if you quit corporate to become a beekeeper, does that mean you broke out in hives

What would there be more of at Climate Week if it was embodying the ways of thinking and being that you believe to be essential for a just and sustainable future? What would there be less of?

Maybe we are supposed to be thinking about devious strategies by which AI systems could communicate with each other across air gaps to plot our demise so that we don't think about..

You can't get to the future you want if you can't let go of the people and projects that are not aligned with that future. (Reminder to self that might be helpful to someone else today too.)

A French man being impossibly French. You have to imagine the very stereotypically French songs he is playing. (Paris, July 2026) #photography #StreetPhotography #Paris #Montmartre #BlueSkyPhotographers #Music #TravelPhotography

A. Can people not remember the conversations they have in a day? (I could see this could be helpful assistance for some disabilities like short term memory loss, but beyond that?) B. When I invite people to tea it's gonna be like herbal or black & watch on or watch off? www.pcmag.com/opinions/sir...

Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare

Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.

pcmag.com

They're called birds.

Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 4w ago

There are podcasts everywhere for those with ears to hear

Wendell Berry was along every step of my learning and finding my way. Too many favorite essays and poems for me to choose one. But today the Mad Farmer Liberation Front feels like a good one to share. allpoetry.com/poem/1262246...

If our economies were oriented to quality and wellbeing over quantity and a version of efficient that externalizes life itself, then the fact that AI can appear to be more narrowly productive than humans wouldn't matter.

What happens to water levels in Panama doesn't stay in Panama What happens to sea ice at the poles doesn't stay at the poles What happens to food yields at the equator doesn't stay at the equator What happens to flood risk at the coast... This is what it is to be a dependent part of a complex system

Erin Sikorsky@erinsikorsky.bsky.social · last mo.

perfect example of cascading climate risks...

There are other technologies for which this is true. Flying personally benefits me and lots of other professionals but has dire consequences for everybody. Same goes for golf courses (those don't benefit me personally though)

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin@bethsawin.bsky.social · last mo.

I thing I notice in conversations about LLMs is that some people are arguing for how it is useful to them/their work while other people are thinking about the consequence of wide-spread adoption.

I thing I notice in conversations about LLMs is that some people are arguing for how it is useful to them/their work while other people are thinking about the consequence of wide-spread adoption.

This post excels

Eric Stephen@ericstephen.bsky.social · last mo.

people are really getting into a row about spreadsheets. my column:

If human creativity weren't a threat to capital then capital wouldn't be threatening human creativity. If mutual care and cooperation weren't a threat to systems of domination, then systems of domination wouldn't be trying to undermine our relationships with each other.

How can a systems-based, justice-centered approach help societies solve multiple crises with the same set of actions? Elizabeth Sawin, Multisolving Institute, discusses here: faculti.net/multisolving...

Question everyone who tells you something is inevitable.

"And once it’s on, you can ask ChatGPT what you were working on before your last break, or where that proposal document went. It searches your recent activity and points you in the right direction. No more reconstructing your morning from memory."

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.

They used to call this malware.

Now I know how "multisolving" looks in Welsh and it is looks very cool, and also possibly difficult 😂

I've been talking a lot about the disastrous recent loss of American institutional capacity regarding climate science. But today, I'd like to announce something we've been working on, quietly, in the meantime to offer a lifeline to some of those affected. [Thread]

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Wondering....if AI is creating so many problems in education as students use AI and professors spend time figuring ways to block students using AI so they can learn themselves, perhaps what is being revealed is as much about assumptions in education as about AI.

THREAD: Ten Basic But Important Rules For Authors. 1. Never expect anyone to read your book, even if you sent it to them for free.

Someone good at art should make a cartoon of a colander experiencing the joy of finally going outside with their family to do their most special job that they've been looking forward to over a lifetime of simply straining pasta.

Dr Alex Bond@thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Big day for colanders, though

Last call - tomorrow at noon Eastern time - join us for a Multisolving Moment (an informal conversation amongst people working towards health and wholeness in complex systems facing converging crises). Theme: Seeds that Germinate in Crisis.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Multisolving Moment: Seeds that Germinate in Crisis. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

In Multisolving Institute's Seeds for the Future Project, one theme that emerged is that, for people all over the world, crises are sometimes drawing forth increased courage, clarity, and creativity. Like some types of seeds that only germinate after experiencing fires, freezing, or other harsh conditions, new potentialities seem to be emerging from how people are responding to crisis. This Multisolving Moment will explore the interplay of crisis and response, danger and creativity. Please join us to learn from and support one another in these perilous times of great potential. Out of respect for attendees' privacy, Multisolving Moments, including this session, will not be recorded.

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Man it stinks to see things you worked for years to warn about come to be. Nothing to do but keep going, but it hurts how much it didn't have to be this way.

What time is it? It's crab apple jelly time of course.

Water has a way of remembering where it once flowed and taking back what's been built in its way so I wonder how resilient said $2 billion hyperscale data center will be to 2 or more degrees of warming.

Dr. Prakash Kashwan@pkashwan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If tech giant Google has its way, residents of Fort Wayne, Indiana, may have to say goodbye to over 4 acres of federally protected wetland as part of the third phase of “Project Zodiac,” a $2 billion hyperscale data center project. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Your Friday reminder: The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.

said it before but we should write a paper doing a physical risk analysis of the various billionaire apocalypse bunkers this area of Argentina, for example, depends on glacier runoff

Salomé Viljoen@salome.bsky.social · 2mo ago

www.ft.com/content/0e9c...

Local, organic, low-carbon, high-resilience potatoes coming up. With a dollop of pesto. It's August and the living is easy.