Just discovering that painter Isabella Kirkland has a whole series on my favorite sea creature -- nudibranchs! www.isabellakirkland.com/collections/...
Denise Hearn
@denisehearn.bsky.social
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Long Now Foundation Fellow, Berggruen Institute Co-author Myth of Capitalism 🇺🇸 and The Big Fix 🇨🇦 www.denisehearn.com
Helpful new report from Fathom.org out this week, framing up the spectrum and quadrants of debate about AI and labor displacement. It demonstrates some interesting gaps, including e.g. no leading indicators yet for job displacement from AI, so difficult to be predictive. substack.com/home/post/p-...
AI and Work: The Case for Acting Now
Uncertainty isn’t a reason to wait. It's the reason to build the foundations every future needs.
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"How do we measure the number of sunrises that have ever happened on earth?" Beautiful short video on @longnow.org Council member Katie Paterson's cross-medium, cross disciplinary art practice exploring themes of atmosphere, space, light, and time. vimeo.com/1206273605?f...
The Power of Words
Commissioned by the UBS Art Collection, this film was shot in Katie Paterson’s studio in Scotland and explores the role of imagination at the heart of her practice. Katie reflects on how artworks ofte...
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Apparently ride receipts are now prime lobbying real estate…
Using the latest / highest cost frontier model for low level tasks because you can: a modern Veblen good.
Biggest 21st century governance challenge + opportunity: swarm coordination
~40% of our @longnow.org Labs applications have come in within the last 24 hours...and we are still accepting submissions until midnight PST tonight, so the percentage will likely go higher. Apparently a huge number of us are procrastinators! Solidarity to all of you out there.
Wild times. Law as futuring & economic prospecting... Argentina's PM arguing for limited liability for agentic companies: "the creation of a new corporate category in Argentine law: the non-human corporation. These are entities operated by AI agents or robots." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Javier Milei: Argentina invites AI to free itself
As we enter a new era of technology, AI must be permitted to develop without premature regulation
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Some sort of disassociation happening whereby Silicon Valley types are increasingly obsessed with consciousness and ethereal notions of eschatology, at the same time the material world exerts ever-increasing limits or checks on the Computation as Everything agenda.
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The Long Now Foundation@longnow.org · 2mo agoDeadline is one week away! Submit your concepts for the first cohort of Long Now Labs —from reimagining deep time to new methods for discerning truth, we want to hear from you. Submissions close on June 5. Apply here: longnow.org/labs/001/
Important framing piece from Planet Labs’ Will Marshall out today. Planetary Intelligence and Large Earth Models as the necessary successors to AI and LLMs, providing real-time, embodied intelligence / sapience. will4planet.substack.com/p/planetary-...
Planetary Intelligence
Everything, everywhere, all at once.
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Happy pub day to @ericries.bsky.social! This is an incredibly important book for anyone who care about the future of commerce. @longnow.org was lucky to host Eric's first official book event in April. Watch us in conversation: longnow.org/talks/02026-... www.simonandschuster.com/books/Incorr...
Incorruptible
"Incorruptible by Eric Ries is the best and most important business book of the year." —Dan Heath, NYT Bestselling Author & Podcast Host of "Wh...
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Pinch me! What an exceptional group of reviewers. Deadline for our Book of Time Lab is two weeks today (June 5) – if you have a quirky, playful, imaginative, or monumental idea about time, this project is for you. longnow.org/labs/001/1/
Long Now Lab 001.1: Book of Time
This Long Now Lab invites you to submit a concept for a new way of marking, experiencing, or making sense of time. This Lab is open to everyone, from precocious kindergarteners to prestigious watchmak...
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The Long Now Foundation@longnow.org · 3mo ago[Open call] Long Now Labs is looking for new concepts for marking, experiencing, or making sense of time. Submissions will be reviewed by our incredible panel of artists, philosophers, and technologists.
Excited to host a 3 part virtual workshop series with postactivist philosopher, poet, and storyteller Bayo Akomolafe starting Thursday, May 21 9-11am PT! In collaboration with the wonderful @interintellect.bsky.social + @annagat.bsky.social. Come join us! interintellect.com/series/the-u...
The Untimely with Bayo Akomolafe
The Long Now Foundation and Interintellect invite you to an interactive workshop series with Bayo Akomolafe, a postactivist philosopher, poet, and storyteller, exploring the questions, “What if time m...
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Pair with: www.the-interstitium.com for self-identifying “interstitionaries”!
Inside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways
The detection of another circulatory system in the human body could have enormous scientific implications.
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How does one engage with the arduous and existential task of long-term thinking? How can we work on civilizational durability without dissolving into ambiguities? @protocolized.bsky.social + @denisehearn.bsky.social explain how we're putting long-term thinking into practice with Long Now Labs ->
Protocols for the Long Now
The Protocol Institute collaborates with the Long Now Foundation on three participatory, cross-disciplinary labs – applications are due June 5!
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What if we redefined “profit” as maximizing human flourishing? @ericries.bsky.social has seen the corrosive effects of shareholder primacy at every company he's worked with. What's keeping us from building differently? Watch the full conversation with @denisehearn.bsky.social here ->
Eric Ries | Incorruptible by Design
YouTube video by The Long Now Foundation
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Exciting announcement + opportunity to collaborate with @longnow.org! Today we are launching Long Now Labs: where long-term thinking becomes long-term practice. Our inaugural Lab, Protocols of the Long Now, is a collaboration with the Protocol Institute. Learn more + apply: www.longnow.org/labs/001
MIT researchers discovered the first direct evidence that plant seeds can sense natural sounds. Rice seeds were submerged in shallow water –the seeds exposed to the sound of falling droplets germinated 30-40% faster than seeds in identical conditions without rain sounds. news.mit.edu/2026/plants-...
Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds
MIT researchers discovered that the sound of falling droplets can shake rice seeds out of a dormant state, stimulating them to germinate more quickly than seeds that are not exposed to the same sound ...
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“I know what these models are capable of. I also know what they are not. I look at the investment thesis that is supposedly supporting the valuations, the gap between the two is the biggest mispricing I have seen in my professional lifetime.“ — Mike Brock www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-capita...
The Capital is Misaligned and the Crash is Coming
My strong disagreement with the sentiment on Wall Street.
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Another banger from @nilsgilman.bsky.social: "The new cold war is a contest between competing metabolisms. On one side, the Green Entente: China and an emerging electrostate bloc, which has bet its industrial future on solar panels, batteries... foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/23/c...
Electrostates vs. Petrostates
China is building a new green bloc, while the United States is doubling down on oil.
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Loved visiting @archive.org today. Fun facts: - the US Government is the largest publisher in the world by volume – IA has archived over 1 trillion webpages on their Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) – at tv.archive.org, they do 24 hour continuous recording of over 70 channels from 45 countries
What if a constitution could molt? "The fundamental principle to be learned from bugs is that resilience in a variable environment can be successfully managed by development in stages." - Jonathon Keats longnow.org/ideas/democr...
To Save Democracy, Look to the Arctic Woolly Bear Moth
Constitutions fail because they’re too rigid or too fragile. An insect solved this problem 320 million years ago.
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In the chaos, it’s easy to forget how cool humans are. I’ve been reminded the last week. People making art, a woman swimming across the SF Bay in a long-distance swim attempt, people with amazing hidden talents, being kind, making jokes in long lines...it’s fun to be here together. Let’s keep it up.
This looks fantastic! If you're in SF on May 14, check it out. @annagat.bsky.social @interintellect.bsky.social interintellect.com/salons/ai-hu...
AI, Human Agency, and the Future of a Free Society: Three Conversations in San Francisco
Interintellect and the Foundation for Economic Education invite you to an evening of conversation at the intersection of AI, human agency, and the future of a free society.As AI reshapes how we think,...
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Great to be in conversation with @ericries.bsky.social last week at @longnow.org for the first stop on his Incorruptible book tour! There‘a a not-so-quiet revolution underway — companies embedding their values through economic and legal structures that advance human flourishing.
