"Ideology fuels venture capital → capital captures the state → the state feeds the same private systems that built it. A new model of power — privatized sovereignty." https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
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"What would our economy look like if “wealth” meant the continuity of flows rather than the liquidation of stocks? Sunlight, rain, soil fertility, functioning ecosystems – not just this quarter’s output." https://natehagens.substack.com/p/technology-and-wealth-the-straw-the-63d
"In his vision, our endless seeking makes us human and therefore holy…" https://yalereview.org/article/bilge-ebiri-terrence-malick
“What do we want the interface between us and whales, or us and the natural world, to look like… a rare opportunity for AI to expand human understanding beyond optimization and toward other forms of intelligence.” https://atmos.earth/science-and-nature/we-are-one-step-closer-to-understanding-whales-what-now/
"That we live within this system, and the system lives within us. We carry its iron in our blood and its stardust in our bones, and its strength is our strength because we are it." https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/11/laura-poppick-strata/
"The abandoned present is crowded with suffering that could be alleviated through human choice rather than machine transcendence…
…the future of AI is a political field. It belongs not to those who warn most loudly of gods or monsters, but to publics that should have the moral right to democratically govern the technologies that shape their lives."
https://www.noemamag.com/the-politics-of-superintelligence/
…the future of AI is a political field. It belongs not to those who warn most loudly of gods or monsters, but to publics that should have the moral right to democratically govern the technologies that shape their lives."
https://www.noemamag.com/the-politics-of-superintelligence/
"Today, the internet encourages us to see the past as a soup of content that mixes an infinite variety of times and places; our immersion in that mixture is so complete that it now inhibits our historical sensibility and our ability to maintain a strong sense of temporal difference." https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-last-people-before-the-internet
"…fragmented cultural system cannot satisfy the human demand for meaning, identity, belonging, and status." https://terrraincognita.substack.com/p/centerless-culture
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of VEILED.Reality, our contribution to Bradford 2025.
VEILED.Reality is an interactive, immersive design fiction on the future of hijabs - think smart veils and shroud computers… ;)
Find out more at http://veiledreality.faith and download a preview episode.
We also have a companion piece, on the fictional company behind our smart veil at http://blvr.faith
#veiledreality #bradford2025 #designfiction #immersivearts #unrealengine
"It is all so improbable, this wild and wondrous world, against all we know about the universe. And yet here it is, and here we are, set on it to know that we are dying and live anyway, and love anyway." https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/24/love-probability/
