When listening to Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson speak at The Long Now Foundation, he had this great line about the nature of science, especially in light of the axe being thrown at our scientific institutions today.

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Considered conversation

When it comes, this will be the fourth message received from Alsafi in my lifetime. Few have timed their career so fortuitously. The first came when I was a child. The second came just weeks after I joined the Intercivilizational Observatory’s San Francisco office, and I wormed my way onto the analysis team. The third came the year I met Cassio, and I was doubly lovestruck. Still, I was reading responses to questions another generation had asked. But now, a full 39-year round-trip after I began, I’ll finally get answers to my questions. Ones from my youth, maybe, but they’ll be mine. After all this time, I’ll finally be In Conversation.

~ Andrew Dana Hudson, from The Weather Out There – Long Now

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This piece of fiction is one of those things I start skimming, thinking “should I mark this for later reading?” and then read it all the way through. So of course I recommend you do too.

I find tremendous value in considered conversation. Usually, a conversation about the weather isn’t such a valuable opportunity. But this conversation about “weather” is really about what are the limits of what can be considered a conversation… is understanding required for it to be a conversation? Or is simply trying to understand, enough?

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Just received my copy of the Long Now Foundation's new journal called Pace Layers (issue 1, 02024).

It's packed with interesting articles. Denise Hearn's chapter, Embodied Economies, is brilliant.

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https://longnow.org/ideas/pace-layers-journal-02024/

"I don't think national governments will or should go away, but we do need to get rid of the idea of absolute sovereign independence of nations that get to make absolute decisions about their territorial space, irrespective of the secondary effects those decisions will have on planetary systems that affect us all."

I, for one, agree with that.

https://longnow.org/ideas/children-of-a-modest-star/

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I was aware of the Long Now Foundation's cute stylistic thing of adding a leading zero when they write the year (like this year is "02024") but I didn't realize they also had a cute name for it:

"Y10K Compliance"

https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-and-10k-compliance-at-home/

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"Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations?"

Check out our recent mention in this article from the #LongNowFoundation for an important conversation about mitigating data loss in the #DigitalDarkAge.

https://longnow.org/ideas/shining-a-light-on-the-digital-dark-age/