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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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terminally offline vs. terminally online

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As information gathering tools get more sophisticated we can record more data with more sensitivity. But it's paradoxical: the more precisely we observe reality, the harder it becomes to distinguish between meaningful signals and statistical noise. Maybe in the end there is no noise just whispers waiting for the right technology, mechanism or interpreter.

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🍄‍🟫Here we go🍄‍🟫 (or should this go in /regen?)

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preparing to hibernate

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thinking about post plastic futures by @gmo https://open.substack.com/pub/editlife/p/microplastics-without-borders

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less content creators, more cultural producers; less influencers, more community builders; less viral bubbles, more meaningful movements; less algorithm chasing, more context shaping; less digital noise, more cultural resonance, less light content, more dense media.

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and now a word from our sponsors

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Front row seats to exchange with the legend Karl Sims today at MIT His computer graphics experiments from the 90s inspired everything you know and love from Disney to Pixar This to me is pure art in modern times. Inspiring and intimidating to hear about a creative process where you had to write you own renderer, invent neural nets, build your own physics simulators, and run things overnight on supercomputers

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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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