in painting scenes of everyday life and drew inspiration from each other’s work.” https://t.co/Fx9pptQcFD

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@WeAreNew_Public @inevernu You're welcome! Always there for some Sloan wisdom.

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🤩 🌊 🦪 “Ropes of seaweed, kelp, and other sea vegetables are first strung close to the surface, where they can suck up the sunlight needed to fuel their rapid growth…”
(An Aside from No.211, @freethinkmedia) https://t.co/vQDjFVAlWl

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No.211 — This issue ended up being about futures, futures, futures with articles by @audreywatters, @teresainescruz and @alexandra4casts, and @thejaymo for @solarpunklitmag. https://t.co/aA98ACSDCI

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Loved this talk by @fosta for IKEA’s Digital Days. Great ideas, slides, and presentation. This framing/slides-on-the-side/distance from the camera makes it look like having a coffee with him, way more pleasant to watch than if he’d been filmed on-stage. https://t.co/BWhOfl1fWK

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No.210 — Featuring articles on world-building, imagining other futures, solarpunk, and the astonishingly hyperconnected. By @Alex_Danco, @Chiaradileone, @andrewdhudson interviewed by @solarpunklitmag, and @maureenmkearney. https://t.co/D4VzJVE42A

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Imagine Other Futures | @ChiaraDiLeone in @NoemaMag https://t.co/oG3Pg4oQmH via @sentiers

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No.209 — Featuring articles on ambiguity, complexity, cybernetics, and more by @aworkinglibrary, @simonsarris, @DarkMatter_Labs, @bryanboyer interviewing Molly Wright Steenson, and @neilredding. https://t.co/2frZdD3kWc

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No.208 — AI & the future of civilization ⊗ Rethinking labels: the origins of Metalabel ⊗ Of pods, squads, crews & gangs ⊗ Magic carpets ⊗ From cyberpunk to solarpunk ⊗ False futurism https://t.co/nLNUBuR1Ss

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No.207 — How to develop a planetary consciousness ⊗ Why you can’t rebuild Wikipedia with crypto ⊗ Because your algorithm says so ⊗ Okorafor, Palmer, and Gibson https://t.co/9WfdgFjLwk

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To understand what we are—and should be—building, we need to look beyond Snow Crash: "The metaverse is a new word for an old idea," from @feraldata in @techreview via @sentiers
(Plus- the Teddy Bear) https://t.co/FR0CimyT8U