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Scenario planning for the “jobless future” ⊗ Software brains & statistical engines

Civilizational optionality ⊗ The social edge of intelligence

A peculiar mixture of omniscience and impotence ⊗ Electrostates & physics

Geist in the machine ⊗ The prospect of Butlerian Jihad

We’re all living in the “Mirror World” now ⊗ The AI boom is a polycrisis

Habermas and his coffeehouses ⊗ The case for radical solar optimism

Syndicates of capital ⊗ Three modes of cognition

An obscure media theory ⊗ World literacy

A country of geniuses ⊗ Collapse: A framework

The next great transformation ⊗ AI and the futures of work

What technology takes from us ⊗ Private sufficiency, public abundance

The future of being human ⊗ For the sake of mutual interdependence

Why science fiction can’t predict the future ⊗ The straw, the siphon, and the sieve

The mythology of conscious AI ⊗ The discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack

The post-American internet ⊗ Scanning the present through a polycrisis lens

AGI is here (and I feel fine) ⊗ A call for new stories

AI in 2026 and beyond ⊗ Bioregionalism’s tech-driven revival

Gramsci’s nightmare ⊗ A small slice of human knowledge

Taking jaggedness seriously ⊗ All futurists are archivists

Writing with probabilistic machines ⊗ What is the right atomic unit for knowledge?

11 discoveries that changed my worldview ⊗ AI acceleration vs. precaution

Investing in the ecosystems that sustain us ⊗ The (Sino-)future is now ⊗ Actually existing solarpunk

The pivot ⊗ We should all be Luddites ⊗ What is civil society, and why should we care?

Beyond the machine ⊗ History as science

AI is fuelling a poverty of imagination ⊗ Why nothing about AI is inevitable

Updating mental models of risk ⊗ An AI tool for learning critical thinking ⊗ What machines don’t know

The great erosion ⊗ Future of thinking about the future ⊗ On Sora

The cloister & the starship ⊗ An environmental triumph ⊗ End GDP mania

Don’t think of AI chatbots as people ⊗ Shared reality will self-destruct ⊗ What if the Post Office had its own AI model?

Reading and writing with AI

The lost art of thinking historically ⊗ How climate broke reality ⊗ Does the Bitter Lesson have limits?

AI gets stuck in infinite loops ⊗ A real genius club ⊗ The metabolic logic of AI slop

Human literacy ⊗ Polytunity ⊗ Africa and the world map

Is the AI bubble about to burst? ⊗ A life with less pleasure reading ⊗ Bringing human nature back in

GPT-5 and the end of naive AI futurism ⊗ All the world’s polygons ⊗ The future will be boring

Chatbots undermining the Enlightenment ⊗ Flounder mode ⊗ Learners will inherit the earth

Think like a commoner ⊗ Governing unthinkable futures ⊗ Why we need new future archetypes

Taste is the new intelligence ⊗ Using ChatGPT won’t make you dumb ⊗ AI first puts humans first

Political dimensions of solarpunk ⊗ Conquering the imagination deficit ⊗ Machine readable

How the universe thinks without a brain ⊗ One flew over Latent Space ⊗ The lost art of research as leisure

A new political compass ⊗ Normal technology at scale ⊗ Illusion or reason?

The new legislators of Silicon Valley ⊗ Friction it the most valuable commodity ⊗ Everything feels broken but weirdly normal

Vibe augmentation