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While @july has never felt more optimistic about the future, I'm slowly veering in the opposite direction. A few people asked why, so I wrote this short essay. After years of working with century long time horizons, I'm noticing a shift in my optimism. I believe it partly stems from a paradox around unprecedented global connectivity alongside deepening fragmentation. It makes me wonder if our technological ingenuity can truly outpace our collective dysfunction when planetary challenges demand wisdom. https://cyrusclarke.substack.com/p/why-an-optimist-is-slowly-veering

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as good a day as any to remember that you can either look at things close up or from a distance both are necessary, but if you only focus on the immediate, you will always miss the whole.

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are you still watching?

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sync in progress

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filing under /webtree https://warpcast.com/july/0x7a0ac4c3

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gravity pulls, but shouldn’t hold us down when people care, paths bend and things can move into a better orbit.

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The best fiction and especially sci-fi shouldn’t just entertain. It should expand the mind. Thrills accompanied by awe. Deep discoveries with transformative characters. Neuron-fusing, consciousness-changing, encounters with escapism.

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Diving into other types of information paradox today. Understanding that probably even within a black hole information isn't destroyed. What an incredible thought. I'm working on an early research concept around this, very inspired by Peter Galison's work on black holes. Making these kinds of ideas tangible is what I seemingly live for.

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I just received news of a slight health setback despite actually feeling much better it's frustrating as there are so many amazing things I'm either in the process of disseminating, or about to start creating but feeling determined to keep going and get back to building things that change the future to grow – "get rid of weakness"

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"AI as the scaffolding for planetary computation." A great talk from Benjamin Bratton at the Long Now Foundation. For the architects of new realities who want to think into deep time. https://www.youtube.com/live/zdy9K4UWplM?si=lVkqh3ie7Du41WDJ

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When you run ‘Hello World’ But your robot arm decides it’s ‘Goodbye World’ instead

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Networking is like the interplay of thought and action, a fluid dance and an open embrace. Gathering ideas from diverse sources, weaving them together into a shared current, only to send them outward again, branching into messy directionless vectors of meaning.

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A UMAP plot of trillions of nucleotide sequences from all domains of life. Humans are but a tiny speck. A gentle reminder of our relative insignificance

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