If you're in Amsterdam this Sunday, you can enjoy some phone-free time and reconnect with yourself and others at the Offline Gardens in the Tolhuistuin.
Together with Christiaan I will host a conversation about the Homo Romanticus in 'The Pit'
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#UKLG hitting the streets in A’dam
here's the paper: www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
"The reversal of ocean circulation in the southern hemisphere could double current atmospheric concentrations of CO₂"
to be clear: this has already happend - the SMOC as revered a recent paper has just concluded
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Its basically a form of sunk-cost fallacy
Hiro Isono, 1993
Hiro Isono, 1993
Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
'The future is set' is superdeterminism and/or God's Plan (modernity and religion seem to be in sync here) - i pick the latter but with a focus on the hyperobject of 'we'. I don't believe in individually manifesting or willing anything into existence.
Darum wurde es in den letzten zwei Jahren global sprunghaft wärmer:
Dave Allen, the bassist who played with Gang of Four in their heyday, died at home with his family on Saturday, April 5
Ik sprak voor @nrc met Julia Ebner, expert op het gebied van online radicalisering en desinformatie.
Hoe heeft het kunnen gebeuren dat het hatelijke gedachtegoed van extreemrechtse marginale groepen in slechts een paar jaar mainstream zijn geworden? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!
and they want to do it ...
... in *a few months*
I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...
... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here
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The number of good points per minute in this video is extremely high, which is wild because it is 2 hours and 40 minutes long.
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Where campus life consists of a vast metaverse memory palace, where you perform ancient speeches to the imaginary AI avatar friends that inhabit your uploaded post-academic brain. Can’t wait
I think you've got the wrong jay there. Should be this one @thejaymo.net probably
If you buy this (very nice) record you can suport those who where hit by the floods in Valencia. With Jacco Gardner, Palmbomen II, Eilandnet, Maria Pandiello and more experimental and psychedelic electronica artists nuovamateria.bandcamp.com/album/el-fang
Just got started with Pantheon. Looks great, good storytelling. Seems like they’ll be exploring some ideas from @robinhanson.bsky.social ‘s Age of Em. www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/pantheon
Loved it!
Wat is de rol van de Homo Nobilis (Trump, Wilders en co.) in de Tussentijd? Lees het in onze laatste editie van de Chrononauten.
Deze week in de Chrononauten: Mediatycoon Maarten Luther, de Cosmisten, de Universal Data Commons en wat verfrissende speculatieve verbeelding. open.substack.com/pub/dechrono... #mappingthefuture
