Mastodawn

"And when disinformation and propaganda are everywhere, it feels all the more important to remind myself what fiction can be: a sandbox to apply my critical thinking…" https://www.mothership.blog/playing-pretend/

Playing pretend

When disinformation and propaganda are everywhere, it feels all the more important to remind myself what fiction can be

Mothership

imranx Apr 5

“The more you delve into the intricacies of the biological brain, the more you realize how rich and dynamic it is, compared to the dead sand of silicon.” https://www.noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai

The Mythology Of Conscious AI

Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

NOEMA

imranx Apr 3

"The desktop computer had beckoned, yes, a glowing window into other worlds. But the phone was different. It buzzed against our thighs. It insisted." https://www.noemamag.com/limiting-not-just-screen-time-but-screen-space/

Limiting Not Just Screen Time, But Screen Space

The internet has stopped being a place we visit — it’s now an environment we inhabit.

NOEMA

imranx Mar 30

"What if all carbon emissions could just be funneled into this other, seemingly empty dimension? What if all our waste—imagine every single plastic bottle—could just be scooped up and dumped into this other place…" https://issues.org/futuretensefiction/fiction-the-pocket-box-gunnar-anderson/

The Pocket Box™ | Future Tense Fiction

Gunnar Anderson’s Future Tense Fiction explores what happens when a physics breakthrough gets commercialized as a mass consumer product.

Issues in Science and Technology

imranx Mar 30

"For one day, we'll become your AI…" https://www.quili.ai #analogueintelligence

QUILI.AI

imranx Mar 27

"The rhythm of fasting from dawn to dusk, in prayer and charity, has endured through wars that redrew borders, pandemics that claimed millions of lives and waves of technological change that reshaped daily lives." https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/03/13/ramadan-eid-historical-images/

A century of Ramadan in 25 photographs

One hundred years of images show many different people and places from around the world, but all united by the holy month

The National

imranx Mar 26

"…where clean electrons compete with dirty joules." https://www.exponentialview.co/p/solar-supercycle

🔮 The case for radical solar optimism

While politics is powerful, the laws of physics will always win

Exponential View

imranx Mar 25

"Not everything is a task. Not every friction should be considered negative. Not everything needs to be done more quickly, more efficiently or more precisely…not everything is compressive, some things are donative." https://www.dezeen.com/2026/03/03/software-design-ai-nick-foster-opinion/

"Software designers must abandon their roles as the custodians of libraries, logic and grids"

Designers should use AI's foibles as a chance to move away from the ruthlessly rational approach that dominates software, writes Nick Foster.

Dezeen

imranx Mar 16

“With its sunny optimism and tendency to praise, ChatGPT is a Californian, one who has never suffered nor been held accountable for the consequences of its innovations.” https://www.noemamag.com/after-the-ai-revolution/

After The AI Revolution

Like a prism, AI will reveal the civilizational differences between China and the U.S., making visible the invisible within each society.

NOEMA

imranx Mar 4

"The financial system, optimized over decades for a world of scarce human minds, is repricing. That repricing is painful, disorderly, and far from complete." https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS

A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future

Citrini Research